KAREN:  Were there any health aides that were particularly inspiring to you?
 
WALTER:  The relation with the health aides was -- was very rewarding.  And we -- some of us had been friends before, like Hannah Anderson, Hannah Tobuk before, and myself were both kids together at the same time around Fairbanks and the Koyukuk. 
Well, just to -- to mention some of the original health aides that I was very impressed with, starting in Southeast, there was Alma Cook from Hydaburg who is sort of a pillar in the SEARHC, the health corporation down there. 

KAREN:  Southeast Alaska? 

WALTER:  Southeast Alaska.  And Trudy Wolf.  And of course, Barbara Johnson.  And -- and going down to some of their meetings and to the Alaska Native sisterhood meetings and so on was -- was a very, you know, rewarding experience. 
And then going further north, there was Joyce Smith of Kodiak, Ouzinkie.  And Marge Jensen from Pedro Bay.  And Wassillie Nicolai, one of the few -- few male --

KAREN:  Right. 

WALTER:  -- health -- health aides.  And Phil Tudiokoff from the Aleutians, from Unalaska.  And in the Nome area is the health aide from White Mountain, Willa Ashenfelder. 
When the -- when the director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest foundation giving to health in the United States, was up there and made a visit, we went out to -- to Mountain Village, and there he was very impressed because -- forgive me for forgetting his name, but he was President Kennedy's personal physician.  He was a dean at Johns Hopkins. 
And he and Willa were sitting down and discussing cases, and he happened to pick out a chart and a very obscure case and that they were comparing notes. 
In fact, it was an adrenal insufficiency and how difficult it was to diagnose, a condition which went undiagnosed for many years in President Kennedy.  And Willa had picked up on this very early in her patient out there. 
Going on further north is Esther Curtis in the Kotzebue area.  Irma Honeycutt. 
And then we interacted with the traditional healers there in Kotzebue, and of course, there was Della Keets, who was -- was the head of the traditional medicine, and she and I did a workshop at the same time once there. 
In the Interior, there's Rose Ambrose and -- and many others.  Well, again, I apologize to all -- all those whose names I haven't mentioned and -- and deserve equal attention.