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expertise in Golden Guernsey cows. The farm was owned by
Jackie Kennedy's stepfather and we were visiting Bob and
Brenda once when Jackie stopped by and chatted with all of
us.
There were about 20 foreign offi cers from various countries
attending the US Naval War College. A German submarine
commander, a Dutch Naval Commander who would not
speak to the German because his cruisers had been torpedoed
and sunk fi fteen years earlier during WW II, a Pakistani
Commander Mohamed Anwar with wife, two sons and two
daughters, a Norwegian, a British offi cer, an Australian offi cer,
etc. Ellen and I invited the Pakistanis to come to Bethesda
to be our guests for a week so their children could visit the
Smithsonian, see the Capitol and the White House. About
three years later, Mohamed Anwar was promoted to Captain
and sent to Washington to be the Naval Attaché. He would
invite us to come from Norfolk to Washington to stay for a
weekend and go to his Embassy parties. I helped him enroll
one of his sons in the University of Pennsylvania.
We were sent to Norfolk, Virginia for a year. I was on
the staff of Admiral Gerald Wright, Commander in Chief of
the Atlantic Fleet. I was given offi ce space in the Operations
Division. I was aboard an aircraft carrier enroute to the
Norwegian Sea for a NATO exercise. I was away when Ellen
had to cope with a strong hurricane. We rented a house in
Virginia Beach two blocks from the beach. We especially
enjoyed the summer when my nephew Nessly came to stay
with us and got a local job.
We were active in the local Friends Meeting. As much as
we believe in public schools, they were so awful that we sent
Jennifer to the elementary school operated by the Friends
meeting. We were close to the North Carolina border and it
felt like we were in the deep south there were two entrances
to the City's hospital, marked for whites and for colored. A
receptionist sat in the middle of the two segregated waiting
rooms facing the White waiting room, and more than once