July 12, 1968

To: Social Issues Committee
The American Society of Human Genetics
Arno Motulsky, Chairman

From: J. Lederberg

I am pinchhitting for Arno to report to you the recommendations of a rump

section of the committee that met here on June 30, 1968. Arno will be back =
from his vacation about the time that you receive this. =
A draft of the specific recommended resolution is enclosed. It refers to a =
statement on screening legislation which is still in somewhat rough form, and —

in any case does not form an integral part of the recommendation. You will,
however, have a usable copy of this shortly.

Arno asks for any comments, including assent, at your early convenience so ™—
that the final version can be prepared for submission to the Society at its
fall meeting.

At Marge Shaw's request I have put together a short symposium for a session
on the afternoon of October 11 between 1:00 and 3:30 p.m. This will consist
of James of Crow on Mutation, Mark H. Haller on Eugenics, and myself on
Genetic Engineering. For the evening, we were thinking of having the members
of the committee and ef the symposium panel form a round table discussion of
the virtues and hazards of a position of advocacy on the part of the Society.
This would then be followed by about half an hour for the presentation of the
committee's recommendations, which I assume will be up for Society discussion
not at the time but at the later business meeting.

Please communicate further comments, in the first instance, to Arno.

Joshua Lederberg
July 12, 1968
Memo to Social Issues Committee, American Society of Human Genetics

Distribution List:

Dr. Arno Motulsky

Division of Medical Genetics

Department of Medicine

University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington

Dr. James F. Crow
Laboratory of Genetics
Genetics Building

The University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Dr. James V. Neel

Department of Human Genetics
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

Dr. Michael I. Lerner
Department of Genetics
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720

Dr. Alexander G. Bearn

Cornell University Medical Center

1300 York Avenue

New York, New York 10021 a

Dr. Barton Childs
Department of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland 21205

Dr. Bentley Glass

Department of Biology

State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York 11790

Dr. John B. Graham

Department of Pathology

University of North Carolina Medical School
Chapel Hill, North CArolina 27514