Dr. Louis A Picard

February
Met Lene Gaemelke.

March
Needed to leave Scandinavia to get a Work Permit to stay in Denmark. Trip through East Germany by rail, through East Berlin to the Danish Military Mission in West Berlin.

Heard a song “Obladi-Oblada” which became my image of night life in Copenhagen.

April
End of first three month training program. Took the train alone through Germany to Munich via. Frankfurt, Nuremberg, and Heidelberg. Looking for images of war.

June
Trip through Sweden to Norway with Per and Lene Larsen


Not Ready to Go Home: June 1969-December 1970

Arrived back in Saginaw after close to four years away (less one visit, Christmas of 19670.

Madison, Wisconsin, August, 1969-May 1970

Completed two years of Graduate School at the University of Wisconsin. Decided not to stay. Declined a Ford Fellowship in order to return to Denmark.


June 1970-January 1971

                         

Tanzania, January 1971- June 72

June 1971

Danish Volunteers in Zambia and Zambia Area Studies

(An excerpt from a 1971 trip report). In reading this in 2012 it is more than a bit shallow and sterile).

This is a report on a four week study tour of Zambia undertaken on behalf of the Danish Volunteer Service and sponsored by the Danish International Development Agency by Louis A. Picard, instructor at Danish Volunteer Training Centre, Tengeru, Tanzania.