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IMMIGRANT FAMILIES FROM LOUISIANNA REUNITE On Wednesday, August 8th , Graham and Carrie Caldwell Bowman, both 25, from Shrieveport, Louisiana, touched down at Ben Gurion Airport. They were two of the fifty-one immigrants who arrived from North America this week. The couple, who are training consultants, will join Graham's father, Ron, who "made Aliyah" last February, and who holds the Dale Carnegie franchise for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. They will help him expand his enterprise, which is already running courses in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Graham and Carrie Bowman have been active in the local Reform Temple. Graham's father, Ron, who grew up in south Bronx (where one of his classmates was Collin Powell), served in the Marine Corps, worked for IBM and eventually moved to Northern Louisiana where he headed the Dale Carnegie enterprise there. He had also served as UJA chairman and served on the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Jewish Federation. He fell in love with Israel when he came on a visit in 1998, and jumped at the opportunity to re-introduce Dale Carnegie training in Israel. Though his courses are currently taught in English, he hopes to soon offer training in Hebrew and eventually do cross-cultural training with Palestinians, "when Peace eventually arrives," he said. He had only praise for the Jewish Agency Shaliach (emissary) in Miami, who processed him and for the local Houston office, which assisted his son and daughter-in-law.
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