MAY-C-1

RE-ENTRY FROM AFRICA TO GWUMC COMMENCEMENT

  1. Index for the May-C-Series for return from Africa and GWUMC commencement
  2. Kevin Bergman’s re-entry, and my summary from the field upon departure from Malawi.
  3. A wonderful invitation to return to my Brigham roots a Visiting Professorship at Harvard and the Brigham being planned for the coming year. 
  4. A cool cloudy weekend at home with domestic chores and sorting of scores of pictures, and the GWU Commencement: both my own and the hooding ceremonies of my medical student advisees. 
  5. Heaven-sent help from Audiology, which followed from my Global Health Day keynote at the University of Florida, now ready-made for the Embangweni Deaf School, where we had examined all the students and found two-thirds of them candidates for the hearing aids that do not exist at this time and will need professional help when they can be achieved. 
  6. Announcement of the new truck which enters the fleet, and a securing of the dates for the visit to Derwood of Tom and Sherrie and crew. 
  7. Container for Malawi missions and its transport between Derwood and Malawi. 
  8. In a rainy run-up to an even rainier Memorial Day weekend, a series of fast-paced changes and longer term resolutions takes place in an unanticipated rush of opportunities: Haiti travels, a new truck, swapping vehicles, a “Phantom” contract, and the “Foggy Bottom Institute for Global Health” and potential sponsors thereof. 
  9. An unusual cold wet May Memorial Day weekend leads to a visit to the Schaefer’s new home in Trappe Maryland, and a pre-dawn “cold turkey” hunt. 
  10. The plan for a visit with Tom and Sherrie and crew. 
  11. I forward the photos from Malawi along with the rapid pace of events and changes in Derwood and DC, as plans telescope for the coming year. 
  12. The report by the Poehlmans’ of their visit to Malawi 2003, alternating with us. 
  13. A follow-up to the Global Health Day keynote at UF, and the schedule of my own travel to Haiti, after reviewing the reports of UF students who had served in Haiti. 
  14. My exchange of correspondence on representaTion and care for developing world health projects with a sympathetic counter-critic of my Nutrition article on hypothyroidism in the Congo. 

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