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AUSTIN， OECε附 BER1997: F肉AN“ .JORDAN

RALPIi SliltR陶 A問。"阿 NEER，E例 MA.JORDAN AND .JANI/;T GA間関・，ON

ST. PETltRSBURG. FEBRUARY 1998: DOR・SOAL固 ELLO，

DAVI!: STE・NIiEI附ItR..JI阿 FITZPAT肉・cκ.ANN・4・E例 NltOYAND ELLlE OMARA

FRONT COVER: TRAVELING WITH ARA阿 COPI。附..開問A>‘ STEINE・<EIN

問。肉THERNARA刷 AOU剛 NGTH匡 1936EXPLORAγl。側 SEASON.GI!:OLOGIST .J.W

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CENTER ARABIA

Lellcrs and Driller Le引e，

bulletins Hilyard's 1936

joumcy from San

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Ncws aOOUl 23 days.

old fricnds

24 1i THAT'S WHAT

SEVEN SETS WE LlKE

OF SIBLlNGS ABOUT THE

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E且p lain~ how Mini-rcunions in

some early HouSlon‘ Au剖川

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FRO問 UPDATE

OVERTON TO FRO問

RAS TANURA SCOTTSOALE

111 1950. young Thc Ialesl 011 Ihe

bridc Collccl1 21s1 Reunion

Wilson new 10 。fArarnco

Arabia 10 join hcr Annuilal1l.s.

husband‘ Seplcrnber 7・9‘

1998

40 IN問 EMORIAM

AI-Ayytllll Af.Jml1ilah. "Plcasant Day¥." is produccd for mmuilal山 familics:lnd fricnds of Aramco. now Saudi Aramco. and ib associatcd

companics by Ararnco Scrvicc、cωnpany.Prc、idcnl.Muslafa A. Jalali: D問 'CIOr.Public Affair.s Deparln氾 111.Shafiq W， Kombargi

Editor. CoηIOratc Public川 IOn也、Villi:l1llTracy. Dc!ooign. Ba.¥lcr + Korgc. Summcr 1998. ISSN-1319-1512. Add問S~ corrcsl>ondcncc 10

Thc Edilor. AI-Ayy“m AI.J(llIIifllh. Aramco Scrviccs Comp川 y.P.O. Box 2106: HouslOn. TX 77252-2106

、，vhenwc Icft Saudi

Arabia in 1966 we had accu-

rnulated thousands of color

slidcs that our two second

generalion Aramco boys keep

拙 kingme to show thern. I

encl田 ea print made from

one of the old pho¥ographs

which h凶 alwayscaptured

our sons-irnaglllatlOn

because of its川genll1ty

I lOok Ihe pho¥ograph al

al-'Aziziyah， the "lIa1ian

Camp" on the Gulf jusl south

01' al-Khobar. in 1949 or

1950. 1 wondcr if any

Aramcon knows the story

bchind this f10ating conlrap

tion? The nume 011 the

plane/carlboal seems to be S

Galvani

Roger M， 1¥'lorris梓8566

280 Dover Orive

、，valnulCreek， CA 94598

Aramco Services GοIIIf)(IIIY

p，出 ufel1lMlIstafa Jalali

，.，ι'emly reιei¥"ed (/ fellel

ρ。11/Amll/CO piol1eer Bi/l

P(llmer of illlereSl10 reαaers

of AI-Ay)'ω" AI-Jllmilllh

Oeccmbcl" 29，1997 1 am proud to have bcen

11 small pan of thc cllrly

developmcnl of lhc enler-

prise. As 1 approach. ifGod

wills. 90 years. 111111 probably

one of lhc oldesl問"阿国 with

scrvice in the area beginl1ing

when 1 alTi町 din 8ahrain on

Septcrnbcr 7. 1936

ROGER MORRIS PH。γ。GRAPHEDTH・s・N¥lENTI¥lESEA-GOING

CRAFT AT AL--'Al:Il:IYAH ABOυT 1949

Initially.l worked as a

chemiSI in [hc Bapco

(Bahrain Petroleu1l1 Company)

rcfinery labormory. After sev

eml months. 1 asked to困

国 nsferredto cr恒町

(CaJifomia Ambi副IStandard

Oil Com[Xlt1y) in Saudi Ambia

1 was thcre in M町 h1938守

whcn 、，vellNo. 7 came in. My

associates and friends、Nere円。'ydOhliger. Max Stcinckc

Khamis ibn Rinnh川I.Tolll

s，町'gcr.Frcd Da、'iesand lIIany

OIher piol¥ccrs.

P間以tblyITIY行rstjob

W国 buildingfour cone-roof.

bo1ted. 2似)()-barrcllanks

whilc a six-inch pipeline w出

bcing conSlructed to al

Khobar、.Yebcgan shipping

oillo Ihe s:lpco relinery on

s..hrain using old barges

We wcre handling sour crudc

and I had a great crew 、Nedidn'[ losc a lTIan 10 [t犯 pm-

sonous hydrogcn sulfide

Finally， wc had shippcd Ihe

自rslmil1ion balTels日ndit w叫

causc for cclebratioll. T叫 oy

Saudi Aramco produccs cight

times Ihat much every day

I was als() onc of many

who fough[ [he fire 01¥、，Vcll

No. 12 and I was in Dhahran

during the 、，vorld、.Var11

years. Jn 19471、刊'"制gncd

10 thc Jiddah officc. ThIs was

:1 wondcrful expcricnce. as 1

KHAMIS I園 N.，阿'HA阿.PHOTOGRAPHIf;D BY KHAL.IL-

RISSAS IN 1955

L.-'Y" 2 Al..，"¥!IL.... ..

h以1daily mcctings with His

ExcelJency 'Abd Allah al

Sulayman. Ihc Minister of

Finance. for wholTl 1 had great

rcspcCI and admir白IlIon

ド'ollowingthe dealh of His

Majesty King 'Abd aJ-'Aziz

in the 1950s， J問 ¥sgivcn Ihc

lask of Icading a large pany

in support of a royal joumcy

。、，'cr1TI0S[ 01' [hc KingdolTl

Ihcn slill withoul an eXlcnsIve

nelwork of paved ro:lds. Thc

Irip laSlcd 46 days and was an

目 pen叩 cc1 wilJ not forgel 、VilIiamE. Pl1lmcr

1080 Pallerson， Apl， 907

Eugcnc， OR 97401

Ourcarly陀u陀lTIel¥lfrom

Ammco Scrvices C.ωnpany m

Houston didn'¥last long. In

Junc 1966桃'ernoved [0 thc

island of Saipan in the Wcst問、

Paci行cwhcre we a陀 bolh

[c:tching in junior high school

Dorothy is teaching lang凶 ge

‘lf¥sUl叫 I"mtcaching scicncc

O，e陀 asonfor our lTl<加cw川

[hat son Danicl比:cepteda

re ・chingposilion here in

Sairmn and daughlcr Kristi

extendαJ her assignmelll in

Japan for allo[1四 year.Now

Danicl is rewming 10 Houslon

in July and his pl:ms ncxl year

induιe maniage and finishing

his III ll~lcr' S dcg問c.Kristi 副作

ished hcr work in Japan and 011

her way back [0 the Slalcs shc

SIOpped in Saipan and discov-

e陀 dSCUb:.1 diving. Ten 1Il0nths

latcr shc is :llso leaching and

将 aπhingfor Ihc ultim川cdi¥'c

sile in Micronesia

A ritltlle: ¥Vhy does

Califomia 1101'(' so 11刷、

carthqu(/kes alld llllldslides?

ls i110 gIl'e alllfle

retired Aramco geofogisls

叩川nhillg10 wlk abolll?

A1-Ay)'lIl11 AιJ a '" i111"

rcccn町 '1I1ro fellers abOll1 (11/

(11/111101 gllllterillg of叩山

in [hc earJy days of Aramco

Lloyd Reed's and Norah

Hanis' hu由andswere umong

the vcry earl出 tplOnee見

S岨ly.A口Pocock.who

was with us ¥hat day， died

suddcnly the following

DUANE， DANIEL-， DOROTHY AND KRISTI MCCA腐'HYArwl/co geofogi.~ls 1" the 5，“" Fram:isco fJ(I)' Arca

1lI0nth， 1 re:ld the rough draft

of his book. Arabs (///(/ Me

and found it funny and grcat

[0 rcad. cven though 1 didn'l

agree with every戸川 ofit

Jcun Dell'Oro

由。Ihyand 1 maintain a

陀 sidcnι'ein Houslon. bu¥ for

now our homc is a small apan

mcnl ovcr1ooking the Pacific

Our leaching schcdule lcavcs

US tl日児 10cnjoy Ihe isl.mds山刈

see Ihis p.an of lhe world

induding cxploring Auslralia

m】dNew Zealand. Ahhough 1

miss [he pcople and many of

the c:hal1cnglι‘at Ammc。ー Ihc

enc10sed pholO hopcfully sends

Ihem田s..1gCIhallherc j~

anothcr world out there wailing

to bc explo陀d

Te:lching cαIditions at

Hop机'oodJunior High in

Saipan留を chal1e.ngingand not

unlike Ihc Peace Co巾S.1 hllve

wrincn Fcdcml gr.mt陀qucslS

for drug-pre四川iOI¥:md envト

romnemal-protcclion progr.uns

for our >.Iudenl、Ourschαオ

libmry附 rcallypres:-.c<1 for

matcrials抽胡ycontribulions

of以lOksor ¥恨lcotapcs wou凶

bc app陀Clat吋

Hafa Adai' from Ihe

Comrllonwea1th of [hc

Nonhem Marian3 Islan由

。umll' ~叫 cCarlhy

AAA857 -Box 10.001

S:lipun.仇IP96950

(Vi;l U.S. M川 1)

lanullry 5，1998

1 apprecia[c being able to

order Ihe Dhahran Girl SCOUl

calendaTS C;Jch ycar 10 con

11111ほ mycollection

Roberta、Varfield13836 PinClrcc I>ri，'c

Sun City、有vesl，AZ 85375

場事.

On Sunday， December 7

円97.Lloyd Reed gathered凶

fOf bnmch al hcr Oaklal1d

Women's Alhlelic Club. as

she has dOl1c for thc last fcw

yenrs. AIJ ofthe fine f，ε110ws

in thc gro叩 wcrcgl曲 logi府

in the Explorati印 IDcpartment

7107 F.υolhill Roud

Sanla Rosa， CA 95404

STANDING， FROM LE円 BOBCARR， M・KEWANTY， NESTOR SANDER， WALTER DELL'ORO.

ART POCOCIo<. G日間EBLAIo<SLEE ANO CLIFF FL-ITTIE;SEATEO; RODERTA CARR， DORI5 WANTY

LLOVD REε0， NORAH HAR肉15.NANCY BL-AKSL匡EAND DAWN FLITTIE， PHOTOGRAPH COυRTE5Y

。F.JEA阿 DEL-L'O時。 THE5ELF-DE5C時・圃ED"BEDU LADT" 5ITγ'NG。悶 THEFLO。同

SUM¥lt:R 3 I・s

Thc enclosed piclures

include a group of old-lime

gcologisls and geophysト

cists who worked for

Aramco in Saudi Arabia

from 194610 1951

In facl. IWO of Ihe men

are annuilanls who slaycd on

10 complele Ihcir career in

Arabia， One of the piclurcd

also compleled a lour in

Arabia before 、，Vorld、，Var11

and r引 urncdafter Ihe war 10

Arabia 10 stay on for IWO

more lOurs

This group gathers once

a year in Oakland， California

for a mini-Aramco reunion

:md has been doing 50 for

mo陀 thana decade

Qne sad nOle is word of

the dealh of Art Pocock

who was al our gathering in

Dccember山田 passedav四 y

suddenly on January 13， 1998

while vacationing in his condo

in Palm Springs， Il's unfortu-

nate山alAロdidγtli、官 long

enough 10 see his b∞k in print

Georgc 8lakslce

N3976 Park ROlld

Brodhead，、VI53520

Editors' lIote: A dwpte/

ofPocock'sL叩 k.Arabs muJ

Me， lI'aSfeatllred;1I t!te

Fllll/¥Vinter AI-Ayyam AI，

Jami/a/t， Althollgh the book'，¥'

pllblicatiol/， o，.;gil1(1l1y scheli

IIletlfor mitl-Jamwry 1998

，/(J~' b出 '11lJelayed. the IJl/blishー

どrss，“id recellll)' Ilmt "1''''ωIge

mellfs (lre stillllluler 11'(1)' 10

bring it 0111 later 111川、，'ear.

THE LAT・"陪Tpococ“READING FROM HIS BOOK， "ARABS

ANロ ME，"WITH MIKE WANTY。阿 THERIGHT

thoughts often go back 10 Ihe

1940s and . 50s， and whcn 1

depaned for the lasl lime :1

pan ofmy h田 n問 mained

bchind

In my 剖伊nco田 Ih，

Glorio凶 Komn."Bound in

8悶 n，gold-t田 100lealher. il

consiSlcd of a English lexl ‘md

explanaloγmte叩岡山onby

the nOled English Muslim

Manmdukc刊ckthal1

Richard Herman

365 Costa j¥'lcsa Street

Cost:l Mesll， CA 92627

April 1， 1998

Enclosed are somc pho

IOgmphs of my tin羽田 a

teacher in 'Udhailiyah in Ihe

latc 1950s

In 1958 Udhailiyah had a

thealer， a bowling alley， a

commissary. ;1 mcdical cl川"

and the one-room school

housed in onc oflhc "po陀 lble

buildings we called b山 "lI.l'11S

Th同rcwc問 15expalri泊10

adlllts living in Ihc c:Ullp al

Ihe lime. along wilh削

school-agc childrcn， t、.¥'0prcsch曲 lcrsand me. Ihc

fricndships 1m祇 ewilh Saudis I Mr 刊cklhalLa lifelong

wcre strong and lasling， 1 、明a I slud削 01侃 Koran.had

ship's agenl for Ammco and 1 出gan山cwork in Ihe year

陀call山cι:rewofcom[XlJ1y's 1919，lhc戸arl杭 S加mm

lau町 hEl-A加国 間ally 旬間n.Texas!

Yusuf. i悩印1'1品川町el:lUnch 1 round this 10 be a wo

carried 1l1e f TOm由11'ωshipat I d叫 Jland nloving fa民間IIgi仇

mlChorage with the P.1pers and I from a Muslimto his Chri山 an

dOCU1l1Cnl<; thm nccdcd 10 be I fricnd. My time s伊ntin Saudi

signed by Ihe ships' c叩 lains Arabia凶 aIrca山政Jsegmenl

and rne. cnabling the vessello I of an inlc陀 slinglifc

h白 時 間chorand de阿国 Yusuf I Delas Rce¥'cs

:md his crew werc conslanlly I 842 ¥Voodl副叩

aw引泥 ofmy wcll being and I Abilcnc， TX 79603・5714

...[.-...'γ....'1 4 ...[.1....'111.....1

•

from tl町 l白山r001l1wcre 111y Holrnes時制 friendwho

living quarters. 1 had a bed- I had broken An in， V ωslill a

1'00111 12 x 12 f(回 a6 x 12 I pany chief at Ihe lime

kilchen and a 6 x 12 balhroom In Ihc saJllC issuc 1 saw

Ihal thc children also llscd. As a 1 old friends Glenn Brown ;lIld

陀 sultof the陀 modほling.the

building had fi制 JTlelephone~

The sch∞1 childrcn were

in gradcs 1 through 6. AI one

poinl three of Ihe children

were absent with their p凶，-ents on "long leavc，" so for

Ihal thrcc-m01llh peri吋 1"出

IUloring jusl Ihree children

As 1 rec:dl. thc sεhool

was closcd in 1959 and

familics with sch∞l-age

childrc-n were Iransfe町'cd10

olhcr communities

Alice I)ix

1985 sird問、rVa、1':llm Springs. CA 92264

Icacher. Alllhc buildings in

town were air-conditioned

bUI Ihere werc no fl(Jい宅内

shrubs or grass al the school

Jllst同 nd，sand， sand

Our version of Ihe Ir.tdi-

tional "LitlJe Red School

ho"句 wasa pink bamsti. l1te

classroom 、V凶 12x36f~凶 a

size made凹叩bleby remov-

ing thc panitions belw醐 Ih悶

adjoining r咽 msof Ihe cuslOm-

ary IXMlst; layoul. On the olhcr

sidc oflhe回 nlralhallway

A]JriI16，1998

[ havc fond 川町no円 出 01

Ambia - and the Fall 、.Vintcr1997 iSSlほ ofAl-A、'¥'0111AI JωlIIilah brought back nlore

Art P，目。ck'sanicle r:lng vel)'

tnJe. ¥VC spent sevcral m叩 ths

togethcr in aboul 1950. during

April 22， 1998 Sharp-eyOO reader and

regutarcon怠5p吃ndcntBitl

Banlell sent AI-A)抑 11AI-

JωIlila/) a Nell' York Tim出

8民放 Rel'iewf(間 IU陀 011【，"

叫 wlypublishOO以"，k刀'"

Road to Ubilr， by documenllU)'

film makcr Nicholas Clapp

The Houghlon Mifflin publica

11011九OCQun凶Clapp'ssε山<h

for the legendary los1 cily of

Ubar. or Wab..'1f州凶- by

"四fuJexamination of phか

February 21， 1998 Sometime around 1950

[ read an account of an

Amcrican who made a 10ur of

Ihe Near EぉIin a flying boat

Ihat had bccn convcrtcd inlO

;1 flying y舵 ht.During Ihe

lour he rιportedly landed in

the Arabian (Persian) Gulf

and wcnt ashore brief1y on a

rCIllωe beach in Saudi Arabia

before taking off and contin

uing his f1ight

Do山'Y陀:ldersh;we any

January 6， 1998 I salety as 1 clirnbed up Ihc lad- I particul削 onIhis SIO叩け

1 continue 10 slay in I der hanging from thc s凶 ofa I would be i川町田t吋 inknow-

louch with a number of I g剛 tlanker - ship after ship. 叫 inwhat仰 blicにc印，山1110叩n1叫i児

M悶間a則叩m叩n問1叩四c凹00∞ow川0'代ker凶s.We ag釘re∞c I 百 ，w 閏 kend pri。ぽnωomy I s幻山tωoザ a叩pr凹陀削a陀 d"川Ithe1川"川川m

1山hn川I鳩w附'e~附e陀 in Sa川>tdωiAr:l‘品、b，川n 自n附川a刈rd止向ep削1川剛同山u陀 Yo凶‘仙叫0'蜘 1 吋 by I Ihe date of the flighl. the

allhe bcSI of time喝 loobserve I tI"ow 10 M川 amaω，8油ram 削 meof the man and the

a叫恒a凹附円 ofa川'0川 ηlhal I I仙叫山a叫 w削t川【u川ihas 舗 m挺叫帥r"叫"'品h，抗【耐白f加ro間剛o印叩ma I Sm以川刈凶In叩刊r，加Is10引山tωop仰u陀帥h叫 m吋y I 0叩削。伽me踊訓l加w聞附r陀e.1 wonder if any

shifting出scrt10 Ihc melro- I f;官 wellgift，:I two-volume edi- I A叩 nconsfCmembcr hearing

洲口 ithas become 削 ay!My I 1剛 of'ThcMcaningofthe I a加 UIIhe incidem at Ihc time

市川

。UDHA・L・YAHSCHOOI..， 1958

Ihe Iransilion pcriod when I I Syd Bowers. who 1 knew in

山 崎 10takc ovcr a gcological I Arabia. COlly Segar now

field pany frorn Art. Don I lives in B川

1 rcrncmbcr hc and Tot SIOp- I lographs takcn frorn 520 rnil田

ping by Brazil【ovisil rne in I in space and subsequenl explo-

Ihe IaIC 1950s on h時間urn10 I ration 011 the ground -Clapp

Arabia. 1 had a leller from 民計問、eshc has found in the

my old boss， Bill Fumish， a I Rub. al-Khali desert in回 uth-

couple of tllonlhs lIgo. I em Orm凶 B副 lelt's accompa-

My wife and loflen I nying nOle addOO引"

Ihink 01' a回 umvisit 10 I d配 umemar刊 1mon Clapp's

Arabill some day. I decade-long quest 旬以 Cityof

“Sandy" Sanford I Arabia. hωbeen shown seve同

1832 Cypress I times 011 PBS. An Ararnco

"吋ng.百X75061 bral. Jcnnifer Lundbye Do1c芭

ediled thc film!'

TEACHER ALICE 0・，w・THFRIEND

。UO附 AII..IYAHHAD 5IX

EXPATRIATE SCHOOI..-

AGE CH1LDREN IN

1958: VELMA， ON THE

LEFT: PAMELA， MI問

AND CHARI..ENE (AI..L

THREE LEIDECKER5)

SU5A阿 ANDLIBBY

SUMMER :J Iゅ・8

MOSAIC

闘 Ap戸川"

f/"olll Pe仰削'"川t“s、h'(llIit， SI仰αleUn川"川11'.吃どκ川¥'/1り}

brIngs 11山 soJA山川COW!IIU

;10111 /1(1l1k s.μrracallo

Univcrsity Park. PA-

The Pcnn S!lItc Alurnni

Association has selected

two cnginccring graduates

as 1997 Alurnni Fellows

One was Henry R

Barracano (EE‘48). who

wi]J be presented with the

award by University

President Graham Spanier

on November 20. 1997

Bam‘舵 anohas ll10re

than 40 years' e足penencel!1

energy刊 latedprojecl

managernetll <!nd construc

tion. As an engineer and

consultant. he has directed

major projecls involving

powcr systcms、infrastruc

lurC. pipclincs. and offshore

platfof1lh throughoUl the

world. He joined thc

Arabian American Oil

Company (Aramco)川 1956

<lS a swff engineer for utili

lics and by 1983 had risen 10

the pos山 onof assistanl

10 the senior vice prcsidcnt

f町 cng・necringand con

struction. BarT;lcano削 S

involvcd in planning Ihe

company's capilal program

dcveloping infr:lslruClure.

and providing b凶]cover

sighl of oil produclion

Barracano is a senior

member of Ihc InstiUllc of

Elcctricul and Eleclronic

Enginecrs and a rnembcr of

Ihe Pelroleurn Club of

HOllston. He holds member-

ships in the Socicly of Penn

Stale Eleclric甘 Engincers

(SPSEE). Ihe President's

Club. :l1ld Ihe Penn Stalc

Alumni Assoc川 Ilon

HAI'IK ANO SUE BARRACAI'I。

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Bob Maby oJ

HOUSIOI1 spollell削

Ilem 011 CtHO(' geologisl

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Par.ωde. Ihe 5'l11dlαv

slfpplellll'lH co!or mllgaコ'"，fistrilmtellll'ilh 1/1(111Y lI/11jor

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incllfded (/11 imere.HillR

目叫削geαSP(/rt oJlhe re811-

!ar Jelllllre. "Ask M(/riIYII，

111川 ichMari/pl附 5l1¥'(III1

IISled ;11111e GlIillflen Bυ0'

oJH匂rldRecords JOI

f1iglu:.rt I.Q." I回ponds10

ljlll!stiom"frolll her I川市川

Richard Sicgelman 01"

Theodore Rooseveh Sch凹 1in

OyはerBay， New York wro旬

、，vhydocs il SC町 11Ihal almost

every publishcd satellilc pho

lograph of the EaπJ¥ shows Ihe

叫 m引叶cwof A frica. S叩 d;

Arabia and Anta陀'"目 、川'Y

don'l wc see beautil"lll vic叫

of North and Soulh Amcrica

Europc. Asia and Australia?

My Ihird grade class 、.vouldlike 10 know:'

Marilyn VQS Savant's

同 ply:"You'fe seeing a vcry

famous pholO called 'Blu山

Marble.' which w出 sholby

Ihe Al>ollo 17 crew 011 Ihcir

W叩 10lheM∞11. According

10 NASA. il may be Ihe 1l1 0~1

widely diwibulcd imagc in

hisl町 y.Thc 陀 asonfor il詩

poplllarily is thal 'Blue

Marblc' i~ Ihc only flawless

pholO Ihat has beCI1 caplured

by r凶 11ivcpeoplc. (Othcr

pholos have be叩 lessIhan

pcrfecl duc 10 varying uncon

lrollable cIrcull1slanCes以κh

as shadows C;ISI across the

pl:mel.) Fabulous. isn't il?

¥Vhen hc was a mcre 24 y回 m

old. Nestor Sander 1問、'elcd10

Saudi Arabia. where he

helped discover some 01" Ihc

world's largesl oil fields

Using 1I児 knowlcdgehc had

‘acquired al UC BerkeJey. he

reported his白rslfind in

February 19.tO - 11Iorc Ihan

55 ycarsι'go

Today Sander has

relurned home bringing

k.nowlcdge and more: He has

established a charilable gi仇

annllIly at Cal thal will bcnc-

fil the University in Ihe years

ahead. his way of saying

Ihank you

The palh 10 Cal ~、'"

slraighl olle for NCSlor

Sandcr. Bom and reared in

D01llc、、'asIhc base for cxplo

mlion for oil. h叫凶 Ihcover-

~cas hcadquancrs 01' Ihc newly

fonncd C‘]lifo01ia Ambian

Swndard Oil Comp叩 y.which

lalcr bccame the Arabian

American Oil Company

(Aramco). Thc town Ilt:ll

国 meinlo bcing latcr look the

name of thc hill. which is high

enough tO be visible from

Bahrain. 26 miles.，附y

In addition 10 Ihc 15

ycars Ihm Sander spenl with

St:1I叫IrdOil. olhcr oil com

P;I山田 benefilcdI"rom hi ...

expcnise dllring his ca陀 e，Thほ ArabianAmerican Oil

C印 npany，Ihe Conorada

Pe引lrole叩"山"川mCof巾1'or:l山lion.thc

Oa時"凶sOil comp則'ザYof Libyn

a川"刈dAmo囚coInt切em、山 o 悶叩，

{自igur陀"CIar町rgelyin h略 wor水k占 FOI

1山h，巳L盟ち犯cand S剣1川imilarげ"印。'"却o剛 1ω00同s

he p陀 P'陀de、唱11Iationsof the

petrolcum prospects 01' entirc

回 unlncs.mainly in Ihe Middle

Easl ;lIld Mcdileridnean basins

and of basIns ;lIld oil r由ysm

m剖 1oflhefr目、、明Id

Shortly aftcr h俗、.vife

G田 rgia'sdcath in 1992

S川 dcrbegan 10 wnte as a dis

tr:lction. He h凶 nowCOlTI-

pleted a book - l110re than

114α)() words of Icxt and

nllle 111叩s- recounting the

sag.. of the凶陀erof Ibn

Sa'l凶 foundingpnnce of

Saudi Arabia. whorn he 11児t

Ihere in 1939. In thc leXI

Sandcr :111町npts10 glve Sω'"

idea of the chamcter and

仏llureof the ll1an who served

Saudi Arabia ;凶 king.and how

his OUISI‘mding;伽 lil町山Jed

'"'例CONSF健。阿 EARLYEXPLORATION DEPART附 ENTOAYS

GATHEREO IN OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA. IN DEC匡例BER1997

SEATEO: NESTOR SANOER. PALEONTOLOGIST、ANOBOB

CARR， GEOPHYSICIST. STANOING: CLIFF FL・TT・E.GEOPHYSI-

CIST: A腐TPOCOCK阿 IKEWANTY. G区。筒GEBLAKSLEE ANO

WALTER 0匡LL'ORO，GEOLOG隠すS

college c:1reer as a Illusic

m‘り0'--even teaching vio

lin lessons to carn rnoncy for

Ihc $26-semesler ¥Uilion-

the young scholar switched 10

paleol1lology Mler one SCI1lCS-

ler. The science of dealing

wilh the paSI geological pcri

ods by sludying fossil

rcmains was a discipline Ihal

held grcal fascinalion :lIld

"リoymenlfor Sandcr. 1IいI:lS

..Iso a field Ih・¥1would pro

vide a lifelime of grand

ad、'entu陀 :mdfulfilll11cnl

Sander received his

undergradualc d叫陀ein 1936

IIld his Ill:lSler'S in 1938←-

both from Cal and both in

paleol1lology， Hc went on 10

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On February 1， 1938一一befo陀 complelinghis master's

deg陀 e- Sandcr decidcd 10

J印 nSt‘Uld~同 Oil in Lo岳

Angcles as a junior paleol1lol-

ogist. For six months. he li、，'ed

in a $27-a-l11onlh hOlel room

cJosc to his office. gait田 l

'"叩luablcexpcn帥 ceat his

job. and compleled work for

his master"s thesIs at nighl川 d

on weekcnds. By November

of 1938， Ihe diligent young

scicntist had been cho鈴 nto

tmllsfer to Saudi Ar.tbIa and

-01ω19 with thr羽田Ilcagues

boarded a lrJ.in in San

Francisco for lhe firsl leg of an

exhausting Ihree-weekjoumey

by ship. lrain and ship 10 lhal

mysteno¥ls destinati印 1

As日nall四 mponthe hill

called Dhahmn. known 10 the

geologists as Dammam

IIl.IIY、11¥1 6 111. JA'lllAlI Snl.\I ~R 7 I・9種

回

himlO rcgain his heritllge

、，Vhileconducling

rescarιh for this projcct

Sander consultcd Ihe work or

an emineT1l Cal gradllale

George Rcntz. an Ar.tbisl of

Ihc highest standing. Rentz' s

unpublished Ihesis of 1947 is

in Ihe Berkelcy library. Mosl

senous附>le時 dealingwith

the hislory of 【hcSa'ud ram-

ily consult Rentz's work

which gives a I悶 nslationand

ll1te中陪tationof SC¥'叩 al

Arabic writers of the 18th and

Bob Leblillg ザ

S(lII(/i Aramco

Pllblic RellIfiol1s

spotlnl tll'O Ilem.f lIbOIll jor-

mer AramCOI1S while surfil/g

Ihe ¥Vor/ti ¥Vide ¥Veb

E淀川町咽 January5. 1 cゆ8

ー~5cienII自c$oftwa陀ー

Inte陀omp.Inc. (551)

announced thm Edward 0‘

Price. Jr. has becn nallled ch日，，-

man of its加叫ordirecto目

Mr. Price has be叩 adi陀clorof

551 ror自veye町官邸】dwasp問・

viously employed by口1巴町ron

Oil Cornp，my皿 dSaudi

Ammco in various senior cxec-

山 ，e凹slllons

Scientific Softw泊予

Inte陀ornp.Inc. pJOvides

technical solutions and

回 ftwa問 tothe戸1m・

leum induslry

191h centuries who陀屯OUT1l

cvents in Ambia. 5ander

knew Ge⑬rgc ReT1lz and hi~

、川fe50phic in Dhahran fr印 n

1947 to 1952

Nestor 5ander relurned 10

the Uniled 5tates pennanently

on April8. 1994. and chose tO

sεttle in M出 esto.a shon dis-

tancc from his birthplace

worldwide wilh ofl両国主 in

8，りmιCalgary.Dcnvcr.

Houslon. Jakarta and London

Ballirno陀:April 22‘1998

- Roben A. Holmes. M.D司

町"陀dcolonel. U.5. Amly

Mcdic:tI Co巾5.brings a 2ト

Y'訂正listinguishedmilit拙γ

hea1th c山芭むtrcCr10 5iemL

Mililary Hcahh Scrvices Inc

with his appoimmem as vice

P陀sident.medical affairs....

While scrving in th巴us.

Army Medical Co中色

Holmes held pOSIS at eight

U.$. hospitals. rno主Irccently

自schief. outpatient and emeト

gency medical serviccs. and

chief.‘ physical cxarn scclioll‘

川、，ValterReed Geneml

Hospital. Washington咽D.C

Holmes spent seven years

描 medicaldirector ror

50uthem A陀aMedical

5cJViccs Depanmenl al

Arnmco Medical Servic田 in

Dhahran. Smldi Arabia ..

ARA81ST GE;O!lGE; RE;NTZ. PIi町田同州田町

V.K. ANτ。NYIN 1950. RE;NTZ. WIi。例区CP亘DE;STA固L.ISIi

ARA阿CO'SRE;SE;A!lCIi AND TRANSLATION OFFICE; IN

GOVE;!lN阿E;NTAFFAI!lS. WAS L.ATE;!l OE;PUTY CURAT。向。FTHE;附回目 EASTCOL.'-E;CTION OF TliE H曲 V日

lNSTITUTION AT STANF。向。UNIVERSITY

vm民1.channing and inspiringly

E阿問E PLUS w，1トadjustcd.Emmc w描

featured in BeallTy 1I1 LlIrge.

園…ngtOn in the Januarγ27.1997.剛山

Nell' York 7imes. of People， which began.

加 hionmodel and 日 Plus-sizemodcl Emme has a

aUlhor E円lJTle(Em-may) is positivc auilude - and a

now 'lhe world's leading ncw book - about life in the

"官民JelfOf plus 日zes.which non-fasting lane

me:ms size 12 and a加 ve.And AM:町 h1997 Nell' York

that means曲問問日101'山E 1imes pro品le.AI Si:.e 14. A

worncn in thc U.$." Emrnc is Model Figllre. by Alex

thc P同[，品目0"品Inameof Witchel. quoted ErnIllC: "My

Ernme Aronson.町田nd-gener- story IS a日oryofhor砥 and

出tionAr.tmcon Mc1is同 Miller. maybe it can陀屯山catepeople.

daughtcr of 5ally and Bill Everyor陀 shouldst:目的

Emwistle. (See "¥'明"陀 Havc bccome thcir own role Illodel

AII出eChildrcn GoncT' A/. 日llheirown irnage

AYJlIlII AI-JlIlllilllh F:tll 199-'.) H，陪咽sfunher sign耳出品1

門lotographsof Emme. Ihc Ernme has gOIl巴"陀allybig in

model. ha¥'c恒加 appem;ngin Ihe world of m臥 Jeling:TIlis

leadil1g f:田 hionmagazines for March Ihe lovcly fashion

some ye:u古 Butsitl白 山epub- model-and self-con抗dent

lication of her民間k.Tme role mode1-was a guest on

Beal/tv: Positi¥'e Auitudes a/l(/ TV・spopular Oprah Winfl陀y

Practica/ Ti'JSflVlII the lVorld's program. And Emmc currently

uadillg PllIs.Si;e Model. Ihe hosts a 3Cトrninuteshow

川町liaspollighl h前日1"， callαlF皿hionEmergency Ihat

「町"'田don Emmc as the suc- aiTS Monday evenings on E!.

ccssful carccr woman - Illoti守 The Entertainrnent Channel.

Al.AYYAM 8 AlIA¥tll.AIl

闘 い削山 Virgillia

u・1(.ltl Hea¥'ell. tlireclOr

oflhe H{/ifil F{/i.w/

ColfeCIIOII of品lldiArahiall

TradilIOI1αI Ans， sell/ Ihe

の叩骨i加ne

EtlIrors IIω'pyoj削 anicJe

。boutIhe colfeclioll wrillell br Chicago Tribulle slaff

¥¥'riter JOIJ AllderSOlllllld

pllb!ishel/ 011 MlIrch 20. 1998

Etcelpts jolfolV

5audi Arahian Traditional

A円s.Other expeロs;Jgree

with the assessmeJ1l

1'his is a vcry valuable

陀 source:'nOled Jolm

W凹 ds.a Uni町内ityof

Chicago hislOry proressor

、，."ilhan inlerest in the Middle

In II land of old wa陀 Easl."Increas川 gly.people

h山 田 hamburgerslands a吋 I arc going 10 sludy Ih田e

coffee shops south 01' the I Ihings. 10 understand Ihe

L田 p.there resls. tem何日rily. I ways of life Ihat are passing

onc of thc world' s best collec- I out of existcnce." h巴saidin a

tions of the "mate.rial culturc

of the Arabi:m Peninsula

That. translated frorn

rnuseurn lalk. mcans every

day stuff. Ihe horne inventory

ofa問。pleon the movc. fac

ing dernanding realilies of

lifc in thc vast deserts 01' Ihe

Arabi:m interior. a placc of

blinding winds. sand凶ol"ms

bl岨 ingSllmmer days and

frosty winter nights

Stored in Chicago by a

daughlcr of the late King

Faisal of Saudi Arabia. thc

cache includes 10、創)()items

most ofit nc凶tlypackcd in

metal cabinels - tents. rugs

carnel ge白ぜ rob創 刊ils.jew-

clry. weal羽田 pots.b;百ketJγ

books and rarc rnaps

Basic‘llly.there is no

other col1cction on Ihis scale

in the wor1d:' said Virginia

Hcavcn. a formcr slaffer at

Ihe Chicago Hislorical

phone interview 寸heirhav-

ing the roresight to pul1 this

together is verγ1111岡山m

[Heavεn was hi問 dby

Princeω Haifa bint Faisal

wife 01' Bandar bin Su!tan

S山 diArabia' s arnbas拍 dort。the United Slat国 in1986.[

Her rnission was 10 pull

together:1 collection. undcr

5:lUdi印刷同I.of"beauliful

and supe出 ycr.tfled anifacts、"

as the Princess called them. [n

S但附y.now curator of Ihe

Haira Faisal Collection or

JN TI-iIS CI-iICAGO TR・BUNEPI-i。τ。.CURAT。胸 VIRGINIA

HEAVE側 WEARSPROTECTIVE GLO¥lES W剛 LEI-iOLDING A

SIL¥lER I-iEADPIECE;

Sl1¥I¥lH 9 I~.'

a time when old、，vaysof1ife

we問 ch:mgingunder pr，町制限

f，ω11 industri:llization、Iheidea

、.vas10 save some of the cOlln

tI)'s rich cu1tural heritage

before il was scatte陀 d.likc

blown grains of sand. to Ihe

comers of the Earth

Firsl. wc waJ1led 10 save

Ihings. Later. we plan 10 fig-

ure凹 twhat 10 do wIth

Ihcm:' Heaven said. A big

白rststep came about by

chancc. whcn IWO major prト

vale collections of Arabian

materials were "~川 11110

play:' as they say in the

world of bllsiness

Onc cOl1sisted of the

holdings. notably d陀込."

and jewelry. of H岨 therColyer

Ross. author or Ihe t¥¥'o-

volume Ar/ of Arabiall

Co.5fI/ll/e 刊 eolher collcc-

tion belonged to John Toph:un，

a fonnerconstmction com

pany execulivc now living in

upslate New York

AUlh町 01'Tratlitiolltl/

Crafts ofS.“Ildi Arabia Topham's inlereSls touchcd

on almost evcrything else in

traditional 5audi Arabian 1ife

- from WC3、!ing10 leathcr

work. basketry. wo吋 work

pouery and metal work. By

1991. members of the Saudi

Arabian royal family had

completcd negotiations to

buy both colleclions

$0 seven years ago

40 giant cratcs were quietly

hauled into a 10ft a few blocks

west 01' Lake M凶ligan.along

wilh consc刊 at，伽1eqmpment

Including a tcnt and a frcezcr

「both u明 fulin dcaling v. ith

anothcr problcm of the desc代

bugs 、，Vcprobably ha¥'c

Ihe most bug-fl陀eenVl問『ト

ment in thc Soulh Loop 日 ;d

Hca、cn.nOling that incoming

matcrials are ¥'acuurned thcn

rm回 n.destroying the eggs of

mωhs， wee¥'il匂::mdbeetlcs

A山 Iffof13 now hcJps

with slOring. conscr¥'ing. pho

lographing and cataloging

1可lcrcis 110 shortage of work

Down onc aisle. a ¥'isilor

noted 011 a grand tour. are

rnctall凹 kcrs削 cdwith

bridal gowns. hung in d町一

c1eancr co¥'crs

ShcJvcs hold incense

burners 10 pcrfurne a hon児

with sandalwood and frankin

cense. Elscwherc a陀 dozens

of brass coff.町田ISand

spoutcd bo帆 Is.used 10 fced

children. rnilk c:ullels and

measurc liqllids. "ln Ihe

8edouin lifcslylc. cvc叩thing

sc円 cdrllorc Ih:ln one pur-

posc，" Hc川，'ensaid

Whal wi1l happen 10

Ihe Haifa F山salCol1cction?

A decision is e，'¥pecled in

Iv.o years

DI/r;ng thどCIlIfCriU¥川 /99/the

Brookillg.¥， Orl'8011

IIelfJpa/Jeに 11IePi!Ql

pllbli~，lted αfealll問。a"

IWI10115 II(1/i¥'e ~O". ft seelll.~

tlwt Aramco piolleer MlIX

Sreil1eke If(JJ bom am! raiJetJ

;IIIJ，削 killgj.'.1I11l1削剛山山

COIlIIie {//I(I Hank A/uch，

¥dw relired Ihere. 5ent ，fle 白rriclero AI-Ay)'lI11T

AI-Jamilah

JJrookings J¥lan F'ound

S~lUdi Oil

Much of Ihe oil found on Ihe

mainland of Salldi Arabia

Ihal U.S. Ir'∞ps ;Jrc now pro-

Iccting as part of Operlllion

Dcscrt Slorm is crcdilcd 10

ha河 bcendisco、'credby a

Brookings resident. thc latc

Max Sleineke

Max Sleincke ¥¥品 bom

ωrιa 189-1川 whnti恥"0、、Brookings. He w;¥s dcscribcd

a可a"'ypical frccklc-faι:cd

red hcad country boy" by

high-sch∞'"出malc

Gcnrude Mil1er. 9.t now li、ing in Silel7.. Orcgon

$Icineke.s father w出 a

m川 hematicianwho immi

grawd from Germ:my. bUI

Slcineke hirnsclf was kind

of slo帆 andhad to try

harder 10 do、.vellin school

Millcr recalls

Miller and Stcinckc bolh

allended 8r.∞kings School in

1915. Their川 Slruclor

Tommy Thomps伽1，¥aughl

sevcnth and eighlh gradcs

nnd since there wcrc only

half a dozen high sch四 1SIU-

dcnlS. hc laughl them 嗣

Impressed by Sleinekc宅p"-

，islcnce. Thomp電on"1伽，k

him ul1der hi号問時、 Millcr

抽 id.Thompsα1 kncw、。rnc

influemial peoplc at Stanford

Uni叩 TSilyand hclpcd

Steinekc gel admined Ihe陀

11 was aftcr gradualing鳩 ilha

bachelor.s deg陀 ein geology

from Slanford in 19211hat

Sleineke embarked on his

carecr in oil explo日Ilon

lcading e¥'cntually 10 11児 dis

ι:o¥'cry of oil川 thc$audi

Arabian desεn

$tcincke began hi ~ c:同町

、，.， ith Standnrd Oil of

Califomia. according to an

article in the Novcmbcrl

Dcccmber issue of Ihe

Slmifora (Univer!>ily)

Ohse/1'eに Hespent 25 y凹肉

、，.， ilh Standard Oil Company's

gcological slaff working in

thc Uniled Slatcs (Ierritory or

A縛A阿 COPION匡ERSAT JUBA比例EAOQUARTERS11'11 1934. I..EFT TO RIGHT: MA翼 ST日開自(E.J.W SOAK" HOOYER， H.L SURCHFIEI... A. e. SROWN (側EARI..YH・OOEN).SCHUYI..ER S. "K肉UGHE側 RY.W. SURI..EIGH， T.W. KOCH. R. P. "SERT" MIl.l.ER. F.W. D肉EYFUSANO R.C. KERR

..t...nA川 10M IA則自州

Ala、ka).$oulh Amcricn. Ncv.

Zca1and. Briti、hColl1rnbia

and $alldi Arabia， according

10 a 1952 CaJifom川町wspa

per clipping kcpt by his sistcr

in-la¥¥. Frankic Stcineke. of

H:lr加'.0陀 gon

1n 1933. Saudi Arabia

or酔x冊 tlthc c回a与叫巾t胞c叩汀m]Xl明nof川Ih旧c

kin唱gd仁ω)1111ωo刷 Idc、¥'c1opmem

'川『向B凶d臼、机w、.，.官i

s釦1"叩"d山"川hげ川吋"刈'dOil ofCa叫山d出li(omi泊， 3

which ga、'c11.-. Middle East

opcrations thc namc of

Califomia Ambian Standard

Oil Com]XUly (Ca.<;QC). After

Caヌ)Cbccamc panners with

TC'¥:lco. Exxon and Mobil. its

1l:llllC則自schanged 10 Ihc

Ambi:lJI Amcrican印l

COlllp .. 1ny (Ar.un四).which is

now Ihe $audi Ambian Oi¥

Com(Xmy (Sa叫 iAr.心配叫

M皿 Steinekev.as one of

thc fiN 1-1刷出n四 npro:;pcc-

10、loexp10rでIhcSalldi

Ar.lbian dcscn in 1934. accord

ing 10 Ihc $I:mford‘micle

Slcinckc柄 引dcscribedas

加 rly，big-ja¥'叩 d.heany

enthu<;iastic. p田 fane.i吋efati-

gablc. carelc~ of irrcle、mlldelaib and illlp1acable in tr.x:k

ing do¥¥ n a linc of sciemific

"川uiry:'a目。吋ing10 Ihe以>ok

Disnハ'ery，by 、，Val1accSlcgncr

ln 1936凶 arc~uh of oil

cxplomtion. a酷蜘1Ii31dis

Inct嶋 崎 51回 ed:llDh油r.m

and in 1937 11犯行岡山市町四

鳩山田川ldchild陀nwe陀

3110納氏1in lhe cOlllmunit}

Max Stci叩'c 、、~' i fe 円 0"，"印

刷 dhi ~ 1¥¥0 dau副山rs.Maxinc

lι帥 ¥'Ia比Ul.1ived in Saudi

1 Arnbi:I...unlilthc oLtlbreak of

、，Vorld、，V:lf11

Slcincke wa電theIllan

who目的1C:II11C 10 undcrSland

Ihc、Iraligraphy;lIId Ihe

情lruclureunderlying easlcm

Arabia 、、urf~晶ce. Sleener

同 id....Max Slcineke bccame

Ar;II11co'~ chier geologisl in

1936. His persistence changcd

Ihe luck of Ihe discoumged oil

C九plorcrs.according to Ihc

Slanro吋 anic1e

TI1C anicle also S:lid

S回 nekcv.凶隠S凹nsiblefor

Ihe discO¥eηofrn併で oi1than

any Olhcr ，ingle Amencan and

U部 award吋 lhehighcsl honor

in 11旬 以川町。fpetroleum

geology in 1951.lhe Sidney

Powers MCIllOlial Mcdal

A出Ul1950. Sleineke

bccamc i1I品川間umcd10

hisL品 AIt田 Ca1ifomia

homc umil his dea山0"

Ap'引 17.1952

/nc/udetf I¥.ith the r宅101tll7ic/e W{/品。 fetterfromM.叫

Sleilll!ke /() his brOlher ¥V(llrer

I'mrk/，“110 Ihe 11ωω )(11'1'1' b.、Ihe Steilleke f(lIll;ly. e.ra17JIS of

II'hich fol/OI‘

8cirut. Syria

Augllsl22. 1935

Dcar Anhur、，Va1ter.and farnilies

Asy刷 knowI問 rkcdin Arabia for all of山epasl

ycar. For山esummer明 camc001 to山'"鳩山tainshe陀'"

Syria [1吋ay山eco.15lal mountains of LebanonJ. On ac四 UIlIof

the heat il is Im凹悶blelodo g田 logicalw明 kinlhedほscn同

時叫llCOllt to do our m:lp work and wnle凹 r陀伊町 hc陀

However our stay in Ihc 11l0uni:lins is just about ovcr

、川Ihnow and we are leaving for Ihc easlern part of A印刷a

in a few days. h is vc叩 warlllthcrc剖il1.bUl wilhin a Illonlh

or 50 il will ha、，'ec佃 ledoff cnollgh so it is reasonably liv

able again. During January and February il gets quile cold

especiaJ1y when the big wind storms from Ihe nonh sweep

across the barr加 desc円

明lCoilP田spcctsfor Ihis pan of Ihe柄。rldlook vcry gαld

1百ecomp.1ny has prodllction m 8ahmin in山ePersian

(Ambian) Glllf.、，Veare d同Ilingn wcll on thc Illainland of

Arabia and illooks ccnain Ih訓 weshall g.臥 α1thcre also

As 1 said hereloforc. 1 am lcaving for anOlher year's

session in the Arabial1 dese同S.1 have a liltle Illore of ajob

this year becallse 1 am going 町民間 charge of the geologi

cal work for the 印刷ngseason. When yOll wrile， add陀 鉛

the lelter as below as plainly as possible

l¥Iax

c/o C.A.S.O，C目

JUbllil， Saudi Arabill

MAX STEIN臣民E(CE側TERRIGHT) A側o"SOI‘“.. HOO¥lE肉 HA¥l1例GCOFFIEE WITH TH自 RSOLD・ERESCORT AT WAOI KA削 阿 1936

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A，嶋田叫y山 pl昨

logmphs on the明 pages.taken

in 1935 and 1936 by pionccr

Aramco geologist J.W. "Soak、

H冊、er.there was a tirne in

the nOl-1冊 distantpast when

human life in the desen

reg'α15 ofthe Middle E.1St

dependcd heavily on the

camel. Long-necked. long

legged. at the same tirne

graceful and ungainly. came.ls

werc able 10 manage sornehow

on thomy曲目bsand rnarginaJ

、叩【er:they could fomge far

beyond the range of sheep. or

evcn goats. To the Bedouins

they provided transpon

milk and. occお ionally.meat

Settled fanners employcd

them ωdraft animals 10 plow，

draw water. drag th陀shing

boards or tum r1lill Slones

口問atcaravans of the stu吋y

beasts carried go吋sand pil

grims across sand当 andSICppeS

- and along treachcrous coral

coasts whcre sailors wcr宅

陀 Juctantto ¥'，副lture

間 lcnCasoc's 凹 plo-

ration pioneers in Saudi

Arabia faced sho円agesof

fuel and rubbcr during、νWll

they used camcl transport for

supplies. induding concrete

drilling mud and even Icngths

P hotographs and captions by J 、v “Soak" t-Ioover

CA州 ELSLOADEロ WITH'A ~GAJ ' F"O~ SUM附 E"，。肉AGENEA~ 阿AJMA・A."

D~IN州問 CAMEL.S AT .J A~ IYA EL-ILYA， MAY 10， 1回 6.'・

of pipe. Ararncons who

lived in the Kingdom in the

1 940s and '50s can rernember

whcn great concentrations

of tribesmen and their

herds still gathe陀~d in sum-

mer encampments around

ancient hand-dug wntering

holes 01' the newer. company-

drilled weJls (Front covcr)

CUlllcl culture still h描 a

place in the desen economy

but Ihese days highway traveJ.

ers a児 nslikelyωsee a cameJ

bcing trans(X)ned in山e凶0'

of a pickup tnにkas they are to

"悶ountera string of grazing

nnimals ambling across Ihe

asphah al a sign-designated

'carnel crossing." Org加 ized

carnel races， increasingly (x)p-

ular in se町 ralArabian

Peninsula ooun回目 pl町 arole

111 rnamlammg gαXI breeding

praclices. T凶 'Y田 meArab

families keep camels for m:tny

of the s，11l1e reasons AmeriC<ln

famil回 mightkeep hors田

【radition，n田 talgia.pほお【'g'

plcasure. But ahhough work

ing animals are still valued by

many llomads and fanners

出edays when camel5句、問陀 ""

essential complemem 10

human life in Ihe Arabi:m

dcsert have passcd

CAMEL T~AIN A ~R I YING AT MAX STEIN匡KEANロ "SOAK"HOOY E ~' S GEOLOGICAL CAMP AT 'AIN TALHA FEBRUA傍Y4，1936

Creat caravallS ofthe stllrdy

beasts carried goods alld pi匂-rIms

across sallds alld steppes - alld

alollg treacheralls coral coasts

where sailors were reluctallt

to velltllre.

“ D~AWING WAT E~ TO I関剛 GATEWHEAT Aγ ILYA， .J ANUA~ Y 8.1935

"問 AXSTEIN・'"匡 ..γTINGA YOUNG 'DH匡LUL'CA附 EL

M..YYM 12 AL.IA¥tIl.MI SUIM~.R 13 199i

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r戸、

噛

P.ND'" RU聞8EIt5TAMP

8ZE--g主主主

JE2同

E ven凶 trucksand t附 IOrsl:tke ovcr many川 c:unel's

traditional roles. anothcr aspecl 01' camel culture i5 nourish

ing.M四 Ywho havc li¥'cd and worked in the Middle E:回

rctain a 50ft Spol in their hearts for the so-called "ship ofthc

deselt:' HobbyislS and colleclors find carved or moldcd slat-

uellcs of the long-necked beast. with its thick eyelashes and a

50同町liouslook. 10 be irresistibly ch凹 ning.111川 y川 mber

of Ammco annuit:mt h叩 1国間chmemem団 sofd巳sendays

dccorale !abletops 01' fill a d時playshelf. As Ihese phαos

sho¥V. such camel colleclibl回目ncome in fabric. leather

The Inquiring Eye Photographs by Dorothy Miller

wood.m出 11.ccr.unic. i、。ryand cryslal

D uring 20 )'ea目印刷 Aramco

employee at rhree differelll tillles frOIll rhe

1940s 1111ひughIhe 1970s， OIulllirα川

DOlVlhy Mifler pholOgraphed variolls

j白f川町 oJI俳山 theKingdo川川1ftα

cunous. IIlqllll1llg町realld with orderly，

a/mOSl sciellI伊c，tholVuglmess. Her pho

lographs 01 c即日Is011 this page rejlect

her tlllceasing curiosiry. They show a

、ー.---..:..

、.¥J

J凶/

newbom preparing 10 Ilurse. e.λαmme

IlOwa camel's 100l spreads 10 support its

body 011 soft s(lllds， Iww fro1111egs αre

bent alld Iwbbled 10 shorlen the distonce

。nil/lalscan range from lhe herdsmall 's

tellt at lIight， alld how the evolvedfeal/lres

olllose， eyes山 u/ears prolecI these sell.

sO/y orgalls fl"olll ai r-bome dllst or sand.

E附 A FLOR・DAA周AMCON"S "'OME. CAMEL.S STRIDE AC旬。"A

8RASS-STUDDED GUL.F C・~EST

S[-'I釧F!司 '"ゆ15

TMIS CA阿区C D ・s ・~L.AV Aγ。...・L・NGCAO・NETAT ASC

IN HOUSTON INCLUDES A JAR OF ORANGE SAND FROM

TME Rus' AL.-KMAL.I

14 ..l_JA¥lIlAII ..L_A、'、，

of S T E S N E V E S 、

、

S • ln

• UTZ σR ON WALDR J A N E

554usea市Z Y B

What was Aramco仰がikein the ear.かdays?

Seven sets 01 siblings tell their stories.

from wday'!> pcr~pcc (i \c makes It aJl

sccm likc wondcrful fun. BUI it wasn'l

.llway、eaぉy.Umilthc 1950... family hous

mg ¥¥':1、 clttremclylimitcd. Husband~

camc OUI for two ycars or more bcfo陀

thcir spousc‘C山 Idjointhem. Singlc'l

and ~inglc-slalus spouscs. I怜cdin b:lche

Jor quarters in prcrabrica1民jJ刻 1able

buildings for }caf"> at a timc. $uch quar-

tcrs wcrc called !Ntr{lstis， artcr the palm

thmch hul!> then comlll加 111Io<:al o:lsis

、illage...h t田"ccrt:lin 院内四‘IIqualilies

for a :.inglc cxpatriatc 10 m..l..c .. go ofthe

COIl可制llyin thOloC carly day、Oneof

thcrn was aほn、Cofad吋 nlurc

“v

~ think having onc ano日hertherc

madc allthc diffcrcnce in山田eearly

d..y..:' said Madelcne Spenccr. who

along wi¥h hcr I鳩'"、I51crlrene. enjoyed

lifc in thc Aramco communities so much

that thcy carnc thcre on threc diffcrcnl

QCcal>lon、一一目『、t、川IhBcchtel in 1948

Ihen桃 ilhthc Saudi Arab G。、emment

Railroad， and fin:llly、、ithArarnco

Some girls ¥¥creミoloncly thcy just

協 cntright ba~'k home. And、omeofthe

rncn桃山tback 100. BUI of course we

didn'¥. Wc had cach Olhcr

L田 kingback :Jllhosc c:lr1y days

I 7 19~K

THI!: 5TAR OF 5EC側目ENERATION

A'A問CONANO FOR附EREMPLOVEE FRII!:D白。固・ 5CDL.L.ECTION OF A'。υT7DCA附 EL.S15 A UNIQUE

FIVE'F'曲 T5TUFFEO ANIMAL. P問。-OUCED BV IγALIA問 τ。V例 AKER5

"同 51Z11!:CAMIi!:L.ー PLA5T問。>PA問。VERA WIRE FRAME -5NEAKS剛 5N051!剛、roTHE TENT. IN THIS CASE TH問。UGHTHE WAL.L. OF A HOU5TON L.I制 NGROOM

も '"、.II'~

111 Ihe bOOll1illg 1950s， AWlI1co could boast soaril1g pmduc liOIl， selleralnewfacilities一山 u/at leasr se附 Isels oJ凸pa-Ina陪 siblillgs.II Wηs easy 10 see w"o r"e siblings u'ere， especially Ihe Ihree sels oJ ハ¥lills.They looked alike. ThのP

talked alike. Alld 011 Ihe IVhole，

Ihのseemedable 10 make r"e lI1os1 oJ 1 ife叫ん削lCO

There was a reasolllhev adap，ed so well. No matlel what /wppened， they /wd olle anorhel

A CAMIi!:L CA問、tEDIN ONE: PIECE FROM

A CEDA開 TRUNK

CAMIi!:L COLLECT・BL.ES<AN図E(CL.OCKWI5E 問。例 TOPL.1i!:円)ARTV.

'0'κ-ARTT. WHI阿SICAL。肉 UTIL.ITARIA側

16 AtJ'III." 6‘L‘、、、、e

My 、.i~lcr and I ¥¥c陀 ltlthc Marillc

Co中、川、v、.VIJ:'，:1)、 Madclc問。陀mcrn

bering 1剛~' Ihcir I:NC 1<町川、cnlu陀 hcgan

111<11 junkcl 1001-thcm onl}品 r..r>1、

l引ila配Iphia:but nntc 11に t鴨川、 from

B:mgor. Mainc. h:ld gonc Ihm f:lf. il

切印刷lonl}log削 Ilogo加 10Califomia

[n limc. Ihc)叩pliαJal scchtcl

、，Vcdidn'， know ¥¥ hc同 Bcchtel

机ould、cndu、 Andv.c didn'，l..now

:¥Jl} thing <100m Saudi Ar:lbia. BUI民 hen

Ihcy ¥aid S山diArabi辻、、c、:Iidfinc

¥.¥c'dgo 陀 mcm以:r¥Madclcl1c

Although thc S戸l山内叫陀 cunlr;tc[or

cmploycc、， Ihcywc陀山、igncd10

Dhahran'~ "PClli<:oalしanc 刊long

uサIh1110叫O!hcr、inglc協 orncn

Pcnico:tt L: l川、~a~ 日 du~lcr 01'

，)(l/"(l.Iti，~ 巳.ach buildi咋 hadfour doublc

Z曲 m;.，alxl¥hroom ，han:d by thc cight

OCC"凹 111)>，and品川).tiny" l..itchcn

Ircnc :tnd I、同問 111;.代Xl1l1togcthcr

'T"'E S吋 SPE:NC

、司1010""健-川，ε陶。$J"陶， C，禽‘"掬.。

BUllh四 forlhc Spcnccr !.i!>lCf¥

c、cngOll1g I。、、0" 鳩山san ad、cnlurc

快 hichpro加bl)hcl)定du、、.. ，)'， Madclcnc. During their fin.t )car、il1Ar;lbi:l. thc ~i 、

l1(){ing th:1I no onc spcnt Illuch timc in Ihc IC~ ¥¥crc a~~igncd 10 thc Tr.U1~ Ambian

h(lrlut;s in an)印式 n"陀 wc陀 tooman) Pipe Line (Taplinc).民 orkil1gIiN il1

olh凹 thil1g、lodo.111C陀 杭U陀 IriJ)' Dhahr..tn and Ihcn in Ra!<， ;11・Mi、h'abthroughout thc E<1~tcm Provincc. for c-..:am- 刊crc 、~crc JU~ I 日 r，柄、、 omcn 111

pJe.叩 ddinncl"¥:1I Ihc nca巾y日"加、C. RiI~ al-Mi;"hめand帆 clivcd in a曲目 or

which wωalw可、品目叫市川陀 barr..lck~ where we did山 rownc∞king

例 AロELENII!:ANO IRENE AT T例区 A'同p。開Y

・NBA側GOR.MAINE. EN向。uγ監 τ。SAUD・ARABIAIN THE EA何"'・9505

Thcy h川 movlc、Ih飢 Igh白lIldrnu~ic for

dancing." rcmcrnbcr¥ MadcltよIIC

Ahh飢 l!!hRa、日I-Mi州、bh川"，limitalions. thc 、川cr~ cnjoycd lirc in

S:ludi Arabia. :md latcr. whclI thcy had

thc chancc 10 comc bi¥cl.. 10 Dhahr.:lIl ¥¥ ith

Ihe Saudi Amb Go¥cmrncnl R山 lroad

Ihc) didn't he~il:ll c a minule

The go、cnunenlhad bllih a r..tilroad

from D川、mam10 Riyadh Ihat p齢、cd

through Dhahr.tn. Thi、IllC:lIllth川

~1:idelcnc and 1陀nccould lal..c Ihe train

10山orkαIch da、、.Veli、edil1 Dhahran. but 哨 c

worl..ed in D:lIll1nam:' cxpl川、

Madclcnc ¥¥ h仏 li"clrcllc. cnj町cdhcr

work with thc railroad川 dprob;lbly

would ha¥c、laycdlongcr if thc Aramco

川川、 ，，'1 18 H .U'IH 、H

b∞111 ofthc 195Ch hadn'l c陀 atcd..

hou:o.ing :o.honagcもosc¥'erc thal Ihe

"、IC町、、erca:o.ked 10 mo、efrom com

pany hOll、ing.Ralhcr Ih川 lea、eIheir

fricnd、inPCllicO;l1 Lane. Madelcne and

Jrcnc rctumcd 10 Maine. 0111) 10 find

Ihcir fathcr ill 鴨 ilhcancer

lt tool.. all our日刊ngs. ~a) 、

Madelenc. cxplainir港、、hythc si、ler-.

化 turncdto Saudi Arabi:1 J"or lhrce morc

yc‘"、 l hi、 I:I~I lillle with Aramco

、.Vchad a wondcrful timc

問 rncmbcr、Madclcne

問 ADELENEAND IRENE SPENCER

L川 l円9制叩叩叩4打山川川7刊刊川JiI口川1

plan泥"川nDhahran to bcgin、¥¥orl.. in n 1

Ararnco ope悶 lionsand pr句CCIS

札1、IIlg、pcnthi写carlylife in Ihe

Philippinc可，nd、v、，Vllin Ihe U.S. Na、》

H宅cemedperfeclly nalUratly 10 accept

Bcchlcl"s offer 10 ¥¥ork in Saudi Arabia

Jim鳩 山 n'ldisappoinled. In faCI. he

cnjoycd life in Saudi Arabia so much that

he、田nbcgan 10、，¥'rileencoumging ICI-

Icr"l back to his brolhcr John. Thc leller:o.

had Ihc dcsircd effecl

[n 1948 John signcd up ¥¥ ilh Aralllco

Accollnting and. fotlowing :.Issignmcllls

in San FrancIsco and Ncw York. arri¥'cd

in Saudi Arabia in 1950 with his ¥¥ife

Roi' :md their Ihree chiJdrcn

That was Ihc same year tl1m Barbam

O'Donncll said go吋 b)e10 hcr Iwil1 ¥i、Icr Dorolhy in Ne机 York.and boarded

the plane Ihm ¥¥ould bring hcr 10 S:mdi

Arabia cafl) onc AlIgUSI aftemoon

"1 was ¥¥四rlllga SUII. ~t町king~

plllllpS and 白川:1¥y bllle hat." rernembcr、Barbara. ¥¥110 quickly Icamed仇 hyslan

dard Ne仇 Yorl..bu、Ille~可 atllrc wa¥ nOI

、、halpcoplc帳。rcon a hOI Stlllllller day

in Saudi Ai.lbia

。、cr¥ca、Cornpany(AOC) in The

lIaguc. :lnd a fc帆 ycar、lalcrDorolhy

Charlc~ :'md Ihcir Ihrce chiJd陀 narri¥cd

in Saudi Ambia

。、crIhc 即刻託、"，，1戸af'i.Ihe size

oflhe combincd f:llnili引 incre:t.~cd. Four

Illorc childrcn ¥¥crc加m10 Dorolhy and

Charl刷、，Vj似1Iein Saudi Arabia. John and

Rol. Bowlcr had Ih陀 C1110陀 child偲 n.all

回min Ar.tbia. Alllhrec of Barbar.t and

Jim、childrcn問問 bom in Ar.tb凶凶 wcll

Our childrcn cenainly didn'l lack

for cou~ins - on cithcr ~idc of the fam

ily:' say.. 13:.バ):lm.AlIth陀 cfarnilies we陀

plca長cdIhm their childrcn had cousins liv-

IIlg時 nC:lf...It nwde Saudi Arabia a spe

eial pl:田 forallofus‘凶y~ Ba巾ar:t

、，Vch:ld a wondcrfullifc thcrc

The Ar.UllCO e可pcn-

cncc川 uldh3、Cbccn

c、cnmore ¥¥onderful

for thc thrcc familic、had Ihcy all Ii、edin

Ihc S:lIllC comrl1unil)

at thc、:UllC¥ime. BUI

Ihat切 [dolllh:lp

pωlcd. Jim had

Ir:lIl ~fcrred tO

Aramco in 1954

Oncc ~he ~enlcd in. however. Barbam and tllO、cdfrαH

found Ihal lifc in Saudi Ambia ~uiled hcr. Abqaiq 10 Raぉ

Shc enjoyed her白隠Iassignmcnl in T川lUr:t:U1d back

A同日Iq.:11叫 ~he W:IS h:lppy川 IhhCf問 XI agω11， "orJ..ing

a~、ignmenl in Dh:lhran Accoul1ling

、、，，，陀、hcworked with Jolm Bo" ler

It wa:.n'l long， of cour;e， befoでJohn

imf'似 Jucedher 10 his brolhcr Jim. And il

¥¥a:.n"ll∞rnuch longer afler Ihm Jim and

Barbara were maπicd on Bahr:lin

Now there ¥¥cre 1¥¥0 BO¥der farnilic~

in Saudi Arabia. Soon Ihcre would be

1¥¥-0 O'Donnell families as well

Sho円Iyaftcr Barbara lefl Ne快 YorJ..

hcr ¥win、iSlerDoro¥hy married Charles

Windlc of Aran比:o'sNcw York 0冊目

Altno~\ bcforc Ihey knew il. thc y似 mg

couple found \heJll ~eれで~ :11 Aramco

011 differenl projc口、 Johnand

Charlc~ 1110、cdalmo引:1$oftcn

Barhara 白川dDorolhy did manage 10

lalk on lhc phonc 3lmos¥ c¥crγdayand

thc Ihrcc f:unilies would Iry ¥0 joinα田

1Il0ther for thc holidays帆 henIh巳Ycould

O¥her tim引 Ihcy叩鳩町leano¥her 1110陀

oflen 刊 etwo BO¥¥lcr familic当oftenrnet

at Ilalf;"1凹 nB:.y， "hc陪加はhJim and

Jolm lil.;ed 10 go fi、hingB‘.rbam O'Donncll 80" Icr !:>pem

日1rno~1 25 ycar、inSaudi Arabia. Ica、mg

in Imc July 1975 when Jim問"同d.Jim

had、}淀川 28year，> in Arabia at Ih川IImc

川、。、II.M I 9 I村縦

:mdl桃()year， I:ncr wCnt bacJ.. a内""Aramco con"ultanl. D。附句 u'l)onncll

WindJc and Charb had Icft a fcw yean.

'"叶icr.10hn and Rol.日0"Icr rcli陀d川

1983， after 33 )C:II"¥ in Saudi ArJbia

10hn 、1illliJ..cs¥0 crcdil Jim for gi¥

ing him ¥¥ hal hc con..idcr‘some or Ihe

bcSI ycar， of hi什ifc

[f il hadn'l becn for my brothcr

hc s旬、 R07訓ldJ nc、cr¥¥ould ha¥c

Ii、edthcre

By川 mcMary and Barb.lra Painc

M円、cdin 1955， lhc Aramco cO¥llmuni

'"白s、机A凶c陪'1"仙"他edc、叩'CIo

、川、h川‘a凶"1刊""叫Iyf，“i臼叩3川川m肌10"凶sfor i山1い、 Surf Hou~泌e and

B山1悩， be叫a町川"，】 a川nc叫dA同"'叫qha恥岨1<刈dan問cwc叩om叩IH叩"川11山2制u

""げyccn¥cr boa 叫山l川IIg守anclcganl r閃℃、¥au rant. Thc Palm需

PAT(G問。GAN)AND BILL FAI関・AN“TO。“ THISPHOTO OF附ARYAND

BA陶巴ARAPAI問..問。"'‘HRA開 IN

DEC匡阿 BER19ヲ'

Barbara Paine <，lill陀 mcmbcr、，hc

¥¥ay A岡山， 1∞I.;edwhen申earri¥'ed in

February of Ihat ycar. "11 、~a~rnuch

畠陀cl1crIhan 1 Ihoughl il ¥¥'ould bc. Thcre

¥¥ ere all、。円‘ ofno、、"、川ld¥rcc、:lIld

、hrub...And il桃山 qllltc、、cll-dcvcloped

、，Vehad

出lda戸山owhere we could go dancing

As a nurse. 8:trb:げawas ;tssigned [Q

Ihe Abqaiq cliniclhospilal. which was

Slill a woαJen port;tble building when

，1問。rslarri¥'cd. Latcr Ihe company buill

a fully-equip氾dcliniclhospital whe陀

8arbara rotaled through day and c¥'cning

shifts along wilh Ihe olher nur古田

On wcckends Barbara 01"【en1日¥'cled

10 Ras Tanura 10 bc with her sisler Mary

who aπived in Saudi Arabiajusllhree

weeks after she did. Mary w川 E紛 igncd

10 Hospilal Adrninistralion in Ras

Tanura. where she worked as:t secrelary

1l was fun having a sister in Saudi

Arabia." rcmωllbcrs Barbara. "[ got 10

know her friends and ~he gOllo know

mine. And. 01" coursc. [ lo¥'cd Ihe Ras

Tanura出ach

ル1aryalso lovcd Ihc beach and. pcr

haps cvcn rnore. Ihe boaling aClivIlics

Fricnds from Chicago Bridgc and [ron

used [Q lake groups of us Oul on Ihe

pcar1ing bo‘tts、.Vewalched Ihe rnen di、eI"or p削 rls.and Ihen wc would ha¥'e

lunch. which was cookcd righl on the

boat." Olher limes groups would sail OUI

"'気unsel.[Q watch Ihc dolphin d時plays

A"ωhCT aClivily M;try enjoyed was

camping oul in the dcsert

LEFT: TONI KANT守

1963

R・GHT:LOUISE KANT，1964

τ。NIWRITE5

"TI-IE TEAI< 0∞R

PURCHASED・NAL-KHOBA胸 INTI-IE

EARLY 19605

IS NOW IN THE

HAIFA FA・SACCOLLECT10N IN

CHICAGO. I HAVE

A 'LIFE-SIl.ED

PHOTO REP向。DUC'

T>。則。FTHE回 OR

。NMY WALL

In timc Mary mo¥'ed 10 the Ras

T:lIlura DislriCI Mamtger's office. and

Ihcn on 10 Dh:thran where she worked :lS

犯 C陀 lary10 101m Lund仏 viccpresidenl

01" Engincering. She lefl Aramco in 1972

10 marry Andrew Rebeck. whom she mCI

through Aramco friends

8arbara left Arabia in 195810 Care

for her mOlhcr and evemual1y to go back

10 schooJ. In 1981 Barb:tra retumed 10

S:tudi Arabia to j刷 nIhe stal"l" allhe King

Faisal Hospital in Riyadh. Shc stayed

there until hcr rctiremcm in 1997

[liked S川 diArJbia bolh IIm田 l、v:tSthe陀伺ysBarbaョ 1met so many wαト

derful戸ople1"1同 mallo刊 rIhe world

L ni Kant loved…e1. During

w、.VIIshc tr:l¥'eled 10 EngJand and France

10 serve with Ihc Red Cross. And in 1954

l>hc lraveled 10 Saudi ArJbia whc陀対"

、町l>soon assigned 10 Aramco Govemmcnl

Afl";川町 AmbianAffairs office.

This was the ortice where Ihe

Aramco Arabists inlerviewed Arab

Bcdouin "relalcr5" in order 【ole:lm

about dcsen conditionsしlocalCU~tOIll S

and田 pecially.thc nallles :md location， 01" geographical fe:tlUre‘

AI..Aγ、A，， 20AIJ、九111All

01" cour!>c. Ihe cornings and goings

of such men as Ihe Icgcndary desert

guidc Khamis ibn Rimlhan made

Arabian Affairs a fascinating placc 10

work， as Toni often pointed out in lellers

10 her勺slerLouisc. Louise. who W1l:'，

jusl finishing her masler's dcgrce in

E仇』四lion.had ne¥'cr Ihoughl aboul livφ

in!! o¥'erscas. bUI when she found Ihat

Toni ¥¥.引sh:l¥'ing ~uch greal ad¥'cn

'"陀ミ l>he decidcd民hewould apply to

Aramco. 100. As Louise is Ihe first to

admit. hO¥同町r."If il h以ln'lbcen for

Toni. [nevcr would have been Ihere

On Decembcr 26. 1955. Lo山田

finally arrived in Dhahr.m. where shc

wa~ assigned 10;1 b(/f(/sli. like everyone

else. There ¥¥'as one dil"l"crcnce. Ihough

"Toni had pUI a big Illap of Saudi Arabia

on lllV wall - 10 co¥'er a hole品 川

lurned OUl

Alt.hou!!.h the sislers問 verlived

logelher. Ihey did g山cone another sislerly

advice. as hap田n吋 ¥¥'henToni wanted 10

buya ncw hOl plale 、.Vhydo you w:ml 10

do Ihm? Mary Robinson already has a 1剛

platc." Louise remembers品 ying."Inlhosc

days問 sha削郎官巾hing刷 Ihone

.:mOlher

Thc sharing ~yMem did ha¥'c it~ dm¥'ト

backl>. ho仇.e¥'cr凶Louisedisco四 r凶 [0'

hc.rsclf叶lcnVincコcPantcloni加πuwcdhCT

24-cup cofl"ec pol for a pany. '"No 0問

could tind lhe cord 姐 ysLouisc. "And

when Ihey did th叫:Icom【hmfit叩 d

plugged il in. Ihe陀sultingcoftce ~melled

Icnible." ¥Vh世間rmade 11記 cofrec.il

IUmedαH. had left the mi悩 ingcord inside

山cco汀回1'0<、.Velaughed so h剖代i

間前mbe悶Lo山εwho¥¥宙，1、町戸

1I11p明記dwilh Ihe Ar:unco se目。ol"humor

Toni was also irnpressed wilh

Aramco】s.el>pecially Ihose ¥¥'ilh ‘I spか

cial ¥alenl such as hcr coworker al叫 tal

ented photographer. Dorolhy Miller. in

Govemmcnl Relations

、DorOlhyhad just re川da book called

Haji Il.“伝"/il1!s!)(lII(III:' remcmbcrs Toni

and that inspired me.'" After nllll1ing i【

over for awhile. Toni decided she附 old

take il upon hersclf to le岨 Ihelirst

Dhahran OUling Group trip 10 Shiraz

Persepolis and Isfahan. So SIにC白 sl"ul

was Ihe trip Ihat Toni wenl on 10 lead

other DOG Irips 10 dil"ferent pl山 esHl

Saudi Arabi:l. Bul il was limc I"or a

change. and in 1966 Toni left Aramco

Louise slayed on untilぉherctircd in

1974. She 10、edthe second and third

graders shc taught al Ihe Dhilhran

Sch∞1. :md she loved her life :11 Ararnco

The pcop1e then were so wonder

[，1 山esays. spcaking for herself and

Toni. And il wasn't only Ihe single~

The families jusltook us in、.Vene、."fell alone、Ncwere all jusl part of one

big Aramco仁川nily

T hetcc，ing川町boen¥由阿

Lo陀na:tnd Alice Bahrenb巾屯 who

arrived in 1955国為ecretar四

The l3ahrenburg sisters wcrc already

well-lravelcd. In facL it w出 duringa

long 1町o¥'crat Lhc ai巾ortin Zurich

Switzerland. Ihal Ihey自rSIhC:trd <lboUI

Aramco. Dr. Bome 01" Dhahran was also

therc. and lold themall aboul his life in

Saudi Arabia

γHE 6AHRENBURG S・SH傍SAT THE SPH・"'

Slil1. living in Saudi Arabi白Iwas a

lillle diffcrcnt than talking abou¥ il 抑制dil

W:lsn't untillwo years laler Ihal Loren:1

"'叫 Aliccapplicd. Oncc thcy had taken

Ih:11 slcp. howcver， Ihey decided 10 lakc

.Ulother. and fly from Chicago 10 New

York in Ihe hope of gcuing an interview

Ap件lrentlythm 鳩山~，I悶 righl

Ihing 10 do

明 記Yhi剛 山叶ghtaway:' says

Lorcna. who叫川 hωvi¥'idmCTllori目。f

the tTip o¥'er. "h was 30 hours of flying

time. wilh an ovemight stop ln

Armtcrd:un. Alicc and 1. IWO Olhcr

women. and 30 rnen from Bechtel were

the only ones on the plane

Alier Ihe sisters had 1叩 dcdand gone

through passpon contro1. I1陀 ywe偲 ushe陀 d

into a laxi. going Ihey kncw not wherc

" 川¥llk 2 I I~・ 6

ALICE問CGOWENAND SISTER

LORENA BAHRENBURG

， ，

As illurncd OUI. Ihey werc going 10

1¥¥'0 sepnrate bara.vtis. jusl down thc strcel from one anolhcr. "Bartl.¥'Ii living

W時 notthe besl:' s<lys Lo陀n3...butlhen

we didn.t spend Illuch tirne thcrc

Much ofthcir weekend tilllc w品

spent on thc trips Ar:uT1co sponsorcd 10

d;汀'erentpl<lccS in thc Easlern Province

One of Ihcir favorile trips、.vasto Tarut

Island. which ::1¥ the time was not yet

connecled 10 Ihc m<linland by c:lUse、川y

We used 10 take Ihc bus 10 the shore of

thc Gulf. then gel into linl巴dOllkeycarts

to cross over Ihe Illudnats at low lid内

says Lorcna. 'Thc donkeys wadc日dright

through Ihc water. lt was fun

Also fun附引hcchance to play golf

at the ncw Aramco cou町eonthcal

Khobar rO<ld across from Ihe U.$

Consulate. Lorena slill remembcrs thcir

firsl golf oUling. whcn Ihcy 1田 kedup to

see a c.uncl caravan walking right acro凶

tl泥 greens'(Ihcn. as now， oilcd sand)

Having印 11yrecenlly cOllle frOIll

Chicago、.vewc陀 :1lillle surp巾 ed10 臼 e

il:. she remember宅

In 1957 Alice married Aramcon

101m McGowen. and selllcd down 10 the

responsibililics of raising th陀 cchild陀 n

But as L肘.en::land Alice livedjusl fi¥'e

minUles from one anolherー bythat limf

Lorena had <llIained hcr own Iwo-bed

rOOI11 apa円ment-Ihey saw each OIher

nearly every day

Aftcr a while Alicc wcnt back 10

work as a casllal allhe Dhahran $ch田 l

L町 .enaconlinued hcr carccr山 din timc

becarnc secretary to Tom Collicr. vice

presidcnt 01" Financc. Lorcna rClired in

1973. Alicc and 10lmlefllhe samc yc、rAlice died in 1987 and 101m in 1990

羽w臼叩r何…f陀c!camcd of Ar印白amcowhcn Ihey saw a

p];lIle al A~mara Airport in ErIlrea

marked wilh tl悶 company.slogo. The

MA削 INANロ WARRENBOUDREAUX IN RAS TANURA， 19ヲ。

twin brolhers were jusl compleling tnrcc-

ye:lr leacning: contraclS in Addis Ababa

Ethiopia. and were wondering wnerc

they l11ighl go nexl. The more Ihey

Icarncd aboul Ararnco. the rnore inter

eSled Ihey becamc‘and soon after Ihey

left Elhiopia Marvin signcd 011 wilh

Ihe company

He arrived in Oecember 1957. and 1

aπivcd in January 1959:' say~ 、.Var問n

Marvin always t凹 kthc inIliative:. hc

cxplains. '.He decidcd 10 go 10 Elhiopia

thcn 1 dccided 10 go. Lmωhe went 10

Ar:l111CO‘u叫 1went旧 Aramco

A~ much凶 Ihetwins had enjoyed

Elhiopia. they enjoyed Ar:ullco C、'"more. Onc 01" Ihe Ihings thcy enjoyed

1110只1鳩山 Ihcirwork:lt Ihc lTC schools

Both Iwins liked the $audi sludents

and Ihc Sllldcnts liked lh創刊ー-c¥'cn

Ihough some sludel1ls n目.'er犯 allyknew

if Ihey were being taughl by、，Vaπ'"

or by Marvin. Not only did lhe two

brothcrs look alike. Ihey e¥'en sOllndcd

..Iikc. BUI as、Va汀enpoints oul. filling

in I"or onc lInoth旬、vOllldn'lha、ebecn

Ihm easy

川.，，'y、九 22.¥1 .10¥¥111....11

One rC:lson wa;， bec:!use the twins

seldom lived in Ihc ，<，amc coml1lunily

AnOlhcr waミIhatit took so ll1uch time

j出 110prepare I"or thcir own classcs

which usually included sc問、ce.ll1ath

and English as a forcign language

lt was English as a foreign language

thm M:lrvIn and Warren found es戸ciillly

rewa吋mg.p注目icularlywhcn Ihcy werc

among lhe li陀 1lTC lc:lchers to be selected

for out-of-Kingdom training in lingui抽 "

Th創 rinitial assignment was at Ncw

York UniversilY 111 Grecn、川chVillage

w11h laler ass唱I1mCnlSal Carnbridge

Univc附ityand thc Univcrsity of

Edinburgh

In tirne以)thMarvin :md、，Varren

moved tO On-the-Job Tr:tining. work Ihal

involvcd a ccrtain al110Ul11 of on-the-job

Ira、叫、，Varrenfrcqucl1lly wel1llO

Mubarraz. n副 rwherc Ararnco w国

cstablishing a new ITC. And bOlh broth-

ers liked 10 visit Ras Tanura. whcrc Ihcy

は.'ereassigncd whcn thcy firsl山 melo

$audi Ambia、.vhenthcy¥¥ercn.t work

1ng. Ihey werc usually on a Ohah日 n

OUling Group Irip. \'i~îting l1e¥¥ placcs

both insidc and OUbidc Ihc Kingdoll1

、，Veloved Ammco、.veoflCn

wished we'd startcd whcl1 wc叫Icrc

youl1ger. says、.Varrcn.BUI in 1981. Ihc

I!ll1e Cll1T1e to go

Thcir mOlher had bccomc iJI. and

Marvin relurned to Louisi:ma 10 ca陀 fo，her 、，Varrcnfollowed six tl10nlhs lalcr

In 1990 Marvin dicd of cancer

The Boud陀'"瓦 brOlherswcrc

among thc I<lSI 01" Iheir gener:uion 10

leave Aramco

B山 川 町 " 叫 … 剛of

siblin!!s had arrIvcd on Ihe Aramco

sccne. a generation Ihat grcw up in Saudi

Arabia and lalcr becamc eilher Aramco

ernployees or thc wives 01" Aramco

employces. $iSlers Jackic Larsen and

Joyce Kreisrner. formerly "thc Haug

twil1s:. married and lived in Saudi

Arabia Ul1Iilthcir husbands. rCliremelllS

Their brother. Roy K. "Buddy'. Haug Jr

was with bolh Ar.unco川 Dhahranand

A.O.c. in Thc Haguc. Eve Hern and

Molly Brooks. I"ormcrly Kennedy sislers

grew up in Ras Tanura. as did Bill and

1im Tracy and Don and Davc、.VassonDave :md Tom Owen. sons of annui

la11l Bill Owen. are brolhers cllrrenlly li、九

ing in Dhahran and Ihcir sisler. R‘mda

Owen Williams、、.'orksthcre with Ihe

L、wDec川口mcnl

Thcir all‘!chment to $audi Ambia iお

SOll1創 hingthc older gencratioll of

Aramco siblings undcrSland well

、Nhenmy sister and [、verclhere

IOgclher:' explains Lorcna Bahrcnburg

Dhahran陀 :!llywas our home

.JACKIE ANO .JOYCE HAUG PHOTOGRAPHED固 YR.Y. RICHIE IN 1947

There a即 Olhersets of Aramco siblings， 110 dOllbt， Qnd Al-Ayyam Al-}amilah ¥Vould

Iike 10 know 01 them

A， 叫 e聞"n問町叩叩e叩叩P"A"剖ll1COell1pJoyecs. over Ihe year内SIhey carrie【dOUI

many publトcrelalions projecls for the company， bolh in

刷rnand in Ihc world of publishing 、.valchfor a pro削eof

Ihe c陀 aliveGraham brothers in an upcoming issue 01"

AI.Aり，'(1111AI-Jamilah

sι't \l ~. K 2 3 I~Y !

Roy AND RAY G肉AHA阿'阿 BEIRUT，WHε胸ETHET

ESTA圃L.ISHEDTHE問自固DL.EEAST Expo同γP胸...

AHOUSTON TRADITION PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILLIA阿 γ時ACV

The AramcoJASC Luncheon Group held its annual

Chrisllnas Pany on December 2. 1997. at the

Nonhgate Country Club in Houston. Frank Pietmwski，

assisted by時 veralmcmbers of the group who have

organizcd previous successful parties. c∞rdinatcd the

evcnt. 1I was 31【endedby曲剛問田， spouses ;md

gu凹 tswho brought one another up 10 date 011 the latest

happenings in their lives of maturity

Out-of-town guests叫10hel]児d田 lebrate山eocca

sion included Beuy DunJap from Leoonon. Pennsylvania

日 町四叩dLucille Hartley from Rockp。ηTexas:and Ed

and Christina Hockens from Manchaca，丁目路

The buffet dinner was

followed by a drawing for

d∞r prizes which included

Sunday brunch r~町 I WO at the

No出 gateClub

Although the 陀"，沼田 have

been meeling for monthly lun

cheons for about 15 year5. the

evening holiday party with

甲山栂shas only been held for

about six years. Attend屯esenJoye日d

山ee四 ningand a陀 alreadylooking -...

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PHOTOGRAPH5 BY TAYLOR JOHNSON

Adding anOlhcr lustrous pClIrl 10 Ihe elegant string

Aramcons in Austin. Tcxas. held thcir 1仙hmmual

holiday get-togethcr in December. Arlyne Kelberer

川 dC:lthy Schaub werc hoslesscs for Ihc cvcnt. Wilh

help from Austin fr悶 nd~ inc1uding maSler of cere

monies Jolm Cuddebad::. Aftcr 11 number of vc叩 SUC

CCS!iful ycar古川 OnionCreck Counlry Club jU!i1 soulh

ofthe cily. the restivities moved this year 10 the his-

toric Au~tin Club on downtown 9th Strect， a SlOnc's

throw frl印 11thc Tcxas Capitol

問 AYA阿 ARINOV・cw・THPETE AND

EL.LEN $PEERS HOSTESS CATHY SCHAU8 GREETS例 ARY5TOUFFE降 REILLYAND HUS固AND

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PETER AND .JAN MASSARO WJTH DAUGH-

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REPEAT IN ST. PETE Ararnco annuItants on the WCSI coast of Florida

as.scmbled for thcir third mini-reunion in the 51

Petersburg arca on FebnJoU}' 22. 1開8引heSunday

brunch ，:u the Trcasure Island Yachl Club drew 92

annuitants 10 this affair， hosted by the same four cou-

ples who aπanged the previous two events: Eve and

Dick Lee. Joe and Ruth Mahon. Jjm and LuciJle

Milne and Dave and Dottie Steinheimer

To everyone's dclighl. the陀恥ereguests from

Califomia.O陀 gonand 、rVashinglonSlale as well as

New York and Pennsylvania. Dave Steinheimer was

the main pholographer and had help from the lees

and Milnes. Joe Mahon gave a short welcoming

speech and drew names for Icn 1998 Dhahran Girl

SCOUI Calendars. much 80ughl aftcr岨 d∞rpnzes

τllc Treasure Island Yachl Club lived up 10はS

陀 pUlalionwith an exccllcnt lale-morning brunch

relished amid凹ppmg∞rksas peoplc greetcd old

frIcnds and陀 newedacqu制 nlanc酎 Manyguesls

lingered in convcf"'ation until4同 prn

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mc. as、やcllas a mechanic

namcd M四 dowS.oullO

Tr(ll'ellO Ambia h削 1"alll'a¥'S beell 50ω'sl/al. AI仰 elime "/wme IC(l¥'es.“ lOllg /em'es" 01' "repalrilll;olllcm町

forAI山 IICOIISfell rll'() 01' ，hree .¥'ellrJ apllrt. EI'ell ill I/W凶，，/¥

da)'s of commerr:ialllir Imw!l aハ1)/(:alj01f171叫.'illC:lllded 削 'emiglllresr stops (llId sο'/IIe slIIfa四 u即時'"'的1/011

111 allllCCOl/lll 111m fhe I(lf(' Les Hi/Wlrd dicfOfed 10 '，is 山 ec(!Normα白川g川 1993，he relied 011 his ('(lrh dia/'ies

/0 reclIll .wme of Ihe rigo/'s一川dad，'elllllres - of Irm'el

b、sllip.rrail/ (111(1 mo/Or coach u， the years jusr prior/O

¥V¥VIl. Hilμlrd'sfil苫r，rip Ollf '0 the Middleι山 1if/ 1936

1¥'(lS as 1I Socal d，.illel' (lssiglled /0 Baltrail/. His yll/'ll is

SpUII ".，.，h a bit of sll'aggel: Tlte plloros accompllllyillg

HilY(/I"(/'s role “refi削 11rhe凶 lIecliollofrhe I(l/e J. W

Soak" HoOlぜ1;，lte piolleer Aramco geologist 11'1/0 made {/ re/JIarkabl、sIllliI，“rjo/lmey;1I1933

rhe secolld (/出Olllllo!ajirsrルiddleEtlsl jou川凸"

fivm a ，'ery difJe比例tpe/'specIII'e. 11101 of 0 yOllllg bride. 111

/951 Colleell ¥Vilsoll set off alol/e from Texas 10 joill her

Itw;btllld offil'e mOlllhs mul setup hO/lsekeeping;1I ，he ，¥'Ol/lIg Aramco COI/III/III/;1.、colledRas Tmmra

8ahr.tin Island in the Persian

(Arabian) Gulf. There. thc

¥¥el1s werc dril1cd inlO the

pr以JuClionZQnc under prcs

surc and h was said a wel1

would pay for itself before il

was compleled

、.Velcfl $an Francisco

March 20lh by 50ulhem

Pacific Railr'曲 dand arri¥'cd

in Chicago al 8:30 a.l11. the

23rd. A rcprCSCnl;¥livc of

Amcric;¥n Express n回 usand

look us dircclJy 10

Pcnnsylvania $Ialion、、hcre

、、e¥¥'crc mCI by the slation' I>

Chief of Policc and 1¥¥0 of

h的 dcputics.al1 plaincJOIhes

l11cn. Thcy Sluck wilh us

until ¥¥'C 1cft for Ncw York

that c、川cning.Even when wc

Les Hilyard a nd drilli ng cmv

at Well Numberえ

Dhahran， 1938

~L ~n"'\1 30 ~ ， 1"'''1¥.'''''

愉.cnt10 Ihc menぉ rOOJll.onc

of Ihc dcpulies、、ouldgo、、ilh

us. AI Ihe liJllc we had no

idca机h川 Ihis¥¥国 aboul.bul

when wc final1y gOlto

sahrain wc leamed Ih<ll Ihc

mωIlh bcforc our trip a group

of drillcrs from Texas and a

group from Califomia had

joined up in Chicago 10 IrJ.¥'cl

IOgclhcr 10 8ahrain and 5audi

Arabia. Then we remel11

""陀dIhal in Chicago wc had

sccn c¥'idcncc Ihm Ihc slalion

had bccn reccntly repai陀 d

You can dra帆 yourov叩

concJusions

、，Vearrived in Ncw York

"川 30a.m. the 241h and

wcnllo Ihe H。【elNcw

Yorker. where Ihe company

had l1lade陀serv;¥lionsfor us

AlI of our group bul one 、~crc

bachclors and Ihm c¥'cn川g

時 e¥¥ent 10 Jack Dempscy's

night cJub for dinncr. Thcre

WC l11CI a group of IIlcn and

桃omcnfrom Char1cslon

$omh Carolina. who wcre in

Ncw York for a beaulidanピ

convention. I inlroduccd

mysclf 10 onc of Ihe men

sho¥¥ed hil1ll1ly passp。ロ and

cxplaincd机 ho¥¥'c ¥¥ e陀 and

"h，陀¥¥'c¥¥ere going. He

invited us 10 join their Broup

;¥1 a long table near the

dance何回r.Thal wc did. [1

was qUlle a pa円y.and whcn

wc finally parted aboul 2:30

a.m. 10 go back 10 our hOlel

鳩 ehad no idea where 蜘 e

、¥crc.50 we look a la)(i 、，Ve

had hardly gOllen sealed

when Ihc driver SI叩凹d.gOI

OUI and opcned the door

官官 NewYorker ¥¥ as jusl

around Ihe comer.

、，Vewenl aboard Ihc

5.5. MlWlwfllIlI【hcaftcrnoon

ofMa陀 h251h. 50ll1c of our

ncw fricnds frOllllhc nighl

旧forecame shipside 10 bid

us goodbye. Whal a ship!

1 had ne¥'cr誕叩叩ylhing

like il on the Cimarron 町、"back in Oklahoma. It w目

one of Ihe lasl of Ihc big oncs

sying the Amcrトcansag

Thc company h:ld lold us in

San Francisco Ihcre would bc

supplics in our cabins Ih:tt

werc needed in Ambia and

8ahrain. American Exprcss

had arrangcd all of I hi~

明記rewere field radio:..

mcchanic's tools and officc

~upp1ies righl dow¥l 10

papcr clips

“'Manhllrtlln

in the min，

t，干0酔17111，-，吋.et，削11川州n問n川q

StIlte!:四nJSbl川"d

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During the crossing we

had田 mebad問 athcr師、"eslayαJ in our 印刷nsquitc :1 bit

t怜ゆ toacabin.Ourca以内

maid was a Genn:ln woman or

a加ul50yc四 arnolherly宇

looking person. Shc oficn

camc by and、IIsitedwith us. always山 ndingby thc d∞r

never silling down. She lold

us sc四 mllimcs Ihm wc should

goα1 10 Hamburg :md how

町凶yl1w<臥 11dbe 10 gCI back 10

Paris from Ihc問 A崎明、問問

on our way 10 b問akfaslonc

moming.Dulch 面開y明 "1

州 enag剛 pofus明 ntback

刷 IloArabiain1939

¥Ve discmbarked:l¥ Le

Havre April1st刊:l¥'s¥¥here

the b.mle of words slartcd

bclween the American

E，p陀:ssagenl and French CuSIωns. J have 10 gi¥'e the

shipping agent credit: he hung

in there and gOI our sluff

Ihrough. The CUSIOlllS peoplc

wcre panicularly interesled in

thc自eldロ叫ios.holding the

Imin an hour before letting us

through. E¥'ery littJe while the

train maSler would come in

back to thc cabin for回 mc- 山 dhe and Ihe customs people

thing. ¥Vhen hc句史ncdIhc would go at it eyeball 10 eyc

d田 r.the maid was down 1田 k- ball. ¥Ve got凶 mehard I∞k， ing undcr Ihc bed. Shc抽 id from the other passengers

she was!∞king ror sh世‘to when川町nally加 ardedthe

shinc. but 10 shonen Ihe SIOI)'. train. I don'l陀 memberhow

weh山氏J!atcr thal shc wa.~ a much limc the engincer had to

Gennan spy. ¥Vhal悦叫ntcd make up. bu¥ it ¥¥唱 t∞¥.1001

to know was ¥¥ hal was in th田 e alllhc way to Paris. I don'l

boxes. A馬ilhal羽田lcd.lhc Ihink Ihc whcels wcrc on thc

barbcr on Ihc Arncrican EXl>OI1 mil~ more than half Ihe limc

しincalso lumcd Oul to bc a spy

e古JmfflebollrdIlbonrd the 五五 Roturdnm，1933"

“目'"Eiffil Tow" F仰 t巾 roo[o[t'"百"Oclldero"

' 川、川132 Al J、、111.....1

The hOlel whcrc Ihc

group preceding us h:ld

s¥ayed refused 10 takc us

Thcy musl ha、eh:ld word

針。mChicago. As you may

galhcr. during Ih田 cyears oil

workers had a repul，lIion as

hell目的ingmcn. Any鳩町

、、egot checked into a hOlcl

in lime for a lale Junch 、，Ve

did some sight.seeing Ihc reSI

of the day and the nCXI 、.Vesaw thc insidc ofthc church

where Germany's "sig

8cnha" bomb had landcd

during、.Vorld、.Var1. The

bui1ding sli]] showed Ihe

mark.ings. Parist、.Vh:lta

place to spend an c¥'ening

、，Vel1.lhat'sanolher Slory

刊 eAmerican Express

agents look care of our lug

gagc and Ihe company's sup

plies all the w:ly through to

8ahrain、.Yedid kecp our

cycs on it whcn wc could. but

after we boarded Ihe train in

Paris we only handled the

~mal1er pi町酎

、，veIcft Paris aboul 7:30

p.m. April 2nd on the

Simplon Orient Exp陀"crossing into Swilzerland Ihe

next moming. h was mostly

famling country Ihrough

1I:lly. Yugosl:Lvia and

8ulgaria. Thc slation in

Vcnicc was ¥'cry modem. all

alurninum. and yel 附 i朗

yarιs from the depol. we saw

a man plowing with a

woodcn plow :md onc horse

No change sincc day one

、.YCalways scemed 10 pass

Ihrough the borders betw四 n

countries in Ihe middle of the

nighl. The customs peopJe

.....ho c:lme through the Imin at

2朗:I.m.to shake us down

写ccmedto c町oyIheir work

At 1ll0S¥ SIOpS we had lime 10

gel off Ihe Imin and strctch

our Icgs. bUllhe train maslcr

:ldviscd us nOI to get off al

Sofia. Bulgaria. Amcricans

wcrc nOI Ihought rnuch of in

thm pan oflhc world in 1936

Wccr砧 sedlhe

D:trdanelles in【oTurkey、，V，M で冊、^in Asia Minor.

¥Vet田 ktl犯 T:lurusExpress

Ih.加 ghthc Taurus M加 nt:uns

羽"陀 .. 陀lIlanytunnels， also

cliffh凹日.';which、問、刊陀

¥old had bc加 buihby thc

仁川叩de.湿 布 cmilroad

Ihrough I1】crnounta川隠し舗idto

bc one of thc wondcちofthc

w明 m耐Id、叫，b加UI日胤I1【d山unn咽E喝gWorld Warl u凶s到111咋gE白"港叫gli山 p仰n拍抑E問m附

a叩ndwe hc

dicd d山un叩11穆gIhc cons到IruCα"附。n

a叩IId邸、宅ebu討吋 111 a cα1聡剛t蛇ecηy

t山ha剖IC叩a却叩11匝 悶 "r，町剛111町h恥etrnlll " 1

、Wema低叫deago凶 lll:tny s¥o 伊

Ih剛 ghIhc mounlains、bUl

Uで陀 adviscdby Ihc Imin llla.~­

tcr not to gCI off Ihc IrJin. AI

one stop tI氾blindswcrc凹lled

dow n in our compartrnc川

Wc arr;刊 dat Tcl

Katchck.、 Ihccnd of Ihc mil

road. al 10:30 :1.111. 011 an

April morning. Tcl Kalchck

“'5"01 )宇'omthe Simploll Oriem Express. Ano/her fromier"

is on thc southeasl border of

Turkey and Ihe northwesl

bordcr of lraq 、.Yehad lunch

and lcft for Mosu1. Iraq. in

thc aflemoon by mot町

coach. a IWO~ or three-hour

dri¥'c. Three English fellows

were waLllIlg al島10sulto go

through with U5 10 8ahrnin

wh，陀 Iheywere going 10

輸'orkat the 陀自nery.I don'l

陀 mcmberhow long they had

been in Mosul町 howIhey

got Iherで butIhey were go似j

rellows and ¥¥'e gOI along

welllogelher

Thm evcning onc of thc

pe叫llem Ihe、reslhousc" or

hotel whcre we slaycd I凹 k

$lllllU 33 1・"

γraq R.山 IrofldP叩 IJo/{seat Mosll/"

the scvcn of us 10 a prograrn

:11 thc Opcra House 引lerc

were IWO boXCl匂 forVIPs、o"e

on cach side of thc slage. just

a 1illlc :lbove :lnd 10 Ihe fronl

orlhe st:lgc. and wc wcre

seatcd in onc of thesc. The

smgers問 cognizedus with

one of Ihe songs. It W:IS just

about 0、'erwhen a凶 ule

came through Ihe window

jusll>ack of us and in minules

Ihc place was full of凹licc

They lTl<tdc e、cryoneslay m

thcir scals unlil wc werc oul

ofthほ building.Our escon

kepl 山 inIhc middlc oflhc

stTccl going back 10 thc hOleJ

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(Question: "How m3ny days

W田 Jonahin the bclly of the

whalcT) It wa民 coldand

同 ining.50 we didn'¥ stop for

picturc~. Some 01' the cars in

our caravan got Sluck in the

mud 、，Vcfour Amcricans

and thc thrce Englishmen

、町crcin a big limousinc :md

had 10 gct Olll 10 lighten the

load 50 the drivcr could get

through a t川dmud hole. As

thc 仁川nC011linucd a][ day Ihほ

mud would build up under

the fcnders and cvcntually

lockcd thc 帆 heels.The dri

、crscarried wo似 Jenp凶ddlcs

abou¥ thrce fecl long 10

scrapc il off

Thc limousine h.ld IwO

swi¥'cl :.cats bctween thc

back and front seats :md ¥¥c

scvcn took lums sining in

them. usuaJly facing the back

師、、ccould talk. Our caravan

W附 ducin Kirkuk m 4叩

p.m.. buc didn'， :lrrivc until

8:30. Thc train was held

untilthc ]ast car in the cara

van arrived， just before 2王m

in thc moming. We am、，d

in saghdad at 10:)0 a.m

柄引ltto the Maude Ho【eJ恥.d

lunch alld ¥¥alkcd the Mrccts

..11‘lftcrnoon. Wc lcft for

s;I¥r;! at 6:)0 p.m. by train

pas‘ing by the Hanging

G;lrdcn~ of Babylon 、.vhCllwcam、cdin Basrd early thc

ncxl momlllg we wcnt

dircctly 10 our ship， thc S.S

!Jaml(l. on thc Shall al-Arab

Rivcr. Thcrc we che(~kcd ollr

luggage and were off 10 see

品 high-sch∞Jr，吋endand hcr was th3t it W3S a hOI land

fit ;1.]ù..V'?I ;.IÍ.]~. C.J husband. Janel and Jack 柚 ilhw週、csof s:lIld dunes.

Pul)car‘Jack鴨 asin lIlilitary camc1s. sheep and帆 andcring

明 円 iccIhen咽station四Jc10叫 nomads. Wh;1I would 1¥ bc

by in New Jcrsey. Thcy drovc likc to livc Iherc? J'm叫 Irc

mc 10 Ihc Park Sher山'0" Ihal was凶 qucSllon111 many

HotcJ. where Ihc Arabian minds as all the Ar:lIllCO pco-

Amcrican Oil Company had plc gathered in thc hOlel

陀畑、rcda r四 mfor lIle and all lobby the nexl moming and

the Olhcr Ammco cmployees 加ardeda special bus to

:lIld dcpendents who would fly Idlewild Airpon

on to Saudi Arabia [ogclher Lmer.国we同期廿以l>"

Ihe next day‘ Ar:unco pl:lIle. a DC-4. 1 !拙W

A S ，h， 'm'n J""，

JanCI and Jack look lllC 10 Iha[ il was appropri;llcty n品目1cd

'>CC叩 mcof Ihe 1110陀 f:uniliar 寸lleAying Camel.'・1111Swas

!.ights of New York - Ihc 1ll)' fi凶 long-dlstallCCf1ight. 1¥¥0 ;md onc-half ycars had EmpifC Slme Building句 the and I can Icll you I w越田ci回 1

a¥¥3)' froTll the platfonn of becn spent in suspended Slalue of Libcn)' and I had expected to be 岳山町Jo.-

thc ~1ll all Ea.'>t Texas town of anim..tion ¥¥hile Oran- Rockefeller Center wllh the sick or加，，1>‘ bUI1 was聞 thcr.

Ovenon. my h回 ngave a slraighl OUl of collegeー famou!. R町 kelles.Whcn we jusI CXI陀 rnelyexcit民Iand

wcnt off to Saudi Arabia 10 fClUnlcd to Ihe hOIc1. 1 happ)'. After tak田町.we vis-

corrc~polldi ng lurch. I I田 kcdwork. Then. after our mar- lled with山eoth巴rpaぬcngc内rcceived a c:tll frorn CharlOllC

back 10 wavc al my parenls. riagc on Dcccmbcr 9. 1950. 1 Phil1ips. anolh巴rwlfe who <b the planc droned on 10 Mynle :lIld G:t1c W. Rcnfro had 10机 aitanother自" was making Ihe lrip 10 Saudi Gandcr. Newfoundland. whc陀

Thelc;悶川 thcireycs belicd month!. 10 join him Ihcrc Arabia for Ihe白隠ttimc 10 join wcdi記 m出'"目J10 eat叩問""咽

Ihelr checrful g回xlbyafew because of a shorta!!.e of hcr husband Malcohn. I1 wa~ Gander W3.r> a bleak I凹 k-

minu[es earlicr咽 I'msure 1>0"担 s.Now each click of 陀 allya pleasant su中止嶋.and ing place， and it was mining

Ihcy ne、erexpccled 10 see Ihe Irain's whcels broughl1llC we decided 10 room togclher and dark when we rClumcd 10

mc again. A daughter lcaving closcr 10 Ihe beginning of my Ihat nigh¥. When Janel and thc plane an hour lalcr. A喧w<

ncw 11fe. Jack rctumed 10 New Jcr叫 y SCI off across the Allanlic hOll1c for Ihc firsllime 10 Thc first leg 01' 111y jour- Ihc)' fclt thal 1 was ln gぽXJ Occan it W3S hard for mc to rnaπy wa、onething‘bu[ ncy was 10 Ncw York City. compan)' and would be jU"1 gellO sleep‘but J did manage Iraveling almosl half way 111)' firsl time 011 a train. I fine from Ihen 011. '0耳目皿me陀 5¥.Perhaps we

around Ihe ¥¥orld 10 Jivc in a m:lde Ihe mistake of getting a CharloHe and I !古川 町l had 3 good tail wind.岡田U民

strangc fo同 Igncount庁 Ihey 叩日1panrnent.同 1sat in vir- ll1100ur剛 mtog剖 herand Ihe pilot skipped Ihe schcd-

had barcl)' heard of was [u:ll i~olalion‘ E且cep[ for an madc plans for thc evening. 1 uled stop in Shannon. Ir官land.

quilc anothcr咽世 casionall巾 10the dining rememhcr Ihat we went 10 see 日ndwe landed al Orly Field

car咽Thcrc1 could see OUl bolh Ihe slage play. "GentlclTlcn in Paris [he nexl d:ly aboul 1'11 admit. being 22 years

01' agc. 1 had a few mlsgiv・品idc再ofthc train al once and p，・cfcrBlondcs:' with Carol 12:30 n∞n咽

IIlg究 rnysclf.but also fc1t a al明記eolher people. 1t 1田 k Ch:lIlnin1!. Later. we talkcd Iloved gcuing rny pass-

growing cxcilcmenl al the two days and onc nighl to inlO Ihe wee hou向 。flhenil!ht pon Slamf克 d.A bus took u~

re:lch New York‘0011 didn"1 臼bout¥¥ hal we had i白SlO陀 ro' 10 Ihe hotel. Ihe Palais pro'¥pccl of joining my new

husband. Qran Wilson‘ag山 nha¥e 10 change trains. My us as wives in Saudi Ambia. D冒 Qrsay.It was an ancicnt

and陀凶Iystaning rny mar-slecpcr car was jusl switched Saudi Arabia was rnore l∞king affair wilh anliqucs

10 anOlher train in SI. Louis. Ihan 9.000 rnile!> frorn all 0町 rIhe place‘l田 uledricd 1ife. It seemed the paSI Whcn 1 arrived al Gmnd Qvcnon. Texas. AJlI knew Tight on the Scinc Rivcr.

Cen!ral Stalion 1 wns mct by which runs through thc mid.

L

H¥I¥IU 35 In輔

6月I1gloIrallitm Oil

Comp叩yrefinery at Abadan， Imll"

thc sighls. Thc s.s. BlIrala plicd the roule belween Basra

and Bombay. We sailcd for

Bahrain al 2似}p.m.. passing

by Ihe Abadan refinery on

Ihe Persian (lr.mian) side of

the river. said 10 bc Ihc

largcsl oil refinery in thc

world al thc timc

、，Venmde a few SIOpS

along thc Persi:m coasl. ':lk・

ing on and unl帥 dingcargo、

:Ind arri、cdin Ihc h:lrbor al

B品目川 inthc aftcm凹 nof

April 12th. Our elapscd Imv-

eling time from San

Fr.mcis芯owas 23 days

(Answer 10 rny question

about Jonah: ""Three days.")

"Ma!lama

whar[scene，

Bahrail1 Islfllld"

~I ~ ..~ ... ¥1 ヲI.u I ~ 、 111 ~ I・

dlc of Paris 、，Ves.1w lhe

Eiffel Tower. 1he Arc de

Triωllpl下cand other places 1

can no longer rcmembcr the

names of. One of m}' f:l¥'oritc

things was sitting in one of

the oUldoor cafes watching

the people walk by

It h.1PI戸n吋 10be a Sunday

and it総 emcdIha1 every以x1y

W凶 strollingaround al1 0市

Paris. lltere we.re n山 ncro比ミ

young couples pushing b.1by

carriages and othe陀 walking

.:tnl1 in ann. The srnall children

日時orundcr. wore rumpers

which lookcd likα1 bloome凶

出 ldwe陀刊:1)'puffy around the

boltom. They looked silly 10

0"げ unaccustomedey田 b凶

Iheyぉem凶 lobein f;凶h剛 1

Wchad挺 cn!:eautifuJ. fashωn

ablcd陀sses111 肱 即応 Wlll

dows.1∞bU1 Parisian sho回

総 emedclunky :md awkwa同

looking， at le岨 '0'瓜

Dhllhmll flIψort tmnina!

bllildillg il1 1948，

砂R.Y. R，叫 Ie

圃

Charlolte and 1 fOllnd an

excJusive Jooking restaurant

on thc famous Avcnue dcs

口泊mpsElysees. and treated

oursc!vcs 10 filelS .1nd Bakcd

AJaska. Th巳nWI巳hurriedback

¥0 thc hotc!. so wc wouJd be a

1ittle fresh. :my、':ly.whcn wc

finally reached Dhahran

The neXl moming we

purchased poslc.1rds and

mailed Ihem. 1 had 10m rny

hose. so 1 purchased anolher

pair and also a bottle of

ChaneJ No. 5. [ h.1d changed a

$20 bill inlo fr:.lI1cs. The開ト

fllme c.1me 10 1.2凹 francs

which equaled about S3.50 at

Iha! time My hOlel bill wぉ

2.250 fW!lCs. appro則 malcly

$6.40. 11 was re:llly somc

thing f，町 mc.trying 10 figure

it all out for Ihe firsl tin児

Aftcr near1y a full 24

hours in P.1ris. we偲 lumed10

Orlyand回.1rdedAr.1mco' s

Flying Camel." We t∞k off

"口 30p.m. and only four

hoo内 la1erwe landed in

Rome， Thc pilot first ci陀 l，dthe cily so we could v陪 wthe

Valican and Ihc Col凶C凶n.lwo

of the f.1mous landmarks Ihcre

AI Ihe Rome Airpon we ale:1

delicious su防犯r01' duck and

spaghetti (What elseηand

lcft at 6:30 to ny ovemighl

nαI-SlOp to Saudi Arnbia

Very few戸ヨopJeon山e

が:mewere able 10 ~Ieep a1 all

becallse of olげCXCJ悶 ncnl.¥Ve

didn't陀:llIygel wel1 acqu:linted

until山atnight nighl. We were

，w必(eand a1J over the plane lalking to this戸時Qnand山"'

untillhe sun fina!!y climbαJ in

Ihc East，凶d、時総t山ddownlO

E川 b問点fa~1

Theわ以nainderof Ihc

nighl over the dcsen. during

the morning hours. was p1lト

ticular[y interes1ing 10 me， as

1 had never seen that type 01'

lerr:lin before. As far .1s the

eye could scc. e吋 11from thc

height wc were Oying、:lJJIhal

was visible was a v.1sl se.1 of

huge sand dunes in varying

sh.1des of brown. apparently

void of any vegetalion. 1n

fact. wh町1¥¥.c st‘lrted our

descent to land. Ihm、.V:lSslilt aJJ 1 could scc. as 1 was on

Ihe opposilc side of Ihe planc

from Ihe .1i中ortbuildings

For a brief heart~slopping

moment. J Ihought we lIlighl

be crash landing in Ihc dcsert

Thcn 1 saw:1I1 unprelcn

lious l.1nding suip surrounded

by日 nd.a few bare， crusty-

topped hills and severaJ buiJd

mgs引heplanc laxicd 10 a

halt in fronl ofthe largest 01'

Ihe buildings‘.1 low stone edi

fice. wh山hlumcd OUI to be

lhe cuSloms buiJding. I had

IIl-lIyy，，¥t 36 lJl<M!lAU

jusllraveled almost half way

around the world on .1 won

derful trip and arrived safely

al my fi向山1dcstination. Ihe

King{飢1101'Saudi Ambia. lt

was 10似).1.111.. Tuesday

June 5. 1951. To 1he 22-ye:lr

old bridc. it seemcd like a

I:'liry 1.11e com巳tnJe

Port‘[blc steps werc

rolled out to the plane .1nd Ihe

l.1rm.1c swarmed with ;Itten-

dants and a cluslcr of

Americ加1husbandsγhat

night was kl10wn 出 the

brides' speciaJ." as it was

dclivering so many new

wives 10 the men who had

workcd in Dhllhran for

A問 mcowilhoUllheir fami

lies. many for 11l0rc Ihan t¥vo

years、，Vhenthe door of Ihe

plane w.1s opened， we wcre

g陀 elednOI onJy by a bJasl of

hot air so slining we .1J[

gasped for brea1h. but also by

Ihe smiting faces of our hus

bands below

1t was a rcJief for mc 10

SpOI Omn among thcm. J

smiled al him :IS 1 stancd

down the steep sleps. J had a

bag in one h.1nd .1nd .1 c帥【

and purse in the othcr. and

lhe metaJ sleps seemed to go

righl straight down. About

four steps frol11 the bollol11 J

slipped， lumbled .1nd l.1nded

I目 立 hcap:11Oran's feet 、，Vhal

an arrivaJ! Oran Jifted 1lle

inlo his .1rms. .1nd chcckcd to

sec Iha1 [ was all right. which

[ was. excepl for bcing

emb.1rr.1sscd. Thcn 1 followcd

St.町 etofsbops in aI-Khobnr， 1951

him through Ihe glare :Illd hOI

wind into Ihc wclcome cool

of the CUSlOms bui!ding

、.Vhenwe had dearcd

customs ;md cmergcd frotn Ihe

O1her side Of1hc building the

gla閃 scemedove巾owcnngー

cven Ihough J w俗、、'canng

sunglasscs - and thc hca1 was

som剛 seJ fch weak. AI凶 "

Ihc car was air-cαldilioned. It

明日抑llpany町 lan.pai川 cd

bright red so il couJd be seen

問、ilyfrωII the air in ca鉛"

gOI slr:llldcd in Ihc descl1

No¥V [ would gello see whal

Saudi Arabia was陀 allylikc

Some might have COI聡ide陀 dII

deso1ate. bU1 1 thought il h詮da

μnicular beauly of i1S own

fasdnming 10 IIlC aftcr Ihc

lush.g陀cnfoliagc and lakc~可

whc陀 1had been l'iI田正1in

East Tex悩 1knew. righl thcn

Ih:ll II was lovc :11 firs1訓 gh'

A泊 wedrove oUllhc礼"pon g:1tc. Oran pointed oul lhc

!.ilhouelles ofJow buiJdings f:lr

off in 1hc dislancc 10 thc right

Ilc said 1hat was Ihc 10wn of

al-Khobar. 011 thc Arabi:U1. or

Pcrsian. Gulf. the bcSl village

in the Eas1cm Provil1cc of

Saudi Ar..tbia 10 shop

¥vc look a blacklop rc胤 j

up a gentle slo戸 towardthc

crusly-IOPI沈 dhills ['d scen

from Ihc air. Then we came

to 1hc fcnced compound 01'

Dhahran. Aramco's head

qu.1rters 10、NO、.vechccked

lhrough the gatc so Oran

could由owmc around. It

was a preuy camp wi1h

curvcd strects. nice looking

hous巴S.prel1y green lawn~

wilh nowers. hcdgcs‘IIld dalC

pahns. 1 was impressed wIlh

Dhahr.1n. bU1 also cxcitcd and

anxlOUS 10 C印 lltnueour Jour-

ney. Ras T.1nura.the placc

th.1l wou ld be our hOllle. was

"'トothercαnpany lown :lbolll

50 miles north山crossIhc

dcscn. Aftcr a bricf stop‘JI

Ihe snack b;lr 1'01' .. bIle to cal

we drove on

The road 10 Ras T川 ura

w.1s gmded canh coνcred

with oil (、νhι11clseηFora

while there W:1S littlc to see

blll a fcw low hill~ wilh a

!'parsc growth 01' slllalJ

clumps of salt bushes :tnd

bunch gra~s prolruding fr創刊

small rnoundぉofs:lI1d、.Vindblown S<lnd drifted ac即 時 thc

road ill fronl of us

As we drove on. Ihc ler-

raill changed somcwhal‘md

thcl1. [0 the righl. wc could

scc lhe edge 01' Ihc huge dale

palrn grovc and oasis 1hal

5礼lIToundcdIhc、lillage01'

Qmif. Dunes we陀 encroach-

日Igon i l ~ outcr cdgc. Acro凶

lhc road from Ihe o;lsis ¥¥宅

saw IWO bJ泊cksedouin tents

with sheep川 dcarnel込graz-

ing ncarby. Oran toJd me the

"αmads camped a1 weJb hcrc

in the sumtller to Irade Iheir

川町 inthe nearby ¥'illagcs

Somc印 melswere quilc

c10se to the road. munching

011 thc bunch grass. and [ 、V<lS:lble 10 ge1 my first up-close

look a1 thc largcωle-hu1ll凹d

bcasls. As we p出 sedthem

one raiscd ils hcad. gazcd U1

us with ils Jargc cyes. aJmosl

concealed by long lashes. .1nd

SU \I\!~R 37 !99S

thcwcd in its unUSU:IJ sidc to

side fm合ion.lhe lower j<lw

movlllg 弘、tk:lIld fonh. firsllO

one ~ide. then thc other. while

its hugc tceth juucd OUI

SOOI1 the da1e戸¥Ims

gave way 10 crusly回ItnillS

bordcring交hallo¥Vwa1cr on

our riah1. The ro.1d m:lde:¥

Jong curve and we drovc onto

Ihc Ras Tanura penir悩 ula

We were travcling bclwccn

IWO bodics of叫山r.Tarut

B:lyω1 our righl and Ihc

Ar.1bian Gulf on our lefl. 1

nOliced a ch:mgc inけ隠 lem-

peralUre righ1 ;Iway. and was

pJeas心d10 know Ih・ltIhcre

was a cooling brcczc from

the GuJf Ih:u the other

Aramco camps wouldn'[

have bcc:lUse they were

inland Our road parallcled

rows 01' pi阿linesdown the

peninsula. Then， on Ihe Icft

right on Ihe ShOTCS of 1he

Gulf. J saw R:1S Tanura. It

鳴 も Ihe!Own Ihat wOllld bc

my firS1 homc. whcre my

Dhllhmn

str町 tscenι1952

children wOllld livc the日間

years of Iheir lh也s，and

where I would make so l11any

ncw and lasling friendships.

The foad bypassed the

residenti<ll a陀 aof the lown

off to Ihe left. FrOI11 thc road

I was relieved 10 see th.l! il

appcarcd to be a pr副 Iycamp

like DhahnU1. with nトcc

houses and trees. We fol-

lowed thc cOl11pound fence to

Ihe Main Ga!e， loc‘Itcd in the

"トduslriala陀 a，near the oil

relinery

Ac町'CO出川川，υ川11げ山r

d仰ndrefin附eり仁伊y.1951

3珂

The galchouse dividcd thc

st間引 andhad in huge lellers

on top of il. "RAS T AトJURA

THE HOME OF

SAFETY."' Flying frOI11 a

nagpole was the green Saudi

Arabian nag with the words

ihere is 110 god but God

Muh:unmad is the Messengcr

ofG似j"'in A川 biccallig聞

がlyabove al1 unsheathed

q問 rd.A huge. red Kcnwonh

bus had stopped on !he exit

side of Ihe gate 10 sign out

<lnd 10 pick up mail before

delivering il山ldp<lssengers

to Dhahran

、I+/esigned in wilh thc

security guard at Ihe gate

The relinery was to the SOUlh

always in vicw as we drovc

around the "business" section

of camp， with its office build-

ings. cOl11l11issary， post oflice

rccrealion building. can!ccn

beaUly and barber shopsし

laundry. tcnnis courts. cash

office. dining haJt， hospital

and clinic. and bachelor dor-

mitories. The陀 wereo!>en

sandyare白ISbclween the

buildings， but nonethclcss the

place was interesling， and 1

kne、， 1、Nouldlo¥'c it

That feeling was con

firmed whcn wc drove up

Palrn Avcnuc. past the quar

ter mile of ba陀 sand10 Ihほ

family hOllsing arc:l called

...L....Vy...M 38 ...L.J....¥11L .... 1

RfIS Tanum's Mtlill Gflfe， /95/

Ras Tanuras Recreation Centel~

1951

Nejma'" lt sccmed about

half the size of Dhahran and

was laid out 川"帥t.squa閃

bl田 ksalong the Gulf. It was

c¥'cn pre山 erthan 1 had自'"

thought from the road

lmmcdiately apparent was

Ihe grCCl1ery， the lawns sur-

roundcd by j:lsmine hedges

with nowcring pcriwinkle

hibiscus. bou!!ainvillea and

oleander plants， and <lcaci<l

ll1d datc pall11 trces

As a rough目 limale.the

size of"Nejma" wm: abo凶

eight long bloc k..~. by Ih陀elong

blocks ofh聞記sand ap:u1-

menls laid oul in ncal rows

with a thcater. sch∞1. play

ground則ldalhletic ficld仁川 the

nonh cnd 甘"陀 we陀side-

w:tlks， :l11d Sl偲elSwith p陀 ny

sounding削 meslike Jasmine

Lanc and Aca'則自 St<<お河

Thc houscs were several

different slyles. sαnc I1wdc

of brick or ccment-block

others stone or woαJ. Therc

WC陀 aboscvα1-1I1111 apan

"トcnlbuildings of brick. and

we had bec汀1assigned one 01"

those. MOSI yll吋shad fcnccs

eilher hedgcs. dried p:Jlm

fronds or cemen! blocks

AIl of this bordered the

Gulf. whにhwas extrcmely

bealltiful. It W:JS deep green

1

-~

せ守主士九き

juSt the righl tcmpermure for

c0111fon. and calrn. also very

:-'il1ty. Thc bcach was smooth

川，d叫 I叫y(¥Vhal elsc?). just

perf~目t for叫 nbathing.AII in

111. 1 couldn.t havc becn more

pleased with the whole pl<lcc

川】dfclt just likc 1 would be

ti¥'ing‘11 a同制idereson

、.Vedrovc up Palrn

Avenue， lumed into:m alley

just戸時tAlmond Lane and

気1叩戸din Ihe back of apart-

ment 5-L-4. lt was the centcr

unit of the U-sha問d泊料lrt-

ment building. lts front win-

dows faced onto a

刊ower-bordω.edcoml11on

front lawn

That would be our firsl

honトc.a t創 nporaryasslgn

mcnt until a permancnl hOI11C

bccame 山 ailable.It W:1S air-

conditioncd. as aJl buildings

ー『

可h

b"

J

wcre. and looked jusl like the

n∞r plan Oran had sent rnc

wi!h two bedr，田ms叩 done

bath. Oran had eilhcr rcnled

from the company. borrowed

or owned enough furniture

and stuff 10 make il comfon

able and li¥'able until our

shipment arrivcd. 1 fclt righl

al homc immcdiately. and

exciledly stancd invcstigat-

ing every nook <lnd cranny

Anyway. I was so happy al

that moment. il prob日ably

wouldn'l ha¥'c rnattcred if i!

had bcen <1 !enl

That evening we h瓜Isup

pcr wilh a young married cou-

ple， Nona and Lou Tyler. who

were goαI friends of Oran' s

and lived di印刷lyacross Ihe

alley in anothcr seven-unit

apanment building. They had

hcゆcdhim gel our a凹rtment

SU.\I\lr~ 39 I例 自

lixcd叩 andstockcd for my

am刊1.During !he e刊訂II1g

Nona gave me advice. direc

t間 ISand r町 ipc~. I found

them e刻印melyfricndly ;11吋

旧Ipl'ul悶<1][!he伊oplein

R<ls Tanura tumed out to bc. h

had been a long， even!ful. liト

ing. but wondcrful first d:ly in

lhc Kingdo111 of Saudi Arabia

刀'hefirst housing

COJlStructed ill Nejmn

j在日.dthe beach川 Rns

7anftrfl， /947

、、-戸ーー

MEMORIAM IN

101m Tarvin -.Jalluary 9. 1998

Survivcd by his wife Palsy. of 18 Goldcn

Thrush Placc. 1円1CWoodland~. TX 77381

E\'('I~' n (1¥'Irs、¥'iIJium)S(luires

August 16. 1997

Survjvcd by hcr Mlll Rich:lrd. of8-l1 Sonorna

A市C山 Apl.26. 53m3 Rosa. CA 9S4Q.l

Rubcrt E. i¥lursh. Jr. .l>t'ccmbcr I L 1997

Survivcd by a si，[('r and by 則自iccc~ and

n叩}阻、NS.including円以ip]¥'1. Hof. of Laub Seidcl. Cohcn and Hof. 8 Cenl問 Squarc

Easlon. PA 18042-3606

Robcrt L I-Icadley -Aprit llt 199M

Survivcd by hi¥ dal.lgh比rIlopc I-Icadlcy. of McLcan. VA

Rubcrt B. C泊"守i¥brch29. 199X Survivcd by his 川 fcRobcrtぬ of17曲 Ticc

Vullcy slvd.. Apt. 316、，V;ilnutCrcd.

CA 94595 Orl:lIldo K. Tulk守 Fcbruary23. 1997

Survi刊 dby his daughlcr B伽lIlicDaily. of

812 Filll10rc 5¥.. Tafl. CA 93268

Anila Ycaroul. D.D.S・.Junc13句 1997

Survi、，cdby hcr husband Tom VolIs[cdl. of

H.C. 68. Box 141. SilvcrCily. NM 88061

l¥.'1artha (1¥'1皿.Iack)Ilall Slein -.Iuly 26. 1岬 7

Survivcd by 1¥¥'0 sons. Jay und L1wfcnce: and

a duughlcr. Su泊目 (Mrs.Donald) TC3sdalc. of

P.O. Box 772. PowcJl、.VY82435

Harold A. Slrcaker -Oclober 18. 1997

So~サ、I 以J by his wife Lola. of33051vyド'alls

Orivc. 1'10ω1011. TX 77068

8eH、(l¥.lrs.E. Homcr) MilIcr.

I¥larrh 14‘1998 Sun'ivcd by her ~ons. Crnig. of 342

Washinglon SI.. Sarlla Cmz. CA 95岨O

Rundy. 01" Danvillc. CA: S叩 11.of Dhahrnn

Saudi Arnbia: and six gr.川dchild陀 n

Juhann U. Hermannsoll . Oclobcr 26、1997Survivcd by hi， ¥¥jfc Pamcla. of 1915 Haworth Circlc. Salcm. V A 24153 ぉ印1

刊 or.and d:lUglller Doro山山 Johann，cloUIr

I'alll Hcssc -.Il1nc 6.1997 Survi~吋 by hi、¥¥ife白 rolhy.of ]>.0. Box

447. Mucn、Icr.TX 76252

1)0n・IdCc¥'a虻0-Mll¥' 19. 1997 Sur~i~ed by his wifc M:rry Lou (Luke). 0

520 Shcn、。吋 Ro:rd.Ho Ho Ku、NJ07432

daughlcrぉLindaMcGralh and Shl~η' 1 Dwan

M叫 fourgrnndchi川町n

111 M叩 wr;Wl/"COllsi.¥'I.'i of川fom凶 11011

rf'Cl'il'l'lll)('/lrel'lIlltc plfbficatiOIl Offflc Faf/ 1997 Al-A)'yam Al-Jwllilall and Mov 199[( 11，;s Iisl inc!mu's Ol/llllil.α1ft!; (11ft! Iltar SpOIlSl'S. ;1II1IIl'diaf(' fallli1.、1I/l'lIIh('rs (111(/ 101//;t;lIIl' f'll/pfoyl'(，s

Fnlllces Adams・Augusl2!!. 1997

Survivcd by her I川 S以mdCharles. of 237

M四 dowViSla Way. Encinila~. CA 92024

Correcliun

刊 ecorrCCI conlaCI addrcss for Eleanor Ehl

wifc of Ihe Imc .I1m1l'S J). Ehl. who d附din

Fcb削 ry1997. is RR 3. Box 987. Mcrcdilh

NH 03252. Mr. Ehl is also survi、edby his

S仁川1Donald

Thelma May S1.ostck -Jlmuary訓，.1997

Survivcd by hcr hu~band Alcx: and her siSlcr-

in-Iaw tlclen Gajewski. of 13435 Evcning

Song La山 Rcno.NV 89511

Michael N. Morg日凶 Apri15.1998

$un'ivcd by hi~ sons. Johll and Alcxandcr

出 lddaughlcr、，Vhitney.of 5O-t Dccrficld Avc Silvcr Spring. MD 20910

l¥.brk M. Orsclhφluly]. 1997

Survivcd by his mOlhcr Sonia. of 28 Frcmo川

Dr.. Fargo. ND 58103: and sislers BClsy

Buch山lan.Kam Slurgill und Ki凶 tcn

Munighan

luhn .. ~. Jlilhcrt -])eccn叫)cr21句 1997

Survivcd by hi~ (bughlcr Lyd川

COlllcm，川chc.of 12J38 15-bl Roud North

J叫対Icr.FL 33478

Lou凶cUulllle噂 ])ecclllbcr20守 1997

Survi、，cdby hcr hu~b~nd Fran]... of 365

W..lnul Al'c.. Walnul C陀 c]...CA 94598

l'、V.IJcquine _ No、cmbcr6. 1997

Survi刊 dby h凶刷fol仏、，ie.nf P.Q. Box

1583. Mcdford. OR 97叩l

Ralph J)ickson -October 20. 1997

Survivcd by hi， wife Joan. of 151 E<L.，I 80lh

s，閃刈 Apt.9C. New York. NY I【則21-{}.l44

"総 J)riskcll-Junc 3.1997

Surviv臥Jby hcr hl民blmdLc、lic.of 13“J6E

161h SI.. Spokanc. WA 99216: hcrduughlcr

Chrisl川紀山川 sonMartin

Louise (Mr.湾、，VilliamUenr~' ) Haker

October 15. 1997

Survi川 Iby her 、onWilliam

Ilcrbcrt、¥'.Ullulllllnll -Ocwbcr 12. 1997

Survived by his 川 fcLo附 of235 Park Lanc

Hcndcr剛1Villc.NC 28791

Glcnn A. Ih'温rce-Odobcl' 30. 1997

Survivl'd by hi， wifc B~rbara. of 1'.0. Box

73186. Hou~lon. TX 77273-3186 J>etcr.l. Kell.¥' -Februar_，' 2. 1998 So川Vl'dby hj， ~ons. PClcr Michael山0<1

Mar].. Kclly.of 1037 GcJnncy陀 Lagull<l

Beach. CA 92651 A ramco Services Cωo叩om町m叩1

(of Career Develop伊m】lle白nt)recenll旬ybrought a verse to the attentio印n1

ofthe Ed出lit阻。r目st由ha川twe think wil川11s幻trikea ch】旧ordwith many Ar問amco

創 刊luitants.The lines come from “Drifter's Gold，" by Don Blanding，

published over half a century ago by Dodd， Mead and Company

Ina Orton -No、cmbcr12. 1996

Survil'cd by hc.r husband Michac!. of 50

Chamberlain Avc.. Novalo. CA 94947-4333

])ouglas Elliotl -Decむmb削 18.1997

Survivcd by his wifc P:rtricia. of 13638 N

Ncwc<lslle Dri¥'c. Apl. 126. Sun Cily. AZ

115351

CJare恥 εL.mgJ，:ins -J)ecelllbcr 19. 1997

5urvived by his川 feShirlcy. of 44 C:凶 m

Road. M肌l¥crcyCA 9394ο

Sanrh Louisc I'fislcr -l¥.tay I!!町 1998

Sur¥'il'cd by hcr husband John. of 1594 Arrowhcad Drivc. 51. Uclcrm. CA 94574: and

hcr brothcr 0にkMitchcll

Roscmar.v Allen (Mrs. Dick) Kerin -

'¥priI26.1998

Survivcd by 111'0副首 Billand Bob. IWO daugh

也氏 Sheriand Trig. and tive g剛 ldchi凶陀川

Jh'rbert、V.Engelh:・rdl-Seplenrber 27. 1997

Surviνcd by his wifc Luc)'. of 198 April

Walcrs NOr1h. MOlI¥gOIllCTy. TX 77356

11，・7.ell.lUair -Allril ". 1997

J've squandered the go!d that is minted coins With car，φ"' and spendthrift hands， Buyingfo!，台andsorrow and joy On伽 b紗ways0/ many !ands; But伽 go/dthat is minted from memories That J've g!eaned from the wor，μsJ告rends，

J've hoarded and saved against the day When J cou/d share山 U幼 my戸ends.

，ll'rUsll' j¥. Rosemcyt'r -Fcbur;Iry 2. 1998 5urvived by his son Jcrc， of 1380 Hughes SI

Eugenc. OR 97402-1601

Robert J. Kerr -1¥1:.，¥' 27.1997 5l1rvivcd by hi~ wifc Chr、tinc.of 2525

Turtlc C陀 cl..Boulcvard. TC9. 0<111"，. TX

75219

Keat:.h (Mrs. Haruld) Fannin -

Scptcmbcr 26. 1997

Survivcd by hcr son 101m. of 2凶 7SlUlla

Yncz Ori、c.La" Vcgas. NV 89104

Ilcrbert W. Ulodgcl -Ma~' 17. 199お

Survi町 dby hi~ wifc Carolyn: and thrcc

daugl山 内 M剛山しynnBlodgcl. Dcbor:tll

8011..in and Marga削 YvonneBlodgel

IIcnry Schradcr -Seplemhcr 11. 1997

SurvI¥'cd by his wifc Sllrah. of 2316刊um

Road. Stark¥"illc. MS 39759

Charlcs n. Slmpley -No¥'ember 28， 1997

Survi¥'cd by his wife Oorolhy. of 569 Sho陀

Or.. L~Icon i a. NI-I 03246凶 nsRobert and

Slcwan: hi， daugl配 rSu~an Evan，.削IdlwO

grandchildπn

Shirl吋 Kirk柄岨d-Ma¥' 26. 1998

Survi¥'cd by 旧rhus加 ndCharlc，. of 133

L;Ikc lIill匙 Orivc.O品 Ridgc.TN 37830: hcr

son David. dauglner Kim Kno九 andlhrcc

gmndchildrcn

Haruld Krapp・I}ccemher12. 1997 5ur¥'i¥'cd by h崎、、ifcLavcm臥 of173削 N

X8th A¥'e. #101. Pcoria. AZ 85382

Frank Fullun -M町 13.1997

SurvI¥'cd by hb wifc Gracc. of 3129 Middlc

Ranch Rd.， Pcbble Bcach. CA 93953ぬ""ちon~ Bill. Rich and T.αn

.，削1>elhW. G岬哨hcr-S叩 tcm加r29. 1抑7

511rvived 句 h"山 ughtcrTTllccyG. Hcnlc)' of Silvcr Spring. MD. and a grandson

}泊llIesK. UrCII • January 15町 1998

Survivcd by州、 wifcRmh. of7αXl Phocni;o;

NE， Apt. 502， Albuqllcrquc. NM 87110

Charles A. C川n-j¥brch 25，1998

SllrvIved by his刷 feDorothy. of 260 Agua

ViSI:l SI.. DeBary， FL 327 I 3: and 山luglllcr~

Kalhlcen Cain Br凹 kcand Shcil~ McGcc

主主主餐MQ

Harn:y Shephard -l)cctmber 2". 1997 Sur¥'I¥'cd by his、引feLoubc. of626、v、，VindOr.. N. Palrn Bαlch. FL 33408

(ieorge F. Larscn・Apri112.1拘8

SurvIved by his wifc 1aekie， of 1;61 Quail~

Trail Rα川 Visla.CA 92083、。n.'G問gorymd Bnld. and two grandthildrcn

William Grangcr -Augusl .H. 1997

SlIr¥'ivcd by hi騎wifcWilnm. 01" 9259J J)ioch

Lane. Springfield， OR 97478

R;Id叫 (MrS.，Jω叩 hHenj日minlCall1cron

ルlarch4. 1998

Survivcd by hcr daughler CarωSue York of

1428 E. Don SI.. Tylcr， TX 75701喝onKcith

"汎!Cg印叫childn::n訓ldfour!よ川I-gr..mdchildrcn

、V泊yncSisk -NOYl'mbcr 29， 1997

Survi川 1by his wifc Sandy. of P.O. B01> 908

MOllnlain Homc. AR 72654-0908

民oberlL. Lcc -Januar、3.1998Survi¥'cd by hi、、~' ifc Oi川 e.of 4912 Lakc

LOlli，e A、c..Met~ric. LA 7α>，.

"'"叫 W.tirinin'・Allril2J.1998Survivcd by hi、parcn1札 silland Wanda

Grift問。f仙沼 72nd51.. Lub加<，

TX 79424: daughtcr Erin則ldson Eric: and 品川ぉ Chc削 Smilh川 dKay Fo問

Robert M. C:lIIar.Y. Fcbruar¥' 13， 1998

Survi¥'cd by hi~ wife Pa1r山 a.of3103Sand

Trap Coun. Lal..cland. FL 33810: a son and IwO grandchild悶 n

srucc C. Smith -.Iu1，¥' 3. 1997 Survi叩 dby h仙川fcMcta. of 5419ド'orcsl

5pげmgぉDr..Kingwood. TX 77339: and son)、CJinl and Brucc 1r

M・chaelMaher -.I ul .~' JJ. 1997 Survivcd b古川、 brOll刊 r.10hnl山，hcr

Joan Isabel Carl-Ot!ober 19. 1997

Survivcd by hcr hu塩 川 Richard.of 2 J叩

PしむhoR刷 d.Lo~O叫に CA 93402: hcr山 ughlcrL訓 JflC、.Vrighl訓，d，蜘Ogfll似khildrcn

Jnl・nW， GUlhrie -OCluber 11， 1997

Survi町 dby hÎ~ 帆た Janc， of 4325 J [olly Trcc Ro川、川lminglon，NC 284 12

I ~~8 電1~IMI 健 11' 川 、"¥1 -tO川 1"'111."11

UPDATE 'om SCOTTSDALE

by Marjorie and Douglas Rincs

The 21st Reunion of Aramco Annuitants September 7-9， 1998 品

'附

E ach阿川 del問 rybri叩 anotl町 Sは kof叫刷rallOIlS

for the Scptcmbcr gathcring of AramCQll$ m lhe Scollsdalc

Princess in Scol1sdale. AriZOl1:1

Bcc:msc SQIllC annuitants didn't rcceivc blank I町 msfrom

AI-A、WIIIIA{.J(ll/Iifa/J unlil a supplernentary mail ing. Ihe d削 dline

for rcgistratioll has bccn cxtendcd u川 ilJuly 31. The thrcc

mealoptio同 arec足pli.lincddearly on thc registration fonn

which shou凶 bemailed 10 Marjorie and 0αIglas Rincs. Chccks

should be made out 10 "Ararnco Reunion 1998." Thc hOle[ rcscr

vatlOll r叫UCSIfonn. accαnpanied by check or credit card nUrl1-

bcr for tWQ llighlS deposiL should bc mailcd direclly 10 lhc hotcJ

also bcforc July 31

Rcmcn也erwhen packing your dothes thal the Monday

evening dinner will bc a Hawaiian luau while the traditional

banqucl 011 Tuesday evening is a fonnal aff:tir. Bill Dobyns has

volul1leered 10 serve as chairman or Ihe bridge 10urnamCl1I. ASC

Benefils advisor Genie Tyler will bc available in Ihc Hos~川 l alily

Room 10 discuss rnaucrs of concern. Rcpre田l1Iall、何回 from

Vanguard. Ihe inv目 trncl1lfirm currel1lly managing $audi

Aranトco'ssavings plan. will ..Iso be 011 hand 10 a札、werquestlons

In 1999 Sltudi Arab川 willbe cclebrat川 gIhe Hijra calcndar

centennial of King . Abd al-Aziz' s dramatic caplure of Ihe cily of

Riy刈h(which 1∞k place in 1902 according 10 Ihe WCSlern cal

cndar). This year's Sidelines exhibi1 will di~play memor:tbilia

commemoraling Ihe陀 ignof Ihc King also known 出 lbn$a'ud

who unified $audi Ar:tbia and rulcd Ihcrc ul1lil his dcalh in Ihc

19505. 刊ca.~C bril1g ，:l1ly酔r開山1lilms. color slidc5町 otherpho

los from Ihis [>eri叫 ofIhe Kingdom'5 hislOry Ihat you'd like 10

share. Thcrc arc al50 pl:ms 10 inlcrvicw intcrcsted ann ll ilant~ 011

lapc. If you havCl1'1 yCI mailed your問句作"'山1requcsl forms 10

Ihc holcl and lhe reunion regi5tration forl1ls 10 us. please do so

now. Time is shon!

1¥1;)りorieand Oouglas Rin回

3402 South sala Orive

fempc， AZ 85282

MEET YOUR SCOTTSDALE HOSTS: Marjorie and Dougl崎町田S

livcd in $audi Arabia from

1950 10 1980. about 20

yea時 inDhahran and 10 in

Ra5 仁川l11Ta.Doug Ir:lvelcd

10 Riverhead. Long 151and

ror oricntali印】 beforcnying

to Saudi Arabia. Until

hou5ing W<lぉ availab1cin

Dhahmn MlIrjoric山 ycd

bchind in Rochester. New

York. wi!h d<lughlcrs Gail

Ihree years old ltllhc timc. and brand new加 byCandy

Soνentcen mon!hs later the family W;¥5 reunilcd. Marjorie

rcn町nber~ thcir y即時 inArabia <15 a wondcrful expe.rience

E、、eη0111巴W<lSso kind. Amcrican5 and S:mdis alike:. shc

s<lys. $on M<lrk叫引ぉ bom川 lheDhal町111Hospilal in [955. fol~

lowed by同 nC1ark in 1961. WI¥h rourchildrcl1. thc Ril1師、"陀

よclivcil1 both Girl SCOUlS and Cub $couts. Margcjoined thc

Women、GrouplInd Doug coachcd bωeball: bolh elリoyed

bridgc. bowling al1d golf. Ovcr thc years Dougぃ0'もedaS:t

l11ullicmft forcman in Dh;lhr:1I1 Shops. NOllhcl11 Arc<t

Maintcl1ance and Tenninal Ma川 tcnancc.After IC;lving $‘tudi

Arabia Ihc Rincs livcd in Kingwo似 J.ncar Houstα1. whcrc Doug

桃 orkcdilt thc Aramco $erviccs Company offkc unlil 1983

Marjoric and Doug hωe 10 grandchildrcn alld six g陀:11-

grandchi[d陀 11.Al lea:-.t two of the fmnily havc hclped with

陀 ul1lonarr..lI1g町 llcnts:grandson $COIt Mangan madc a banncr

for Ihc ballroom and .¥011 Clark produccd the name 1唱sand

mcal tickc¥s 、.Ve:tre50 happy wc gCI 10 sce so l11:tny of our

friendぉevery1¥¥'0 ycars:' MaりOI"lC叫 ys."Th:mk you. cvcryonc

ror thc mcmorほお

州 "、AM 42 AI.川 、111A 11

REUNION

Dalc 自迎Ilize白l

bl $cplcmbcr 1958 Andy :tnd Evclyn Andcrぉ00

2nd Scplcmbcr 1960 $ICp $Icpncy. Phil

MCCOllllCIl. Roy Lcbkichcr

3rd $cplcmbcr 1962 Rol山 IdRUlh Cundall

4th OClObcr 1964 K.O. and Me叶cFcllm川

51h Scptcmbcr 1966 Clark and Mary Cypher

61h Se】lcmbcr1968 DOII‘II1d Mιly R idl;¥rds

7th Octobcr 1970 Barncy‘md scrlha Robc刊誌()11

81h Octo以:r1972 、.Varrcl1川ldMyrll'lodさe，

91h OClObcr 1974 Ji111 a山1Darcic Fcltcr

1αh Novcll1以;1'1976 Don and Mcld目、.Vallace

11th $cplcll1bcr 1978 Jim and Darcic Fcltcr

12th OClObcr 1980 Lori sunnCSler

日Ih Novcll1bcr 1982 Milo Cump~旬、

14th OClObcr 1984 RlIlh McClain

151h OClobcr 1986 A円 ilnd$ally Taylor

161h Octobcr 19!H~ Gcorgc 川叫 N白川incTrial

171h Octobcr 1990 sobby川ldJo叩 Alexandcr

181h $cplcll1bcr 1992 Curl and Mcrlc Widcmal1

19th Scplc111bcr 1994 Bob川 dBarb:lra Prcdmo問

20th $cplcmbcr Iゆ96 Rogcr :tnd Pcggy Ward

21、1 $cptcmocr 199お DOllgand Marjoric Rinc:-.

HISTORY

Locale Guests

Cめ Ilcwo以1Counlry CJub 147

円casal1lol1.Califomia

Mir白川larHotcJ

$anla sarbar:1. C<l1ifornia

HOlel FlamIngo

Sanla Roおt.California

Di:，neyland HOlel

Anahcim. C:llifornia

Yoscmitc Lodgc

Yo~引'"惚， California

Holiday [nn Rivicra

Pal111 Springs. C:tlirornia

$ahara-T 山田

Lakc Tahoc. Ncvada

Hotcl dcl Coronado

Coronado. Calilomia

ル10"川山11Sh以low句 HOlcl

$collsdalc. Arizona

Ocl MOI1IC Hy‘ltI Housc

Montcπcy. C<llifornia

Cunclback Inn $eollsdalc. Aril.ol1;1

[111刊誌brook

T.川lOl1Spri ng~ 円orid~

Sh;lI1gri-Ia

Afton.Oklahom:t

Howl dcl Coronado

Co，ωlado. Caliromia

Mt. Airy Lodgc Mt. P，ιono. Pcnnsylv:lnia

T，I1l~Tar-A Rcson

o、岨cseach. Mi鈴 ouri

TI下cMiragc

ぃt~ Vcg出 Nevada

Pil1chursl Hotel

PinchurSI. Nonh Carolina

$co¥lsdale PrinCC5S

Sα)1Isd:tle. Arizona

I-Iyall QrI山IdoHOIel

Kis‘imrncc. Florid" Scoltsd日IcPrincc凶

Scollsdalc. Arizona

230

265

476

321

417

385

575

587

8凹

750

690

44'

86'

825

665

1272

588

900

725

Y':11l comc!

仙 川'11"13 I・w

AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION RESERVATION FORM Convenient ground transport

from the Phoenix airport to the Scottsdale Princes喧for the Aramco Annuitants Reunion

ARRIVAL INFORMATION:

Name(s)

Circle Arrival Dale Scpt. 5 -Sepl. 6 -Sepl. 7 a.mJp.m Arrival Timc

Airl川 e Righl Numbcr

Procedure: Upon :lfTI、.1剛 oPhocnix Sky Harbor [ntemational Airpo円 P'世 田 d10 the baggagc CI川 narca. whcrc

you wi11 be mel by a Destination Scrviccs Rep陀 scntativcwho will dirccl you 10 a waiting vchicle. Cost for Ihis

selVice 1S $25帥凹'pe目。日岡山 W吋 and川 cludcscxclusive IrJl1sportation. baggage handlcrs :md sky cap graluitics

for up 10 IWO bags pcr pc向。n

••• • •• •• • • •• • ••• • •• •• • • •••• •• • •••• •• •• •• •• ••• •• • • •• •• •• •• • • DEPARTURE INFORMATION:

Name(s)

Circle Departure Dale

Airline

SCpl. 9 -Sepl. 10 ，a.m.lp.m Depanure Timc

円igh!Number

Procedure: Departures wi111cavc from the BallrOOI11 circlc， jusI off thc main lobby of the hOlcl. All departing gucsts

附 11be infj刷 nedof their departurc time frorn thc reson at the timc of check in. If your depanu陀 informationhas

changed from the confirmmion you問 ceivc.p[easc notify Destination Services at 目"回 ion#2643 (Ie:lve a voice mail)

-・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・... . .... .. . .. .

Rcsc刊 ationsfor tr:msportation lllust be received by: August JO守 1998.A[[ 同quesls問 ceivcdartcr this date will be

conlinncd on space :lvaitability. A[[ transpo円ationrequcsts must be accompanicd by a check or credit card numbcr

The total :lmount of this service M UST be pre-p山 dand is non-refundablc

Amount encl: $

口Am田 口M田terCard

Credit Card対

口Visa 口Dincrs 口011悶

Exp. Datc

N:lme Signalure

(As it appcars on credit card)

• ••• ••••••• •••• •• ••• ••• • •• •• •• •• • •••••• •• •• ••• ••• • •• •• •• •• • Pleasc Fax Information To

Destination Services De戸川ment:(602) 585-2644

QR j¥-IAIL. 1'0 Scottsdale Princess Reson

Destination Scrvices Dcp川tment

7575 E. Princcss Orive

SCOlIsdale. AZ 85255

。』ω丘己目【

U

，¥1. AYV"" 14 ..L.J"'tll ""

HOSTS， SITE NEEDED

FOR MILLENNIUM REUNION，

ARA恥1COANNUITANTS' 22ND，

IN THE YEAR 2000

VoI… 陥 悩叩叫d出t……s加M河叫叩叩川附d川

陀u叩m附0"同"引、cry twoyιVちs割1凹.1円958.whcn I~訂7 加 "" “山削a制"附1山tω.sgc別略

10島C曲、crin Califomia. In廿lCintcl"¥cning ycan:;. 21四 nuitant

四叩l回加、cmkcn up the torc:h， thcn仲間diton.m皿 agingthe

、岬rk-and enjoying the pen.on:tl凶 IIsfa.目的n-ofh田 lingwh:u

h，凶 grownω旧 atmly mcmorublc f:lmily引Ihering

In e:U'ly d:lys lhe h曲 tsat cach陀 unionwould imroducc thcir

chび間町山花世rsucc田畑"Sand :mll加問.1同 SltC犯 lectcdfor thc

follo問 時 間umonon

山ee¥'ening of the gala

b.1nquet. [n rt!Cenl

四国 howc¥'cr，lhe

annour・ccmcnthas

則前¥imc.，had to 曲目

later. as '"四nas new

h回 仏C山 Idbc found 10

step fo附 吋

Jt.s肘CllCU~\O Il1(町

ωhold lhe rcun旧 110f

expatriate Aramcons at

di仔e開削 locmions

around Ihc Unitcd

SI‘lICS. Mo:-t陀ccntly

that's drJ附 1anmutan~写 to Nonh C;lfOlina. A円四 naand円orida.At

tuncぉ戸。plchavc ，，150 5Ugg必t民Jthallhc陀 ""'αISbe held in Can:ldJ

Norv.':lY. a加anIcruise由明orevcn-w加 Idn'til出 nice?-in

Saudi Ambia. Ho¥¥c¥'er. for various p制 icallogisticalrcason...冊冊

of"もescsuggesuons. intriguing as they ap~ar at 品rstgl:mcc. h白凶

workcd out

Thc札:un剛 1<;ltCS aJ宅 cho~njointly by thc volUl羽田 rhc山 ofthc

thrce nlO!.t陀ccntreunions. bascd on Iheir 0¥¥'Il valuable CXpcriCI悶

Haveyou c町 rconsl世間d、叫unt田町19to Ix瑚四 Ammco

Annuit皿悩 Rcunion?If師団山ISP:¥gc y.刷 '11find thc basic陀中間-

Illcnts tl明白陀l回 .kingfor:u刈afcw pmctical guidc1in回 forsubmit

tlllg propo凶 1，Sendth間 copicsof your reunion p旧 )osa1lxlckagcfor Ihc ycar

2α)() wi山d:uc:.，必tunat氏1price可andothcr details to M‘町O円""叫

面 uglasRi酷 s.可制nas I跡地le.Rcunion host<. for 19制 l明治叫

l悼8田 eagcrto 1回 .kthcm ovcr. If you can gct凹"，p町跡:11

together befo陀 Ihi，ycar's陀 ulllon同 muchthe 民ttcr!

1996 K1S5''''阿f:EftEU阿，。側 H05TS

PEGGY ANロ ROGERWARD

~ l r.i¥u.. .15 I・"

GUIDELINES FOR

SUBMITTING REUNION

PROPOSALS

Lc川川加m…B

1η) A dcdに、u【胞cdcouplc or groひupwilli川『凶h唱gtotれ"水kc011 tl山h児erespon一

...ibilitげy(aωm刈df，向1m叫)of s叩ponsonngan c、enl.Rc、引1山‘叩u陀dトHelp

is :lvailablc. [f your proposal is selected. therc arc many eXI児 n

enccd ut刈dcdicated、olulllccrswilling to chair andほ rveon

Y山 rcommlllees

2) A c削 vcntionhotcl capable of handling 8朗1.2曲 annul.

tants (叫 cndancevarics according 10 1叫 alTon，ac白山bililyand

田 arby;Jttractions)， with banqucl faci1itics and I¥lccling r∞m‘国

wcll a、lenniscourts and a golf course -or con、cntcntacccss to nearby電ponsfa口litie‘

RClllcmber: a) The volunt世 rhosts should )i¥C in or near thc

IOwn whcrc the hotel i... loc:¥tcd: b) Septembcr and Oclobcr h:lve

bccn popular rnonths. bul bc印 出ehotcl rates vary sea町 nallya

gO似 1timc framc to con~îdcr iS:1 few days or wccks on Ihe incx-

pcn~î\c sidc of such a r.llc-changc: c) G似XIrc'ion hotcls in popu

larl田、lionsb田kconvcntion faci li t師、~c l l 0、crayear m

advancc; d) Prices for ft似xland lodging ~hou ld be "mooeratc" in

thc sense Ihm annuitants on fixcd incomes walch thcげ budgets

morc closely than ncwly rctircd Aramcons: e) A hotel should be

ca~y to陀 achby car and planc. and have回 sywalking acccss to

『冊附andfacilitics

Past hosts 、~' î ll be quick to ~hare 目 pcricnce.advicc and help

For m。四infom13tion，clIlI Rogcr川 dPcggy W別 d(陣-')427-6捌賂

Uarbar::1 and RolH!!1 I'T仙l10re(帥2)旧制ト7596or

民lerle:md Curt 、Videman(910) 295-2171

t 99~‘ SCOTTSOA， LE R!:山同NC開剛廿EI::R・CHA，RODA，NCE. WENOY CYI弓.HOSTS Boe A，開。 BAReA"AP肉'D.。問 CORI(Y

RENTSCHLER. Cu降TWIO・~ "'AN. RUTH PULLIA'" ANO DOROTHY BOYNTON. MISSING: DON FATE.附 ICHAI:LISSAC

ANO G区。肉GERAOI:陶

Fo"例区間 UDHA・L・YAHTEACHE!l AI..・CED・X 何 EME附 BERSTHAT 11'11 1958 HER C:I.ASS問。OM

HAD JUST 5・3暗e:XPAT肉 IATECHILDREN. THREe: OF THEM FROM THE LEIDECKER FAMU.Y

HE同E PAMEI..A， CHA胸LENEAI'¥ID 附 ICHAELL.EIOEC“EA POSE WITH "PEγS'. ANO 5El.F-

PORTAA・T$.SIEI!:附AILCENT匡 A，PAG匡 2

AI・AyyumAI・Jamiluh

ISSN.IJt9・15日

Ar:UllCO Scrvices Cornpany

Public Aff;訓rsDepar1menl

P.O. Box 21師

HouslOn. TX 77252-2106

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