The internet is an amazing "thing"

[jazzbo]

The internet never fails to astound me. I found a site listing my 1967 class at the school outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia!

There are even photos of my sister, one of my brothers, and myself!

http://www.ethi-usmappingmission.com/26133...session*id*val*

If anyone knows where Sandy Cowper or Tamara Orr is today, let me know.

Edited April 15, 2008 by jazzbo

[connoisseur series500]

Interesting

[ghost of miles]

Good ol' Lonson!

Say, is that a mint vinyl copy of Andrew Hill's SMOKESTACK that you're hiding behind your back?

[Ron S]

What's Lon doing to Becky Hodges, and why is she smiling?

[Christiern]

That must have been a valuable experience, Lon. I tried to track down records of my schooldays at Kent College, Canterbury (1946), but the school hasn't kept records going that far back. I did, however find the following on the amazing internet--it is the Alien Manifest for the SS Godafoss, a small ship on which I arrived in New York a month before Pearl Harbor. It's hard to read the small print here, but I am the "Gunnar Albertson" listed tenth from bottom. I never thought I'd find anything like that.

[jazzbo]

Pretty amazing Chris, I know what you mean, I never thought I'd find this year book (and the one for the next year).

Those two years at that school were an amazing experience. I think I went from there to three even more exciting years at Waterford-Kamhlaba School in M'Babane, Swaziland. What an eduction in every sense of the word!

http://www.waterford.sz/

Here's little Lon in Addis in 1968:

And no I was not rolling a spliff.

Edited April 15, 2008 by jazzbo

[Shawn]

And no I was not rolling a spliff.

No, that came a little while later.

Great pictures, great story! Thanks for sharing Lon!

[Peter Johnson]

where Sandy Cowper or Tamara Orr is today, let me know.

Lon--have you tried Facebook? Seriously. I found a great friend from fifth grade, whom I haven't seen since 1985, on there.

[jazzbo]

Well, that's a good suggestion Peter, should give it a shot.

[porcy62]

That's nice!

Though I am not really sure I'd like to be on Internet without my consent.

[BeBop]

I was talking to a friend about American Community School just a few weeks ago. His father worked for, I think he said, the Military Advisory Group. ??

[jazzbo]

Right, plenty of those in Ethiopia when I was there. There was a huge Embassy staff, lots of AID, about 850 Peace Corps persons (my Dad was a minister turned Peace Corps person), and thousands of US miltary persons and dependents. We were training and equipting the Ethiopian Army on one front, and to a lesser degree developing agriculture and commerce. Then a handful of years later, the Ethiopian Army took over and reversed it all. . . .