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I-House Friendships ASALLE TANHA & INGEBORG ØVERHAUG Vern Haddick & Paul Herman - 50 Years of Partnership Vern Haddick and Paul Herman met as residents at International House and formed a lasting partnership that endured more than fifty years. Paul passed away last fall and Vern has inscribed a brick on the I-House patio in memory of their enduring union that I-House made possible. Ingeborg writes from Hamar, Norway: "Upon arriving at I-House in fall 2008, I met my new roomie, Asalle Tanha from Sonoma, California! I had never before, nor have I after shared a bedroom with anyone, but I am glad I got to live with her for a whole year!" COLORFUL FRIENDSHIPS FORMING EVERYDAY! Cement your bond with a bench dedication or brick inscribed in the I-House Café patio. Gifts support The Fund for I-House which provides critical support for resident scholarships and all that I-House does. See ihouse.berkeley.edu/naming. Photo by Marcus Gedai www.marcusgedai.com From left: Richard Kotite, Amy Gonzalez, Khrisha Shah, Kenneth Kristiansen & Jacey Sang Eon Lee Alicia De Bruyn & I-House Friends Alicia writes: "I lived in I-House for only one semester, in Fall 2011, but it was the best semester of my life. I met some of my best friends there, including my roommate, Laura Hertz. This is a picture of all of us on a trip to Lake Tahoe, in a weekend of September 2011. That's the weekend where we all really got to know each other. Thank you for the amazing times, and my friends across From left: Alicia De Bruyn (Belgium), Maria Sundqvist the world!" (Sweden), Arienne Malekmadani (USA), Lisa Barry (England), Laura Hertz (USA), Milda Jasaite (Lithuania) IH Resident Assistants and friends Kristen Kerler and Yoline Banerjee organized IH participation in a campus celebration of the Holi Festival of Colors this April. Kristen reports "It was honestly an amazing and memorable experience that included nearly 100 residents!" The Holi festival is a Hindu tradition in India, Nepal and Pakistan, among other countries, where friends celebrate the arrival of spring together in a riot of color. LARISSA MOESSMER & JENNIFER THOMAS Yevgeniy Grechka & Justine Lan Yevgeniy writes, "It all started in fall 2011. I spotted a beautiful girl dancing in the middle of the room...as fate would have it, the next semester she moved into to I-House... Now, Justine studies in Germany for her master's degree, and although we are half the world away we try to be together as often as possible. International bureaucracy doesn't make things easy, with me being Russian and her being Indonesian. We have very few countries we can go to where we don't need visas. Nonetheless, we're pulling through, and we owe it all to I-House!" Larissa writes from Munich, Germany: "I've read all the cute stories of couples and friends who met at I-House-such a wonderful idea! I lived at I-House in summer 2012 when I met Jennifer, the best roommate I could hope for! My time in Berkeley would not have been the same without her." International House Times 7