A Visitor from Australia

As my faithful readers know, between September 1966 and August 1967, I was on a year-long program sponsored by the Youth & Hechalutz Department of the Jewish Agency, called HaMachon L'Madrichei Chutz LaAretz, the Youth Leadership Program, or, for short, "The Machon". (Here's the Bogrim [Graduates] site). My Machzor was #39.

Well, someone I haven't seen in 41 years came to visit with Lucille and Annette (I'll just stick with first names), Gaby Krausz from Australia:



Just for fun, here's the Hebrew class, Vav, and Gaby is in the center, standing just behind our teacher, Yonah David:



Actually, the first thing I said to him was "where'd the mustache go?".

P.S. If you are searching for me, I'm in the back row, standing, third from left, in between Rivka and Debbie.


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Gaby died this past year of a heart attack.