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My Mother arranged for us to rent a home that friends of hers normally
occupied they were on vacation at the time.
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tional Museum at that time displayed a wonderful variety of artifacts,
but they were too close together and not well presented. We had met an
American-educated Saudi Arab who worked for Aramco for a time. His
family members were wealthy Egyptian cotton mill owners. His father
had been a Saudi ambassador to Egypt. His wife was an American a
very nice former schoolteacher from California. They took us around
Cairo for a day. We saw all the standard things like the pyramids and the
Sphinx. Our friend was a member of the Gezira Sporting Club, and that
gave us a real insight. Gezira in Arabic means island and the club owned
a large island in the middle of the Nile River in Cairo. The club had
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complete with a stable of their own polo ponies. This couple also took
us to their home in Cairo, which was in a high-rise apartment complex.
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from Aramco gas/oil separator stations. Richard and Janet looked out
of the airplane window and both said aloud, It will be good to be back
home. Other passengers on the plane, who had never lived in Arabia,
looked at the desert and then the kids as if the kids had lost their minds.
In 1956, I was nominated by Aramco to attend the executive
management program sponsored by the University of Western Ontario.
This program was only open to managers who were at least 35 years of
age, which I had just reached. About half the instructors were from the
University of Western Ontario and half from Harvard Business School.
The program ran for about six weeks in the summertime. Class mem-
bers were mainly Canadian, some were British, and a few were Ameri-
can. They were an impressive group of men, a total of 96. I was amazed
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