USA - SALFORD

In 1973 I and many others visited California under a scheme called "Meet the Americans" which was devised by American teachers to celebrate the Bicentennial of The Declaration of Independence. I was 'billeted' in San Diego with a delightful family called Schmauss and had a wonderful time. Some ten years later, I was working as secretary to a professor at the University of Salford; he was also a writer and one day a representative from a publishing company came to interview him. The young man was too early, and he and I chatted for a while. He then asked me if I had ever been to the States, I said 'Yes'. He asked was it in San Diego, and was it - I knew at once what was coming - with a family called Schmauss? (My name was on my door, of course.) We exchanged memories and experiences for just a few minutes, and that was it!