Remembering Jean-Gwinn Riboud (1950-2025)
Remembering Jean-Gwinn Riboud (1950-2025) Editor's Note: It was with great regret that I was unable to personally attend the June 12, 2025 Benediction in Paris that memorialized the [...]
Rev. Theodore E. Tack, Prior General, O.S.A. (1929-2013)
Pope Leo XIV and Rev. Theodore E. Tack, Prior General, O.S.A. (1929-2013) Fr. Theodore E. Tack, O.S.A. Editor's Note: Before his election as Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost had [...]
France 2022
With the pandemic and lockdown fading fast in the rear view mirror, I proposed to my son Pat that he join me in visiting our cousins in France this summer.
Olivia Riboud on Her Riboud and Gwinn Parents and Grandparents
In the spring of 2023, Olivia Cosgrave Riboud discussed her family history with her first cousin Bill Bowe.
1991 Nancy Gwinn Riboud (1911-1991)
1991 Nancy Gwinn Riboud (1911-1991) Editor's Note: Nancy Gwinn, my mother's sister, married Jacques Riboud in 1933, nine years before I was born. Though she and Jacques raised their five children in France, I remember meeting the Riboud family [...]
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Practices His Saxophone as Melissa Riboud Listens, 10 Rue Jacques Lemercier, Versailles, France
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Practices His Saxophone as Melissa Riboud Listens, 10 Rue Jacques Lemercier, Versailles, France Editor's Note: In April, 1990, I stopped over at Jean Gwinn and Myriam Riboud's house in Versailles. After dinner, Jean Gwinn practiced [...]
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Takes Bill Bowe to the 1918 World War I Armistice Site in Compiegne, France
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Takes Bill Bowe to the 1918 World War I Armistice Site in Compiegne, France Editor's Note: Not far from the Riboud family home in Vieux Moulin, France is the site where the World I [...]
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Picks Up Bill Bowe and Tours the Cathedral in Senlis, France
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Picks Up Bill Bowe and Tours the Cathedral in Senlis, France Editor's Note: In April, 1990. Jean Gwinn Riboud picked me up at DeGaulle Airport when I stopped on a business trip to Europe [...]
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Gives Bill Bowe a Tour of the New La Defence Building Complex in Paris
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Gives Bill Bowe a Tour of the New La Defence Building Complex in Paris Editor's Note: In April, 1990, Jean Gwinn Riboud gave me a tour of the newly opened La Defense building complex [...]
