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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17269