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THEN...

... 1959 B'nei Kochav group  meeting, Sydney

...NEITHER NOW NOR THEN...

but in between (it's the  way I still picture myself)

Alf van der Poorten (once "Alfie", but no  more,

please!)

Joy (since 1972)

The late Dr David van der Poorten, and Marianne

 van der Poorten; yes, she's still going strong and is

 about to celebrate her 90th; that will be after she's

 been (with my sister, Rose Fekete) toa WIZO

 conference in Israel at the end of the year

Kate (1976) HR work, Manpower Inc; David (1978),

 medico about to become gastro-enterologist. (Joy

 and I have managed to marry both of them off, but

 grandchildren are likely to be some years away.)

Mathematician (now Emeritus Professor, but busier

 than ever, mostly with short term overseas

 research work). I turned out to be fairly good at

 doing sums. I was President of the Australian

 Mathematical Society 1996- 98, was awarded an

 honorary doctorate at Bordeaux in 1998, and

 received the Gy. Szekeres Medal of the AustMS for

career contribution in 2002; my book "Notes on

 Fermat's Last Theorem" was awarded the

 Association of American Publishers

 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award, 1996, for

 Excellence in Mathematics. Currently (1998--2006) I

am a member of the International Mathematical

 Union's Committee on Electronic Information and

 Communication.

BSc PhD [Maths] BA [Philosophy] MBA (UNSW)

1957--1963 (Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'aretzr,

with Clive Kessler, 1960). Natziv ; Mefaked Machoz

 Sydney; Mefaked Machane (several). First camp,

 Berowra 1957--58; after that pretty well every camp

 anywhere in Australia until I left Betar in mid 1963

Almost anyone mentioned on the CD; somehow I

 got to know just about all the oldies that had gone

 before and of course pretty well everyone of my

 time.

No one, really. But Danny Rosing gets in touch with

 my mother whenever he's in Sydney; and I spent an

 afternoon with Shimshon Feder when he was in

 Sydney not all that long ago. And then there's

 George Berkovits whose son Danny is going out

 with my niece Anita (my sister Rose's third

 daughter), and ...