Dear Horst,
I don’t know what prompted me to search for you on internet but
I am glad I did
Thanks for those photos . Somewhere in my drawers , I think I
have a copy of the one with both of us ( with me , in cap ) – but I could not
find
But , among some 50 odd color slides ( 35 mm ) of our stay at KU
, I have found 3 / 4 , which I will scan / digitize , next week and email to
you . I think , a couple of those show Carolyn on stage , during “ India
Evening “ function but I could be wrong
I have yet to go through your biography pages ( done 3 so far )
but somewhere there you refer to “ Carolyn [ 1935 – 1999 ] . That
depressed me no end !
After I returned from KU , I worked for 1 year in a small
engineering factory and , in 1959 joined “ Larsen and Toubro Ltd “ ( still the
largest Engineering firm of India ) . I rose to be a General Manager of ( at
that time ) , its biggest factory ( in Mumbai ) , employing 7,500 persons .
Last 3 years of my job ( 1987-90 ) , I served as General Manager ( Planning )
and General Manager ( Exports ), before retiring in April 1990
After retirement , I set up a Headhunting ( Senior Level
recruitment ) firm , under the name,
- along
with my younger son , Nirmit ( 1966 born ) , who now manages it independently
for past 10 years
My elder son , Vishesh ( 1960 born ) has a business of marketing
Pharma Machineries ( from Italy ) and regularly visits Hannover Fair ( ? )
Vishesh and his wife Niyati stay with us ( or rather, me and my
wife Bharati – now 81 – stay with them )
Nirmit and his wife Pooja ( a Electronics engineer ) stay a few
km away , close to 3P office . They have no issues
Vishesh / Niyati have two daughters
Elder one , Anokhee , has post-graduate degrees in English
Literature and Education from Sheffield and York ( UK ) . She married David
Lingwood ( her college friend ) in 2011 and is settled in York with David ( who
gave up his career in Police Dept / completed his MBA and about to take up
another job
Anokhee is teaching “ English Language “ to high school students
at Ethelburga University
They have a 3.5 year old daughter , named Maia . They spent 5
weeks with us in July / aug
Vishesh’s younger daughter , Aneere , did her M S ( Psychology )
from York and is now with us in Mumbai
She has her own private practice as a “ Consulting Psychologist
“ , besides doing some research with a group
I had a bypass surgery in 2005 but keeping reasonably active /
busy ( only from home ) by blogging on my site [ www.hemenparekh.in ] . Keeps me busy
for 3 / 4 hours
My wife Bharati is also active, despite problems with her spine
/ knee problems
We have a garden adjoining our residence and go for a walk every
morning
I am not in touch with anyone else from KU
More after I hear from you
Regards,
Hemen
PS :
You can read some of my poems at :
From: Horst Helle
[mailto:horsthelle@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 10:07 PM
To: hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Subject: Re: Since it is late in India, only a picture for now
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 10:07 PM
To: hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Subject: Re: Since it is late in India, only a picture for now
Dear Hemen:
Thanks and
apologies come first: Thanks for your kindness to find me in the vastness of
the internet and for writing after so many decades. Apologies for taking so
long to respond. You are my one and only roommate I ever had. I remember of
course that you were then a student of engineering at KU. I took courses in
Business Administration, because it seemed clear then, that I would become a
businessman like my father. But contrary to what my family and I expected, I
spent only three years working in industry, then returned to the university and
became a professor of sociology. At the bottom of this e-mail you find a link
to a summary of my life. A few minutes ago, I sent a copy of three pictures
from Lawrence: First the house in which we both lived, “as paying guests of
Naomi”, as you write. The picture has a date on the back: Sept. 13, 1956. Next
a portrait of you and me with a Christmas tree in the background. It too is
dated: Dec. 18, 1956. Last – more as a joke – a picture of the “European”
soccer team of KU at the time in which I played, dated Oct. 21, 1956. KU had
three soccer teams: Asia, Europe, and Latin America (if I remember correctly).
It shows how very international the campus was at the time of our stay there.
If you too
have photos from our stay in Lawrence, please let me have copies.
I look forward
to more correspondence with you.
Best wishes to
you and yours,
Horst
From: Horst Helle <horsthelle@hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 4:15 PM
To: hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Subject: Since it is late in India, only a picture for now
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 4:15 PM
To: hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Subject: Since it is late in India, only a picture for now
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