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A Snap in the Air
a Home, Not a Hotel
You have a tie with thousands of I. House people
all over the world—a fantastic resource! Wouldn't it be great to be able to stay in someone’s home for a
This is a wonderful time of year in New York when there is a snap in the air and the sky is at its bluest. It
visitors to your country, showing them a home
is the time when old friends come back from vacation and new residents begin to arrive. We’ve had three Orientation Weekends in a lovely
instead of a hotel?
conference center near West Point and the first
day or two when you travel? And to welcome
First Host Volunteers It’s so easy, I can’t believe we haven't done it before. We have our first |. House host—Krishan Kumar Bhasin ’48—who wrote to us this spring and said, “I would like you to mention that anybody from the International House would be welcome for
Sunday Supper to welcome all the new students. After the Supper a Program Fair was held so that everyone could find out about the many programs for the coming year and sign up for those in which they were most interested. Membership Card Coming
stay with me in Calcutta on his/her visit to India. During my stay in U.S.A., I enjoyed the hospitality
Usually along with this issue of the newsletter you would find your World Members card for the
of many American homes, and my family would like to reciprocate.” This means that the next time someone writes to us and asks us for a list of alumni in Calcutta (enclosing the $2 service charge), we’ll send the list
coming year. We didn’t include one, as you will no doubt have noted. We decided to have a fine, permanent card printed so that you don’t have to have a new one issued each year. It will be included in the spring newsletter, so look for it. If it should ever be lost or damaged, please let us know and we will send you a new one.
and beside Krishan Kumar Bhasin’s name will be “I.H. Host”. Of course, there will be times when a
guest is inconvenient for a host, and to make this work, the hosts must be able to say so. We all lead
busy lives, and I am sure the travelers will understand.
Summer Reunions Planned
We’re planning weekend gatherings for alumni and their spouses this coming summer. Plans are to have a group of from twenty to thirty people who will work together, have fun together, eat together,
Sign Up Now I hope you will take advantage of this marvelous resource and also that you will sign up as hosts by writing to me in the World Members Office, International House, 500 Riverside Drive, New
York, New York 10027. Margy Henkels Editor.
Come Up and See Us Sometime
and get to know one another. The weekends will run from Friday night until Sunday evening and will center around discussions in the area of
intercultural communications. Before and after the weekend all of New York City will be a “Summer Festival” if you want to spend a little more time to enjoy it. We'll have more details later, but for now you can begin to think about how nice it would be to come back and get recharged with the International House spirit.
All world members are welcome for short term accommodation in our guest suites on visits to New York City. Each suite has a private bath, and we
will arrange for single or double occupancy at a nightly cost of $12 or $17 respectively. Reservations should be made well in advance. A deposit of $5 is required to hold the reservation. Write to the cashier or call 212-678-5042.
OJ Rudd Director World Members and Development
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How You Look to Us
and African Studies at the University of London in social anthropology. I did field research among urban women ina
Suzanne Calabro ’73 and Monica McDonald, a current resident, have been going through the piles and piles of old
shanty town in Nairobi, Kenya during the
years 1972-74. I have been living in
photographs we have. We’ve really
London since then with my husband, Michael Mattingly.
enjoyed seeing the old times at the House and think you may enjoy them,
“". . It will be interesting to see what will be the result of the struggle for a new kind of et
too, so you will see them sprinkled through the following pages. If you recognize anybody, please let us know.
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Finland. Lennart Henrikson ’51 wrote
Lost and Found
from Helsinki, “In 1971 I retired from my position as Managing Director for the
What we try to do here is to stay in touch with all the people who have been
Finnish Foreign Trade Association. Since then I have for over three years been
involved with I. House over the years. There are many people we have lost. If
working in Geneva with the International
Trade Center. This is a UN organization
you know the address of any of the people listed here, please send it to us.
which is trying to help the developing
We want to keep in touch with you
countries with their export problems. Now | am back in Finland doing occasionally some consulting. “| think that young people nowadays,
and help you keep in touch with each
other. If you have lost track of an I. House friend, let us know, and we'll send you the address if we have it.
Zhobal Abawy ’52, Afghanistan Bernard Poli’51, Algeria Jean-Marie Fonseca ’68, Angola Rudolf Binder ’55, Austria Eva Maria Illy 53, Austria Dieter Wogerbauer 65, Austria
Sara Arguello-Pitt 68, Argentina Rhonda Bruce ’63, Australia * Audrey Florence ’74, Bahamas Abbas Akberali’72, Bangladesh Elmer LeRoy Roach ’68, Barbados Rudolf Van Puymbroeck ’69, Belgium
Rodolfo Poepsel ’52, Bolivia Maria Marinho Azevedo ’65, Brasil Atanas Strigachev 68, Bulgaria Aura Arganona ’60, Chile Mary Jaroslava DeRepa 68, Colombia Mpaka Diazengwa’71, Congo Nicos Agathocleous ’63, Cyprus Bohuslav Vasulka 66, Czechoslovakia Christian Peter 63, Denmark Mario Collado’68, Dominican Republic Jose Bohorquez 59, Ecuador Kouarafa Magid ’65, Egypt Robert Cookson ’67, England Tapio Holma ’61, Finland Pierre Azema’72, France Goetz Ruestig 69, Germany loannis Calageropoulos 69, Greece Compton Thierens 65, Guyana Max Armand ’64, Haiti Allan Aw’73, Hong Kong _ Sigridur Valgeirs, Iceland Raden Dhijatmiko ’64, Indonesia Jadhavdas Asrani ’65, India Habib Soleymani ’60, Iran _Eliahoo Al-Any ’63, Iraq
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What You Have to Say
at least in this part of the world, don’t any
more think that a high standard of living is the happiest thing in life. . . . It willbe
Happily for us, news of you has filled up another newsletter! Letters keep coming
interesting to see what will be the result
in, and each issue we have more material than we can handle.
of the struggle for a new kind of life. As always when changes are going to
Next time we will feature your replies to the questionnaire about study abroad, so send yours in if you haven't already.
democratic, partly violent and not
Another copy is enclosed.
Argentina. Raquel Rivero Olazabal 65 wrote from Buenos Aires, where she is
happen the young generation is restless, altogether happy.” France. Francoise Lagoutte wrote, “I’m
working in an import-export business
an opthalmologist working full time in a hospital at Libourne, a city close to Bordeaux.
and teaching. She says, “Apart from a galloping inflation, there are bitter
“I think you know everything about France. We try to become an original
struggles among groups professing
different ideologies, and this has given rise to an unprecedented wave of
violence.”
“A fatal (!) process of
disintegration. . .” Belgium. J.A. Horn ’50 wrote from
Crainhem saying that he sees “A fatal (!) process of disintegration of government. A fall-down of moral principles, but especially in public life. A lack of imagination in the intellectual (University) and economic (enterprise)
sections.” England. Nici Nelson ’65 wrote from London, “I am currently finishing my Ph.D. program at the School of Oriental
and free country, free from Communism and if possible, not America!”
“
.
Acivil servant cannot do
things inanew way...” Jean Soula ’39 wrote from Lyon, “Changes in France are about the same
as in any other part of the world: general slump in business; unemployment; and hope things go better. . .soon. . . “I have been, for thirty years, Executive Secretary to the Rector of the Universities of Lyon. I retire in March,
oe eg In reply to the question about doing something in a new way, “A civil servant cannot do things a new way, especially in
France, a country administratively highly centralized.”
physically and mentally fitter because of
implications of policies, programs and
Greece. D. Lolossis wrote from Athens
this. Another very absorbing interest is
projects, especially primary health care
saying that he is working as a consultant cardiologist at the Greek Red Cross Hospital.
wine making from our local grapes and
and community participation in
fruit of the season. This has proved to be
development.”
India. Ratna Ramchandani ’66 wrote from Bombay, “I am an interior designer and have been in this profession since
1962. | am also a Master of Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement), having taken my diploma in Tokyo from the Ohara School there, and! am currently
quite a challenge, especially since the waiting period for results is so long!”
«“
. . aunique phenomenon of resilience of democracy in a developing country... .”
training teachers of Ikebana. In addition,
Krishan Kumar Bhasin ’48 wrote from Calcutta, “I am at present the Executive
I teach hotel design to students of the
Director of the Aluminum Corporation of
Institute of Hotel Management in Bombay.
India Ltd., the only Indian-owned company in India engaged in the manufacture of aluminum metal and its
fabricated products. . .
“Since our Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Ghandi, declared an emergency in India, discipline has tightened, and everything seems to be moving forward with a sense of urgency. . . Altogether, there is a feeling of looking forward as a change from our despondency a few years ago. “| have started yoga and feel both
Florence, my field being organizations theory. “I see people (the common man) becoming more aware of political and
social problems; I have also the impression that the links between Western European nations and the U.S.A. are getting weaker and weaker.” Japan. Kazuo Kitoku ’21 wrote from
a unique phenomenon of resilience of
Tokyo, “I am now eighty-six years of age and so retired from any kind of actual
democracy in a developing country. It is
work. [I see] radical changes in every
difficult to describe the effects of this bold experiment, but changes witnessed by us in the last one and a half years in the
sphere of social life after the World War II, and especially in family life.”
country only go to prove the basic
interference from the outside
“We are at present witnessing in India
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Italy. Massimo Balducci’73 wrote from
Florence, “I have a two-year appointment as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of
strength of democracy. There has been overall improvement on every front in the country, may it be inflation or availability of consumer goods or availability of essential goods or problems of law and order and discipline, etc. Experiments for the first time have proved how well-directed democratic approaches in the running of the country can work effectively towards uplift of the
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poor masses.”
‘58 wrote from Cebu City, “lama Professor and Head of the Graduate School of our state university, called University of the Philippines at Cebu. At the same time, I own and manage the Cebu Psychological and Research Center. | founded and have been a volunteer worker of St. Martin de Porres
David Drucker ’58 wrote from New Delhi, where he is working with the World Health Organization, “Advising the Regional Office on the social
Impaired Children and a consultant to some government agencies and private business firms.
School for Retarded and Hearing
“Our Philippine society is undergoing a lot of dynamic, constructive and
another. I look forward to talks especially with my grandchildren, who show a
positive changes since the imposition of martial law in 1972. Many reforms are instituted by the present administration
wisdom I never thought would be
to meet the needs of our socioeconomic, educational, political, cultural systems that we have been wanting a long time ago. . . | feel that with a lot of
self-discipline, industry and cooperation from the people of my country, coupled with professional and competent
possible at such an early age.
. .”
Republic of China. Raymond R.M. Tai ’68 wrote from Taipei, “Since I left I. House, | have been with the Chinese delegation to the UN and Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. Now I am Director of the Department of Overseas Programs, a very interesting job.”
and we remembered our days at International House. He carried with him the Japanese way, in a piece of cloth, an album with photos from old days and he inquired about Karen Ovestad from
Norway. I could tell him that she lived in. Baltimore, Maryland, married to a Professor Larsen.” South Africa. Myra S.M. Goldner ’58 wrote from Stellenbosch, “For the past twenty-three years, | have been Senior
leadership of those at the helm, we shall achieve the goals that we have set up for ourselves with a minimum, if not zero, interference from the outside world.” Juan Salcedo '44 wrote from Pasay City, “I am the President of the Araneta University Foundation, a non-stock, non-profit foundation dedicated to the
education of young, average-incomebracket students. . . “The Philippines is under the New Society . . _and seems destined to lead the Third World in economic programs
and other related interests of the various members affiliated to the Group of 77. The youth in the country are rapidly, if at times slowly, getting into the picture and contributing their share in the upliftment
and betterment, not only of themselves, their families and friends, but also of the most destitute, the most handicapped, the urban and the rural citizens, who, after all, belong to the same family of
man. “I am learning to take more time with my little ones, and we learn from one
“". . He carried with him the Japanese way, ina piece of cloth, an album with photos
from old days. . .” Sweden. Ralph Philipson ’28 sent this news, “Mildred Norgaard-Hirsch lives in
Ke 1930's? Lecturer in methods of teaching at Stellenbosch University. Within the near future there will be compulsory education for all races in the country.
This will represent an exciting challenge | for the training of teachers, not only as
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Gudrun
far as the number of competent teachers are concerned, but also with respect to
Fuglestad-Hogh in Gjettum, Norway;
training them to cope with young
Aasta Wendelbo in Oslo, Norway. With these I have regular correspondence, and we visit each other occasionally. We
children with a variety of backgrounds. “While in the United States, I became keenly interested in remedial teaching, and I find this more fascinating from year
also exchange books, thus getting to know Swedish or Norwegian authors.
“Another contact, though not so
to year: to assist a potential drop-out to
master the school situation and become a
regular, is with Margit Borg-Sundman of
useful citizen is the most thrilling
Helsinki, Finland. During the war we had first two, then three, of her sister’s seven children staying with our family in
experience.”
~ Motala. We visit them from time to time
and find Aunt Margit still active. “More remarkable is perhaps my
meeting Sutemi Morishita in Tokyo, Japan in 1960. I was on business and found that the interpreter, Rejeiro Shito,
was a classmate of a son of Sutemi. Soa meeting was arranged, and Sutemi came with his wife (I had my wife, too, along),
And Siegfried Robert Goldner ’58 sent this news, “Professor of Mathematics at
Stellenbosch University. The university has an enrollment of 9,000 students, of whom 1,750 take mathematics. Have been Chairman of the department for the past four years and Dean of the Faculty of Science for one year. Very rapid industrial development causes an insatiable demand for graduates in the sciences and engineering.”
Mental Health Advisory Board (City and County of San Francisco). I’m having my art work shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I’m looking for a publisher for my recently finished textbook, A Symbolic Logic (for non-
logicians). I’m earning a living as a psychiatrist in private practice. I’ve gone back to work on my rewrite of Roget’s
Thésaurus.” Florida. Mary Louise Bell sent this news from St. Petersburg, “Enjoying retirement from St. Petersburg Junior
College, where I taught mathematics for twenty-seven years.
“In order to help to promote understanding among people of the
world, my husband and I have served as
counselors for groups of high school students and adults studying in foreign universities, sponsored by the American
Institute for Foreign Study in Greenwich, Connecticut. For the past eight summers
we have taken groups to Great Britain and the Orient.”
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. leat all the food I see ?
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Barton Haigh ’54 wrote from Tampa,
South Korea. Sang Hyun Song ’69 wrote from Seoul, “Professor of Law,
Turkey. Unsal Kalaycioglu ’71 wrote
“I am teaching tennis, calling square
from Gaziantep, “Recently, I received
Seoul National University. Came back to
my Ph.D. degree in the Computer
dances and selling Amway products. I’m working on a book on square dancing in
Korea at the end of 1975 after staying for
Information and Control Engineering Department of the University of Michigan. Now I am working as a
America.” In response to our question about a
teaching member in the Gaziantep campus of the Middle East Technical University, which is just being established.”
on a seafood diet. I eat all the food I see!”
United States. California. Rachel Eubanks ’46 sent this news from Los. Angeles, “I am presently serving as president of the Eubanks Conservatory of Music and Arts.” Virginia Titus Ives ’22 wrote from Los
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one year in West Germany as a visiting
scholar.” Spain. Susan Stuib ’72 wrote, “I am in my second year of medical school in Zaragoza. . . . Franco died, but I hope the stability lasts long enough for me to
finish my studies here. In the last three or four years, I have seen great economic progress here.” Switzerland. Marcel Christen ’26 wrote from Neuchatel, “After a few years in the ~ ministry in French Switzerland, I turned to teaching English and French in two colleges in Neuchatel and to lecturing at the university in Neuchatel. I am retired now; I read a lot, and I write just as much for the family and friends. “My new interest is on India, which I
visited last year, which I found fascinating. It is a country in full development with a wealth of cults and monuments of the past, but full of activities for the future, a country in active development.”
Angeles, “Privileged to still be an
academic adviser at seventy-nine in a huge university. I see great change, but a swing back also is gratifying when many too liberal and expensive experiments fail.”
“~ . . Pve gone back to work on my rewrite of Roget’s Thesaurus... .” Francis J. Rigney ’49 wrote, “I’m closing out my term as Chairman of the
new interest, he said, “Dieting. I’ve been
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“What life has taught me. . .”
When | heard these words in a song by Jamaica’s Bob
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Marley and the Wailers, I thought of the I. House people. Each one of you has had the opportunity to make the giant leap from identification with one small
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Why You? Why you? From what you tell us International House played a large role in your life. You know from your own experience that people from many, many countries can become friends. You know from your experience that there is hope for our complicated world.
Why Now? This is a special time for this unusual place called International House and a special fund drive is underway to raise capital money in order to renovate the House and ensure the
programs for the future. So far, after two mailings, only $7,567 has
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