PHYSICIAN-IN-CHIEF

 

28 July 1983

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
President
The Rockefeller University

Dear Josh:

I have been rereading some of Willard Espy's humorous writings and
came on his republication, in Words at Play, of the wonderful review of
Lady Chatterley's Lover by Field and Stream. I thought you might enjoy
reading it; it is enclosed.

 

I think the point about warning, in some fashion, adjunct faculty
about an inappropriate reference to their association with the
Rockefeller University is an important one, but I am not sure how the
admonition can be conveyed most effectively. I suppose that it ought to
be done through the laboratory heads with whom the adjunct faculty are
associated -— but let me give it some thought. We have had a number of
instances where adjunct clinical staff inadvertently, I suppose - or
perhaps with a prideful desire to see themselves connected with the
Rockefeller - use this association in a way that was not appropriate from
our point of view. How the association may be properly referred to thus
ought to be defined; perhaps it is a useful topic for the Council to
consider.

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Yours sincerely,
Attallah’Kappas, M.D.

Encl.