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----- From July 2008 AALFNY Newsletter -----

● "In spring 2006, the Petergailis publishing house released a Finnish translation of Nadine Vitols-Dixon's book: A Life's Journey: Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia." (From: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, http://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/news/press-releases/2006/august/09-1/) Nadine wrote to us and added: "The biography was originally published in French in 2005, then updated and translated into English (by myself) in 2006, and finally into Italian last year (not to mention a Finnish edition which was out of my control."

----- From December 2007 AALFNY Newsletter -----

● "February 13, 2007: Mrs. Danièle Gorlin Lassner recalls a 1987 visit with Rebbitzen Chaya Mushka Schneerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - Rabbi Menachem M Schneerson of righteous memory. In their meeting, a glimpse of life as a Rebbetzin is revealed." (You Tube video. To see the interview, click on link below)

----- From December 2006 AALFNY Newsletter -----

● The publishing career of Bruno A. Quinson (now retired) "has included positions as President and CEO of Henry Holt and Co., Inc. and President of the General Books Division at the Macmillan Publishing Co."

----- From February 2006 AALFNY Newsletter -----

Georges Ripka is a theoretical physicist, now retired. He lives in his country house 50 km south of Brive la Gaillarde, France and would love to have some news of his former classmates. For more info type 'Georges Ripka' on Google.

----- From Winter 2003-2004 AALFNY Newsletter -----

Bruno Quinson writes: “I retired from Henry Holt & Co. in May 1966. I now sit on various-book publishing boards and not-for-profit institutions’ boards. I also study watercolor painting at the National Academy of Design in NYC.”

-----From Winter 2002/2003 AALFNY Newsletter -----

Georges Ripka, a physicist in Paris, dropped us a line to say: “Anyone still alive, who might remember me, please make yourself known!”









by Georges Ripka ('55)
by Georges Ripka ('55)

Bruno A. Quinson ('55)
Bruno A. Quinson ('55)
TOP: Georges Ripka ('55); BOTTOM: By Georges Ripka and others
TOP: Georges Ripka ('55); BOTTOM: By Georges Ripka and others
TOP: By Nadine Vitols Dixon ('55); BOTTOM: Translated by Nadine Vitols Dixon
TOP: By Nadine Vitols Dixon ('55); BOTTOM: Translated by Nadine Vitols Dixon