Ronaleen Lee, having visited the Convent, unfortunately, when nearly the whole Community was away in Retreat at Stakes, wrote a twenty-page letter on her return to Los Angeles. We should like to quote the greater part of it, but must be content with a few paragraphs.

"In Trinidad we saw natives of all types - from flower ladies with their multicoloured baskets on their heads to the well-dressed negro, shopping in the beautiful and well-stocked departmental stores.

Trinidad is certainly a very prosperous place - a real tropical paradise with orange, banana, breadfruit, mango and other hot-weather plants and fruits . . . . I quite fell in love with Las Palmas in the Canary Islands - a beautiful place, less developed than Trinidad, not so prosperous but full of Spanish charmflowers everywhere, gracious people, old Spanish houses and new apartments side by side, motor launches in the bay and donkeycarts on the quay.

I hear regularly from our old Form, as you know. I was counting up and we have five new babies, three girls and two boys. Isn't it amazing? It doesn't seem any time since we were dashing about the new netball court."

Josephine Staddon from Calgary, Alberta, says: "I wish you could see the countryside around here; it is truly magnificent. To the west are the Rocky Mountains rising to great heights so as to be clearly visible from Calgary; to the east are the foothills and then the prairies. Just reading about them isn't enough - the beauty has to be seen to be believed." Josephine is hoping to be able to manage a holiday in England soon.

Diana Dixon (Brownrigg), established in Rockaway, New Jersey, gave amusing accounts of her first teaching experiences in Toronto in the Italian quarter. "The class age-range was 7 - 12 years, thirty-six boys, of whom twenty spoke passable English; the rest struggled as best they could, since I knew no Italian .... We hope to come back to Bournemouth in August 1961."

Barbara Green (Withington) sent a long letter from Quebec in July. "After ten years I am picking up my studies again, at least formally again. There is an extra-mural course at Queen's University and I aim for a Degree in History. I also teach Frances and Mary Ann, as the children do not go to school here until they are six .... We had a week-end visitor a few weeks ago, and your ears must have burned in Boscombe. Shirley Gibbons drove up from Long Island and stayed for a few days. She loves to travel and has seen a great deal of America and Canada." It is good to know that Barbara has recovered from the effects of polio. to which she was unfortunate enough to fall a victim the previous year.

Christine Tutte is teaching the Embassy children in Tehran, Iran. "I have visited most parts of the country during my sojourn here, including Persopolis, Shiraz, Isphahan and, of course, the Caspian. I even attempted to climb Mount Demarend this summer, but was obliged to give up some 900 feet from the top after an eleven-hour climb." Christine is most anxious to get in touch again with Marguerite Smith.

Wendyanne Crawforth (Johnston) is now living in Wuppertal, West Germany. Evidently the weather there is much the same as ours, for Wendyanne mentioned that she despaired of seeing a blue sky again, as she is in the "rain shed" area, but at the time of her letter colder days and clear skies indicated the likelihood of snow.