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nights he used to love it when my late wife Nancy would be there, and he could get into
a political argument with her, because he said she was the only Republican he knew
who made sense! And he loved to argue with her....
Did my time at I-House change me? Yes, because at first I was very timid about getting
acquainted with some of the foreign students. I was shy about the friendships at the
beginning. I think they had to be the more outgoing ones, at least until I came back
after the war; by that time, I had picked up so much of the I-House spirit that I could
initiate the friendships. One of my very best friends was Guatemalan, Jorge Molino-
Sinibaldi. About Jorge: when he and Julio Lowenthal were here for a class reunion,
Jorge said, "I've been back to see you four times, and you've never been to see me!"
So we put together a group of about a dozen people
to visit – predominantly architects – and went down
there. And we went back two more times – we built
a school as a Rotary project in a village in the hills of
Northern Guatemala.
Taken from an interview by Jeanine Castello-Lin on
March 31, 2010; editing assistance by Tonya Staros.
Students from Turkey, 1946 - 1947. From left to right: Ismail "Smiley" Ergo-
nenc, Esin Sunel, Ahmet Iswan, unknown and Susan Sunel.
Reeve Gould
Application to I-House, 1941.
