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May 21,
1929

Dr. Clifford T. Messner,
7th & B Streets, N. W.,
Washington D. C.

Dear Doctor Messner:

Soon I shall be starting and I am pleased to report that most everything is ready- except the final packing. Have had two fine letters from Captain Jones and I know we are going to hit it off together. Of course, I understand that a fellow cannot spend too much time with the Captain and be popular with the crew. I shall try to be a fifty-fifty.

Several things are on my mind and I shall be as brief as possible:

1. Our students will begin taking final examinations next week. I am anxious to help get them interested in our branch of the service. I want to talk to the seniors about it. Will you please give me the points you want me to emphasize. I presume they will especially ask about length of appointment and salary.
2. On Monday, May 27, the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Dentistry will meet to lay out programs for next year. What will be the title of your presentation and what month would you prefer? You will recall that I suggested your telling about the work of Public Health Service-- but choose your own topic. I shall request that the local men in the service be sent invitations to the meetings.
3. What else can you suggest along this line?
4. I am ready now to give you some thought to publicity and an most anxious to have you tell me what sort of notices will be agreeable to the department. I must keep within the limit of propriety as set in Washington. Did you like what appeared in the local papers? I should appreciate answers to the questions in my last letter so that I can go to the University with an official request and then I expect the Department of Public Information will prepare a notice for the papers.

In a letter from Captain Jones, received today, he tells me that Doctor Newhall died during the winter and that a Doctor Griest will succeed him and that he and his family will leave Seattle on the July 6th Victoria and that we shall all go to Barrow on the Northland. Also a Mr. Charles F. A. Mann who is a writer for Scientific American and other magazines.