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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Sandy Ward reports
I haven't called myself Sandy since trotting off the college. So if you want to surprise me, call me Sandy when you contact me and I'll know you are an old friend from Olmsted Falls. For the past 10 years my husband, Ron Mann, and I have been living in Guanajuato, the capital city of a central Mexican state with the same name. Here I keep busy--that's an understatement--running a humane society. If you want to know about it, go to our website, amigosanimalesgto or write to me and ask to be put on the mailing list of our newsletter. The December issue is just about ready to go out. In my spare time I occasionally edit books in the field of population for former colleagues.
Before moving to Mexico, Ron and I lived on Oahu, in Hawaii. For 26 years I headed a publication program for the Population Institute at the East-West Center, a federally funded education center focusing on Asia and the Pacific that's located on the campus of the University of Hawaii. Before that I worked in New York City, first for the organization CARE and then for the Population Council, a research and technical-assistance foundation established by the Rockefellers. So in a sense I'm still working in the population field because our humane society does a lot of spays and neuters.
Ron and I really enjoy living in our beautiful colonial city, which reminds us a lot of Europe. It's a Unesco-designated World Heritage Site and a vibrant music and arts center. We have a superb symphony orchestra, numerous chamber-music groups, museums, and an annual international performing arts festival in October. Our home is a sprawling Mexican house, bright pink, with a guest house on the property. We have two goofy dogs that are rescues, of course. Our Spanish is not fluent, but we manage, and our circle of Mexican friends is growing along with that of the expatriate community. Until recently my mother was living here too, but she broke her hip in July and it became evident that, at 98, she could no longer manage on her own. So she is now settled in Westlake Village, near my sister Pat.
Once a year Ron and I travel somewhere else, in August to southern Africa and in recent years to Vietnam and Cambodia, Morocco, Costa Rica, Turkey, and western Europe. We were thinking of going to India next but are waiting to see whether that's still a good idea, given the atrocities in Mumbai this past week.
I hope to hear from some of you and catch up on your lives. I hope you are all well and happy.
Sandra
Before moving to Mexico, Ron and I lived on Oahu, in Hawaii. For 26 years I headed a publication program for the Population Institute at the East-West Center, a federally funded education center focusing on Asia and the Pacific that's located on the campus of the University of Hawaii. Before that I worked in New York City, first for the organization CARE and then for the Population Council, a research and technical-assistance foundation established by the Rockefellers. So in a sense I'm still working in the population field because our humane society does a lot of spays and neuters.
Ron and I really enjoy living in our beautiful colonial city, which reminds us a lot of Europe. It's a Unesco-designated World Heritage Site and a vibrant music and arts center. We have a superb symphony orchestra, numerous chamber-music groups, museums, and an annual international performing arts festival in October. Our home is a sprawling Mexican house, bright pink, with a guest house on the property. We have two goofy dogs that are rescues, of course. Our Spanish is not fluent, but we manage, and our circle of Mexican friends is growing along with that of the expatriate community. Until recently my mother was living here too, but she broke her hip in July and it became evident that, at 98, she could no longer manage on her own. So she is now settled in Westlake Village, near my sister Pat.
Once a year Ron and I travel somewhere else, in August to southern Africa and in recent years to Vietnam and Cambodia, Morocco, Costa Rica, Turkey, and western Europe. We were thinking of going to India next but are waiting to see whether that's still a good idea, given the atrocities in Mumbai this past week.
I hope to hear from some of you and catch up on your lives. I hope you are all well and happy.
Sandra
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