Visiting again with our Australian poet friend Mem Cunningham in Richardson 
(e-mail: mem4u@juno.com). 
Here is one of her latest poems:

In Vain

I heard a bird I saw it soar. A shot rang out It was no more There was no sound. The world was still. Whoever fired Meant to kill. How sad to feel Such helpless dread; To see that living Beauty, dead. To kill it, such profanity... A sacrifice to Vanity!

Staying at the house of our old Dallas friend (See picture below "The Texans"). John McCarthy (e-mail: mccarthy@post.cis.edu) is a biology professor at S.M.U. We loved the statue "Les trois Graces" by the Southwestern French sculptor Maillol located in front of the campus museum of art.

In Seal Beach, California:
We visited with J-M.R's supervisor (Litton Industries Space Laboratory 1962-1965) who feels so safe now in the gated city of "Leisure World". Time passes by quickly but old ties of friendship remain. In spite of the increase in traffic, the smog was worse in the sixties than it is now!

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Don't look for our French Impressionists at "Le Louvre". They are practically all here in the art museum as well as sculptures by Rodin, Maillol, etc.

In Athens, Ohio:
We spent ten days partying and celebrating the success of the exchange program between the English Departments of Ohio University and the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail (See "La soirée bien arrosée" below!) This program was initiated by Dean McWilliams in the spring of 1981.

In Baton Rouge, Louisiana:
Last but not least, we stayed more than a week at Jim & Smittie Bolner's (e-mail:poboln@lsu.edu and sbolner@lsu.edu) home ("Au pair" guests) enjoying Cajun food, Cajun hospitality and also the initiation to access and surf the Internet! Several excursion trips took us to New Orleans (See picture with the historic marker and its spelling mistakes: "l'apella" instead of "l'appela" and "honneur" instead of "l'honneur"), to St Martinville (Evangeline's Oak), Lafayette, and to Natchez, Mississipi.

Une soiree bien arrosée à Athens

Marcienne et ses amis Cajins


En visite à La Nouvelle-Orléans


Le wagon de la reconnaissance française (à Baton Rouge)
[At the end of World War II France gave each of the 48 states its own traincar. Where are the traincars given to the other 47 states?]


"A Thorn Between Two Roses" (Halloween à La Nouvelle-Orléans) à gauche et à droite Les Texans à Dallas
Les Trois Mousketeers au Mississippi!
Ecrivez à rocard@cict.fr

Des Liens
Jim Bolner's Home Page

Le responsable de cette page est Jim Bolner, Sr., de Baton Rouge, en Louisiane. Si tu veux le contacter tu peux lui écrire á l'adresse suivante: poboln@lsu.edu.

Aurelie Degoy, a French Student in Australia