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June 2004

Need a Ride / Have a Ride: Save train fare from the Geneva airport or extend the reunion fun for those of you already in cars. Check out the new Need a Ride / Have a Ride page!Look who’s coming to the 2004 Montana Crans Reunion. Why aren’t you on this list?

A Party of 70!

The following people are coming to the reunion in Bluche in July: Aidan Corwin, Alain Borgeat, Alessandro Rattagi, Anthony Corwin, Bob Price, Carl Michaelsen, Carmen Lamoureux Marshall, Dieter Habib, Einar Engelstad, Erica Beard, Giancarlo Felli, Gray Tappan, Jan Graf, Jonathan Beard, Jonathan Tappan, Katy Jackson Cantor, Len Enriquez, Nicoletta de Bona, Margaret Mallon Pujol, Massimo Ciceri, Ottavia Giorgi Monfort, Paul Wirth, Pradeep Kapadia, Rabbi Henri Noach, Robin Evans Kelleher, Ross Povenmire, Sharon Taylor, Stefan Barth, Steve Botzum, Susan Povenmire Weisman, Susan Seipel Sturgis, Swagat Bam, Thomas Barth, Internat Cornelia Zeschke, Internat Irene Neveu, Internat Maya Grisotti, Internat Roberto Grisotti, Teacher Denis Hill, Teacher Joy Hill.

So far we are 39 alumni. Altogether with spouses, significant others and children we are a party of 70. Several additional alumni, teachers and internat are on the verge of “yes” (e.g., see “Just Checking In” from Onno Brouwer, below). For more information click on the “Look Who’s Coming” link.

Can’t Make it to the Reunion? Send a Photo for the “Arriving by Photo” PhotoBoard!

Sharon Taylor Baumann is assembling a photo collage of “Arriving by Photo” for prominent display during the reunion. She is asking anyone who can’t make it to Bluche in July for a recent photograph with name, dates they were at PF/LR and any other news or contact information they care to include. The idea is to keep memories alive and to encourage alumni attending the reunion to renew contact with absent friends.

Please send your hard copy photographs to Sharon Taylor Baumann, 2 Paultons Square, London, England SW3 5AP. No jpgs, please . . . those can be sent to the “Then and Now” link of the website (see below). If you would like the photo returned after the reunion, please include a self-addressed envelope in your mailing.

Oh, The Things We’ll Do!

The following is near final itinerary of events for the reunion:

Wednesday:

  • 5.00 – 7.00 PM welcome reception at Aida. Cash bar cocktails
  • 7.00 – 8.30 PM dinner at Aida

Thursday:

  • 7.00 – 8.30 AM breakfast at Aida
  • 10.00 AM walk down (or funicular) to Bluche, tour school
  • 12.30 PM picnic lunch
  • 3.00 – 7.00 PM open afternoon
  • 7.30 PM dinner at Aida

Friday:

  • 7.00 – 8.30 AM breakfast at Aida
  • 9.00 AM Tour bus to Zermatt
  • 7.30 PM dinner at Aida

Saturday:

  • 7.00 – 8.30 AM breakfast at Aida
  • 10.00 AM bus to barrage Zeuzier, walk to Farm, raclette party.
  • 7.30 PM dinner at Aida
  • 10.00 to 12.00 PM Saturday night fever at Club Absolut

Sunday:

  • 7.00 – 8.30 AM breakfast at Aida
  • 9.00 AM meeting to discuss future reunions, goodbye
  • 12.00 AM – 2.00 PM check out of the hotel


Picture You, Then and Now

The Friends of Bluche website now has a new gallery of photos of alumni “Then and Now.” The idea is to enter a photo of you at Les Roches/Pres Fleuris alongside a recent photo. This will be particularly useful for those of you attending the reunion, as it will tend to allay the unbelieving stares of shock and disbelief! We have yearbook pictures for many of you that we can scan in, but would prefer if you would each provide us with your own personal favorite from that era, along with a recent photo. Send your jpgs to the following address:thenandnow@keystrokestudios.com.

Reunion Treasure Hunt

For more than 25 years, you’ve packed these items wherever you went. You kept them in a treasured box in the attic, or you kept them sealed in a corner of the basement where few people would look. You came across them from time to time, looked at them, smiled, and put them safely back. You don’t know why you did what you did, but you knew some day that these silly items, these mementos from a past life, would become more meaningful. That day, mon ami, is soon coming.

For the alumni who are coming to the reunion, here’s a contest (winner to be dipped in cheese fondue):

Prized items to bring to the reunion, and their value:

 

LR ski sweater or jacket:
PF ski sweater or jacket:
Yearbook before 1970:
Yearbook 1971-1980:
Yearbook 1980 – 1990
First yearbook (1961?)
Expired Passport, stamped by Swiss Authorities
Original LR/PF School (propaganda) Brochure
Used ski pass, 1961-90
Medal or certificate from LR/PF for any sports event
School tie
Full LR uniform, worn by attendee
Full LR uniform with original “pantoufles”
Graduation certificate:
Letter of expulsion:
Any item signed by Marcel or Roget Clivaz
Letter of praise, signed by Clivaz
An original picture from Grisotti’s wedding (’71)
Any item engraved with the school name
Original notes from your boy/girl friend
Original letter to your folks cursing the school
Original letter to your folks praising the school
Pictures of students from your days at LR/PF
Pictures of students doing something they shouldn’t
Beer labels, ticket stubs, or any other mementos
10 points
15 points
10 points
5 points
3 points
50 points
25 points
30 points
20 points
10 points
15 points
30 points
50 points
25 points
50 points
10 points
50 points
20 points
5 points each
10 points each
10 points
20 points
2 points each
10 points each
1 point each

 

Get Up, Up Up!

The soiree is HAPPENING Saturday night, July 17, at the club “Absolut” in Montana from 9:30 to 12:00 p.m. We have reserved the whole place, cash bar.
Pradeep is rummaging through his tapes, cd’s and . . . yes, ALBUMS!! . . . to come up with the perfect party tape for the soiree. He needs a little help from his friends. Please e-mail him your selection of most bodacious toons for incorporation in said compendium of syncopation at kespk@bestweb.net.

Need a Ride/Have a Ride

A new link on the Friends of Bluche web site might save you train fare from Geneva airport or extend the reunion fun for those of you already in cars! Click on the link toNeed a Ride/Have a Ride and fill in the information requested. You can then make contact with your ride/passenger and make your rendevous plans!

Who Ya Gonna Call? Ottavia, That’s Who!

Missed your connection, lost, or picked up by the police for disorderly conduct? Ottavia has graciously and selflessly donated her cell phone to serve as the central emergency “message desk” during the reunion. Outside Switzerland dial 0041 79 4348613. In Switzerland just dial 079 4348613. Please use judiciously.

 

Just Checking In . . .

Len Enriquez writes: I enjoyed seeing the short video of the view from the top of the ski gondolas with Giancarlo (I think it was), but should we plan for possibly skiing during the July reunion? I recall that there was late spring skiing way up at the top as I graduated in June 1971, but is it worthwhile to bring some kind of ski clothes to the reunion (even if skiing is not an organized reunion event)?? [Editor’s note, skiing is definitely a possibility for those interested.]
Onno Brouwer writes: Willem and I just found out thanks to a mail I received from Ross that there is such a thing as Friendsofbluche. Fabulous initiative! I have just applied for a password to enter the alumni net and we will try to attend (at least part) of the reunion in Bluche. Very much looking forward to get into contact with you.

Carmen Lamoureux Marshall writes [a late entry in the May Newsletter that many of you may not have seen]: I am so excited that soon I will be seeing some of you at the upcoming 2004 reunion in Bluche! I have received so much encouragement, bribery (chocolate & cheese…) and promised hugs, that I cannot possibly resist! Since Bluche my family traveled from Algeria to London, Houston and Scotland, and I returned to Canada to continue my studies. I worked in Aerial Photography with the government for a number of years while moonlighting as a musician and singer-songwriter. I also spent a few years working in horticulture & just recently finished a job managing an organic greenhouse operation growing amazingly luscious tomatoes and other veggies for high end restaurants here in Calgary. Love to garden, passionate about great compost and really good wine! I still play music and sing, but mostly just for fun. I am married with 4 kids aged 9 – 28 (my crazy little tribe!) and all of them are wonderfully interesting, not a boring one in the bunch! I can’t wait to come to the reunion to see old friends again- Hugs to you all!

Patrick Bassett writes: I would very much like to attend the Reunion but I am unfortunately not able to make it largely due to conflicting business travel. I did e-mail Henri and it is so great to see our friendship transcend after all these years despite not having seen him since our 1997 Reunion in Aspen. I truly would love to attend but I know it just isn’t in the cards this time around as much as I would like to say “yes”. I was one of the editors for the 1968/1969 yearbook and we really tried to get an impression of the school then, so we would remember it as it was. Clivaz of course was the censor of all the pictures and we did ultimately sneak a few pictures in that he didn’t really know about (like flipping the bird behind the glass in the door). In any event, we had to work within the confines at the time but leave a picture essay of what life at Les Roches was like in the late ’60’s. I hope you enjoy the yearbooks and I wish I could be there to share swapping stories at the school.

Martin Moll offers the following words of wisdom: Nobody owes you a good time.

Except you. If you find the company you keep boring, maybe it’s because you’re putting them to sleep. If no one’s ring-a-ding-dinging the bell, get off your butt and do it yourself. It didn’t matter if they were stuck shooting a movie in a small Ohio town or the middle of a Utah desert, the Pack always brought the party with them.

Anne Troxler Hoover writes: My home computer had a partial lobotomy so I have not been in touch. No, I cannot come to the reunion but I want to hear about everything. I hope Sue FOUTS Sentner will come and maybe people that she has found, Francine Dekker, Therese from Italy and of course, Martha Fouts. I am in touch with Kirsty Aitken, Aletta Shaw and Linda Stone, sometimes. Have you contacted our only movie star, Steve Railsback?

Rory Campbell writes: I am down as a “no” because we are up to our eyeballs in things that must be dealt with this summer. We have a kitchen torn apart and landscaping of _ of an acre that is in dire need of completion. I have offers from a number of friends in Europe to cross the pond, and have had to turn them down. The first daylight I see is this fall. But then it’s too late. We need to acclimate ourselves to the shock in the faces of our former colleagues when they figure out who we once were. The rosy cheeks are slightly weathered, and the flowing hair has thinned. Ah well, in its place we are fortified with a stronger store of resilience, n’est-ce pas. I want you to tell Ottavia that she has done a fantastic job, as have you and your cohorts on this effort. I will miss the camaraderie and the company of my old friends. I think my old roommate Bruce Desjardins may even be coming. It’s been some time since that bro walked the food line with me.

Paul Martin writes: Instead of walking the hills around Bluche or repeating the forced marches or Saturday night expeditions for beer in Montana Village, or wearing one of my old school ties for a soiree, my son and I are scheduled to spend 10 days hiking through one of the very few untouched valleys in southwestern BC. Instead of fondue and wine, it will be dehydrated food and mosquitoes. I ‘m sure that you all have a great time and please download many pictures of the gathering for those of us who can’t make it .

Stefan Zorayan writes: Thanks for thinking of me, unfortunately I will not be able to attend the reunion. I will be thinking of all of you reunited at Bluche, remembering the beautiful time we all had there, and the special friends we made. I am sending an open invitation to all of you who want to came to Cairo . . . you have a friend here.

Mike Polhemus writes: My wife and I just had a two-week vacation in Europe the end of April, beginning of May during which we spent three days at PP in Bluche, which is where we honeymooned 30 years ago. Afraid we won’t be going back again this year.


Bob Price’s Tip for Cheap Air Fare

My travel agent does an unbelievable job on reduced airfares. I have used her for about 20 years. With a little flexibility in the way you get there, she can get very reduced airfares. My R/T from Dallas – Zurich – Dallas is $883.00. This was not the cheapest airfare either. I wanted to go non-stop. So I would recommend that you guys forward her info onward to assist people in getting to Bluche. This is not just for travel from North America either. She handles all international travel arrangements also.

Michele Hicks
World of Travel
Tel: 972-447-0794
Fax: 972-381-7190
E-mail: micheleh@takeavacation.com

If someone faxes in a request to get to Bluche / Montana / Crans from anywhere in the world, Michele has no problem quoting different routings and airfares.

I suspect that many people have been discouraged from attending the reunion due to the cost of air fare. If this describes your situation, give Michele a chance to see if she can get you there.

Do you have an e-mail you would like to share with “Just Checking In?” Send it to ross@povenmire.com!

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