ISB NETWORK NEWS Volume 52 November 2007 ISB Network Foundation, Inc. Growing up Russian in Thailand PO Box 7454 Alexandria, VA 22307 Part 1 − My Grandparents FAX: 703-768-9667 Sid Gerson ’72 (
[email protected]) Contact your ISB Network Board Being an educated person or what is known as a White members: Russian, my grandfather, Henry Gerson, ran away from President – Maile McCoskrie Lindley ‘67 Russia during the revolution in 1917 to avoid persecution
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[email protected] The firm he worked for in Italy had a contract to build the Director of Class Reps – Tom Reynolds ‘69 King’s Theater in Bangkok, which would be the first air-
[email protected] conditioned theater in Asia. He arrived in Thailand with his Webmaster – Maureen Lockhart Salahshoor ‘75
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[email protected] Newsletter Editor – Kate Johnson ‘76 After three years, when the contract was completed, he
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