Memorable Moments USA 1989-1991

Pic- Leslie with Anu in Greenwood. 

 Moving from Clemson in a U Haul which I drove. Mini-truck.

Meeting the diverse faculty in my department at Lander, and Leslie Price Bennett and her husband Bob. We really hit it off. 

Went to Yellowstone, and saw Mount Rushmore in 1990 in a trip with my parents. 

Visited Sheelu, a cousin, Jayashree, another cousin and their families in New York Staten Island, and Warren, Ohio. Prakash Kenjale in Detroit, and Kiran in L.A.

Made new friends- Athena and her family, and the Sonis, and some Gujarati families in Greenwood. Wilma Reeves from Home Science, Samrendra Singh and his wife Annie- we are still in touch.

Stopped in Europe, visited Greece for the first time and was captivated. Corfu, mentioned in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, was on the route our Ferry took from Brindisi to Patras.

While we were in Amsterdam, heard about Rajiv Gandhi's assassination from a local newspaper.

Joined Xavier Institute in Bhubaneswar, on return to India.

American Graffiti

Ron Green. He was like a pillar of support in understanding the U.S. university system, and much more. He was also a great friend, and his family had an open invitation to a few of us to go visit them anytime. Even after he had moved out of Clemson, we visited him at Johnson City, Tennessee.

Mike Stahl: My guide for the thesis. A couple of seminar courses I took with him were very useful to me in understanding the subject of strategy, and much more. I developed my thesis proposal too, during one of his courses. He was quick in his reactions, and also accepting you if you made sense.

Chuck McNichols: Taught a lot of the multivariate statistics that I still find useful, and which shaped my textbook later on, on Marketing Research.

Steve Cantrell: An easy-going statistics prof. (yes, there are some), with a Southern accent. He was also instrumental in reviving basic statistics which I had forgotten, mostly.

                                       University football stadium, with my wife and parents.

Leslie Price: A prof. At Lander, she was a great friend. Fun-loving, and sociable. We haven't met after 1991, but my wife and I are still friends with her on facebook, and know her kids through the virtual medium.

 One of our abodes at Clemson (above). A trip to New York (below).

 Las Vegas and Mount Rushmore (above).

 Boating at Table Rock Mountain. and below, a truck I drove from Clemson to Greenwood while moving to my new job.

International Colleagues

When I worked at Lander in the U.S., I had colleagues from various countries- I remember at least two- a Venezuelan and a South Korean. Of course, we had American colleagues as well. Got along with one particularly-Leslie Price, who was (is) a fun-loving person, and her husband Bob, and mom Joyce. We are still in touch virtually, though we haven't been able to meet after I left South Carolina.

This is a pic of Leslie (above) from those days.

Ron Green had been a colleague at the Clemson Ph. D., and went to teach at Johnson City in Tennessee later. We visited him regularly, and the drive was spectacular in the Fall season. He had been close for three years, and his wife Carmon and daughter Sara made us feel at home.

A lot of visiting faculty from Europe and the U.S. came for short visits when I was at IMT Ghaziabad, and here at IIM Indore too, some of them Indians working abroad. We are likely to internationalise a  bit more as we are getting accredited by global bodies.

Samren Singh was an Indian in the US who taught at Lander like me,

and we became friends with him and Annie, his Canadian wife. Still in touch virtually.