AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART III BRUCE AND TAD: THE BEGINNING IN AMERICA A review of MY METAMORPHOSIS A TAPESTRY OF PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS ELIZABETH LANSDALE ENARETOS PRESS 2007 info@afs.edu.gr www,afs.edu.gr PART I Foreword by Dimitris Zannas My Metamorphosis by Tad Lansdale is about a love affair. In this …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART VI Chapter 8: Love Within twenty minutes we were standing outside the door of a stone hovel, a dilapidated dwelling with a flat earth roof and two tiny windows. No running water. No electricity. This was the house of a very poor person. It was …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART I The Goal For the first time in history, our generation has the opportunity to end extreme poverty in the world’s most desperate nations. Jeffrey Sachs lays out how poverty has been beaten in …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART II HENRY RICHARDSON LABOUISSE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Introduction In re-making the American Farm School to fit the post-war era, Bruce Lansdale knew that he could not do it alone, especially in a world where the values on which the School was founded found little support …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART V Chapter 7: The Philosophy of the Amchi It was six in the morning, the day after my meeting with Sangratan in Chinie, and again I was setting out to meet him. This time he had promised to teach me about the Amchi, and …
A PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK GROUP WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 6, 2002 Eighty-four years ago in this city, Woodrow Wilson spoke of war and peace to a joint session of Congress. “What we demand” he said, “is that the world be made safe for every …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART I THE INSTITUTION MADE THE MAN AND THE MAN RE-MADE THE INSTITUTION Introduction Two years ago, on February 2, 2009, Bruce Lansdale, Director of the American Farm School from 1955 to 1990, died. We honoured him on Psycho Sabbato – the day when Greece remembers those who …
