MrB.  Penny Bowen
President
H.E.R.O.
3029 Bellchrse Road
Palleton, Maryland   21047

Dear Mrs. Bowen:

Thank you for your letter of Deeember 4 concerning "Dungeons
and Dragons".  I have also received presumably at your request
materials from elsewhere on the same subject at about the same
time.  I obviously am concerned by the reports that I have read
and have taken the lfberty of discue8ing this with some of my
colleagues with in intereet in physiological impact of such
activity on youngeters.

If I COPQ up with anything positive that you should be aware of
I will certainly be in touch.

Sincerely yours,

C. Everett Xoop, M.D.
Surgeon General