The Foreign Service Journal, November 2022

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2022 35 remarried three years later, and Ikels never gave much thought to her birth father until 2015, when a stranger emailed her look- ing for information about Wallace. The unexpected email started her on a journey to find out everything she could about her birth father’s life and untimely death. The result is this memoir of her experiences following his wartime path through China, along with photos, letters, and even a pudding recipe from that time. Judy Goodman Ikels spent 28 years as a civil servant with the State Department. Her late husband, Larry Ikels, was a Foreign Service officer with USAID. During their careers, the couple and their two children were posted in El Salvador, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, and Greece. Her story of connecting with her father first appeared in the May 2016 edition of State magazine. 47 Aerogrammes: A Passage through India, 1969-1970 Frank J. Young, Page Publishing, 2022, $17.95/paperback, e-book available, 292 pages. As a teenager living in small-town California, Frank Young dreamed of getting away. He got his chance at Callison College, which required its students to spend a year in India. Young traveled to Bangalore in 1969, faithfully writing “aerogrammes” back home, and became hooked on the idea of living overseas. Not long after college, he joined the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a Foreign Service officer. Years later, visiting his mother in California, he found the collection of aerogrammes stashed away for safekeeping. The discovery prompted him to look again at the rough manuscript typed hastily, if passionately, on his return from