This cm be described in terms of an announcement in the 1963
catalogus along the following lines:

  *`A ful! tuitlrrlr scholarship (present value &1,260 per year) Is avall-
able from funds of the Joseph P. KMnedy Laboratories for Molecular HedI-
cim, (sea p*    t~xls catrlogue) Pot a first-ymr medical student of
outstanding qualiflutions and intwests IR pursuing a career in medical
research bearing on the etiology of mental retardation.  The indicated
fields of scientific activity include molecular biology, heredity, neuro-
biology or developmentsi medicine.  The scholar would also be expected
to qualify for appointment as a part-time and s-r research assistant
ln the Kennedy Laboratories during his medical studies, The scholar may
not accept eny employment during hlr medic111 studies that does not dfrect-
ly further his career in medIcal teseerch.  The award is rcmswlrble annually
on evidence of continued high perfotnunce towards those gorls."

  Such a scholarship may help greatly to steer students Into the
Stanford program, and to dramatize our concern for deveIoping talent in
this field.  It would first becane operative in September, 1963, and
would entail a morel conrnitment for the five-year perlod beginning then,
but at a rata of only %I,260 per year, fortunately not taxable to the
student.  The medical ednrisslons offi- informs m that about six highly
swilfiad applicants each year badly need financial atd of thts kind
beyond the availability of current income from scholarship funds. Actually,
evdn tire students must f&i1 to apply to Stanford in the first place out
of flnancioi discouragement.

  As this is not really an endowed schofarshlp and to avoId the corn--
piications of a new egreement for a pi lot experiment, It is formulated
as a schoirrshlp from the Kennedy Laboratory fu,nd rather than the
hmdat ion.  We have time to decide whether to continue the prograsP with
n4w starts in succeeding years --hopefully the President's program for
national medical scholarshIps my erase the need for it, if Congress can
eventually be perru4dad to adopt it.