I'm back in the USA after spending much time overseas, most recently in Kenya.

I'm now living in Oakland. I've been retired for the past 12 years after a career in the Australian Foreign Service. I married Pamela, an American woman with roots in the Bay Area. We met in Venezuela so its all a bit complicated. My last posting with the Foreign Service was in Kenya so we are still engaged in a lot of activities in that region including promoting solar cooking in Somalia and helping run a non profit film school based in one of the poorer areas of Nairobi; "Social transformation through Media and the Arts" is the school's motto which summarises the school's aims.

We also spent a lot of time in China including a teaching stint at a university in Beijing where my mother was living until she died two years ago aged 93. I arranged to have her memoir of her time with the communist guerillas in their fight against the Japanese to be published (incidentally a Politic and Prose bookgroup selection for August 2012). I also published a photo book on northern Somalia.

Here are some websites where you can see what we have been up to- www.sunfirecooking.com
www.boldplum.com
www.peaceandmilk.com
www.hotsunfoundation.org

I don't think I will be able to come to the reunion although it would be fun. I know it's a cliche but it's hard to believe 50 years has passed. I also have considerably less hair than in this 1966 photo.