Letters and News Articles Smorgasbord

Campus Opinion, University of Minnesota Daily,  1950
Dr. S.P. Lehman recruits R.T. Ravenholt to the Seattle-King County Health Dept. - May 28, 1953
Recruitment of R.T. Ravenholt to Seattle, WA - June 1, 1953
Langmuir Correspondence - June 4, 1954
Langmuir Correspondence - June 9, 1954
Letter from Henry Schmitz, President - University of Washington, September 24, 1954
Letter to Dr. S.P. Lehman, Director of Health, Seattle-King County Health Department - June 1, 1956
Damage by X-Rays To Humans Told - May 30, 1957
Worldwide Nuclear Testing Fallout Causing Huge Human Life Loss - 1958
Letter to Ravenholt from the American Medical Association - March 17, 1958
Letter to Dr. Vivian Harlan - March 14, 1960
Otto Ravenholt - Topeka - Public Health, July 8, 1960
Dr. Ravenholt's Findings: Hospital Infections - The Seattle Times, August 18, 1960
Ravenholt greeting a Chinese Visitor to the Seattle-King County Health Dept. - February 26, 1961
Seattle's Triumph Over Typhoid - The Seattle Times, April 9, 1961
King County Commissioners arrange Ravenholt Return after two years in Europe - May 14, 1961
King County Commissioners Thank Ravenholt for Public Health Service - May 19, 1961
R.T. Ravenholt letter to King County Commissioners - May 22, 1961
King County Commissioners Request for Ravenholt's Return - May 24, 1961
Dr. Ravenholt's Findings - Hospitals Infections, Seattle times, August 18, 1961
European Adventures Report - February 8, 1962
European Adventures Report - November 26, 1962
Langmuir Correspondence - June 21, 1963
Langmuir Letter - July 8, 1963
Letter to Dr. John R. Hogness - October, 15, 1963
Letter from Dr. John R. Hogness - October 22, 1963
U. Medic Urges Drive on Smoking - January 12, 1964
Ravenholt leads UW to Stop the Sale of Cigarettes - 1964
UW Professor Eyes Heredity, Cigarettes - Ravenholt Presentation to American Cancer Society, March 26, 1964
Letter to Ravenholt from Warren G. Magnuson - February 1, 1965
Smoking during Pregnancy - Reprinted from The Lancet, May 1, 1965; p. 961
Ravenholt Raps Cigarette Use at UW Model Congress - May 11,1965
Mock Senators Air Effects of Smoking - Seattle Times, May 11,1965
Dr. Ravenholt and Hilda Bryant, Daily Editor, Stop Sale of cigarettes by UW - May 12, 1965
Smoking By Mother Harmful to Unborn Male Babies - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 12, 1965
Ravenholt Offers Alternate Plan for Controversial Health Insurance Issue - UW Daily, May 26, 1965
Congratulations from Dr. Harold Diehl, American Cancer Society - June 14, 1965
Cigarettes + Youth = Bad Report Card, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 28, 1965
Tighter Cigarette Law Urged by Ravenholt - Seattle Times, October 28, 1965
White House - Marvin Watson Letter of Recruitment to USG, February 2, 1966
Letter from Harold S. Diehl, MD - March 17, 1966
Langmuir Correspondence - March 18, 1966
Response to Ravenholt from the American Cancer Society - May 17, 1966
Dr. Reimert Ravenholt Heads Branch of Government Agency - The Inter-County Leader, August 5, 1966
Smoking Affects Pregnant Women -The Seattle Times ,  October 2, 1966
White House Letters - 1966
Senator Robert Kennedy/First World Conference on Tobaccosis - October 13, 1967
Ravenholt Award from the University of Michigan - 1967
Oral Contraceptives and Thromboembolic Disease - 1968
Moynihan Letter - 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR Promotion - February 4, 1969
Thromboembolic Disorder and Oral Contraceptives - JAMA, February 10, 1969, 207;6:1150
Fiscal Year 1972 Population Program Levels - January 4, 1971
Letter from Kirk T. Mosely, MD - March 18, 1971
Reassessment of AID Participation in Bellagio Meeting - April 28, 1971
Dr. Nafis Sadik move from Pakistan to UNFPA - 1971
A Recent Population Crisis Meeting - September, 1971
Epidemiology: A Social Science - USAID Memo, 1972
Planning for Rapid Extension of Population and Family Planning throughout the Developing World - March 9, 1972
Epidemiology, a Social Science - March 13, 1972
Oral Contraceptive Campaign, June 5, 1973
The U.S. Owned Indian Rupee Mirage -  June 22, 1973
Minisuction Distribution Campaign, September 1973
World Bank Population Program - February 13, 1974
Proposed IDA Project in Bangladesh - March 22, 1974
Women Legislators,102 Countries, Favor Abortion for Ectopic Pregnancy,  WA  Post  29 March 1974
Ravenholt Wins Hugh Moore Award - June 20, 1974
Delivery Systems - October 3, 1974
Laparoscopic Sterilizatons in Camp Settings - The Nepal Experience,   Washington Star,  March 12, 1975
A Plan of Action for Achieving Village and Household Availability - September 26, 1975
Ravenholt Letter against Coercive Sterilization in India - January 13, 1976
USAID Data Needs from Bureau of the Census - January 19, 1977
Appropriate Technology - October 14, 1977
My son, Dane - 31 October, 1977
Acceleration of Technology Transfer - November 21, 1977
Oral Contraceptive Use and Circulatory Disease Mortality - March 21, 1978
Dangers of "Cigarette Disease" Told by Population Expert, Dateline CDC,   May 1978
State Department Shreds a Pro-Pill Report - May 9, 1978
Rei Ravenholt, Fighter for World-Population Control - May 28, 1978
IPPF - Principles of Program Management, June 8 1978
Population Control Office Targeted in AID Reorganization - July 1, 1978
Prevention of Tobacco Disease Morbidity and Mortality, July 14 1978
World Health Organization - 1st September, 1978
The Philadelphia Enquirer Article - December 15, 1978
Population Controller to Fight Catholic Suppression of U.S. Population Program - June 6, 1979
Endometrial Cancer Research, To the New England Journal of Medicine,  March 28, 1980
 USAID Voluntary Sterilization Program, Richmond Times-Dispatch,  April 7, 1980
The Real Villain: Cigarettes, The Washington Star    27 June, 1980
Cuban Rum and Coca-Cola, To People (IPPF), July  1980
Prevention of Toxic Shock - January 28, 1981
Chaining the Tobacco Beast - 1982
Researchers Say Heavy Smoking May Cause Widespread Tumors - 29 July, 1982
Radiation From Tobacco Smoke Accounts for Wide Range of Diseases, Nat'l. Center for Atmospheric Research - March 24, 1983
Letter to Dr. Howard D. Cohn, Deputy ACMD for Clinical Services, Veterans Administration - September 9, 1983
Tobacco Addiction and Tobacco Mortality, letter from Philip R. Lee - December 2, 1983
Letter to Editor of Science regarding Affirmative Action - 1984
Letter to Ravenholt from John C. Carson - 10 December, 1984
Ravenholt Urges MDs Not to Overlook Smoking, January 1-14, 1986
Labeling and Patient Package Inserts for Oral Contraceptives, FDA  August 12, 1986
Anaphylaxis Emergency Care by Positioning with Legs Up, To JAMA   December 11,1986
Letter from Ravenholt To the Editor of JAMA - August 21, 1987
To the Editor, JAMA - Nov. 20, 1987
Household Alpha Particles from Tobacco Po210 ,  JAMA   December 25, 1987; 258:3514
Chaining the Tobacco Beast, To The Seattle Times  11 March, 1989
Adequate Gas Taxes or a Blank Check for the Governor?, To The Seattle Post-Intelligencer,   31 May, 1989
Lung Cancer, Uranium Miners, and Smoking - 4 August, 1989
Cervical Cancer in Young Americans, The Lancet   September 9, 1989
Langmuir Correspondence - November 13, 1990
Birthweights in Scotland, to The Lancet   16  September, 1991
Radiation in Smoking Can Damage Genes, New York Times - 20 February, 1992
Urban Population Dynamics, a letter to World Future Society - 8 June, 1992
Natural Family Planning, to The Lancet   24  August, 1992
Somalian Agonies From Excessive Fertility, To The Seattle P-I     7 December, 1992
Tobaccosis Cataract - JAMA, February 10, 1993
Study on Heart Attack and Stroke Death Rates Misrepresents Data - Seattle Times, May 18, 1993
Letter to the Editor, JAMA - May 26, 1993
Langmuir Correspondence - June 21, 1993
Langmuir Correspondence -  5 August, 1993
Letter to Professor Henning-Pakkenberg - 1 September, 1993
Ravenholt / "America's Shattered Child Plague" Influences Wisconsin Welfare Reform - January 18, 1994
Ravenholt / "America's Shattered Child Plague" Influenced Wisconsin Welfare Reform - March 15, 1994
The Honorable J. Brian Atwood - 10 March 1994
Letter to President Bill Clinton - April 28, 1994
Letter from Ravenholt to Mr. Ken Burns - May, 1994
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Smoking History and Lymphoma - 25 May, 1994
Fatherhood By Choice And Contract, The Seattle Times    19 June, 1994
Epidemic Child Mortality, Italy 5th Century, Waterborne, to the New York Times    27 July, 1994
Voluntary Sterilization, The Seattle Times   September 17, 1994
Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Not Proven  Death Preventer, To  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  12 October 1994
Robert S. McNamara, Harbinger of Disaster - February, 1995
Ravenholt & "America's Shattered Child Plague" Influence Congressional Welfare Reform - February 22, 1995
Welfare Malpractice Generates Shattered Child Plague, To The New York Times    20 June, 1995
Letter from Representative Jim Nussle of Iowa - July 31, 1995
Lifetime Tobacco Use, Annals of Internal Medicine, 1986;105:472-473
Male or Female Determination of the Sex of Offspring?   To The Chicago Tribune,  18 January  1996
Population Action International -  13 March 1996
"Togo Teenager Seeking Asylum From Mutilation", To USA Today     4 May, 1996
Breast and Uterine Cancer Mortality Trends - 8 May, 1996
Old Oiltanks not a Health Hazard in Seattle, To  The Seattle Times   3 December, 1996
Underwater Roadways, Seattle, The  Seattle Times ,  10  September, 1997
Stethoscopic Phantom Heart Murmurs, To  JAMA   October 1, 1997
Seattle School Levy for Racial Bussing - 23 January, 1998
Letter to Senator Harold Hachstetter - 27 February, 1998
Midwest Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal Epidemic, To JAMA   10 March, 1998
Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Smoking, and Mortality - Finnish Twin Cohort, JAMA May 27,1998
Letter to The Editor, The New York Times - July 15, 1998
Paul Demeny and Africa - 29 July, 1998
Kaplan and Esoteric Statistics - 7 August, 1998
Enjoying Sunshine in Seattle, to The Seattle Times   11 September, 1998
Letter from Ravenholt to Governor Gary Locke - November, 1998
Gregoire-led  Tobacco Settlement Loses Washington Billions, To The Seattle Times     2 December, 1998
Cigarettes Shorten Lifespan in Denmark, to The Seattle Times   15 February, 1999
Employers of Illegal Immigrants should pay IRS equal Sum, April 6, 1999
Letter to Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, Director, CDC - 7 September, 1999
Cigarettes Usually Far Greater Hazard than Adiposity, To NEJM, 15 October 1999
Killing Two Birds With One Stone - 2000
Post-Intelligencer Exaggeration of Asbestos Hazards, to  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  17 February, 2000
Letter to the Editor, The Arkansas Democrat Gazette - March 9, 2000
Morning Paper Delivery to the Porch, Please! - RT Ravenholt to the Seattle Times; May 3, 2000
Key Question for Microsoft Consumers, to the Seattle Times  16 May 2000
Underwater Roadways for Seattle/Puget Sound - 6 July, 2000
To The Editor - The Seattle Times, 28 September 2000
Ravenholt Guidance to Presidential Candidate Albert Gore - October 21, 2000
Curbing the Global Population Explosion - Speech at APHA: Boston, Mass. - November, 2000
Reimert's visit to Yucatan - March 12, 2001
America's Maginot Line A La Bush - 30 May, 2001
Capricious Water Charges Threaten Seattle Gardens, to the Seattle Times  22 August 2001
Africa's Demographic Entrapment Discussion - 24 August, 2001
Patient Death on Simvastatin Equals That on Placebo - 10 December, 2001
To All Interested Parties - 17 February, 2002
Letter to Dr. Mary Northridge, Editor in Chief, APHA - 25 February, 2002
Novel ECLIPSE based on Lewis Neurosyphilis Diagnosis, March 2002
R. Shenkman, History News Network Query RE Meriwether Lewis and Ambrose - March 28, 2002
U.S. Population Assistance Equated with Marshall Plan - May, 2002
Let's Get Rid of Gary Zarber and Joseph Olchefske, City Light and School failures, 13 November 2002
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CAREERS THROUGH THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - November 17, 2002
A Frat Boy's Budget - Editor@NYTimes.com, January, 2003
Letter on the Effects of Smoking to The Seattle Times - 13 March, 2003
Skipping-Stone Bush Gambits - To the NY Times, March 15, 2003
Dr. James Steele, Public Health Leader Extraordinaire - April 3, 2003
Cut the Gordian knot of Illegal Immigration, letter to nytimes.com, October 24, 2003
Obstructive, overzealous, DNR action in Luck, Wis. - July 22, 2004
Disagrees with DNR - August 4, 2004
Correspondence with Kent Henning, Grand View College - October 22, 2004
Email from Samal Abdenhour - December 1, 2004
Letter from Richard S. Wheeler - May 4, 2005
Letter from Bob Camp - May 5, 2005
Letter to Sophia Belsheim - 6 May 2005
Letter to Epidemiological Colleagues - 18 May, 2005
Letter to the Editor, NYTimes.com - July 6, 2005
Role of Birth Control in Ireland's Economic Surge - June 29, 2005
Acceptance Speech from Bill Foege on Building Dedication - March 8, 2006
Birth Control Must Lead Development Assistance - March 23, 2006
Letter to The Editor, The Seattle Times - July 30, 2006

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