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Walter F. Coulson, M.D., Chief
Sunita Bhuta, M.D.
Klaus M. Lewin, M.D.
Joseph M. Mirra, M.D.
Donald E. Paglia, M.D.
Dorothy L. Rosenthal, M.D.
Jerry Waisman, M.D.
William L. Wolfson, M.D.
March 6, 1980
Eugene P. Cronkite, M.D.
Medical Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, L.1, New York 11973
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DIVISION OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY
UCLA
CENTER FOR THE HEALTH SCIENCES
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Dear Gene:
in Deutschland
Did you ever
My plans to come back to the fab for an extended period this year To
work on erythroid culture techniques have never really materialized,
largely because events in my lab have dictated other pursuits taking
precedence. We have a number of interesting things going on, and one
cannot help but be impressed with the feast-or-famine phenomenon.
|
didn't expect to be working this much harder during my sabbatical but
| also didn't expect to be enjoying it this much either. With The
additional commitments to the Marshalls program here, I'm afraid | may
spread myself too thin to be effective if 1 try to crowd in the culture
project as well.
| appreciated your note about the NASA influence on the integrity of my
bones and body and also appreciate the time you took to perjure yourself
once again on my behalf.
1! confess | am totally baffled by NASA.
Last
summer, they inquired of me whether | would be interested in being considered for the shuttle program - it was a form inquiry that | presumed
was addressed by computer, retrieving anyone who had ever been previously
associated.
They followed this with an application packet that eventually
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Mena, wee a
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| had a piercingly cold but very enjoyable 5 days at Brookhaven earlier
in February trying to help out with the Marshallese program and a 25year report that Bob is compiling. He will be here Sunday and Monday
on his way back to the islands, so we will have an opportunity to get
into it further.
1 expect to be back to the lab at least once or twice
more before the summer passes for the same purposes and look forward To
renewing acquaintances with the rest of my family.
Keep my room ready
and we'{| get to work on some of the innumerable projects that must have
accumulated around the house while you were away.
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Welcome home!
1! understand you had a grand sabbatical
and !'m looking forward to hearing about it in detail.
get to see Emily during that time?
OF ron, Pane,
BERKELEY