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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Many good wishes! I had forgotten that you “paved the way” in Sungai Lui ! We were there in 1980-1982. What a rich history to celebrate.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Catherine and Mark Welch, Denver </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Gail West via Dialogue</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, March 31, 2024 10:41 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Colleague Dialogue</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:icataiw@gmail.com">Gail West</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Dialogue] Celebraating 50 Years!</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=504 height=504 style='width:5.25in;height:5.25in' id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DA841E.9D0E0D00"><br><img border=0 width=504 height=378 style='width:5.25in;height:3.9375in' id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.jpg@01DA841E.9D0E0D00"></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> Thanksgiving at the Kansas City House long ago!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dick and I had a great time looking through 50 years of photos collected since our 6 am wedding at Daily Office, 30 March 1974, in Chicago. Then I remember Dick then going to Washington DC a few months later to get the proper credentials as an agricultural consultant so we could support ourselves and the Malaysia ICA financially. And off we went! Our thanks to all of you and many more in our community who have contributed to that journey since - from Chicago, to Kuala Lumpur and Sungei Lui, to Medan Indonesia, PTP VI and Bubun, to Lorimor Iowa and the Kansas City Youth House, to India, and now Taipei for 33 years! <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>With deep gratitude to you for being part of our lives,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Gail and Dick West<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>