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Talk about “the road less traveled by....” As an international relations major, after completing an intensive course in Japanese at Yale the summer of his sophomore year, Dr. David Feingold’s road took him during his junior year to Japan working for Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute at Tokai-mura (site of nuclear accidents in 1997 and 1999), later traveling to Vietnam, “where there was a war going on, though few people knew it,” as he puts it. He then followed the road to Cambodia and Thailand, where he began honing his craft as a photographer. After graduation he walked into Burma with ATV British filmmakers Adrian Cowell and Chris Menges and recorded the first films on the Shan rebellion in 1964. The road included pit stops at Yale for Southeast Asian studies, including Thai language, and Columbia for anthropology, after which he worked for many years with the Akha people in the highlands of Thailand, Burma, and Laos. David’s photographic portfolio expanded during many subsequent decades in Cambodia, to include photos of military action between PRK government and Khmer Rouge taken while living with the Khmer Rouge in the jungle producing a film for the BBC. In 2020 David’s road culminated in an extraordinary touring photographic exhibition, Cambodia: War and Beauty, in Siem Reap and PhnomPenh, Cambodia; Paris in 2022; and Bangkok last October. (See http://tinyurl. com/y8xn84rb.) The contrasting “Beauty” photos featured Khmer classical dancers, taken during many years. David, presently in Thailand, now invests his time in writing a book based on the exhibition, and a Luce Foundation-funded, multi-year research project examining the impact of the Mekong dams on communities in the Lower Mekong. Wah hoo wah, David.

Congratulations and best wishes for Rear Adm. Craig Dorman and Carol Biscontini, married last July 26; the happy couple now live in new digs in the town of White Stone, Virginia.

I regret to inform you of the deaths of Erwin “Dusty” H. Miller, Esq., of Worcester, Massachusetts, on December 5; Mahlon “Sandy” Apgar IV of Boston, December 12; and Sam R. Anderson of Palo Alto, California, on December 27.

—David L. Smith, 1810 Columbine Place, Sun City Center, FL; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith. com