Showing posts with label Aruba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aruba. Show all posts

Sunday, April 14, 2024

All About Aruba

Aruba Tourist Bureau, All About Aruba, (Brochure), February, 1964.

Available online.

Monday, January 15, 2024

German U-Boat 156 Brought War to Aruba February 16, 1942

Hochstuhl, William C., German U-Boat 156 Brought War to Aruba February 16, 1942, Aruba: Lago Oil & Transport Company, n.d. (photostatic copy)

Extracts from wife’s obituary:
Bill and Eileen lived in Aruba from 1951 to 1964. Bill was one of the first persons to receive the Aruba Goodwill Ambassador Award (in 1964), not for visiting Aruba frequently, but in recognition of his good deeds for the youth of Aruba. (…) …her husband, and onetime cadet, served as a US Navy pilot in Greenland during the latter years of World War II.

Saturday, May 5, 2018

The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba: A Research Guide


Koulen, Ingrid & Gert Oostindie, The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba: a research guide, Dordrecht, Holland; Providence, U.S.A.: Foris Publications, 1987.

From the cover:
This book, large parts of which were published in Dutch in 1984 by a joint Antillean-Dutch group of scholars, aims to survey and stimulate relevant social science research on the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. It consists of four chapters. The first two provide an introduction to the islands and to the actual state of research and research centres. The heart of the book is the third chapter, an extensive bibliographical essay. In the last chapter, some recommendations for future research are formulated. An extensive bibliography of some 550 entries and a list of relevant research centres complete the book.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Proceedings of the First Aruban and Antillean Congress on Alcoholism


Wever, O.R., et. al. Proceedings of the First Aruban and Antillean Congress on Alcoholism, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles: September 11-13, 1970.

From the Foreword:
The First Aruban and Antillean Congress on Alcoholism was organized at the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Aruba’s chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous, in an attempt to break down many of the existing prejudices concerning alcoholism as a disease and alcoholics as sick patients, - in short to try to establish more acceptance of the disease concept of alcoholism and also to bring opinions of some highly qualified scientists in this field in order to obtain up-to-date guidelines for therapeutic and preventive purposes for Aruba’s mental health problem no. 1.