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Characters
Aquarium Guide
Visitor
Child Visitor
Narrator
Dr. Eugenie (Genie) Clark
Eugenie’s Mother
Eugenie’s Grandmother
Dr. Carl Hubbs
Prince Akihito
Interviewer
Teacher
Setting: On a tour of a large
aquarium
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Aquarium Guide: Welcome! I know you are all curious
to see the shark tank. I’ll bet you have numerous
questions about shark behavior.
Visitor: I have a question. How do scientists know so
much about sharks and other dangerous fish? You
couldn’t get me close enough to study their behavior!
Aquarium Guide: You and I might not want to swim
among the sharks. However, several fearless scientists
have spent decades observing them. One of the most
famous is Dr. Eugenie Clark. She has made such a big
impact on the field of marine biology with her knowledge
about sharks.
Child Visitor: How did she get interested in sharks?
Aquarium Guide: As far as I know she’s shown an acute
interest in them all her life. I believe it began when she
was just about your age . . .
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Eugenie’s Grandmother: Doesn’t Genie have enough
animals? With the salamanders, fish, and Rufus, I’m not
sure she needs any more pets.
Genie: I forgot about Rufus! Where is he, anyway,
Grandma?
Eugenie’s Grandmother: I’m not sure, but you cannot
leave for school until you find that snake and put him
back in his cage!
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Narrator: Throughout elementary school and high
school, Genie continues to collect fish for her tank.
Whenever she can, she chooses fish as a topic for
research and school assignments.
Genie: I’ve been studying the work of William Beebe,
Mother. He descended over 3,000 feet (914 m) in a
bathysphere, which is a steel diving ball, to look at fish.
I’m going to do that, too, someday!
Eugenie’s Mother: I’d be terrified the vessel would
implode from all the pressure under the murky sea. I
would not want to be doomed to that kind of fate! The
idea is intolerable to me!
Eugenie’s Grandmother: Genie, dear, it is unprece-
dented for a young woman to do such a thing. I’m sure
you could take up something less strenuous like
typing. You could be an office assistant
to someone like William Beebe.
Genie: No, you don’t
understand. I don’t
want to be anyone’s
assistant. I’m going to
be an ichthyologist
(IHK•thee•OL•uh•jihst).
That’s someone who
studies fish.
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Narrator: Genie studies fish in college. She makes her
first underwater dive when she is working as a research
assistant in California for Dr. Carl Hubbs.
Genie: Dr. Hubbs, that dive was remarkable! I wanted to
see if any interesting fish were burrowing into the reef.
I came face to face with the usually elusive moray eel. It
was huge! I didn’t linger once I saw that creature!
Dr. Hubbs: Genie, your mask made it look bigger than
it is in reality. Those eels won’t bother you unless you
annoy them first.
Narrator: In 1947, Genie applies for a job with the
United States Fish and Wildlife Service. She hopes
to study fish in the southern Pacific Ocean, near
the Philippines. Genie discovers that she will not be
permitted to go to the Philippines. At first, she fears that
she has been rejected because of her mixed ethnicity.
However, she learns that she has been rejected because
she is a woman!
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Narrator: Genie is busy for the next several years.
She lives and works in fascinating parts of the world,
including Egypt in northern Africa and Micronesia in
the western Pacific Ocean. She also marries, has four
children, writes a book about her life, and opens a
marine lab in Florida. In 1965, Dr. Clark visits Japan,
where she meets Prince Akihito, who is also a student of
fish habits. She brings the prince a fitting gift—a shark
trained to push on a target that lights up. A couple of
years later, the prince visits Genie in Florida.
Prince Akihito: I have a favor to ask, Dr. Clark. I would
like to learn to snorkel.
Genie: At this hour, Your Highness? It is barely five
thirty in the morning.
Prince Akihito: I would like you to teach me without
reporters and photographers watching everything I do!
Genie: It would be my pleasure.
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Narrator: Dr. Clark continues to become more widely
known as an expert in her field.
Interviewer: Dr. Clark, I understand that you have
examined over 1,600 shark stomachs. You have found
more than forty different species of fish in those
stomachs but no human remains. Is it true that you
yourself have been bitten by sharks, including a dead
shark?
Genie: Well, you could say that.
Interviewer: What happened?
Genie: The first time I was on my way to give a lecture, I
had the jawbones from a tiger shark on the car seat next
to me. When I stopped for a traffic light, the materials
on the seat started to slide. As I put my arm out to catch
them, the jawbones snapped shut on my arm!
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Interviewer: What happened the second time?
Genie: I was helping a female shark deliver her baby.
After the baby shark came out, it bit my finger!
Interviewer: It sounds like sharks can be erratic
in their behavior. Do you have any qualms about
swimming with them?
Genie: It is safer to swim with sharks than to drive on
an average city street or highway!
Interviewer: What would you say is your most
important contribution to your field?
Genie: I think it’s critical for people to respect sharks
but not to fear them. If you respect them in their own
environment, they will generally leave you alone. That
understanding is very important.
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Narrator: It’s an understatement to say that Eugenie
Clark has led an interesting life. Her children have, too.
Take her son Niki, for example . . .
Genie: I understand you gave my son an F on his paper.
Teacher: That’s right. His assignment was to write
about his experience with another culture! The report
was supposed to be about something that actually
happened to the student. Your son wrote about riding
in a camel caravan across the barren desert to go scuba
diving in Egypt!
Genie: That happened just as he said. The camels
weren’t very happy about carrying all of the heavy scuba
gear, though.
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Narrator: Genie continues to share her research
with the world. She writes many articles for National
Geographic magazine. A TV program she makes about
sharks is the most popular documentary ever shown.
Genie also fulfills her childhood dream of deep sea
diving. In the late 1980s, she dives over seventy times
in submersibles, modern versions of William Beebe’s
bathysphere. Some of these dives are over 12,000 feet
(3,658 m) deep.
Genie: I never get tired of these dives. The submersibles
are noisy, dark, and cramped with cameras and other
equipment. Still, I don’t mind the hissing of air that
emanates from valves throughout the vessel, or the
endless pinging and banging of instruments. On the
ascent, I’m sorry to be leaving the sea bottom. Diving
deep below the surface of the ocean is so exciting to me.
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Aquarium Guide: . . . There you have it. That’s the life
of Dr. Eugenie Clark. It’s a pretty remarkable one, don’t
you think?
Visitor: Absolutely! She has seen so much of the world
and done so much.
Aquarium Guide: Yes, she is quite a role model. Now
please feel free to wander around the shark tanks and
other exhibits. Let me know if you have other questions.
Child visitor: I’ve got a question. Do you let people
swim in the tanks with the sharks? I’d like to get a
closer look at them.
Guide: I think we have a budding ichthyologist here.
Visitor: I’m sure Dr. Eugenie Clark would be pleased!
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Think Critically
1. )N WHAT WAY ARE THE BEGINNING AND ENDING DIFFERENT
FROM THE REST OF THE PLAY
2. 7HAT DO THE FINAL LINES OF THE PLAY SUGGEST ABOUT THE
INFLUENCE OF $R #LARK AND HER WORK
3. 7HAT OBSTACLES DID $R #LARK FACE IN ACHIEVING
SUCCESS IN HER FIELD
4. 7HY DIDNT $R #LARKS SONS TEACHER BELIEVE WHAT THE
BOY WROTE IN HIS PAPER
5. )N WHAT WAYS COULD A CAREER THAT INTERESTS YOU HELP
YOU TEST YOUR OWN LIMITS
Science
Research Sharks $R %UGENIE #LARK STUDIED SHARKS $O
RESEARCH ON THE )NTERNET OR USE OTHER LIBRARY RESOURCES TO LEARN
ABOUT ONE KIND OF SHARK )LLUSTRATE AND REPORT YOUR lNDINGS BY
CREATING A POSTER
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FAMILY MEMBERS 4ALK ABOUT WAYS THAT CHILDHOOD
AMBITIONS CAN LEAD TO GREAT THINGS LATER IN LIFE
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