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Below: Chairman John Whitehead stands with Alexander Katkov (U.S.S.R.), Shamala Kandiah

(Singapore), Mrs. Evans, Seema Varma

Expansion Provides New

Chairman of Texaco Alfred DeCrane, Mrs. DeCrane, and Mrs. Whitehead, as Richard Ebile-ottoo (Uganda) and President Evans kneel,

Dimensions

The dramatic addition of another residence facility brings new aspects to the I. House experience, always a delicate accommodation among a variety of languages at a dinner table and the nuances of shar-

ing a bathroom

for a family portrait, prior to Mr. DeCrane’s Corporate Seminar.

with bordes from every

corner of the globe. Now, different types of living arrangements bring added perspectives -- and close encounters of the First, Second and Third worlds take on new dimensions -- as I. House North residents from different lands,go a step further, as apariment

mates.

The attraction of a kitchen, the camaraderie of a suite, and the possible escape from the hustle and bustle have combined to make I. House North a popular choice.

Here the apartments range from studios to

Above: David Rockefeller, at

five-bedroom suites. One typical larger apartment has five women, one each from the Netherlands, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Mexico, and Japan. Working on her Masters in International Relations at City College, Sonoko Tanaka says she prefers living with people of other nationalities as a practical extension of her international affairs studies. “I really want to know how similar we are,” she says. For her, finding differences in thinking and values is far less significant than she had expected. The most exciting thing about the

the dedication of Davis Hall, delivers the first John J. McCloy

multinational arrangement, and a cause ce-

lebre shared by many, she says, is food. Her suitemates enjoy her sushi. One has

even taken to preparing Japanese-style salad dressing, under her tutelage. Sonoko herself has been surprised at how tasty West African cuisine is. She has also developeda taste for garb from far off. “Ilearned how gorgeous African fashions are,” she

says. If West African clothing and food have grown on Sonoko, it is due to suitemate Yinka Akinsulure of Sierra Leone. Working towards a masters in psychological counseling, Yinka says things have been quite pleasant, overall, considering that none of the roommates knew each other before

being selected for the suite. Additional members of the suite include a lawyer, a musician, anda student of international affairs. As Sonoko learns to view West Africans

differently, Yinka enjoys “smashing stereotypes” of her own: “Usually you think Japanese are quiet, but Sonoko is very outgoing.” Of course, amid the pleasantries come turf wars of a sort that occur in the most non-international households. One suitemate, Tanaka notes, routinely uses others’

food. She attributes it to cultural differences,

and

says,

(India), Peter Schultz (West

_ Germany), Joan Littlefield (U.S.A.),

half-kiddingly,

that on

food “borrowing” matters, “We need to follow international criteria here in New York -- maybe international law.”

Memorial Lecture. (See Page 2.)

East, West, North or South - A Special View of the World and |. House Living at International House has always meant more than having a place to stay. Through daily contact residents continue to grow in their ability to understand people of widely divergent backgrounds. In this issue, we zoom in on some rather special current and recent residents to see what emerges from the I. House experience, in terms of noteworthy activities and ideas.

One of four

appreciates the concern for the movementimpaired: He is amazed buses are equipped

with electric steps which are lowered for older people and the handicapped. The worst things? The homeless. The subway. “In Moscow, we have palaces underground. Eachsubwaystationislikea museum, and has its own decoration." Filth. “New York is very dirty,” he says, in comparison with Moscow, but laughs and adds that, in Moscow, “People have nothing to drop on the ground.” One of nine human rights specialists at I. House studying at Columbia Univer-

Soviets at I. House on

Zuckerman Fellowships, Andrei Silantiev , 31, studies the American media at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. An employee of the Soviet Foreign Ministry’s information office, Silantiev is impressed by the openness of the U.S. government but takes aim at the American press. American journalists working in the U.S.S.R., he says, are “too quick to report things which are often wrong.” In contrast, he says, British correspondents speak

and read Russian better, are more likely to delve deeply into complex issues and find sources other than the usual so-called

tries, she finds the House to be “the best place the program could have put us.”

For Silantiev, the American

business-as-a-way-of-life is something unfathomable.. “This business mentality is very deep inside--I can’t understand it,” he says. He is taking a course at the Columbia

Business School to help him comprehend capitalism in its most vivid form. The best things? Libraries: Silantiev finds them well-organized, likes the ample study space, the computerized services and the absence of the smell of deteriorating paper, common to Soviet libraries. But he criticizes the ease with which books can be stolen, or intentionally misfiled to thwart classmiates. In the U.S.S.R., he says, librarians bring the book you request, and register the transaction. Silantiev also

A research fellow at the Soviet Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies,

Anton

Churmanteyev, 26, isan Americanologist .

here to study the political psychology of U.S.-Soviet relations. To learn about the American image ofthe U.S.S.R.,he is studying opinion polls and a range of media, in-

cluding television and newspapers. “Its a difficult time, because American perceptions are changing very fast--very

fast,” he says. “You’re moving toward a much

positive

view

of the Soviet

Union than even two years ago. It’s a kind of landslide.”

also able to ar-

For him, among the best things: People.

range for her to meet with the top assistant to U.N. Secretary General Pérez de Cu€llar. In her view, Brazil has made a transition from military to civilian rule, but people there are not yet enjoying true democracy. “They are not educated enough to press for their rights,” she says, pointing to Brazil’s high illiteracy rate, a devastated economy anda social situation epitomized by vast, pervasive poverty. In Rio de

New Yorkers will be amazed and delighted

_ International

view of

intellectuals are no longer the targets. Instead, she says, “the police start to arrest and torture the poor, people suspected of being criminals, without any rights.” A great surprise to her is that both the United States and Brazil have failed to sign many international covenants on human rights issues.

sity’s Center for the Study of Human Rights, Viginia Feix , 29, is a lawyer from Brazil. The group, from Egypt, Namibia, Liberia, Uruguay, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and South Korea. are building a global network. “We have not been using international forums to press our governments,” Feix explains. Noting that other residents tell her about human rights issues in their coun-

experts.

While torture, imprisonment and illegal arrests were the primary human rights questions under the military regime, the issues have shifted as the middle class and

House

was

Janeiro, she says, a whole alternative society has emerged, one that the government has completely abandoned. “Our children are growing up in bands, without family, without links to institutions. They are not going to school, and they live in parks and under bridges.”

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to learn that Churmanteyev thinks they are sweet--by comparison. In the U.S.S.R., he

says, life is harder and people more nervous. “People here smile, there, it’s rare,” he says. “Here, if you bump someone, you just say ‘I’m sorry.’ In the U.S.S.R., they say,

“You fool!” Among the worst things again is the homeless. He is dismayed by the visibility of the problem, but says his country, too,

has its share--1.5 million homeless. In the Soviet Union it is illegal to be homeless or

without work, so these people congregate outside the cities. Churmanteyev, who has been joined

recently by his wife, spent an enjoyable

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Thanksgiving with an American family in a small Massachusetts town, and has even visited that shrine to the quick buck, Atlantic City. Any criticism of that controversial town? “No, I enjoyed it. I'ma player.” A Fulbright scholar teaching Romanian and Balkan history at Columbia University’s Institute on East Central Europe until October

1991, Dr. Mibai Maxim,

46, is an assistant professor at the University of Bucharest and Chairman of Ottoman Studies. Under the Ceausescus, many professors were forced to resign, and their chairs

eliminated. Furthermore, he notes, they “did not want to pay for promotions, for libraries, for international exchange of books, for participation in academic congresses.” If Maxim wanted to attend conferences, he had to foot the entire bill. In seeking to explain the Romanian peoples’ endurance of the most repressive regime in Eastern Europe, Maxim says the people had to work so hard, they lacked

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ence of Parliamentarians, James Linton, — Fé 33, traveled to Moscow in January for the | Global Forumonthe Environmentand De-

36, who arrived in the U.S. in 1985. Intervelopment. There he helped draft declaranational House was a buffer forhiminad- | tions for the conference whose partticijusting to a radically different lifestyle and | pants included Carl Sagan, Secretary Gensociety. He says, “youcanbuild yourown | eral Pérez de Cuéllar, Elie Wiesel. Presicommunity within I. House. It’s a good | dent Gorbachev addressed the gathering, transition between any part of the world “People from every part of the world, and the United States.” every religion, harmonizing for a week -- in Bogdan who is studying electrical enMoscow,” he marvels. “The conference gineering at Columbia University, says he was a symbol of the breakdown of tradiwishes Americans were moving faster to | tional barriers, a hint of a possibility of a invest inthe Eastern countries, andthatthe

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These five alumni whom we have honored, are but five of many thousands who in their own way exemplify Harry Edmond’s spirit . It has been my privelege to have personally met many, including the more than 5,000 young men and women

who have benefitted from the experience of living at International House over the last eight years.

Never have I failed to be impressed by their willingness to be involved in helping one another, their eagerness to get

the most out of their education, or their en- | thusiasm for the mission of this House -- | That Brotherhood May Prevail. ve

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of the New York Times based in Paris. Leontyne Price, born in Laurel,

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with General Motors in California in the 1980's. As an executive of Toyota, he

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from the Republic of Italy among numer-

as Prime Minister. He is currently Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Jerzy Kosinski, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1933, came to the United States and

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Mississippi,

is a graduate of the Juilliard

~ School of Music. The internationally re-nowned opera and concert singer has

Meeting, Thursday,

Walter Wriston on Technology, Freedom and Change Residents have had the rare opportunity to dialogue with top corporate leaders at 1.

House this year, thanks to the Corporate Seminar Series, brainchild of Chairman John C.Whitehead. Addressing a broad range of global issues, including business,

politics, the media, and the environment, speakers have included Honorary Trustee David Rockefeller; John M. Hennessy, President and CEO of CS First Boston, Inc.; Alfred C. DeCrane, Chairman of Texaco, Inc.; Dennis

Weatherstone,

Chairman

J.P. Morgan and Co., Inc.; and Walter B. Wriston, former chairman of Citicorp.

Mr. Wriston, who delivered his ad-

their primary work. “But the traders of the world, foreign exchange traders, all traders, began to drive

over

this

electronic

infrastructure,

this enormous flow of information, of data

_ chance. “The world press, which num_ bered about 40 in Beijing, suddenly swelled

and what people hear, and if your border is completely porous (and it is) to all kinds

to over one thousand when Gorbachev came. And they were sitting around there waiting for him to come when the Tian-

of data, information and entertainment, you have created a situation in the world in

and money. And today the movement of _ -anmen Square [events unfolded]. It was money capital exceeds the movement of ~ totally unplanned... But suddenly all of the world

trade by somewhere

between

and 50 times. This has caused an enormous erosion of the concept of sovereignty and sovereign nations in the world. “Central bankers can no longer control

the price that their currency commands in a marketplace. Today in the city of New York,

about

two

trillion dollars change ~

asingle frame ofa picture overatelephone ~ line, letthe world see what was happening in Tiananmen Square. It was absolutely brand new in the world.”

that means the intellectual capital, on which

Underscoring the importance of technology he described how it is creating

governments

recent leaders in finance. Expressing his awe at the changes now occuring across the globe, Mr. Wriston paid tribute to the

pensive hobby, and it cannot work.”

~rapid growth in both the methods and

Wriston continued by describing _ lectual capital that helped...win the war. So how the technology for news-gathering — that the mobility of intellectual capital, impacts a political climate, sometimes by _ which moves people’s heads, moves on fiber optics, over satellites, and puts presre on people to treat people properly.” _ Wriston emphasised that the free flow

means by which the world communicates.

“Information technology is changing everything that we do and the way we manufacture things; from the entertainment that we see at home, to direct broadcast satellites, to transported data flow, to

dictators,

who

are repressive,

and “oo

don’t believe in freedom, will lose [it]... the same way Nazi Germany lost the aah

nformation leads to a tide of human

the political process itself..,this enormous revolution that we’re seeing in Eastern

freedom. “It spreads, and people who have ed freedom don’t wantsomething else, if

Europe and inthe Soviet Union is based, to a large extent, on information technology. Barbara Ward, the great writer, once said

look at what’s happening in Latin merica, in Eastern Europe--and while een a temporary setback there -- in

that revolutions do not occur unless people

‘We are in, I believe, the midst of one

know the alternative, Well, the alternative

f the greatest changes in the history of the

is there...in Ted Turner's CNN and Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Channel.” Wriston described how

w technicians,

| not politicians, finance ministers, or central

_ bankers, have built a global marketplace.

“The people who tied this globe of ours

together, through the marriage of computers with telecommunic ations, really had no

If you conquered territory in order

to get natural resources you create, obviously, resentment of the population. And

“intellectual capital, which is the most vocal capital of all, and people who are |

ductive.

technology, uplinks to satellites, the new Sony development where you can transmit

hands on an ordinary day. In one day’s trading, we exceed the total reserves of all the central banks in the world, So intervention in the marketplace has become an ex-

dress on March 6, 1990, is widely considered one of the most creative and engaging

which the control of territory, for which a lot of good people die, is no longer pro-

Id. You’ ve seen the whole

ure

shaken

...the

ure of work ote -what it is you’ re ng, changing. This hasanimpact onthe

you depend, will leave. “You have forces, I believe, working

for the world to force cooperation among on

just

about

the Chernobyl poison went in Europe, or if

you believe in acid rain, is totally irrelevant. The point is that no one country can solve the problem. And that means they’re being forced into cooperative ventures ina way, and with a speed, which I think is truly remarkable.”

Corporate Seminar Series September 25, 1990 Peter G. Peterson Chairman, The Blackstone Group October 16, 1990

Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Chairman & CEO, Pfizer November

15, 1990

James D. Wolfensohn President, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc.

chis being rapidly rewritten. Ithas

February 6, 1991

ous effect on the= CO

John F. Akers

ofnna-

everything.

Whether you believe in global warming, or you don’t, or whether you believe how far

Chairman, IBM Group

1920s

Anna Matyas Lahmer (1939-43) is currently living in Costa Rica with her husband and would be glad to meet with other alumni there.

Sigris Leube Snell (1950-52) has been a mem-

Jean Soula (1939-40) now lives in Lyon, France.

Janet Toohy Ferguson (1951-53) retired last July after 30 years in social work. She is now

Elizabeth McKinney Chimiel (1931-32) keeps busy

with volunteer and publicity work

several organizations

in the Tucson,

for

AZ area,

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while working on the family genealogy. Francisco $. Cespedes (1933-35) recently published his third book on education.

Heis the

retired Director of Educational Affairs of the Or-

| ganization of American States and Chairman of _ the National Council of Education in Panama. |

Aurora Galves (1935-38) is occupied with writ-

_ ing, cooking and gardening travels over =

in between

her

last few years to Kenya, AustraS.S.R., Mexico and Italy. (1935-37), Norma and

ber of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra for many years.

He is retired from the French civil service following a career with the Ministry of National Educa-

Masters Program in Counseling.

Robbert J. Schalekamp (1970-72) lives in Doorn, The Netherlands, where he is the European Human Resource Manager for Yokogawa. Elaine Shea (1971-74) is Vice President

and

1940s

Kathleen S. MacIntyre (1973-74) works with Personnel Journal Magazine as Director of Advertising in Los Angeles. Zeryhun Tafesse (1975) is the Head of Mainte-

nance and Installation for the Ethiopian Educational Mass Media Agency in Addis Ababa. Dominique G. Homberger (1977-79) lives in Baton Rouge, LA where she works with the

living in Geneva, NY. Ophelia M. Hicks (1953) is a member of the

Department of Zoology at Louisiana State University. Nancy Sydor Zafris (1978-79) has recently had a collection of short stories, The People I Know, published by the University of Georgia Press.

Director of the Council of International Programs at Western Michigan University. Henri M. Yaker (1952-53) is a retired professor

tion.

Association of Retired Teachers, the AKA Sorority

Ms. Zafris’ work won the Flannery O’Connor

and helps with activities at the Brian Nursing

Southbury, CT, enjoys being “very much retired.” Joukje Jepsen (1943-46) continues working on her memoirs. She has been traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe renewing old acquaintances,

‘Care Center for Senior Citizens in Brodnax, VA. Harriet M. Lee (1954-55) is retired and living in

award for Short Fiction. Gordon L. Best (1978-80) recently accepted the

Katharine

1930s

1950

Bonney

(1943-44)

living

_ Menlo Park, CA. Robert E. Meyers (1955-57) was named Alum-

position of Controller for the Western Hemisphere Group.

Division

of Citibank’s

among them alumni Pieter and Anne DeJong. nus of the Yearby Quincy College in Quincy, IL. Bernard R. Chalip (1945-48) is enjoying life in Donald Bain (1956-59) acts as assistant chaplain the San Francisco Bay area where he plays third © _ at the Veterans Affairs Hospital near Gainesville, base for the Alameda Islanders, a seniors team.

FL. He is also kept busy by a limited private | _ practice and on-call! chaplain service at Shands

Gibson Gray (1947-49) retires this year from the faculty of Pembroke State University, where he

” Medical Center. | Dorothy Brickman (1956-58) currently serves a Team Member for NAFSA’s Region VI, where

was Chairman of the Department of Political Science. He is living in Lumberton, NC.

Ellen McDonald Minet (1947-48) is keeping busy giving piano concerts and overseeing the rose gardens at the Planting Fields Arboretum. _ Rita A. Ortiz (1947 & 50) is a retired professor of

he is coordinator of the K-12 Program.

the Columbia Union Schoo! of aa

uri and Robert Smylie- (1958-60) remain in

kman

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Ms.

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Student

and

State

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is the Director of the

erian Church, United Nations Office:

Private

Banking

1980s John H. Porter (1981-83) works for the World Bank as an economist specializing in debt restructuring and trade policy reform in Mexico, Morocco, and Madagascar. Harry C. Sangree (1982-84) and Pano Anthos (1982-84) celebrated their company’s passing the $1 million mark in sales. The two founded Syntra, Ltd. while at International House. Paola (Pistogini) and Patrick von Aulock (1983-85) are living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with

their daughter Margherita. Patrick is working _ with the Mahammed Abdallah Sharbatly Corpo_ ration and Paola is teaching in the local Italian ‘sel ool. They are expecting their next ne child in_

“Chis Cristie in 1989 and expects hex Rite chile 4

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ure of hearing from her a couple of times a year. Marjorie Jacobs Banks (1929-30) has been writing and editing a historical novel over the past 10 years and currently spearheads The Rights of the Child Committee of the U.N.A. of Central New York. Elizabeth I. Root (1929-31) had a visit in Fort Lauderdale this past June with Sallie Davis Basombrio, an I. House friend from Lima, Peru.

after a

serves on the faculty of Hunter College’s Division

of Education where she is the Coordinator of the

Counsel for Citicorp’s Development Division.

916€-LZO0L AN ‘JOA MAN

Year. Margaret Hammond Carr (1927-28) lives in Baltimore, MD, from where we have the pleas-

Milwaukee area. Vivian F. Rilliet (1938-39) just finished her 32nd cable video program, The Silent Epidemic, the story of the Betty Clooney Center for Persons with Brain Injury.

Caroline-Manuela Adkins (1970-72) currently

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Ralph Philipson (1926-27) who recently turned 91, wrote from Sweden with fond memories of the early years and greetings for another New

Mary V. Ghetia (1949-50) is retired gratifying career of teaching.

She hopes friends will stop by if they're in the

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Canadian alumni of International House who are now its-trustees.

and wrote to let us know she survived last fall’s hurricanes on St. Simon Island. Alice H. Streng (1936-38) is recovered from an | having served on U.N. projects in Somalia and inner ear disorder which took her off her feet. — , Niger are onto their next mission in Bangladesh.

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Laflamme, Inc. which was organized by French

despite being separated by the Atlantic.

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volved with the Fondation d'Education Globale

_ AnnaBell (Leinbach) Washburn (1948-50) was _ awarded the Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy Distinguished Service Award for 1989 in recognition of her life-long work with animals. Yvonne (Clavery) and Yves Biry (1949-51)

Roberta Lusardi (1936-37) recently turned 76

in August. Anne’s book Simple Machines was recently published by B.F. Dalton. Jeffrey Fink (1984-85) has moved to Seattle internal

WA where he has joined the law firm of Perkins Coie.

medicine in Queens, NY, which allows him the

Kenneth L. Foster (1984-86) is a Foreign Serv-

opportunity to pay return visits to the House.

ice Officer with the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC.

Khatri

(1960-63)

practicing

Esen and Cano Ozgener (1961-64) are living in Nashville, TN, where Esen is a professorof child development at Tennessee State University and Cano is working in international business. _ Ilene (Martin) Toten (1961-62) and her hus-

_ band, whom she met while at the House, will celebrate 27 years of marriage this month.

_ Judith Alstadter (1962-64) appeared as a piano

vestec in Taipei, Taiwan.

Jennifer (Taylor) and Thomas Gaida

(1985-

87) have moved to Germany where they are starting their own computer consulting business.

They are expecting their first child in June. Peter Tin Kin Lee (1985-86) lives in Monterey Park outside of Los Angeles, CA where he is an

| February. She is kept busy between recitals by _ her work as director of her own piano studio.

Associate Lawyer at Rogers & Wells. Irmgard Taylor (1985) continues as a professor

Nancy McClure Merle (1962) lives in Auburn,

of German at SUNY Cortland where teaches Literature of India in English.

CA, where she is still working in real estate _ development and sales. _ Heath Drury Boote (1963) travelled to New 4 South Wales, Australia for a small family reunion

~ over the Christmas holidays. James

McCourt

(1963-64)

continues

his

_ work for the U.S. Army in Panama where he has 4 4 been Director of Education since 1965.

. Catherine Comet (1964-67) has recently returned to New York where she has been ap4% - pointed the Music Director Designate of the _ American Symphony. | Judy Martin Beach (1965-67) has her own music studio in New Orleans where she teaches

Wellington Chu (1985-86) is working for In-

with the Greenwich Village Orchestra in

: soloist

1 piano and voice. She’s kept busy singing with pie Symphony, raising two teenagers, playing | golf and tennis, but still loves to dance. Margo Harrison (1965-66) is serving in her rth year as a Governor of the National Acad-

she also

Thomas Gerginis (1986-87) is finishing his last year in law school in Windsor, Ontario. Ferdinando Pennarola (1986-87) is a professor of organizational planning at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Nando recently met up with

a friend in this field, Phil Anderson, at Cornell. Karun Singh (1986-89) works for Hartley House, a senior citizen's social service organization. Next fall will mark the beginning of the following special anniversary years. Alumni from these years are especially encouraged to write in with news about themselves and friends with whom they have remained in contact. Tenth Anniversary Year 1980-1981 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Year

1965-1966

emy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Marion G. Roenke (1967) of Geneva,

NY is

aving retired as a New York State secon-

Fiftieth Anniversary Year

y school teacher of World Cultures.

1930-1931

‘International House World Newsletter

Vol. 25 No. 2, Spring 1990 dIvd

Felicite Laflamme Hoffman (1924-27) is in-

They have kept in touch over 50 years,

of San Francisco, was ranked #3 in singles.

1970s ber.

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Benjamin Bardin (1924-26) won the 1988 ‘ national hard court men’s doubles tennis cham_ pionship in his age class. His partner, Ken Beer

A newsletter for alumni and friends of International House _ John Naughton, Editor; Russell Baker, Alumni News Special Assistant. ‘ _ Photography, Hironobu Kato, Ken Klopsch, John Wells. organization, a copy of our‘last annual financial report is available from the f State Office of Charities Registration, Albany, NY 12231, or from the Development ete Dige. ajo ‘York, NY” 10027- 3916.