March 31, 1955

Dr. Ingrith Deyrup
Department of Zoology
Columbia Univer sity
ilaw York 27, i.Y.

Dear Ingrith:

Miss Cynthia Jackson asked me to write to Zoology in support of her
application for an assistantehip at Barnard, and I am happy to seize the
occasion to send my own greetings. I looked for you at the Physiology
meetings here last fall and was disappointed to find no trace of you.

As to Cynthia, I really do not know her so well that I feel quite
comfortable as a referee. She seems a very pleasant girl, more than usually
conscientious and hard-working. She took my course last semester on genetics
of microorganisms, one which is quite a hurdle for undergraduates ami took
a good deal of courage for her to tackle. I can't say that she did brilliantly,
but she did hold her own, and in an area which is not her special interest.

I have not seen her teach in action, but her gsneral demeanor suggests she
should do very well indeed.

We have bean established here in the midwest over seven years now,
ami the metropolis and New York City seem very far away. I would never have
thought this possible then, but now I could hardly imagine living in a large
city again. The University here is, of course, a first mate institution, and
I have had a very fortunate position, with very limited distrac$ions aside
from research (which 1s, of course, what seduced me from going on whkth
madical school). We bought a house last fall, but "sther and I unfortunately
do not see enough of it what with our lab. work.

If you should come out this way, don't fail to look us up.

Yours sincereky,
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Sehun Loderberg
/Profesaor of Genetics
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