January 24, 1938

Professor John Fulton, Head

Department of Chemistry

Oregon State College

Corvallis, Oregon

Dear Professor Fulton:

I was pleased to receive your letter and to learn of the large number of students now in your Department.

I would like to make a specific recommendation to you now, of Dr. Jack Sherman. Dr. Sherman has been with me as research fellow for three or four years since taking his doctorate and has also worked in the Department of Ceramics at Pennsylvania State College. He is a very able man along the lines of theoretical chemistry, and I have expected that he would take a position in one of the most active departments. He feels, however, that he would like to settle in a smaller school, and teach general chemistry or physical chemistry. He does not object to an average teaching load, but would like to have some time available to carry on his theoretical researches. He works entirely with pencil and paper and calculating machine and his researches would not require any subsidy from the College. I feel that Dr. Sherman would fit in very well at O. S. C. and that you would all like him. He would of course be glad of an opportunity to teach advanced subjects such as quantum mechanics to graduate students in addition to carrying on his undergraduate teaching.

While Sherman is on appointment with us, which would no doubt be continued for another year, he is anxious to get married and settle down in a permanent teaching position, and is negotiating with several schools at present. I would like to see him go to O. S. C. and I hope that you will consider his application.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling.

LP:HB