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Dhahran District Residential Services

Contributor: Saudi Aramco
Released 27 February 2007

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  • Superintendent of Dhahran Residential Services
    Photo By: September 7, 1955 Sun and Flare

    Superintendent of Dhahran Residential Services

    Ray Mestrezat, superintendent of Dhahran Residential Services, takes the phone offered by Louise Ryke while discussing business correspondence with Mario Gervasi. The hometowns are Connellsville, Pa., for Mestrezat, Buffalo, N.Y., for Miss Ryke and Rome, Italy, for Gervasi.

  • Smiling by Division Sign
    Photo By: September 7, 1955 Sun and Flare

    Smiling by Division Sign

    Smiling by division sign from left to right are Juanita Gebhart, Senior Staff housing assignment clerk from Culver City, Calif., New Yorker Janet Johnstone who also works in housing, and from Los Angeles, Mrs. W.A. Warmington of the landscape, gardening, sanitation and building services section.

  • 1954 Football Conference Trophy
    Photo By: September 7, 1955 Sun and Flare

    1954 Football Conference Trophy

    Howard Sutherland (left) I & G recreation leader from Indianapolis, listens to Al Duff's account of the struggle behind the 1954 Football conference trophy he holds. The trophy was won at the fifth annual Waajid Bowl game and marked the second straight win for the Dhahran Bears. As Senior Staff recreation leader, Duff, who came from Haven Beach, N.J., well remembers the toil that accompanied the occasion.

  • Thursday Morning Showing
    Photo By: September 7, 1955 Sun and Flare

    Thursday Morning Showing

    "Everything is all set," Hamad ibn Abdullah, projector operator, assures Scott Buckley before the Thursday morning showing. Originally from California, Buckley has been in Saudi Arabia 11 years.

  • Bougainvillaea Bouquet
    Photo By: September 7, 1955 Sun and Flare

    Bougainvillaea Bouquet

    Tom Davenport (center) supervisor of landscape, gardening, sanitation and building services, and Harry Mehlmann proudly receive bougainvillaea bouquet from Mahdhi ibn Ali, headman at the 20 acre Imhoff garden. The palms in the background are Westonian by name - crossword puzzle fans please note - and will be planted along King's Road. Both Davenport and Mehlmann are Easterners, the former from New York and the latter from Glen Rock, N.J.

  • Empty Mailbox
    Photo By: September 7, 1955 Sun and Flare

    Empty Mailbox

    "What? Empty" Asks surprised A.J. Mustafa when George Jefferson, supervisor of Senior Staff Housing and Personal Services, reaches for his mail. It is consoling for the rest of us, though, to know that even the supervisor doesn't always find a full box.

  • Looking at Plans for Sites of New Units
    Photo By: September 7, 1955 Sun and Flare

    Looking at Plans for Sites of New Units

    From one of the heights on Jebel Dhahran, Bill Mac Kay, Dan Iafelice and John Forbes of I & G Housing look over plans of the area for sites of new units. Mac Kay left September 4 for his home in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Iafelice's hometown is further inland - Cleveland - and Forbes came to Saudi Arabia from a West Coast home in Oakland, Calif.

  • Crew from Hamilton House
    Photo By: September 7, 1955 Sun and Flare

    Crew from Hamilton House

    Surrounded by his crew from Hamilton House and the other guest houses in the district is Frank Thomas, supervisor of Dhahran guest facilities. Originally from Aspen, Colorado, Thomas is now in his eighth year in Saudi Arabia.

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