Missing People column is launched
18 February 2008
I’ve found that one of the frequent uses – and, as it turns out, benefits – of The Mail newsletter and this internet cousin ASOPA PEOPLE – have been their role in reuniting lost people, finding lost objects and, from time to time, shedding light on lost causes.
So now I’ve decided to establish a permanent MISSING PEOPLE column in ASOPA People Extra [see left] and you're more than welcome to use this facility either as a searcher or a finder or a voyeur of who can be lost and whether or not they can be found.
Why don’t you visit the column occasionally, just on spec.
When I was based in the Gulf District (1972) with Radio Kerema, "Voice of the Seagull" (a misleading title, I felt, as I never actually saw a seagull out there), I shared a two-man donga with an Irish school teacher. His first name was Fred...but his surname has disappeared from my memory and into the mists of time. He was a big shot in the local Kerema High School, probably even Head Teacher, and I guess he would have done his training at ASOPA. Anyone know of him or where he ended up?
Posted by: Martin Hadlow | 07 March 2008 at 04:37 PM
Just like Geoff [see Missing People], I too have often wondered about James Tarr. I knew him when he was headmaster (head teacher?) at Pari T School, very accessible to urban Moresby albeit by a slightly dodgy road.
I'd heard he returned to Melbourne - he was a Victorian, after all - but whether by design or on purpose Jim's been conspicuously absent for a long while. It will be interesting to see whether the Hancock appeal on ASOPA PEOPLE brings about a response.
Posted by: Richard E Jones | 22 February 2008 at 05:40 PM