Patrick Moore AIS Class of 1972 patrickmoore531@comcast.net

Where are YOU now? Patrick Moore, AIS class of 1972, with his daughter, Catie, in Albuquerque, NM, September 2006.

December 26, 2006

I happened across the AIS/American Embassy School website this evening, wholly by accident, and was strongly smitten by a fit of nostalgia upon finding that the school I attended some 40 years ago is still up and running.

I entered 4th grade (Mrs. Chaudhury) in 1964, remained half way through fifth (Wendy Aswath) at which point my father was sent for 18 months or so to Bangalore, came back in August of 1967 to begin and finish 7th grade (let's see: Swoveland, Science, Warren, English, and Rickert, Social Studies, are the ones I remember), before my father was transferred to Nairobi, Kenya, where I graduated from the local American School.

I was particularly struck, on the website, by the photos in the banner of the rather unique architecture of the classroom buildings I remember from so long ago.

I got a PhD in (Aristotelian, of course; nothing else counts) philosophy and an MBA and now I sell insurance, God help me, help a friend manage his agency, and help raise my five year old daughter and only child, Catie. It is a hugely gratifying experience to be raising a kindergarten child at age almost 52.

Here is a recent (September, 2006) photo.

"Soles occidere et redire possunt
Nobiscum simul accidit brevis lux ..." - Catullus

("Suns may set and rise again,
With us but once dies the brief light ...")

Patrick Moore
Albuquerque, NM

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