CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA

MVISION OF BIOLOGY

Feb, 23,5 1961

Dear Josh,

I have a post-doctoral fellow named Clifford Ronald Scott, M. Do,
who has been working in my lab since September. He has recently been
drafted by the Air Force and expects to be inducted in June. Cal Tech
has done all the usual things to get him a deferrment, but to no avail
--it appears that once the armed services put the finger on an MoD.
there is little that can be done, since they are drafted to perform the
work for which they are trained.

The point of this letter is that Scott has been told by somebody
that you have something to do with biological research in the Air Force,
and I promised to write to you to find out if there is anything we can do
to increase his chances of being put into a research laboratory or research
hospital in the Air Force. He is a pediatrician and is interested in human
genetics. He is on a National Foundation fellowship. He came here, following
residency in Minneapolis, to get more training in statistics, biochemistry,
and biochemical genetics. He is doing a good job in all his course work.
He has only just started on a research problem--I have the impression that
he is competent. He knows a lot of human medical genetics and presents it
very well in seminars. I think it would be a good thing if he were able
to keep in touch with research while doing his stint in the service. Any
ideas you may have will be appreciated.

With best regards,

Norm Horowitz

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