Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt01027)

Pedro:

Thank you very much. So, I assume that that was 3 showers, & other
things for all those people with CWL, and 1 hour to get ready and be
at the breakfast area.

In one of the photos in "The Elder Brother", taken at that place, I
think I count about 9 boys [& young men] there with CWL.

Nine people plus CWL all getting in each other's way bathing, washing,
brushing teeth, combing and getting ready doesn't leave much time for
"hanky panky", in my opinion. I have been in crowded wash rooms before
in the Navy, and getting the job at hand done in the time allotted is
about all we could manage.

I doubt it was much different in CWL's time.

And then, I suppose that CWL and his group were not the only Males on
the property, so there were probably more males wanting to use the
available facilities for that limited time.

Thank you for the information.

Dennis

> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Kier" <dennw3k@e...>
wrote:
>
>
> > My questions as to the time line of getting up in the morning, and
the
> > availably of bathrooms versus the time alloted to get ready for
> > breakfast, and the number of males to use the facilities in the
time
> > alloted is also ignored, I see.
>
>
> Dennis:
>
> When I was working at Adyar I was invited, twice, to visit Australia
> as a speaker for the TS, and while in Sydney I stayed at The Manor.
So
> I can give you some information about male bathroom facilities
there.
>
> There is only one male bathroom area, located on the ground floor,
and
> its size is about 8 by 8 metres, with three adjacent showers. I
> understand that there was a large community of people living there
at
> that time, but I have no precise figures.
>
> Regarding morning routine, I was fortunate in my visit to Auckland
in
> 1994 to meet and talk to Mathias (Mat) van Thiel, who lived at The
> Manor and was CWL's driver during his time there. He told me they
> would get up around 6:00am, when he and others would get themselves
> ready and prepare his breakfast, for invariably at 7:00am he had to
> take CWL to Sydney to the printers as he was very meticulous and
very
> often did his own proofreading. Mat said he was very grateful for
the
> time he spent at The Manor.
>
> In Krotona, Ojai, in 1983, I met Herre and Marie Vanderveen, who
also
> had been pupils of CWL at The Manor. They showed me an incredible
> photo album of their years there, including photographs of the brand
> new car that had been bought for The Manor community. There are two
> photos of CWL next to it, looking apparently proud of the new
> acquisition. Probably that was the car in which Mat used to drive
him in.
>
>
> Pedro