Terry,

 

I just came across the San Tome website after a number of years. While looking through the Reunion 2006 photos I came across one of Scott Bowen Watt. I know my sister, Sandra Hufsmith (Sandy Carson) has been looking for Scott for years to get back in touch with her. My question to you is whether you might know how she could get in touch with Scott and whether there is someone who keeps contact information for people attending the reunions?

 

As I am at work now, please contact me either by reply to this address or at a personal email address: redrover30@gmail.com

 

Hope you can help but either way, great job on the website. Living in San Tome was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that no one who experienced it will ever forget. Even after all these years (50) I can still envision the entire camp and think I could drive right up to the last house we lived in.

 

Thanks,

 

Sally (Carson) Ryan

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Dear Terry:

With much nostalgia I have seen your effort to keep records of the so called Golden Age at San Tomé. My father, Gorgias Garriga,  lived in San Tomé in two stints, 1944-47 as a Geologist for MGOC and then from 1952 to 1956 as Deputy Field Inspector for the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons, as it was called then. My Mother, Luisa de Garriga nee Guerra, was a teacher at the "Campo Sur" Workers School, and later at the Staff School; my parents actually met (and married) in San Tome, some time in 1945. Also an aunt, Eglee Guerra, worked as a teacher at the same school, more or less at the same time.

I arrived as a kid (6 years old then), sometime in 1952, living in North Camp, 11th Street #11-58 (about half a block from the San Tomé Terminal Club.)

I know my mother (in her 80's and quite lucid) keeps an extensive collection of photographs and other memorabilia from both stints that I know will be very much appreciated by your site.  I live outside Puerto La Cruz in a small community called Los Altos de Sucre, and as soon as I get to see my mother who now lives in Caracas, I will start scanning these photos and sending them to you.

Please feel free to ask for any other information that I could get for you.

Best Regards
 
Gorgias A. Garriga