Harold M. Bergsma    - Award winning author of One Way to Pakistan

 

 

 

Photo Gallery

 
1949-50 Nepal Ornithological Expedition for the Chicago Field Museum and National Geographical Society. Bergsma on right with expedition leader Dr. Robert L. Fleming, the Raja of West Nepal, Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana and his brother, and expedition physician, Dr. Carl Taylor.

See "Nepal Bound" in Rhododendron Wine Factory, Memoirs of a Wanderer, for the story of this  expedition in Books.

See Publications  39 entry, above for recent article in Nepal press about this expedition.

Passport Entries

1. Argentina           Jan. 2002

2. Australia            Jul. 1999

3. Belize                Jun. 1986- Aug. 2004 (seventeen visits)

4. Botswana          Jun. 1989-Feb. 1993 (five visits)

5. Canada              Jul. 1967- Jun. 2004 (multiple border crossings)

6. Cameroon         Jun. 1964 (2 unofficial unrecorded visits)

7. Chile                 Dec. 2001

8. China                Aug. 1983- Aug. 1998 (two entries)

9. Costa Rica        Dec. 2005

10. Denmark          May 2005

11. Djibouti           Dec.1933

12. Dubai              Sept. 1984

13. Egypt              Dec. 1933 – 1991 (three entries)

14. Ethiopia           Dec. 1933-1935

15. England, UK    1935- 2005 (multiple entries)

16. Fiji                   July 1999

17. Finland            May 2005

18. France             Nov. 1983

19. Germany          May 1976-May 2005

20. Greece             Oct. 1979- Oct. 1987

21. Holland            June 1974 (multiple entries)

22. Hong Kong      Dec. 1984-Feb. 1999 (four visits)

23. Honduras         Feb.1990-Jan.1993

24. India                1937- Dec. 1984 (multiple entries)

25. Indonesia         Nov. 1988

26. Italy                 June 1958-July 1986

27. Latvia              May 2005

28. Lithuania          May 2005

30. Luxemburg      June 1974

31. Macau             Dec. 1992

32. Mexico            1977- 2005 (multiple entries and border crossings)

33. Mozambique    Aug.1996

34. Namibia Dec.   1995-Apr.1996

35. Nederland        July.1967-May 1976

36. Nepal               Nov. 1949-Jan.1950

37. New Zealand   July 1999

38. Nicaragua        Dec. 2005

39. Nigeria             Nov. 1955- 1984    (multiple entries)

40. Pakistan           Sept. 1983- Apr. 1990 (multiple entries)

41. Panama     Jan. 2007

42. Peru                Dec. 2001

43. Russia             May 2005

44. Saudi Arabia    Nov.1979

45. Scotland           June 1974

46. Seychelles        Dec.1991

47. Singapore        Nov.  1998

48. South Africa    June 1995-Mar.1996

49. Solomon Isl.    July    1999

50. Spain               August 1967

51. Sri Lanka         Apr. 1986-Nov.1998

52. Swaziland        Aug.1990-Aug. 1996 (multiple entries)

53. Sweden           May 2005

54. Switzerland     Nov. 1983

55. Sudan              1933

56. Tahiti               Sept. 2000

57. Taiwan            Aug.1984

58. Thailand           Nov.1998

59. Uruguay           Jan. 2002

60. Vatican            July 1986    

61. Yemen             Apr.1987-Sept.1989

62. Zambia            Apr.1992

63. Zimbabwe        Apr.1992

  
 

Takum, Nigeria, as Principal of the Wukari Combined Secondary School. (1962-1967)

Harold Bergsma and his wife Ruth E. Feierabend Bergsma and their children Mark, Rachel and Daniel lived in Nigeria from 1955-1967 where they served as educational missionaries for the Christian Reformed Board of Foreign Missions. See Publications above, 37,38,41

See Books enty; Tales Tiv Tell.
 

Hunting was a frequent recreational  activity in Nigeria. This Rufus Kob antelope was shot in Jato Akaa in Tivland in Nigeria, 1957.

See Akiga a Mushroom in Time, #33 in Publications above.

See "Salt of the Earth" in  Rhododendron Wine Factory; Memoirs of a Wanderer. under Books above.
 

 

 

 

Harold Bergsma worked at New Mexico State University from 1977-1996. This picture was taken on a family holiday outing to Anasazi ruins in northern New Mexico in1980.

See Publications above, 3,4,5, 6, 7, 9, 10,13,21-29 for selected journal articles published when teaching at New Mexico State University.
In Baluchistan, Pakistan, 1984 when he served the On Farm Water Management Training Institute in Lahore, Pakistan, providing assistance in curriculum development and management training.

 

See Publications above,  related to Pakistan, #s 9-16.

Hiking in the hills of Swaziland, 1992. See Publications, # 2

With wife Lily Chu Bergsma in Swaziland where they both worked for the Ministry of Education providing training in counseling , career guidance and management training for Headmasters.

See Publication # 1 about working in Namibia
 

The project in Namibia with US-AID was designed to provide administrative and technical training to primary school  teachers in the remote northern areas of Namibia along the border of Angola. Many schools were no more than a few seats under a tree, or seats on the sand with walls of sticks to protect them.

 

Taking lessons on a locally made xylophone in a village on the Caprivi Strip near Botswana.
 

 

View from Table Mountain, Cape Town,  South Africa, 1996

See, Books,  Rhododendron Wine Factory, Memoirs of a Wanderer, "All in a Day's Work" page 404 about Namibia and retirement.

 

 

        FAMILY ALBUM FROM "PICTURES UNDER GLASS"

With Harley and Phyllis in Las Cruces, 1980

At Mark's Cabin on his 120 acre hunting retreat

Tuning up at a family picnic at Rachel's  country place      

 Sun Worshiping on a Mexican holiday, 2005

Dan and Robin with kids and gramps

  Rachel , Doug and kids at their Aunt Marion's Store
See BOOKS "Pictures under glass" in Rhododendron Wine Factory pages 291-300 for stories about the kids.