Specifically re: Leuven (my nearest town):
"After WW1 the US Commission for the Relief of Belgium, originally set up by
Herbert Hoover to deal with the war famine, was converted into a scholarship
foundation financing Master or PhD studies in the US. Hundreds of Leuven’s
professors were trained there and came back with new cutting-edge abilities
and a culture of research."
Thanks to that culture of research the University Hospital fixed my my
leaking heart valve 5 years ago, and is currently treating my wife's
neuro-endocrine cancer.
thanks for training all those guys in the US!
Jez
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There's a Herbert Hoover Square in Poznań and in Leuven, Belgium.
> Possibly one near the Herbert Hoover high school in Charleston, West
> Virginia. Just one reference in the local newspaper. May be an
> unofficial name near the school.
>
> See this link for why these European squares are named for Hoover. I
> didn't know. He was a popular guy here in 1928 but not in 1932.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Humanitarian>
>
>
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