November 6, 1958 +

Mr. Jerry A. Schur

Bureau of Audio-Visual Instruction

Board of Education of the City of New York
131 Livingston Street

Brooklyn 1, New York

Dear Jerry:

Thank you so much for your kind letter of October 31. You can be sure |!
have not forgotten the tremendous help that you and your fellow teachers gave

me as a student, perhaps most in being tolerant of my excentricities. I have
continued to have some slight contact with Dr. Jacquez and Normal Kretschner,
but was glad to hear your new news about the Baders. ! can add some tidbits

to your own information: Anthony fannone is a neurologist in Minneapolis and
another classmate of mine whose interests were secondarily biological, Jack
Edman, is renewing his work for a Ph.D. in English, his education having been
very seriously disrupted by the Second War and by the Korean affair.

My brother Seymour has been hopping around a bit but is now an Assistant
Professor of Biology at Brown University. Rose Litman never worked directly
with me but | know her by reputation and met her last summer in Paris where
she very kindly drove us around a bit. J certainly will put in a plug for
Stuyvesant wherever [ possibly can; I'm enclosing another letter that may
illustrate this. However | am trying not to give any more interviews than |
can possibly help. The news story that the University News Service did give
out as a press release here did include a reference to Stuyvesant High Schoo!
but t don't recall whether or not that survived the cutting that the press
services must inevitably give such releases. 1 am enclosing a copy of one of
these in case you can make any use of it. ,

| am really quite astonished that you did not receive the reprint that |
have a record of having sent you within the last couple of years. The enclosure
may help to rectify this.

| don't need to hear about the 600' schools by echo even out in Wisconsin
since we subscribe by mail to the daily New York Times. More power to you.

You remarked about having some memorabilia that you would like to keep. !
certainly wouldn't want to deprive you of anything of this sort but | wonder if
you could lend it to me briefly as | would be rather curious to see it. If you
have or know of the existence at Stuyvesant of any of this type of material, |
would be anxious to have a chance to borrow it on the same basis. Thank you
very much for writing. Perhaps what | most appreciate about this whole affair
has been the chance it has afforded for thanking so many people for the wonder-
ful help they gave me in my earlier years.

Yours very sincerely,
STUNVERANT

rt-S- Ce Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Medical Genetics
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