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Join the "EAP Alumni Association", or maybe not...

Little by little, UC EAP seems to be coming around and realizing that they might be able to help old alums connect.  Sort of.  

I found a link to this page in Linkedin (thanks to Marietta), and under Returnees & Alumni, found this

Join the EAP Alumni Association

The EAP Alumni association is free of charge to join and provides alumni an opportunity to update their contact information, reconnect with EAP, stay updated on EAP news, and more.
Click here to sign up!


So, I clicked here and signed up and...  NOTHING happened.  OK, so all of my vital statistics are now in their database.  Where does that get me? get us?  Then I reread the come-on and realized it only offers to "reconnect [me] with EAP" and "stay updated on EAP news" (I don't know what the "more" might involve).  I suspect this is simply another fund-raising campaign.  Don't get me wrong.  I have nothing against fund-raising campaigns, especially this one.  But aren't alumni associations supposed to help us stay/get in touch with EACH OTHER?



Here's where we stand in our own "private detective" search.  All suggestions/corrections, etc. that might give us a new lead are appreciated


Still missing (or found but unable to contact): Alicia Rodarte, (Carol Carico), Carol Wahl, David Freeman, Doug Lee, (Esther York Goff), Hector Leon, (Jane Lee Tulloch), Jay Golden, Judy Bloom Settles?, Julia Dunn, Karen Boulton, Kathleen Beers, (Kay Carbutt Tanny), Marcia Wooster, Margaret Wilson, (Margaret Zettle Johns), Martha Baskett, Mary-Lou Wills, (Melinda Tarr Olsen), Michael White, Michael Halpern, Nancy Poolman, (Neena Nocita Sessa), Patricia Shaw Bourdakis?, (Rena Feigenbaum Knox), (Scott Humble), Susan Forve, Suzette Del Monaco, (Suzanne Chenault), Sylvia Freed, (Virginia McKinley) and Wendy Mateson. 



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Anna Kay

Top to Bottom: Kremlin Façade 1969 (note the changes); St. Basil's Cathedral under renovation 1969; Our guide, Sacha, negotiating our entry to Lenin's Mausoleum (Skip says he told the guards we were American dissidents-- so we were able to jump to the front of a very long line.); Outside the Kremlin, a picture of "Kansas" in the background, the guy who was responsible for our 8 hour delay at the Russian border because of his playboy magazines. Judy Farrar and Skip who is getting a free Russian shoe-shine in Moscow. Judy and me in front of the famous "Aurora Cruiser" in Leningrad (now, St. Petersburg, of course).

Speaking of Russia, here are a few snapshots that might ring a bell. Here we are in the train, going to or leaving Russia, clockwise : Skip, Judy, Linda, Maggie and Kim.

Bordeaux wines

The Soulful Side of Bordeaux (NYTimes article sent by Susan Grayson)

Leslie Gerson and Aleen Grabow meet at Leslie's

Leslie and Aleen discovered, thanks to Anna Kay, that we are both Foreign Service employees--Leslie for over 30 years and Aleen relatively recently as a third/fourth/fifth (you tell them, Aleen!) career. Aleen is a regional medical officer-psychiatrist tranferring from her first post in Moscow to her second in Beijing. She takes care of all of us Foreign Service officers and our family members with mental and emotional health issues. Last night we recalled our spring 1969 trip to Moscow, then-Leningrad, and Warsaw that I am sure a few others of you were on too. Aleen is sending the photos to go with this commentary so stay posted. We both are looking forward to our reunion--whenever that may be.

 Aleen and Leslie at Leslie's, August 2010

Micro-reunion chez Meredith à Lézignan

Driving past Pezenas on our way home from the Ardèche last week, Alain and I stopped in Lézignan la Cèbe to see/meet Meredith and Jean Pierre.  Sorry the photo of Meredith and Anna Kay is blurry.  We'll just have to schedule another "photo-op" date, Meredith!

 Anna-Kay (Ross Bourg) and Meredith (Schuyten Escudier)

 Alain (Bourg) and Jean Pierre (Escudier)