To the Editor:
Dr. Jenkins is not the only person to have recognized my mistakes concerning the publisher and the doctoral degrees of the previous Editors of the Journal. Several previous Editors had Ph.D. degrees, including the founding Editor, C. W. Cotterman (University of California, 1949–51) and several successors: Herluf Strandskov (University of Chicago, 1952–54), Lawrence H. Snyder (University of Oklahoma, 1955), and Arthur G. Steinberg (Children’s Cancer Research Fund, Boston and Western Reserve University, 1956–61). C. Nash Herndon (Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 1962–64) appears to have been the first editor who was a physician, followed by H. Eldon Sutton, Ph.D. (University of Texas, 1965–69), and then by several people with medical degrees—Arno G. Motulsky (University of Washington, 1970–75), William J. Mellman (University of Pennsylvania, 1976–78), David Comings (City of Hope, Duarte, 1979–86), Charles J. Epstein (University of California at San Francisco, 1987–93), and Peter H. Byers (University of Washington, 1994–2000). Steve Warren is the first Editor, in a while, with a Ph.D.
The Journal was published by Waverly Press, Baltimore, during 1949–62 and by Grune and Stratton from several locations from 1963–67. The University of Chicago Press began publishing the Journal in 1968.
I appreciate the enthusiasm with which many people remember the early days of the Journal and their vigor in protecting its integrity. Even Editors need fact checkers from time to time. My thanks go to all those who served the role in this instance and in others.