Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Martha Jane Shay, the author of the Decatur House story, was responsible for the paint­ ing of the fence around Lafayette Park dur­ ing its re-Iandscaping. The major scenes were painted by 175 District of Columbia Art students and twenty-one Washington · l Artists. The scenes are a colorful interpreta­ tion of the - 19th-century history of the area. Some Bank staff members enjoyed a personal tour of "The Painted Past of the President's Park".

Martha Jane Shay describes the first panel -the dedication of the statue of Andrew Jackson- to Linda McClusky.

2 INTERNATIONAL BANK NOTES Volume 23 Number 3 August 1969

CONTENTS Page Decatur House 3 New Professional Staff ...... 10

Cover photograph Decatur House, 748 , Lafayette Square DECATUR HOUSE by Martha Jane Shay The National Trust for Historic Preser­ vation is a private, non-profit oragniza­ tion dedicated to saving, for the future, the significant sites, buildings and ob­ jects of the American past. This will sound familiar to English staff members as the National Trust in the is a counterpart of the Trust in the United Kingdom. Supported by its mem­ bership, the Trust maintains a national network of historic properties. Just two blocks from TBRD IS one such property-Decatur House, across from the White House. Since its construction more than 150 years ago, it has housed distinguished and colorful personalities. Its history can be told partly by a cata­ logue of the objects in the house and partly through a biographical account of the occupants. Yet no house exists in isolation; rather, it is necessarily affected by and involved in prevailing conditions, ideas, and events. Decatu r House is no any period however remote." It is a exception. tribute to his genius that this plan is still With precedent-setting legislation, the in use today. Constitutional Congress of the United Although the next ten years were States in 1790 determined the location spent laying out roads and constructing of a capital city for the newly independ­ houses and the public offices, little was ent Arnerican Republic. Major Pierre finished in 1800 when the government L'Enfant, a Frenchman who had served moved to Washington from temporary with President Washington during the headquarters in Philadelphia. Revolution, was appointed to layout the Abigail Adams, fi rst mistress of the Federal City. While L'Enfant was a diffi­ President's House, as the White House cult personality, whose clashes with the was then called, found conditions for major landowners and the District's gracious living sadly lacking. She wrote, Commissioners led to his being fired in "Not a single apartment is finished . We 3 less than a year, he was, nonetheless, a have not the least fence or yard or other man of great vision. As he planned the convenience without and the great un­ city, he stated his aim: "No nation ever finished audience hall [the East Room before had the opportunity of deliber­ today} I use for drying clothes. The prin­ ately deciding upon the spot where its cipal stairs are not up and will not be capital city should be fixed ... And al­ up this winter." Brick ki Ins, shacks, a though the means now within the power market for the workmen, and piles of of the country are not such as to pur­ rubble littered the "front yard", which sue the design to any great extent, it will is today's Lafayette Square. In the city be obvious that the plan should be as a whole, streets were generally im­ drawn on such a scale as to leave room passable, mere swampy bogs covered for that aggrandizement and embellish­ with vines and alder bushes. Barns and ment which the increase in the wealth stables were rare and so cows and pigs, of the nation will permit it to pursue to joined by dogs, cats, and toads, were free to roam at will allover the ci,ty. man Decatur received his basic training. Village conditions persisted for years. The year 1800 brought an end to the If even the most patriotic resident was undeclared war with France and eco­ discouraged by the lack of progress, for­ nomic cutbacks which threatened the eign visitors and dipl,omats deplored the existence of the Navy. Its survival was conditions, readily condemning and assured, however, when war broke out satirizing the city in both prose and because of attacks upon American ship­ poetry. Thomas Moore, an I rish poet, ping by the North African Barbary visited the city in 1804 and found the States. The Navy suffered its worst de­ discrepancy between the plrtns for the feat with the capture of the Philadelphia city and the actual state of affairs by Tripolitanian forces. Before the Tri­ worthy of the following verses: politans could get the Philadelphia equipped for battle against the American In fancy now beneath the twilight squadron, Decatu r, then a Lieutenant, gloom offered a plan. Decatur commanded a Come let me lead thee o'er this small captured craft, which had been re­ 's cond Rome', ... named the Intrepid, and with a deter­ This embryo capitol, where fancy sees mined band of volunteers, slipped into Squares in mora es, monuments in the harbor, boarded the Philadelphia, trees and while overcoming her crew, set fire Which second Sighted eer e'en now to the ship. Decatur and his company adorn escaped without injury and succeeded in V\lith shrines unbuilt and heroes yet destroying the ship. Decatur went unborn. on to lead repeated attacks, fight­ Though now but wood and Jefferson ing heroically, and inflicting great dam­ they see age on the enemy. It was no surprise Where _treets should run and sage that, when the war ended in 1805, ought to be. Decatur was a captain, commanding In the same year that Moore wrote his officer of the frigate Congress, and well unflattering verses, however, the respect on his way to becoming a national for the you ng nation increased d rama­ hero-at age 26. tically, if not in Washington, at least in the foreign capitals. In large measure, On Decatur's return to the United the United States' gain in stature at this States he met and married Susan time can be attributed to the daring Wheeler, the attractive and charming exploits of the young naval lieutenant daughter of the Mayor of Norfolk, Vir­ Stephen Decatur, Jr. ginia. Decatur left his hrid~ to fight dur­ ing the War of 1812 and the Second Decatur was born in 1779 at Sine­ Barbary War. His performance in the lat­ puxent, Maryland. When he was a few ter fixed his reputation. months old the family moved to Phil­ 4 He was honored at a dinner in Nor­ adelphia. Living on Front Street near fol k, a t which time he gave his famous the docks, it was natural that young toast, "Our Country! in her intercourse Stephen shou Id develop a love of the with other nations may she always be sea and ships. In this interest he was in the right; but our country, right or undoubtedly encouraged by his father, wrong." In addition to gifts of silver he Captain Stephen Decatur, Sr ., who had was appointed one of three Navy Com­ been a privateersman during the Revolu­ missioners. The Decaturs then moved to tion and was then a successfu I merchant Washington. With the prize money he captain. The establishment of the United had won Decatur was determined to States Navy was opportune for both construct a town house on a lot facing father and son. In 1798, at the same time the President's Park. that his father assumed command of At that time the most prominent archi­ the Delaware, Stephen became a mid­ tect in Washington was Benjamin Henry shipman on the new frigate, the United Latrobe, an Englishman who had come States. For the next two years Midship­ to the United States in 1796. He hOid worked on improvements to both the President's House and the Capitol, de­ signed homes for many prominent citi­ zens, and constructed two churches; the gothic-style Christ Chu rch and the classi­ cal St. John's. The latter, across the park from the White House, was the second building to go up on the square.

I t seems appropriate that the popular naval hero should hire Washington's leading architect to design a house, the first private house in an area that would soon become one of the city's prominent residential areas. Latrobe's design for Decatur House reflects the new standard of elegance of the Federal Period. The ornate, hand-carved decoration of the previous period had been abandoned in favor of a clean, straightforward, flat­ tened facade. Decorative devices are used economically, capping only the major structural features. The lintels above the windows and the fan light over the wide entrance door are the few relieving elements. The house rises majestically a full three and a half stories. The large windows of the second floor indicate the use of those rooms for entertaining, while the smaller win­ The South East Room on the First Floor of Decatur House dows above and below light the private family quarters. The half circle over the entrance door presages the play of spaces returning home often chose to sell their and shapes inside. The hall combines a furniture rather than ship it back, and the three dimensional interplay of circles de~th of the head of a household often and squares and the space in each room necessitated the sale of furniture to get is varied according to its intended use­ cash to pay outstanding debts. This was a new idea at tha t ti me. the case when Decatur died. The furnishings for the house had On March 22 , 1820 the local news­ come from diverse sources and, like paper, The National Intelligencer, an­ most homes in Washington, represent an nounced the unbelievable and melan­ eclectic mixture. They included inherited choly news: 5 family pieces as well as items in a more up-to-date style. Commodore Decatur's Mourn, Columbia! A hero has fallen . desk, described in the 1820 Inventory Commodore Stephen Decatur, one of as 1/1 mahogany cabinet with sliding the finest officers of our Navy, the morror [mirror]", valued at $55 is an pride of his country, the gallant and elegant French piece. The vogue for noble hearted gentleman is no more. French furniture was at its height and He expired a few minutes ago of the while it is certainly possible that the mortal wound received in the duel Decaturs purchased this desk new, it is this morning. Of the origin of the feud ~ . much more likely that they bought it at which led to this disastrous result, we an estate sale. Such sales provided the know but what rumour tells. Mourn, means for the constant reloC3tion and Columbia! For one of thy brightest reuse of high-quality furniture and were stars is set! very common in Washington; diplomats It is difficult to say whether the moral onus for the duel falls on Decatur or his adversary Commodore James Barron. As they lay on the ground awai ting aid, they readily settled their differences; Barron eventually recovered and the mortally wounded Decatur was taken home where he died some hours later. Mrs. Decatur left the house, sold much of the furniture and moved to George­ town where she died in 1860. For the next sixteen years, leading politcal and diplomatic figures rented Decatur House and, like its neighbors on the Square, it was the scene of many dinners and receptions. Among the dis­ tinguished occupants were the French Ambassador Baron Hyde de Neuville, the Russian Ambassador, Baron de Tuyll, and ""Ed McCowan and his daughter work on his the English Minister, Sir Charles Vaughn. title panel as the students from Roosevelt While living here, formu­ High paint the occupants of Decatur House. lated American involvement with Pan­ America, Edward Livingston penned the response to the Nullification Proclama­ Valerie San Lin in her Burme. e dress pro­ tion and communi­ vides a delightful comparison to the lady in cated with President Jackson on matters a street scene of the '19th Century. of state by signaling across the Square with the semaphore he had installed in an attic window. Finally, in 1836, De­ a foliate design and new floors were laid catur House was sold to John Gadsby. throughout the house. The furnishings John Gadsby was a builder by training of the house were in the prevailing but was better known in Washington Victoran Style. There were also the first as the proprietor of Gadsby's Tavern memorablia of Ned Beale's many ex­ in nearby Alexandria and later as 'Mine ploits. Lavish entertaining again pre­ Host' of Washington's Na'tional Hotel. vailed and the Square was still a prime Both establ ishments flou rished and were residential area. as famous as their clientele. When The house was inherited in 1902 by Gadsby died in 1844, Decatu r House was the Beales' son Truxton, who at the age again abandoned by a bereaved widow of thirty-five, had been Minister to and leased to a series of tenants. Persia, Greece, Rumania and Serbia and 6 During the Civil War, most of the had travelled into the remote corners of buildings on the Square were taken over central Asia and Chinese Turkestan. by the Union Army. Decatur House was Administrations came and went, busi­ used as offices and quarters for the sub­ ness began to move in on the Square, sistence department and for the next taking over some of the houses and eleven years it remained a military es­ tearing down others. Finally Decatur tablishment. Finally, on February 29, House was left as it had begun, the only 1872, it was su rrendered to its new private residence on the Square. When owner, . Mrs. Beale died in 1956,. she bequeathed When he finally took possession of the house to the Nation1al Trust for His­ the house he found it rundown and in toric Preservation, which has continued great disrepair. Beale refurbished the in­ the work she began of returning the terior, installing two magnificent gas house to its original appearance. The chandeliers which have since been elec­ exterior Victorian trim, added in the trified. The ceilings were painted with 1870's, has been removed, the first floor by M. Susan Miller

Joy Noguchi inspects Pierre L'Enfant, the original planner of Washington.

Two BriUshers, Beryl Cookson and Garry Lightowler, survey the panel showing the burning of the White House by the British.

restored to the Decatur Period and the second floor to that of the Beale occu­ pancy. It stands today as a monument to those two men, both, in a sense, 'pioneers in the course of empire' the fi rst on the seas and the second on land. And yet it is much more than that. It is a solitary and eloquent reminder of a small community which more than any other single area in the United States has so consistently housed the people and events which herald the rise of the infant nation to a world power. L to R Ha zel James, Celia Boyce, Cecille Shannon, Joy Noguchi and Beryl Cookson in front of th e finished panel done by Roose­ velt High.

The first " rapid (ransit" system for Washington was the canal. One of the barge mules r ceives a Iriendly pat from Joy Noguchi.

An " inside look" at the White House is taken by Cecille Shannon and Celia Boyce. Reviewing th e parade of " First Ladies" are Hazel James, Tarik Husain and Valerie San Lin .

Tarik Husain and Garry Lightowler discuss Ihe panel depicting an early W a5 hington street scene.

The ladies inspect the re- /andscaping of La­ fayette Park. Mr. Joshi Mr. Ablasser

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Mr. McCullough Mr. Modeen Mr. de Man Mr. Siebeck Mr. McCall

Mr. Strombom Mr. Radifera Mr. Kanchanalak Mr. Meyer Mr. de Maret

Mr. Lehbert Mr. Whyte Mr. Glenshaw Mr. Hutchins Mr. Sanchez­ Marco

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Mr. Elkouby Mr. Lowther Mr. Mirski Mr.Ohri Mr. Stichenwirth

Mr. Doyle Mr. Fall Mr. Flood Mr. Fossi Mr. Piek Mr. Vu Mr. Weston Mr. Thompson Mr. Rodley Mr. Hipskind

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Mr. Vollmer Mr. Martinusen I Mr. Singh Mr. Prevost Mr. Fares

Mr. Shields Mr. Hallgrimsson I Mr. Hillebrenner Mr. Ferrer Mr. Echeverria

Mr. Gantt : Mr. Thiebach : new professional staff

April 1 marked the largest single day increase of new staff to date and no two in the same 11 department. The Economics Department welcomed Madhusudan Joshi who will be an Econo­ mist in the Fiscal Policies of Developing Countries Division. Originally from Bombay, Mr. Joshi recently has been Assistant Professor with the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. He is a graduate of the University of Bombay and holds a Doctorate degree from that University in Economics, also his field of undergraduate studies. Before joining our staff Mr. Joshi was associated with Sarabhai's Operations Research Group in Baroda. Mr. and Mrs. Joshi, also from Bombay, have three young children, a daughter and two sons . The Joshis will live in Hyattsville, Maryland.

Gottfried Ablasser has been a member of the Economics Department since April 1. He is an Agronomist from Austria (Agricultural University of Vienna) and an Economist from the United States (Ph.D. from the University of Illinois). He came to the Bank from Ottawa where he has been working for two years as an economist in the Canada Department of Agriculture. Mr. Ablasser's work experience also includes Austria, Sweden, and England. His favorite leisure time activities are skiing and swimming. Mr. Ablasser hopes that his Bank employment will offer opportunities for him to continue traveling, a major interest. He has rented an apartment in Arlington. The Western Hemisphere Department on April 1 added a North American from New York to the staff. David G. Greene, serving as Country Economist, has spent three of the last five years in South America with his family. Mrs. Greene is from Miami and met her husband at the University of Florida. She is a graduate in Social Work. Mr. and Mrs. Greene have three young children, the youngest born in Lima. Mr. Greene was for two years Economic Adviser to the AID Mission in Lima and previollsly taught economics at the San Andres University in La Paz. His most recent assignment before joining the Bank was Senior Economist with the Office of Economic Policy for Latin America with the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Greene is a graduate of the University of Florida and has a PhD. in Economics from Michigan State University. The Greenes live in Montgomery County. ·. Manuel Isla from Madrid was among the new staff on April 1. He is now working in the Public Utilities Projects Department as a Power Engineer. Mr. Isla came to Washington ahead of his family and selected a house for them before they joined him at the close of the school year. Mr. and Mrs. Isla have four sons : Manuel, nine, Ignacio, seven, Miguel, six, and Luis, four. Mr. Isla is a Doctor Ingeniero Industrial from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de 1.1. de Madrid. He completed graduate courses in Nuclear Engineering at Junta de Energia Nuclear of Spain, at Harwell Reactor School, United Kingdom, and at the International School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Before joining the Bank he was for eleven years with Hidroelectrica Espanola, S.A ., a private utility company serving the central and eastern regions of Spain. He was also for two years a professor, part­ time, of Nuclear Technology in the E.T.S., 1.1. de Madrid.

Raj Krishna, from New Delhi is a visiting lecturer at the Economic Development Institute for one year. He began there on April 1 on leave from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur where he has, since January, 1967, been Professor and Head of the Economics Department. Mr. Krishna is no stranger to the United States . He has lectured at Cornell, Minnesota, Chicago and Vanderbilt Universities and last year was a panel member on Political System and Economic Development at the annual conference of SID. Mr. Krishna and his family lived in Chicago for three years while he was a graduate student at the University there and from which he received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1961. From 1961-1965 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delhi. Mr. Krishna served as a member of the Steel Control Committee in 1963-64 and of the Agricultural Prices Commission of the Government of India in 1965. From September, 1965 to September 1966 he attended MIT working as a post-doctoral Research Fellow. He spent four months at Stanford University as Associate Economist at the Food Research Institute where he taught a graduate course in Agricultural Policy. Mrs. Krishna, who has a degree in Sociology from Agra University, is from Dehradun. The Krishnas have a son, thirteen, and a daughter nine.

William P. McCulloch, already a Washington resident, came to the South Asia Department after having been with the AID Office of General Counsel. Previously, from 1964 to 1967, he served as Legal Adviser to the Royal Government of Afghanistan. Mr. McCulloch is a graduate of the University of Chicago School of Law, and clerked with the Illinois Appellate Court in 1961-62. Mrs. McCulloch is from Hamburg, Germany, and is presently studying at the Corcoran School of Art. Mr. and Mrs. McCulloch have three children: Michael, eleven; 12 Katya, nine; and Stefan, eight.

The Development Finance Companies added their first member from Finland on April 1. He is Peter Modecn, from Helsinki, an Operations Officer. A graduate in Economics from Svenska Handelshogskolan in Helsinki, Mr. Modeen holds a degree which corresponds to a Bachelor of Science. Before joining the Bank he worked for the Industrialization Fund of Finland for five and a half years . While a student he worked for one year for IBM. Mr. Modeen hopes to take up tennis in Washington; he is interested in all sports and bridge. Mrs. Modeen is also Finnish and they have a baby son, Thomas. The Modeens will live in Arlington.

Pieter de Man from the Netherlands became a staff member in the Transportation Projects Department on April 2. He is a Highway Engineer. For the last four years he has been Director of Public Works in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. A graduate of the Technological University of Delft, Mr. de Man's career began in the Rijkswaterstaat (Ministry of Transport) where he held various positions in the Highway Department. For two years preceding his post in Curacao he was Chief Engineer. Mrs. de Man is a native of Delft and her hobby is art, both sculpture and painting. Mr. and Mrs. de Man have one son, Pieter, who is twelve years old. They have chosen an apartment in Montgomery County for their first home in the Washington area.

Wolfgang Siebeck came to the Europe, Middle East and North Africa Department on April 3. He is a graduate of Hamburg University and holds a Doctor's Degree in Law from that University. He did two years of graduate work in Economics at St. Antony's College, Oxford. For the last five and a half years he has worked in the Ministry of Economics in Bonn, more recently concerned with allocating and supervising bi-Iateral long term financial aid to Central and West Africa. In 1966-67 Mr. Siebeck was seconded to the GATT Secretariat in Geneva where he assisted in the negotiations of less developed countries in the final phase of the Kennedy Round. Mrs. Siebeck will come to Washington in the summer. Both Mr. and Mrs. Siebeck are fond of sailing and skiing and hope to find opportunities here to enjoy \ these sports. ~ i Davy H. McCall, a U.S. citizen and Georgetown resident, became an Operations Officer in the Europe, Middle East and North African Department on April 7. Mr. McCall was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio for his Bachelor's degree. His graduate study was done at Harvard University; he has a Ph.D. in Economics. Mr. McCall has worked both in private business and for the United States Government. He served with the Department of State, the Bureau of the Budget, the Bernstein Committee and recently with AID in the Office of North African Affairs. Mr. McCall's second interest is his farm on the Chesapeake Bay in Kent County, Maryland where he is restoring an 18th century house. The farm is being developed as a bird and wildlife area; it is in a favorable location near Remington Farms Wildlife Sanctuary.

The first member of the new Department of Urban Development arrived on April 8 from Seattle, Washington, Donald A. Strombom. A middle-westerner during his very early years, Mr. Strombom moved to Washington State when he was in high school and remained there through university. He has a Ph .D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington specializing in transportation planning. One year of graduate study was done at the Yale University Bureau of Highway Traffic. For the past five years Mr. Strombom has been with the consulting engineering firm known as TAMS to all engineers. His work with this company took him from 1963-65 to Ethiopia where he was Planning and Programming Adviser to the Imperial Highway Authority. Mr. Strombom has also been lecturing in transportation planning at the University of Washington for the past two years. Mr. and Mrs. Strombom have four sons, the eldest, David, a freshman at Whitman College. in Washington. His brothers are Dan, seventeen, Dean fourteen, and Douglas eleven.

The Bank's first member from Madagascar, Jocelyn Radifera, joined the Treasurer's Department on April 11. He is working in the Securities Division as Securities Assistant. His first intro­ duction to the Bank came through his wife, Erna, from Jamaica, who worked in the Projects Department from 1963 to 1966. She and their young son, Bertin, will come to Washington in the summer. Mr. Radifera lived in Washington formerly at the Embassy of Madagascar while he attended Howard University where he received his A.B. degree. Following graduation Mr. Radifera went to Paris where for about one year he was a trainee in the Banque Nationale 13 de Paris, specializing in financial studies and investments. He became, in late 1966, Director of the Banque Populaire de la Banque Nationale pour Ie Commerce et l'lndustrie (Ocean Indien), and held this position until he joined our staff.

Boonchob Kanchanalak called "Boon" joined the Agriculture Projects Department as an Irrigation Engineer on April 14. He is well acquainted with the Bank's work as he participated in a mission to Korea in 1968 as a Consultant. He was in Washington earlier as a represen­ tative of his government to negotiate the loans for multi-purpose projects in Thailand. The River Development Project in Thailand has brought hydro-electric power, flood control, irriga­ tion and navigation and, in Mr. Kanchanalak's words caused Thailand to "change from the old to the new." Boon is a graduate of Chulalongkorn University of Bangkok. Before coming to the Bank he worked with the Royal Irrigation Department of the Thai Government and was on loan to the Committee for Coordination of Investigations of the Lower Mekong Basin under the United Nations in Bangkok. Mr. and Mrs. Kanchanalak have four children, one son and three daughters. Their daughter Duang Chuen is a student in Kent and will join her family in September. Roland Meyer, from Lima, is an Engineer in I.F.e. He came to this position on April 14 from his own management and engineering consulting firm. He was previously a partner with Ernst Keller and Associates, a consulting firm in Lima. No stranger to the States, Mr. Meyer worked here in the pharmaceutical field and was with Jersey Standard both here and in Peru in the Talara Refinery. He also attended Harvard Business School from which he holds a Master's Degree having previously been graduated as a Chemical Engineer from the University of San Marcos in Lima. Mr. Meyer was born in Stuttgart, and moved to Peru with his family during his early childhood. He claims not to be accomplished in anyone sport but says he is " a bit of a hi-fi buff." He has chosen an apartment in Northwest Washington.

·. A Belgian national, Daniel de Maret joined the Western Africa Department on April 16 where he works as an Operations Officer. He came to the Bank from the United Nations Develop­ ment Program with which he served in Brazil for three years, in New York two years, and lately in Dakar as their Deputy Regional Representative for North-West Africa. Daniel de Maret, a trained lawyer holding a Doctorate in Law from Brussels University, has also taken Economics at Louvain University. After general legal practice in Brussels, he held various executive positions in Spain and in Brussels with Belgian Airlines. Subsequently he worked on a number of assignments for both the International Air Transport Association and I.e.A.O. in Canada, the United States, Europe and Africa. Mrs. de Maret is Canadian, a graduate of McGill University, and worked in Sales Analysis with A.L.e.A.N. in Montreal. The de Marets have chosen a house in the District.

Ben E. Lehbert, from Germany, returned to the Bank for his second assignment on April 16 and joined his colleagues in the Western Hemisphere Department. Mr. Lehbert first joined the Bank in 1963 and worked in the then Technical Operations Department as an Economist. In 1965 he transferred to the I.F.e. and worked in the Latin American Department. In late 1966 Mr. Lehbert accepted a position in Mexico and spent one year there before deciding to return to Bonn to do private economic consulting. Mr. Lehbert has a Diploma and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Kiel; he did graduate work in Economics and Public Administration at Syracuse University. Mr. and Mrs. Lehbert have two children, Margitt who is twelve and Andreas, eight. Mrs. Lehbert and the children will come to Washington in early August and by that time Mr. Lehbert expects to have found a home for them.

A second returnee to the Bank on April 16 was Robert Whyte from England who is working in the Agriculture Projects Department. He sp~nt his year away from the Bank with Tate and Lyle Ltd . in London in their Central Planning Unit. Mr. Whyte worked for the Bank from 1962-68 principally in the Projects Department and the last year of this period in Program Evaluation and Control. He is a Chartered Accountant and his employment preceding his first Bank assignment included four years in Kuala Lumpur. Mrs. Whyte, also from England taught at the Washington International School for a period before they left. Mr. and Mrs. Whyte have three children: Alison, now six; James, four; and Peter, one. The Whytes have found a house in American University Park.

Peter Glenshaw, from Johannesburg, joined the Engineering Department of I.F.e. on April 21 . A graduate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Mr. 14 Glenshaw later received his Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught there. When he left M .I.T. he traveled extensively "on a shoestring", including a one year overland trip from Europe to South Africa, a hitchhike tour through the then war-torn Congo and a stay in the highlands of Kenya. Also, on one business trip to Japan, he joined the thousands of Japanese who scale Mr. Fuji on the weekends. From 1963 to 1966 he worked for Fison's Fertilizers, South Africa, where he was responsible for the process design and construction of a twenty-five million dollar fertilizer plant in Capetown. While with the company he traveled both in Europe and in the States to gather engineering information for the project. From 1966 until he joined the Bank Mr. Glenshaw worked for the International Sales Department of The Lummus Company dealing primarily with business in the Middle East and Japan. Mr. Glenshaw's wife, Mary, is from New Jersey and they and their three children, Peter, five, John, three and Paul, one, have chosen a home in Arlington.

April 21 was reporting day for Financial Analyst David Hutchins in the Public Utilities Projects Department. He came to Washington from Kent, his home in England, and his family will join him in the fall. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchins have two sons : Nicholas who hopes to attend university in the Washington area and Marc who will continue at the King's School in Canterbury. Mr. Hutchins served Articles in the City of London with a firm of Chartered Accountants. His employment has taken him to Kenya for nine years, back to London, to West Pakistan, East Pakistan, Lebanon, and most recently to Saudi Arabia where he was Head of Administration and Financial Controller for Airwork Services Ltd. Mr. Hutchins is fond of sailing and has enjoyed collecting drums during his travels. Mrs. Hutchins' special interest is antique furniture and clocks.

Carlos Sanchez-Marco has been a Young Professional in the Bank since April 21 . He is from Pamplona, Spain. Since August 1965 he has worked as an Economist with OECD Development Center in Paris . He is a graduate in Economics and Law from the universities of Deusto in Bilbao and the Faculty of Law in Valladolid. He took post graduate work at the London School of Economics and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Shortly after Mr. Sanchez-Marco became a staff member he left on his first mission-to Iceland. When asked about hobbies he said that as a good Spaniard he loves bull fighting and Flamenco music. Another interest is hunting, much of his shooting done by camera. Between his OECD position and his Bank appointment Mr. Sanchez-Marco enjoyed a two-weeks safari in East Africa. He has rented an apartment at the Tamerlaine in Northwest Washington.

A Frenchman, Joseph Elkouby, came to the Transportation Projects Department, Urban Transport Division, on April 28. He is well acquainted with the United States, as, apart from many visits here, he was in an exchange program at West Point and later attended Yale University where he studied traffic engineering. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees. Before joining the Bank Mr. Elkouby held the positions of Director of Traffic Research and Survey Division of the Ministry of Public Works; Technical Adviser to the Minister of Public Works; and Chief of the Planning and Public Works services for the region of Versailles in the newly established Ministry of Development. Mr. and Mrs. Elkouby were married last October. They have chosen a home in Northwest Washington.

The Economics Department welcomed their new Staff Assistant to the Director on April 28­ Jack lowther, an American born in Ohio, reared in Texas, Hawaii, and Washington, D.C Mr. Lowther was graduated from Ohio State University in 1963, with a major in International Studies. He served in the U.S. Air Force immediately after graduation and came from there to the Bank. Mr. Lowther's special sports interest is swimming. During his summer vacations while attending university he worked as a life guard and a swimming coach. He hopes his young son, Doug, six, will enjoy swimming as much. Mrs. Lowther, not only swims, but sings, and is a part-time student at George Washington University. The Lowthers live in Annandale, Virginia.

Jerzy Z. Mirski, originally from Poland, now a U.S. citizen, became a member of the Develop­ ment Finance Companies Department on April 28. Mr. Mirski has a B.Sc. from the University of London (England), 1951, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University (Washington, D.C), 1958, both degrees in Economics. He has also studied at the Royal University of Rome (Italy). He is an alumnus of the Bank's Economic Development Institute, Industrial Project Appraisal Course. His career in the U.S. began with the Riggs National Bank where he was an Assistant Trust Investment Officer. For the last ten years he has been working on loans to developing 15 countries first with the Development Loan Fund (DLF) and then A.ID: His latest assignment there was Assistant Director, Office of Resource Development, Bureau of Latin America. Mr. Mirski is married and has two children, a daughter Eva, thirteen and a son, Marek, eleven. Mrs. Mirski is a structural engineer. She has a diploma in engineering (European) and M.S. in Engineering Sciences from George Washington University, Washington, D .C The Mirskrs live in Northwest Washington.

The Public Utilities Department welcomed Chander P. Ohri, a.n Indian citizen well acquainted with Washington, on April 28. Mr. Ohri served his government here for six years as a Purchase Officer in the India Supply Mission. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering, Delhi Univer­ sity. He has held positions in both private industry and! government, acquiring specialized t • experience in the field of Purchase Management, Procurement Techniques and Contract Admin­ istration. He has been with his government for seventeen years, his most recent appointment being Deputy Director of Purchasing. Mrs. Ohri is an artist and their family includes three daughters, Rohini, ten, Rajni, nine, and Ramona, five. They have found a house in Northwest Washington. A new Financial Analyst in Public Utilities Projects is Karl H. Stichenwirth. He came to the Bank on April 29 from Vienna where he had worked for twelve years as a Financial Analyst with the Austrian Electricity Board. He is a graduate of Hochschule Fur Welthandel in Vienna, with a major in Economics. Mr. Stichenwirth's principal cultural interest is music; he measures his records by the yard . He is particularly fond of Mozart and is an amateur critic. Washington will be the first long stay outside Austria for Mr. and Mrs. Stichenwirth and their ten-month old son, Jurgen. Mrs. Stichenwirth, Austrian also, is a graduate in Chemistry. They have found a house in Annandale, Virginia.

Robert E. Doyle, from Ottawa, has been an Assistant Personnel Officer since May 1. After ·. graduation from the University of Windsor in 1966, Mr. Doyle enrolled on a part-time basis at Carlton University in Ottawa to begin work on a Master's degree in Public Administration. Concurrently with his graduate study he worked for the Government of Canada as a Personnel Administrator. Mrs. Doyle is from Winnipeg, Manitoba and is a graduate of Queen's Univer­ sity, Kingston, Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Doyle have been ardently working over the links at the Bretton Woods Recreation Center since coming to Washington. Their family includes a young son, Jeffrey, almost one year of age. The Doyles live in Alexandria, Virginia.

On May 1 the Western Africa Department added an Operations Officer from Senegal, Papa Nalla Fall. At the University of Dakar Mr. Fall received his certificate in Mathematics and Physics. He also has a Diplome from the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administra­ tion Economique in Paris. Mr. Fall worked in the Department of Technical Education and Vocational Training for the Government of Senegal from 1961-1964. Then he became Program Specialist with the Ford Foundation in Congo (Kinshasa) a position he held when he joined our staff. Mr. Fall 's family are still in Senegal.

Gerald F. Flood joined the Western Hemisphere Department on May 1. He is a U.S. citizen, born and raised in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and its Law School. Mr. Flood worked with the law firm Dechert, Price and Rhoads in Philadelphia for three years. He then joined the Agency for International Development and served in Lima for three and a half years, first as Legal Adviser and later as Assistant Director for Capital Development. After his return to Washington he was appointed Acting Deputy Director for Development Resources. In the Bank he is an Operations Officer assigned to Colombia. Mrs. Flood is from Philadelphia also. There are three young sons in the family and one daughter. The Floods moved recently to Rockville, Maryland.

Giulio Fossi, Planning Organization Officer in the Development Services Department as of May 1, was born in Florence. He studied Economics in the Bocconi University in Milan and then in Florence where he received his "Laurea" with honors, after completing a dissertation on "Regional Economic Planning in Sicily." His interest in development economics and planning started in 1953 in Milan where he was associated with a group of consulting engineers working for Turkey. In 1957 he joined the SVIMEZ, a research organization con­ cerned with the development of Southern Italy. He then worked for the Greek Ministry of Coordination on the preparation of their first Five-Year Development Plan . He joined the 16 OECD in Paris in 1960 and spent nine years with that organization, interrupted for one year's scholarship at the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration and an MPA degree. In his first years at OECD he was associated with tbe Development Department, Technical Assistance Program, dealing especially with the problems of pilot areas in Epirus and Sardinia; during the last four years he was Principal Administrator at the Development Centre in charge of the Development Enquiry Service .. Mrs. Fossi is Greek and they have two Mediterranean boys, seven and five. They have found a home near the French school.

Marinus C. Piek is an Operations Officer in the Development Finance Companies Department. He came to the Bank on May 1 from the Netherlands where for the past two and a half years he has worked for the Netherlands Investment Bank, concentrating on finance in developing countries. Mr. Piek worked for the Royal Interocean Lines before he attended university. He spent one year in training in Rotterdam and Amsterdam and one year on assignment in Manila. He then enrolled in Rotterdam University School of Economics and received the Doctorandus degree in 1967. Mrs. Piek is from The Hague. The Pieks' little daughter Josephine will be one year old in September. Their home is in Olde Towne, Alexandria. Chinh The Vu became Assistant Securities Officer on May 1. Mr. Vu is from Viet Nam, where he received his basic education. He later attended the University of Paris, then Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he received his M.B.A. degree, majoring in Banking and Finance. Over the past two years he worked in the Head Office of the Bank of Montreal, first as Branch Development Officer, Marketing Department and later as Corporate Research Analyst, Organization, Research & Systems Department. He speaks Vietnamese, French, English and German. Mr. Vu's field of endeavor is Long Range Planning. He is interested in oil painting and aeronautics and hopes to take flying lessons. He now lives in Virginia.

John Pix Weston, from Marlbrook, England, joined the Public Utilities Projects Department on May 1, coming to the Bank from his position as Senior Economic Adviser at the Road Research Laboratory, (Ministry of Transport) Crowthorne, Berkshire. He holds honors degrees in Engineering and Economics and began his career with the City of Birmingham Electricity Supply Department, working subsequently with electricity boards in the Midlands, the Lake District and Scotland. Between 1960 and 1961 Mr. Weston was Personal Assistant to the Operating Manager of the jamaica Public Service Company. He returned to the Midlands Electricitv Board and from 1964-66 was Assistant Chief Commercial Officer with the South of Scotla~d Electricity Board. Mr. Weston is a member of the British Institute of Management, and the Association of Public Lighting Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical and Economics Societies. Mr. and Mrs. Weston and their son Christopher have settled in Mill Creek Park, Annandale, Virginia. Two other sons, john and David, are at school in England.

The East Asia and Pacific Department added their first New Zealander on May 2, Graeme Thompson, an Economist. For the past two years he has been lecturing in Development Economics at the University of Western Australia, in Perth . Before this he served with the the United Nations in Bangkok for four years, first with ECAFE and later at the Asian Institute for Economic Development and Planning under Dr. P.S.N. Prasad. Mr. Thompson is a graduate in Economics and Law from the University of New Zealand, and worked with the New Zealand Departments of Island Territories and External Affairs for several years before joining the United Nations. Mrs. Thompson is also from New Zealand. They have a two-year-old son, james, and expect a second child in September. They have chosen a home in Bethesda.

A new Financial Analyst in Transportation Projects Department is Kevin C. Rodley from England. He was last employed in Singapore as Director of Administration with the Port Authority. With the exclusion of one year which he spent in Sarawak (1960), Mr. Rodney has been in Singapore for seventeen years-since 1952. Before becoming Director of Administra­ tion he served as Secretary and as Financial Controller. Mr. Rodley is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. His chief interests in sports are swimming and boating and he hopes to pursue these activities in Washington. Mr. Rodley has found a house in Alexandria.

A United States citizen from Chicago, Roger Hipskind's work in the Bank's Western Hemi­ sphere Department concerns three South American countries: Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Mr. Hipskind joined the staff on May 5, having recently served as Deputy Director of the Office of Regional Economic Policy of the Latin American Bureau, Department of State. 17 During his career in the Foreign Service he lived in Brazil, Angola, and Colombia. He is a graduate of St. Mary's College, Winona, Minnesota and holds a Master's degree in Political Science from Notre Dame. Mr. Hipskind took additional graduate work at the University of Wisconsin after he had begun his Foreign Service career. Mrs. Hipskind is Brazilian and before her marriage, taught elementary school . The Hipskinds now have three children, Christopher, nine, Rebecca, four, Heloisa, one. Their home is in Alexandria.

A new member of the Administration Department is Bruno Vollmer from Germany who is working as a Systems Analyst/Programmer. For the past three years he has been working with the wool manufacturer, Patons and Baldwin Limited in Darlington, England. Mr. Vollmer t completed his programming training in Duesseldorf and then went to England where he took additional training in Systems Analysis at St. Helens College of Technology for Management Studies. Mrs. Vollmer is English from Stockton; she worked for OECD in Paris where Mr. and Mrs. Vollmer met. Mr. Vollmer says his hobbies are golf and skin diving. The Vollmers have chosen an apartment in Washington. The Young Professional Program on May 5 added a Canadian member, Donald Martinusen, from British Columbia. He has been working for the past two years in Ottawa with the Royal Commission on Farm Machinery. Other work experience took him to Australia where he worked as a Project Analyst with a sugar company in Queensland. He also worked in Plant Management in the fishing industry in British Columbia. Mr. Martinusen's first assignment in the Bank is with the Agriculture Projects Department in the Agricultural Industries Division, ~ l which deals with matters such as grain storage and fisheries. Mr. Martinusen did his under­ graduate work at the University of British Columbia and has an M.B.A. from Harvard Univer­ sity. Mrs. Martinusen is from New Jersey and met her husband while she was a student at Wellesley College. They have chosen an apartment on New Hampshire Avenue for their first Washington home.

Jasdip Singh has been an Assistant Personnel Officer in the Administration Department since May 5. Before coming to the Bank Mr. Singh worked for the Executive Office of the Mayor, Washington, D.C., on crime analysis. Other experience includes teaching mathematics at a school in Jamaica, and working in the Pan American Health Organization.

May 7 was Robert Prevost's first day in the Public Utilities Projects Department after twenty­ one years with the Brussells Water Works and five and a half years as Head of the Technical Department for Electromecanique, S.A. The latter is a manufacturer of resistance welding equipment. Mr. Prevost is a graduate of the University of Brussells in Electro-Mechanical Engineering. He also has a Doctorate in Applied Science from the same university. When queried about hobbies, Mr. Prevost said he maintains a kind of musical tradition of his family. He is also an enthusiastic "white water" man. Mrs. Prevost also is Belgian and there are three grown sons in their family. Mr. and Mrs. Prevost have chosen an apartment in Parkfairfax, Virg·inla.

A new staff member, from Tripoli, Lebanon, Ramzi Fares, joined the South Asia Department on May 8 as an Operations Officer. Mr. Fares attended the American University in Beirut and the Free University in Berlin and has a Diploma in Economics from the latter. Before joining the Bank he worked with the Middle East Airlines Airliban as Manager of the Company for the Yemen and part of East Africa, stationed in Aden. Mr. Fares lists his hobbies in order of preference as classical music, gliding and motor flying also and photography. Mrs. Fares is German, from Berlin. The Fareses have rented a townhouse in Parkfairfax, Alexandria.

Transportation Projects Department, Highway Division III welcomed Brian Shields, a Scotsman, on May 13. He is an Economist and has been working for the past two years for a firm of American consultants on the Brazil Transport Survey. Mr. Shields is a graduate of st. Andrews University. He did post-graduate work in Western Nigeria at the University of Ibadan on a Goldsmiths' Company Residential Scholarship and received his B.Phil from St. Andrews for a thesis based on his work. His first assignment after completing his graduate study was with the Ministry of Works in Eastern Nigeria where he spent five years. Following this he was a Lecturer in the Economic Development Institute of Eastern Nigeria and then became a con­ sultant for highway and port projects in Nigeria, Togo and Korea. Mrs. Shields, who is from Biafra, is also a graduate of st. Andrews University. Mr. and Mrs. Shields have four young 18 children. Their home is in Carderock Springs. .

Snorr; Hallgrimsson assumed his duties in the Transportation Projects Department as a Tech­ nical Assistance Engineer on May 16. Born in Iceland, he has lived for a considerable period in Denmark and his engineering profession has taken him to several other countries: Thailand, Nigeria, and Turkey. On these assignments Mr. Hallgrimsson represented his company, Kampsax Ltd., of Copenhagen. He also worked in Greenland on a geodetic survey during the summers of 1961 and 1962. Mr. Hallgrimsson is a graduate of the Technical University of Denmark and has done graduate work in economics and regional planning at the College of Europe in Bruges. For relaxation he enjoys fishing, and surprisingly does not ski very much. Mrs. Hallgrimsson is from Brussels and has a degree in Political Science. They have chosen a house in Mclean.

Herbert B. Hillebrenner, a new Financial Analyst in the Public Utilities Projects Department arrived in Washington on May 20. Mrs. Hillebrenner and their daughter Gaby, nineteen, will join Mr. Hillebrenner at the end of August. A graduate of the University of Muenster in Economics, Mr. Hillebrenner first worked as Assistant to the Board of Directors of a state­ owned Chemical and Coal Corporation. In 1945 he joined the Finance Department of the Posts and Telecommunications Administration of the Federal Republic of Germany and worked in various capacities in Frankfurt and Berlin. In 1954 he joined the Telecommunications Development and Research Center of the Bundespost in Darmstadt and worked there as a Research Associate in the Telecommunications Economics Department. From 1965 to 1967 he worked as an Economist and Financial Analyst on the UNDP Telecommunication Survey in Pakistan. Before that he was also a part-time member of the European PTT Administrations' working party for the study and assessment of satellite communications tariffs. In October and November 1968 and from January to April this year he was again in Pakistan and worked there as a consultant to the Pakistan T&T Department under the German Technical Assistance Program.

A new member of the Africa, Asia, and the Middle East Department, I.F.C., is Narciso Ferrer from the Philippines. He came to his new position on May 22 from the Private Develop­ ment Corporation of the Philippines where he was a vice president. Mr. Ferrer was a partici­ pant in the 1966 Industrial Projects course of the Economic Development Institute. He has a B.A. and an M.A. degree from Ateneo de Manila University, majoring in Economics. Mrs. Ferrer is a graduate of the University of the Philippines in Home Economics and there are two daughters in the family, Bernadette, eleven, and Theresa, one. The Ferrers have chosen Bethesda, Maryland for their Washington area home.

Roberto Echeverria, a Chilean, has been a member of the Western Hemisphere Department, Central American Division, since May 23. He is a graduate of the University of Chile and has a Ph.D. from Cornell University. For the past two and a half years Mr. Echeverria was a Researcher in the Institute of Economics and Planning at the University of Chile and taught in the Faculty of Agriculture and in the Graduate School of Economics there from 1959 until joining our staff. During this period he was for a short time Research Associate at Cornell University. He also worked part-time as fEmlomic Adviser and Consultant on Research Methodology to the National Director of a UNDP project in Chile. Mrs. Echeverria is Chilean also, and has a degree in pre-school education from the University of Chile. They have two little daughters, Paulina and Viviana. The Echeverrias have chosen a home in Bethesda.

An Economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the I.M.F. became a Bank staff member on May 26. He is Andrew Gantt II, an American, who is now working in the Administration Department, Organization and Management Division. While in the Monetary Fund Mr. Gantt spent one year in Lima, Peru as a participant in a Technical Assistance Mission for the Fiscal Affairs Department. He also served as Alternate Director of the Investment Committee for the Fund Retirement Plan. He has a ,Doctorate in Economics from Harvard University and has taught various Economics courses at Harvard, the University of Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He attended Cornell University for his undergraduate studies. While attending graduate school Mr. Gantt worked at the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and was a Consultant for the U.S. Treasury Department. Mrs. Gantt is a seventh generation Washingtonian and is an amateur artist. The two Gantt children are Serrin, a daughter almost nine and Andrew, four and a half. The Gantts moved into their new home in Bethesda in early June. 19 A new Economist in the Western Hemisphere Department is Gerhard Thiebach, who joined the staff on May 26. Mr. Thiebach was born in Prenzlau, Germany; he attended Munich University and holds a Diploma in Economics. After graduating he worked in Tuebingen with the Institut Fuer Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung for nearly four years. Mr. Thiebach was co-author of two books (concerned with the redistribution of income in Germany) published as a result of this work. In 1966 he was a consultant for OECD in Greece and, following this assignment, he joined the Research Institute of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik doing research on the future of nuclear energy in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Thiebach have two little daughters and a son. They are presently living in McLean, Virginia.

l ~ 20 MARCH Standing L to R-S.A.D. Subasinghe, Economics, from Mirigama, Ceylon; Inger Nielsen , Secre­ tary's, Copenhagen, Denmark; Juli eta Dias, Administration, from Portugal ; Lucienne L. Romain, Executive Directors, from Port-au-Prince; Enid M . Wilson, Agriculture, from London ; Rosalind Steere, Agriculture, from Camberley, England ; Mary Joan Burke, Administration, from Cumber­ land, Maryland; Samuel Olayinka, Development Program Studies, from Lagos, Nigeria ; David C. Pyle, Administration, from Washington, D. C. Seated L to R-C. Shirley Young , Administration, from Toronto; Clara Hacopian, Administra­ tion, from Tehran ; Madeline Wyss, Transportation, from Basle, Switzerland; Denise C. Webster, E. Africa, from Geneva; Elida Luzcanda, Treasurer's, from Panama City. Unable to be present: Laura C. Elliott, Treasurer's, from Halifax; Beverley A. Finan, Administra­ ion, from Ottawa. APRIL Standing L to R-Audrey Mayne-Nichols, Western Hemisphere, from Iquique, Chile; Noriko Yokokawa, Administration, from Tokyo; Mary Philiph, Transportation, from Colombo, Ceylon; Luis Ling, Administration, from Manila; }-fans R. Ullmann, Economics, from Linz, Austria; 21 Renee Schuler, Treasurer's, from Paris; Makiko Furumura, Agriculture, Gifu City, Japan; Dale Di Misa, Agriculture, from Washington, D.C. Seated L to R-Chan Sil Kim, Administration, from Seoul, Korea; Gillian Blackman, Adminis­ tration, from Sydney, Australia; Young Ok Uhm, Treasurer's, from Seoul, Korea; Pamela Scott, South Asia, from Blackpool, England; Beth C. Hines, Transportation, from Port Huron, Michigan; Dolores Musto, Treasurer's, from Washington, D.C.; Claudine Henry, Executive Directors, from Vevey, Switzerland.

Standing L to R-Lucia de James, E.D.I., from Mexico City; Eric Khandagle, Economics, from Bombay; Narong Thananart, Economics, from Bangkok; Gulshan Sachdeva, Executive Directors, t • from New Delhi; Margrit S. Cooley, Secretary's from Kuesnacht, Switzerland; Seated L to R-Pauline Exon, South Asia, from Bristol, England; Marilene Ribeiro, D.F.C., from Rio de Janeiro; Clara Guzman, Administration, from Moca, Dominican Republic; Roberta Ewing, Administration, from Richmond, Virginia; Nubia Harris, Administration, from Managua, Nicaragua; Sophia Yu, Administration, from Peiping, China. o r YEAR STAFF .. APR L: Piero Sella, Legal Unable to be present-Fay Sommerfield, S. Asia; Pierre Courbois, Agriculture Projects.

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MAY: (L to R) Marita Ejercito, Administration; Luciano Flori, Treasurer's; Nitprapha Aduldej­ Charas, Administration; Edgar C. H. Su, Development Finance Companies; Lillah Brooks, E.D.I. 22 Unable to be present: Laura Fabietti, Programming and Budgeting; Mayris Cerwonka, Agriculture Projects.

Suburban Hospital. Trevor lan, born March PERSONALS 21, weighed 7 Ibs. 14 ozs. Alternate Executive Director, Donatien BIRTHS : Norcliffe Jr. was pleased to greet Bihute and his wife Colette now have a his twin sisters on March 5 at Freedman's second child-Christopher Donat. Chris­ Hospital. Donna Marie, weighing 6 Ibs. 7 topher, weighing 6 Ibs., arrived on April 14 ozs. and Beth Marie, 6 1/2 ozs. lighter are a at Columbia Hospital. delight to their parents Dr. Norcliffe and A first child and daughter for Alexandra Norma Brown, Transportation Projects. and Hugh Scott, Legal, arrived on April 19. Ann and Robin Woollatt, Administration, Eliza Robinson weighed 7 Ibs. 7 ozs. at birth welcomed their first son and third child at in George Washington University Hospital. April 21 was the arrival date for Josette David Alessandro, weighing 8 Ibs. 4 ozs., and Paul Grosjean's first child. Sandrine was arrived on June 20 at Columbia Hospital for born in Georgetown University Hospital and Women. weighed 7 Ibs. 15 ozs. Another first child, also a girl, was born BEST WISHES TO: M ercedita Tolentino who on April 23. Astrid, a daughter for Tarin and became Mrs. Apolinario Sebastian on April Everardo Wessels, Public Utilities Projects, 12 at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washing­ weighed 9 Ibs. 3 ozs. on arrival at George ton. Mr. Sebastian works with Vollmer As­ Washington Hospital. sociates as a M echanical Engineer and Mer­ Katherine and Bill Humphrey, South Asia, cedita is in the Western Hemisphere Depart­ are pleased to announce the arriva:1 in their ment. home on April 25 of a sister for David. Clare Eleanor Gingco, Europe, Middle East and Elizabeth was born on March 30. North Africa, and Giovanni Vacchelli, Pub­ Luisa and Jorge Duarte, Controller's De­ lic Utilities Projects, who were married at partment, now have two girls. Nelia, born St. Dominic's in Washington on I April 26. on May 1 at Georgetown Hospital and The couple will honeymoon in Europe. weighing 6 Ibs. 9 ozs., was warmly wel­ Vivian McCaw who married John A. Glee­ comed by her sister, Cecilia Maria. son on May 2 in the Cathedral at Islamabad, Klaus and Jenifer Hirtes, Office of Direc­ Pakistan. Mr. Gleeson is Second Secretary tor, Projects, are pleased to announce the at the Australian Embassy in Islamabad and arrival of their first child, Stephanie Isobel the couple will make their home there until Stephanie weighed 5 Ibs. 8 3/4 ozs. at birth his tour is finished. in George Washington Hospital on May 6. Victoria Gonzales, Legal Department, and Rocky and Gloria Ferrell, Executive Direc­ Harald Schneider, Economics Department, tors, are the proud parents of a baby girl, were married at St. Agnes Church, Arlington, Michelle, born May 6 at Washington Hospi­ V'irginia, on May 24. They will make their tal Center. Michelle weighed 6 Ibs. 8 ozs. home in Arlington. Hiltrud and Ernst Kick now have a brother Jean H. Doyen who married Miss Cath­ for Bettina. Armin Anton arrived on May 16 erine Jacovidis on May 29 in Washington, at Arlington Hospital and weighed 8 Ibs. 9 D. C. ozs. Linda Owens who became Mrs. Campbell On May 26 another "Michelle" arrived. McClusky on June 4 in Tillamook, Oregon. Nancy and Sayyed Miri, Administration, Cecille Carameros became Mrs. George greeted their first child, Michelle Shahla, at Shannon on June 7. The Shannons were Alexandria Hospital. She weighed 6 Ibs. 11 married at Holy Trinity Church in George­ ozs. town. Mr. Shannon is a Law student at A son, first child for Erica and Don Brash, Georgetown University. C.ID., weighed 7 Ibs. 4 ozs. at birth. Alan Hugo Schielke, Controller's, who became David was born in Prince Georges County engaged to Mary Dwyer. The wedding will Hospital on May 30. take place on September 27 . Two members of the Secretary's Depart­ ment have additions to their families. David CONGRATULATIONS TO: Former staff mem­ and Trudi Pearce welcomed Rachel Anne on ber Mr. Nalini Chakravarti who was awarded May 31 at George Washington University the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Hospital. She weighed 6 Ibs. 9 ozs. On June London University on April 17,1969. 5 Nicholas and Molly Brady greeted a Robert J. Keltie, son of William Keltie, 23 brother for Catherine. Nicholas Owen Treasurer's, who was graduated from George weighed in at 8 Ibs. 10 ozs. at the New Washington University with distinction (Civil Alexandria Hospital. Engineering) and received the Martin Mahler Nila and Italo Mazzitti, Controller's, now Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award, have a second son and brother for Vincent. School of Engineering and Applied Science. ..

In Memoriam l . Edouard D. Scoffier, father of Marcel Scoffier, Public Utilities Projects, on April 28 in Nice, France.

First Lieutenant James s. Luckett II, son of Marta Miro, Tourism Projects, killed in action in Vietnam on May 28. "

Creative Painting II THE PAINTER Palette and brushes clamour for colours; By HILDA RAJ The canvas prompts: "From the rainbows arched Within the mind draw out new values And harmonies." Ecstatic thought, Aware of vistas of light on far Horizons, broods awhile-then orders: THE PAINTING CLASS "Let colours create anew, and flesh Betray the bones beneath, so life A still life is arranged. The Artist·Teacher Glows through, around, created forms." Instructs: "Observe both line and colour." Where begin? How paint? "Loosen your minds, Creative painting proceeds in the wake Express yourselves- be bold. Study Of a quest that winds through unknown trails. The forms and areas of colour; The restless painter knows not what Study relationships, and sketch He seeks, but yearns to be free of burdens Before you put the colours in." That nature's rhythms lay on his soul To bewildered eyes, he adds, "Relax, Free of shapes that stir within his being, Put out your paints-loosen your minds." And cry to be brought to birth. With pain His heart strings tear apart before Those were the early days. Later They come to life upon his canvas. The Teacher warns, "Don't reproduce The still life- produce, create your own Painting, make your own colours-mix them." Troubled by moods of incompleteness, Shaken by discords and harmonies Pricked by the still life thought bites into thought. Alike, ensnared within the net work Echoes of old artists whisper . Of colours, dazed by the fragments of light Through galleries; colours clamber Shattered upon the face of things, Memory's back to a sky of visions He gropes for the truth behind the truth. In the Sistine Chapel; to domed St. Mark's, Phantasies of light and gloom haunt him \\There jewels compete with mosaics. Asleep or awake. Rapture's fever Twists his fingers to translate to sight Palette is empty- the still life reminds, The visions that glow on his mental screen. "Squeeze out the colours: the light and the deep, Cadmiums, siennas, umbers; cobalt blue, Rose madder, Thalo green, and golden ochre, Alizarin crimson, ultramarine; Accent or trill with titanium white." The would·be artist'S mind explores III THE ARTIST Form and shadow, depth and distance, Through colours of varied tones. The brush Driven by deepest needs of being, Obeys-creative painting begins. The artist designs and moulds his worlds, He loops their forms on brush and knife, A new challenge: the Teacher returns He makes his suns and moons obey To quicken the scene with a lively blonde. The tides of colour; with contours and shadows She poses near drapes that brighten her flesh. Simulates reality, and action . Words ring out: "Paint- recreate-produce Ripples in rhythmic tones that flow Your own painting." Thought bites into thought, From resolved disharmonies the artist, ( Into layers of thought; memory Alone, lives with. The unachieved Clings to colours that drape the sky, Beckons him on, the unknown teases him. By dawn and dusk, over the Taj, He must explore, toil on and on; Where a still queen lies on a marble couch. He must create--or be not himself.

Hi Ida Raj (Mr s . Jame s S.) Poems writt en to c ommemorate Mr s . Raj's s tudie s in art at Ame ri can Uni versity.