1989 Susan year end (retyped from dark grey1 6 2023 dw)
Dear Family and Friends,
Warm season greetings to one and all in this past year of momentous changes and upheavals worldwide, we feel fortunate to be back in a stable and safe environment. Our two years in India are summed up by our youngest, Suzette…”fabulous”. We treasure the wonderful friends, colleagues, school and experiences. Each has special memories.
Susan visited her 89 year old uncle in Madras. Had a get-to-gether with friends from HS. Relearned Hindi and relished bargaining with the fruit and vegetable venors.
Melanie completed her last 2 years of high school at the American Embssy School. Delighted in early morning horseback riding at the Polo Club, synchronized swimming, hockey and a wonderful children classmate.
David liked the American Club, skiing in Kashmir and doing wheelies on his bike in front of awestruck passerbys. He skateboarded through the local and jumped off his 4th floor balcony to the next level of the house. Couldn’t keep him in or out.
Suzette loved her school, her friends being a class representative, helping with Jr. Hi Plays: tom Sawyer and Sleeping Beauty, synchronized swimming, and all the 5th & 6th grade socials.
Roger enjoyed working with Indian colleagues, including the brief but special trip to CMC Vellore. And visiting the bird refuge in Bharatpur. The magnificent scenery of Nainital and Goa; and early morning birdwatching walks in our neighborhood.
The visits of both sets of grandparents were a special treat. We wish we could have stayed longer for more friends to visit us in India.
Now we are back in our old home in Atlanta still in the midst of our unpacking our household belongings which arrived in late November. For Thanksgiving. Roger, David, Suzette treated themselves with a visit with Grandpa and Grandma Rochat in Desert Hot Springs. During the Christmas holidays we’re looking forward to celebrating Susan’s parents 50th wedding Anniversary at their home, the Naug’s Nest, .sketched on the card by cousin Sally Rolfe Butch er from Perth, Australia.
Roger is working as perinatal epidemiologist with the Georgia Department of Human Resources…..and just returned from teaching a 6-day epidemiology workshop in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Susan is working 25 h/wk for Atlanta Planned Parenthood. And enjoying being back in a career,
Mel is a freshman at Georgia State University. And working part time at Houston Mill house, a restaurant where she worked before India. She is seriously interested in an Emory student, Jonathan Smith. And we hear occasional rumblings of a wedding to come. With love and best wishes in 1990.