| Today was a day of phone calls and impromptu meetings, both at Bethany (the headquarters of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners) and at the seminary (the headquarters of the Society, the Maryknoll priests and brothers). It was good getting back in touch with so many people. |
| Fr. Jack King (right) is quite a photographer and has stated making informal portraits of all Maryknoll members and employees at the Knoll (the nickname for the Society center at Maryknoll, New York). Here he poses with Jim Noonan, recently returned to the center from Cambodia, after he had taken a photo of Charlie Dittmeier. Jack has put large A3-size photos of all the Maryknollers and staff along the walls of the main building. |
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| The dining room of the seminary building. Today there were a lot of outside people for lunch because they had just come from the funeral of Fr. Tom Lavelle. |
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| In the afternoon Charlie was scheduled to receive his last vaccination of this trip, a shot for shingles. He had already received Japanese encephalitis, meningococcal, tetanus, and pneumococcal vaccines in two previous trips this week. When the Nurse Practitioner, Eva Andersen, noted his pulse was a bit irregular, she did an EKG with the machine shown here. It is so pleasant to have good medical services so easily available. |
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| Ed McGovern (left) and Charlie Dittmeier lived together in two different houses in Phnom Penh before Ed was elected to a six-year term on the General Council and had to return to New York. Tonight they had supper together to reconnect six months after Ed's departure from Cambodia. |
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| Then they continued their conversation in Ed's office. The General Council job, basically as chief executives of an international corporation with hundreds of members in 30+ countries, is a demanding job, especially in the present negative financial climate, but Ed seems to be handling it with grace and good humor. |
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