X-Message-Number: 17269
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:56:50 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Correction, Lemler, Courage Again

> > ...Louis Epstein, #17243:
> > >Have no other doctors worked closely with Alcor?
> > >Wasn't Jerry Leaf a doctor?
> >
> > Alcor has had other MD's but never as president. (Jerry Leaf was not an MD
> > but an instructor of thoracic surgery. Also Jerry was vice president, I
> > think, but never president.)

Actually, this is a mistake (another one! apologies once again, as with 
Ettinger's s.f.). In the early days, for about a year in 1976-77, one Allen 
McDaniels, M.D., was president of Alcor. He doesn't seem to have played 
much of an active role, based on the old newsletters, and he later dropped 
out of cryonics.

Epstein again, #17260:

>But Jerry Lemler (not president yet) was
>credited with having given Alcor a "professionalism"
>that it had never had before.What has he done
>that no other has done?
I will just say that he seemed very competent in directing the OR work 
during our most recent suspension; I hope others better qualified will comment.

Finally, I am sorry again to learn that another fellow cryonicist, Natasha 
Vita-More, has been diagnosed with cancer, and hope for the best in 
fighting this ailment. We hope our "backup" won't be necessary, but at 
least it is available.

Mike Perry

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