IRVING 5. WRIGHT, PRESIDENT          R. H. KAMPMEIER, PRESIDENT-ELECT          WRIGHT ADAMS, 15T "ICE PRESIDENT        EDWARD C. KLEIN, JR., ?ND "ICE PRESIDENT
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JOHN A. LAYNE. 3RD "ICE PRESIDENT                WILLIAM A. SODEMAN, TREASURER             WALLACE M. YATER. SECRETARY GENERAL
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EDWARD C ROSENOW, JR, M.0
  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

FRED C. DAUTERICH, JR.
ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

OFFICIAL JOURNAL-ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

  4200 PINE STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19104
        (215) BARING 2-8120

17 November 1966

Marshall W. Nirenberg, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Dear Doctor Nirenberg:

    You will be pleased to know that the Board of Regents of the
American College of Physicians has elected to present you with the
American College of Physicians Award for distinguished contributions
in science as related to medicine.  The award includes a bronze medal
bearing the name of the recipient and a certificate, plus an honorarium
of $250.00.  Travel and other expenses of the recipient and one member
of the family will be paid for by the College.  The award will be
presented during the 48th Annual Session of the College in San Francisco,
April 10-14, 1967.

    It is expected that the recipient of the award will give a lecture
at one of the plenary sessions.  Dr. Irving S. Wright, our President,
has asked me to tell you that this can be on any phase of medicine in
which you are particularly interested.
informative abstract of about 150 words in lengt
   the printed program. '-_ -~'.'."-~~~....shou~d....~ .+.e~w&.-by rgEernber  zm,". The
award will be presented at the time of this lecture'. '~..--r-.`.-----~'---"--'

    There is no requirement that the recipient of the award prepare a
manuscript for submission to the editors for publication in the ANNALS OF
INTERNAL MEDICINE. However, I am sure that the editors would be pleased
to consider publication of such a manuscript.

    Please let me. know if you can accept this award.  If you can, there
are certain functions to which you and a member of your family are invited.
There is a reception and dinner for Officers, Regents, Governors and
special guests of the College, and their wives, on Sunday evening, April 9
at the Fairmont Hotel.  The President's reception and dinner-dance will
follow the annual convocation on Thursday, April 13. This also will be at
the Fairmont Hotel.  Both of these affairs are black tie.

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48TH ANNUAL SESSION - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., APRIL 10-14, 1967, GENERAL CHAIRMAN, JOHN R. GAMBLE, 655 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. 94102

REGENTS

WALTER 6. FROMMEYER, JR. H. MARVIN POLLARD THEODORE J. ABERNETHY   E. HUGH LUCKEY     G. MALCOLM BROWN     JAMES W. HAVILAND   ROBERTO F. ESCAMILLA
   BIRMINGHAM, ALA.      ANN ARBOR, MC+.      WAWINGTON. D.C.       NEW YORK, N.Y.        OTTAWA, ONT.        SEATTLE, WASH.     SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF.
  GEORGE C. GRIFFITH     WESLEY W. SPINK      HUGH R. BUTT       CARTER SMITH     A. CARLTON ERNSTENE KENNETH G. KOHLSTAEDT
  LOS ANGELES, CALIF.     MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.      ROCHESTER, MINN.       ATLANTA, GA.        CLEVELAND, OHIO      INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
  STACY R. METTIER    RICHARD P. STETSON                                                             J. RUSSELL ELKINTON
                              THOMAS M. DURANT   R. CARMICHAEL TILGHMAN MARSHALL N. FULTON     CARL V. MOORE
SAN FRANCIXO, CALIF.                                                                           EDITOR, ANNALS OF
                CHESTNUT HILL, M*sS.     PHILADELPHIA, PA.      BALTIMORE, MD.       PROVIDEKE. RI.        ST. LOUIS. MO       INTERNAL MEDICINE


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Marshall W. Nirenberg, Ph.D.
17 November 1966
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    If you can be with us on Thursday, you are invited to march in
the academic procession and you would be seated on the dais and introduced
at the convocation.  This is always in full academic regalia and it would
be appropriate for you to bring your own cap, gown and hood. If you do
not have your own, please let us know your hat size and height so that
we can order regalia for you.

    You are also invited to attend a concert by the San Francisco
Symphony, as a guest of the College, on Tuesday, April 11.
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    Please send us a recent autographed photocrr& of your .s...-~~or
the permanent College akrFbi                                                 --.."_.
                             ves .  We would also like you to let us know,
on the enclosed card, the exact way in which you want your name engrossed
on the certificate.

   Finally, please send us a v vi tJ
                             ae or-~~~ap~ca-l-materidl
which will be needed in the preparation of a SultabI ~-....~~t'ion .  It is
important that we have this by December 20th.

    With this letter, I am happy to send you my congratulations and
best wishes.

Cordially,

Edward C. Rosenow, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.P.
Executive Director

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Enclosure (card)