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HOUSE WORLD NEWSLETTER NEWS .FROM THE "ORIGINAI.Stt
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR In the August 1977, I. Rouse World Newsletter, Chih Meng '24, asked how many first timers are still living and active. As we announced in the Winter edition, the response was so great we are publishing this supplement devoted to the "Originals". As John Fuller wrote from Winona, Minnesota: ''lessons learned at International House have been of influence in activities of subsequent years"
Virginia T. Ives (1720 West 41st Place, Los Angeles, CA 90062) is enjoying the reward of "Youth" generated each day as Academic Adviser to the Navy Department at the University of Southern California. Cyrus ,and Marie Hader Peake (923 Bonita Ave. Claremont, CA 91711) Mr. Peake, as a Far Eastern Expert, participated in the writing of the Japanese Constitution after World War II with the MacArthur Commission. MID-WEST
Your messages are arranged geographically: BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Katharine (nee Geyer) and Earl Willmott (3513 West 39th Ave., Vancouver, BC Canada V6N 3A4) have retired from Mount Royal College in Vancouver and are active in the Canada-China Friendship Association. In 1975 they spent a month in China where they were able to visit the Provincial Medical College (formerly the university in Chengtu, Szechuan where they had been educational missionaries in the 1920's. SOUTH AFRICA Ernst Arndt (292 Orient St., Arcadia Pretoria, South Africa 0083) has had a distinguished career as a professor and administrator in Economics and business administration. His wife the former Ruth E. Spencer founded the Nursery School Movement in South Africa. An Early Learning Center in Pretoria has been named in her honor. Dr. E.G. Malherbe ("By-die-see", Salt Rock, Natal, S.A.) has just published volume II of Education in South Africa. Among many other distinguished posts, he was the founder of the National Bureau of Educational Research, now the Human Sciences Research Council. He writes that Dr. Anna Aucamp is living in Pretoria. ARIZONA Elizabeth Hageman (8528 E. Montebello Avenue, Scottsdale, Arizona 85253) writes that she and her sister have escaped the damp climate of New Jersey and enjoy the sun in Arizona.
John J. Fuller (227 Market St., Winona, MN 55987) wrote that after a forty year career in teaching and university administration, his voluntary activities relate to mutilingual problems in schools, the inter-racial commission, civil liberties and world health. W.J. Brockelbank (203 S. Polk St., Moscow, Idaho 83843) is a retired law professor. He has taught in New Zealand, Haiti & British Columbia as well as a number of universities in the States. NEW ENGLAND Roslind Mortimer Maddox (Box 43, North Truro, MA 02652) writes that she and her husband are pursuing happy avocations. He, a retired Anglican Priest, paints, and she is at work on a novel as well as writing free lance articles. The Rev. Baldwin W. Callahan (33 Christian Avenue, Concord, NH 03301) says he is "really retired" now, in a retirement home. But he enjoyed nine interim ministries in the eight year_s after mandatory retirement from the United Church of Christ. Shepard B. Clough (East Hill, East Peacham, Vermont 05862) is retired after a career teaching French and Italian Economic History at Columbia for over forty years. Helena Blumenthal Simpson (c/o Claire Avery 850 Chestnut Street, Springfield, MA 01107) has recently published a book, Lingering Memories under the name of Helen Simpson. Originally from Latvia, she was married at International House to a fellow resident Harold Simpson from England.
CALIFORNIA Henry Refo (647 Harrison Ave., Claremont, CA 91711) sends greetings from a retirement home. He and his wife are active in church and conmunity affairs and enjoy travel and tent camping.
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Araxie Koundakj ian Le Vin "Roxy", (814 Belmont Street, Watertown, MA 02172) wrote that she still sees her co-member of the International Quartette,. Ling Nye Vee, now Mrs. Wang Show Chin. "Roxy" worked in Boston as a social worker doing nruch work assisting newcomers with problems of resettlement. Now retired, she still aids newcomers. Roxy is the niece of K.P. Damlamian who is remembered by generations of former residents as Activities Director. MIDDLE ATIANTIC STATES Knud Ott (1 Esmond Place, Tenafly, NJ 07670) writes that he has just finishe~ a ten year stint as a credit consultant to Commercial and International Banks after retiring from a career in banking. Amelia E. Fletcher (248 19th Ave., Paterson, NJ 07504) is a consultant for the Foreign Language Department of De Paul Diocesan H.S. in Wayne, NJ .
Donald Blaisdell (RFD #1, Box 278, 11148 Harding Road, Laurel, Maryland 20810) and his wife are living on a tree farm. Since retiring in 1968 he has published Technology The Key to Better Enviroment (1973). Dr. Blaisdell "sandwiched" a seventeen year career of government service between a long career of college and university teaching. Elizabeth Eckhardt May (2 Potomac Avenue Braddock Heights, MD 21714) writes that she has published twelve articles and been senior author for two books since her retirement from the University of Conn. Her field is the rehabilitation of the handicapped in homemaking skills. John Hader (8914 Walden Road, Silver Springs MD 20901) and his wife the former Mathilde Christian from Tonsberg, Norway. He has a hobby of driving antique cars. He wrote that they returned to Norway for her 80th birthday. FLORIDA
Dr. Edward F. Hall (121 West Court Street Ithaca, NY 14850) has been forced to give up his practice because of ill health, but keeps up with old friends John MacGregqr, Harry Edmonds and Lois Wilkinson.
George Ellison (4100 Galt Ocean Drive Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33308) and his wife, the former Elizabeth Xenides send greetings from their retirement home in Florida. Both were Cosmopolitan Club members.
Dr. William Gardner (424 East 57th Street New York, NY 10022) is practicing medicine.
Sara Shaw Gilley (1106 Pass-a-Grille Way St. Petersburg, FL 33706) shares her extensive knowledge of Japan with audiences throughout Florida. Mrs. Gilley was born in Japan, of missionary parents and returned there as an educational missionary herself after receiving a Masters Degree from Columbia.
John K. Anderson (876 King St., Olean, NY 14760) writes that he is still active in real estate and publishing. Pauline Spanoghe Wojewodski (404 E. 55th St. New York, NY 10022) is free lancing as a French Editor for UN official records. Leonard Sutter (119 Bloomingdale Road, Staten Island, NY 10309) declared "Civic Leadership was my hobby" on the occasion of his golden wedding anniversary. Now retired, he recalls a fifty-cent Sunday Supper when he escorted a "beautiful Chinese lady who was a brilliant conversationalist". This lady became Madame Chang Kai-Shek. Jeanne Palisse (Marandon) (10 Plaza St. 6th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11200) married Rene Marandon, taught for many years at the Berkeley Institute, NY, as Head of the French Department. She now teaches and still takes courses at the New School for Social Research. Arline Risdon Mansfield (4328 Osage Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19104) writes that she loves her work caring for new babies. Dorothy (Dunning) and Joseph Chacko (2108 Chestnut Street, Chester, PA 19013) wrote that they met at I. House in 1925-26 and were married in 1930. She received an M.D. from P&S in 1 29, h~ a Ph.D.from Columbia in '32.
VISITORS TO HOUSE Elaine Geiger (14 Legion Terrace, Lansdowne, PA 19050) a member of the Cosmopolitan Club who held her wedding.supper at International House, June 19, 1925 spent the night at I. House in October. Dr. Jal Pavry (c/o International House) and his sister, the Marchioness of Winchester, also visited the House to bring us some early memor ab i1 ia. Felicite LaFlamme Hoffman ( 817 Cleveland Ave. Elizabeth, NJ 07208) is the most constant visitor from the early "classes". She comes to I. House each Thursday to volunteer her services in the- World Member.s Office.. "From this great vantage point she sends greetings to all". Dr. Paul Chih Meng (7 Cobb Avenue, White Plains, NY 10606) the gentleman whose inquiry bought this excellent res·p onse is Director Emeritus of the China Institute.