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HALF CENTURY FUND COUNTDOWN
Installation has been — rece the school term. Student rooms have been out of use for less than a day as workmen replace the obsolete windows... The modern thermo-pane windows are constructed to conserve energy
President Howard Cook is culminating a quarter century of service to International House with a concerted world-wide fund raising effort. His goal is to bring the Half Century Fund Campaign to $3,000,000 by December 31st, 1979. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has pledged a grant of $250,000 if the goal is reached. World Members in 23 countries have not only made generous contributions themselves but have sought support for I. House from other individuals of influence in their countries and from major overseascorporations and foundations.
and
to decrease
maintenance
costs.
In addition to funds for physical rehabilitation, the Half Century Fund will provide endowment of student programs. Income from the room endowment program, a $10,000 contributor endows a student room in perpetuity, will be of tremendous help in insuring the passing of the I. House ideals to another generation. Thomas F. Olson, as Chief Executive Officer, is now responsible for the operation of the House, allowing President Cook to devote all his efforts to completing this essential fund-raising campaign by the end of
1979.
— Chief Engineer Henry Richardson and his building maintenance staff helped keep down the costs of window installation, as well as other
renovation expenses. ject with a workman.
Mr. Richardson is shown here discussing the pro-
The
brighter
wooden
frames
of newly
installed windows
frames waiting for replacement.
contrast to the dark
The new windows have
aluminum frames with a pigmented organic finish which carries a twenty year warranty.
The Performing Arts 1978-79
President
Howard
Cook
shows
Program
Fellow
Robin
Duke,
British journalism
student,
the English-
Performing Arts Fellow, Christine Bach, a viola student from Kentucky, has been the catalyst for forming two musical groups. This year Sunday Suppers and other social events have been enhanced by both the I.House Chamber Orchestra and the Madrigal Group. Chris has also arranged several student showcases for musicians and periodic recitals by individuals in the Home Room. The Chamber Orchestra is drawn from music students living at International House and attending the Manhattan School of Music. Formed in November, 1978, the
group has a classical repertoire, including Bach, Mozart, Hindemith and Pachelbel but will include some pop music on request. Both the chamber orchestra and smaller spin-off groups are interested in taking their music where it might otherwise not be available. A discussion of careers in International Affairs in the Cafeteria. From left to right: Antonio Lanzas, David Ruth, Mr. James Westmorland (International Communications Agency), Tekeste Negus, Mr. Tchaboure Gogue, Dir. University of Benin School of Economics & Management.
Program Fellows: Poets, Performers and Politicians
Fellows has been at work to
make the I.House memorable.
experience
rich and
Space allows us to mention only a few of the twenty-three residents who coordinate the various program areas. Robert
Grant and Robin Duke have made an outstanding contribution this year as coeditors of the student paper, the Globe. David Ruth, a student of International Affairs at Columbia, from Wisconsin, has
developed a well attended CurrentEvents Series. Career opportunities have been explored with the U.N. Residents have been able to consult as well, with two new U.N. employees, who lived in the House last year; Laia Montamedi, a Columbia graduate from Iran, is now a trainee, and Walter Franco, also a Columbia graduate, from Equador, now is on the staff of the U.N. Fund for Population Activities.
Betsy Phillips, a California student studying at Columbia’s school of International Affairs, has worked at building the library in the East Room. A gift arrived recently from former Norwegian business student, Knut Boye. He arranged for a donation of Norwegian-English Dic-
tionaries by the Association of Norwegian Students abroad.
An important new program at I. House this year has been Humanities, originated
and coordinated by Gary Smoke, a student in comparative literature at New York University. Two festive evenings have been sponsored by the Humanities Group; a color-
ful Renaissance Evening, which included madrigal singers, a fencing exhibition, and Renaissance music played on a viola,
recorder and lute. Special food and drink were also served in the Upper Foyer, transformed by colorful banners loaned by the Cloisters. In March, the Upper Foyer became a cabaret theatre when residents enjoyed a group of one act plays, produced and acted by their fellow students.
A Creative Writing Group,
Many
professional
artists
with
distinguished careers have been part of life at I. House. They are memorable for their special artistry. For most residents
The Humanities Program
Renovation represents only part of the activity and excitement at International House today. A greatly expanded staff of
Program
Betsy Phillips,
which is
planning to produce an I.House Literary Magazine, contributes poems regularly to
the Globe. Moon moves across window of your eyes Like silver glass your figure cuts perfection of form Church tower steeples in near distant
Dark mist of dim midnight sun halos Lone swift car swishes past, silent interval, swish Solitaire drunk stumbles singing, empty ears listening Lone man looking out window thinking Silent eyes peering into the mystique of night Hour of love, hour of meditation Quiet churning of the world resting. —Gary Smoke
however, performing arts is not a professional concern but a human one. An editorial in the student Globe expressed this philosophy beautifully. “The
Performing
Arts
are
Karima
Amin’s
belly-dancing and Stanley Bates’ Wednesday night disco classes. The performing arts are Linda Ronstadt doing Linda Ronstadt. They're also Steve Levine and Jennie Noble doing Linda Ronstadt in the I.House East stairway late on a Saturday night. In short, the performing arts are performances which enhance our lives either directly or indirectly in a variety of ways. For those pursuing professional careers in international relations, the performing arts fill an emotional void in a way which few other facets of human existence can,”
Cafe
Esperanto
gives
residents
a
chance to hear in a cafe setting folk singers and popular musicians. Dancers too, are a permanent part of the I. House scene. Classes in Jazz Dance, disco and folk dancing fill the West Room almost every night of the week. Performing arts, regardless of any resi-
dent's field of study, are an essential part of the House. Grants are needed for further expansion of practice and listening rooms and the presence of a Master
Teacher.
World
Members
who
are in-
terested in helping develop the performing arts at I. House should contact the
Program Office.
IPILANSSIAIBA\CIKRS Music at I.House—it’s always been important part of resident life.
an
Jack Romann, a Juilliard student in 1948-49, now Manager of the Concert and Artist Department at Baldwin Piano, recently phoned and recalled the musical
Celeste Alston
he helped write to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the House in 1949. The star
Harlem Tutorial— Revisited
of that performance was Leontyne Price.
“the idea wasn’t new”
This winter Gerald Barsdorf, a current Trustee, shared these memories of music in the 50’s in a letter to former Trustee
As you read the pages of this newsletter, you will discover not only the names
and alumna, Metropolitan Opera singer, Shirley Verrett: “The place was alive with music. It was a time
when
LEONTYNE
PRICE
worked
in the
Home Room on “Aida,” JENS NYGAARD coached voices, MARTHA FLOWERS prepared for “Porgy and Bess”, CONNIE
BRYAN
delighted
everyone
with
the
Jamaican calypsos, ROSCOE LEE BROWN made castles out of words and I had my runins with MRS. McDONALD on account of my banging on the piano late into the night at our Sunday Latin Fiestas in the ABC Room, to the accompaniment of the drums of SAMSON BEYENE, then the House’s reigning Prince Charming”.
of old friends, and see pictures of old, familiar places, but you will be reminded that the ideas that sustain International House are still flourishing. Whatever your memories of people and places, it is probable that the ideals of I.House produce the strongest feelings. The Harlem Tutorial Project, reinstated as an active program this year by Program Fellow, Celeste Alston, is a good example. The Harlem tutorial, in the late 1960's was conceived as a kind of reverse Peace Corps by Donald Cuneo. His motivation then, as an American stu-
dent at Columbia during a period of acute Fernando Raudales-Nayarra, a violinist from Ecuador, who studied at Juilliard, shared some musical memories with the editor during a visit at the House. He reminisced about the early sixties when Juilliard had attracted to New York muscal talents such as Evelyn Mandac
from
the
Phillipines,
Emilio
Belaval
from Puerto Rico, Leif Segerstam from Finland, Anker Buch from Denmark,
and the American pianist, Ralph Votapek. Fernando recalled forming an orchestra which perfomed the Sibelius Symphony #2, Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “The Telephone” as well as Mozart and Mendelssohn concerts. He remembers the tremendous support all musicians received when, “because you never learned anything until you had performed it,” they played before fellow residents. “A
real sense
of artistry
prevailed,”
he
remembered, “but some of the best times of all were, when we were very tired after work-
ing hard on something classical, we would relax by playing
a few
other parts of the world”.
popular
tunes from
There was a piano in the cafeteria then. Often, after dinner, one or another
of the singers would
start to sing and
spontaneous song would develop into a
serious performance for the improvised audience.
social
consciousness,
is
the
same
as
Celeste’s ten year later. In the summer of 1978, Celeste, as a Columbia student whose field is counseling, wrote a program
proposal
for
a
community
out-
reach program that mirrors the Harlem Tutorial of the 1960’s. Celeste wrote in her program proposal: “To my happy surprise the idea wasn’t new. Many of you (I.House residents) choose to live at International House in search of growth and discover that growth is most noticeable in the form of some kind of outreach or involvement.” Celeste also wrote: “As I.House members we have chosen to direct our energies and conscious efforts to the realization of the proposition that this world was made for all men. We can pool our unique resources to plant seeds of acceptance and genuine understanding for the growth of world peace.” Twenty-eight students from Africa, Europe, Canada and Latin America responded to the idea of tutoring this fall.
Although homework
it is certain that many assignments supervised by
I. House tutors have been better prepared than before, the most important benefit has been the friendship and emotional support tutors have been able to extend to the children.
The long and close involvement of Donald L. Cuneo with I.House began in 1968 when he was a student resident and originated the Harlem Tutorial. In the early 70’s he and his wife, Linda, whom
he
met and married at International House, lived at the House as Resident Advisors. In this picture he is talking with residents about “International Legal Issues” at a recent “Meet your Trustee” meeting. Elected to
the Board Cuneo
of Trustees in December,
now
serves
as
Secretary
and
1977,
Mr.
as
legal
counsel. He is an attorney with the firm of Shearman and Sterling.
NEW YORIX AREA Ruth Spalding Honored At the final meeting of the New York
Alumni, October 29, 1978, members voted a $500 gift in appreciation of Ruth Spalding’s devoted services as Executive
Secretary. International House presented her with a Fall bouquet and Dr. Kissinger wrote her a letter of appreciation. Miss Spalding’s resignation after over twenty years of service precipitated the disbanding of the New York organization.
Unhappily,
Ruth
has suffered from
a
series of falls which have kept her bedridden. Old friends may wish to remember her with cards and other messages. Gift To The House At the same October
meeting,
members voted that all office records and funishings be turned over to the World
Members
Office. A check for $4,000,
representing the remaining treasury of the New York Alumni, was also given to International House to be used for the
House program. The funds have been gratefully received. New York Area Alumni Activities The World Members Office will act as clearing House and coordinating center for alumni who wish to volunteer time and talent to reorganizing
a new
N.Y.
area
alumni
pro-
gram. ou A Talent Bank/Service Corp composed of N.Y. area alumni as well as a Program Committee is expected to be an integral part of the I. House program.
The Human Rights Equation In addition to printing replies from World Members to the “Human Rights Equation” we have permission to reprint comments regarding Human Rights from several prominent members of the I. House community.
WORLD MEMBERS’ REPLIES TO THE MOSAIC DISCUSSION ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS EQUATION Joel. V. Sanders, ’74 of Millington, New Jersey expressed concern for the erosion of individual liberty by the growth of government in America, even though Americans are “free to exercise a wider range of action than are persons of any other industrialized nation of which I have knowledge.” He fears that “individuals are viewed too much as a “national resource” and a tool for effecting the goals of the “collective (i.e. of favored individuals)” Antonio Mullet from Puerto Rico writes about the nature and value of conflicts: “Conflicts are common between human rights and other values, and among human rights themselves. But conflicts are found everywhere in nature. We have a God anda devil, good and bad, love and hate, light and darkness, man and woman. “The conflict between Israel and Palestine illustrates the value of reinforcement between two fundamental human rights: life and liber-
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Our Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Henry Kissinger, since he left office as Secretary of State, has raised on a few occasions the problem of human rights and foreign policy. In an address at New York University he noted in particular that “the world needs to know what the United States stands for. But we cannot rest on this; we must know how to implement our convictions and achieve an enhancement of human rights together with other national objectives... Morality without security,” the Secretary added then, “is ineffectual; security without morality is empty. To establish a relationship and proportion between these goals is perhaps the most profound challenge before our government and nation.” In the Fall, 1978 issue of Trialogue, Ali Mazrui, I. House (1959), Director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan, has written: “The debate about human rights has to be placed alongside two other major debates in the world—the controversial quest for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) and the equally controversial doctrine of detente. The scale of priorities embodied in NIEO are mainly concerned with NorthSouth relations. The focus of emphasis within the doctrine of detente is on East-West relations. The human rights crusade aspires to be global though the initiative comes from the liberal ideology of the Western world. It is partly in this sense that the debate about human rights has to be seen in the larger context of normative and ideological changes in the world. In reality there are three sets of rights which often conflict — the juridical rights of states, the collective rights of groups and races, and the human rights of individuals.”
In Forum,
a journal of the Council of Europe, World Member,
Henri Simonet,
I].House (1955), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium was quoted: “It is illusory to believe that human rights violations do not concern the whole of the states of the world. The increasingly close ties between all countries make it essential for us, in the name of international solidarity, to respect human rights ourselves and to see that others do likewise.
Each state has its own special responsibilities, particularly when international commitments have been made in this area. Any violation is in effect a breach of justice— which is indeed virtually synonymous with human rights. Once justice breaks down, peace is directly threatened and uncertainty and
strife loom ahead, the ultimate stake being the future of mankind.”
THE HUMAN
RIGHTS EQUATION
Since priorities vary in different parts of the world in determining the balance between Human Rights and Security and
material
well
being,
we
invite
I.
House World Members to send us their ideas regarding the Human Rights Equation. were e 6 0 0 0 6 6 6 6 8 6 06 6 8 0 6 8 6 #6 6 6 6 66 6 ss 6"6 6's 0's" e's 686
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ty. Israelites claim that Palestine threatens their lives with frequent terrorist attacks. Palestinians claim that Israel threatens their liberty by invading and making a colony of their territory. If both countries used their rich moral and spiritual equipment in friendly negotiations they would certainly attain a middle ground satisfactory to both sides. The
agreement arrived at would
make
them a
valuable example for the world. “Conflicting values provide excellent opportunities to achieve progress.” From David Schimel, '72 of Jamaica, N.Y. “The suggestion that economic development takes priority over human rights
not
only
serves
as
a convenient
ra-
tionalization by dictators to justify their repressive behavior, but also flies in the face of man’s experience. In fact, it is only in societies where human freedom has reigned that man has achieved the highest levels of
material and spiritual qualities of life; meanwhile, economic development, combined with human happiness has thrived least where human rights have been denied in the name of progress”.
ALUMNI NEWS THROUGH THE DECADES Continued from Page B-1
Of
a sculpture of a Greek goddess,” she said “Her beauty was really idealis-
Gable, Beery,
A
Russell, Harlow
7
she would have
a
been like
ic
Yong
was
@ natural
actress
from
F\i'd childhood, and her family allowed Jj her to spend hours on the audience
st’
By MARY COOKE Advertiser Stalf Writer
in those days you were either a
“Soo Yong of Hawaii was there."
teacher or @ nurse.” she said. ‘‘I majored in education. But 1 was
let it be written.
thinking all the while of acting Teaching was only sort of » means
Maui-born Yong, who still takes an occasional role in “Hawaii Five-O" episodes (her latest was “The Pagoda Factor’),,was one of the few Oriental actresses in films of the and 4s Studio executives
invited her
in 1934 to play
family
on
Maui,
Loo
said
she was the only one with a dramat-
Her parents were Chinese immigrants and, for most of his life on Maui, her father was a ‘hac driver. For those too young to understand the term, she explained, “I suppose in elegant language you'd call it a rage.
... and Soo Yong fn the scroll of Hollywood's golden era,
her
Binghamton.
a double
Yong broke into show biz about a half century ago simply by. turning up in a Broadway theater at audition
role in
ume
the Pearl 5. Buck clastic “The Good Earth,” starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer
Today, in her Kahala apartment, she riffies through photo< “y and publicity flyers for the films that followed “China Seas’ cast reads like a roll call of the greats Clark Gable, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell, Jean Harlow And Seo Yong She acted with Gable again in ‘Soldier of Fortune.” And with William Holden and Jennifer Jones in “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.” Working with Joseph Cotten in “Peking Express” was “a
aid. Klondike Annie” with Mae West, Yong
She was a teen-age Columbia
oy |
Seo Yong with Clark Gable in ‘Soldier of Fortune.” B4
Friday, March 23, 1979
HONOLULU ADVERTISER
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“My father owned # horse and carnage and he'd drive people, as you go places in @ taxi today. “I think he charged about 25 cents to go from Kahului to Wailuku. I do remember at the end of the night he'd tura‘out his pocket and all silver coins would pour out. “He spoke no English, only Chi-
nese and Hawaiian, But the lan-
ing with his horse and carriage and, from age 5, litle Soo could afford tickets to Chinese opera
“There was a company of Chinese
University student at the time, in training to be a teache ‘1 kept watching the New York Times for theater auditions,” she said.”
opera
On the day her career started, Yong told director Guthrie McClintock that she had acted in a Chinese
acting so much that when my father was dying they found me in the theater.”
play. In Hawaii Other experience? None Dramatic training?
She went to public school on Maui, then joined the sec
“The
family
story
is that
I liked
said, she had a lot of respect for West's talent, not only as an actress but also as a skillful originator of dialog Nor did the greatness of Greta Garbo escape her when she texperience just watching Katherine wanted to Ce x sa id. “I learn her technique, certain postures
and gesticulation.” Cornell people don't realize the actor's need for concentration,” she said. ” "re serious about acting, your mind and spirit have tw be totally on member,
after
“I don't
help
think
the
young
actresses
girl
generally
are inclined to encourage one anoth. er,” Yong observed.
She had moved into the world of
pros where she would sink or swim on her own. For a quarter of a century Yong earned her living by working in
we
looked
and then came home and worshiped the Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy my mother worshi “During the holidays we all paid our respects to our an cestors with festivals and foods.
“On the other hand, I'd celebrate
Christmas at Sunday school and then burn incense before my father’s
ancestral away
tablet after he passed
“My mother had no education ex-
cept tutoring at home.
But one of the
son was,
of
marvelous things about China the
history
was
Movies and doing what she called “platform work.”
“Financially,
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ired or not, Garbo's beauty was classic, Yong said. “Her make-up was so light. She wore only her own eyelashes and her
“Golden era” actress
lucrative,’
the movies she
said.
were
“So an unlearned person could tell you about the emperors of China.
‘But
‘since it was not possible to find big roles or starring roles for me, I stario
Soo Yong (left) with Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow and Rosalind Russell in a scene from “China Seas.”
The 20’s In honor of the tremendous interest displayed in the Performing Arts this year here at I. House, we are devoting space from the 20's to news of an early 1. House movie star. Through the courtesy of an Hawaiian alumnus we received a fascinating clipping about a movie actress, Soo Yong, who played with many of the greats of the golden era of Hollywood. As Ah-Hee Young, a young student from Hawaii, she studied to be a teacher at Columbia and lived at International House. Her career, according to the article in the March 23rd, 1979 edition of the Honolulu Advertiser, began when she was a student in New York and turned up at an audition. She didn't really want to be a teacher, it seems, and her ambition and natural talent landed her a part in “The Letter” starring Katherine Cornell. Since roles for an oriental actress were not frequent enough to support her, she performed on a circuit as a “platform” performer doing humorous monologues and readings. Born in Maui, she lives now in Honolulu. With her Chinese husband she has made a number of trips to mainland China. The 30’s President Cook has had the great pleasure of visiting many of you in your countries. In Sweden he met Mr. & Mrs. Gustav Plym who live in Norrkoping. They are one of the many couples who
met at 1. House. Also, he talked with Bengt Julin in Stockholm who is retired from the marine insurance business and often visits New York and
Newport R.I. Yacht Clubs. In Thailand, Mr. Cook
saw Prof. Boonyong Nikrodhananda who teaches architecture. Another architect from the 30’s period, Norman William Goodacre, is also a retired Anglican priest who writes that he hopes to visit I. House in 1980. Elizabeth Bright Chmiel, 31'-32’ has published an article in Trusts and Estates Magazine entitled “Estate Values in Old Papers”. The article makes a plea for getting diaries, pictures, etc. into historical societies for presentation.
The 40's Preston Reed (1940-1941), Director of special programs at the Hartford, CT. Graduate Center, writes that he has added an International Week to
acting, Yong does ‘roving minstrel’ travel lectures.
“My
Peale — universities, town halls and women's clubs — and said she was ‘proudest of this in my whole life, because | created it “All these things were brewing in-
a sort of modern number with her
husband and I have been,
about half a dozen times, to China,” she said. “And each time we see something different Alter every trip I do lectures on what we saw and experienced. I give them for various organizations in Honolulu “But yes, I do miss the theater.
My kind of work."*
the Management Development Program there. Natalia Silva Magdaheno (1945-46), who came to I. House from Venezuela to study ballet with Balanchine, is now living in Madrid, where she operates a theater with her husband. She visited I. House in January. Bernardino A. Perez from Quezon City in the Phillipines is working with the UN Development Program in Bangkok. John Ferguson Gray Morris is pastor of a “healthy suburban church” in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His children are both involved in the performing arts. Nellie Gordon Roulhac has completed a doctorate at the University of Sarasota and is now district supervisor of special education in Philadelphia, Pa. Hans E. Panofsky has been Curator of Africana
at Northwestern University Library since 1959 and makes occasional trips to Africa. He writes he has kept in touch with Joseph Adegbite of Nigeria, J. Rudolph Grimes of Liberia, and Leontyne Price and Esther Walls in the U.S. The 50’s V.
Voitto Saario writes from Finland that he is
President of the Helsinki Court of Appeal, involved with International Law and Human Rights. Rasin Serpen (1952-54) writes from Turkey that he is manager for sales and transport, petroleum products in Istanbul. Chelliah Satkunananthan (1953), who came from Sri Lanka to live at I. House is now Chief of Scientific Programmes at the World Health Organization in Geneva. Carl-
Otto Bauer (1953) lives in Wuppertal, Germany. He is President of the German Association of the Industrial Research Institute and a member of the Board of Directors DIN— German Institute of Standardization. Rene Verschaeken from Belgium is Executive Secretary to the World Federation of Argicultural Workers in Brussels. He is very much involved with the world food problem, with Agrarian Reform and the Agri-Food industry problems. Simone Richelle-Jothrand (1951-52) sends greetings from Brussels and writes in response to our comments on Human Rights that she is an ac-
tive member in AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Khalil Semaan (1956-57), a native of Syria, is now a professor at the department of Classical/Near Eastern Studies at the State University of New York at
Also from that period, Dr. Gonzalo Santos Priggs writes that he is working with the Tampico Health Department in Tahaulipas, Mexico, and as a gastro-enterologist in the Mexican Institute of Social Security Hospital. Claude Morin (1954) is Intergovernmental Affairs Minister for Quebec in
Canada. This spring he has travelled to Caracas, Venezuela, to Atlanta, Georgia, and to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Toyoske Tanaka (1959-1960) is a member of the English faculty at Saitama University, Urawa, Japan. He is interested in Organometallics and Environment. Another scientist is Ljerka Purec, a biochemist at Zagreb University in Yugoslavia. Peter Dickinson (1958) in England, is a composer whose works have been commissioned by some of
the leading musical performers. He became the first Professor of Music at Keele University in 1974, where the Music Department has a Centre for American Music.
The 60’s Jose E. Miranda-Tamborrel (1963-64) has just moved from Mexico City to a small town,
Aguascalientes, AGS Mexico. He owns a business
which produces plastic pipe. Fernando RaudalesNayarra (1965-65), who is quoted in the “Flashback” column, has been a professor of music
at the Guatemala,
Honduras,
Costa Rica and
Panama National Conservatories of Music. A native of Honduras, he was recently awarded the National Art Award and decorated by the Chief of State in the Presidential Palace. Anker Buch, another violinist from the 60’s, runs a music school at his summer farm in Denmark in Mods, Denmark. From the Phillipines we hear that Anthony Chen in president of the Solid-
matic Manufacturing Co., Inc. in Manila. Edgardo Oreta (1969-71) is Vice-President of A.M. Oreta & Co., a firm of building contractors in Manila. Michal Korbecki (1968) is a professor of serum and vaccine research in Warsaw. This November,
Nunta Tasarongnonta (1968) took President Cook
to dinner in Bangkok where she runs the Lily Liang Dress Shop. Also in Bangkok is Saipin Tumtivate Vongkitguncha (1968) Who is an accountant with Bangkok Glass Ind. Co. Dr.
Barbara
Daum
(1968)
is now
Dean
of In-
struction at North Seattle Community College in Seattle, Washington. Robert Schechter (1968) has been exhibiting paintings, sculpture and graphics in New York City. Dwight William Call (1969-70) as Director of the Sioux Indian YMCA in Dupree, S.D. has just returned from a YMCA Statesmanship seminar in the Middle East and took a group of teen-aged Sioux on a trip to Japan in the Spring of
1978.
From Bolivia, Raul Quiroga-Aramayo (1965), who is a physician and also has a Ph. D in Nutri-
tion, writes that he is a Minister of Social Welfare and Public Health. In Korea, Sook-Ja Hong (1968) is a professor at Dong Kuk University. Dr.
Hong
is also
head
of the
Women’s
Committee
working to end discrimination against women. Her
group has been successful in effecting a revision of Family Law in Korea.
The 70’s Herbert Wong (1972) is working at Armak, Inc. in Chicago and has been in touch with I.House concerning the possibility of translation of patents by residents. Pongporn Sudbanthad (1973-75) isa member of the faculty of Architecture, City Planning Department, at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Karel Vosskuhler (1972-75) is working in the office of Policy Planning Advisor in the foreign Ministry at The Hague in the Netherlands. Also in the Netherlands, Hendrik Jan Steinvoort (1977-78) is working for a law firm in Rotterdam. Mary Lise Rheault (1978) and Joachim Scherer (1977) have been married and attended a gala
reception in their honor at I. House in February. They are living in Offenbach, West Germany. Michael Dadap (1972-75) is living in Manhattan and
pursuing
guitarist.
a
concert
career
as a
classical
Honor Roll for the Alumni Annual Fund 1977-78 There is no better way for the World Members to show their belief in the ideals of International House than to contribute to the Annual Fund. International House wishes to express its deep appreciation to these listed below.
Mohammed Ali Adibi Ali Al Ghanim Gerald Barsdorf Shelby Cullom Davis Edmond Nouri Conrad Taff
PATRONS ** Edward Babbott Bruce Bassett Mary Louise Bright Margaret M. Carr Richard S. Cowen Laurence G. Cowles Thomas E. Crittenden, Jr. Loiusa Pike Crook Mary A. Cunningham James McCoy Davis Mehdi Dilmaghani Leonie M. Dunlap Susan Greer John J. Hader Charles P. Harbottle Sigurdur Helgason Allie Miller Holley Stephen F. Ketly Rudoplh Kuhlmann Dr. Vera Kwochka Stephen Lee Lucinda Mary Lord Laura McRae Pierre Mariotte Mary E. Mitsui Mr. & Mrs. Northrup K. Miyake Michael Plouf Horacio C. Reggini Edward N. Riner Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Rosenfeld Mary B.C. Schmidt Elaine F. Shea Henry Clay Simpson, Jr.
Starlin Sims Katherine M. Stanley Anna Belle P. Thomas Grace Thompson Rev. John D. Thomson Mr. & Mrs. John D. Von Pischke
Samuel A. Wingard Alumni of Republic of China
Abuelhaj, Ribhi (Dr.) Adegbite, Joseph (Dr.) Alstadter, Judith Amberson, Katherine G Anders, Edward Ari, Yasmin & Suha Ashby, Florence H Atkins, W.C Atkinson, Dorothy E Atkinson, Mary L Auerbach, Natalie S Auerswald, Huqguette Ayers, Helen Baker, Elaine J Beahan, Florence G Bechtel, Gertrude M Beck, Berta E Beck, Dorothy Fahs Bennett, J. Harold Beuselin, Philippe & My-Luong Berverly, Gladys Bhirud, Suresh L Biehle, Reba S Billane, J.M Blake, Florence G Blanton, Lucy C Bleha, Thomas Blossom, David R. & Mrs Blumenthal, David Boles, Katherine Bonta, Robert Bostwick, Prudence Bowers, Ada Marie Bowman, Erna H Branson, Marian P Branson, Norma J Brebner, Ellio J Breech, Adele C Bridges, Lucille Brittenum, Susan F Brooks, Dorothy V.N Brothers, M. Elizabeth Brown, Clara Mae Brown, Seven P Brumelle, Nelle Bryon, Adelmer R Bullock, Penelope L Burke, Gladys G Burnett, Philip M Burtner, Elizabeth Buh, R.W., dr Cameron, Janet L. Campbell, Elizabeth Platt Campbell, Marilyn T Campbell, Mr. & Mrs Cantwell, Mary L Carey, William J Caros, John Carter, Isabel Stoops Chambers, Grace E Chang, Daniel S.K Cheever, Olivia L Cheney, Mr. & Mrs Cheng, Irene (Dr.) Chimienti,
Leonard
Choukanoff, Boyan Choy, Henry J Cienciala, Anna M Clark, Mr. & Mrs Cleland, Alice M Cleverley, Mar Click, George i (Mrs.) Cohn, Elizabeth Cohn, Sol Cohn, Elizabeth Colland, Fred Max Constantinides, Judith Cook, B. (Dr. & Mrs.) Cooke, Paul P Cooke, Rose C Corneliuson, Goldie B Corwin, Marcia Covel, Marion P Covelli, Lucia F.E Covey, Grace M Crosby, Nancy H Crosby, William D., Jr Cross, Eason (Rev.) Crow, Fay Cupolo, Mary A Currie, Margaret M Daly, Flora DaSilva, Maria Daugherty, James L Daum, Barbara R Davey, Lillian Butler Davis, Helen Davis, Malcolm A. (Dr.) Davis, Margurite Davis, Paul
Alumni of Mexico Alumni of South Africa
ALLNATIONS MEMBERS— $1,000 and above
** PATRONS — $100—$1,000
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Del Mundo-Adams, Perfecta (Dr.) DePompei, Anita Des Brisay, Ella Deschamps, George A DeWitte, Ruth T Dexter, Benning Donaldson, Ella B Dudgeon, Lucille Duerst, A. Marguerite Dukes, G.F Dumlao, Leora W
Eades, Elizabeth Ebanks, Gerardo M Edersheim Foundation Edmonds, Harry Edwards, Inettie B Ellis, E. Virginia Elson, R. Anthony Emerson, Mary L Emery, Margaret Eng, Ruth Hunter Ensher, Martha Entwisle, Ellen R Erslev, Kurt A Estarabadi, Jamil Eydt, Andre J Eyskens, Gaston Farr, Maria Farrer, Bonnie Farrow, Norman D Febinger, George N Fez-Barringten, Christina Field, E. Beverly Finney Foundation Inc Fiordalisi, Vincent E Fischer, Martha J. (Mrs.) Fish, Jr., Mr. & Mrs Placcus, Mr. & Mrs Fleisher, Susan Fleming, D.F. (Dr. & Mrs.) Foeckler, Merle M Foster,
Josephine
V.W
French, Grace Doolittle Freudenthal, D.K Fukuoka, S. George Fuller,
John
J.
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Mrs.)
George, Mr. & Mrs Gideonse, Harry D Giragossiantz, Roxana Glascock, Adelaide Goddard, Bess F Goetsch, Helen B Goklen, M.F Goldfeder, Anna (Dr.) Gonnerman, Alice M Goodwillie, Mr. & Mrs Gould, Mr. & Mrs Graham, Joseph D Griset,
Doris
M. Budd
Grier, Robert C Griffey,
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Gruber, Paul J Guarneri, Mario F Guin, Joel B Haberman, Phyllis Hammarberg, Helen V. Haroldson, Shnasdee L Harrison, Margot Harter, D. Lincoln Hatchett, Elizabeth Hebeling, Martin & Lotte Hecht, Reahat R Helper, Lorraine (Mrs.) Hiilivirta, Inga Hill, Jerry, Hill, Russell Hillyard, Joseph B Hirsch, Felix E Hobart, George Addison Hook, Shirley Jane Hrishikesan, K.G Hubbard, Hassie H Humes, Dorothy T Hutchins, Ann R Isheim, Mildred S Jackson,
Alice
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Jackson, Patricia L Jacoby, Ruth B Jennings, E. Olive Jensen, Werner Valeur Jepsen, Joukje Johnson, Evelyn L Johnston, Thomas M Jonas, Harold J Jones, Arthur C Jones, Gerald Paul Jones, William K Jorgenseen, Axel V Kachigian, Helen Cleland Kane, Albert E Karaczan, Mr, & Mrs Keevil, Etta Pence Keith, Clara M Keyes, Virginia S Kieckhefer, Deirder D Kim, Helen B King, Florence L Kinney,
Rose
Tyson
Klumb, Bernice Knopf, Norman Knutson, Rachel Royston Koc, Durmus Koury, Rose Kozoll, Charles E Krausz, Frank G Kujawski, Wilma F Kulkaski, Rita E Ladd, Frances R Laidlaw,
Lee, Melinda Mills Lee, Robert H Lehman, Ruth G Leonhard, Herman R Libaek, Sven Lief, Nina R Lindfeld, Peter Link, Alma Therese Lissim, Dorothea W Liu, B. Alfred (Dr.) Liversay, Danae Liwellyn, Ardelle A Long, J. Emery Lopez-Mata, Gisela Lord, Lurana S Louis, Edith Ling Lowe, Pardee Lucas, Margaret M Lyon,
Florence
Lyon, Seott C Machover, Maurice Maddox, Patrick Gaynor Madigan, Marian E Magill, Geraldine Malarkey, Sally Mallinckrodt, Philip A Manko, Harry H Maricle, V.N Martin, Arlene W Martyka, Emilia Mason, John Russell Mathes, Miriam S Matsumoto, George S. (Mrs.) . Matthes, Sara J Mau, Chuck Maxwell, J.W McCabe, Lucile M McClain, Laurene McCluskey, Mr. & Mrs McFeaters,
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Marvin
Gwen
Lane, Margaret (Mrs.) Larkin, Myrtle S Lash, Georgia P. (Mrs.) Laundrie, Prescott L Leahy, Dorothy M
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McPherson, Barbara W Meador, Clifton L Mendez, Adela M Milde, Marjorie H Millar, Geraldine Mills, Emily C Minet, Ellen M Mizuno, Amy H Mocsary-Weisz,
William
1977-78
FOR
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
ALLNATIONS MEMBERS°*
Erika
Modlinger, Robert & April Molino, John A Mondschein, Momroe Montoya, Hector Moo, Jen Fui Moody, Marion E Moore, Charlotte Morgan,
Martha
H.
(Mrs.)
Morimanno, Paul Muckley, Robert L Mugge, Dorothy J Mullet, Antonio Murov, Yale M Murphy, Arthur G Muzumdar, Dr. & Mrs Myers, Eugene E. (Col.) Nadolney, Bernice Neumaier, Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas-Lewis, Loida Nighswander, Mr. & Mrs Nomura,
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Norrell, Viollette J Noss, Mr. & Mrs Nouryeh, Christopher Noyes, Helen Nyabongo, Virginia S Odbert, Mary S Olson, Ida O'Neill, Ana Maria O'Neill, Rita Oshima, Kazuko (Ms.) Ott, Fina C Owen Louis & Co Paine, Alice E Parker, Ruth L Peake, Marie Penzo, Paul A Pfeiffer, Mr. & Mrs Pfeiffer, Karl F Pickett, Wilda D Pierson, Marcia L Plaskov, Harry Poblete, (Mrs.) Podbielski, Peter John Polizzi, Josephine Pollard, Martha E Portser, Margaret J Preston, Henry C Prodis, Anthony Proulx, Viera Krnanom Pusey, William W Rand, Mr. & Mrs. Reed, Mr. & Mrs Regen, Curt Rian, Norman D Rice, Margaret K Richardson, F.M. (Mr. & Mrs.) Rilliet, Vivian F Roberts, Carl H Robertson, Randal M Robertson, Mr. & Mrs Robinson, Stephen M Rockwell, George R., Jr Roder, Launcey L. (Mrs.)
Rodger, Katherine J Root, Gordon & Elizabeth Roseman, Tena Rothenberg, Frederick M Sachs, Robert Safford, Dorothy H Samson, Alice Sands, Ida R Sangree, Elizabeth R Sarbaugh, Mr. & Mrs Sargent, S.S Savio, Martha B Schager, Anne L Schear, Sarah D. Schelkunoff, K.K Schoonmaker, Elsa P Schuele, Hazel Schwartz, Mary F Scoppetta, Anna Scott, Vera G Scull, Mr. & Mrs Scupi, Barbara S Seaquist, Carl R Sewall, Gabrielle Shepard, Margret Simpson, Eloise C Smiley Melville A Smith, Jr. Rev. & Mrs Smith, Carroll F Smith, Dorothy Smylie, Robert & Yuri Snavely, Brant R Solook, Barbara A Sparling, Marion B Spieseke, Alice Winifred Stark, Jr. Sidney Stein, Joseph H Stembel, C.J. (Mr. & Mrs.) Stringer, Catherine J Strock, Geniel G Sutter, Leonard L Swanner, Grace Maguire Syed, Betty B. Szabo, Gustav Taenzer, Erwin Tamagna, Frank M. (Dr.) Tarnawiecki, Mr. & Mrs Tasman, Gladys H Telban, Amelia Telford, H.S. (Mrs.) Tella, Alfred J Tennent, Lois H Thiel, Elloy Thomas, William B Thompson, Mary E Tobias, Helen R Todd, Ann T Toops, Laura C Traver, Marianne A Traver, Maya (Mrs.) Troyer, lona Tselos, Dimitri Tway, Eileen Tyler, |. Keith & Margaret Valeo, Francis R Veazie, Carl E. Vick, Hollis Viser, Mortimer (Mrs.) Vivian, Robert E Von Maltitz, Frances Votapek, Ralph J Wadsworth, Mr. & Mrs Walter, Gunter Ward, Helen L Markentin, H.H Warren, Effie M Washburn, Anna Bell Waters, Ruperta S. (Mrs.) Watson, Kathleen Watson, Mary Jane Webb, Eugene Webb, Eugene (Mr. & Mrs.) Weimerskirch, Philip J Weisz, Erika, M Welborn, Elizabeth C Wells, James M Wertheim, Jane S Westerberg, Alice M. Wexler, Jeffrey Wheeler, Wendell C Whitcomb, David K Whitlock, Herbert E Whitlock, Herbert & Helen Wickham, Grace G Wilcox, James C Willcox, Marjorie Williams, Katharine K Wilsberg, Mary Wilson, Rena Winston, Ethna Beulah Wolsch, Robert Wood, Norma Lynn Woods, Vera Wybourn, Marjory A Yamada,
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Yates, Howard W Young, A. Beatrice Yu, Emma L Yuhas, Susan D Zeleny, Leslie (Mr. & Mrs.) Zomalt, Leslie M
We hope your name will be on the Honor Roll for the year ending August, 1979.
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make the same experience possible for a student in the future. Many of you who, because of limited income are unable to make annual contributions or participate in any I.House alumni activities, may choose to make this kind of permanent remembrance. This year we have gratefully received contributions from the estates of Anna Mae Jones and Elizabeth Martin and
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have been notified of a bequest by Henry Rae
Diplomacy has always been a favorite career of former I. House residents. Pictured above is (at left): Raul Roa, Jr., Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations with Trustee Gerald Barsdorf.
FURTHER
NOTES
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November
3rd,
The wording for a bequest is as follows:
“Because the House was so im-
“I bequeath to International House, New York corporation, the sum of to be used for its general corporate purposes”.
portant to me...”
he was born in New York while his father
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John Gregoriades was on diplomatic assignment. The elder Gregoriades lived at the House in 1945-48 while attending Columbia.
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MATS: one of the current residents at I.House from Greece, Gregory Gregoriades, has US citizenship because
Perkins, who died 1978 in Baltimore.
of you
have
told us that you
want to demonstrate your appreciation of
your own experience at International House by mentioning the House in your Will. Such a bequest, of course, will help
Further information on bequests may be obtained from the President’s Office, 500 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10027.
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your address in local script which might improve the local delivery of your mail. We would also welcome news of your I. House friends, especially if you know they have not been receiving our mail. Please use an extra sheet of paper if you have more messages. We look forward to hearing from you.
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I.HOUSE WORLD
NEWSLETTER—Vol.
14 No. 2 Spring, 1979
A newsletter for former members of International House, 500 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10027 Margaret Mather Mecke, Editor
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David Rockefeller Attends
Reception Honoring Japanese On April 23, 1979, David Rockefeller, Honorary Chairman of the Half Century Fund Campaign joined Dr. Kissinger at a reception at Mitsui & Co. Headquarters in Tokyo. This gala event was arranged to thank the Japanese for their contribution of $273,000 toward the Capital Campaign. Also, attending the Tokyo reception were Council Members for France, Keiko and Jacques de Portu. Mrs. de Portu was born in Japan. Mr. de Portu was elected to the Board of Trustees in December 1978.
Chairman of the Board Henry Kissinger, President Howard Cook and Jacques de Portu, Trustee, ata Reception at International House.