The Villa St. Jean blog project

Di Palma in the Middle Kingdom...

2009-11-22T16:49:06Z

Yes, it's true that Kevin Di Palma (vsj '67) remains teaching English in rural China. To that end we offer this recent photograph, mailed to the Villa Alumni offices world headquarters. Kevin also provided this links to better understand his worl...

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The MacIntyre-Dorrance legacy...

2009-11-22T16:38:32Z

What are the odds that an Indie band would have two connections to the long-closed Villa? From a note from '68 graduate Steve MacIntyre to his colleagues... ... today, Cole, my stepson, called to tell me that he had news he guaranteed would be e...

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Jean Remy speaks!

2009-10-28T18:06:29Z

From an interview published in the autumn issue of the University of Dayton's magazine. (it's here) The headline: Jean Remy first met Americans, U.S. soldiers pushing through eastern France, during World War II. -- “My first words in English were...

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Notre ancien "super-star" ....

2009-10-28T17:27:04Z

The tireless Jean Remy passes along the latest information from the Continent regarding Antoine Saint-Exupéry. First, he notes that a French TV magazine show, earlier this month, devoted a story to the disappearance off the coast of Marseilles an...

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Keeping watch on Saint-Exupéry

2009-10-09T04:32:25Z

Our colleagues send along news of two reports published by the St-Irenaeus Centre in Lyon on Saint-Exupéry. One story, we're told, describes the creation of a Saint-Exupéry Foundation for youth. Another describes the decision to create, after lo...

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Brian Lawler: half-man, half-beast!

2009-09-16T16:53:33Z

Mr. Lawler, class of 1968 at the Villa, returned yet again to the Alps this year to race the Gore-Tex Transalpine Run, for reasons not entirely clear to us. He was accompanied this time by son Patrick, 23; his support crew was wife Anne and brot...

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Reunion Fougerolles!

2009-09-10T18:50:37Z

All: Our esteemed French breathren met earlier this month in Fougerolles. Via post and routed through China, we have come across some pictures showing both our brothers and -- apparently -- many wine bottles. (The photographer, we believe, are s...

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Gallia stands alone ...

2009-08-14T17:48:21Z

All: Our photography team is still catching up the treasure of pictures and old yearbooks sent to our offices by our esteemed alumni. Here is a recent photo of Gallia, the only surviving structure of our old school. Our correspondents -- among the...

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50 years ago at the Villa...

2009-08-06T23:32:39Z

Our photo desk is still going over the vast library of material released by François Marchal (see this post). We thought we'd pass along a couple more excerpts, these from the 1959-60 yearbook, a half-century ago, and the twilight period of the V...

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Old VSJ yearbooks preserved

2009-08-05T21:58:43Z

François Marchal, one of our esteemed senior alumni from the Villa's French days, has taken the trouble to scan and preserve some VSJ yearbooks from the late 1940s to 1960-61. It's a stagering amount of work that adds, significantly, to the scho...

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