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feeling very well, because he died shortly afterward, about a year later. He was a very fine man, and I...

Did he come from Memphis?

He came from Memphis, or from that area.

At the end of July of '55, Anna Rosenberg and I were getting ready to go to Europe and we were greatly heartened by the news that Mrs. Hobby would resign as of August 1st. Anyone that was appointed in her place could not be any worse as far as lack of sympathy for medical research went and possibly might be better. Nelson Rockefeller had left the Department to go to work in the Executive Offices of the President, which was also a help, as Nelson was trying to defend the idea that no more funds for medical research were necessary. He had actually gotten Mrs. Hobby to get a committee appointed by the National Science Foundation, which was supposed to inquire into the matter and eventually report that sufficient funds were already available for medical research. This committee, fortunately, did not get its work done until December of '55, and by this time Marion Folsom was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and the report, which was unenthusiastic about the need for more funds, was successfully buried by Secretary Folsom and Dr. Sheeley.

Who was on that committee?