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Martha Tierney AIS class of 1971 Marthasavalon@aol.com
I attended AIS one year, my senior year ('71), as a boarder while my parents were stationed in Katmandu. I have the most fabulous memories and browsing through the virtual yearbook am surprised at all the faces and names I remember from the class of '70, '71, and '72. Some persistent memories include two sojourns in the infirmary in the custody of Nurse Ramble, one for amoebic dysentery and one in quarantine for the measles. The first time I was there, Krissy Sommer had some Motown and Simon & Garfunkel tapes which we listened to hundreds of times during our confinement and I became an expert on Diana Ross and the Supremes. After the initial homesickness, dorm life was unforgettable. There was a great student union attached to it (I'm not sure if that's what we called it) with pool tables and black lights and rock & roll, the best, naturally. And now that the statute of limitations has run, I will confess to entertaining ourselves (me and a confederate from the dorm) by making prank calls to hapless citizens of New Delhi to tell them that, "Your water buffalo, Mumtaz, (the name, incidentally, of the woman for whom the Taj Mahal was built -- why be 17 if you can't be irreverent!) has gotten out of your garden, please to come and pick her up." Innocent fun considering the vast resources for mischief. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I have, on an off, but mostly off, been in touch with some friends from AIS. My year in New Delhi, my fifth in the subcontinent, after three years in Karachi and one in Lahore, was the last of 18 years as an overseas dependent of a foreign service officer and one of the best years abroad. After that, I went to the University of Massachusetts where I majored in plant & soil sciences. Determined to go into the field of soil conservation, I found out that I couldn't enter that field, let alone make a living at it in Boston so I went to law school and graduated in 1983 from the University of Houston. In 1993 I moved to Mobile, Alabama. I've been a prosecutor in the Mobile County DA's Office ten years and am now handling white collar crimes. (Business is booming). New Orleans, just a two and a half hour drive from here, was always an easy and enchanting getaway, but I haven't been there since Katrina. My daughter says it looks like the set of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie. My colleagues and I plan our own pilgrimage soon to explore our favorite restaurants and jazz haunts. I have two children, a son 20 and a daughter 16, a boxer and a dachshund. I have attached a picture taken last year of myself and Gina, a cockatiel, whose owners I was visiting. Martha Martha Tierney
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