How I learned of the MacJannet Realm: Guy Benveniste (Camp 1936, 1937, 1938; Elms)

Guy Benveniste 1938 right with his mother
on Lac d'Annecy and aunt and cousins. 

I was born in Paris into a large immigrant family that had fiercely adopted French culture and language. My mother was born in New York and my father in Salonica. My parents spoke French, my father did not know English. My mother attempted to teach me some English, I even had an English nurse for a year or so. My numerous cousins, aunts and uncles, all spoke French. I managed to speak and understand a little English. In 1936, my mother's sister moved to Paris and enrolled her two children at The Elms.

How I learned of the MacJannet realm. Margaret Mathieu (Fletcher School 1983)

The MacJannet's sponsored me as an exchange student from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston to the Graduate School of International Relations in Geneva. It was 1983, and

How I learned of the MacJannet Realm: A chance encounter at a lodge in Costa Rica and the Camp summer of 1948

By Robert Schmalz, MacJannet Camp Counselor in 1948. 
Two items which may be of interest:  At the time Donald came to Tufts, my mother was serving on the Board of Trustees.  Consequently the family had relatively frequent contact with Donald and Charlotte.  I studied French at

How I learned of the MacJannet Realm: Jerri Husch meeting Charlotte MacJannet

Jerri Husch - tea with Charlotte MacJannet

I met Mrs. MacJannet when I was a professor of Sociology at Tufts and taught "International Drug Policy" at Talloires. I would walk up to her cottage and we would talk about the power of nature and the healing plants