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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY Professor and Choirman Director, Division of Biology and Medicine United States Atomic Energy Commission -- Your May 23 letter is much appreciated ; also John's very kind comments regarding Ann Arbor in the draft of the letter of report tothe Chairman of the Commission, as well as the letter which isto go to the President of this University.Please,if you will,notify Rosemary that the draft of there por you meet with my entire approval. & l / & I have asked our Dr. Simons to take note of your suggestions regarding the possibility of obtaining spent uranium and will write t o Charles A. Keller,Director of Production atthe Oak Ridge Operations Office, when Dr. Simons can provide m e with the necessary details concerning our needs. and the letter as amended by Since I have seen you the possibility has developed that we may-be able to design entirely new space for a linear accelerator in an underground addition to the total space available for our therapy division. Should this turn out t o be the case it may be that we will not need uranium for shielding. On the other hand, we may very well wish to%onserve working space i f an extension of t h e building i s not feasible. Thank you very much for your helpful suggestions which will be followed to the letter. Concerning Colonel Allen H. Anderson, presently Deputy /' Director of the Division of Military Application of AEC,I talk e d.F immediately upon reading your letter with Professor Kerr, Acting Director of Phoenix, and forwarded t o him a thermofax copy of the
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letter applicable to the Phoenix directorship. rapidly as you have suggested inthe matter of contacting Colonel Anderson and I believe it is possible that we will be asking Colonel Anderson to visit Ann Arbor i n person. course, keep you informed about any further developments in this He plans to move No move has yet been made to contact a possible candidate for the Fagerburg Lecture, but I gather after talking with Bill Kerr that the new Chancellor of the University of Chicago may be the first person tobe contacted. Kerr is presently polling the Executive Committee for advice as t o how he shall move in this matter. While my own personal choice would be Bentley on several counts, my major interest will be well served i f anyone, or rather someone, fully capable in the field is chosen to represent the biological side of atomic energy utilization. Once again, let me tell you how pleasant and satisfying it wasto have our committee meet i n Ann Arbor. pated inthe program at this end was deeply thrilled. Everyone who part ici -