[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Kitty Cole

[Ronnie Seagren]

Thanks for sharing this. Kitty was a wonderful colleague and quite a
character. I very much appreciated crossing paths when visiting Kobe from
Tokyo a couple years later than Mari's story.

Ronnie

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 9:17 PM Mari Crocker via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> When Joe, David McCleskey and I were assigned to recruit (by teaching RSI
> and PLC courses in SEA) participants for the first ITI in Singapore in
> 1969, colleagues like Kitty Cole were crucial.  Kitty hosted us in her home
> in Kobe, and invited Japanese and International colleagues to meet with us
> and learn about our work.
>
> One night when Kitty was hosting a Japanese/American couple (who
> eventually moved to the US), David excused himself to visit the restroom,
> and didn’t realize the children were sleeping on the floor.  David,
> unintentionally, but sadly stepped on “Markeo, (the child of a future
> guardian couple,) whose lusty lungs sang out DANGER, DANGER.
>
> Kitty, thankfully with her training as a nurse, was able to calm the child
> and his parents, as well as David — and the evening proceeded as planned.
>
> This was the kind of gal she was:  knowledgable, smart, responsive, and
> ready to tell it the way is was!
>
> I doubt we would have ever encouraged Japanese colleagues to join us if
> Kitty Cole had not been the international pioneer.
>
> > On Jun 15, 2022, at 4:20 PM, Terry Bergdall via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> >
> > I just spoke to Kitty’s daughter, Brenda, and learned that Kitty
> completed her life’s journey a week ago on June 8th. I first worked with
> Kitty in Osaka, Japan, during the summer of 1976 and then for many years in
> Chicago. She was a great spirit and will be greatly missed. Funeral
> arrangements are still in process of being made and I will post more
> information as I learn about it.
> >
> > Grace and peace,
> > Terry
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