An Aut
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Betty Halsema Foley Edited by Jim Halsema
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Table of Contents Chapter
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Prologue ........................................................................................................... 2 Beginnings ....................................................................................................... 3 The Pacific 1914-1918 ................................................................................. 11 Interlude ......................................................................................................... 17 Baguio-Early Days 1919-1927 ................................................................... .19 Interlude-Brown & White ............................................................................ 43 American Lessons 1927-1928 ..................................................................... .49 Adolescence 1928-1931 ................................................................................ 59 Hello World 1931-1932 ................................................................................. 71 Duke University 1932-1936 .......................................................................... 89 Keepsake ...................................................................................................... l 0 1 Headed Home 1936 ..................................................................................... 107 Africa 1937 ........................................ "....... ................................................. 127 BaguioAgain 1937-1938 ............................................................................ 141 A Romance Begins 1938-1939 ................................................................... 149 Rupert: First Days 1939-1940 ................................................................... .155 Eve of War 1940-1941 ................................................................................ 165 War Begins 1941 ......................................................................................... 179 Camp John Hay 1942 ..........................................:....................................... 191 Camp Holmes 1942-1944 ........................................................................... 205 Waiting for Liberation ................................................................................ 225 Bilibid Prison 1945 ..................................................................................... 23 1
Betty Halsema Fund-Raiser for Charities
1914-1997
After her death from a massive stroke in Scottsdale, Arizona on August 8, 1997, an obituary in the Los Angeles TImes recalled Betty Foley's contributions to cultural and charitable institutions in Southern California. Importing dolls made be Igorot women in northern Luzon, she was a principle fund-raiser for the Pasadena Mental Health Association. She organized the docent program at the Huntington Gardens in San Marino. She was a docent at the Gamble House in Pasadena. Before she came to California she had been an active participant in the life of Westport, Connecticut, where she raised three sons. In Scottsdale she continued active in community affairs. She never lost her love of travel. From her birth in Manila December 23, 1914 Betty lived adventurously. She recorded her first 31 years in Keepsake, an inti_mate account of growing up as part of the multicultural society of Baguio in the mountains of northern Luzon, travels around the world, study at Duke University, seeing the Spanish Civil War teaching at Brent School, crossing Europe and Asia by train, marrying metallurgist Rupert Foley, living on the remote island of Siquijor, giving birth to her first child in a Japanese prison camp. She comes across as a brave, resourceful woman, curious about everything she saw and met, able to deal with great hardship and experience life to its fullest dimensions.