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1968 (1 of 2 -more recent)----- From December 2007 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Jean-Pierre (J.P.) Harpignies wrote: "I came across Margot Roosevelt (who was in my class in 6eme) recently, after 45 years or so (at a big environmental conference I help organize annually at which she was one of many panelists). She is a noted journalist. She went to Harvard, worked for the Washington Post, then was a Paris correspondent for Time magazine and is now covering energy and environmental issues for the Los Angeles Times and lives in LA. I remembered her because she sat behind me in class and (probably deservedly, bratty 10 year old that I was) hit me on the head quite hard with that massive American History textbook when I made some obnoxious comment about one of the Roosevelts. There's much I have forgotten about my childhood and adolescence, but I guess that jolt on the head helped anchor my memory of her." ● Ivan Varlamoff wrote: “I have worked for 30 years in international sales and marketing – mostly in mineral exploration and now for a company that manufactures geotechnical instruments. My work has taken me and my family to Tehran, Iran, where two of my three sons were born, Belgium and many locations throughout the U.S. I have traveled extensively for business and to many remote sites. I rode by helicopter into the Amazon, floated on a dhow in the Persian Gulf, flew in a small plane into the Artic, and traveled by donkey up the Andes where oxygen bottles were standard fare at the camp. I am married to the former Susan Jezsik for 33 years and have three grown sons, Pierre, Neil, and Paul who are university graduates and gainfully employed – the biggest accomplishment of our lives. My wife is on the faculty of the University of Georgia where she works promoting their environmental programs. We currently live in metro Atlanta, Georgia. My last years at the Lycée Français were memorable and I am very pleased to reconnect with my former friends and fellow students.” ● Philippe Velay wrote: "Philippe and Lydia Velay are living in Switzerland, Chêne-Bougeries, next to Geneva since 2003. They have been working in a small but efficient NGO, the A.S.E.D. (Association for Aid to Children destituted), carrying out different plans in Albania, Madagascar, Bolivia and southern India." ● Marc Salz wrote: "I have just created a new blogspot called 'the salzmines'. 'The salzmines' was a term my mother(and others) used to describe my father's art dealing business which was in our home in New York on East 76th Street. I do not want this blog site to just be a promotion for my own paintings but also use it for telling a few stories, a few observations about the past and present art worlds. I would also like to make it known when any paintings my father had come up for auction since most of them are know making the trip back to Europe (and beyond) after being bought by a new generation of collectors. I will intersperse these facts with news of my paintings and maybe my brother's (if he feels like it). Here's the site: http://salzmines.blogspot.com/search?q= (Or, click on link below) Hope you enjoy it." ● “Samer Khanachet is President of United Gulf Management, Inc. and the Arab Bankers Association of North America. He has spent over 25 years managing investment banking companies with a focus on developing innovative approaches to matching capital and opportunities between the Middle East and the US. He earned B.S. degrees from MIT in Chemical Engineering and in Management Science, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He worked on the initial development of Kuwait's capital markets and the financing of industrial projects, providing technical, financial, and strategic support through the Industrial Bank of Kuwait. In 1980, Mr. Khanachet joined the Sharjah Group, a Kuwaiti-owned investment company with offices in London and throughout the Arabian Gulf.” (http://www.harvardarabalumni.org/openconference22.php) ● Maria Oppenheim wrote: "I have moved back to a suburb right on the outskirts of Wiesbaden. It’s like a country village – very romantic -you drive through a forest past an inn where you can stop over for a snack. At night it looks like some leftover from a Robin Hood movie. But there is a train station bringing you to Wiesbaden in 15 minutes and there are buses too. There are practically no shops except a bakery, and a butchery which doesn’t interest me as a vegetarian. There is a fitness studio in the former farmhouse I live in. I don’t join in, I just hear the one-two-one-two and get a bad conscience. My horse is in the neighboring village with four others, changing pastures every couple of days in the summer and staying under a plastic roof in winter in a large paddock. We collect the crottin very correctly. Pam doesn’t get enough hay because she’s an old lady now and she doesn’t eat as fast as the others (and she knows when to stop!) I have similar worries with my almost 99 year-old Dad in Nice who doesn’t want to eat; or, let’s say he doesn’t feel hunger or thirst. I’m due there on the 19th and will see for myself. I will fly with my daughter Jessica (29 years old). She just finished her studies (Marketing and Chinese) and will get married to a Chinese fellow in May in Germany, and then again in October in Xian, China. I am learning Chinese now. My other daughter, 'Our Diva' Eve is 31 now. She will join us in Nice for a few days with her boyfriend Thomas, with whom she will be moving in shortly before Christmas. He’s Danish and lives in London. She’s up to more singing now. She is a Madonna look-alike and has just won a best look-alike contest, and will be on the BBC, where she will be competing with all the other look-alikes. My job situation hasn’t gotten much better but I love what I’m doing. I’d love to sell more, but I might learn Chinese sooner than selling my artwork! I would need a gallerist/art dealer but I don’t know how to get the right contact. I get shy when it comes to those things. I email Marc Salz every now and then. He put me in contact with a very nice colleague in Mainz – an artist who has shows nearby. So we go to each other’s shows…...I wouldn’t mind a reunion one of these days- when do you think we could organize something?" ● Greg Gould sent us this announcement regarding his Foodolgy venture: "Greetings, Saturday the 15th of December at noon , Joy Am 1550 will broadcast the pilot episode of ‘Foodology’ featuring interviews with Eric Garretson, Director of the Downtown Growers Market Chuck O’Herron-Alix, veggiegrowers.net, and Robin Seydel, Membership Coordinator of LaMontanita Co-Op. Foodology aspires to serve the food and agriculture community by promoting local businesses and introducing them to a wider audience. Eating local and seasonal foods will automatically improve health and well being." ----- From June 2007 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Dan Morgenstern wrote: "I am so glad I stumbled on this website, seeing names from the past. As for as my story, after Rutgers College, I spent a few years in Brussels at ULB Med School prior to a transfer back to NYC where I got my MD from Albert EInstein. Many years of cardiothoracic, vascular and trauma surgery followed in several states here in the US as well as in Israel. After getting an MBA in Information Technology, I left practice and am presently a consultant in Clinical Transformation (electronic medical records in hospitals) for Accenture. I would love to hear from 'anciens'." ● Marianne (Brugere) Raingeard est vice-présidente au tribunal de grande instance de Nanterre. ● "La Française, Mme Françoise Kuhn, a présenté, dans le cadre de la Foire du livre de San José, la biographie de Walter Ferguson qu'elle a écrite en collaboration avec l'Université d'enseignement à distance (UNED). M.Ferguson est le plus grand représentant de la musique « calypso » du Costa Rica. Le livre s'intitule « Walter Ferguson, el rey del calipso »." (Ambassade de France au Costa Rica, http://spip.ambafrance-cr.org/IMG/pdf/H060630.pdf) ● "Francine Egger-Sider (M.L.S., Columbia University; M.A.L.S., International Studies, Graduate Center/CUNY) has been the coordinator of Technical Services at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, since 1989. She has taught both credit courses offered by the Library and has been involved in the assessment of instruction at the institutional level, using rubrics. Currently, she chairs the Steering Committee for Periodic Program Review of the Library, which is part of LaGuardia's College-wide assessment effort. [82] With Jane Devine, she is co-author of two publications on the Invisible Web: "Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in the Academic Library" Journal of Academic Librarianship (2004), and "Google, the Invisible Web, and Librarians: Slaying the Research Goliath" published in the journal Internet Reference Services Quarterly (2005)."(http://www.yorku.ca/wilu2007/programme/speakers.htm) |
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