More identifications

#38 is Sylvia Freed, #11 is Julie Dunn, #12 is Jennifer Bigelow (I think), #40 is Kathy Nielson, #74 might be Marita Diesterhaft. Is #4 Susan Fovre? Is #10's first name Margaret?

Another coincidence: Lynell Marchese-Zogbo's daughter, Wane Zogbo, was my student at Occidental in 2008. Unbelievable.

Toujours au Mans: Candi, Robert, AK, Paula (Burtis), Jean-Pierre...Alain, Pierre et Jean-Pierre de

 

En route for Les 24 h du Mans... We slept "rough", à la belle étoile, next to the cars, two nights on the way in the woods, one night sur le circuit, and one night coming back, in a clover field.  Picnic lunch on Day-2 in the woods somewhere between Montguyon and Montendre. 

 

Was I the only one who thought to bring an umbrella to France? 

We went in 2 cars: Alain and Pierre's 4 CV and their parents' 4L

Top to bottom: Paula Burtis, Anna Kay Ross, Alain Bourg, Robert Dahlstet, Jean-Pierre de Barbeyrac de St Maurice, Pierre Bourg, Jean-Pierre le noir (John Dennis)

The start of something big!

The start of something else big!

Picnic... in the woods again, the next day on the way back to Pau. Just the four of us, AK, Alain, Candi and Robert.  The other car had gone on ahead.  

I'm not sure, but I think both Candi and I are holding bottles of vin ordinaire (1 F le litre)

Des jeunes au Mans 1968

AK and Alain will remember this...

Hector et Robert... mais où ?

Villa Formose 1968

? Who is # 48?

Who is number 48 on "the list"?  Someone from Van Nuys whose last name starts with a "G".

? Does "Le Drugstore" still exist?

Tim asks, Does Le Drugstore still exist?   Souviens-tu du 'Locomotive du Grandpapa'?  (biggest damn banana split I remember ever seeing)

? Paula Burtis's roommate ? Who wore lovely twin-sets ?

Who lived in town with Paula Burtis?

Who lived down the hall from Leslie Gerson in the dorms and wore lovely twin-sets? 

Tim  asks:  Does Le Drugstore still exist?   Souviens-tu du 'Locomotive du Grandpapa'?  (biggest damn banana split I remember ever seeing)?

Robin, Jean-Pierre, Del

What a heartbreaking bit of news about Jean-Pierre. It seems like everyone has a picture of him in their files, too. He made an impression on all of us.

So, here we are on one of our excursions. This was taken at Le Col de Roncevaux.

Robin Creighton, Jean Pierre Dennis, and Del Zettelberg.

Helene Neu & Robin Creighton Genat

Helene and I had hitch hiked to San Sebastian, Spain, for a few days, as I recall. Two swarthy Spaniards had picked up the two California virgins stupid enough to get into the car. We remember this trip, in part, for the speed with which we expertly exited the vehicle before it had come to a complete stop. So here we are, safe and sound, at a café with this great view.

Gayle Likens and Ginger Burns

It appears as though I mailed this to someone with lines drawn out to the margins to identify by name what seem to me now to be perfectly clear: wine, cheese, pastries, bread, apple. I did not get permission from the subjects to publish this photo.

Ginger Burns and Gayle Likens

Ginger and Gayle are mugging for me in the entry to our city digs at 68 rue du Château d'Eau. Ginger and Gayle had the bedroom on the 1er étage chez Madame Ducruc. I was assigned a little room on the floor above. However, I couldn't actually SLEEP in that room. I had to descend the interior, unheated stairwell every night by 10pm and sleep on a cot in Madame's salon.

Le 8 août 1968, Paris - Candi and Anna Kay

A la plage - ???

Le beau château d’eau à Talence

Candi à la fac

au lac d'Uzein

Ken Joe and John (rocking with the ship)

Jean-Pierre et Robert (Londres)

Jean-Pierre et Candi (Londres)

My year in Bdx--Susan (Blanc) Grayson

Yes, thank you Anna Kay and subsequent bloggers for bringing the Bordeaux experience back to life. It's more exciting than I would have imagined to see and hear about people I actually think about, believe it or not. I've already spent a few hours on this blog and, like Anna Kay, really need to get back to my work.

Since that year in France I've seen Paula Feldman Goodman (in grad school and as a friend) and Amy and Phil. In 1969 or 1970 I saw Julie Dunn (who doesn't resemble the photo posted on the link) and Nena Nocita. Ann Curl Joubert and Jay Golden were in grad school at UCLA.

It looks as if some of you had more fun in Bordeaux than I remember having....

Here's my post-Bordeaux story. In 1969 I married Richard (Grayson), a professor of music at Occidental College. We live in Santa Monica and are still happily and joyously married, but he retired in 2000 and is teaching music theory part time. I got my Ph.D. in French (18e s.) and, faced with a horrible job market in 1978, earned a second Ph.D. (and a license) in social/clinical psychology. I have a tiny private practice but it's not my main career. For the last 30 years I've been a professor of French at Occidental. Occidental, by the way, is the home of the world's most famous transfer student, Barack Obama, whose name I remember from 1979-81 before he left for Columbia U.. Couldn't believe it was the same person as the student activist.

When I took Richard to Bordeaux and showed him where I had lived (50, rue Forestier), he was aghast! The street was so depressing and isolated. Though we've been to France several times since we've not returned to Bdx.

It is so sad to hear about John, whom we called Jean Pierre. He and Candi and I went to Switzerland in Feb. or March (hi, Candi and Robert!). I've often thought about him, Florentia (hi, Florentia!), Beverly O. and Sylvia Freed, Virginia (Ginger), Aleen Grabow, Helene Neu and others. It would be lovely to get in touch, however briefly, though our lives have diverged greatly.

Back to work (re-reading __La Chanson de Roland__ for a class tomorrow).

Bonnes bises,

Susan

My year in Bordeaux [Martha Salinas]

Hello,

I am excited about reconnecting with my fellow 68-69 Bordeaux EAPers

Like you, my EAP year in France changed my life, and all of you played a significant role in the process.

I look at those pictures you posted and I remember how young, slim and carefree we were. To this day, when I visit France, I feel like I'm nineteen going on twenty again. And I remember when I was footloose and fancy free, experimenting, exploring and living a year of adventure and learning.

Martha

Update

About 55 of us have been definitely "found".  For about 34 of these, we have confirmed contact information--either they've answered back, or one of you has said they have contact info.  Not bad for a couple of weeks work.  I think we've about reached the end of the relatively "easy" searching (at least for me). Hopefully, some of you will be able to take this a bit further.  I must clean up the working list I've been using so that it is useful to others besides myself.  As promised earlier, I will then send it out to everyone I have email addresses for.  If you have any that you haven't already passed on to me, send them soon so that I can add them to the e-mailing list (and also to the blog team).

Versailles, just after we'd arrived in France. Leslie Gerson, Candi Hall, Linda Cozadd, Anna Kay Ross

Blogger Users' Manual

As I've said, this is a case of the blind leading the blind, but here goes.

Everyone can see the blog, and everyone can "comment" on posts (this can be changed, but for now it's open access).  Only "contributors" can post.  As I find/receive your email addresses, I send out an invitation to be a contributor.  I'm not sure what happens at your end, but I imagine you log on and have to create a blogger account? [Can someone confirm this.]

-> Go to the blog and log on with "Sign in" in the upper right-hand corner.
-> Click on "New post" to post. 
-> To add photos to your post, click on the little photo icon, "browse" to find the photo you want to insert.  I find that positioning text around the photos is a bit tricky since this post window is too small.  I'm not sure how to handle that. [Any hints?]  Skip just posted videos.  Did you do that with the "photo" icon, Skip?
-> When you're done, click "Publish post".
-> If you want to tweak your post after it's been "published", just click on the little pencil at the end of your post. 

Once you're logged in, you can also look in "Help", of course.

A Life-Changing Year for Candi and Robert!

How fortunate we were to live in France in 1968-69! In such a time of challenge to the status quo throughout the world (e.g., the continuing civil rights movement in the U.S. and resistance to the insanity of Vietnam, the struggle for liberty in what was then Czechoslovakia, the legacy of «les évènements» in France, etc.), how wonderful it was to be immersed in such a rich culture and to study such wonderful literature! No doubt each of us was changed in innumerable ways and enriched beyond words by our shared and individual experiences.

You'll notice in that last group photo that Robert and Candi are not standing anywhere near each other, yet somehow we were married just one year later in the Santa Barbara mountains—the best of all outcomes for the two of us from that first year abroad—and we've shared another 40 years of wonder together since then.

We returned to Bordeaux for another year in 1972-73 and lived about a block away from Place de la Victoire. Robert took his Master's exams in French there that year and worked as a “lecteur” at the faculté des lettres. Candi taught English at ENSAM. Both jobs required a grand total of about 12 hours each week, so we had lots of time to become better acquainted with the sud-ouest, and more importantly, we continued and cemented some great friendships that have continued to this day, and which became a big part of our lives. Since some of our best friends from those days now live in the région toulousaine, that's where we usually end up when in France.

When we returned to the U.S. in mid-1973, Candi was pregnant, and we needed some kind of income. So Robert took a job teaching German and English (eventually teaching French, along with several other subjects). Trying to figure out what to do for a career, he completed two more MA's: one in counseling and another in business management, but then he decided to try making some little difference in education, and he became a principal. Meanwhile, Candi bravely went back for a 2^nd degree, this time in a practical field like science. She has worked for the past 30 years in a hospital laboratory, now exclusively as a bacteriologist. Life is full of surprises...

We have 2 children: Lara, 27, got a degree in psychology and currently works in a Sonoma County winery (though she may be leaving soon for work in New Zealand), and Stefan, 35, is an electrical engineer in San Diego. He's married to Andreia, from Brazil, and has 2 boys of his own, ages 11 and 13.

We count ourselves most fortunate to live in beautiful Northern California. We have been hosting international winery interns in the fall for several years (several from France, but also from Hungary, Chile, Spain, and Italy), in the hopes that perhaps we might “pay forward” a bit of the generous hospitality we experienced so often in France when we were young.

Fortunately, we can still speak French (though not so well as long ago), and we are always looking for good reads in French, so send your recommendations!

EAP U Bx Talence campus, #7

Campus is a bit bleak and depressing; too much grafitti. Many new buildings since we were there.

EAP U Bx Talence campus, #6 (How Times Have Changed)

EAP U Bx Talence campus, #5

EAP U Bx Talence campus, #4

EAP U Bx Talence campus, #3

EAP U Bx Talence campus #2

December 2009 video of U. Bordeaux Talence

This is part of a video cam series I took December 5, 2009, at our old University haunt in Talance Pessac. I did not do these for this blog but wanted you to see what its like now. There are 7 parts to this set, some very short. The last one, #7 is of a dining-restaurant complex on campus that is supposed to look like a ship.
Go through them one at a time. This is no. 1. All shortcomings in these videos, including stupid narration comments are my fault. I ain't no Cecil B.
Skip Conde' (OK Harold Conde')

My personalized video with selected slides

The signs in front of the Villa Formose

Unfortunately, they aren't there any more.

A third! Wow, that's fabulous. I have a Classmates Gold membership, but was unable to find Patricia Cunningham O'Hara.

Update before I take a break!

Hello everyone,

We have found about a third of us.  I am a bit "sleuthed-out" and really must get back to work at my "real" job.  Here's a list of who we have confirmed email addresses for: Alexander, Blanc, Condé, Cozadd, Crain, Craven, Dahlstet, Eng, Farrar, Feldman, Freiberg, Gerson, Iwata, Jackson, Jehly, Kunz, Ross, Salinas, Schuyten, Scott, Varea, Yturralde.

I also think we have found (or might have found, for those in parentheses) Baily, (Bloom), Chenault, (Cornell), (Cunningham), Davie, (Fong), Forve, (Grabow), Harrison, Humble, Likens, Marchese, McArthur, Muench, Munck, Nelson, Neu, (Nocita), Ornstein, Ruiz, Tarr, Thomas, Zettel and Zetterberg. I'm waiting for more information, either from those of you who have said you know how to contact them, or when they answer messages I have sent (email addresses found on the Web, Facebook, LinkedIn)... I have some very sketchy leads on a few more.

Paula Burtis, John Dennis, Joe Gutierrez, Dennis Nadale and possibly Jolaine Munck, have died.

I have found websites with photos of people who might be Virginia Burns-Hanson, Suzette Del Monaco (photo on Facebook) and Julia (Julie?) Dunn (ETSU faculty?).   I found Patricia (Trish) Cunningham O'Hara (Los Gatos '66) on Classmates but am not a "Gold" member so can't send her a message.  If anybody out there is, could you do so?

I have all of this information on a Word document.  When I have a minute, I'll get it out to everyone I have email addresses for (my growing "EAP" mailing list :-) ).

Please accept the "invites" I've been sending (to be "contributors") so that you can post your news for everyone to see.  (If you haven't received one, let me know.) After you've accepted the invitation, go to the blog and "Sign in" (in the upper right hand corner).  Click on "New post" to post.

[This is us in the EAP brochure "Study Abroad 1970-71".  Who else is in the picture besides John Dennis?]

Remembering [Sonya Varea Hammond]

Thanks Anna for setting this up. I do have fond memories of my year in France. The Aurelia - being told that it used to be the second the smallest ship still sailing the Atlantic, until the smallest sunk, and now the Aurelia was the smallest... getting three miles out from NY harbor and seeing everyone (underage at home) swarm the tiny on-board bars...the last day, coming up top, in the early morning fog waiting to glimpse the first sign of England...entering the harbor and seeing Bobbies, and feeling like I was entering a movie set...in France being greeted by Mr. Garcia as we got off the bus, he calling us each by name, even though this was our first time to meet. That always impressed me, and taught me a lesson, also professed by Dale Carnegie, about the importance of a person's name.

Ah, many more memories, but that's enough for today. An update on myself. After Bordeaux, I returned to UCSB where I was an RA in Santa Rosa dorm my final year. After graduating mid-year I went back to France, to a suburb of Paris to help run a little neighborhood grocery store with a fellow I had met in Pau. We returned to Santa Barbara the following fall, me for my MA and teaching credential, he went to SB City College and was elected Student Body President. We had a daughter, Karima, who is now 35 and living in London with her husband and their two children. My marriage didn't last, so I raised Karima by myself and my mom's help until I married my current husband George, and we've been happily married for 21 years. He was a controller for Nestle his entire career, then retired and now has a full-time post-retirement job with Classis Residence by Hyatt in Monterey as their accounting manager.

I have had several 'careers'. I was a parent educator in Santa Barbara for the County Office of Education for two years, even though I had never parented! But, it was good training for me. Then I taught ESL in Salinas high schools for seven years before going back to school in Arizona to get an MBA in international marketing. The international job never materialized, so I came back to Salinas and got a good job as a controller for an ag company. I started looking for something else after nine years there and found the job of my dreams with the University of California. I am the County Director of Cooperative Extension here in Monterey County. I oversee a group of UC academics who conduct agricultural research at the local level.

With retirement in mind, about five years ago we bought a lakeside house in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in South Carolina. It's about one hour directly south of Ashville NC. The kids call it 'the holiday house' and beg to go there all the time. We love the peace and beauty of the area. We also love the city of Greenville SC, about 30 miles away, and so we bought an 'urban condo', right downtown on the river to live in with the idea of working there. The downturn in the economy has delayed our plans, so we rent it out until we can move there, in about 18 - 24 months.

Thanks again, Anna, for setting up the blog.

Anna Kay (Ross) Bourg

Alain and I were married in 1970 in California and returned to Pau where he was a Math teacher at a lycée privé.  Then Pullman WA (WSU), Pau again (military service), Woods Hole MA (WHOI), Bern CH and finally, in 1981, a permanent job for Alain, an environmento-hydro-geo-chemist, in Orléans (BRGM).  I started translating in the early 80s for the BRGM, initially doing mostly technical reports, and later branching into Environmental and Risk Assessments as the field evolved. I taught English to science students and TOEFL prep courses for many years, both at the U of Orléans and the U of Pau, and for a time also counseled American exchange students – a job I loved, but unfortunately could never turn into a permanent job.  

            
About 13 years ago, Alain landed a job at the U of Pau.  We found a little abandoned "farm" for sale in Bosdarros, 8 km south of Pau. It was like coming home after 25 years of wandering!  We also inherited a Bourg-family house in the Ardèche (St Thomé). So now we have TWO old stone house to keep up!!! (Bosdarros and St Thomé are easy to find on Google maps and elsewhere on the Internet. Let us know if you are over and looking for a place to stay near Provence. The house in St Thomé is a bit rustic but has all you need.)

            
Daughter, Kristina (36), and her little family (husband and 3 children) are living in Angola right now.  Son, Ian (34), lives in Berkeley and his wife, in Cambridge MA!  Our youngest, Kathryn (31), and her boyfriend live in Bordeaux (Eh oui! rue Nérigean, entre l'église St Michel et l'église Ste Croix).

           

? Match the names and faces

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Names taken from the old list. Please correct any errors or omissions.

Tim Alexander (87), Nanette Baget (60), Barbara Baily (53), Ethel Balber (7), Rhoda Basil (58), Martha Baskett (13), Kathy Beers (20), Jennifer Bigelow (12), Susan Blanc (52), Judy Bloom (28), Karen Boulton (27), Tammy Brown (68), Ginger Burns (48), Paula Burtis (not in photo), Kay Carbutt ( ), Carol Carico ( ), Suzanne Chenault ( ), Skip Condé (55), Kathleen Cornell (2), Pamela Coutchie (9), Linda Cozadd (not in photo), Kim Crain ( ), Kathryn Craven (47), Robin Creighton (22), Patricia Cunningham ( ), Ann Curl (3), Robert Dahlstet (5), Tate Davie (50), Jackie Davies (44?), Sally Deitz (31), Susette Del Monaco (16), John Dennis (18), Alexandra Dewar (75), Marietta Disterheft (74), Julie Dunn (11), Elyse Eng (71), Judy Farrar (49), Rena Feigenbaum (54), Paula Feldman (82), Elizabeth Fischer (70), Eugene Fong (29), Susan Forve (4?), Sylvia Freed (38), Ken Freiberg (83), David Freeman (88), Leslie Gerson ( ), Jay Golden (65), Aleen Grabow (41), Joe Gutierrez (1), Candi Hall (23), Michael Halpern (21), Jane Harkness (64), Holly Harrison (45), Scott Humble (79), Amy Iwata (66), Phil Jackson (19), Janet Jehly (77), Marie Kunz (39), Douglas Lee (67), Jane Lee (33), Hector Leon (not in photo?), Berenice Liebig (43), Gayle Likens (42), Lynell Marchese (46), Wendy Matelson (32), Seonaid McArthur (30), Virginia McKinley (17), Margaret Muench (63), Dennis Nadale (69), Jennifer Nelson ( ), Helene Neu (37), Kathryn Nielsen (40), Neena Nocita (61), Beverly Ornstein ( ), Nancy Poolman ( ), Alicia Rodarte (8), Anna Kay Ross (not in photo), Alejandra Ruiz (59), Martha Salinas (14), Eli Schoenfeld (86), Meredith Schuyten ( ), Florentia Scott (25), Patricia Shaw (24), Roberta Smith (35?), Melinda Tarr ( ), Elin Taylor (34), Sandra Thomas (57), Cynthia Thornburg (81), William Travis ( ), Sonya Varea (62), Carol Wahl (26), Michael White (6), Mary Lou Wills (15), Margaret Wilson ( ), Marcia Wooster (73), Ester York ( ), Evelyn Yturralde (56), Margaret Zettel ( ), Del Zetterberg (72), Maryse La Salmonie (76), Mr Louis Garcia (89), Dr Eugen Weber (85), Dr Andrew Lossky (84) [N.B. de Maryse: Les 3 illustres inconnus au premier plan sont de gauche à droite : le recteur Babin (c'est lui qui a signé l'accord Université de Bordeaux/Université de Californie avec William Allaway en 1962 = création d'UOEAP)), le consul des US (peut-être?) ou le directeur du Crous ; la dame est Mme Babin, épouse du recteur. La photo a été prise sur les marches du Rectorat de Bordeaux, cours d'Albret.]

 Numerical order

Joe Gutierrez (1), Kathleen Cornell (2), Ann Curl (3), Susan Forve (4?), Robert Dahlstet (5), Michael White (6), Ethel Balber (7), Alicia Rodarte (8), Pamela Coutchie (9), Margaret??? (10), Julie Dunn (11), Jennifer Bigelow (12), Martha Baskett (13), Martha Salinas (14), Mary Lou Wills (15), Susette Del Monaco (16), Virginia/Ginger? McKinley (17), John Dennis (18), Phil Jackson (19), Kathy Beers (20), Michael Halpern (21), Robin Creighton (22), Candi Hall (23), Patricia Shaw (24), Florentia Scott (25), Carol Wahl (26), Karen Boulton (27), Judy Bloom (28), Eugene Fong (29), Seonaid McArthur (30), Sally Deitz (31), Wendy Matelson (32), Jane Lee (33), Elin Taylor (34), Roberta Smith??? (35), Sylvia Freed (38), Marie Kunz (39), Kathryn Nielsen (40), Aleen Grabow (41), Gayle Likens (42), Berenice Liebig (43), Jackie Davies (44?), Holly Harrison (45), Lynell Marchese (46), Kathryn Craven (47), Ginger Burns (48), Judy Farrar (49), Tate Davie (50), Susan Blanc (52), Barbara Baily (53), Rena Feigenbaum (54), Skip Condé (55), Evelyn Yturralde (56), Sandra Thomas (57), Rhoda Basil (58), Alejandra Ruiz (59), Nanette Baget (60), Sonya Varea (62), Margaret Muench (63), Jane Harkness (64), Jay Golden (65), Amy Iwata (66), Douglas Lee (67), Tammy Brown (68), Dennis Nadale (69), Elizabeth Fischer (70), Elyse Eng (71), Del Zetterberg (72), Marcia Wooster (73), Marietta Disterheft (74), Alexandra Dewar (75), Maryse La Salmonie (76), Janet Jehly (77), Scott Humble (79), Cynthia Thornburg (81), Paula Feldman (82), Ken Freiberg (83), Dr Andrew Lossky (84), Dr Eugen Weber (85), Eli Schoenfeld (86), Tim Alexander (87), David Freeman (88), Mr Louis Garcia (89)

Andrew Lossky

Obituary Andrew Lossky Historian

Eugen Weber

Obituary Eugen Weber Historian

Florentia Scott

Thank you, Anna Kay, for setting this up.

That year in Bordeaux was certainly transformative for me in many ways. Things I did there and people I met set the direction for the rest of my life.

I met Jacques Janson at the "resto-u" in Bordeaux. We fell in love and decided to marry. He couldn't easily immigrate to the US; I couldn't easily immigrate to France. Jacques spoke no English. I remembered seeing in high school a film about a place in Canada where only French was spoken. It turned out to be fairly easy for both of us to immigrate to Canada. So off we went, to a land that neither of us had ever even visited. It seemed perfectly logical at the time . . .

The marriage ended after 10 years. We have two grown sons. Born in Montreal, both have now settled in California. They each have two delightful little girls. Jacques worked for a couple of French-language publishing companies, then for the Canadian government, as an editor and speechwriter. He also holds an elected position in the French government, which is enlightened enough to have seats in the legislature to represent its citizens living outside the country. We are still on cordial terms.

After a successful career in translation and public relations, I semi-retired to Vancouver Island a few years ago. I do some free-lance writing, mainly for the local newspaper. Some of my poems, short stories, and essays have also been published over the years. I spend winters in California, to be closer to my family. If I can ever figure out how to get affordable medical care in the US, I will probably move back.

I think of the people I was close to in Bordeaux from time to time, and wonder how their lives turned out. I'm not in touch with any of them at present. It would be nice to hear.

Regards to all,

Florentia Scott
(Fifth from the left in the front row)

Please post!

Hello everyone,

If you think this is a good idea, please post!  News, contact info, photos :-) ANYTHING you think the others might be interested in!  I didn't start this so that I could advertise myself.  In fact, I feel a bit uncomfortable being out here in the public eye.  I started it so that all of us could come together. 

It's not my blog.  In fact, I don't see it as a "blog" at all. It's a bulletin board  -- a cyber "Centre Californien"! (Wish I could pass around one of Mr. Garcia's wonderful boxes of assorted cookies!)

I retyped the list of all of us that Candi and Bob sent, and have spent the last couple of days trawling the Net, trying to "fill in the blanks" (married names for women, email addresses, mailing addresses, other miscellaneous info...).  There are still more blank that filled-in blanks, but Wow! what an eye opener.  So many of us are doing so many amazing things.  When you look back at the photos taken in 1968-69, we all looked a bit like clones--maybe not quite so much as students in former years had, but still.  Most of us surely came from similar backgrounds, went to similar high schools and were majoring in similar subjects on relatively similar and not yet totally disrupted UC campuses.  (Those of us at UCSB hadn't yet burned the BofA.) --It seems everyone has gone out and broken the mold!  I don't imagine any of us turned into Donna Reed (bless her heart, didn't we all love her) or her masculine equivalent -- even those who opted to become part- or even full-time stay-at-home-parents.  We broke the mold when we boarded the Aurelia. So, what's your story?

Leslie Gerson keeps up with one of our "monitrices" from Pau, Nicole Grangé (now Mme Jacques Palard) and I'm sure I can find contact information for Maryse (Mr. Garcia's secretary who filled his shoes after he retired). I will invite them to joins us also, if they'd like.

Eh voilà.  Assez pour aujourd'hui.  A vous, maintenant.  (Post an old photo of yourself when you write in so everybody can put a face with a name, or describe where you are in the group photo.)

John Dennis

One of the reasons I started this blog is that John died before I had contacted him.  He was one of my close friends in Bordeaux and we saw each other the following year on campus at UCSB.  I remember meeting his mother at commencement (1970).  Then he went his way and I went mine.  The years passed.  I couldn't even remember his last name.  To us (Alain and I) he was always just "Jean-Pierre le noir" (I think his middle name was Pierre, or maybe Peter) because we had several other good friends named "Jean-Pierre".  Here's a picture of John, me, Alain, Jean-Pierre de Barbeyrac and Pierre (Alain's brother) at the Le Mans auto races, Sept 28, 1968. 
A few years ago, I found his last name and started searching for him on the Internet.  Lo and behold, there he was at St Mary's, only a hop, skip and a jump from Berkeley where our son was a student.  I wrote him an email, but when he didn't reply (maybe he didn't even get mine), I let it go, telling myself that I'd try again some day...  "Some day" never came.  If only I had had even one day with him, or even one long email each way, I would be able to accept his death with more serenity.  It was my fault. I waited too long.

http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/news-and-events/special/john-dennis/

So, I have decided that we must not wait for "some day".  We must act now to reconnect.  In Brownies we used to sing, "Make new friends, but keep the old.  One is silver and the other gold". 
I remember him telling us that he wasn't "black", that he was "chocolate", and that we weren't "white", that we were "pink"!  Oh, how that made us laugh! 

If truth be told, Jean-Pierre, you were Gold--pure Gold!  Rest in peace.

Anna Kay (Ross) Bourg

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The list...

Number 15 is Kay Carbutt.
18 is "Skip" Condé.
Who could 48 be?
What is number 49's first name?
54 is Scott Humble
78 is Anna Kay Ross, not Ann (me)

Please publish more corrections.

The good ship Aurelia

http://www.ssmaritime.com/aurelia.htm

Aurelia and Pau; Goofy at the Goufre

I'm trying to add captions... Who's in the can-can line up?  Dr Lossky, Skip...???

Who's dangling their feet over the edge of the Goufre de la Pierre St Martin?

Who's at the table? Was that on the Aurelia? or in Paris?

Who's on the deck?

John Dennis and Pat Shaw outside of the prefabs behind the Villa Formose.  Who else?

Paula Burtis

Intent on finding the email addresses of all of the people I listed in my first post so that I could invite all to be fellow "authors", I just did a web search for Paula Burtis (all I had was her mailing address). Sadly, this is what I found (San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2007).

Paula Burtis Blount Passed away peacefully July 25, 2007 at the age of 59. Paula was the devoted wife of Tom Blount. [...] Paula was a microbiologist for U.C.S.F. for 30 years at the Mt. Zion campus as well as a member of The Actor's Theatre Workshop of San Francisco. Paula, loving wife to Tom, will be remembered as the bravest person her husband knew. She was a friend to all and always looked after others. She was one of the great people of the world and will be missed by all the people whose lives she touched.

Read more: http://sfgate.info/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/29/MNBLOUNTPA4.DTL#ixzz0cVPOTcIG

Skip Conde here

Is anybody out there? Yooho00.

Just got this EAP blog thing and am trying to get on board and connect with other EAP 68-69 Bordeauxers. EAP Bxers: Phone Home.

Closing my eyes, pinching my nose and... jumping in

Looking for everybody who was in Pau and Bordeaux in 1968-69 with UC Education Abroad Program to France!

I've been thinking for years that "someone" should create a blog or forum where we could all come together. It wasn't happening and, in the end, maybe that someone is me. This is, truly, a case of the blind (i.e. me) leading the blind (i.e. me), so please excuse my clumsiness. J'avance en tâtonnant. All of your help, comments and advice are more than welcome.

I know that you can create blogs with limited access to which all "members" can post (Blogger calls them "contributors/auteurs"). I've been part of one. My idea is to create a blog in which we can catch up (after 40+ years!), share memories, memorabilia and find lost friends. Although I haven't yet restricted access, I see it as a private space for us and close friends of ours who shared that magic year in France. For now, I'm the "administrator", but that doesn't have to be and if anyone else wants the job, it's up for grabs.

Over the years, I've kept up with Candi (Hall) and Robert Dahlstet, Linda (Cozadd) Van Meirhaegue, and Paula Burtis. A couple of months ago, I found Leslie Gerson's comments on the UCSB EAP site and found an email address for her. Recently, I emailed the Centre Californien at the U of Bordeaux asking them if they didn't have, by any chance, a list of us all. A few weeks later, they answered not with a list, but with news that Skip(Harold Victor) Condé had dropped by the Centre. They sent me his email. De fil en aiguille, j'avançais. Linda keeps up with Kim (Crain) and Kim keeps up with Sonya (Varea). Candi tells us that Scott Humble lives in Santa Rosa, and that Dennis Nadale died long ago of AIDS. I know that John Dennis was killed a few years ago in the Bay Area (I'll post the links to that). Candi wonders if "Tate Davie is still in Japan?" and would like to locate Michael Halpern. Linda and I live near Pau.

So far, I have contact info for Anna Kay (Ross) Bourg (me), Candi (Hall) and Robert Dahlstet, Linda (Cozadd) Van Meirhaegue, Sonya (Varea) Hammond, Kim (Crain) Goetz, Paula Burtis, Skip (Harold Victor) Condé and Leslie Gerson. Candi also sent a scanned copy of a (slightly faded, and in places possibly erroneous) list of all of us typed up way back when (then, surely). I will post that, along with a few photos, once I have figured out how this works and can get my act together.

I have invited all of you to be "authors" so you should be able to post (please, please DO!). Tell us your life story!!! and Pass the word. Let's see how many of us we can find. Next on the agenda is a REUNION! Is everybody up for a trip to France? Linda and I both live near Pau so could do something here (n'est-ce pas, Linda ?).

OK... I'm closing my eyes, pinching my nose and... "publishing" my post. And away we go!