assistance in the educational program for the Marshallese. He spent several
weeks living with the people in the Islands for this purpose.

Strong support for the program has continued from the staff of the Department of Energy, among whom are Ms. R. Clusen, Drs. W. Burr, B. Wachholz,

and J. Blair, and Mr. T. McCraw; at the Nevada Operations Office, Messrs.

M. E. Gates and R. Ray; and at the Pacific Area Support Office in Honolulu,
Messrs. W. Stanley, H. U. Brown, W. Streenan, J. Foard, J. Abreu, and others.
In the Department of the Interior, we appreciate the support and assistance of Ms.

R. G.

Van Cleve,

Mr.

J.

DeYoung,

and others,

and many in the

Trust Territory, including Mr. A. Winkel, Mr. D. Heine, and Dr. M. Kumanjagi.
We are most grateful to the people of the Marshall Islands for their
continued cooperation with the medical teams in carrying out the examinations,
and we greatly value the warm friendships that have developed with them over

the years.

Many of the Rongelap and Utirik people have been of great assis-

tance to the examining teams.

These include the Magistrates of both atolls

and many Rongelap people, including John Anjain, Billiet Edmond, Jabwe Jorju,

Niktimus Antak, Almira Matayoshi, Lejohn MacDonald, and,
Campus, Maja Lena, Harold Mathew, and Andy More.

at Utirik, Kabto

We wish to express our appreciation for the cooperation and support of

many in the new government of the Marshall Islands, including Mr. Amata Kabua,
President, Mr. Oscar DeBrun, Chief Secretary, Mr. Henry Samuels, Minister of
Health, and others including Messrs. Jeton Anjain, Donald Mathew, Jack
Helkena, Kaleb Rantak, and Carmen Biggler; and, in the Health Services Division, Drs. Ezra Riklon, John Laman, Masao Korean, and Masao Kasino and Ms.
Ruth Harris.

We are indebted to many people at Kwajalein (Kwajalein Missile Range)

for logistic support, including the Commanding Officer and others on his
staf€, and personnel of Global Associates, including Messrs. Don McAfee and
James Watt.
We are also grateful to the staff of Kwajalein Hospital for their

generous support.

We appreciate greatly the excellent medical care given the Marshallese
patients by the staffs at the Hospital of the Medical Research Center at BNL,
the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, and Tripler Army Hospital.
We would like to give special thanks to the crew of the DOE survey ship,
Liktanur, who went out of their way to provide support and comfort to the medical teams traveling aboard their ship.
We also wish to thank the charitable organization, New Eyes for the
Needy (Short Hills, NJ), for donating to the Marshallese hundreds of pairs of
eyeglasses, which were greatly appreciated.

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