We traveled to Switzerland towards the end of May. In previous years, once there, we always had

to buy a sweater or something else to keep us warm. So this time I was going to pack accordingly!

And then we spent the first part of our vacation sweating - and sweating some more. No air-con-

dition to keep us cool. There went my intelligent suitcase packing and planning!

When you haven’t been to Switzerland for a while, you notice things that change. This time it was

the coffee machines. Everybody we visited had one of those fancy machines where you insert a

capsule or a disk and the machine makes an espresso, a latte or a decaf. Before that, many years

ago, it started with everybody having a humidifier. Then came the machines where you insert a

capsule and your water turned into fizzy water. Last time it was the ironing. Each housewife looked

like a professional drycleaner! But one thing still hasn’t changed: Swiss have not yet learned how to stand in line!!!

On another note: In Swiss Review # 1/09 we welcomed the readers from Bermuda. Well, the short article certainly hit its mark. Just check out the

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Swiss Review 4/09

Deadline USASeptember 3, 2009

Approx. Arrival USAMiddle of November 2009

Dear Readers in the United States

WAL BAUR, EDITOR, REGIONAL NEWS USA

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BermudaLettersDear Mrs. Baur,I really got a chuckle out of the“Where is Bermuda?” article! In1953 I asked the same question.I was working in St. Moritz whena position became available inBermuda. I accepted it andstayed there from 1954 to 1956.There were 4 large hotels andquite a few guesthouses. It was,and probably still is, a colorfullittle island full of colonial tradi-tions.Bermuda’s agriculture wasthriving with bananas, straw-berries, onions, potatoes, wa-termelons and more. One of thecharacteristics of Bermuda isthe whitewashed roof. The rea-son: rainwater. There is a per-petual shortage of good water.Well-water is salty. Rainwaterruns off the roofs and is col-lected in holding tanks that arepartially underground, next tothe house. The speed limit was25 mph. There were no cars forthe public, only mopeds and mo-torcycles and driving on the left.

No two-piece bathing suits foryoung ladies and no short shortsin town, or you were asking for aticket! Segregation was as badas it used to be here in theSouthern States.I really enjoyed the weatherwith the warm ocean, but notthe high humidity in the sum-mer months with temperaturesin the 90’s. In winter it droppeddown to 60o F or 65o F Brrr! Allin all it was a good life until oneday the island was getting toosmall for me. So, Good-Bye

Bermuda!

Such was life in the early 50’s.FRITZ SCHLATTER,

NOW LIVING IN SHORELINE, WA

Hello Mrs. Baur,I’m writing in responds to yourarticle in the Swiss Review. Icome from Wohlen, Aargau, andbefore I came to Bermuda Ididn’t know anything about theisland. I actually had to look itup on a map to see where it was.My first impression of Bermuda

was how beautiful it was, thecolor of the water, how clean itwas, and the many colorfulhouses. Also the friendliness ofthe people here, locals and ex-pats mixed in with a general airof relaxation about the Island. Ithink the hardest thing I had toget used to when moving to Ber-muda was the pace of life here. Iwas used to going 100 miles perhour all the time. Here, life ismore relaxed and a little slower.The best thing about Bermuda(apart from it’s stunning scen-ery) is the attitude of the peoplewho live here. They are friendlyand helpful whenever possible.As you mentioned we have about200 Swiss living here and wehave about 50 in our SuisseClub. We started the club 5 yearsago with the main events beingthe 1st of August and 6th of De-cember. We also will be part ofthis year’s 400th anniversary ofBermuda in May. We will have anopportunity to showcase theclub and share the beauty ofSwitzerland with the Bermudi-ans. More info about the club at:www.clubsuisse.bm/Thank you for all your work.

DONALD DUERR

SANDYS, BERMUDA

INFO@CLUBSUISSE.BM

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ColoradoNewHonorary ConsulTaking leave from HonoraryConsul Emeritus Walter Wyss andintroducing Honorary ConsulKonrad Steffen on the occasionof the launching of theThinkSwiss Climate TrailExhibition in Boulder/Coloradoon June 26, 2009

Professor Dr. Walter Wyss, after22 years of service as Switzer-land’s Honorary Consul in Colo-rado, reached the mandatory re-tirement age at the end of 2008.He solved many a consular prob-lem on behalf of our home coun-try, opened doors and held the

Swiss flag high whenever neces-sary. Dr. Wyss studied Physicsand Mathematics at the re-nowned ETH in Zurich. He thenmoved on to Princeton Univer-sity and later to the University ofColorado where he taught Math-ematics and Physics for almost40 years until 2006. He wellearned his retirement both as aProfessor Emeritus and as a Con-sul Emeritus after an impressivecareer. I wish to thank him andhis lovely wife Yvonne warmlyfor relentlessly and successfully

defending Swiss interests duringall these years.It was not easy to find a succes-sor, not because there was a lackof very capable candidates –quite the contrary! The choicewas difficult. The procedure tooktime as many authorities wereinvolved. We all know how fastand how much the world haschanged. To appoint a well-con-nected personality, who will beinstrumental to open economic,political and scientific doors forour Ambassador and ConsulsGeneral visiting Colorado, was anecessity. Our Honorary Consulis also called upon to be a linkwith the numerous and so highly

appreciated Swissnationals living inColorado. The field ofaction of a modernand initiative Honor-ary Consul is there-fore extensive andmore varied thanever. Professor Dr.Konrad Steffen, aSwiss national, corre-

sponds ideally to these futureoriented demands. Having beeninvolved early in his career withthe Cooperative Institute for Re-search in Environmental Sci-ences, CIRES, at the Universityof Colorado in Boulder, Dr. Stef-fen became its Director in 2005.He received his degrees fromETH Zurich where he also was alecturer before he moved on as avisiting Professor to McGill Uni-versity in Montreal and subse-quently to CIRES in Boulder. Hestudies the climate and cryo-

sphere interaction inpolar and alpine re-gions. For many sum-mers, Dr. Steffen andhis team of scientistshave worked on theGreenland ice sheetand found alarmingresults such as therapid increase in meltarea and mass loss.Author of numerouspublications, hisresearch has been studied by in-ternational scientists, expertsand governmental officials andis being featured on TV, radioand in many scientific and popu-lar magazines, including inSwitzerland. Konrad Steffen andhis charming wife Regula havetwo children, daughter Anico,21 and son Simon, 19.Where else but under the aus-pices of CIRES and Konrad Stef-fen could we have betterpresented the ThinkSwissClimate Trail Exhibi-tion, produced underthe auspices of theSwiss Confederation(www.thinkswiss.org)?Global warming isone of the mostpressing environ-mental challengesthat we face today.The ThinkSwissClimate Trail has be-come a road show in the U.S.travelling to numerous citiesfrom the East Coast to the WestCoast and explains the causes ofglobal warming as well as its im-pact on our planet.The launching of the Exhibitcombined with the introductionof the new Honorary ConsulKonrad Steffen on June 26 at

the beautiful North Club Roomof the University’s Stadium at-tracted almost 100 Americanand Swiss guests who showed akeen interest in the ThinkSwissClimate Trail. I hope that thesenew ways of Swiss-American co-operation will benefit Swiss uni-versities, foster our bilateralSwiss-US relationship and en-courage the viewer to learnmore about Swiss research ex-cellence.Once again, I warmly thank

Honorary Consul Emeritus Wal-ter Wyss and his wife Yvonneand wish the best of luck andsuccess to our new HonoraryConsul Konrad Steffen (denver@honorarvertretung.ch) andhis wife Regula!

BRIGITTA SCHOCH DETTWEILER

CONSUL GENERAL OF SWITZERLAND

LOS ANGELES

Retiring Honorary Consul Professor Dr. Walter Wyssand his wife Yvonne

New Honorary Consul Professor Dr. Konrad Steffenand his wife Regula

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Washington D.C.Celebrate Bike-to-WorkWeek with SwitzerlandBuilding a Bicycle-FriendlyWorld

As a completely emission-freeform of transportation, bicyclingis one of the simplest ways to re-duce our carbon footprint andmake our communities more liv-able. Yet, to make bicycling fea-sible requires specific infrastruc-

ture, financing, and acommitment of political andpublic will. On May 13, 2009,Swiss and American expertsfrom government and the pri-vate sector met to hold an ex-pert forum on strategies formaking our cities and nationsmore bicycle friendly.Over 120 people attended tohear presentations by Elmar Led-ergerber, Former Mayor ofZurich, Switzerland; Tommy

Wells, Councilmem-ber, Washington,D.C.; Michelle Kranz,Manager, Media Rela-tions, SwitzerlandTourism; and ThomasGotschi, Ph.D., Direc-tor of Research,Rails-To-Trails Con-servancy. The eventwas moderated byMichael Jackson, Di-rector of Bicycle andPedestrian Access,Maryland Depart-ment of Transporta-tion. Congressman

Earl Blumenauer, (D,OR), founder of thebipartisan Congres-sional Bicycle Caucusalso attended theevent and gave a talkat the reception onthe importance of bi-cycle transportation.Two days later, onMay 15, Bike-To-WorkDay, Switzerland was downtownearly on Freedom Plaza in Wash-ington, D.C. to greet the morethan 1,000 people who biked towork that day and to offer themchocolate and encouragementabout biking, Swiss style. At9:30 a.m. Mayor Fenty arrived toreceive Switzerland`s gift of 10artistic bike racks to the city.The racks, painted in whimsicalSwiss themes by Swiss-Americanartist Annina Luck, were placedat 5 locations around D.C. forthe use of residents and visitors.“The racks “symbolize the coop-eration between our communi-ties in finding solutions to theenvironmental challenges thatface us,” said Swiss Ambassador

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Washington D.C. Receives Artistic Bike Racks from Swit-zerland. From left to right: Vincent Gray, Chairman D.C.Council; Elmar Ledergerber, Former Mayor, Zurich;Annina Luck, Swiss-American artist; Adrian Fenty,Mayor District of Columbia; Urs Ziswiler, Swiss Ambas-sador to the United States; Jim Graham, Councilmem-ber, Washington, D.C.; Gabe Klein, Director, D.C. Dept.of Transportation; Scott Kratz, Vice-President for Edu-cation, National Building Museum; George Hawkins, Di-rector, District Dept. of the Environment

The merrily decorated bicycle racks

Urs Ziswiler. Washington D.C.Councilman Tommy Wells ex-pressed the city’s gratitude forthe racks and said “Without fea-sible bike parking, none of ourwork building bicycle laneswould be fruitful.”These events are part of Switzer-land’s U.S.-based program,ThinkSwiss—Brainstorm the Fu-ture. As a leading country in sci-ence, research and technology,Switzerland is working with itsAmerican counterparts to ad-dress key global topics like pub-lic transportation, to better un-derstand trends and arrive atsolutions. For more informationabout other events, please visitwww.thinkswiss.org.

Search for heirsIn an estate matter filed with the Court inVallemaggia, the Swiss authorities are lookingfor information about the following person: Alberto Giacomo Filippo Morganti, bornFebruary 10, 1888, from Cevio, son of Filippo and Rachele Caterina née Calanchini.He probably died in Modesto (California) on February 24, 1920. This person, resp. hisdescendents, or anyone who can give information about them, is herewith requestedto contact the undersigned office by August 30, 2009.

Il Pretore del Distretto di Vallemaggiaavv. Siro Quadri, 6675 Cevio, Switzerland

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MichiganAmbassador ZiswilerBrings Swiss Spirit ofInnovation to America’sManufacturingHeartlandUrs Ziswiler, the Swiss Ambassa-dor to the United States, was thefeatured guest at business pre-sentations and tours of compa-nies in southeastern Michigan

during a recent, three-day visitto America’s manufacturingheartland.At the University of Michigan inAnn Arbor, Ziswiler helped inau-gurate a touring exhibit -- “Sus-tainable Transportation” –which was created as part of the

ThinkSwiss program by the sci-ence section of the Embassy ofSwitzerland in Washington, D.C.Also featured was a panel dis-cussion entitled “Public Trans-portation - Lessons Learned inSwitzerland.” Dr. Peter Sweat-man, director and research sci-entist for that University ofMichigan Transportation Re-search Institute, served as mod-erator. Among the panelistswere Kurt Streudle, director ofthe Michigan Department ofTransportation, and Ann ArborMayor John Hieftje. Dr. ThomasZurbuchen, a Swiss native anddirector of the Center for Entre-preneurship and professor ofSpace Science and AerospaceEngineering, hosted the exhibitand panel discussion at the uni-versity’s Aerospace Building,which is named after François-Xavier Bagnoud, a Swiss heli-copter pilot specialized in rescueoperations.At the SwissBizUSA meeting,the Ambassador was honored,and joined an informal discus-sion focusing on Swiss-U.S.

business, educationand cultural links. Par-ticipants included KarlPfister, honorary con-sul of Switzerland, De-troit; event host DanDenison of the Inter-national Institute forManagement Develop-ment (IMD) in Laus-anne; and Ron Pruetteof UBS Financial Services - Pen-insula Wealth ManagementGroup (Bloomfield Hills, Michi-gan). The meeting was held atthe Ann Arbor-based headquar-ters of Denison Consulting.The SwissBizUSA group was cre-ated in 2006 by James Macsay, aSwiss-American expert in lead-ership, relationship-buildingand communication.On March 12, Pfister led visits toa number of Swiss-owned busi-nesses in the region, includingcement producer Holcim(Dundee, Michigan) and Lieb-herr Company (Saline, Michi-gan), a producer of machine toolautomation and aircraft compo-nents. Liebherr Saline is a sub-

sidiary of Liebherr InternationalAG, Bulle, Switzerland.The Ambassador - and others inthe delegation --also visitedABB of Auburn Hills, a subsid-iary of ABB Baden. Focal pointsincluded the company’s roboticapplications and world-classcustomer training programs. Ameeting with Swiss born BobLutz, vice chairman of GeneralMotors at the General Motors De-sign Center in Warren, Michigancapped off the tour. GM’s VOLTelectric car, scheduled for a2010 market debut, took centerstage, in addition to discussionsabout challenges facing Ameri-ca’s car industry.

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Ambassador Ziswiler, Graciela Rubalcava Denisonand Franz Boos

Karl Pfister with event host Dan Denisonof the International Institute for Manage-ment Development (IMD) in Lausanne

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CaliforniaFrom Family Historyto DocumentaryWhat if you were lucky enoughto hold a genuine 150 year olddiary of a world explorer in yourown hands? What if that ex-plorer was one of your ances-tors? You would likely re-experi-ence the same journey over and

over by reading it, wonderinghow the world traveler felt at thetime, what were his joys and hisfears.Swiss-American Jean Françoisde Buren’s great-great grandfa-

ther Henri de Buren left Switzer-land in the early 1850s andheaded for the Americas. Alongthe way, the world traveler had asteady friend and loyal compan-ion: his diary. Carefully writtenin his handwriting, the mandocumented his journey vigi-lantly, as well as illustrating hisexperiences artistically. Henri

landed in the US, traveled Amer-ica and Canada, Cuba, Mexico,Panama, Peru and Brazil.Henri was a man born into privi-lege and wealth but part of thatprivilege vanished when noble

titles became purelyceremonial in thecanton of Neuchâtelwhere he lived. Hewas moved to travelto the Americas byAlexander von Hum-bolt’s accounts of theflora and fauna ofLatin America. Andhe was certainly intrigued bythe customs, lifestyles and poli-tics of the new world. He wouldtravel the Americas not only as atrained botanist, but also as aman of culture, stopping oftento paint, engage in intellectualdiscourses with his contempo-raries and document his obser-vations in his journal and lettershome to his family.His journal entries and lettersultimately paint a complex andnuanced portrait of a young manfinding his identity. He comesacross as a man of high principleand ideals but also as a classist.These passages are tempered byothers that show his reverencefor nature, and appreciation forhuman ingenuity. Henri ulti-mately left on a trip of scientificdiscovery and in the end foundhimself.Four generations later, great-great-grandson Jean François deBuren has a dream. He wants toput together a documentary. He

sees himself as the narrator of amovie, a reflection or a docu-mentary about his great-great-grandfather’s life and journey.However Jean-François is inneed of financial support andwelcomes assistance to help himrealize the dream many of ushave. He is convinced that hewill contribute his talent andknowledge to make this projecta success. He hopes for the in-terest of a film studio or privateventure to knock at his door. No,he has not contacted Mr. Spiel-berg – but who knows? What doYOU think – Share your houghts;Jean-François de Buren looksforward to hearing from you at“threebeehives@mac.com”.You can also get more informa-tion on his great-great-grandfa-ther and the preparation of hisjourney by visiting his blog atvodhdb.blogspot.com.

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Think Swiss StudyTour on Design& In-novation to SwitzerlandIn late April a group of tenAmerican design and innovationspecialists took off to discoverSwitzerland’s creative scene. Thetrip was organized by PresenceSwitzerland in cooperation withswissnex San Francisco and thesupport of all Swiss representa-tions in the USA.Starting in Zurich, the delega-tion visited the Museum of De-

sign and its exhibit Good Design,Good Business, which showedSwiss graphic design and adver-tising by pharmaceutics giantGeigy AG (now Novartis) from

1940 to 1970.For the participants represent-ing US design schools, Swiss ac-ademic think tanks like the Uni-versity of Art and DesignLausanne (ECAL), were of partic-ular interest. ECAL cooperateswith the Federal Institute ofTechnology, Lausanne (EPFL) tofoster innovation at the cross-roads between technology, de-sign and architecture. This is “aninteresting concept to belearned from”, said Simon John-

ston, professor at theArt Center College of De-sign in Pasadena, CA.The following days thedelegation not onlytoured Swiss designgems such as Freitag inZurich and the DesignCenter Langenthal, theyalso met with peoplefrom the industry to ex-change ideas and possi-

bly cooperate. Participant andeditor Aaron Britt’s impressionsof the visits were documentedlive on the blog of dwell, a lead-ing American architecture and

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The group visiting a design exhibition

design magazine.After an intensive five days, Car-oline Baumann, Deputy Directorat Cooper-Hewitt National De-sign Museum in New York de-scribed the tour as a big success,with “an inspiring, cohesivegroup of people excited aboutthe impact of design on theworld. We will continue our con-versations among us and withSwitzerland for years to come.”

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OregonSwiss Salad Dressingcomes a long Way

My father is from Wädenswil, ZH,but ended up in Honolulu, HI asa chef at the Kahala Hilton. Hemarried my mother who is fromHawai’i. After 18 years my par-ents and my Aunty openedthe Swiss Inn restaurant inHonolulu. We had a housedressing, my Grossmutti’srecipe, and our customersloved it. So when we sold therestaurant in 2000, my fatherpromised the customers thathe would continue producingthe dressing. He still makes itin Honolulu under the nameSwiss Inn Salad Dressing.A year ago, my business partner,Dani Thiel, and I started produc-ing the dressing here in Port-land where I have lived for thelast 15 years. It is the same rec-ipe, but we decided to call itMartin’s Swiss Dressing. Our

customers put it on everything.It is very savory and althoughSwiss people may be used to theflavor, not many Americans arefamiliar with Swiss style dress-ing. I don’t believe there is any-thing else quite like it on themarket in the States. We are nowin 21 stores in Portland, and 2in Eugene. We hope to grow andbe able to distribute our dress-ing everywhere we can. We havebuilt a reputation and now havemany regular customers thatswear it is the best dressing theyhave ever tasted. We will need togrow a lot more to be prosperousbut it is so special, we have nodoubt that we can share the

wonderful flavor of our dressingwith everyone.For more details,call 503-329-7268 or emailinfo@martinsswissdressing.comor check out the website:martinsswissdressing.com

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