09-01 Europe 1954
It seemed that Dad felt Ian needed to attend a school with more discipline, so he asked me, in the summer of 1954, to take Ian to Ireland to the Royal Belfast Academic Institution, or Inst., which he attended as a child. But first, he paid for a two-week Cook’s Tour of Europe out of…
09-02 Northern Ireland 1954
It was an act of both love and stupidity for Dad to send Ian to school in Northern Ireland. He was a head taller than the other students in his class and felt like a fool. He lasted six months. Before school started, we had a week together. When we landed in Belfast after our…
09-03 Northern Ireland 1967
At last, one of those free summers at Ryerson, after two summers obtaining my high school teaching certificate. Off we went as a family to Ireland, with four weeks touring the North and five weeks the South. Lots of time to visit family members. In the photo, we are visiting McGregor Devon's family. McGregor was…
09-04 Ireland 1967
We headed from Port Stewart in Northern Ireland across into the political south of Ireland which is Donegal. It is a surprise to most strangers that this county is physically the most northern part of Ireland. On exploring an island off the Town of Donegal we saw the site where the famous Belfast artist J…
09-05 S-E Asia 1977
It was the 4th International Symposium on Small Business in Seoul Korea and Mary and I spent two weeks in advance with Bob and Stacy Morrow and their son Roger, visiting the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. The five of us are in a park near our hotel in Manilla. During these trips with Bob, who…
09-06 Fiji 1980
Those who have travelled to South East Asia know what it’s like to handle eleven time zones. So when we travelled to Australia for the 7th International Small Business Congress, the journey was made pleasurable by the first stop in Honolulu and the second in Fiji. This was a time before Fiji became a popular…
09-07 Spain and Malta 1982
We were informed 90 days before the 9th International Small Business Congress was to be held in Madrid, that we had to move it to Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol. A national election had been called in Spain, and the government could not devote the necessary security forces to protect the anticipated 300 international…
09-08 Singapore and Thailand 1983
It was four days in Bangkok and then onto a week in Singapore for the 10th International Small Business Congress. And my first surprise after settling in at our five-star hotel in Bangkok was seeing how much of their economy was linked to their rivers and canals. Naturally I asked where these people were going…
09-09 Europe 1984
It was the year the International Small Business Congress was held in Amsterdam, and Bob and Stacy Morrow accompanied Mary and me for a two-week tour of Italy, Switzerland, France and Holland. We started in Milano. What a beautiful city for shopping! We all bought gloves for Xmas gifts. Bob and I can be seen…
09-10 China 1985
It seemed we would celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary in China, and we travelled with Bob Morrow and his son Roger. It was a two-week adventure in advance of the International Small Business Congress in Taiwan. We started in Hong Kong, with the first stop in the city of Guangzhou, and wow, talk about population…