<html><head><base href="x-msg://48/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jon, I've been trying to remember the church where your parents were when I met them. I went to Chicago for a couple of days this week and stopped to see a friend in Norwood Park.<div>Your Dad's church was St. Andrews Presbyterian Church just south of Norwood Park. This would have been in the 60s I think.</div><div>Priscilla Wilson</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 27, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Ruth Landmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div>At 8:46 AM -0400 9/27/12,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:LAURELCG@aol.com">LAURELCG@aol.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"<br>Content-Language: en<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">In the San Francisco House, 1970-71, Ellery acquired some bamboo poles and taught the kids a Philippino game kind of like jump rope, but jumping between the poles as they were clapped together in rhythm. She was very good at it.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">I believe she and her parents didn't get evacuated for 2 or 3 years after the war broke out. They were hidden from the occupying Japanese army by local folks in the crawl space under the house until smuggled out on a submarine and taken to Ayers Rock (?) in Australia. Maybe Jon can elaborate. I believe her father wrote a book about it.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">I feel privileged to have been acquainted with these two heroines.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Jann McGuire </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote><div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Jann, thank you for reminding me where I first met Ellery and Tony, is was in the San Francisco House! I drove up there almost weekly for meetings of various kinds. One night I was so exhausted from long days of teaching and driving to the S.F. House so often, I nearly drove off Highway 280! (I also almost fell asleep reading a book to my 5th graders--not cool!)</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">I remember when Ellery and Tony came to Kemper, but I have no idea what year that was.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Ruth Landmann</font></div><x-sigsep><pre>--
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