Jane's Special Skype from Gombe
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 4:24pm
One extraordinary change at Gombe - I am sitting in the house on the beach where Grub grew up waiting to send a skyped message to the UK in commemoration of the 50th anniversary. When I arrived there was no faxing, no emailing - certainly no Skyping! Only telegrams if you wanted to communicate fast - and from here they took at least several days to a week. Letters took two to three weeks to get the UK, even by airmail. We used to communicate with aerogrammes - a sheet of blue paper with two gummed edges so you folded them into four and stuck the two loose edges. We used to call them "blues" and very many of the letters Dale Peterson published in "Africa in My Blood" were written this way.
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Photos by Bill Wallauer
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Dear Jane Goodall at my
Dear Jane Goodall at my school we are doing a wax museum and we have to be someone that has made an significant contribution. So i decided to be you Jane Goodall. You are a very important person.
Thanks for all you do :)
P.S I'm in 5th grade and would LOVE to be able to contact you please reply soon
I am so inspired by you. I
I am so inspired by you. I would love to skype with you and my friend. We would love to contact you in anyway. We will email you as soon as possible. Thanks alot and me and my friend will be doing a project on you. Thanks allot and i hope you read this.
and Please reply back asap. THANKS! We love you Jane!
i first did a project on
i first did a project on chimpanzees in Grade 5, and ever since then they have been my favourite animal, your one of my heros in life and i've always been inspired by you and your work jane!
you are my personal hero i