Out of Place: A Memoir (51 page)

A 1951 report card from Victoria College stating “excellent knowledge and command of English,” signed by Mr. Griffiths, the headmaster who expelled me for two weeks in February of that year

In front of Howard Johnson’s in Jamaica, New York, March 1951

With my father at graduation from Mount Hermon, June 1953

On the post-graduation trip in New England, with my father and cousins Charlie (far left) and Abie (far right), my father’s nephews with whom I stayed in Jackson Heights during several Christmases

A family portrait for my parents’ twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Cairo, December 1957. Front row: Joyce, Hilda, Wadie, and Grace; back row: me, Rosy, and Jean

At the keyboard accompanying Afif Bulos at a song recital in Paine Hall, Harvard, 1959

A summer during graduate school at Harvard: at the Acropolis, Athens, 1960

A 1980 view of the summer house rented from 1946 to 1969 in Dhour el Schweir. The rocket hole made during the Lebanese Civil War went through the master bedroom.