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THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSIT

1230 YORK AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 1002

     

August 24, 1988

JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Dr. Richard A. Rifkind

Chairman

Sloan-Kettering Institute
for Cancer Research

1275 York Avenue

New York, New York 10021

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As you may know, in 1976 Philip Levine set up a lecture
fund here at Rockefeller to provide honoraria and expenses for
periodic lectures on the pathogenesis of cancer. He designated
that the lecture, which was to be given at Rockefeller, should
be under the joint auspices of The Rockefeller University, The
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Sloan-Kettering
Institute for Cancer Research. Such a lecture was given three
times; the speakers were S. Jonathan Singer (1977), Michael
Potter (1978) and Cesar Milstein (1979).

Dear Dick:

There has been a long hiatus since the last lecture. It
is time to reactive it. I am writing this letter to you and
Drs. David Skinner and Thomas Shires. May I ask you to designate
someone (perhaps Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles) who would be
charged with gathering suggestions for lecturers from within
your institution? I plan to ask Tom Shires and David Skinner
to do the same. Then, if your "representative" could call Peter
Model, head of The Rockefeller Lecture Committee, then Peter
and those two "representatives" could talk over the suggestions.

Cynthia Greenleaf, who has recently come to The Rockefeller
University as Associate Vice President for Administration, is
helping Peter with the work of the Lecture Committee. She is
available to help in the planning for the Levine Lecture. Her
telephone number is 570~8073 if you or your chosen representative
would care to call her. More generally, I have asked Ms. Green-
leaf to be available to help with ad hoc matters that call for
interinstitutional coordination. Please feel free to call on
her at anytime.

Yours sincerely,

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cc: Peter Model shua Lederberg

Cynthia Greenleaf