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THE BOOK OF OUR LIVES Schutz American School Alexandria, Egypt 2nd Printing, 1997 Scanned and Formatted, Ed Nicholas, 2015 1 | Page FORWARD In the early years of The American Mission in Egypt, which was the official title of the United Presbyterian Church of North America doing mission work in Egypt, the education of the children of the missionaries became a matter of concern. Obviously, there were no schools in the country in those early years except for the Islamic schools for teaching the Koran. Therefore, in most cases the education of these foreign children fell on the mother of each family. There were reports that at times, however, when there were several families living in the same town, one mother took the responsibility for all the children. It should not be too hard to imagine such "schools" - slates and chalk for writing and arithmetic, the Bible for reading and possibly the McGuffy Readers for somewhat more "secular" studies. And later "Calvert" became a familiar name to those using the international postal service. There have been unwritten reports that a basement room in the Assiut mission hospital complex was used for a group of children in the early 1900's. However, by the 1920's it became apparent that there was a pressing need for a "school with a full time teacher to work with the numbers of children that were filling the mission family ranks. And so the story here begins with Mrs. Bernice Warne Hutton’s recollections of her participating in the establishing and then becoming one of the first teachers in what now is known as Schutz American School, Alexandria, Egypt. George W. Meloy, Editor 2 | Page THE BOOK OF OUR LIVES Contents FORWARD .................................................................................................................................................. 2 The Original Schutz: 1924 - 1940 ..................................................................................................... 5 Introduction: Willis McGill ............................................................................................................. 5 Bernice Warne Hutton: 1924-1927 ............................................................................................ 7 Elizabeth Kelsey Kinnear: 1924-1921 .................................................................................... 12 Ruth Galloway Jamison ................................................................................................................. 17 Willis McGill: 1926 .......................................................................................................................... 19 Elizabeth Walker Hershey 1922-1934 ................................................................................... 20 Charles C. Adams 1930-1933 .................................................................................................... 22 Ralph Galloway: 1930-1936 ....................................................................................................... 23 Ellen McFeeters Turnbull 1930-1933 ..................................................................................... 28 Mary Frances McFeeters Robinson 1932-1935 .................................................................. 32 Ruth L. Nolin 1932-1942 .............................................................................................................. 35 Ken Nolin 1933 – 1942 ................................................................................................................. 37 Janet Sharp Reid 1932-1936 ....................................................................................................... 41 Ada Margaret Hutchison 1933.1939 ...................................................................................... 43 Helen Baird Branyan ...................................................................................................................... 45 Marian Jamieson Eddy 1935 - 1942 ......................................................................................... 46 John West: 1936-37 ........................................................................................................................ 51 Myra Vandersall Siegenthaller 1938 - 1941 ......................................................................... 52 Donald G. Jamieson: 1939-41 ..................................................................................................... 54 SCHUTZ IN ASSIUT : 1940-56 ...................................................................................................... 55 Marian Jamieson Eddy : 1939 – 41 ....................................................................................... 55 Ada Margaret Hutchison: 1946-49 ........................................................................................... 57 Marion Jamieson Eddy: 1948-51............................................................................................... 58 Janet Sharp Reid: 1951-1952 ..................................................................................................... 60 Kenneth Nolin 1941-42 ................................................................................................................ 61 Donald G. Jamieson: 1939-41 ..................................................................................................... 63 Ken Bailey: 1940-42 ....................................................................................................................... 64 3 | Page Bradley Watkins: 1946-66 ........................................................................................................... 65 Carolyn Kraft Pollock: 1954-66, 1971-73 .............................................................................. 68 Bob and Dot Turnbull .................................................................................................................... 71 Ed Pollock: 1950-60 ....................................................................................................................... 73 Bill McGill: 1949-51 ........................................................................................................................ 75 Gib McGill: 1954-61 ........................................................................................................................ 79 Jessie Webb McCallum: 1948-50, 1956 .................................................................................. 85 BACK IN ALEXANDRIA : 1956 - 1990 ....................................................................................... 87 Norma Insley 1962-1964, 1981-82 ....................................................................................... 87 Charlotte Weaver-Gelzer: 1965-1967 ..................................................................................... 88 Betty Stearns: 1966-1967 ............................................................................................................ 92 Wally Stearns: 1966-67 ................................................................................................................ 94 Diana Antonescu: 1973-76 .......................................................................................................... 95 Marguerite Leishman: 1975-1978 ......................................................................................... 100 Mirena Paravic: 1980-1985 ...................................................................................................... 101 Maxine Erkiletian: 1982-84 ...................................................................................................... 103 Jessie Webb McCallum: Evacuation 1956 ............................................................................ 106 Jean Stultz: 1960-63 ..................................................................................................................... 109 Bob Kraft ........................................................................................................................................... 110 John G. Lorimer: 1947-1990 ..................................................................................................... 112 MIDNIGHT MUSINGS – George Meloy ........................................................................................ 115 4 | Page The Original Schutz: 1924 - 1940 Introduction: Willis McGill Student For me, a much more plentiful store of school-day memories is to be found in one of Schutz School’s historical roots or antecedents. One of these was certainly the school for missionaries' children that was established in Assiut before the time of Schutz. I certainly hope that those who received some of their early education there will record the memories they consider worth sharing. In Cairo, too, there was such an antecedent of Schutz. But my memory pre-dates even that. I remember attending school first in a little private English school in Heliopolis run by two sisters: Miss Ashton and Mrs. Woodley. It was there that I learned the multiplication tables, complete with a certain sing-song style. And it was there that I learned "William the First, 1066, William the Second, 1087...." and on and on, far beyond what I can recall today. And it was there that I remember one of the great plagues of locusts when, during recess at the little English school, we would all be sent out into its playground with glass jars to fill with locusts and bring back. But when the School for Missionaries' Children was established in Cairo, that’s where Lois and I were sent. Its sponsoring organizations