January 12, 1975

Dear Leon & Elizabeth--

Will try a note on these nice cheap things.  Why don't you try these from 
the  U.S.A.? Especially nice when you don't have anything to say.  Dr. Teer 
from A&M  has been here for the last 2 days.  You can tell he is a regular 
SRI visitor; he flew in  from Nairobi with about 20 lbs of fresh vegetables -- 
even lettuce!  He said he  would have bought meat but he didn't have 
anyplace to store it in his hotel  overnight.  Now _that_ is a bread and butter 
gift, par exellence, around here.  We  managed to survive the Scientific 
Council meeting without too much damage --  Joe's depressed about his 
project (may not be able to collect his birds to analyze  stomach contents) so 
he's mumbling about the Kalahari Desert and/or Welder  Wildlife 
Foundation, but I expect that will pass.  Besides, I _know_ I'm not leaving  
once our possessions are here!

Have decided whenever people are together, things go haywire.  SRI is in 
midst of  administrative crisis: the deputy-director has been fired (a good 
move) but for an  officially stupid reason.  It has been cussed and discussed 
for a constant week now - - hope things die down quickly.  The Folses have 
adopted the official position that it  is none of our business and we are lucky 
enough to be non-influential so that no  one has tried to get us embroiled in 
it.  It all sounds like Bryan High to me.

Much love, Jan, Joe & Stephanie