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“Kids of '47” Celebrate > 15 Years A-Growin' > Tips PLE ASANT DAYS Fall 2008 > “Kids of ’47” Celebrate > 15 Years a-Growin’ > Tips for Viewing & Reading > Brats & Really Old Timers Gather KSA Reunion 2009: Countdown Begins ightseers, sailors and shoppers get set: The 2nd KSA Reunion Organizing IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR KSA REUNION Committee is expecting to welcome some 600 Aramco retirees and friends Snext year with a program that’s certain to appeal to all, according to Ali Airline Reservations: Al-Tayyar Travel Group is handling Baluchi, committee chairman. The signup deadline for the homecoming, sched - internal and external airline reservations, hotel bookings uled for March 9 –18, was Nov. 1 and is negotiating discounted rates. Attendees may contact Attendees will be able to customize their own itineraries before the reunion the company at Grand Travel Tours in Washington, D.C.: starts via the reunion Web site: www.ksareunion.com. Attendees are invited to a [email protected] or [email protected], or Welcome Dinner hosted by Saudi Aramco’s by phone: 703-532-0444. president and CEO on March 11, and a Hotels: Negotiations are under way with the Farewell Dinner sponsored by the Saudi following al-Khobar hotels: Movenpick, Gulf Businessmen’s Group on March 17. Between Meridien, Al-Gosaibi, Al-Nimran, Interconti - those major events, guests will have the nental and Holiday Inn. Rates will be posted opportunity to choose among shopping and on the reunion Web site. sightseeing trips, sporting events, exhibits Transportation: Attendees may use Saudi and dinners, and have time to visit old Aramco buses free; taxis and rental cars are friends and coworkers. available in Dhahran or al-Khobar. Among the highlights of company life Costs: The Welcome and Farewell dinners are the activities of its 56 Self Directed are free. All other costs associated with the Groups. Members of many of these groups reunion will be borne by attendees, including are also busy planning special events to wel - air fare outside and inside the kingdom, come former members and employees back hotel and meal charges, and nominal fees to the community and give them a glimpse for various Self-Directed Group tournaments into life at Saudi Aramco today. Activities and activities. will include the annual Boy Scouts Pancake Passports & Visas: All attendees’ passports Breakfast, a Half Moon Yacht Club beach bar - must be valid through at least October 2009 beque, a Dhahran Tennis Association tourna - to receive a visa to travel to Saudi Arabia. ment and bowling and bridge tournaments. Visas will not be issued without verifiable The Rolling Hills Golf Association is planning accommodations. a special reunion tournament for players who Ali Baluchi, chairman of the 2009 Conduct: Participants must abide by the kingdom’s strict wish to test their skills on the lush, new > KSA Reunion Organizing Committee, rules against importing narcotics and alcohol. 18-hole grass course. Little League Baseball shows off the reunion emblem in Medications: Anyone taking special medications should will host exhibition games, giving guests front of Reunion House on King’s bring adequate supplies with their original prescriptions a chance to experience Dhahran baseball Road in Dhahran. The committee attached. Note that pharmacies are available. on the new Canyon Yards fields. The Saudi looks forward to welcoming old friends back home this March. Aramco Employees Association will offer its Visit the reunion Web site for further details: ever-popular Desert Dinner. www.ksareunion.com Those interested in sightseeing and reminiscing will be able to take tours of Dhahran, Abqaiq, Ras Tanura and ‘Udhailiyah. Tours of Saudi Aramco schools, local schools, medical facilities and museums are also being planned. Other trips include the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and an orphanage in Dammam. Shopping visits to Dammam and al-Khobar, as well as day trips to Jubail, Hofuf, Qatif and Tarut, are also being planned. Discounts at local restaurants are being obtained so that returnees can explore the local cuisine. Optional trips will include overnight visits to Riyadh, ‘Asir, Jiddah and Madain Salih. For scuba enthusiasts, a Red Sea dive trip is being planned for the last weekend of the reunion. Baluchi said he’s certain that the 120-plus KSA Reunion volunteers will make next year’s homecoming special and memorable. He urged attendees to visit the Reunion House at 1423 Kings Road, where volunteers will be available to assist guests and answer questions. “They are fully dedicated to reach out and make sure your visit is comfortable and pleasurable,” Baluchi said. > Cover: Scott and Audrey Stanaland took time out from a hectic social schedule to pose under the Eiffel Tower at this year’s Annuitants Reunion, held at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. pleasant days ContenFtall 20s 08 2 6 46 The Mail Center Mosaic In Memoriam Features Cover Sto ry > More than 1,000 retirees and family members pitched camp in Las Vegas for a glittering Retirees Kick Back Annuitants Reunion this fall. In Paris, U.S.A. The gathering celebrated old timers, longstanding friend - ships and the company’s 75th anniversary at the Paris Hotel and surrounding sports venues. 10 36 42 ― “Kids of 4’ 7” Celebrate Getting to Know You Again Viewing & Reading: Oil and 75th Anniversary in Style After “15 Years a-Growin’” Men Who Made a Difference They met King ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Al Sa‘ud Keija Parssinen returned to rediscover A film about oil and books about men as children in 1947. In May, at a won - what she’d left in 1992 … and departed who blazed trails in diplomacy and drous homecoming, they met his with a brand new perspective on the oil in Arabia offer fresh insights into son King Abdullah. place where she grew up. topics of note. 45 >> Brats & Really Old Timers View This Issue on the ASC Web site Stage Great Get-Togethers Readers may view this edition and previous issues of Al-Ayyam Al-Jamilah, Saudi Aramco World and The Arabian Sun , or check the Annuitants Address Book, Company “youngsters” and “seniors” on-line via the updated Aramco Services Web site: www.aramcoservices.com. found special reasons to gather in For full instructions, stop by the Mail Center and see “Keeping in Touch” on page 5. Nevada and California this year. Read all about their adventures. Al-Ayyam Al-Jamilah, “Pleasant Days,” is produced for annuitants, families and friends of Aramco, now Saudi Aramco, and its associated companies by Aramco Services Company. President and CEO, Ali Abuali. Director, Public Affairs Department, Mohammed Al-Maghlouth. Editor, Arthur Clark. Design, Herring Design. Fall 2008. ISSN-1319-1512. Address correspondence to: The Editor, Al-Ayyam Al-Jamilah; Aramco Services Company; P.O. Box 2106; Houston, TX 77252-2106. 1 The Mail Center Remembering Old Days [At Aramco] conditions improved con - Sword of Honor Displayed In Abqaiq and Ras Tanura stantly, it was a near Utopia…. I’ve always >>May 23, 2008 >>April 10, 2008 had to say in my heart, “I’m American, but … I met with Owen Oxley a number of … I lived in Abqaiq and then Ras Tanura my home has always been Aramco and times when I visited my sister in Salisbury, as a young son of age five (or six) to age 16, Saudi Arabia….” Conn., and gave him some information about from 1955 to 1966. My father, George W. John N. Prante my father. I proudly display the sword of Prante, began with Aramco in Abqaiq in 1953, Box 999N36343 honor which my father received from Shaikh then our family joined him in 1955 and, to my Pinckneyville, IL 62274 of Bahrain that is mentioned in the penulti - recollection, our “Portable” house was the mate paragraph of the article on my father…. first to rise in a temporary neighborhood near ‘Cover Girl’ Sends Greetings Thomas E. Ward, Jr. the northeast (?) corner of the camp, across >>April 27, 2008 Shelburne, VT the street from our desert sand dune…. Owen Oxley brought me the latest copy I loved my Abqaiq life because it was of Al-Ayyam Al-Jamilah . I am overwhelmed!! Aviation Dept. Employee still a bit rough and rugged when we arrived, Never dreamed of being a “cover girl” and Recalls Pleasant Days and having the desert 50 feet away from your seeing articles [“Amy Ward Beir: Back to the >>May 10/July 19, 2008 back door. The swells, with the little wind Beginning” and “Thomas E. Ward: Opening Having worked for Aramco 1947 –67, ridges across them, made for excellent Badge No. 4038, I would like to be put on your oceans for model/toy ships to a child of six…. mailing list for the magazine “Pleasant Days.” If I walked a few hundred feet out into the Enclosed for your info are items of days past…. dunes and just sat down for a while, I could I must say, looking back, that Aramco took hear my heart beat it was so quiet yet watch care of us real good. Thank you for listening a car go by on the street … and couldn’t hear to an old man from the past. We do have it…. Meanwhile, trudging slowly by in con - some good ones to tell. stant earnest [was a] scarab beetle―, rolling James F. Friel dinner home to his mate (backward), and 11056 Grapefruit Lane when I followed him for well over an hour, Punta Gorda, FL 33955 he finally arrived at precisely his hole…. … Ras Tanura became home around ’60 NOTE: Friel, who worked in the Aviation or ’62 and I was really “at home.” I was a race Department, sent a copy of the 76-man, all- swimmer in Abqaiq, and now I was a Gulf expatriate department roster, from 1959.
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