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More Than Just a List of Names Two years ago when | became Director of the Office of World Members, Margy Henkels suggested that I write something in the newsletter to all of you. I thought about doing it then, but I just didn’t know who you were except as _a list of 20,000 names with addresses. Gradually you have become faces I have seen and voices | have heard so that now, while | still don’t know all of you, you’re much more than just a list of names. Just Who Are You? Some of you whom | have talked with have had questions to ask about the World Members Office and | wondered if perhaps these were not ques-
tions that many of you would like answered. Someone asked who is considered an alumnus of International House. In the past the criteria may have been slightly different, but we presently consider everyone who has been a resident of the House for one semester or more to be a World Member or alumnus. All students who leave before the end of one semester and all nonresident members may become an alumnus by indicating their desire to do so on a card we give them. Another question was about membership fees. There are no membership fees. Every alumnus for whom we have a current mailing address, is sent the newsletter twice a year, a membership
card annually and other mailings, like the Passport, from time to time—all without charge.
A Word from Our Sponsor The next inevitable question is, “How are these
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States and 6,275 in foreign countries. Our hope is to get current addresses for as many of the 50,000 as we possibly can. We are working constantly in this office and through our Council Members overseas to find our “lost” alumni. If you know of any alumni who are not receiving the newsletter please send us their addresses and we will see that they do.
If you have lost touch with a friend please write to us and we will give you the current address if we have it. If you want to know the name and address of your Council Member we can send it to you.
Our Best Offer We can do something else for you, particularly if you travel. If you give us sufficient time we can send you a list of alumni, with current addresses as we have them, for any country. Unfortunately we can’t do this without charge. We will have to ask you to send us $2.00 per country to help cover the cost of postage and handling. Our office exists to help you communicate with one another and to keep in touch with International House. Just drop us a line and we will do our best to be of help to you. Every letter means that there is one more on that list of 20,000 that is a person and not just a name with an address. To recapitulate:
3x If you are looking for a specific individual or individuals please send us the name(s) and we will give you whatever information we have.
things paid for?” The Office of World Members
xx If you would like a list of
and all its activities are included in the annual budget. Student fees cover about 72% of the budget, income from our endowment is 9% and contributions to the annual fund from corporations, individuals, foundations and alumni make up the rest (20%).
alumni in a particular country please send us
Lost and Found You might be interested in how many alumni we have. Close to 50,000 students have lived in or been active as non-resident members at International House since it opened. Of this number we have addresses for 19,387—13,112 in the United
$2.00 for postage and handling and we will send
you a complete list of those alumni for whom we have mailing addresses. OJ Rudd Director World Members and Development
2 What You Have to Say The most exciting part of any newsletter is news from you. And here it is, lots of it. What follows are excerpts from some of the news sheets that you sent back. I asked you to describe what you are doing, the changes you see in your part of the world and also any
sent this news, “I am practicing-law as a barrister-at-law in Belize... . “The most significant change is the new leaning in this part of the world to socialism. This takes different forms, ranging from an acceptance of socialism with some capitalism to the extreme of
Happily, we got back lots of replies, and if you don’t see yours here, you'll
accepting communism. This change (to socialism) is more pronounced in the Caribbean countries, and it seems Belize is about to begin its experiment, too. Whether Belize can accept social-
see it soon. In the next issues we will
ism with the concept of supply and de-
suggestions for newsletter discussion topics.
present your views on a given topic. Don't forget to fill in the enclosed sheet. We want to hear from you. Margy Henkels,
Editor
“.. . In practice, the politician
mand is yet to be seen.”
“., . trying to catch the government for breaks of the policy of neutrality...”
eration covers practically all Far East areas except Japan and Indonesia. “Hong Kong in recent years has indulged in vast expansion. The most immediate future project in Hong Kong is the mass transit system, which includes construction of underground railway to relieve the traffic congestion that will surely become years’ time.”
very acute in a few
“. . Everybody expects that the governments should do something to ease their own problems...
.”
India. Akshani Kumar wrote from Bombay,
“I am in the import-export
business of engineering products.
does not decide at all...”
Finland. Georg Ehrnrooth ’53 wrote from Helsinki, “Struggling in Parliament
Besides the above, I have a consulting firm and also am proposing to set up a
Austria. Peter Mohilla 67 wrote from
as part of the opposition against the economic recession and the awkward
manufacturing unit in India and Kuwait. “The only change I seem to be
Vienna, “Received a Ph.D. from the
ways in which the popular front
observing is that everyone seems to be against their own
working for the City of Vienna on a
government is trying to beat it (by innumerable tax increases). Working to
flood control project. “City planning is a technical job with a very strong political impact and long-
maintain
responsible for the stiff rules and regula-
tary democracy, and, not least, the freedom of expression. Trying to ‘catch’
Viennese Institute of Technology. Married Gertraud Groégl. Presently | am
lasting influence upon how men live
and upon the economy.
. . . In our
political system, only the politician is entitled to decide between contradicting interests—in theory. In practice, the politician does not decide at all, leaving
our Western-type
governments
without
realizing that the people themselves are
parliamen-
the government for breaks of the policy of neutrality (for instance, when it aids Cuba and thus facilitates its war policies in Africa.) “I am afraid of the present trend of
tions of the governments.
In the past
the people have misused the freedom, and now they cannot accept the difficult times. Everybody expects that the governments should do something to ease their own problems. Recently the government of India imposed strict rules by declaring an emergency,
the. problem open until action of
so-called détente, which seems to disrupt the balance of power between
bureaucrats sets a strong prejudice. My attempt is to foresee a combination of
the blocs and thus would endanger in the first place the small countries. I find
forced to do work they will do so, but otherwise everyone expects something
problems far ahead of time and to
nothing equally important as a realistic attitude to the ideological struggle going
for doing nothing. Essentially, discipline is the most important thing.”
of his knowledge before the bureaucrats
on and preparedness in the peaceloving—often too gullible—free na-
“.. . The world is becoming
set a prejudice.”
tions.”
worse and worse...”
“. . At least I try to develop a European identity in my approach. 27."
France. Marguerite Soulier Rollet Gouilloux ’27 died in Vence in
Italy. Italo Archetti 50 wrote from Rome, “I am chief of the virus department at the Instituto Superiore di
Belgium. Pau! Pellemans ’69 wrote from Ottignies. He is a Professor at
Gouilloux came to the United States.
make their interdependence visible so that the politician can decide to the best
Namur University and at the University
of Louvain. “I’m starting to organize management seminars in marketing—
domestic and international, based on
December.
Sanito, Rome.
After studying in England, Madame
“The world is becoming worse and
worse; | do not see any real improve-
She attended Columbia University while living at 1. House and taught at Adelphi College. Upon
which
has now proven that when people are
ment in the basic human relationship. Politicians speak a lot about social
her return to
her native France, she taught English at
the Ecole Hoteliers de Nice and of late
changes, but generally are only words. I am more and more concerned with
had been living in Vence in the Alpes-
social welfare: too many great dif-
copy what is done in the U.S. At least |
Maritimes.
try to develop a European identity in my approach. ”
ferences exist among people belonging to the same country and still more
Hong Kong.
British Honduras.
the cargo forwarding field, and my op-
research made in Belgium—avoiding to
Dean Lindo ’54
main
Donald Yang wrote, “My
business activities are confined
in
when belonging to different countries. |
am not doing very much myself, except taking part in discussions.”
5 Japan. Akinobu Tanso ’73 sent this news from Sapporo, “I am a Law Professor at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and teaching Japanese anti-trust law and administrative economic law. “Recently Japanese economy is experiencing big changes in the economic structure itself. We are now living in the stagflation (stagnation of economy, at the same time inflation) and unemployment.
Student movements
are gradual-
ly becoming active again like ten years ” ago. Kenya. Roberta McKay Lusardi ’37 wrote, “Working for UNEP Head-
in Columbia (Education), and I worked from 1939 to 1963 in mission and federal education. “| have seen many changes. | came to work in a colonial setting. | worked during the struggle for representative and then self government. I worked in the heat of political rivalries, which caused me to retire early and return to my home, Lagos, to settle. I was in the midst of political murders, the two army take-overs next?’ ”
. . . and wonder, ‘What
The Philippines. Jerry Dadap ’71 sent news from Quezon City, “Just doing music—to make a
living. | am in-
similar objectives, possibly allowing the trimming of U.S.-taught goals. We have a First Lady, called the Inimitable Imelda, whom | have humbly . nominated as our Man of the Je. “.. . In my so-called terminal illness, am filled with possibly unregenerate optimism and faith, believing there could be a way somehow out of nuclear ravishment and ultimate nullification.”
“... 1am doing what I should have done all my life. . . Sweden. Martin Allwood ’47 wrote from Mullsjé, “After a frightful battle with cancer 1965-72, I am now com-
quarters in Nairobi as Senior Liaison
terested to go to the mountains in the
Officer, but | will retire and plan to reside in Austria starting in June. During my two and a half years residence in Kenya, the independence of Mozam-
Philippines to collect more of our instruments (indigenous). | want to hear them play and feel their sounds—I
pletely well and stronger than ever. |
want to feel what they have to tell me in my music now. | am searching, |
American University branch here at Mullsj6. And the rest of the time I am
guess, what I must write.”
doing what I should have done all my
bique and Angola, after the withdrawal of Portugal, already are bringing profound changes in this part of the world.” “ce
. send a pigeon to my
home address, and I'll arrive with bows and balloons .. .” New Zealand. Garry Beveridge ’73
. explain my continuing
sé
presence with the Spanish
saying—bad grass never dies” Federico Mangahas ’39 wrote from Quezon City, “At seventy-one, while
have decided to teach only one course in modern
Swedish literature at the
life — writing! “There is a slow and steady erosion of personal responsibility and a strong increase in an irresponsible state bureaucracy. Not good. Not good at
all.”
wrote from Hawkes Bay, “I have finally
under chemotherapeutic treatment by an oncologist since January, 1974, |
from Istanbul, “I am working as a
Turkey.
Erhan Adal ’62 sent this news
had my MA thesis graded and am
tend all by myself an acre of rainforest
senior management
teaching English (American, really) at
garden of fruit trees, palms and tropic
with the Turkish Management Associa-
Hamilton Boys’ High School. I am also a House Master in the Boarding
ornamentals
Department and dish out as much humanity as the shades of Tom Brown
campus,
tion. My job includes conducting seminars about varoius topics of management, especially on personnel
who’s Dean of the UP College of
management and human relations. Am
will allow. I am also acting professional-
Music, and two married sons. “As the spirit moves, | write fugitive
interested deeply in T-group studies
ly and am looking forward to a season playing Harry Berlin in Murray Schisgal’s delightfully funny LUV. In what little time | have left, | am directing a production of HMS Pinafore that
I hope will be zany and successful. If
surrounding
our cottage
on the University of the Philippines depending solely on my wife,
pieces for Philippine publications to remind older people am still around, once
the most
notorious commentator
of the 1930’s and ghostwriter for the
anyone at International House has a
first two heads of the Republic, Roxas and Quirino.
job going, send a pigeon to my home address and I'll arrive with bows and
same by which Chou
En-lai forsook
mortality;
continuing
balloons on the next plane.” Shirley Sutch sent sad news from Wellington, “My husband,
Dr. William
“I accept my prestigious disease, the explain
my
presence with the Spanish saying—bad grass never dies, que sera, sera.
consultant trainer
and have been conducting sensitivity group labs since 1969. | also practice law.
“... 1am working on development of adaptations of the American legal process for small native villages .. .” United States. Stephen Conn ’68 wrote from Alaska, “I am Assistant Director for Bush Justice (rural programs directed to Indians and Eskimos)
7S.
“Here we have martial law and the — New Society, disposing of the old-
Nigeria. Ayodele Agnes Taylor
fashioned feudal oligarchs for new, whose watchword is land reform, self-
sity of Alaska and Associate Professor of Law. I am working on development
Adesigbin sent this news, “As I have
reliance, unity, more equitable distribu-
written often, | am °34-'38 and,
tion and enjoyment of desirable commodities. ‘Tis said existing regimes in
of adaptations of the American legal process for small native villages so that
Ball Sutch, died 28th September
therefore, now a
senior citizen, but |
was the first Nigerian woman
to qualify
Southeast Asia and South Asia profess
of the Criminal Justice Center, Univer-
villagers can be served and at the same time control the state legal process
which affects them. “Construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline and development contingent on receipt of land claims, money and
real estate have shot both native and non-native Alaskans into a boom
town
environment, where nothing is familiar but change itself.” Vera Woods wrote from Baltimore, “As the owner and director of a small, private employment service, | am very busy finding a variety of nursing care for patients in their own homes. “The 1975-1976 school year has
University of Hawaii. “In summer, 1974, I visited People’s Republic of China for three weeks, and was deeply impressed by the tremen-
David Belgray ’56 is living in New York City. He is Adjunct Professor of
dous progress they made since 1937 when I lived in Peking for a short while. Their emphasis on serving the
consultant in management and executive counseling.
people as opposed to ‘individual rights’ in the United States would suggest that
fields of industrial engineering, finance and systems, and after holding ex-
they are better prepared for the world
ecutive
of the future. How are we going to manage in an overpopulated world if
tions, | realized that much lack of productivity and job satisfaction (let alone life satisfaction) are due to inap-
we insist on individual rights rather than caring for others around us?”
seen some progress in a more suc-
Raymona
Hull ’44 wrote from Indi-
Management at Fordham University Graduate School of Business and a development
“After working in industry in the
positions in various organiza-
propriate handling of feelings. This applies to the executive’s understanding of
cessful integration of the students in the
ana, Pennsylvania,
“I have retired from
his/her own feelings as well as of their
public schools. The aftermath of ‘Watergate’ that reached deeply into
teaching English at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and as Professor Emeritus with university privileges, | am spending all my time doing professional writing, most of it on the family of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
colleagues, bosses, employees, etc. Accordingly, I returned for further study and am now involved in working with individual executives and groups, utilizing psychoanalytic and psychological
political corruption in Maryland, has brought several good results in that there are more questions being asked about the money being spent and the work done by public officials. It is to be hoped that this will result in more responsible citizens over a longer period of time.
‘“.. . Our town is insular, and the outside world strangely passes us by...” Peter John ’54 wrote from East Pepperell, Massachusetts, “Am pastor of the Lawrence Memorial United Methodist Church since 1969. Was in business
previous
years
(travel agent,
sales, secretary, librarian, fund-raising, editing). Was secretary to Timothy Leary for awhile and managing editor of his Psychedelic Review. “As | live in a very small town only an hour from Boston, we are geographically apart from the big cities, but still near enough to visit occasionally. Our town is insular and the outside world strangely passes us by, and we reciprocate —at least outwardly. The racial situation is something we read about only in the papers; it is not real to us.”
“.. . Their emphasis on serving the people as opposed to ‘individual rights’. . .”
“Only superficial changes, such as bulidings and loss of woods to construction. This is a conservative small town that has changed little, and
| seldom
get away to see any other parts of the world except England.”
“.,
. the upswing of energy
focused on spiritual conCerns.
.
”
approaches to facilitate improved leadership performance.”
“. . . People are no longer satisfied to allow the arrogance of power...” John Finney ’62 wrote from New York City, “At the present time, | am involved in the theatrical profession. Last July
Haven Logan ’66 wrote from Los Angeles, “I am getting a Master’s
| made
my singing debut in a
degree in social work at the University
nightclub in New York City, and | am currently working on a play about the trial of Marie Antoinette with two other
of Southern California. When | graduate | hope to work with children and their families in a mental health clinic.
people. Auditioning keeps me busy, as do my lessons in ballet, tap and jazz dancing.
“The thing that | am most aware of
“I think things are getting better here in America. | feel that the mentality
in California is the upswing of energy focused on spiritual concerns. People who looked to changing the world through changing political sytems are now looking for changes to come through a
that caused America to get involved in Vietnam and to go through the Watergate mess is changing. People are no longer satisfied to allow the arrogance
raising of consciousness. The
of power, concentrated in the hands of
attention has turned inward, to getting
a few individuals, work against what we all want, which is peace in the world.”
one’s own space together before moving out into the world.” Leora Dumlao ’41 wrote from Mesa, Arizona, “My husband, Ramén Dumlao, 21,
died in Mesa on September
1975, following heart surgery. He
had been a chemist at Eastman
(Ro-
“".
. And
with it went a
whole generation of kids who will never be the same...
.”
chester, N.Y.) Kodak for twenty-five
Irena Penzik Narell ’46 wrote from Oakland, California, “I have been
Agnes Niyekawa-Howard ’54 wrote from Honolulu, “Since 1973 I have
years before retirement in 1967. We
researching the history of the Jews of
had lived in this area since that time.
California and have just completed a
been doing administrative work besides
We had a special feeling for Interna-
series of thirty exhibit panels (pictures and text) on the Jews of San Francisco.
teaching as Chairman of the Depart-
tional House, for that is where we met
ment of East Asian Languages at the
in 1941.”
“Berkeley is peaceful in comparison
to a few years ago. There is still lots of hair, lots of ‘poverty by choice’, more than enough drugs, but the violence is gone. And with it went a whole genera-
fear for world peoples.” Dorothy Ulrich Troubetzkoy ’38
lege here, I’m now trying to survive as a self-employed geologist. So far things
wrote from Richmond, Virginia, “Editing and publishing a suburban
have gone fairly well; life is varied and
tion of kids who will never be the
newspaper,
same. I know of no family with young people between twenty and thirty who were not affected adversely. Berkeley had its influence on the whole coun-
Also do a good deal of free-lance magazine writing. Will be in New York City to receive a national poetry award from Poetry Society of America at the
The Independent
Virginian.
try.”
Plaza for a poem,
“| What artist doesn’t ‘drive two horses’?....
Park.’ “In U.S., a growing polarity between big and small business, haves and have-nots; an erosion of quality in the
Arthur Murphy ’29 wrote from Old
Saybrook, Connecticut, “Since my International House days of 1927-30 in New York and Berkeley, California, | have combined a career in the creative arts, lithography, painting (oil, watercolor), drawing, with some teaching.
‘Graffiti in Bryant
educational system, public and private, on all levels; some improvement in race relations; a dangerous limiting of significant political participation to those of large personal fortune or access, through influence, to big money.”
After the war and after getting married, we settled in Connecticut. A short-lived teaching career developed into running
. much of my amusement comes from a two-year-old
this area’s office of the International Correspondence Schools, a truly inter-
Biel
national institution. This was a ‘breadand-butter’ situation. What artist doesn’t ‘drive two horses’? “I turned an old blacksmith shop into a studio, from which flow the ‘brain children’ of the past fifty years. As the historian of the local Congregational
ee
ss
”
Matthew Edel ’64 wrote from Sunnyside, New York, “I am teaching in the Urban Studies Department of Queens College. | am also doing some research and writing in areas of urban land economics, and I am a member of the Union for Radical Political
church, one of these ‘children’ is the
Economics. In recent years I have also been visiting lecturer at the Universidad
building (full-scale) of the first church
Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia and at
on the shore of the Connecticut River
Birkbeck College in London. At the moment, however, much of my time is
in 1635. The dedication will be sometime in May, which will be a
exciting, but it is a new feeling always to be living on the edge of economic disaster!”
“.
. There are so many
changes when retirement comes...” Lawrence Riggs ’39 wrote from Wooster, Ohio, “Learning to be a retired person! Travel in U.S. without deadlines for returning. Reading nonrequired (professionally) books—a
new
experience! Deciding where to settle— choosing one of several hobby possibilities to explore—which areas to volunteer assistance. There are many changes when retirement comes! Some doors must be closed, some new ones opened,
and remaining flexible is im-
perative.” West
Germany.
Georg Wolff ’36
wrote from Dusseldorff, “I am retired since twenty-five years; in March, 1976, I hope to be 90, I study as far as I can mathematics, philosophy, perspective and art. The best thing is work, work.”
“_, the leading men don't have a strategy of ideas 9
Karl-Heinz Weyers ’56 wrote from
devoted to, and much of my amuse-
Holfwick, where he owns and runs two
event paralleling the
ment comes from, a two-month-old-
Bicentennial celebration of ’76.”
companies.
son, our first child. “New York City is in financial trou-
memorable
“.
. Their nations were
ole, which is hampering the operation of the university in which I work. We
struggling, and so were we 9
Miriam Baker Apperson ’25 wrote from Port St. Lucie, Florida, “Living in Sandpiper Bay resort area. Restricted for sports-loving couples. Neighbors from all parts of U.S., some from foreign lands. Dreaming of the family room at International House, Tuesday afternoon teas where my twin, Mildred Baker, and | often were hostesses. We wéte first group to live in International House.
Talked with many other stu-
dents there on world problems then. Their nations were struggling and so wete we, but | felt no despair, no threats to the world’s future. Now
we
“My profession means a
lot for my
life. | observe the growing readiness of people to share responsibility. But it is
very important to convince and to lead
are told by the press that the financial
by convincing motivation. Politicians
crisis is due to either union or welfare
will get more and more into trouble, since many of the leading men don't
greed or public mismanagement. | believe; however, that the true cause is to be found in the general crisis of the economy, which is the latest reemergence of a characteristic capitalist pattern.” John Berry ’66 wrote from Sylva, North Carolina, “Consulting Geologist.
Would you believe that there’s a tidy little international community in this little town in the rural southern Appalachians? “After working in industry overseas and as a teacher in a community col-
have a strategy of ideas. It is of great importance for the Western Hemisphere to learn and conclude that roast beef and apple pie do not secure us finally from communism.”
prover
“If you had a ‘mosaic’ discussion— people from many countries presenting their own side and point of view on any given general problem in which they are all involved, might there not be some constructive solutions emerging from such a bringing together of ‘pieces’ rather than from trying to get the answer from any one country or individual?”
So wrote Dorothy Ulrich Troubetzkoy, and we agree. Please answer any of the following questions, and send your replies to Margy Henkels, World Members Office, International House, 500 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y. 10027. What is the role of study abroad in 1976? Is it more or less important now than it was before the advent of instantaneous communications?
How does study abroad assist social and economic development in both rich and poor countries?
Is it more important to learn about the culture in which you are studying or to learn about your own culture from another point of view?
Does studying abroad create a group of people who no longer feel comfortable in their own culture? Is there anything to be gained from this?
If we haven’t had news of you lately, please let us know how you’re doing. Tell us about the changes you see happening around you. Also suggest any topics you'd like to see discussed in the newsletter.