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March 16, 1982

      

Dr. Joshua Lederberg Khe MLLER Weg
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The Rockefeller University IMAR 2.4 1982
1230 York Avenue Ory can &S
New York, N.Y. Cc 30
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Dear Josh,

Thank you for your interesting letter of 3 March
1982 just in. I am glad that Grant Reuber is able to join
us on the Council.

It was news to me that Allen Lambert and Lord Thomson
had been on the Council and I wonder if it is wise to go back
to them. If they have done their stint there are others who
would be very happy to serve I am sure and perhaps we should get
you some fresh faces there.

I think that one very important person whose ancestors
for over a hundred years have helped the McGill University in
Montreal is Senator Hartland Molson. He had a very distinguished
career in the Air Force with us and has done a great deal to
support Lord Mountbatten's ideal in international education of
young people, and particularly the Lester B. Pearson College
of the Pacific at Victoria, B.C. I believe that he owns the
Canadiens Hockey Team in Montreal among other things and is a
very fine Canadian representative anywhere. He is best addressed
at The Senate, Ottawa, Canada.

Another slightly younger person who has managed his
father's large foundation with great skill is Donald Harvie,
Chairman of the Devonian Group of Charities, at 901-10th Avenue
South West, Calgary,Alberta. He is a graduate of the University
of Alberta and a very sophisticated Chairman of an excellent
foundation.

On the United Kingdom front you undoubtedly have advisors
and they might be in agreement that an extremely important man to
have on your Council is Lord Boyd, who was in politics, one of
the outstanding Conservative Ministers in Britain in yesteryear, as
Lennox Boyd. He is married to one of the Guinness daughters and
I suppose has much to do with running their empire. He is best
addressed at the House of Lords, or at his country home which is
Ince Castle, Saltash, Cornwall, England.

Another man which comes to mind is the youthful Duke
of Westminster, the scion of the Grosvenor Family. That group
now controls 1,000 million pounds in the world so that with

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their educational interest it might be worth asking this

young man. JI shall be having dinner with him at Government
House in Victoria later this week and will write to you after
that time, when I shall have a better idea of his potential
interest in such an appointment, without mentioning it of course
to him.

This goes with warmest regards and I shall hope to
see you in late April when I'm down to the American Osler
Society in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

As always,

Yours sincerely,

    

William C. Gibson,
Chairman

D., F.R.C.P.