Sunday, November 20, 2016
I am very sad to have learned that Dorothy has passed away. I remember how much I enjoyed working with her at the exchange program we initiated between Lycée Jules Ferry in Paris and Watchung hills which lasted many years and which she went on chaperoning much after retiring. From professional, our relationship turned quickly to friendship due to her open-mindedness, her simplicity, her stimulating and self-possessed personality, and her sens of humour. She was opened to different cultures, asian as well as european and native american, had a deep knowledge of french culture. Each stay at her place was a great opportunity to exchange our views on what took place in France, in the US and in the world in general. I also loved her adventurous mind. When she retired she decided she would accept all kind of offers that were made to her. And that's how, on visiting us in Ardèche, France, she accepted to go along with us, my husband and I, who were much younger than she, on a hiking trip in the nearby mountains. On the way, though it was difficult, she didn't give up. I kept that in mind and decided to take the same resolution when I retired !
These last years as she became weaker, we couldn't get in touch any longer, but I kept thinking of her and missed her relationship.
My deepest sympathies to all her family.
Malou Combes
