John Baptist
NOAA Beaufort Lab Oral Histories
Interviews with retired staff of NOAA Beaufort Lab, documenting their academic background, career path, research focus, and reflections on their work in the lab.
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Molly Graham
- John grew up in Pennsylvania and received his Master’s degree in the early 1950s from Bucknell University
- He worked for about five years in the early 1950s as an oyster biologist for the State of Maryland near Annapolis
- He was hired as a fishery biologist with the Radiobiological Laboratory at the Beaufort Laboratory in 1955
- Retired from the Beaufort Laboratory in 1975
- John was 98 years old when he recorded this interview
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