ACO dl UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES - DAVIS ° IRVINE - LOS ANGELES - RIVERSIDE + 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 SAN DIEGO + » SANTA BARBARA SAN FRANCTSCO SANTA CRUZ DIVISION OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY UCLA CENTER FOR THE HEALTH SCIENCES LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024 REPOSITORY : OO: /t FOLDER / j Lecoens COLLECTION BOX No ) Z, B A Vy, Hor/E Conkte fA Biles id . ‘nagls, Dovsea ©" UY - 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 t _— Mena, wee a ~ | 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. : : re cs 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