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Places I Have Lived

Ed Seely has lived in:

Thailand
Viet Nam
India

Also in US:

Illinois
Alabama
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Maryland
Texas
California
Nevada


Most favorited: Thailand and Nevada

Places I've Lived

My dad was a corporate nomad, moving as promotional opportunities arose in his chemical engineering career in synthetic rubber and associated manufacturing. He worked on the design, then the construction, and then managed the facility before moving to a new project. I was the last kid so got the benefit (or burden) of most of the moves during the peak of his career. So here is my Places I've Lived list:

Baytown, Texas, 1944-53 (near Houston)
Ashtabula, Ohio, 1953-56 (near Cleveland and Erie, PA; PVC plant for General Tire)
Azusa, California, summer of 56, (near LA; design phase of Odessa, TX facility)
Odessa, Texas, 1956 - 1959 (between Dallas and El Paso, near Midland; synthetic rubber plant)
Muskogee, Oklahoma, late 1959 to early 1960 ( jet fuel manufacturing plant)
Tyrone, PA, first six months of 1960 (Dad was in London for design phase of the India plant so we lived with my maternal grandmother while I finished ninth grade.)
London NW8, England, June, 1960 to June 1961 (design phase of India plant)
Mussoorie, UP, India, June 1961 - May 1963 (while attending high school)
Bareilly, UP, India, winters of 62 and 63 (synthetic rubber plant project, first in Asia)
State College, PA, 1963 - 67 (went to Penn State University)
Hopewell, VA, summers 1964 - 67 (south of Richmond)
Gainesville, FL 1967 - 69 (attended Univ of Florida for master's degree)
Kiamesha Lake, NY 1967 - 69 (worked summers and Xmas during grad school)
Champaign, IL 1969 - 1977 (worked as Asst Dean of Students at the Univ of Illinois)
East Lansing, MI 1977 - present (worked at Michigan State University, then House of Reps, then executive branch positions)

In making up this list, I realize how much my mother and father were separated during my childhood due to school schedules that left my mom and us trailing my father by 6 - 8 months when he transitioned to a new job or location. Local control of education has bred widely varying curriculums that do not accommodate a mobile work force. Where I live now, I am quite an oddity. Until recently, four generation of Michiganders could all get jobs in manufacturing quite easily. Moving from one's birthplace was unusual, and moving for a job was unknown to them. I grew up expecting to move with most promotions, just like my dad. And here I've been in Michigan for 33 years.

Mary P

Ted's Alu & Phulgobi Recipe

Those of you who were here at my place in July will remember Ted's marvelous Alu-Phulgobi (आलू फुल्गोबी)           dish that he cooked for one of our lunches.  Here is the recipe (thanks to Ted's sister Charlene).  I've cooked it twice.  The first time I ended up with far too much liquid if I added the water the recipe calls for, so the second time I didn't add any water at all and it came out just right.  (I guess it depends on how much water gets released from the onions.)  I also added the potatoes before the cauliflower because the potatoes take much longer to cook and the cauliflower can get mushy quickly.


INGREDIENTS

2/3 cup oil

1 tsp crushed garlic

1 tsp finely chopped ginger root

1/2 tsp. white cumin seeds

1 tsp chili powder

1 tsp salt                                  

1 pinch (or more) of turmeric                             

4 dried chilies  (Charlene omits, but go with your own preference)

1/2 cauliflower cut into small florets

2 medium onions sliced

3 medium potatoes

fresh cilantro leaves

2/3 cup water (Hank adds no water)

Directions 

1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan

2. Add the cumin seeds (Charlene uses regular cumin seeds) and dried chilies and mix

3. Add the onions to the pan and fry, stirring occasionally until golden brown

4. Mix the ginger, garlic, chili powder, salt, and turmeric together. Add this mixture to the onions and stir-fry for about 2 minutes.

5. Add the potatoes and cauliflower to the onion and spice mixture, stirring to coat the vegetables in the spice mixture.

6. Reduce the heat and add the fresh cilantro leaves and water to the pan. Cover and simmer the mixture for about 10- 15 minutes.

7. Transfer the potato and cauliflower curry to warm serving plates and serve immediately.

And whole wheat soft tortillas make a great substitute for chapati (चपाती).

Thanks, Ted!

PS:  When you are adding a blog entry and are in the editing window, you'll notice the अ in the toolbar.  That transliterates a Hindi word you type phonetically in English to Devanagari script.  To use it, click on the अ on the tool bar to turn transliteration on, type your Hindi word phonetically in English, and then press the space bar.  Click the अ again to turn the transliteration feature off and continue with your English. 

Woodstock Class of 1963 - GNID: So Where in the World Have You Been, Pray Tell?

Woodstock Class of 1963 - GNID: So Where in the World Have You Been, Pray Tell?
I have no idea how to add to your list of places. I'm trying this...Vivia Tatum VT
Ithaca, NY
Chengtu, China
Kalgan, China
Allenwood, NJ
Teluk Anson, Malaya
Malacca, Malaya
Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia
Allenwood, NJ
Mussoorie, India
Tandjungkarang, Sumatra, Indonesia
Island Park, NY
Misenheimer, NC
Allenwood, NJ
Terrell, NC present

So Where in the World Have You Been, Pray Tell?

At our GNID reunion at Hank’s in July 2010, some of us were sitting around talking about places we’d lived at some point in our lives.

And we started a list of GNID-visited countries. Wow, what an international group we are! I never knew that Larry was born in Algeria, and that Marilee’s been all over Africa, and....

The rule we followed was that you could “qualify” to say you’d lived in a country if you had spent at least four consecutive weeks there (maybe we said 6 weeks, I forget; for purposes of this list, I’m making a unilateral ruling that four weeks is sufficient).

So here’s a beginning of the list, with the initials of the class member who “lived” there. I only included on the list so far the names of those of us who were playing this game, although I know of other classmates who’ve lived elsewhere. I didn’t want to presume to add them without their permission.

Please feel free to make corrections and additions of any other countries and remember to include your name in the COMMENTS section at the end of this. I expect we collectively have lived in many more places. What a novel we could write!

NAME CODE

HL--Hank Lacy

KW--Karen Wilcox

TC-Ted Chitamber

MR--Marilee K Rhody

LS--Larry Smith

SH--Sue Hanifl

EJ--Esther Jantzen

WM--Will Manton

RF--Rachel Finney

COUNTRIES

Algeria--LS

Antartica--LS

Belgium--LS

Burkina Faso--KW

Burma--WM

Burundi--MR

Canada--MR, LS, RF

China--MR

England--RF, TC

Ethiopia--MR

Fiji--HL

France--KW

Germany--KW

INDIA--All of us, of course

Indonesia--LS, HL

Italy--KW

Japan--KW, LS, HL, MR, WM

Korea--KW

North Korea--HL

Laos--MR

Malaysia--HL

Mali--MR

Mexico--RF

Morocco--KW

Nepal--HL

Netherlands--RF

Niger--MR

Nigeria--SH

Pakistan--SH, MR, LS

Panama--TC

Philippines-- HL, KW, TC

Scotland--RF

Spain--EJ

Switzerland--KW

Turkey--RF

USA--All of us

Vietnam--TC

Zambia--MR

Glad to join up

Thanks, Hank, for your work on launching this blog. I will try to use it frequently next month when Connie and I will go to Woodstock. After our time there, we will visit the Darjeeling/Sikkim region followed by a few days seeing sights from Agra to Jaipur. I'm guessing most of the hotels we stay at will have hot spots for us to log in.

Meanwhile, we're sitting here with suitcases packed ready to hop in the 4runner at a moment's notice. Connie's daughter, Anne, was due to deliver a boy baby yesterday, so it could happen ... at any moment!

We had a good visit with Steve Fiol two weeks or so when he came to Eugene to visit his family, in particular a grandson who is only a few weeks old. This does seem to be grandparent age for us, doesn't it? I'll try to find a picture to post.

Best wishes to all.

GNIDers, Please Look at the Archives for Posts About Using this Blog

Hi All:

All classmates should have received an emailed invitation this morning to this blog that "authorizes" you to author blog posts by signing in. If you already have a Google account (e.g., a gmail address) that becomes your sign in for this blog. If you don't have a Google account you'll need to create one in order to author a blog entry (though you can read the blog without one).

If you are new to blogging, please read the archives by clicking on the Archive links on the right side of the page to find some hints for posting blog entries, etc.

If you have questions, please let me know at hanklacy@gmail.com or call me at (240) 256-5092 or use the site's Help features to learn more.

Welcome and enjoy (and the more people who participate the better the blog will be)!

Hank

Esther's Trip to Guatemala

Hi,  all,

Immediately after our grand reunion at Hank's in mid-July in Hollywood, MD (thanks, Hank), I flew to Guatemala to meet some friends and spend several weeks studying Spanish and doing tourist things. (Thanks, Larry, for the ride to Dulles airport. I enjoyed catching up on family and life matters with you.)

It was an excellent trip--to a country in which I really had little previous interest. That's changed now, of course.

You can read about it and see a few photos at "Viva Guatemala." It's a blog called Learning Adventures that I started a couple years ago and only maintain sporadically. (If the entry that comes up isn't about Guatemala, just click on "Guatemala Summer 2010" in the Categories on the right, and you should find it.) It seems easier to redirect you there rather than figure out how to post all the pictures in the text again with a different blog system.  

And please feel free to leave a comment, any comment. That way we know it's all working the way it should.

Love to you all, Esther