DEDICATION This reportis dedicated to the captain and crewof the M.V. Liktanur. Forten years the Liktanurs ~ II and III have served as home and workplace for much of each medical mission to the Marshall | Islands. Throughout this time it has been the good fortune of the medical program to have the excellent support of the ship's crew. More importantly, that good fortune was extended to the population served by the medical team: the emergency rigging of oxygen tanks to treat hypoxic patients, lighting of a smail airstrip at night to facilitate an emergencyair evacuation, radio liaison, transport of patients between the atolls and to and from shore, and the emergencyrepair of medical equipment are just some of the nonnauticalactivities that benefited the medical missions. Now. a new support vessel for workin theMarshail Islands has come undercontract to the Departmentof Energy. Therefore, on the departure of the Liktanur, we would like to acknowledge our debt to Capt. Keith Coberly; Monroe Wightman.engineer; Jim Whitney and Jan Kocian, first mates; Cisco Peru, cook: Les Nunes. boatswain; Tony Ned and Mathan Almen, seamen: and other crew members who,for shorter periods, also contributed to the effectiveness of the missions. We thank them for a job well done. IN MEMORIAM Two former members of the Brookhaven medical team who participated in several surveys died during the past year. Colonel Austin Lowrey, Jr., died at the age of eighty-six. He was a well-known ophthalmologist with a long career in the army. He was a most kind and generous person and contributed a great deal to the evaluation of possible radiation effects on eyes. Dr. Leo Meyer, who died al age eighty-two, was a well-known hematologist and was Director of the Sickle Cell Anemia Program of the Veterans’ Administration. He made outstanding contributions to the program in evaluating hematological radiation effects. Leo will be rememberedfor his joviality, for always having a joke ready to cheer us. Both of these men werewell liked by medical teams and the Marshallese people. and we shall truly miss them. Robert A. Conard. M.D. January 23, 1989 2004094