Fondest Memories of ACS
- "Field trips -- B.D. life." -- Glenna Hartman Higgins '50.
- "One big family." -- Bill Tracy '53.
- "Hikes to the Dog River." -- Judy Webster Bauer '55.
- "The 'old' facility on Sidani Street." -- Juergen Greineder '55.
- "The people." -- Virginia ("Ginger") Moore Wantling '56.
- "Dancing in the B.D. soda shop." -- Robert Lowenthal '56.
- "Valentine's Dance, 1954 -- my first formal date -- and we ended up being married!!" --
Jack Sommer '56.
- "The dorm and schoolmates." -- Pete Fleury '61.
- "The location, the soft air, trips to the beach and ski areas. Playing basketball in Sidon &
Tyre." -- Jon Van Dyke '61.
- "BD food." -- Diz Caldwell '61.
- "Dancing in the rumpus room after dinner." -- Charlie Minette Kaplow '62.
- "The Corniche." -- Linda Ramsay de Kort '62.
- "Hanging out in the garden of the little store, playing with the cats." -- Karen Stingle '62.
- "The wonderful day trips and in around Beirut." -- Carol Vandenborre Serventi '62.
- "Dr. Dorman telling his stories about some donkey (I've forgotten the name) at chapel.
The carnivals, Christmas programs, plays, trips to the mountains to find fossils in river
beds." -- Gail Chandler Hawkins '63.
- "Hanging out with the "Big Seniors" of the class of '61; sitting on my 5th floor balcony
overlooking the Med and listening to "Wonderland by Night" waft up from Kameel's."
-- Pat Rieger Hayes '63.
- "Introduction to Lebanese food." -- Barbara Maddy Durbin '63.
- "The smells, the sounds, and above all the incredible sights of Ras Beirut." Jeff Hutchins
'65.
- "Trifle for dessert; Nursie's lemonade and TLC; Friday night movies and dancing in the
snackbar..." -- Lynne Tietjen Gill '65.
- "Making it from the 2nd floor to the 6th floor of the B.D. and visiting all my friends in
between without getting caught. -- Jenelle Howard McGee '66.
- "Birthday on field trip to Cairo, Egypt. Miss Rich and some other teacher bought a huge
cake for me!" -- Mary Ann New Hjalmarson '68.
- "Coming back to the B.D. after summer vacations and seeing all my friends again!" --
Alice Ludvigsen Mogens '70.
- "The beginning of each school year -- it was always like a reunion!" -- Melanie
Brechtel '72.
- "My best friend Michael Bastick -- a girl with a boy's first name." -- Sarah Foster Lara
'72.
- "Listening to music in the dorm room on a lazy Sunday afternoon while the setting sun
and warm sea breeze wafted through the open window..." -- Lisa Moore '72.
- "Hanging out around the tree in the courtyard." -- Catherine Essoyan '73.
- "The closeness of all who attended." -- Pete Canarela '73.
- "The early war years -- having unlimited access to the gym and spending hours jumping
on the trampoline." -- Beth Whitman '78.
- "When a new batch of teachers arrived in September of 1954 that included Elsa Jane
Putman." -- Will Turmelle (Fac).
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