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to you at least what the initial considerations were of the
members of the small group which he met with. I think you
had a telephone conference if I recall.
FUTURE COMMISSION RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
DR. CASSELL: Yes. We have to use the
microphone Chanteuse-style.
Your committee for this was Alex and myself,
and Alta Charo, and David Cox, and Eric Meslin, and
Henrietta Hyatt-Knorr, and so it is Eric M. and Eric C. now
on e-mail so that we distinguish each other.
We divided our concerns into two. One was --
one had to do with commission process and the other with
actual program suggestions that we thought might be useful.
The first part of it was we thought there was
considerable sentiment for not breaking up into two large
groups and meeting separately again. We are by my own
experience and other people's reports a very congenial
commission and we get a lot of work done around the table
and we have a lot of different talents, and we thought we
really would do better if we could try and stay together.
There are some days maybe that is not possible but in
general we thought that might be a helpful matter.
In addition to that there was also sentiment
for having longer meetings less frequently. We have a