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clerk of the municipal court
270 Grant ave
palo alto, cal


Dear Sir:

I hereby wish  to ask for  a postponment of  my jury duty.  Besides my
regular employment here  at Stanford, I have been hired as a temporary
assistant professor  at San  Jose  State University.  I was  hired  to
develop  and  teach  a  new   graduate  course  in  their  mathematics
department.  I am currently teaching this course  and will be doing so
until the middle of June.  

I  was  hired  because  the
faculty believed  that there was no one  presently in their department
who was qualified. 
Thus there would be significant hardship placed  on
the students of the  class -- approximately fourty, some  of whom need
the material to receive their Master's degree; and the faculty members
who are  attending my  course to  develop their  proficiency would  be
seriously set back. Since there is no one who could substitute for me,
their Master's program would suffer. 



If you have questions please contact me:
   John Allen
   Computer Science Department
   Artificial Intelligence Labs
   Stanford University
   Stanford, Calif 
   497-4971

or the department Chairman,
   Dr Frank Fuller
   Mathematics Department
   San Jose Sate University
   San Jose, Cal 95192
   277-2411

or the faculty member who is learning the material from me:
   Dr Mike Burke
   Mathematics Department
   San Jose Sate University
   San Jose, Cal 95192


I have served on a jury before and found the experience  valuable
but at the present time jury duty would present severe hardship.





	yours sincerely
	John allen
	371 verano dr.
	los altos, cal 94022
	941-6510