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AG DIARY May 12, 1949 MAY Origa,

National Fund for Wedical Sducation

At 4 o'clock there was a meeting st the Cloud Club in the Chrysler Building
presided over by J. B. Conant and atterded by the Trustees of the Fund and
representatives of the AFL, CIO, several insurance companies, AMA and the American
Association of Medical Colleges, 3 or 4 deens and representatives of Negro and
Jewish hospitels or social organizstions. C. gave me 25 minutes to talk about
the needs of medical education. Other speaches by Stassen of Pennsylvania and
Herbert Hoover. I judge that Chase Nellan is going to remain the executive
secretary and thet the principal executive has not been chosen, Welter Gifford
heaving turned down the job. Later 4. sent we 4 summery of the talk I gave, which
I corrected and returned to hin.

I think the movement will need a first-rate smecutive if it 1s going to
succeed. If the American public «new the relative Lmportance of good medical
schools as compared with research aoney for some of the more grephic and
dramatiseble dissases, an adequate aum of aoney could eusily be relsed and tre
adequste sum would be in the neighborhood of *60,000,009 for asdicel, nursing
and dental schools. I made the suggsstion thst the medical prefession itself

could be challenged to contribute $100 per caritea and thig wes at least entered
in the records of the seeting.