(5/22/2000 )
Home address --- 6969 N. Donatello Way Tucson, AZ 85741-2513
E-Mail Address --- AzKofa@aol.com Click here to eMail Fred! Click to see Fred's Motorcycle
Phone No. --- 520-797-0094
FAX No. --- 520-797-0662
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| The lady holding the ribbon on the left was the judge for the day. The lady on the right with the trophy is my wife Betty. The dog is our Champion Mandi and this was a really big win at Nationals a couple years ago. She beat out about 250 other bitches. We were THRILLED. I guess that should explain who the guy in the middle is. |
We moved to Caracas sometime between 1942 and 1944. My father had been hired by the Venezuelan Government to set up a program to help settle the many immigrants from central and southern Europe who had been displaced by WWII. I lived there off and on until I graduated from Colegio Americano in 1957. I have returned several times to visit since then. My parents stayed until about 1961 when they moved to Costa Rica.
During our years there we lived all over the city, in Alta Mira, Las Mercedes, Bello Monte, even on the grounds of the Caracas Country Club. My father was one of the founding members of the El Junko Country Club and we lived up there for a while. I attended several Local Venezuelan schools, Campo Alegre and even the British school one year. I think that I got kicked out of that one, it was awful!!
School years to me, are sort of confusing, as I was often sent back to the States for part of a year, or sometimes more than a year, depending on the political situation in Venezuela and around my home.
I never had an opportunity to summer in Caracas as my mother always took us up to the States sometime in May and we usually didn't return until early October.
After graduation in 1957, my motorcycle and I weathered a rather disasterous year in a small conservative midwestern college and then joined the Army. While in , I was stationed for a time in Arizona and learned to love the place. So, after discharge and goofing off for a year, I returned to Tucson and eventually graduated from The Univ. of Arizona and spent most of my working years as a Police Officer in various departments and positions.
I still have English Bulldogs and we travel all over the States, Mexico and Canada showing ours and helping others in the breed. I am now a professional dog show photographer.
I have always considered myself as being a Caraqueno. I don't really remember any other place that I called home. The possibility of setting up a virtual reunion like this has been a dream of mine for years. This is the reason I first registered on Classmates. com shortly after it was organized. I hoped that others felt the same way and maybe we could get something started, well I guess we did!!!
FRED