Frau Lena Chemin-Petit, daughter of Dr. Eugen von Hippel, passed away June 3, 1994, in Bad Soden, Germany. Frau Chemin-Petit kindly allowed us to publish a photograph of a portrait of her father in our June 1993 issue. In return, we added her to the mailing list. This past April, she sent greetings which we read at the conference in Kansas City:

"Last year we wrote to you how glad we were to hear that someone from our family tree had worked in such an important subject and discovered the basis for your enormous medical movement, which we admire so very much.

Many things have developed — the research work was most effective, the Conference in the Kansas University and the Symposium in Freiburg — what a wonderful development!

Thank you very, very much for keeping us posted on your work. Best wishes for the future."

Mrs. Chemin-Petit was a very fine cellist, married to a famous German conductor and composer. The very talented von Hippel family includes a number of notable physicians, scientists and academics, several of whom are now in the United States. We are grateful to Dr. Eugen von Hippel for his astute observations and description of VHL, and to Frau Chemin-Petit and the von Hippel family for their kind interest in the progress of this organization toward better management of VHL.

As published in the VHL Family Forum 2:3, September 1994. For permission to reprint, please contact the VHL Family Alliance at editor@vhl.org. Further information is available from the VHL Family Alliance, info@vhl.org.