January, 2009:

Dear Bob,
Thanks for your email. My big news is that I'm retiring from the World Food Programme as of March 1 and moving back to Shelter Island, NY. I have been in Indonesia for a year and a half and am winding up as WFP country director. I will miss the international life and all the challenges of working in developing countries. In over 30 years with the UN system and 4 years with Save the Children, I have been so privileged to have been able to reach out and help many people, but,, of course, never enough.

Angela.

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Subj: Re: Meeing House draft.
Date: 3/9/2003 3:26:48 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: Angela.VanRynbach@wfp.org (Angela VanRynbach)
To: RTilden@aol.com

Dear Bob,
Sorry not to have responded but if it's not too late, here's some news from Mozambique. I am in my second year as UN World Food Programme country director for Mozambique. My work is very rewarding particularly working with women, school children and families affected by AIDS. I was finally able to do some sightseeing in the region and visited Kruger National Park and Victoria Falls (higher than Niagra Falls). In Kruger I saw the "big five" animals (lions, leopards, elephants, buffaloes and rhinos). The lions were so close by we could almost touch them from the Land Rover. Nature is really fascinating in southern Africa.

PS tell Brandt that my parents still have a house on Ram Island facing Coecles Harbor.

All the best, Angela

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Dear Bob,
I am settling into life in Mozambique. It is fascinating to be living and working in Africa, a change for me. I usually come to Shelter Island every summer for a few weeks, so I miss the chance to go to any homecoming events.

All the best,
Angela

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Fall 2000
I received an E mail from Angela last fall, expressing regrets that she couldn't make the trip halfway around the world for homecoming. She was in southeast Asia, feeding the poor, as she put it. I wish she would explain a bit more about the work she has done for so many years.