SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 
March 7, 1964 
Dear Maryanna: 
Dr. Ely tells me I am no longer God and after you see all the letters 
I have written to Mrs. Church you will probably feel that you are no longer 
Boss. However it is only a matter of there not being enough time in the day 
to write everyone. Thanks for all the crazy signs, letters, etc. 
Everyone has pretty well recovered from the long nights and hard work 
of the last month and now are full of ambition again. All except the noble 
leader who is tired of staying up until two ©clock trying to find wnat 
happened to band 727-65403 or where the schedule for that 100 Fairy Terns went. 
Everyone was invited up to the Governors house yesterday for drinxs and 
I hope as a result of our stimulating conversation we have lined up some 
official transportation for our stay. 
Everyone sends there best to the hard working secretarial suaxf. We will 
shortly send along the first issue of the Fairy Isle Times plus I hope 
preliminary planning for the June—July trip. Then wollget you working again. 
Rather than start another everyone paaagraph I'll just ramble. Personnel 
have worked out quite well. Doug is outstanding and has been a life saver 
all along. He has been worked at a 7 position or higher ever since we hit 
Honolulu and has filled the job perfectly. Larry has improved by leaps and 
bounds although he still causes me to go through the celling a couple times 
a week. Ray just doesn't have the steam to keep up with the rest of the crew. 
He tries hard but the physical pressures are to great and his heart isn't 
really in this " go, go, go " attitude. He can't adjust to working 36 hours 
straight and then sleeping 12. 
In rescheduling" for June-July - how about giving me a whole crew of 
fire eaters (i.e Roger, Doug, Larry - and either King (hope, hope) or one or 
more of our high school crew - Mike, Peter, Donna- even Linda). 
Will send later some suggestions on changing the schedule for the June 
July trip to shorten it a bit. Just now we are hung on one fact tnat 1. 
we had to be in Pago Pago on a given date and Canton ( because of geo’■ raohy) 
had to be our last stop before Pago and 2. Permission has been requested to 
visit Palmyra during a specific period thus preventing any attempts to 
shorten the schedule. I'm afraid were just going to make it back beiore ti.e 
15th. Don't forget I want to take 15-20 days of vacation although I will 
probably take it in the form of long weekends. 
The ship has been magnificent so far. The best rubber boat runner I have 
ever seen. Ship's officers and crew all very friendly even if it may be 
forced at times. We can definitely use another Lab on board and or some minor 
cabinet work in the present lab to better use the available space. 
We were going to visit the Island Moon bar but the ship.crew closed all 
the otherS bars in town by noon and were being brought back in strait jackets 
by 3 from the Island Moon. Vie avoided the place although we notice the Chief 
Bosun Mate carrying Giragosian in the door by the scruii of his neck. J hn's 
feet weren't even touching the ground. Despite this rather obnoxious behavior 
it is really only their high spirits. In fact (don't pass it on) one olficer 
couldn't be revived in time for the Gov's go at 5P.M. and two others just 
managed to sober up enough to steer a relatively straight line. 
more later 
