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october 10, 19d , WET.14 1980 *
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FROM: E. C. WHITEHEAD

At 8:00 o'clock on Thursday, October 9th, Dr. Lewis
Thomas, Dr. David Baltimore and myself met with Dr. Dan
Tostesen, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, for dinner.

Dan was very encouraging. We brought him up-to-date
on the current activities of the Institute. We discussed
at great length the relation of Senior Faculty to the
Harvard Medical School. I was a little confused at the
conversation, but I think it could be summed up as follows:

(1) Harvard would insist that they go through their
normal search procedures for Senior Faculty that had joint
appointments to the Medical School and the Institute. This
is tantamount to saying that Harvard Medical School would have
virtual power of selection.

(2) They would expect that the vast majority of
Senior Faculty would have such joint appointments.

(3) There might be an occasional exception where for
one reason or other, a Senior Faculty member might not have
a joint appointment. In which case, the Whitehead Institute
could appoint such a person without the approval of the Medical
School. However, it was quite clear that this would be a very
rare exception.

I discussed the fact that this might be a constraint on the
flexibility of the Institute. However, David felt that he could
live with it. The bottom line, I believe, is that from the |
standpoint of the Board of the Institute, it is a fine quality
control precaution. The problem would be for the Director but
Since David didn't seem to mind, it is acceptable.

I also have the distinct impression that this procedure
only pertained to Senior staff. I would be glad if either David
or Lew has a different impression, they would please advise.

As far as site is concerned, as I remembered, there are
three absolute possibilities and several others that are some-
what less "doable". They are:

(1) A parking lot between Buildings B&C (?) of the
Medical School.

(2) Land presently owned by the Farber Institute
which is either vacant or occupied by buildings that could come
down.

(3) The site of the old Lying-in Hospital which has
been or will shortly be vacant.
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In addition, there is a possibility for some land presently
occupied by the old Brigham Hospital and one or two other
possibilities that I don't remember.

Dan felt that it was not impossible that one of the
Departments of the Medical School could reside in our
Institute with the faculty of the Institute being the nucleus
of the Department. Later, David informed us that this was
undoubtedly the Genetics Department for which they had been
trying to recruit him for some time.

All in all, Dan concluded the meeting by asking how
serious we were and we, I believe, reassured him. I told him,
in fact, that we had to make a decision by the first of the
year. He is going to have a meeting with David in the very
near future to try to nail down more definite plans.

All in all, I believe the three of us, Drs. Thomas,
Baltimore and myself felt very encouraged by this meeting
and it appears at the moment, that the Harvard affiliation is
very close to being a favored location.

ECW:la

Distribution:

Dr. David Baltimore Dr. Lewis Thomas
Mr. Arthur Brill / Mr. John Whitehead
Dr. Joshua Lederberg Mr. Peter Whitehead
Sir Gustav Nossal Ms. Susan Whitehead
Stuart Peerce, Esq.

Mr. Martin Segal

Dr. L. T. Skeggs

Dr. Herman Sokol