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Getting back to sharks! The study was to be conducted at the Eniwetok Atoll in
the Marshall Islands, a marine lab run then by the Atomic Energy Commission to
study the biology of the Eniwetok Atoll since they had tested nuclear bombs on various islands in the atoll. Getting to the Eniwetok Atoll itself was a challenge (Fig. 4 ).
We were all supposed to fl y on a military air cargo (MAC) fl ight to the island of
Kwajalein in the mid-Pacifi c and then fl y on to Eniwetok. However, at the last minute, Art and Dick got bumped from the fl ight (there was only one fl ight per week and
some VIP had a higher priority) and were put on a commercial fl ight on Air Micronesia
Digression 3
As mentioned above, Jim Kendall was a professor at CCNY where he taught
histology but left before Art arrived there for graduate work. Jim retired just
as Art’s wife Helen, a CCNY undergraduate, was about to take the course.
Helen then took histology with Bill Tavolga, little knowing that she would get
to know Bill as her future husband’s mentor and then as a close friend. In any
case, Helen met Jim in Hawai’i and never let him forget that he left CCNY
before she could take his class. Jim became not only Art’s collaborator but
also a very close personal friend. He was a very special and kind man and
gave Helen a copy of the histology text he had written but never published.
Fig. 4 A view of “Fred” and the Eniwetok Marine Laboratory from the air in 1972
A.N. Popper and R.R. Fay
Getting back to sharks! The study was to be conducted at the Eniwetok Atoll in
the Marshall Islands, a marine lab run then by the Atomic Energy Commission to
study the biology of the Eniwetok Atoll since they had tested nuclear bombs on various islands in the atoll. Getting to the Eniwetok Atoll itself was a challenge (Fig. 4 ).
We were all supposed to fl y on a military air cargo (MAC) fl ight to the island of
Kwajalein in the mid-Pacifi c and then fl y on to Eniwetok. However, at the last minute, Art and Dick got bumped from the fl ight (there was only one fl ight per week and
some VIP had a higher priority) and were put on a commercial fl ight on Air Micronesia
Digression 3
As mentioned above, Jim Kendall was a professor at CCNY where he taught
histology but left before Art arrived there for graduate work. Jim retired just
as Art’s wife Helen, a CCNY undergraduate, was about to take the course.
Helen then took histology with Bill Tavolga, little knowing that she would get
to know Bill as her future husband’s mentor and then as a close friend. In any
case, Helen met Jim in Hawai’i and never let him forget that he left CCNY
before she could take his class. Jim became not only Art’s collaborator but
also a very close personal friend. He was a very special and kind man and
gave Helen a copy of the histology text he had written but never published.
Fig. 4 A view of “Fred” and the Eniwetok Marine Laboratory from the air in 1972
A.N. Popper and R.R. Fay