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campaign for funds in April of '45. Casey, it turned out, was not an experienced fund raiser, but he did persuade Eric Johnston, with some help from us in the background, to head the campaign and did get Eric Johnston to allow him to use his name to enlist leading businessmen all over the country. This was an invaluable service, as some of these men are still active in the Cancer Society; for instance, Ruddy Ellis and Elmer

Casey, however, left the Society about January of '45, as he really was not as good an organizer as we had hoped.

By that time was it called the American Cancer Society?

Well, very close to this time. I think at about this time I persuaded them to change their name from the American Society for the Control of Cancer to the American Cancer Society. I think I should have preferred that they change their name to the American Society Against Cancer. And the change was a result of Emerson's efforts and mine.

I remember that Emerson and I talked to Casey first about the job about July 18, 1944, and by this time I felt that we were on the way to the opening of new vistas for this organization. I also at this time talked with T Maddox Miller, now Mrs. James Monahan, an outstanding medical reporter and editor of the Reader's Digest. Emerson and I told her the sad facts about the inadequate funds for cancer research and for the treatment and care and for the education of doctors, and that the Society was raising no funds for research what ever, but still one out of eight would die of the disease and one out of five over