Bill Melchers ~ Class of 1966
Departed Circa 1999 ~ Cancer
From: Donald Tate
Subject: Karl William Melchers
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 12:55 PM
Class of 1966. Bill died of cancer according to information I received
sometime around 1999-2000 in Bangkok. Somewhere I have some photos of him taken around 70-71 when we both happened to be in Bangkok briefly on overlapping trips. If I can find them I’ll send one.
Larry Yates wrote:
I attended Patana School with Bill in the early 60s. He was a little older than me, but we were friends. For some reason the strongest memory I have of him is walking on the beach in Pattaya (a very different almost secluded place in those days) while he told me the entire story of Orwell’s 1984, which he had just enthusiastically read. We also shared the hobby of playing with toy soldiers. I think his father was with USIA; my father was training English teachers on a USAID contract.