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My Favorite Movie Of The Past
My Favorite Movie Of The Past

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I'm reposting this old family portrait to give myself an added incentive to stick to my weight loss diet, and to exercise regularly!! I do want to be as slim as I was in this photo. Can I do it? Well, I have taken off 32 pounds. My pant's waist size has gone down from 44 to 38 inches. Another 30 pounds should take me to my grad school weight and a 34-inch waist. It could have been 32 inches in this photo. Of course, I was exercising in the weight room on Kwajalein Island three nights a week with a good friend, Jack France who I met on Kwaj. Today I will start workout sessions on a multi-station exercise machine.

This photo is from 1963. I was a graduate student in Physics at MIT. I took a leave of absence to go to Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean with MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. Here I am with my firstborn son Jonathan. We are on a speedboat in the lagoon on the weekend.

This shot was taken by Kent Kresa, who was an MIT Lincoln Laboratory Test Director. It was taken using a German film camera, not a Canon digital camera.

I previously posted this photo on some Kwaj Groups on Flickr, I have tried locating the trailer we lived in. It was in a trailer park called "Silver City" on the northeast corner of the island. It was built on sand dredged onto the reef before we arrived. I have thousands of my own 35mm slides from Kwaj that I took with the Nikon cameras and lenses from Japan that I bought at the army post exchange aka "Macy's" on Kwajalein Island at the southern tip of the atoll.

The boat was a "Boston Whaler." I just remembered these excellent boats were purchased for recreational use by Lincoln Lab by Jimmy Maripoti's Dad who worked for LL.

Another shot in this album shows a map of where we were. Kwajalein Island is in the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. We were there from 1962 to 1964.

Kwajalein Island is on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia.

Random remembrances:

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory team I was on was trying to gain knowledge about identifying reentering warheads. We used radar and optical telescopes on Roi Namur Island at the northern tip of the Kwajalein Atoll. It was 60 miles north of Kwajalein Island. We flew there and back each workday on non-pressurized, non-air-conditioned DC-3 airplanes... Those Were the Days...;))

I took a Hebrew course on Kwaj as part of the University of Hawaii's extension program. My teacher was Steve London, an Israeli engineer who was head of the Martin-Marietta team responsible for the Zeus Missile launches on Kwaj.

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