For the Philosophy I was 2 years in Einsiedeln, was in the church choir, the orchestra of the convent and the town,played the violin with P.Bernhard,my uncle,art and music teacher in his studio and played in a trio. During the last year I also went through my basic training in the military. Matura Type A in 1937. University of Fribourg and Ist propedeutic exam. also none commission school for Corporal. Next 1 1/2 year premed school in Bern with 2nd propedeutic exam.1939-42 Medical school at the University of Zuerich Stateboard Nov,23, 1942. Thesis1945. I spent over 300 days in the military in the medical corps of the Airforce,starting as soldier,corporal, sergeant, second and firstlieutenant, ending with captain as Regiments doctor and flightsurgeon While still in Med school I worked in Olten and Aarau at the Hospitals in Surgery and Medicine. 1943-45 Assistant in Surgery and OB GYN in Solothurn. 1945-46 Sent by the Swiss Political Dept. and Red Cross to Wolfsburg/Fallersleben and Hanover for the Swiss refugees from the Russian zone,trip to Berlin. 1946 assistant in surgery at Bezirksspital Muri, and replacement of Dr. Seiler in Kloten and his brother in Uetikon. 1947 I st assistant in surgery at the Bezirksspital Rheinfelden, also taking care of the quarentine camp for the refugees. 1947-49 Chiefresident at the Buergerspital Zug and in 1949 before comming to the USA I replaced the chief at the Bezirksspital in Zofingen, we found out that his wife was my 3 rd grade teacher in Lenzburg! On Aug.29 1949 after a nighttrain ride to Paris and boattrain to Le Havre and 5 days on the ocean on the “Caronia”,British Cunard line. I arrived in NYC,staying over night ankered in the Hudson river.1949/50 Rotating Internship at St.Mary’s Hospital in Hoboken,where I met Josephine Dottino and we got engaged on Aug.29,1950. 1950-54 Resident in TB and chestsurgery at Nassau County Sanatorium in Farmingdale L.I, under Dr. Frank Berry,chief of thoracic surgery at Bellevue, and Dr.Maxwell Chamberlain. Nov.19,1950 marriage to Jo at the church “Our Lady of Grace” in Fairview, reception at the Swiss Chalet in Mahwa N.J.First night in the Swiss Court Motel on Rte.17 Honeymoon in Atlantic City. In 1952 first visit to Switzerland,and after our return I was made Staff physician. getting our own house. Lawrence and Gregory were born at Mercy Hospital in Rockville Center in 1953 and 54.To become board-eligible, I had to have 2 more years in surgery,therefore:1954 Assistant resident in Surgery at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, a City Hospital. 1955 Chief resident in surgery at Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica ,Queens. 1956 opened 1 st office in Pearl River N.Y,and in Sept. moved to 15 Liberty Drive in Stony Point. Connected with Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, Nyach Hospital in Nyack, Spring Valley Hospital and later on the Staff of Letchworth Village Hospital and Member of the Board at Summit Park Hospital and surgical attendant. I received titles: FMH specialist in Surgery in Switzerland, FACS,FICS,FCCP ,member of the Thoracic Society and N.Y.Trudeau Society. I had my office in Stony Point til my retirement in 1985 but moved our home to Upper Nyack in 1973.In 1996 we sold the house and bought a condominium in Valley Cottage.
Trips: by bicycle:1931 from Lenzburg to Wallis,120 miles. 1935 to St.Blasien,Black Forest in Germany. Trip over Bruenig,Grimsel into the Wallis.1936 Matura trip toLyon,France,Avignion,Marseille,Nice,Genua,Milan and back over the Gotthardpass, landing in the Hospital for acute appendicitis.1939 over the Gotthard to Milan,Italy, back,however by train because the W.W.II broke out.
by airplane: 1957 Cuba,1972 Nicaragua,1974 Puerto Rico,1975 Bermuda, 1976 Mexico,Yucatan Peninsula,1996 Calefornia. We were in Canada by car in 1962 Montreal, 1964Toronto-Chicago,1969 Holi Burton,Ottawa,1985 Montreal,Quebeck,Ottawa, 1995 Montreal,Quebeck.
in Italy by bic 1936,1939 by car 1948,by train and bus, 1965 by car 1989 and by plane 1999
in France by bic 1936,Geneva,Lyon,Avignon,Marseille, Nice Monte Carlo. By train l949 Basel-Paris-LeHavre and 1978 Geneva-Paris and Paris-Zuerich. Bus tour through Normandy,Brittany and Loire Valley, also to Chartre and Versaille,and by taxi to Mont martre.
in Germany 1933 Lindau,1935 by bic Black Forest St. Blasien 1945-46 in Wolfsburg,Berlin,Hannover by bus and car back and forth from Switzerland. 1968bycarFrankfurt,Heidelberg,Carlsruhe,Munich,Oberammergau. Garmisch-Partenkirchen,Ulm. 1984 by car Colona,Beauport,Stuttgard.1987 by train along the rhine river from Basel to Holland and back.
in Holland 1987 with one week bus tour through Holland
in Austria 1932-35 in Feldkirch,1932 by train to Vienna, 1968 by car over Brennerpass to Insbruck,1980 by car to Insbruck ,Salzburg ,Linz Vienna,Graz and Klagenfurt,
in Spain 1990 Bus tour Madrid,Cordoba,Seville,Gibraltar.Torre Molina,Granada, Toledo.
in Greece,Israel and Turkey 1999 Mediteranian Cruise.

Dad was a loving father and husband to his family and is missed every day. Dad wrote most of this CHRONIK along with his brother Mario. He was a strong believer in family and its history.

	JOSEPHINE MARY, (Mom to Greg & Larry) born Dottino,Oct.21,1924 in Fairview N.J. where she and her two sisters Mary and Rosy grew up. Her father, at the age of 13, came from Averza,district of Caserta near Naples. His fathers name was Giuseppe Chettapadre he had a small farm and was trading cattles. When he came to the USA in about 1901, a well to do family by the name of Dottino asked them to take their name to the new country, having no offsprings,and gave them financial support. After Giuseppe came with one or two sons to the USA, they all worked,saved money and sent after all the members in the Family. Albert worked on the Railroad in Pennsylvania and when they had enough money, father and 3 sons opened a butcherstore in Edgewater,N.J . Only Angela went back to Averza with her husband, where we visited her in 1965, a wonderful lady with a beautiful family, her son became the major. Jo’s mother,Bridget Nunziato was born in Hoboken,at Castle Hights, her parents came from Italy(or Corsica), originally Anunciato,near Monte Cassino north of Naples.
There is a connection with Napoleon Bonaparte through the La Marca’s,her mothers maden name. There are relatives in Pennsylvania, where Napoleons brother came and left a family. Albert bought an apartmenthouse with several stores at Nungassers corner. where we were able to stay during my residency,1954-56. Jo’sister Mary became a nurse,married Dr.Carlos Silva moved to Cuba, he had his own Hospital in Placetas but in1960 had to flee from Castro and practiced in Union City N.J. until,in 1987, he retired in Florida. Rosy worked in different offices and also retired in Florida. Albert had Ca of the Colon at the age of 69.was,operated at Mary Immaculate Hospital in 1955,died 91 years old of renal failure, Bridget,her mother had Ca of the pancreas and died in 1973, 73 years old. Rosy had Ca of the colon and was successfully operated in about 1996. Jo went to local primary and highschool and received a scolarship in mathematic to Rutgers University, She worked for one year for Metropolitan Life Ins.Comp in New York City, then entered the nursing school at St. Mary’s Hospital in Hoboken,like her sister, and during W.W.II became a cadett.Following her graduation she worked as an R.N. and later supervisor there, when we met . She had our two boys at Mercy Hospital in Rockville Center L.I. and after I started my own practice stayed on my side as my partner throughout my professional life In about 1978 she became active in voluntary work in Nyack, was the leading force in building the Nyack multipurpose Senior Center and its president for many years . Later she volunteered for the Center for unwed mothers in Spring Valley,always hard working, quick and clever and liked by everyone. I will allways remember one of her quotes from Nov.12,1971: “Aging is a process when the clock goes around faster than you can keep up with !” Josephine survived and was very active for over 3 years after she was diagnosed with lung cancer. In August of 2013 the cancer had caught up with her and she passed on August 18th. Her battle in the last weeks of her life were a testamoney to her strength and desire to be with her loving family till the end. (Mom and my Dad will be missed by their children and grandchildren wh all loved them dearely).

HEDWIG MARIA AGNES born Febr.20,1919,died March,6.1958. She was born in Kastanienbaum 5 month before Maxli’s death. In Lenzburg she went from 1926-34 through primary school and Junior high and from 1935-37 in Fribourg to Gambach “ecole de commerce” which she would have liked to finish,but then went to England into a family, and the girl she took care of became her lifelong friend and visited her in Switzerland. In 1939 the war neccesitated her return and she helped at home in the Krone. She spent one season in Orselina with Oli, where she met Hermann Amstutz, the brother of Oli’s husband and they got married in 1946 at the Waldheim on the Buergenstock, worked under Hermann’s parents for 2-3 years and then took over the Hotel by themself. Hedy had 3 children,1946 Markus,1948 Hermann and on Sept.25,1955 Veronica. My mother was with them for several years. On March 6, 1958 Hermann went to pick up his sister who returned from Argentina, was not home when at night the Hotel went on fire. Hedy came to Mama’s room, awaikend her and ran for the baby of an employee she took care of, while the two boys ran down the stairs, she followed them and they all perished, where found down in the cellar,Hedy still carying the baby in her arms. Mama took Vroneli and went onto the balcony and was saved. We were there 30 days later, it was a terrible sad story. Hermann survived, built up the Waldheim again, got married, lost his second wife Emmy after about 15years and the Hotel is now in the hands of his son in law, Leander Kummer and daughter Veronique,married May 10.1976 and they have not stopped enlarging the place and doing excellent, always welcomming us and doing for the family what they can, all the families festivities are up on the Buergenstock. Veronique had two children, Nadine,born 3/2/83 suffered and died in July 1991 of cystic fibrosis,Matthias,born Oct.6,1980 is doing well.

ALFRED,JOSEPH,EDUARD, born in Kastanienbaum,Jan.8,1921,went to primary and part of junior high in Lenzburg from 1928 to1934,then 2 years at the Stella Matutina in Feldkirch. He started a 4 years training at Brown Bovery in Baden, finished and passed his examen as mechanic,then went to the Minerva Prep.School in Zuerich,for about 2 years, made the entrance examination to the ETH which he then attendet from 1940-1944,when he graduated as Mechanical Engineer ETH. In the meantime he served in the military for several years,especialy during W.W/II ,became corporal.second and first lieutenant,captain and major in a tank batallion. He had 2 accidents with backinjuries while in the service, which in later years neccessitated 3 laminectomies. He started his professional life at the Viscose factory in Emmenbruecke,Lucerne in 1947, where in 1952 Jo and I visited them in their apartment, then he worked for Cellulose factory near Solothurn, where we visted him in1958 and then he advanced to a better job at Buerle,known machine factory in Oerlikon and in about 1960 bought his own home at 4 Tennried in Gockhausen,where we stayed or visited in 1965,68,77,79 and 82. In 1971 he became vice president at “Zahnrad Maag” in Zuerich, from where he retired in about 1982. He bought a townhouse in Brione,Ticino, near Orselina,where they spent their vacations and we stayed with them in 1984. In about 1995 he was diagnosed with Parkinson, which became slowly progressive and in 1997 they moved into an apartment in Gockhausen and his youngest daughter,Franzy with her husband took over his house.

Freddy sucumbed to parkinsons in Switzerland. 'Fredy' married Lotty Borsinger-Neumann (born October 6 1921). Lotty passed on May 17, 2012 in Switzerland. Freddy and Lotty. Childreen and their spouses ; Margrit maried to Max Staub-Borsinger; Lissa und Polo Häberlin-Borsinger; Urs Borsinger; Ruth Borsinger und Ernst Hangartner; Franziska Martino-Borsinger.

CHARLOTTE (Lotti) born Neumann, in 1922 in Bern. Her father came from Germany and started a printing business at Langmauerweg in Bern and was very successful. He made the “clichees” for all the illustrations in my thesis .He died rather young and his son Fred took over the business. Mami Neumann grew up in Bern, a very sweet woman,Jo and I always visited when we went to Switzerland.Lottis sister,Ursula and her husband came to visit us in Stony Point. Lotti met Fredy while he was in Bern in the military service, and it became a long courtship until Fredy finished his education. Lotti had all her education in Bern after which she did secretarial work. The wedding took place at the Buergenstock in this beautiful chapel,where Pater Peitz,our history teacher at the Stella Matutina said the mass and ceremony.
Children: Margrit Maria Staub 1950
Elisabeth Ursula Haeberlin 1951
Urs Dieter 1954
Ruth Christine 1961
Franziska Agnes 1964

MARIO FRIEDRICH JOSEPH, born in Lenzburg,July 22,1930; Passed in 2010 in Switzerland. He was only 10 month old when his father died, and he said of Elsa:”She really was my mother!” Mama being busy in the Hotel. He went through primary and Junior High in Lenxburg,played the thrompet in the cadett band and later on became a good saxophon player, we found him in the Internet in a picture with a saxophonband, he traveled twice with the Kloten Stadtmusic to the USA,played at Disneyland and in Chicago. After he finished school in Lenzburg he went to Neuchatel for his French,did not like it but finished almost one year. Then he entered an apprenticeship at Goth & Co.in Zuerich which he finished. He did his basic military training and went one year for his 3 weeks regular service but expressed: “ I d’ont mind to stay as a regular soldier even when my brothers are captains!” He went to England to a firm(Acme) connected with Goth & Co continued to work in Import and Export, became a good tennisplayer and met Sally Simpson and they got married in March 1957,when Mama and Fredy went to their wedding as well as Hely. We visited them in 1958 in London where they had a loft on top af a garage, which they fixed themself very cosy. Mario rented a car and showed us London and its surroundings, including Vindsor Castle. Sally became pregnant with twins and Mario had no outlook for professional advancement in England and they returned to Switzerland where Sally delivered the twins on Sept.27,1960. Mario immediatly was employed by Goth & Co. and they sent him to the Kloten Airport,where he opened an office for “Airfright”, which in the future grew and he eventally had 10 employees. They rented an apartment in Kloten and Dr.Seiler,my superior Captain in the airforce,whom I covered in his praxis many times, became their family physician. Mario came about 3 times to the USA for his company, to Calefornia,Chicago and New York and visited us each times, he also was in Singapore. He became interested in the family history, contacted Melchior and Bridget n Geneva and became very friendly with them and spent two vacations at Horben. After I sent him all my papers on the Borsinger Chronik, he went to the Archives and Libraries in Zuerich doing his own researche,also in Mellingen,and for our mothers 85. birthday in 1975 produced his 8 books of the Borsinger Chronik and the corrected and completed family tree. His entire family enjoyed music,Mario saxophone,Sally accordion, Susi Clarinett and Michael trompet and we were able to enjoye their play on our family reunions. Mario later on suffered under depression and had to be commited for a while, but respondet to the treatment. He did not cope well with his retirement and missed his job
SALLY ANN,born Simpson, born in London. Her mother apparently married late a Mr. Huntinforse who later on retired in Majorca,an island of Spain but then had Ca of the prostate and died when she returned to England,where Sally visited often and Mumy Simpson visited them in Kloten for Christmas 1981. When Sally came to Switzerland she converted to R.C.,my mother was her godmother and they had a catholic marriage. She became an employee at the catholic church in Kloten. She came with Mario and the Kloten Band to the USA and in Florida broke her leg and completed the entire journee in a cast! Sally always send us a long christmasletter, and they always welcome us, and when Lawrence and Gregory went on business to Switzerland, they always met.
23 rd Generation. The Verenahof line:

NIKLAUS BALTHASAR<GEORGE<BONNER,born 1954 son of Melchior and Bridget. He was born in Geneva,went ther through school and made his Matura,after which he mad a little world tour. His father wanted himto go to the University of Basel,for which he showed no interest,howeve he attended the ETH and studied “Agronom”,agriculture. He speaks French, Englishe and some German. In 1983 he married Marie Adele de Weck. Her father was a colonel,had 3 daughters,and died shortly afther their wedding, which he was not able to attend,it took place at the Horben Castle and in the church in nearby Beinwil. Shortly after their marriage they went to Paraguay where he became manager of a 200 000 Hectare ranche, accessible only by horse or plain. The deal did not work out,they returned to Switzerland and he was with the International Red Cross ever since. He was in Bangkog,Thailand where his first child was born in 1984. He was in Croatia in 1991 and from the Internet we found out that he was in Russia in 1996 where he was executive chairman in Tajik for the release of 26 government soldiers. ;
Children: Pauline 1984
Harold,Frederick,Kaspar 1984
MARIA ADELE, born De Weck from Fribourg. Her father was a brigadier General, he had 3 daughters.
ANNA BARBARA SYLVIA,born in Geneva,daughter of Melchior and Bridget. She went to Mexico . studied there and made her PHD and got married.,her husband is Raphael. In 1983 they moved to Argentina
Children 1979 Saritz
1982 Diana
Still 23 rd Generation : The Blume line.