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The Insider's Guide to Malcocinado, Spain
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Nancy Gruner Nancy's parents
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William Strong William's parents
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Marge (Nana Marge)
Paul Gruner (Grampa Paul)
Tasie Shaak (Nana Tess)
Excepts from a letter from Tasie, Sept 15, 1969:
It all brought back memories of my younger days when I first went to live in Phildaelphia, and now and then the brother of a classmate at the hospital would take me to a movie or a play and give me a bunch of violets to wear, or when I was in Nanking and a yound doctor who wanted me to marry him sent candy and Parma violets for my room. It reminds me, too, of the wonderful young people who went to Kuling for the summer -- the beautiful concerts we heard in the chapel there, and the sermons we listened to, whether Episcopalian or Protestant. Margaret Mead was there that summer and John Dewey of Columbia. Occasionally a group of young people would get together on the side of the mountain for talk and singing. I had a good ukelele and played it well -- so did my dear friend Lois Ely. The war was ended. We had all done our best in various ways to make it the beginning of a better world. Soon we would go our separate ways -- down the mountain and up the Yangtze River by river steamer to our inland mission centers, schools, hospitals, or churches. I can see now we were so few, as compared to the hordes of Chinese soldiers and bandits. [There was] supersition and chaos everywhere, except in the mission compounds, and even there, in the summer of 1920, there was looting on the streets and inside the college campus, where our treasurer was murdered because he couldn't give the money when they demanded it. Now, fifty years later, the majority of Americans are still striving for a better way of life, with God and well-educated men doing more than their share to show the Way, the Truth, and the Light.
Theodore Strong Theodore's parents
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Marge