22-24 July 2005 Reunion at Hebron KY
Doug Conner, Karen Halliday, Bob Gerzoff, Tim Cromwell, Ande West, Gary Simon, Tricia Buczek Osbourn, Chery Smith, Jeff Rocheteau [photo by Donna Conner]
[Photo by Ande]
Saturday afternoon, at the India Palace restaurant in Cincinnati, we all sat down together for a meal.  During our meal, talk drifted to the subject of good books and movies.  It was decided that everyone at the table would recommend at least one book or film to the rest of the world.  Our list follows:
Chery	Books: The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin (both by Margaret Atwood), The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad, Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, Krakatoa by Simon Winchester; Films: Osama, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
Doug	Films: Napoleon Dynamite, Monsoon Wedding
Bob	Book: A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power; Films: The Gods Must Be Crazy, Wild Swans, Crash
Tricia	Films: What The Bleep Do We Know? , Sideways
Gary	Book: (The Kite Runner) by Khaled Hosseini; Film: Hotel Rwanda
Tim	Film: Forrest Gump
Karen	Book: Jared Diamond's (Collapse)  or is it Powell's Collapse?
Ande	Film: Fried Green Tomatoes
Jeff	Books: (The Silmarillion) by Tolkien (and son), (The Dragons of Eden) by Carl Sagan
Donna	Film: The Shaw Shank Redemption
Clay	Film: Enemy at the Gates, Garden State
Kate	Books and Films: Lord of the Rings trilogy
Robert	Films: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, What about Bob?
Above: At the Conner home on Friday evening: Chery Smith, Doug & Donna Conner, Robbie Rocheteau [photo by Jeff]
Above: Inside Union Station in downtown Cincinnati [photo by Jeff] Donna Conner, Jeff & Kate Rocheteau, Karen Halliday, Carol Rocheteau, Chery Smith, Doug Conner, Bob Gerzoff, Gary Simon, Clay Conner, Ande West, Tricia Osbourn, Tim Cromwell
Above: Karen, Chery, and Gary in front of Union Station, downtown Cincinnati [photo by Jeff]
Above: Chery, Tricia, and Karen [photo by Jeff]
Doing the Egyptian- Cincinnati style [Photo by Ande]
Tim Cromwell tells Robbie what really happened in Nepal many years ago. [photo by Jeff]
Fun looking over scrapbooks. [photo by Jeff]
Chef Tim [Photo by Ande]
Late Night: Watching Doug’s Nepal slideshow after a delicious dal bhat meal. [photo by Donna]
On Saturday evening, Tim Cromwell produced a crowd pleasing Nepali evening meal.  Assisted by Ande, Tricia, Carol, and others - he evicted Donna from her kitchen and over the course of an hour or so produced a great meal. Another unexpected but thoroughly enjoyable delight was the Nepali style Chai or Chia served up in the mornings by Doug.  The wonderful taste brought back great memories. Doug and Donna also cooked  breakfast each day, which included the local specialty called "Goetta" for those who wanted to try it.  Apparently, Cincinnati has a goetta festival each year. Contact these guys if you want their recipes. Future reunion planning: - Doug and Donna have generously volunteered to host the next reunion in 2007.  All present agreed it was a great idea.  See you there?!