Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Stanford University, Cal.

June 4, 1990

Mr. Charles G. Lathrop,

819 Market St.,

San Francisco, Calif.

Dear Sir:

You are, of course, aware of Mrs. Stanford's desire to establish a scholarship in honor of her son. You probably know also that she wishes you to name the incumbent, with the suggestion that a boy in the Los Angeles High School named John T. Cooper, in whom she has become considerably interested be the first to hold it.

I have written to Los Angeles in regard to Mr. Cooper but have only learned that he is one of the brightest boys in the High School, with the promise on the part of the principal that he will look up Mr. Cooper's record further. I suspect that he is in the junior class and lacks a year of being ready to enter the University. If this is the case, it would be better for him to wait, and the appointment might be given, if you should see fit, for the year to some one else. I have, of course, no desire to forestall your choice. I give, however, on another sheet a list of some of the boys with little means who show special promise. Of these I know only the first two named personally. The statement as to the others I take from the records. There are, of course, many others worthy of such honor. I suggest these names merely for your use in case you should need them.

Very truly yours,

David S Jordan