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home, where we may both be guests. He met Raglmar for an hour or so at 
the Los Angeles airport and took our Canonflex camera from him. Raglmar 
arrived almost directly from Fais Island, rushing through Ulithi, Yap and 
Guam, to make the first days of college at Hamilton, He was grimy and 
heavily bearded, with a beard that made him look very much like Czar 
Alexander Romanoff, and his teeth were stained orange from betel nut 
chewing. He spoke Ulithian almost all of the time with the other Micro- 
nesians, rather than English. Mathias told me on the phone that one look 
at Jesse — almost reverted to a wild pagan islander — and he himself nearly 
abandoned his resolve to return to visit the islands. Raglmar flew last 
night to Utica with Joe Wegstein, to drive from there to Hamilton College. 
Joe should be flying back to Washington this afternoon, while Raglmar should 
have moved in and be ready to start classes on Monday. He had missed 
only last night's opening supper for the freshmen and their parents. Joe 
has agreed to take on Jesse's college expenses and has reimbursed me the 
seven hundred dollars I had paid to start his semember. In his case the 
$2700 Hamilton scholarship that will cover tuition, and the $500 student 
educational grant from the Trust Territory will make his expenses the 
lowest of any of the boys, and his promise as a student the best. I am 
grateful to Joe for having assumed this burden, but very fortunately, I 
can meet it if he withdraws. The less rewarding higher burden of financing 
adolescent turmoil and academic difficulties, such as I face with Mathias, 
Ivan and Josede, is my lot and I accept it gladly. I had started this by 
bringing the boys here, knowing full well that these problems lay before 
me. It remains now to see them through. 
John Uolai, with his Trust Territory scholarship aid withdrawn, since 
his grade average at Northern Michigan University at Marquette has fallen 
below 3.0, is besetting me with pleas for a job at the NIH and financial 
help. I cannot act as a stopgap for all the Micronesians when and wherever 
the U.S. fails them. Odd it is that I try... and they seek me out for this 
role ! 
Maluwetig is worried about his senior year of high school and the 
possibility of college admission with a rather poor scholastic record, 
and the problem of his relations with Paul and Jill. I need to help him 
a great deal in the matter of finding a college and have done "v^ty little 
thus far. 
The boys are wonderful. They all make me proud of them; their enor- 
mous diversity is in itself interesting, their devoted loyalty to me is a 
reward I could little hope for, and I am totally recompensed for all I 
do for them by the love and devotion they have all given me. 
The dreadful political mess into which the NIH administration and 
direction has fallen leaves one in helpless bewilderment. I have tried 
through it all to stick to our sceintific work and production. Only 
creative work that is fresh, innovative, original and provocative will 
save us in this mess and I am trying to direct all our efforts in that 
direction. It is hard, for so much of what we do becomes too easily 
sclerosed, methodologies freeze, and methods become hackneyed and habitual 
If only this cruise gives us a chance of revising our goals and methods, 
I shall be very satisfied. 
