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STANFORD UNIVERSITY FACULTY PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE

Chairman

WILLIAM A. CLEBSCH
(Prof. of Religious
Studies @ Humanities)

Vice Chairman
JAMES N. ROSSE
(Prof. of Economics)

Administrative
Director
MARGARET J. DICKSON

Campus Address

ROOM 33, BUILDING 200
(HISTORY CORNER)
Telephone 7-9400

P.O. BOX 2349, STANFORD, CA 94305 / (415) 323-5171

March 19, 1980

President Joshua Lederberg
Rockefeller University
60th and York Avenue

New York, New York 10021

Dear Josh:
On behalf of the Faculty Presidential Search Committee formed to
advise the Trustees of Stanford University on the selection of a new

president, I seek your counsel.

Because of your long-standing interest in and close affiliation with
Stanford, you are particularly well situated to suggest candidates
for the office that Dick Lyman is leaving August 1. For you to name

and evaluate strong persons whom we should consider for this position

would greatly advance the work of our Committee.

We particularly wish to receive the names of women and members of
minority groups.

The other members of the Faculty Presidential Search Committee are:
Robert H. Cannon (Aeronautics and Astronautics), Robert A. Chase
(Surgery), Eleanor E. Maccoby (Psychology), James N. Rosse (Economics),
J. Dirk Walecka (Physics) and Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr. (Applied
Physics). I need your permission to share your letter with these
colleagues and with the Chairman of the Trustee Presidential Selection
Committee, Mr. Robert Minge Brown. I would also like your permission
to supply a summary of your letter to the two students, and the two
alumni who will consult with the Faculty Committee, and to the other
eight Trustees on the Selection Committee that Mr. Brown chairs.
However, if you wish to restrict the confidentiality of your letter,
we will certainly follow your preference.

Let me thank you in advance for your help. Knowing that many demands

compete for your attention, I impose this request only because my

colleagues and I feel that our task is both important and urgent.
Sincerely,

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William A. Clebsch