(Continued from College (4)) The federal government’s ban on travel to Cuba had put an end to direct flights. Although Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, you had to take a detour to get there. And what a detour! The student group I joined for the trip, nearly 60 strong, divided in half for …
Postwar Germany, according to the writer Manfred Jurgensen, who grew up there, was “a period which often posed much more danger than the war itself. Severe deprivation, starvation and death were everywhere. This generation grew up without any real parental guidance and direction, and living through the years where all norms of society were virtually …
This thumbnail profile of my father appears in Protestantische Profile im Ruhrgebiet: 500 Lebensbilder aus 5 Jahrhunderten (Protestant Profiles in the Ruhr Region: 500 profiles from 5 centuries), edited byMichael Basse, Traugott Jähnichen and Harald Schroeter-Wittke, Hartmut Spenner publishers, Kamen (Germany) 2009, pp. 592-593. The author is Hartmut Ludwig, a church historian and Doctor of …
