Special post DGE Hall--Burma: A History.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050519230755/http://mission.itu.ch/MISSIONS/Myanmar/Burma/bur_history.pdf

I just remembered, I "met" DGE Hall when I was about age 10, while my father U Kaung was Director of the Burma Historical Commission.

I sat in the back seat between Hall and my father as we went somewhere--possibly in our green Humber Hawk.

Hall probably came to see G.H.Luce.

I don't remember anything else--he must have given a talk.

I was very shy in those days--and still in 5th or 6th grade. I only remember Professor Luce vividly, as we saw him fairly often.

Also Luce had the great quality of talking to everyone as an equal.

I remember several readings at his home--The Home for Waifs and Strays. No,he wasn't a waif or a stray himself, but he could have been a rather plump, lovely Santa Claus.

I often wished he was my biological grandfather.

Mrs. Luce (Daw Tee Tee Luce) was an intrepid social worker, winner of a Magsaysay Award, who, wiki says,dressed as a boy and recruited homeless boys to stay at her home.

At their annual meeting, Luce himself who had trained the boys, helped them up and down as they formed tall pyramids.

I never met such a charming interracial couple.

Historian Luce and Economist JS Furnival were close friends and lived there together after Furnival was widowered --Mrs.Luce was often peeling carrots when we visited.

I remember everything they said to me--but won't relate them here.

Burma activist Dr.Maung Zarni once said,"What people discount is love,"

I believe they were true friends of the Burmese people.

In this pdf,p 21--pl read Luce's famous translation of Alaungsithu's Prayer.

I keep finding this prayer and losing it, and finding it again.

Most recently about 2 years ago, I found it again for the 3rd or 4th time by Googling, "Luce,Alaungsithu,sheer athwart."

Would you believe it, I found it.

I have only seen "athwart" once--in this translation.

Only one person, my Seam Reap guide, has ever said the word "smote" in my hearing.

Amazing.

No one,except maybe my aunt, has ever told me they loved me.

But I don't care. I love whomever I wish.

I love my books, other people's dogs and children, flowers, my clothes, my paintings.

I also don't care what others think.

Life is too short.

Kyi May Kaung

12-13-2025