Correcting the name
Re: Your article about Kojo Attah
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as a career Foreign Service officer, I
was assigned as a regional officer with responsibilities which covered over twenty countries in east and southern Africa.
Through an airline scheduling error I was routed to Salisbury, Southem Rhodesia, at the time of the civil unpleasantness. Following the negotiated peace for that country, I was fortunate to call officially upon the
newly-established government of Robert Magawbe in Harare, the renamed capital of Zimbabwe. Since then I have made several trips to that beautiful country with a still to be uncovered historic depth.
Meanwhile, my school days geography continues to plaque my mental process when I relate to Africa. I must constantly remind myself that while country boundary lines sometimes remain the same, there is no French or British Somaililand; no Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; no Tanganyika; no Rhodesia, Northern or Southern; no Nyasaland; and no Zimbobway.
H. Peters Strong 51
McLean, Va.
Great cover
Congratulations on the stunning cover photos of the Nott Memorial! An artistic triumph, to say the least. As a matter of idle curiosity, who's the crackpot with the broom on the parapet? A high altitude custodian on flight pay? Or some public-spirited academic who holds that a cluttered roof is a symbol of a cluttered mind?
Richard D. Conly 42
Gladwyne, Pa.
The intrepid soul with the broom was one of the many workers who defied gravity to restore the highest reaches of the Nott Memorial, inside and out. The sidewalk superintendents on campus enjoyed watching the action while shaking their heads and muttering, “No way would you get me up there.” When some of us did get up there, we found the view spectacular,- the photograph shows the new Morton and Helen Fulman Theater from the Nott's outside balcony.-Editor