[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away

[Jaime R Vergara]

Jann, that might have been Carlos Romulo, a squirt of a dynamo who Truman called "the President of the World".  He was the first President of the UN General Assembly.  He wore elevated shoes and apocryphal stories abound of him literally standing on copies of the Encyclopedia Britanica!  He was a diplomat extraordinaire!


j'aime la vie



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The name Romulo sent a flood of memories rushing in of Ambassador Romulo (what was his first name - also started with R, I think) speaking at 2 assemblies at my high school - Midland (TX) H.S. He was an extremely inspirational speaker, and expanded my context exponentially.
 
Jann
 

In a message dated 9/27/2012 10:20:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, susan at gmdtech.com writes:
  
Jon,   if you do have a copy I could borrow, this time I would definitely make   photocopies before returning it.  Would love to have a copy and share it   with Ginger Hansen Holmes, who, as I mentioned, was born in Mindanao. Her mom   was a gorgeous Mestiza.  Ginger (Virginia) was about 3 or 4 years old   when the Japanese invaded the Philippines.  She lives nearby and we are   both life members (and I am former president) of the Association of Philippine   American Women (APAW), founded in 1947 by Mrs. Romulo (wife of the first   Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the U.S.) and her friend   Trini Legarda.  Ginger’s husband, Kent, is in the process of completing a   book about my uncle, Wendell Fertig, who led the guerrillas on Mindanao.    I know they’d love to see your grandfather’s book—it would likely give Kent   some details about Mindanao in WWII that he doesn’t have, despite all his   research.
  
 
  
Susan

 
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