20-01-2011, 09:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-01-2011, 10:17 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Thanks. Note how they also 'just happen to drop into' the cable a mention [oh, so delicately - well they are, after all, diplomats (sic)] that:
My parents volunteered many months [at their own expense] at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschappelle, Haiti. And they always came and left via 'the' hotel all foreigners were obliged to stay. [The BBC just did a story on this hotel]. When they were there it was run by a CIA man playing the role of Mr. Faulty. The Hospital at which they worked is still there and still going strong. It is amazing for many reasons...I had explained all this on the EF...but it, along with all else I placed there is now in hyperspace. It was built entirely with the money of the ONLY Mellon family 'black-sheep', Larry Mellon and his wife Gwen. Hats off to him. He took his fortune, used a tiny bit to train as a physician then used every last drop of the rest to buy the land and build the hospital! The family hates him, for setting such a 'bad example'. :mexican: Every patient is treated free of charge...most walk days on dirt tracks to get there. There is but one rough dirt and rock trail there for jeeps only and none of the locals have cars. It is now self-sustaining on grants and ALL the physicians from all over the world [every one!!!!] volunteer their time, get NO pay, and have to pay their own way there and back!...only the local nursing staff and cleaners, etc. who are Hatian get paid. Both Larry and Gwen died in the last few years. My parents thought the world of both of them. That's how my parents spent part of their retirement....and Larry Mellen spent his entire adult life; coming back to Pittsburgh once every year for only a few days - to do fund-raisers for his hospital.
The CIA's hotel survived the quake.....
Quote: "agreed that Duvalier's (and Aristide's) presence could be unhelpful(my emphasis - they make them sound like to peas in a pod - they couldn't be more opposite to one another in philosophy and deeds!) The only commonality would be 'unhelpful' to the USA's and France's current plans for misdeeds.....more misdeeds....centuries of them.......never have any People suffered as much as the Haitians.
My parents volunteered many months [at their own expense] at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschappelle, Haiti. And they always came and left via 'the' hotel all foreigners were obliged to stay. [The BBC just did a story on this hotel]. When they were there it was run by a CIA man playing the role of Mr. Faulty. The Hospital at which they worked is still there and still going strong. It is amazing for many reasons...I had explained all this on the EF...but it, along with all else I placed there is now in hyperspace. It was built entirely with the money of the ONLY Mellon family 'black-sheep', Larry Mellon and his wife Gwen. Hats off to him. He took his fortune, used a tiny bit to train as a physician then used every last drop of the rest to buy the land and build the hospital! The family hates him, for setting such a 'bad example'. :mexican: Every patient is treated free of charge...most walk days on dirt tracks to get there. There is but one rough dirt and rock trail there for jeeps only and none of the locals have cars. It is now self-sustaining on grants and ALL the physicians from all over the world [every one!!!!] volunteer their time, get NO pay, and have to pay their own way there and back!...only the local nursing staff and cleaners, etc. who are Hatian get paid. Both Larry and Gwen died in the last few years. My parents thought the world of both of them. That's how my parents spent part of their retirement....and Larry Mellen spent his entire adult life; coming back to Pittsburgh once every year for only a few days - to do fund-raisers for his hospital.
Quote:In 1947, Larry and Gwen Mellon were living in Arizona, operating a large cattle ranch with their blended family of four children. Inspired by an article in Life Magazine about Dr. Albert Schweitzer's humanitarian work in Africa and ethic of "Reverence for Life," they started a correspondence with Dr. Schweitzer which endured until his death in 1969. The immediate impact of their communication was a decision by the Mellons to follow in Dr. Schweitzer's footsteps and establish a hospital to care for those in need.
Larry Mellon had to complete his medical studies. He applied to Tulane University, which was, at that time, known for Tropical Medicine. Despite his age (37), Larry was accepted and the family moved to New Orleans.
During the summer of 1949, Larry and Gwen met Dr. and Mrs. Schweitzer at the Schweitzers' "home away from home" in Gunsbach, Alsace. They had a plan, they had a mentor, but they did not yet know where they would build their hospital.
While still in medical school in 1951, Larry met a Haitian physician, Dr. Adrien, who was visiting New Orleans. With his encouragement, Larry took the family to Haiti for the summer where he gathered material for his senior thesis in tropical yaws. It was then that they realized that Haiti, the abandoned Standard Fruit Banana plantation in the heart of the Artibonite River Valley, with existing homes and enough land to build a hospital, would be the perfect setting for their life's work.
Gwen oversaw the planning and construction of the hospital while Larry completed his medical studies, and on June 26, 1956, the doors to the hospital were opened. With Dr. Schweitzer's permission they named the hospital Hôpital Albert Schweitzer. At the entrance to the hospital, the words were inscribed, Reverence Pour la Vie (Reverence for Life), the philosophical foundation for Schweitzer's thoughts and actions. This precept guided Dr. and Mrs. Mellon as they worked together to support the needs of the people of the Artibonite Valley. Larry died in 1989, and Gwen guided the hospital with wisdom and grace until her death in 2000.
The CIA's hotel survived the quake.....
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass