10 June 1958
President Lee A. DuBridge
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Dear President DuBridge:
Last year and again last month I discussed with you the possibility of my ceasing
to serve as Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Director
of the Gates and Crellin Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology, and
devoting my time to my duties as Professor of Chemistry in the California Institute
of Technology, without the general administrative duties of the Division. I feel
that, after having served as Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
for 21 years, I should like to turn this job over to someone else, and thus be enabled
to devote the equivalent amount of time and effort, during my remaining years as Professor
of Chemistry in the California Institute of Technology, to research and teaching.
I hope that you will be able to relieve me of these administrative duties on 30 June
1958. I wish to repeat, however, that I am willing to continue to serve as Chairman
of the Division for a longer time, in case that it is not convenient to make the change
now.
Let me take this opportunity to express again to you and to the Board of Trustees
my deep feeling of appreciation of the privilege that I have had in the past and continue
to have to carry on scientific work in the California Institute of Technology. I
have said many times that in my opinion there is no place in the world where scientific
work can be carried out under better circumstances than in the California Institute
of Technology. I am happy to have been a member of the staff of the California Institute
of Technology for 36 years, and I expect to be happy in continuing for another decade.
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling:w
