Margh 1g, 1958

Dear Kims

I know you must be enmired in your preparations for the two April
meetings. I did want to remind you to send saewk back the preregistration
card, or let me know, as best you can, your expected itinerary for
Madison, Or should I make the simple assumption you will arrive sometime
Monday (April 7) end leave Friday morning?

After a series of rather unnecessary delays, occasioned by President
Fred's impending retirement, Dean Bowers and I had a very satisfactory
conference with Fred and with President-eject Elvehjem and we are back
on track again, We all agreed we ought to get some other formalities
out of the way (there could hardly be any doubt of your endossement by
the faculty review committee which has to pase on any tenure appointment)
during the next few weeks, so that we can talk turkey when we see one
another next month. Bowers and Elvehjem, no less than myself, could not
be more enthusiastic ebout the possibility of your joining our faculty,
and it is just a pity thaty{ the discussions had to fall athwart +he of
the change in administration. But this may have given you more time to
think it oveb, and I do hope you will be able to give us an affirmative
answer when you get our formal tender. We will have to movey fairly quickly
then, because the bids are being let for the new laboratory quarters, end
we want to see them equipped as closely as possible to the specifications
of the users.

 
 

eee DRA wid 1. Ran

In an altogether separate project fran yourfa, the Departments of Genetics
and Biochemistry are looking for a possible appointment in Biochemical
, Genetics (properly speaking). We made a bid for Hershey, but he final
decided that he was too permanently settled at Cold Spring Harbor. And
in fact the administration and most of us would prefer to look at sone
younger candidates. Have you any suggestions for someone who, like Hershey,
couldstand on his om feet both in biochamistry and in genetics? Preferably
sonelinterested in the nucleic acid end of biechemical genetics. Needless
to seg your counsels would weigh heavily i; appointments of this sort. Unhap-
pily, several members of the Genetics department will be retiring in four
or five years, and we will soon have to look ahead to their replacement.

FSi our plan is to arrive As ever
Knoxville on Tuesdey April 1, m
Delta flight 447. Fron there to Gatlinburg;
we might rent 4 cars you've been td such meetings
befpre-~do you think we'd have any use of one?