Authors 
My inclination toward anthropol- 
ogy probably began in my child- 
hood,” says Gertrude Enders Hunt- 
ington. “When I was ten years old 
I visited the Cuna Indians off the 
coast of Panama. I was the first 
white female child most of the 
women had ever seen.” Huntington 
attended Oberlin College, gradu- 
ated from Swarthmore College, and 
received her Ph.D. from Yale Uni- 
versity. She has taught biology, 
done fieldwork in Turkey, and writ- 
ten a five-volume dissertation en- 
titled Dove at the Window: A Study 
of an Old Order Amish Community 
in Ohio. As principal fieldworker 
on the Hutterite Socialization 
Study, she and her family lived as 
Hutterites in a Canadian colony for 
an extended period of time. 
As a game biologist for the 
Alaska Department of Fish and 
Game, Dan Strickland monitored 
the walrus harvest off the islands 
of Saint Lawrence and Little Dio- 
mede. These experiences drew him 
into the thick of the controversy 
involving walrus hunting and Es- 
kimo subsistence. Currently work- 
ing as a commercial fisherman in 
the Alaskan gill net salmon indus- 
try, Strickland is also doing re- 
search on the Prince William Sound 
fishery. When not fishing or watch- 
ing walrus, he backpacks and skis 
cross-country in the Alaskan bush. 
George A. Hendrey is deeply con- 
cerned with the fate of fish and 
other life forms in freshwater lakes 
and streams, although he admits 
he doesn’t have the patience to be 
a fisherman himself. Trained in 
aquatic biology, he has done limno- 
logical research in the United 
States and Norway. Born and 
raised in Seattle, Hendrey likes to 
spend time in the mountains and 
has arranged his professional life 
“so as to make that possible.” His 
favorite sport used to be downhill 
skiing, but during a three-year stay 
in Norway, he became a convert 
to the cross-country variety. Hen- 
drey earned his B.A. and Ph.D. de- 
grees at the University of Wash- 
ington. Since 1977 he has served 
as an ecologist in the Department 
of Energy and Environment at 
Brookhaven National Laboratory in 
Upton, Long Island. 
When he was fifteen, German- 
born Erik Zimen joined his family 
for a one-year visit to the United 
States.' During their stay, the Ber- 
liners viewed the exhibitions at the 
American Museum of Natural His- 
tory. Zimen, a research assistant 
at the University of Saarbriicken, 
West Germany, writes that his in- 
terest in ethology began at that 
time. After receiving his Ph.D. in 
zoology, physiology, and anthropol- 
ogy from the University of Kiel, 
he conducted fieldwork on wolf 
ecology and conservation in the 
Abruzzi Mountains of Italy. He has 
also done work on the ecology of 
the red fox in southwestern Ger- 
many and is planning an evaluation 
of the status of the wolf in Poland, 
Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yu- 
goslavia. 
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