June 29, 1942.
Dear Friends:

We hope you will be interested in our account of some of the
things that have happened. here since our last letter. ;

A few weeks ago, on the Friday following Panamerican Day Ula
directed a pageant entitled "The Ameritas. She had written it in
English and had had it translated into Spanish. The municipal —
theater in which it was presented and which seats about LOOO 3
people was completely filled. We vharged popular prices hoping to
have as many see it as possible. We aid not want to make money on
it except to pay for the costumes. We took 14n enough money to =.
pay all expenses. And, we think, fulfilled to some extent our
purpose of promoting good will between the Americas. :

As fer ag we have been able to learn there had. never been a
pageant in Bogotd. When the pantomimes were presented showing |
parts of bikle stories the people gasped in amazement. Bome of the
the teachers and Ula had spent many hours making angel costumes ©
and angel wings and costumes of peoples of the nations that made.
the Americas. They wore beautiful. Our U.S. Embagsy hed a box in.
the theater. When the parade of "The Nations" came down the aisle
from the rear of the theater these emotional Spanish people
fairly rose to their feet. The boys of our school, dressed in
white trousers and blue coate carried large silk flage of each of
the 21 American republics. The Colombian flag came first, then ,
the Stars and Stripes followed by those of the other nations of ©
the western hemisphere. The "Mother of the Western Hemisphere"
wags represented and she plead for the churches, homes and schools,
When the church etene was presented with angels and the Christ- —-
shild in pantomime, the church choir sang from a balcony in the .
back of the theater. Truly, it was beautiful. It seemed to us
thet the very theater shone with star light and these Spanish
boys ané girls were thrilled. How they ‘Love such things! Somehow
those angel scenes had the heart of the Garrisons in them as
never before. In one pantomime, "fhe U.5B, Pantomime" our students
sang The Star Spangled Banner in English. One wife from the U.5-
Embassy bent over the box in which she was seated and said with
feeling, "Those children make us ashamed. They é@ing it better
than we do at home". At the close of the pageant Washington and
Bolivar (the Washington of South Amerita) clasped hands in friend
ahip and the flags of Colombia and the U.S. were crossed. Thrills
upon thrills were in that program for us because of the audience.
Oh! there ig go much to be done here and so few of us to do it.,
And these people are so appreciative of what we do for them.

Our son, Dean, now seven years old, is in the primary depart~
ment of our school. His teacher who speaks only Spanish has
insisted from the beginning of the year that he understands every~
thing she says to him. Our school starts in February and ends in
November. All of Dean's classes save one are taught in Spanish.
That one 1s the clase in English. We are also teaching him english
for he does not get as mueh in that class as we want him to have.

About three weeks ago Mr. Brickel of the cultural relations
department of the U.S. Embassy here presented a large U-Be flag
to our school. His presentation gpeech was in Spanish and one of
our students, representing the student body accepted it. Then the
students all sang the Star Spangled Banner in English followed
by a prayer by> the Colombian pastor of our Spanish church in
which for the continued and ever closer cooperation between and
better understanding among the Americas. |

In response as ever to a call for a worthy purpose the