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  New Buralarda Editors
Marcia Gnuse, who served as Buralarda's editor for more than ten years, has decided to move on to other things.  Marcia collected and published information through the years before we were really connected by computers and when publishing a newsletter was a tedious process of cutting and pasting--literally.  You did a great job, Marcia!  Thanks, for all the hard work, great newsletters, and your very important part in keeping us in touch.

Stepping up to take over in Marcia's place are our new editors:  Steve Poppick (T-10) and Peggy Hanson (T-1).   Both Steve and Peggy are accepting material for Buralarda so if you have anything new to report, reports of Bayram dinners, or other news of interest to our membership, please be sure to send it to them.  Photos are also gratefully accepted to accompany your stories or news items. 

Memories of Turkey: 
This note from Sandy Pfunder is a more recent event but relates back to our service in Turkey:

This past Tuesday night, our Turkish language class had its last "ders" of the "winter semester". As is traditional, we meet at a Turkish restaurant for the last class, and this time we gathered at  Atilla's Restaurant in Arlington, Virginia. A young woman who was waiting on our table told us that she was college student in Northern Virginia and was originally from Edirne. We mentioned that a couple of us (Linda Scheffer and I) had been Peace Corps volunteers in Turkey. The next words out of her mouth were: "Do you know Bob and Sylva Staab?" Of course, we said that we did. "My grandfather married them," she said, referring (we judged) to the famous village wedding that occurred some 43 years ago in a village near Edirne.

----Sandy Pfunder (T9)
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