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It was by rather good fortune that when he wanted a 

 medical entomologist for the staff of the Gorgas Memorial 

 Institute, Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild, David's son, 

 was prepared and ready for me to recommend for the 

 position. I felt sure of this choice, for not only had I 

 known him for many years, but he passed a most excel- 

 lent doctor's examination which I had attended a short 

 time before. And fortunately Dr. Marston Bates, whose 

 brilliant examination I had attended a number of years 

 earlier, joined the staff of the Rockefeller Foundation and 

 has distinguished himself in research concerning the trans- 

 mission of malaria, first in Albania, then Egypt, and now 

 at Villavicencio in Colombia. Marston married David's 

 talented daughter Nancy Bell, who was able to adapt her- 

 self to life in foreign parts as well as my daughter Mary 

 has. All in all, the principal gain which I myself derived 

 from the excuse to visit Honduras on various occasions 

 was the growing intimacy with the Popenoes, whom we 

 have warmly adopted as members of our family. Dorothy 

 Popenoe died in Tela and is buried in the lovely garden 

 at Lancetilla. After a long interval Pop, as is usual with 

 him, proceeded to do the impossible and found another 

 lovely wife as charming and talented as was Dorothy. 

 Helen is now helping him build the Pan-American Agri- 

 cultural School at Zamorano, not far from Tegucigalpa, 

 the capital of Honduras. 



