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SOME RECENT CONTACTS WE MAY NOT HAVE MENTIONED
– Colonel Martindale, head of the Peoples Militia, he talked quite friendly to me and Karen [Layton] at the Mashramani Parade for quite a while/was going to try to come to our party but didn’t make it/has been to our project with [Guyana economic development regional director Gregory] Gaskin, very favorable/says he has a friend that makes water wheels to make power and he’d find out if the man would be interested in giving us a sketch
Margaret Ackman: Parliamentary Govt Chief Whip/ very friendly when we invited her for a dinner along with Evonne Wiltshire a supervisor that works with her
Lucille Wright – Acting Deputy Mayor of Georgetown/we met her at Father Ben Parrott’s Catholic Church where Marcie spoke
Father Parrott came to our party, he was very curious about us but a slight bit threatened about where J’s membership came from/wondered how I particularly related to J’s church when I was originally an atheist (I told him that JJ didn’t take people from other churches, mostly have people coming who had attended no church before and needed a very practically serving, humanitarian religion/he was both fascinated and a bit jealous, I think though he was polite.
Ron Robinson, he’s at Radio Demarara/he did all the MC’s for the Prime Minister’s birthday celebration/ he mc’d the flag raising ceremony where the PM was present and MC’d the Mashramani float parade/he said he heard great things about us, want to come/he’s director of Christian Stewardship of the Anglican Diocese/he gave us his home phone number and said he was sorry he missed our party
Jennefer [Jennifer] Small, Radio Antilles, very friendly, said she met me before at [4 Minister Fred] Wills’ house/seemed to be very happy at our party, the other woman with her said she never had a better time – seemed very much at home, very uncritical/really enjoyed our robot soul dancers (Davis Solomon [likely Dorrus Soloman] and Jerry did a demonstration)
(I must say that for such short notice our party was rather fantastic/it was like a discotheque, not a lot of dancing tho we had some, but after Diane [Wilkerson] got up to sing, we had a dance demonstration by the Cuban Choreographer (who teaches for the govt Dance school in Guyana – his original number four performed at the PM’s flag raising ceremony – a dance called Revolution that was very powerful, and he danced at the PM’s birthday celebration/he wants to come back and dance for us again, wants to see our project and wants to give suggestions for our children’s dance program/a student of us got up and danced/we had a guitarist who accompanied them and he also accompanied Diane – he was an ass and was religious, but he was black and friendly as well/the only problem was that he brought in Jesus Christ but the Cuban didn’t seem to notice thank goodness. We also had a young Guyanese man who was with the woman from Radio Antilles and he got up and sang too. The slides went over very well and there was spontaneous interest and questions. The Judge asked us about the project, what we’re growing and how our day goes there/but he was very fascinated with the San Francisco and asked Marcie and me all about SF, the shopping there, the wonderful sightseeing. Glenda Polite said he flirted with her and asked her out
– we had the PM’s 3 guards (one of them might have been a driver and they stayed quite late)
– Reds Perreira came late and talk to Karen
– Carl Backmon was there, he said something about having had to call us before unfortunately about bad press/his daughter have Bobby the 3rd degree lately when she went by his house. She’s a nurse and knew him and asked him if PT people could marry outside of the group/he said yes and she said, “Well then marry me.” (I think her father had set her up to put him on the spot, I think he just laughed)
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Harry Harewood of Radio Demarara was there/he appeared to be very friendly and interested in the slides but he came with Carl Blackmon (we hadn’t invited him)