Memorial Hospital & Sloan-Kettering Institute

"Although NCI [the National Cancer Institute] is larger than either Memorial Sloan-Kettering or the American Cancer Society, it is not as powerful as either. In fact, historically, the smaller private organizations have interlocked with the federal giant and guide its thinking on many matters." (Ralph Moss, "The Cancer Industry.")

The cancer hospital was founded with John E. Parsons as president and Joseph W. Drexel as treasurer. "Among the prominent ladies interested in its management are Mrs. Paul Dahlgren, Mrs. Henry Day, Mrs. Cullum, Mrs. Matthew Clarkson and Mrs. Howard Townsend. The sum of $250,000 has been promised, on condition that an additional $100,000 can be procured." (Starting a Crusade Against Cancer. N.Y. Corr. Philadelphia Ledger. In: San Francisco Evening Bulleting, Mar. 25, 1884.)

The Women's Hospital didn't want to treat cancer cases, so in 1888 John Jacob Astor offered $200,000 to erect a separate pavillion. "The widow of General Cullum, then vice president of the hospital, ardently advocated the acceptance of Mr. Astor's offer, but in vain. When the matter was decided adversely, she set in motion a plan for an independent cancer hospital and secured the co-operation of influential men and women who agreed with her that if women suffering from cancer were not admitted to the Women's Hospital, they ought to have a refuge of their own.... The $200,000 was for the building, and provision had to be made for a site. Mrs. Cullom headed the list with a personal subscription of $50,000. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. R.L. Stuart and Mrs. Mary Rogers contributed $25,000 each; Mrs. Astor subscribed $20,000, and Mrs. William Astor, Mrs. B.D. Worsham, John E. Parsons, Isidor Cohnfeld, H.O. Armour, Morris K. Jesup and Joseph W. Drexel gave $5000 apiece." Charles C. Haight was the architect. "The officers were: John E. Parsons, president; Henry E. Pellew, vice president; Joseph W. Drexel, treasurer; and Dr. George L. Peabody, secretary; and these formed the board of managers with Mrs. Matthew Clarkson, Mrs. Henry Day, Mrs. Paul Dahlgren, Mrs. Howard Townsend, George P. Andrews, Dr. William T. Bull, Dr. Clement Cleveland, Dr. James B. Hunter, and Dr. Francis P. Kinnicutt. There was also an associate board, composed of Mrs. Isaac Bell, Mrs. B.K. Stevens, Mrs. F.C. Barlow, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Mrs. A.T. Pratt, Mrs. Frederick Bronson, Mrs. G.M. Miller, Mrs. C.A. Peabody, Miss Helen Beach, Mrs. Julien T. Davies, Mrs. William Astor, Mrs. Eugene Schieffelin, Mrs. Frederick R. Jones, Miss Laura Post and Mrs. Lloyd Aspinwall. The consulting physicians were Dr. Fordyce Barker, Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas, Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, Dr. John T. Metcalfe, Dr. Thomas M. Markoe and Dr. George F. Shrady." Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton Cullum died four months after the cornerstone was laid, but left the hospital some property in New York City and a large estate in San Francisco. Mrs. John Jacob Astor died the week it opened. The men's pavilion was nearly completed. (Gotham Gossip. New Orleans Daily Picayune, Sep. 8, 1890.)

John Jacob Astor III, grandson of the founder of the Astor fortune, supposedly had little interest in philanthropy, but was persuaded to give the money by his wife, the former Charlotte Gibbs of South Carolina, who died of uterine cancer. She was a trustee of the Women's Hospital, which did not admit cancer patients.

Its officers in 1896 were John E. Parsons, President; Dr. William T. Bull, Vice President; Dr. Henry C. Coe, Secretary; and George C. Clark, Treasurer. Its managers included Miss Laura Post, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, Mrs. Mary R. Callender, Mrs. Howard Townsend, Mrs. Charles H. Russell, George G. Haven, Benjamin Perkins, Dr. Charles S. Bull, James William Beekman, William G. Hamilton, Dr. Francis P. Kinnicut, Dr. Clement Cleveland, and H. Walter Webb. (Report of the Cancer Hospital. New York Times, Apr. 25, 1896.)

George C. Clark

George Crawford Clark was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1845 and graduated from the City College of New York in 1863. He was a member of Clark, Dodge & Co. at 51 Wall St. He was also the first president of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. (George C. Clark Dead. New York Times, Feb. 26, 1919.) He was a director of the Northern Securities Company; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; the City Investing Company; the Norfolk & Southern Railroad; the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co., and the Seaman's Bank for Savings. His father was Luther Clapp Clark, a banker in St. Louis. (New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial. By William Richard Cutter, Vol. 1, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914, p. 101.)

George C. Clark's father-in-law was James G. Averell. (Died. New York Times, Feb. 4, 1910.) James George Averell's brother, William John Averell, was the father-in-law of Edward H. Harriman. (The Averell-Averill-Avery family. By Clara Arlette Avery, 1906, p. 577.) "Clark and Harriman met frequently between 1870 and 1875, often at Clark's house. The influence of the Clark family led Harriman to take an interest in social betterment work on the East Side." (E.H. Harriman, Master Railroader. By Lloyd J. Mercer. Beard Books, 2003, pp. 10 and 3.)

George C. Clark's sister, Julia Goodman Clark, married Samuel Phillips Blagden. The ceremony was performed by his father, Rev. George W. Blagden. (Married. New York Times, Nov. 12, 1879; Death List of A Day. New York Times, May 2, 1906.) Rev. George Washington Blagden, Yale 1823, was an Overseer of Harvard from 1854 to 1859; his wife, Miriam Phillips, was a daughter of John Phillips, Harvard 1788. Wendell Phillips, the abolitionist, was his brother-in-law. (Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1885, p. 6; The history of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman family in America. p. 1683.) His father, George Blagden, was Treasurer of the Washington Building Company. (National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, Nov. 6, 1801.) George Blagden "was a native of Attercliffe, Yorkshire, in England, but was one of the first settlers in Washington, having been here from the laying of its foundation-stone. At the time of his death, and for many years previous, he was superintendant of the masons employed on the Capitol, an Alderman of the City, and a Director of the Bank of Washington." He died about an hour after a six-foot bank of earth on the southwest corner of the Capitol collapsed on him. (Deaths. Vermont Chronicle, from the National Intelligencer, Jun. 16, 1826.) George W. Blagden had two sisters and a brother, Thomas. (A discourse commemorative of the Rev. George Washington Blagden, D.D. By Charles Agustus Stoddard, p.14.) Emily Blagden married George W. Phillips. She died at age 31. (Died. Boston Daily Atlas, May 2, 1842.) Thomas Blagden married two sisters of Benjamin D. Silliman.

John Phillips Jr.'s mother, Margaret Wendell, was a royal descendant of King Edward of England. (Americans of Royal Descent. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p. 170.) John Phillips Sr. (1701-1763) was a member of the Phillips family which founded the Phillips Academies at Andover, Mass. and Exeter N.H., the main feeder schools for Yale and Harvard.

George C. Clark's niece, Zelina Thérèse Clark, the daughter of his brother, David Crawford Clark of Clark, Dodge & Co., married Donald Peabody Blagden, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blagden of Upper Saranac, N.Y., formerly of Washington, D.C. His best man was Augustus Silliman Blagden. "Mr. Blagden has three other brothers - Thomas Blagden Jr., Henry Harrison Blagden and Benjamin Douglas Silliman Blagden. His nephew, Augustus S. Blagden Jr., married the former Miss Elise Grace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Russell Grace, on April 18." (Miss Zelina Clark Married in Church. New York Times, Jun. 9, 1938.) There was also another brother, Augustus S. Blagden. Thomas Blagden operated a camp at Saranac Lake, and owned considerable property in Washington, D.C. (Thomas Blagden. New York Times, Oct. 5, 1938.) Elise Grace Blagden, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus S. Blagden, married Dan W. Lufkin, Skull & Bones 1953. Elsie Grace Blagden Is Married Here. New York Times, Jan. 15, 1961.)

The private banking firm of Clark, Dodge & Co. was a major financier of railroads. Enoch W. Clark and his brother, Joseph W. Clark of Boston, founded E.W. Clark & Brother in New York City in 1834 (Copartnership Notice. Boston Daily Advertiser, Oct. 16, 1834), and E.W. Clark, Dodge & Co. in 1845. (Copartnership Notice. New York Herald, Aug. 11, 1845.) Partners of Clark Brothers & Co, in St. Louis were Joseph W. Clark, Luther C. Clark, Edward Dodge, and Edward Chase. (Banking Houses. Morning Republican, Aug. 29, 1858.) Enoch White Clark founded E.W. Clark & Co. in Philadelphia in 1837. It was active in financing the Mexican War. His grandson, Clarence Mitchell Clark, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1878 and joined the firm in 1900. (Clarence Clark, Financier, Was 77. New York Times, Jun. 30, 1937.) Enoch White Clark's grandaughter, Mary Todhunter Clark, married Nelson A. Rockefeller. Her maternal grandfather was was George B. Roberts, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mrs. John French (Eleanor Clark) and Sen. Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania were also Enoch W. Clark's grandchildren. (A 4th Home to Manage. New York Times, Nov. 7, 1958.)

John E. Parsons

John E. Parsons was a founding member of the executive committee of the American Society for the Control of Cancer in 1913, when it was temporarily called The National Anticancer Association. John E. Parsons had custody of the will of William Earl Dodge Sr., the head of Phelps Dodge & Co., when he died in 1883. Parsons was a director and counsel to the American Sugar Refining Company (aka the Sugar Trust) (No More Secrecy in Sugar Trust. New York Times, Jan. 9, 1908), and his law firm of Parson, Closson & McIlvane represented Horace Havemeyer and other members of the family concerning the estate of Henry O. Havemeyer. (Close Havemeyer Estate. New York Times, Mar. 26, 1910.)

Parsons was also the first president of the Cancer Hospital; a member of the board of the Women's Hospital; a trustee of the Cooper Union; a member of the Council of New York University since 1867; a trustee of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions; a manager of the American Bible Society; and a member of the Executive Committee of the New York City Mission and Tract Society. His second wife, Mrs. Florence V.C. Bishop, whom he married in 1901, was the widow of Central Trust trustee David Wolfe Bishop, an heir of the Lorillard tobacco fortune. (John E. Parsons, Noted Lawyer, Dead. New York Times, Jan. 17, 1915.) Parsons was a partner of the law firm of Albon P. Man from 1857 to 1884. Man was the attorney for Peter Lorillard and legal advisor to almost all of the Lorillard family (For Sixty Years A Lawyer. New York Times, Apr. 1, 1891.) Charles H. Allen, president of the American Sugar Refining Company, became a director of the Guaranty Trust after its merger with the Morton Trust in 1911 until 1931. Parsons was a partner of Parsons, Shepard and Ogden with Edward M. Shepard and David B. Ogden. Ogden was the father of Mrs. Johnston de Forest, whose husband was a trustee of the Central Union Trust. (Mr. Shepard's Law Firm to Dissolve. New York Times, Sep. 28, 1902.)

The Woman's Hospital

The wife of Charles Abernethy of the Central Trust was a member of the Board of Lady Supervisors of the Woman's Hospital, along with Mrs. Samuel Thorne (The Woman's Hospital. New York Times, Nov. 18, 1881). Parsons was president of the Woman's Hospital in 1897. Edward Cooper and Mrs. Russell Sage were Vice Presidents; Charles N. Talbot, Secretary; Mrs. Fredrick F. Thompson, Treasurers. On the Board of Governors were Mrs. F.V. Hamlin, Mrs. W.L. Andrews, Mrs. Robert W. De Forest, Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, H.M. Braem, Grenville L. Winthrop, Mrs. Alfred M. Hoyt, Russell Sage, Arthur H. Scribner, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Matthew C.D. Borden, Louis B. McCagg, Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, Mrs. Malcolm Graham, Charles N. Talbot, and Benjamin Perkins. (Woman's Hospital to Move. New York Times, Dec. 19, 1897.) Parsons was President of the Board of Governors of the Woman's Hospital in 1906. Major benefactors of its new building included Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, several gifts including one of $150,000; Mrs. Andrew Carnegie gave $10,000 through Mrs. Morris K. Jesup; Mrs. Malcolm Graham, Mrs. A.D. Juilliard, and Mrs. D.O. Mills gave $5,000 each. Morris K. Jesup, a close friend of Samuel D. Babcock, gave $100,000 in 1891. (New Woman's Hospital Is Ready For Patients. New York Times, Dec. 6, 1906.) Parsons was an executor and trustee of Morris K. Jesup's will, along with his widow, Mrs. Maria De Witt Jesup, and nephew, Thomas De Witt Cuyler, and Benjamin Strong. Jesup left $1,000,000 to the American Museum for Natural History and $100,000 to the Brick Presbyterian Church. Parsons and his brother, William H. Parsons, whom Jesup called "my oldest and best friends," got $2,000 each. (Jesup Relatives Fare Well In Will. New York Times, Feb. 15, 1908; Morris K. Jesup Is Dead At 77. New York Times, Jan. 23, 1908.) Parsons, Jesup and Mills were on the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Trust, along with Dudley Olcott, brother of the head of the Central Trust, and Norman B. Ream, a director of the Guaranty Trust (Metropolitan Trust Company 1905-06. New York Times, Oct. 2, 1901.) Meanwhile, Jesup's old business partner, John S. Kennedy, was president of the Presbyterian Hospital and a trustee of the Central Trust from 1893 until his death in 1909. T. DeWitt Cuyler, a Philadelphia lawyer, was Mrs. Jesup's nephew (Morris K. Jesup's Widow Dead At 80. New York Times, Jun. 18, 1914.) Cuyler was a member of the Committee of the American Tobacco Company's Six Percent Gold Bonds, which were deposited with the Guaranty Trust after its breakup in 1911. Augustus D. Juilliard was a director of the Guaranty Trust from its reorganization in 1892 until 1919.

Parsons was President of the Board of Trustees of the Cooper Union, and the only surviving member of the original board of trustees chosen by Peter Cooper. In 1909, Andrew Carnegie "administered an open rebuke to the smokers and those who had liquor served to them. 'There is one thing I would say about Abraham Lincoln,' he began, 'and you will not fail to see the connection. Lincoln never chewed tobacco or smoked tobacco and never drank liquor.'" (Carnegie Rebukes Diners. New York Times, Feb. 13, 1909.)

John E. Parsons' daughter, Constance, married Montgomery Hare, Yale 1893. (Guide to the Hare Family Papers 1873-1962. The New-York Historical Society.) Montgomery Hare was the son of James Montgomery Hare, U.S. manager of the London Assurance Corporation, later resident manager of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society of Norwich, England. (Yale University. Obituary Record of Graduates 1932-1933, p 83.) Hare's mother, Mary Emlen Meredith Hare, was a Royal descendant of Edward I, King of England. (Americans of Royal Descent. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p.51.) His brother, Meredith Hare, Skull & Bones 1894, married a sister of Dean Sage Jr. (S&B 1897), who was president of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; and his law partner, Edwin O. Holter, S&B 1894, was founding treasurer of the New York Heart Association. Montgomery Hare's cousin, Dr. Hobart Amory Hare, wrote an anti-tobacco in 1885. He married a sister of Lowell P. Weicker, Yale 1927.

Herbert Parsons, Scroll & Key 1890

John E. Parson's son, Herbert Parsons, followed him as president of the Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, and President of the Board of Trustees of Canton Christian College. (Herbert Parsons Dies of Injuries. New York Times, Sep. 17, 1925). He was a member of Scroll & Key. He studied at the University of Berlin 1890-91, Harvard Law School 1891-93, and Metropolis Law School, New York City, then entered the law office of Strong & Cadwalader. In 1895 he joined his father's law firm, Parsons Shepard & Ogden and its successor, Parsons, Closson & McIlvane."Entered Military Intelligence Section of War College Division of General Staff in Washington as a civilian in July, 1917; commissioned Major in Signal Reserve Corps in August, 1917, and detailed to Military Intelligence Section, where he was in charge of counter-espionage outside of the Army." He served overseas from 1918-19, studied in the British War Office and spent three weeks in Intelligence Section at American General Headquarters at Chaumont. He was assistant to the military attaché at Berne in January and February 1919. (Herbert Parsons, B.A. 1890. Obituary Record of Graduates of the Undergraduate Schools Deceased During the Year 1925-26, pages 141-144.) Herbert Parsons's son, [Henry] McIlvaine Parsons, was a member of Skull & Bones, 1933.

Herbert Parsons married Elsie Worthington Clews, only daughter of banker Henry Clews. His ushers were Tompkins McIlvane, Charles Sheldon, G. Beekman Hoppin, and Henry Clews Jr., her brother. Dr. Walton Martin was best man. (Miss Clews Is Married. New York Times, Sep. 2, 1900.) The Parsons's only daughter, Elsie Parsons, married Morehead Patterson, S&B 1920, the son of Rufus L. Patterson, head of American Machinery Company and International Cigar Machinery Company. (Miss Parsons Engaged. New York Times, Apr. 1, 1921; Miss Elsie Parsons Married in Lenox. New York Times, Sep. 11, 1921.) Morehead Patterson was a Yale friend of Briton Hadden, and best man at Henry R. Luce's wedding. He was a director of the Enterprise Development Corporation, a closed investment trust of heirs of William Rockefeller, including Godfrey S. Rockefeller, and Thomas F. Ryan, whose directors included Clendenin J. Ryan, and Frederic W. Lincoln. (Trust to Supply Venture Capital. New York Times, Mar. 31, 1948.)In 1964, he patented a machine for forming cigarette rods out of slurry. (Cigarette Making Machine, Patented Apr. 14, 1964, 3,128,773 U.S. Patent Office.)

Mrs. Howard Townsend, Royal

Mrs. Howard Townsend was Justine Van Rensselaer, daughter of Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer of Albany. She was president of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York. Her husband was Dr. Howard Townsend. (Died. New York Times, Apr. 9, 1912.) Her mother was Harriet Bayard. (Death of a Venerable Albany Lady. From the Albany Times. New York Times, Jul. 22, 1875.) She was a Royal descendant (through the ubiquitous Livingstons) of Louis VI, King of France. (Americans of Royal Descent: A collection of genealogies of American families. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p. 586.) Dr. Howard Townsend was one of the professors in the Albany Medical College and on the staff of Albany Hospital. (Dr. Howard Townsend. New York Times, Jan. 20, 1867.)

Her son, Howard Townsend, a lawyer, was a member of the board of managers of St. Luke's Hospital, 1896-1902; a trustee of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, 1901-1902; a trustee of Roosevelt Hospital, 1898, and a member of the board of managers of New York Hospital since 1899, president 1915-1919. (Howard Townsend Dies At Age of 76. New York Times, Apr. 25, 1935.) His first wife, Sophie Witherspoon Dickey, was the daughter of Charles D. Dickey [of Brown Brothers]. (Died. New York Times, Feb. 1, 1892.) He married his second wife, Anne Lowndes Langdon, in 1894. (Mrs. Howard Townsend. New York Times, Dec. 1, 1943.) She was a descendant of John Jacob Astor, and a Royal descendant of Henry I King of France (Americans of Royal Descent: A collection of genealogies of American families. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p. 28), and of Alfred the Great of England (Marion Langdon, Mrs. Royal Phelps Carroll, was her sister, page 632.)

50th Anniversary Celebration, 1934

Speakers included Dr. John A. Hartwell; Dr. Robert Greenough; Dr. C.C. Little on "Heredity in Cancer;" Dr. E.C. Dodds of London on "Cancerigenic [sic] Agents; Dr. Dr. James Ewing, president of the hospital's medical board; Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of Cornell University; Mrs. Robert G. Mead, chairman of the finance committee of the New York City Cancer Committee, and Dr. George H. Bigelow, Superintendant of Massachusetts General Hospital. Harry Pelham Robbins was president of the board of managers. Members of the committee in charge of the anniversary celebration: Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Armitage; Lady Astor; Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Astor; Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Baker; Henry Rogers Benjamin; Mrs. French Rayburn Bissell; Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas L. Chadbourne; Mr. and Mrs. E. Gerry Chadwick; Sir Lenthal and Lady Cheatle; Mrs. William Bourke Cockran; Dr. and Mrs. William B. Coley; Dr. and Mrs. Lewis A. Conner; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Debevoise; Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Delafield; Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland E. Dodge; C.H. Donner; Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Douglas; Dr. and Mrs. William A. Downes; Dr. James Ewing; Mrs. E. Marshall Field; Miss Helen C. Frick; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; Miss Belle B. Gurnee; Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Hadden; Mrs. Morgan Hamilton; Mrs. Edward S. Harkness; Dr. and Mrs. John A. Hartwell; Miss Gertrude Hill; Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Holland; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ewing Hope; Mrs. Walter B. James; Mrs. Wortham James; Mrs. Henry H. Janeway; Mrs. Burton J. Lee; Mr. and Mrs. James T. Lee; Lucius N. Littauer; Colonel and Mrs. Arthur W. Little; Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.F. McCann; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon McKay; Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Mead; Mrs. William Brown Meloney; Mr. and Mrs. H. Morton Merriman; Albert G. Milbank; Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank; Mrs. Charles E. Miller; Dr. and Mrs. James Alexander Miller; Mr. and Mrs. David M. Milton; Mr. and Mrs. A. Newbold Morris; Dr. and Mrs. James B. Murphy; Dr. and Mrs. Walter L. Niles; Professor Henry Fairborn Osborn; Mr. and Mrs. John E. Parsons; Mr. and Mrs. James H. Post; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon H. Rentschler; Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ripley; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pelham Robbins; Dr. and Mrs. G. Canby Robinson; Mr. and Mrs. Langdon H. Roper; Mr. and Mrs. George B. St. George; Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Simmons; Mrs. John Stewart; Mrs. James J. Storrow; Mrs. George Tiffany; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Townsend [Jr.]; Mr. and Mrs. T. Ferdinand Wilcox. (Memorial Hospital to Mark 50th Year. New York Times, May 20, 1934.)

Among the members of the social service committee who assisted at the formal opening of the gift shop: Miss Gertrude Hill, who headed the committee; Mrs. T. Ferdinand Wilcox, chairman; Mrs. Edward C. Delafield, Mrs. P. Bernard Phillip, Mrs. Langdon H. Roper, Mrs. Paul Armitage, Mrs. Wilson P. Foss, Mrs. Percival S. Hill, Mrs. L. Valentine Pulsifer, Mrs. Carll Tucker, Mrs. Walter C. Wyckoff, Mrs. Walter K. Earle, Miss Helen C. Frick, Mrs. Charles H. Dickinson, Mrs. Elisha Walker, Mrs. Fordyce B. St. John, Mrs. H. Morton Merriman, Mrs. Burton J. Lee, Miss Jessie L. Roesler, Mrs. Robert C. Ream, Mrs. Archibald Douglas, and Miss Eleanor Mellon. (Tea for Cancer Hospital. New York Times, Nov. 2, 1934.)

In 1936, the General Education Board, founded by John D. Rockefeller Sr., made a $3,000,000 gift to the Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases to erect a new twelve-story hospital building near the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical College. (Rockefeller Provides $3,000,000 To Build Cancer Hospital Here. New York Times, Apr. 28, 1936.) Dr. James Ewing was director of the hospital and president of its medical board. Lewis W. Douglas was a member of the board of managers, and Harry Pelham Robbins was president of the hospital. (Cornerstone Laid At Cancer Center. New York Times, May 21, 1938.)

Dr. William B. Coley, Yale 1884

William Bradley Coley was born in Westport, Conn. and graduated from Yale in 1884. He taught school in Portland, Ore. for two years before entering Harvard Medical School, where he graduated in 1888. He was an instructor in surgery at Post-Graduate Medical School 1890-1897; lecturer in clinical surgery and associate Columbia University College of Physicians 1897-1909; professor of clinical surgery at Cornell Medical College 1909-1915, and Clinical Professor of Cancer Research 1915-1918. He was attending surgeon of Memorial Hospital until 1933, and a member of the Board of Managers since 1902. Coley was "instrumental in 1902 in securing a gift of $100,000 from Mrs. Collis P. Huntington for the establishment of the Collis P. Huntington Fund for Cancer Research," and he was chairman of the fund since 1909. (Rites Tomorrow for Dr. W.B. Coley. New York Times, Apr. 17, 1936; Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1935-1936, pp. 32-33.) The suppression of Dr. William B. Coley's bacterial toxin treatment for cancer has been attributed to Dr. James Ewing's hostility. Ewing unsuccessfully treated the daughter of the president of the Phelps Dodge Company for breast cancer with radium. Douglas later made a gift to Memorial Hospital of +nearly half the radium in the world, and demanded that Ewing be made head of cancer treatment at Memorial, and Ewing refused to allow the use of Coley's Toxins. The American Society for the Control of Cancer was against Coley's Toxins since its formation in 1913, and the American Cancer Society carried on its vendetta. (Coley's Toxins, by Wayne Martin. The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Feb-Mar 2003.).

Dr. Frederick Fuller Russell of Boston replaced Dr. Robert B. Greenough, deceased, both as a member of the board of managers of Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, and as president of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. (Gets Memorial Hospital Post. New York Times, Jun. 16, 1937.)

Dr. James Douglas

"The interest of the Douglas family in the hospital began in 1912 when Dr. James Douglas, grandfather of the new chairman of the board of managers, became a member of the board and gave $100,000 for clinical research and an X-ray plant. The new chairman is also a trustee of the General Education Board, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Industrial Conference Board, Inc." Lewis W. Douglas, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, succeeded his uncle, Archibald Douglas, as chairman of the board of managers of Memorial Hospital. He was the seventh member of his family to be connected with the hospital. (Takes Hospital Post. New York Times, Dec. 20, 1944.)

Dr. James Douglas was born in Quebec, Canada, and graduated from Queen's University, Kingston, in 1858. He was a professor of chemistry at Morrin College before coming to Phoenixville, Penn. in 1875 to head a copper plant. He was President of the Copper Queen Mining Company, which was acquired by the Phelps-Dodge Company, of which he was chairman of the board. He and his associates also controlled the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad and associated lines. His largest gift to Memorial may have been three and three-quarters grams of radium, valued at $375,000. (Dr. James Douglas, Copper Miner, Dies. New York Times, Jun. 26, 1918.) He left $50,000 to McGill University and $300,000 to other institutions, and the residuary, believed to be more than $5 million with extensive holdings in Phelps, Dodge & Co., to his children and grandchildren. Edmund Coffin [S&B 1866] and his sons, James Stuart Douglas and Walter Douglas, were executors. ($350,000 to Institutions. New York Times, Jul. 3, 1918.) Although his daughter died of cancer despite radium treatment, Douglas organized a private research laboratory in Jersey City. Dr. Charles L. Parsons, chief chemist of the US Bureau of Mines, suggested to him and his son, Archibald Douglas, that they establish a national radium institute. In Baltimore, Dr. Howard A. Kelly was also researching radium therapy at his private hospital. He treated Rep. Robert G. Bremner of New Jersey, and Rep. Martin D. Foster of Illinois, a physician and Chairman of the House Committee on Mines and Mining, introduced a bill to withdraw public lands containing precious metals. The Bureau of Mines had a new laboratory in Denver which was seeking new methods of extracting precious metals. (Scientists' Eyes on radium Test. New York Times, Dec. 28, 1913.) Parsons' son-in-law, Charles Proctor Cooper, became president of the Presbyterian Hospital in 1943.

Cornell Medical College merged with Memorial to create one of the largest cancer hospitals in the world, "of lesser proportions only than the Middlesex Hospital, London, and the Heidelberg Hospital." Allan A. Ryan, the son of transit and utility baron and Tobacco Trust member Thomas Fortune Ryan, contributed $50,000, and Dr. James Douglas contributed "many times that amount." Memorial and Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Johns Hopkins were to jointly share Douglas's radium. ($1,000,000 Pledged to Cancer Hospital. New York Times, May 2, 1914.)

Dr. James Douglas's son, James Stuart Douglas, was born at Megantic Hill Mine, Que., in 1868. He was President since 1912 of the United Verde Extension Mining Company, which he organized with George E. Tener of Pittsburgh. James S. Douglas's younger sister married Archibald Douglas [~1871-1943]. His sons were Lewis W. Douglas and James Douglas, secretary of the Phelps Dodge Corporation. (J.S. Douglas Dies; Mining Executive. New York Times, Jan. 3, 1949.)

B. Brewster Jennings

Benjamin Brewster Jennings was the grandson of Oliver Burr Jennings, a 10% partner of Standard Oil in 1870, and Benjamin Brewster, a member of the Standard Oil Trust of 1890. His father was Oliver Gould Jennings, S&B 1887. Jennings and Brewster had been partners who went west during the 1849 gold rush in California and became successful dry goods merchants. They sold out and used the proceeds to finance John D. Rockefeller. B. Brewster Jennings graduated from Yale in 1920, and was a member of the Yale Corporation Council from 1958 to 1963 and the Yale Development Committee. He spent his entire business career with the Mobile Corporation and its predecessor, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, and was its chief executive from 1944 to 1958. (B. Brewster Jennings Is Dead; Ex-Head of Mobil Oil was 70. New York Times, Oct. 3, 1968.)

He was also a director of the New York Trust Company from 1947-1958. Fellow directors included Malcolm P. Aldrich, S&B 1922; Charles J. Stewart, S&B 1918; and Horace Havemeyer Jr., President of the National Sugar Refining Co. (Display Ads, New York Times, Apr. 2, 1947 and Oct. 2, 1952; Display Ad 37. New York Times, Jan. 4, 1955 p. 34.), and Charles Dewey Hilles Jr., S&B 1924, a director of the American Cancer Society (Display Ad 283. New York Times, Oct. 2, 1957 p. 47; Display Ad 39. New York Times, Jan. 3, 1958 p. 3).

Jennings was a member of the board of managers of the Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases since 1944. In 1958, he was elected president, succeeding Laurence S. Rockefeller, who continued as chairman of the executive committee. (Cancer Unit Sets Up Team of Executives. New York Times, Oct. 27, 1958.) In 1962, he was elected chairman of the board of managers. (Memorial Hospital Names Officers. New York Times, Apr. 4, 1962.) In 1959, he was elected to the board of trustees of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. (Sloan-Kettering Names 2 Trustees. New York Times, May 3, 1959.)

In 1951, Jennings was drive chairman of the Greater New York Fund [now United Way of New York]. His successor in the 1952 fund drive was Devereux C. Josephs, who was a director of J.P. Morgan & Co. (J.P..Morgan President to Address Fund Group. New York Times, May 26, 1952.) During the 1950s, Jennings was a frequent patron of Mary Lasker's art display benefits for a variety of causes. (Ball of the Roosevelt Hospital on Dec. 14 To Further Institution's Work on Cancer. NYT Nov. 29, 1950; French Paintings to Aid Heart Unit, Jan. 7, 1951; Wildenstein's Art Show Preview Nov. 7 Will Aid Fund Drive of St. Faith's House, Oct. 17, 1951; Loan Art Display to Aid Foundation, Jan. 12, 1954; Matisse Show to Aid Baltimore Museum, Jan. 13, 1955.)

B. Brewster Jennings was a trustee of the National Fund for Medical Education in 1954. Fellow trustees included Elmer H. Bobst, Devereux C. Josephs, Winthrop Rockefeller, Anna M. Rosenberg, and Thomas J. Ross (Letter, Howard Corning Jr. to Dr. C.C. Little, Aug. 16, 1954).

Jennings was a trustee of the Avalon Foundation, along with Stoddard M. Stevens of Sullivan & Cromwell, and Dr. Thomas Parran, dean of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, who became the fund's director. (Parran to Head Fund. New York Times, Jan. 28, 1958.) The Avalon Foundation was created by Ailsa Mellon Bruce, the daughter of Andrew W. Mellon. Parran was US Surgeon General from 1936 to 1948.

Alfred P. Sloan and Charles Kettering

Mrs. Alfred P. Sloan was one of the illustrious boxholders for Edward L. Bernays' famous Green Ball in 1934. In 1945, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced a grant of $4,000,000 for a Sloan-Kettering Institute, to be operated by Memorial Hospital. It was billed as "The first application of American industrial research techniques to cancer research" by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., chairman of General Motors Corporation and Dr. Charles F. Kettering, vice president and director of research at GM. $2 million was to go for the building, with $200,000 a year for operating costs for ten years. Sloan was a trustee of Memorial Hospital, of which Dr. Reginald G. Coombe was president. Five trustees of the Research Institute represented Memorial: Coombe; Lewis W. Douglas, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, chairman of the hospital board; Frank C. Howard, a hospital trustee; Dr. Joseph Hinsey, dean of Cornell Medical School; and Dr. James B. Murphy, head of cancer research at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Four represented the Sloan Foundation: Sloan and Kettering; John L. Pratt, a director of General Motors; and George Whitney of J.P. Morgan & Company. (Sloan, Kettering to Combat Cancer. New York Times, Aug. 8, 1945.) Freddy Homburger, of Broin airliner ETS lawsuit fame, was among the first members of the Sloan-Kettering staff in 1945.

Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases in 1946: Lewis W. Douglas, Chairman, Board of Managers; Reginald G. Coombe, President; James T. Lee, Vice-President; Willard F. Place, Secretary; Edward C. Delafield, Treasurer; Cornelius P. Rhoads, M.D., Director. (Letter from C.P. Rhoads, M.D., to Mr. A. Grant Clarke, Director, Medical Relations Division, Camel Cigarettes, May 15, 1946.) Rhoads gave instructions for making a donation for cancer research, which Clarke wished to earmark for a Dr. Martin.

Charles Kettering was also a director of the Temple University Research Institute circa 1947. Alfred P. Sloan Jr. was an honorary director of the American Cancer Society in 1956-57. He was then the honorary board chairman of General Motors Corporation; President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Inc.; Board Chairman of the Sloan-Kettering Institute; and a director of E.I. duPont deNemours & Co., Braden Copper Co., Kennecott Copper Corp., and J.P. Morgan & Co.

Mrs. Harry Hopkins was chairman of the Memorial Cancer Center Fund; S. Sloan Colt and Lewis Douglas were co-chairmen of the drive. Mrs. Edward C. Delafield was chairman of the women's division. They planned to raise $4 million to match the Sloan Foundation grant. Karl T. Comptom, the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the speakers. (First Poster Out for Cancer Drive. New York Times, Dec. 2, 1945; $4,000,000 Cancer Center Drive Opens Here at Dinner for 1,000. New York Times, Dec. 5, 1945.) Dr. Bradley Coley, head of the Bureau of Education of Memorial Hospital, spoke to a group of magazine, newspaper, and radio writers. "They were the guests of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, at her home, 29 Beekman Place." (Cancer Field Held Short of Experts. New York Times, Dec. 8, 1945.) Richard Leo Simon of Simon & Schuster was chairman of the book publishing division of the fund drive. (Aids Cancer Center Fund Drive. New York Times, Dec. 27, 1945.) As he broke the ground, Mayor O'Dwyer proclaimed that "I have a distinct feeling of taking part in a sacred rite," and said that they were doing "not man's work, but God's work." Rev. Dr. Frederic S. Fleming, rector of Trinity Parish, pronounced the invocation. (Ground Is Broken for New Cancer Center; O'Dwyer Calls It World Symbol of Hope. New York Times, Jan. 24, 1946.) The heads of the various women's fund raising committees were Mrs. George B. St. George, Mrs. Reginald G. Coombe, Mrs. William Bergh Kip, and Mrs. Frothingham Wagstaff. Mrs. Delafield was chairman of the executive committee, with Mrs. Archibald Douglas Sr. as honorary chairman. (Women Raise $603,659 for Cancer Project. New York Times, Feb. 1, 1946.)

Robert E. Strawbridge Jr.

Robert Early Strawbridge Jr. was the grandson of Justus C. Strawbridge, a founder of the Strawbridge & Clothier department store chain of Philadelphia. His mother was Anita Berwind, the daughter of Charles Berwind, whose brother, Edward J. Berwind, was a director of the Guaranty Trust. (Mrs. Strawbridge Dead in Newport. New York Times, Jul. 21, 1943; Robert Strawbridge Dies At 93; Headed Department Store Chain. New York Times, Dec. 25, 1963.) Robert E. Strawbridge Sr. was a director of the Philadephia National Bank (New Directors of Philadelphia Bank. New York Times, Dec. 1, 1947; Display Ad 39. New York Times, Jan. 14, 1948 p. 39; Display Ad 48. New York Times, Jan. 20, 1954 p. 43.) Robert E. Strawbridge Jr. shared a $170,000 legacy from his great aunt, who was the widow of another Berwind brother, John E. Berwind, with his sister. (Mrs. J.E. Berwind Left Estate of $3,565,000. New York Times, Mar. 29, 1945.) He married Florence Julia Loew, the granddaughter of banker George F. Baker, who was a director of the Guaranty Trust. (Miss Loew Is Wed in Newport Church. New York Times, Aug. 16, 1931.) Robert E. Strawbridge 3d married Alexandra White, the daughter Memorial Hospital head and Liggett & Myers tobacco director Ogden White, and granddaughter of Alexander Moss White, who founded White, Weld & Co. with Francis Weld in 1910. He was "with the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York." (Alexandra White and a Bank Aide Marry in Jersey. New York Times, Jun. 28, 1964.)

In 1938, Strawbridge Jr. was chairman of the Salvation Army annual fundraising appeal. Henry W. Taft was chairman of its advisory board, and Thomas J. Watson, the president of International Business Machines and a director of the Guaranty Trust, was chairman of its men's division. (Strawbridge Named Head of Salvation Army Drive. New York Times, Jan. 28, 1938.) In 1942-43, he became a limited partner of Reynolds, Fish & Co., which had been stock brokers for William Payne Whitney, S&B 1898. (Exchange Announces Changes In Firms. New York Times, Apr. 25, 1942; Changes in Firms. New York Times, Mar. 1, 1943.) During World War II, he was a lieutenant commander, USNR, "assigned to duty with the Office of Strategic Services in London and Washington." He was a member of the executive committtee of the USO, the advisory board of the Salvation Army, and the Army and Navy Committee of the Y.M.C.A., and vice chairman of the Memorial Cancer Center Fund Campaign when he was elected to the Board of Managers of Memorial Hospital. (On Managers Board of Memorial Hospital. New York Times, Jun. 19, 1946.) He was a co-chairman of the 175th anniversary campaign of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, whose steering committee was under the direction of Charles F. Bound, a vice president of the Guaranty Trust. (2 Lead Church Drive. New York Times, Jan. 1, 1958.)

In 1947, the National Advisory Cancer Council of the US Public Health Service gave Memorial Hospital "the largest aggregation of Federal cancer grants ever given to one institution, a total of $142,550 for six projects." They also gave $250,000 to rebuild the Jackson Memorial Laboratory. (New York Hospital Gets Cancer Grant. New York Times, Dec. 13, 1947). Jacqueline Bouvier, who later became the wife of President John F. Kennedy, was a member of the committee of Memorial Hospital's "Salute to Summer" tea and cocktail fundraiser. (Memorial Center to Gain By Party. New York Times, May 19, 1948.) Mrs. Edward F. Hutton, Mrs. F. Trubee Davison [S&B 1918], Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, Mrs. Laurence S. Rockefeller, and Mrs. Morehead Patterson [S&B 1920] were patronesses (Party Will Help Memorial Center. New York Times, May 19, 1950.) "Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Strawbridge Jr. had as their guests at the ball, Mr. and Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich, Mrs. Ogden White, Mrs. Dodge Sloan, Milton W. Holden and James A. Burden." (Fan Ball At Plaza Aids Cancer Fund. New York Times, Dec. 14, 1950.) The American Cancer Society gave $350,000 to Memorial, which dwarfed the $125,000 for Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, $48,000 for Cornell University Medical College, and $30,000 that New York University-Bellevue Medical Center received. ($553,000 is Given for Cancer Study. New York Times, Feb. 12, 1954.) Strawbridge, James S. Adams, Elmer H. Bobst, Charles Dewey Hilles Jr., and Mrs. Albert D. Lasker were patrons of a benefit for the New York City Cancer Committee of the ACS. Gen John Reed Kilpatrick was chairman of the Committee, the dinner and the premiere. (Cancer Society Will Be Assisted At Fete Dec. 12. New York Times, Nov. 9, 1958.) Florence Strawbridge was active as a fund raiser until at least 1968. (Dinner Dance at Plaza Will Assist Cancer Center. New York Times, May 4, 1968.) He was elected chairman of the United States Polo Association in 1936 and retained the post for two decades. He died in 1986. (Robert Strawbridge Jr. Dies; Former Polo Star and Official. New York Times, Mar. 8, 1986.) In 1939, the British polo team may have received financing via stock rigging by Junius A. Richards, who was later a director of Tobacco and Allied Stocks.

Former US Army Intelligence Officer Ernst L. Wynder began his medical studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, the home base of the Walker family, and came to Memorial in 1951, for which he was a consulting epidemiologist into the 1990s. Wynder founded the American Health Foundation in 1969. And, Carol J. Henry, a research assistant at the Sloan-Kettering Institute until joining a CTR-funded mouse inhalation study which was later pretended to be suppressed research, also testified against the tobacco companies in an ETS lawsuit.

Dr. John Mercer Walker, Skull & Bones 1931

Dr. John Mercer Walker was an uncle of President George Herbert Walker Bush (S&B 1948). John M. Walker's sister, Dorothy Walker, married Prescott S. Bush. (Bush/Walker/Pierce/Robinson Family Tree. In: The Family. The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty. By Kitty Kelly. Random House, 2004.) Two of Walker's brothers, George Herbert Walker Jr. and Louis Walker, were also Bonesmen (1927 and 1936, respectively). Louis Walker was an usher at the wedding of John E. Cookman, who was Joseph F. Cullman Jr.'s assistant at Philip Morris. Prescott Bush was on the Advisory Council of the New England Institute for Medical Research in the early 1960s.

His Bones classmates included Henry John Heinz 2d of Pittsburgh and Lewis A. Lapham, [of the Bankers Trust where the Cullmans of Philip Morris were directors], while James Ramsay Hunt Jr., later of the C.I.A., and James Gamble Rogers Jr. [who worked for Lord & Thomas on the American Tobacco account], and George Washington Hill Jr. of American Tobacco were slapped for Scroll and Key. (Yale Tap Day Held; 10 Refuse Election. New York Times, May 16, 1930.) He was usher at the wedding of John Holbrook, Scroll & Key 1931.

Walker received his MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia in 1936, and was in private practice until he contracted polio in 1950. He also had a career in investment banking, first with the family firm, G.H. Walker & Co., then as a limited partner in Alex Brown & Co. (Dr. John Walker, 81, President Bush's Uncle. New York Times, Aug. 18, 1990.) In 1939, he married Elsie Louise Mead, of the Mead Corporation family. Nancy Bush was an attendant at the wedding (Louise Mead, Sarah Lawrence Alumna, Becomes Engaged to Dr. John M. Walker. New York Times, Sep. 26, 1939; Miss Elsie Mead Wed in a Church. New York Times, Nov. 26, 1959). He was elected a director of that company in 1957 (Mead Paper Shows a Drop in Earnings; 71 Cents a Share Cleared in 12 Weeks. New York Times, July 11, 1957.) In 1952, he joined Memorial Hospital as clinical assistant in surgery. In 1955, he was made associate attending surgeon and associate clinical director. In 1962, he was elected chairman of the executive committee and chief executive officer of the hospital. He replaced Laurance S. Rockefeller, who resigned. (Memorial Hospital Names Officers. New York Times, April 4, 1962.) He was president of the board of managers of Memorial from 1965 to 1974 and then joined the board of overseers. He was on the research staff of the Sloan-Kettering Institute from 1954-57.

John M. Walker Jr.

Dr. John M. Walker's son, John M. Walker Jr., a first cousin of President George H.W. Bush, was a member of the Citizens' Committee of the Citizens' Campaign Against Bootleg Cigarettes in 1977. He was a partner of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn. Other members of the Committee included Morris B. Abram, a partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (whose partners John F. Wharton had been a director of Benson & Hedges and Tobacco & Allied Stocks, and Simon H. Rifkind was a director of Loew's Theatres, which acquired Lorillard Tobacco); J. Hugh Bailey, Director of Special Marketing of CNA Insurance; Thomas Henry Guinzburg, Skull & Bones 1950; Mrs. Marian Heiskell, Director of Special Activities of the New York Times; Carl M. Loeb; Bishop Paul Moore; and philanthropist Stewart R. Mott. Its Industry Committee included representatives of P. Lorillard, Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Liggett & Myers, Loews Corporation, Brown & Williamson and Metropolitan Tobacco, as well as six distributors. The purpose of the committee was to fight cigarette smuggling, which deprived New York City of tax revenues. (Monthly Report on Status. Memo from Ralph Murphine to Management Group and Executive Committe, Apr. 1, 1977; Memorandum from Alan Miller to Bernie Robinson, of Philip Morris, Mar. 11, 1983.)

"Cigarette bootlegging was first made a federal offense with the enactment in November 1978 of S1487, (PL-95-575), the Federal Cigarette Contraband Act of 1978. PL-95-575 makes cigarette bootlegging a Federal offense, punishable by a fine of up to $100,000 or prison of up five years, or both for any person knowingly to ship, transport, receive, possess, sell, distribute or purchase "contraband cigarettes." "Contraband cigarettes" are defined as cigarettes in a quantity in excess of 60,000 lacking tax indicia of the state in which found, in the possession of persons other than four specific classes of persons. This provision of the bill become effective when President Carter signed the bill on Nov. 2, 1978. The law also made it an offense to knowingly make false statements or representations with respect to information requured to be kept in the records of a person who ships, sells or dlstrlbutes any quantlty of cigarettes in excess of 60,000 in a single transaction. This part of the bill became effective April 1, 1979. PL-95-575, which provided the basis for BATF's anti-bootlegging activities, was itself based on research done by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations on the cigarette tax evasion problem and published in 1977 as 'Cigarette Bootlegging: A State and Federal Responsibility.'" (TMA National Bulletin. Oct. 9, 1981.) In 1981, Walker was Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms of the Treasury Department. He was appointed after Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) alleged that the US Customs Service placed improperly low tariffs on imported tobacco. (Probe of Tobacco Imports Threatens to Run Away With Its Backers. By Ward Sinclair. Washington Post, May 27, 1981.)

When R.J. Reynolds Tobacco filed conflict of interest charges against law firm LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Judge John M. Walker Jr. gave LeBoeuf a pass: "In a judicial sleight-of-hand, Judge Walker found that R.J. Reynolds was a former client, even though LeBoeuf was representing it when it filed the lawsuit for Hartford Accident. He concluded that since Mr. Wood alone possessed confidential information from R.J. Reynolds and since that information was not related to the securities litigation, Leboeuf had not violated conflict rules." (Business and the Law. By Stephen Labaton. New York Times, Oct. 9, 1989.)

Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1954

Laurance S. Rockefeller, president of the Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, announced a $10,000 Assurance Fund Campaign. Donors included the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Samuel H. Kress Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kettering; Mrs. Jean Mauze (aka Abbey Rockefeller, whose husband was on the board of directors of Freeport Sulfur with Benno Schmidt in the 1960s and '70s); Laurance S. Rockefeller; and John D. Rockefeller Jr. Dr. C.P. Rhoads, director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute, blamed air pollution and tobacco smoke for increases in lung cancer, and he and members of his staff "demonstrated a test developed in Germany, showing that the lungs of a cigarette smoker retain an unknown substance present in the smoke, when the smoke is inhaled." ($10,000,000 Asked in Cancer Attack. By William L. Laurence. New York Times, March 9, 1954.)

The Sloan-Kettering Institute Board of Trustees in 1954: Albert Bradley, Executive Vice President, General Motors Corporation; Detlev W. Bronk, Ph.D., President, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; Reginald G. Coombe, Vice President, The Hanover Bank; Edward C. Delafield, Senior Partner, Delafield & Delafield; Joseph C. Hinsey, Ph.D. Director, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center; Frank A. Howard, Research Consultant, Standard Oil Company (N.J.); Charles F. Kettering, Research Consultant, General Motors Corporation; Eugene W. Kettering, Assistant Chief Engineer, Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corporation; Deane W. Malott, President, Cornell University; W. Albert Noyes Jr., Ph.D. Chairman, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester; Ellmore C. Patterson, Vice President, J. P. Morgan & Company, Inc.; John L. Pratt, Engineer and Philanthropist; Laurance S. Rockefeller, Rockefeller Brothers, Inc.; Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Chairman of the Board, General Motors Corporation; Raymond P. Sloan, Vice President and Editorial Director, The Modern Hospital Publishing Co.; Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (who was also on the Committee on Scientific Policy); George Whitney, Chairman of the Board, J. P. Morgan & Company, Inc.; and Theodore P. Wright, D.Sc. Vice President for Research, Cornell University. The Committee on Scientific Policy was was Bronk, Hinsey, Kettering, Noyes, and Strauss. The Board of Scientific Consultants included Sidney Farber, M.D. Director, Children's Cancer Research Foundation, Inc.; and Choh Hao Li, Ph.D., Professor of Experimental Endocrinology, The Institute of Experimental Biology, University of California (who was personally funded by Mary W. Lasker). Leading funding sources included the American Cancer Society, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, and the US Atomic Energy Commission. Ernst L. Wynder was an assistant; the report on his mouse skin-painting work notes that they "mechanically burned" the skins of the mice. President George Herbert Walker Bush's uncle, John Mercer Walker, S&B 1931, joined the scientific staff. (Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, Progress Report VIII, November 1954.)

Sloan-Kettering Institute Biennial Report, 1955-57

Mrs. Howeth T. Ford hosted the committee for the MSKCC cocktail party-tea dance. Her aides were Mrs. Joseph A. Thomas, and Joseph A. Meehan; Mrs. Arthur H. Kudner, Mrs. George Cornish, Mrs. John W. Chapman, Mrs. Henry F. Wagner, Mrs. Donald Perkins, Mrs. Winston H. Frost, Mrs. Dominick Dunne, Mrs. Gardner Cowles and Mrs. Joseph W. Donner; Mrs. Charles A. Danna, Mrs. Harry Rafter, Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis L. Cushing Jr., Leslie Dorsey and Mrs. William G. Cahan, Peter Lind Hayes, and Mary Healy. Mrs. Frederick G. Cammann headed the May Fair Junior Dance Committee, whose aides included Mrs. George M. Joyce, Mrs. Hitchcock Stone, Mrs. Peter Van Singerland, with Misses Harriet Dunne, Diane Fenton, Fifi Ford, Nancy Hatch, Karyl Kudner and Ruth Pratt. L. Jarvis Cushing headed the men's committee, with Briggs Baugh, Clifford V. Brokaw 3d, Donald Coons, Walter B. Delafield, Paul de Rosiere, Frederick Eberstadt, Rufus Finch, Benjamin H. Gaylord, Lloyd S. Gilmour Jr., Ernest T. Greeff, Donald Hirst, George N. Joyce, David F. Houston, John Munroe, William W. Myrick, Henry B.H. Ripley Jr., John P. Wareham, Charles Van Renssalaer, Harold Palmer, and Truman M. Talley. (Fete May 23 to Aid Cancer Center. New York Times, May 5, 1957.)

Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark was general chairman of the annual Trifles and Treasures Thrift Shop luncheon and fashion show for MSKCC. Her aides included Mrs. Edward F. Hutton, Mrs. Howeth T. Ford, and Mrs. Lowell P. Weicker. Mrs. John N. Lindeke, president of the thrift shop, was honorary chairman. Ticketholders included Mrs. Alfred Ehrenclou, Mrs. William Woodward, Mrs. Gardner Cowles, Mrs. Walter J. Jeffords, Mrs. Clark Williams, Mrs. Theodore Danforth, Mrs. William de Rham, Mrs. Truman Talley, Baroness de Gunsberg, Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller, Mrs. Nelson Doubleday, and Mrs. Jeremiah Maguire. (Cancer Unit Fete Today. New York Times, Feb. 4, 1958.)

Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1960

Trustees include Laurance S. Rockefeller and Lewis L. Strauss. Peyton Rous, a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors since 1955, was named its first Chairman of that board. The Andre and Bella Meyer Foundation joined the ACS and the National Cancer Institute as major funding sources for its more than $9 million budget. (Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, Progress Report XIV, December 1960, Immunological Studies.)

John R. Heller

Heller was chief of the civilian venereal disease program during World War II, director of the National Cancer Institute from 1948 to 1960, and president and chief executive officer of MSKCC from 1960 to 1964. He continued as vice chairman of its board of trustees, and was a special consultant on international, medical, and scientific affairs for the American Cancer Society. In 1965, he returned to the NCI as special consultant on international activities. (South Carolina Honors Native Son Dr. John R. Heller. The NIH Record, Feb. 20, 1979.) Kenneth Endicott succeeded him as NCI director.

"Also in 1957, the Board of Directors of the Society established an Ad Hoc Committee on Smoking and Health. Its members were: Dr. Warren H. Cole, of the University of Illinois College of Medicine; Dr. John R. Heller, then Director of the National Cancer Institute; Dr. Ochsner; Dr. Ernest L. Stebbins, of Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Howard C. Taylor, Jr., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Rutherford L. Ellis, Chairman of the Board of Lipscomb-Ellls Co., Atlanta, Ga.; William B. Lewis, Chairman of the Board of Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc., New York City; Monroe J. Rathbone, President and Director of Standard Oil of New Jersey; Dr. Ira DeA. Reid, Professor of Sociology, Haverford College, and Frank L. Taylor, Executive Vice President and Director of the New York Herald Tribune. The Society reafflrmed the importance of presenting basic findings on the link between cigarettes and lung cancer to the public. The Board authorized production of suitable educational materials, including materials designed specifically for high school and college students, and authorized a one-year study of the smoking habits of teen-agers in the Portland, Oregon, school system which would involve nearly 22,000 high school students. Action followed. In December of 1957, the Society began distribution of its leaflet, 'To Smoke Or Not To Smoke.'" (The Position of the American Cancer Society Regarding Tobacco and Lung Cancer. To the City Editor [form letter]. American Cancer Society News Service, Jan. 7, 1964.)

"In the spring of 1958, NCI Director Rod Heller gave special emphasis in his testimony on recent developments in viruses and cancer research before the Appropriations Committees of Congress. He reported that several animal cancers had been induced by injection of cell-free extracts from leukemic tissues and tumors. These extracts had been filtered to remove all particles the size of bacteria or larger. Viruses were shown to be involved in the induction of the cancers. He also reported that the notion that viruses could cause cancer in man was of growing acceptance among cancer investigators. Nobel Laureate Wendell Stanley, who was a member of the National Advisory Cancer Council (NACC) and later a member of the NCI Board of Scientific Councilors (for NCI Intramural Research Programs), also testified before Congressional Appropriations Committees in favor of a larger budget than the one proposed by the Administration. He called for expanded research in viruses and cancer work and presented scientific evidence supporting the call for the expansion. Based on these presentations, in part, the Congress called for vigorous effort to stimulate research and training efforts in the study of the possible viral origin of human cancers. The aim of the effort was an expansive one: to search for viruses causing human cancers and their prevention. To the regular appropriation for the NCI of $27.814 million, the Congress appropriated an additional $1 million for added viruses and cancer efforts.... At the November 1958 NACC meeting, the NCI established, with Council endorsement, a Panel on Viruses and Cancer with Council member Stanhope Bayne-Jones as Chairman... During the initial stages, responsibility for the conduct of the Program was given to Carl G. Baker who recently had become the NCI Assistant Director after nearly two and a half years as Assistant to Dr. Joe Smadel, Associate Director for Intramural Research, NIH.. (An Administrative History of the National Cancer Institute’s Viruses and Cancer Programs, 1950-1972. By Carl G. Baker, M.D) This was part of a flurry of publicity which led to the ripoff of "The Special Virus Cancer Program Masquerade."

"In 1959, the [American Cancer Society] Board established the Committee on Tobacco and Cancer to succeed the Ad Hoc Committee which had guided the Board since 1957. Dr. Taylor was named chairman, a position he held until the fall of 1963. The Committee was composed of distinguished physicians and laymen, including: James M. Brittain, Director of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co.; Dr. Frank W. Foote, Jr., of Memorial Hospital, New York City; Dr. Heller; Dr. Leonard W. Larson, Bismark, N.D., pathologist and former president of the American Medical Association; Mr. Lewis; Arthur L. Montgomery, President of the Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola Bottling Co., and Allied Plants; James T. Mountz, Boston, Mass., attorney; Dr. Ochsner; Dr. I. S. Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania and in 1963 President of the American Cancer Society; Victor A. Scholis, Louisville, Ky., Vice President and Director of Stations WHAS and WHAS-TV; Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, Director of the Virus Laboratory, University of California, and 1946 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Dr. Stebbins; Waldo I. Stoddard, Grand Rapids, Mich., banker; and Dr. Ashbel C. Williams, Jacksonville, Fla. surgeon." (The Position of the American Cancer Society Regarding Tobacco and Lung Cancer. To the City Editor [form letter]. American Cancer Society News Service, Jan. 7, 1964.)

"'The Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute work as partners,' Dr. John R. Heller, former director of NCI, declared in 1960. 'The Director of the Institute is a member of the board of directors of the American Cancer Society, and the scientific advisory committees of both organizations interlock'" (Richard Carter, 1961:142. In: Ralph Moss, "The Cancer Industry.")

Benno C. Schmidt

Schmidt was on the board of overseers of MSKCC from about 1960 until 1990. He was a business partner of John Hay Whitney, one of Mary W. Lasker's allies in the National Cancer Act of 1971, and was a member of the President's Cancer Panel of the National Cancer Institute. Meanwhile, his business cronies were on the board of directors of Philip Morris.

Mrs. William G. Cahan and Mrs. Frank E. Schiff were co-chairs of the MSKCC Salute to Summer coctail tea dance. Mrs. Gardner Cowles was chairman of patronesses, and other committee chairman were Mrs. Peter Lind Hayes (Mary Healy), Mrs. Ernest H. Martin, Mrs. Maurice Silverstein, Andrew M. Blum, and David Cassidy. Committee members included Mrs. Robert L. Forshay, Mrs. George Hyam, Mrs. Preston C. Iverson, Mrs. J. Neal Dow, Mrs. Thomas W. Boykin Jr., Mrs. William L. Laurence, Mrs. Martin Le Boutillier, Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Mrs. Bernhard K. Schaefer, Mrs. Duncan MacGuigan, Mrs. William Talbert, Miss Arline Johnson, Mrs. Walter B. Delafield, Mrs. A. Walker Bingham 3d, Mrs. Winston Wilson, Mrs. Garrick Stephenson, Mrs. Kelly Dickson, Miss Marion Ross, Mrs. Elliott W. Plowe, and Mrs. Randolph B. Marston. (Sloan-Kettering to Raise Funds At May 14 Fete. New York Times, Feb. 25, 1962.)

Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1963

Trustees include Laurance S. Rockefeller and Lewis L. Strauss. Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Progress Report XV, Viruses and Cancer, January 1963, reviews the subject to date, including the work of Stewart and Eddy on the polyoma virus.

Dedication of the Kettering Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, May 6, 1964.

Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1968

Board of trustees of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute: Marion W. Boyer (Chairman), Detlev W. Bronk, Ph.D., Reginald G. Coombe, Edward C. Delafield, Frederic G. Donner, Harold W. Fisher (Vice Chairman), Joseph C. Hinsey, Ph.D., Frank L. Horsfall Jr., M.D. (President and Director), Eugene W. Kettering (Vice Chairman), Richard D. Lombard, Colin M. MacLeod, M.D., André Meyer [of Lazard Freres], Ellmore C. Patterson; Emanuel P. Piore, Ph.D., Laurance S. Rockefeller, Benno C. Schmidt, Harrison V. Smith (Treasurer), Robert M. Stecher, M.D., Robert E. Strawbridge Jr., John M. Walker M.D., T.F. Walkowicz Sc.D., Thomas J. Watson Jr., and Ogden White [a director of Liggett & Myers Tobacco]. Other officers: William Rockefeller, Secretary; Leo Wade, M.D., Vice President and Deputy Director; C. Chester Stock, Ph.D., Vice President and Director, Walker Laboratory; Oscar Bodansky, M.D., Ph.D., George B. Brown, Ph.D., Joseph H. Burchenal, M.D, and John S. Laughlin, Ph.D., Vice Presidents; Bernhard L. Mecke, Vice President for Business Affairs; Leon W. Zecker, Vice President, Finance; James H. Wickersham Jr., Assistant Treasurer, and Frances Muñoz, Assistant Secretary. (Report of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1968.)

Mrs. John R. Fell and Mrs. William L. Hutton were co-chairmen of the spring dinner dance for MSKCC. Mrs. Howard Dean and Mrs. H. Virgil Sherrill were vice chairmen. It was sponsored by Alexandra de Markoff-Parfums Hermès. Committee chairmen were Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer, Mrs. Michael M. Thomas, Mrs. Neil A. McConnell, Col. Serge Obolensky, Mrs. Irving Koerner and Michael Baldwin. The arrangement committee was Mrs. John R. Drexel 3d, Mrs. Gardner Cowles, Mrs. Laurence S. Rockefeller, Mrs. Harcourt Amory Jr., Mrs. Samuel Pryor Reed, Mrs. Thomas H. Choate, Mrs. Guy Rutherford, Mrs. Alexander Cushing, Mrs. Edmund C. Lynch, Mrs. Stephen E. Smith, Mrs. Joseph A. Meehan, Mrs. René Bouché, Mrs. Roswell L. Gilpatrick, Mrs. Arthur A. Houghton Jr., and Mrs. Robert E. Strawbridge Jr. Others were Mrs. Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Mrs. Edward F. Hutton, Mrs. Leland Hayward, Mrs. Charles B. Grosvenor, Mrs. Anne McDonnell Ford, Mrs. Bayard Walker, Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mrs. Walter B. Delafield and Mrs. Edwin F. Russell. Mrs. David Granger was president of the society. The event netted about $35,000 the previous year. (Dinner Dance at Plaza Will Assist Cancer Center. New York Times, May 4, 1968.)

Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Benefits, 1970

Mrs. Walter B. Delafield was chairman of the annual luncheon and fashion show. Those assisting her included Mrs. Elliot H. Goodwin, president of the society; Mrs. John A. Dunbar, chairman of the shop; Mrs. Kerryn King, chairman of patronesses; Mrs. Randolph B. Marston, chairman of arrangements, and Mrs. George S. Johnston, chairman of hostesses. (Sloan-Kettering Fashion Benefit Planned for Feb. 5. New York Times, Jan. 25, 1970.)

Mrs. John R. Fell, Mrs. William L. Hutton, and Mrs. Howard B. Dean were co-chairmen of a dinner dance benefit for MSKCC. Mrs. Elliott H. Goodwin was president of the Society. Committee members included Mrs. William F. Buckley Jr. [S&B 1950], Mrs. J. Frederick Byers 3d, Countess Rudolpho Crespi, Mrs. Harilaos Theodoracopulos, Mrs. H. Virgil Shenill, Mrs. Thomas Schippers, Mrs. Frank E. Schiff, and Mrs. Lewis A. Lapham [S&B 1931]; also, Mrs. Richard Pistell, Mrs. Randolph B. Marston, Mrs. Joseph Lauder, Mrs. Theodore S. Gary, Mrs. Gianluigi Gabetti, Mrs. Walter B. Delafield, Mrs. Marella Agnelli and Mrs. W. Palmer Dixon. Committee heads included Madelin Thayer Gilpatric, Mrs. David Granger and Mrs. R.L. Ireland 3d. (Dance Wednesday to Assist Sloan-Kettering Society. New York Times, May 8, 1970.)

1980 International Symposium on Cancer

The Advisory Committee of the Symposium on Cancer, presented by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society, Sep. 14-18, 1980, included Laurance S. Rockefeller, Chairman of the Board of MSKCC; Benno C. Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Memorial Hospital; James D. Robinson III, Vice Chairman of the Board of Memorial Hospital; Lane W. Adams, Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society; Frank J. Rauscher, the ACS's Senior Vice President for Research; and NCI Director Vincent DeVita. The Program Committee included future AHF trustee Jerome J. DeCosse; Mathilde Krim; LaSalle D. Leffall, then immediate past president of the American Cancer Society, who shortly became a trustee of the AHF; and Frank J. Rauscher. Other participants included Mathilde Krim; LaSalle D. Leffall; Sir Richard Doll ("The Interphase Between Epidemiology and Cancer Control"); Arthur C. Upton; Alfred G. Knudsen (CTR 1986-94); John Weisburger, longtime research director of the AHF; R. Lee Clark and his assistant, Joseph Painter; and former Rep. Paul G. Rogers.

Paul A. Marks

Marks replaced Lewis Thomas as president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering. "Dr. Marks, a hematologist and authority on human genetics, has been vice president for Health Sciences and director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center/Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia University since 1973. An advisor to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and other government bodies over the years, Dr. Marks has served as member of the President's Cancer Panel (1976-1979), the President's Biomedical Research Panel (1975-1976), and most recently as a member of the President's Commission on the accident at Three Mile Island." (Director at Columbia Cancer Center to Head MSKCC.)

Marks, Benno C. Schmidt and R. Lee Clark were members of the President's Cancer Panel in 1976. ([Members of the President's Cancer Panel, 1976, and National Advisory Cancer Council, 1957-71] J Natl Cancer Inst 1977 Aug;59(2suppl):763.)

Marks was on the Editorial Board of Science in 1992, along with Philip Morris director Elizabeth E. Bailey and David Baltimore, and in 1993 and 1994. Daniel E. Koshland Jr. was Editor. (Science 1992 Jul 31;257:595; Science 1993 Jan 8;259:159; Science 1994 Sep 9;265:1507.)

1987 board members were James D. Robinson 3d, chairman and chief executive of the American Express Company; John S. Reed, chairman and chief executive of Citicorp; Richard L. Gelb, chairman and chief executive of the Bristol-Myers Company; and Clifton C. Garvin Jr., former chairman and chief executive of the Exxon Corporation. Benno C. Schmidt was chairman. (Dr. Marks' Crusade. By Philip M. Boffey. New York Times, Apr. 26, 1987.)

John S. Reed

Reed was a trustee of MSKCC from at least 1986 until 2002. He was a director of Philip Morris from 1975 until 2003, and again since 2004.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2002

Laurance S. Rockefeller and James D. Robinson III were honorary co-chairmen. Louis V. Gerstner Jr. was Vice Chairman of Boards, and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Sloan-Kettering Institute [was Chairman & CEO of RJR Nabisco Holdings since 1989];. Former National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus, in whose administration some research on the role of infection in chronic diseases proceeded at last, was President and Chief Executive Officer.

Mrs. Elmer H. Bobst was still on the Board of Overseers, along with Mrs. Joseph A. Califano Jr., Mrs. Ann Dibble Jordan, Richard Gelb, and Sanford I. Weill.

Mrs. Charles A. Dana Jr., Mrs. Thomas L. Kempner, Mrs. Milton Petrie, and Linda Gosden Robinson were on the 10-woman Advisory Council of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 2002. (Link died, Board and Society, 2002 Annual Report http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/shared/graphics/AR2002/14_BoardAndSociety.pdf)

2003 Trustees of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) include Mrs. Elmer H. Bobst; Mrs. Joseph A. Califano Jr.; Mrs. Milton Petrie; and Laurance S. Rockefeller.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2005

James D. Robinson III, Honorary Chairman; Douglas A. Warner III, Chairman; Richard I. Beattie, Vice Chairman of Boards, Chairman, Board of Managers, Memorial Hospital; Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Vice Chairman of Boards, Chairman, Board of Managers, Sloan-Kettering Institute; Harold Varmus, MD, President & CEO; Clifton S. Robbins, Treasurer; Peter O. Crisp, Secretary; Paul A. Marks, MD, President Emeritus.

Managers: Frederick R. Adler, Richard I. Beattie, Roland W. Betts, Mrs. Elmer H. Bobst, Mrs. Edwin M. Burke, Mrs. John J. Byrne, Mrs. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Peter O. Crisp, Stanley F. Druckenmiller, Steve Forbes, Richard N. Foster, Stephen Friedman, Ellen V. Futter [J.P. Morgan Chase]; Philip H. Geier, Jr., Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Albert H. Gordon, Jonathan N. Grayer, John R. Gunn, Mrs. Charles Gwathmey, William B. Harrison, Jr., Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr., Mrs. Ann Dibble Jordan, David H. Koch, Marie-Josée Kravis, Mrs. Evelyn H. Lauder, Mrs. Jean Remmel Little, Mrs. John L. Marion, Paul A. Marks, MD, Donald B. Marron, Henry A. McKinnell, Jr., PhD, James G. Niven, E. Stanley O'Neal, Bruce C. Ratner, Clifton S. Robbins [was director of RJR Nabisco Holdings]; Josephine Robertson, James D. Robinson III, Benjamin M. Rosen, David M. Rubenstein, Jack Rudin, Mrs. Bijan Safai, Fayez S. Sarofim, Norman C. Selby, H. Virgil Sherrill, Stephen C. Sherrill, William C. Steere, Jr. [Chair. Emer. Pfizer Inc.], J. McLain Stewart, Michael L. Tarnopol [d. 2005], Carl W. Timpson, Jr., Harold Varmus, MD, Lucy R. Waletzky, MD, Douglas A. Warner III, Sanford I. Weill, Deborah C. Wright, Mortimer B. Zuckerman.

Board of Overseers Emeriti: Richard M. Furlaud, James W. Kinnear, Elizabeth J. McCormack, PhD, Thomas A. Murphy [d. 2006], Mrs. Arnold Schwartz, Frederick Seitz, PhD.

Board of Scientific Consultants: Martin D. Abeloff, MD, Chairman; Richard Axel, MD, Philip A. Cole, MD, PhD, Titia de Lange, PhD, Joseph L. Goldstein, MD, Tyler E. Jacks, PhD, Eric S. Lander, PhD, Arthur Levinson, PhD, Dan R. Littman MD, PhD, Frank McCormick, PhD, Paul Nurse, PhD, FRS, Carol L. Prives, PhD, Stanley R. Riddell, MD, Charles L. Sawyers, MD, Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD, Irving L. Weissman, MD, Samuel A. Wells, Jr., MD. (Boards of Overseers and Managers, 2005 Annual Report, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/shared/graphics/AR_2005/05AR_BoardsOverseers_p36.pdf link died.)

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2006

James D. Robinson III, Honorary Chairman; Douglas A. Warner III, Chairman; Richard I. Beattie, Vice Chairman of Boards and Chairman, Board of Managers, Memorial Hospital; Clifton S. Robbins, Treasurer; Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Vice Chairman of Boards and Chairman, Board of Managers, Sloan-Kettering Institute; Peter O. Crisp, Secretary; Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer; Paul A. Marks, MD, President Emeritus.

Managers: Frederick R. Adler, Richard I. Beattie, Roland W. Betts, Mrs. Elmer H. Bobst, Mrs. Edwin M. Burke, Mrs. John J. Byrne, Mrs. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Peter O. Crisp, Stanley F. Druckenmiller, Steve Forbes, Richard N. Foster, Stephen Friedman, Ellen V. Futter, Philip H. Geier, Jr., Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Jonathan N. Grayer, John R. Gunn, Mrs. Charles Gwathmey, William B. Harrison, Jr., Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr., Mrs. Ann Dibble Jordan, David H. Koch, Marie-Josée Kravis, Mrs. Evelyn H. Lauder, Mrs. Jean Remmel Little, Mrs. John L. Marion, Paul A. Marks, MD, Donald B. Marron, James G. Niven, E. Stanley O’Neal, Bruce C. Ratner, Clifton S. Robbins, Josephine Robertson, James D. Robinson III, Benjamin M. Rosen, David M. Rubenstein, Jack Rudin, Mrs. Bijan Safai, Fayez S. Sarofim, Norman C. Selby, H. Virgil Sherrill, Stephen C. Sherrill, William C. Steere, Jr., J. McLain Stewart, Scott M. Stuart, Carl W. Timpson, Jr., Harold Varmus, MD, Lucy R. Waletzky, MD, Douglas A. Warner III, Sanford I. Weill, Deborah C. Wright, Mortimer B. Zuckerman.

Board of Overseers Emeriti: Richard M. Furlaud, James W. Kinnear, Elizabeth J. McCormack, PhD, Mrs. Arnold Schwartz, Frederick Seitz, PhD.

Board of Scientific Consultants: Martin D. Abeloff, MD, Chairman; Richard Axel, MD, Philip A. Cole, MD, PhD, Titia de Lange, PhD, James R. Dowling, MD, Laurie Glimcher, PhD, Joseph L. Goldstein, MD, Tyler E. Jacks, PhD, Eric S. Lander, PhD, Caryn Lerman, PhD, Arthur Levinson, PhD, Frank McCormick, PhD, Paul Nurse, PhD, FRS, Carol L. Prives, PhD, Stanley R. Riddell, MD, Janet Rossant, PhD, Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD, Irving L. Weissman, MD.

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