WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1949
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By FRANCIS KELLEY
Students Meet Officers From Homelands
Intriguing accents, colorful uniforms, and hearty laughter characterized the meeting of foreign University students and army officers from their home countries at Ft. Leavenworth Dec. 17.
More than 35 University student guests from 19 countries met 49 fed army officer hosts and their wives from 26 countries at the reception in the Ft. Leavenworth officers club.
Nehemiiah Kronenberg, International club president, was first to notice a touch of home. Spotting an army cap with a Star of David insignia, the third year law student from Palestine, said, "How nice to see the Star."
Many of the groups lapsed into their native tongues as the common love of the homeland was felt. In a short time there was a close companionship between these officers and students.
Col. H. B. Enderton, American army officer in charge of the allied officers section, greeted each of the students as they arrived.
Speaking several languages fluently, Colonel Enderton assists officers from non-English speaking countries in solving problems arising from language difficulties. Many of the officers had never spoken English before coming to this country. Some of their wives do not speak English at all.
Maj. Vincent Cook, wearing a Canadian army uniform, spectacles and a clipped mustache; and Mrs. Cook chatted of hockey and rugby as well as education and the army.
Lieutenant Colonel Seixas of Brazil speaks English with a strong accent. "I speak Portuanol," he laughed. "In my country we speak Portuguese and I also speak Spanish. Most of the time I use a combination of the two languages which I call Portuanol."
"Normally, I am not enthoused over rugby—football, I believe you call it—but there was one game at which I became excited upon hearing," Major Cook said. "My wife and I were driving in downtown Leavenworth the afternoon of the Missouri-Kansas football game. When Missouri bobbled on their own 3-yard line and Kansas recovered the ball, I became so excited I ran into the car ahead of me. I received a nasty glance from the driver of the car ahead."
Major Cook was the resident staff officer of the Canadian officer mining company at McGill university, Canada, before going to Ft. Leavenworth.
The little woman in the green sari gingerly held a burning quarter-inch long cigarette stub between two delicate finger-tips. She looked perplexed as she said, "This cigaret, I don't know where to put it." Noticing the length of the cigaret, she looked up quickly, smiled, "aid said, "I am just a bum."
She was the wife of Liutenant Rahman allied army officer from Pakistan. She has learned English since coming to America in September and is a constant source of
amazement among her friends with her repartee in English. When asked how she liked the U.S., she replied "Exactly."
Colonel Afsharpour, of Iran, formally welcomed the visiting students to Ft. Leavenworth. Later in the afternoon, the Colonel told of Christmas in Iran.
"We are Moslem in my country," he said, "but we observe Christmas for our many Christian friends living in Iran. We exchange greeting cards and observe other ceremonies of your Christmas, but we do not celebrate it ourselves."
"Our celebration which would compare with your Christmas is held for 13 days following the first day of spring. We have an annual feast and vacation at that time just as you do at Christmas time."
Colonel Afsharpur and other foreign officers, were high in their praise of the staff school at Ft. Leavenworth. The allied officers take a comprehensive 10 month course in ground, airborne, and amphibious infantry components.
Following luncheon, the officers and students made a tour of the army post. Points of interest on the tour were the national cemetery, Old Normandy housing district, a new building under construction to house a paper拍户, a paper for "bump-sheets," Canada's for memorandums, will be made), our and Gruber halls, the disciplinary barracks, Sherman air force base, and the post theaters.
The music was international in flavor. It ranged from sambas to polkas and waltzes to jazz.
Two Costa Rican students, Luis Bianchini, University High school senior, and Flora Flores, graduate student, did a jitterbug.
The exotic aroma of a foreign cigaret drifted across the room. Canadian Major Paul Sare sniffed twice and sighed, "Ah a Turkish cigarette. I must find who them."
The amiable major traced me smoke to its origin, a cigarette being enjoyed by Lieutenant Perez of the U.S. Fifth army. Lieutenant Perez later Turkish treat with the major and then obtained a box of the cigarettes from Captain Ergee, a Turkish officer now at Ft. Leavenworth.
"I rarely smoke." Major Sare said firing up the oval cigarette, "but
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Rolf Vollenweider, special student, and Ernest Neidermann, special engineering student, talked with Captain and Mrs. Millioud from their home country, Switzerland.
Virginie Baroudjian, College junior from Syria, was the guest of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. de Gastines of France. Colonel de gastines met his wife in Damascus, Miss Baroudjian's birth place. They knew the street in Damascus where Miss Baroudjian was born. Miss Baroudjian will become an American citizen in one and one-half years.
Major Mayalarp, of Thailand, said his guest, Ruth Logan, College freshman, "has such a fresh, youthful appearance." "America is above all my expectation," he added.
The wife of Major Braithwaite, British officer, said she would like to see more of the U.S. She and her husband recently returned from a two-year tour of duty in West Africa. "We have six weeks in which to travel in the U.S. after school is finished here. I should like to see Tennessee, California, and Massachusetts, above all."
Students and officers at the Ft. Leavenworth reception Dec. 17, were:
Flora Flores, Isabel Moya, Rodrigo Solera, Luis Bianchino of Costa Rica; Magdalena Berger of Czechoslovakia; Mary Deane of Ecuador; Helga Kemnitzer of Germany; Loukas Kinkis of Greece; Luis Lemus of Guatemala; Tamika Nonaka and Roy Sue of Hawaii; Younis Dabbagh of Irag; Ariel Rivlin of Israel; Aldo Vigliano of Italy; Henrick Knudsen of Norway; Nehemiah Kronenberg of Palestine; Betty Reif of Panama; Eva Rother of Peru; Justo Bravo of
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