Kodak Researcher Wins
African Nation's Highest
Civilian Honor
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 THE CAROLINA TIMES 5
Tuesday Evening
August 10, 1982
ROCHESTER, N.Y. An
Eastman .-.. Kodak Company
researcher who spearheaded a
highly T productive sister city
program Jinking Rochester
and Bamako, the capital of
Mali, has been awarded that
country's highest civilian
honor.
Dr Walter Cooper, a
technical staff associate in
Kodak's Research
Laboratories here, received
the Chevalier De L'Ordre Na
tional or Knight of the Na
tional Order medal from the
developing west. African na
tion. Receiving the medal was the
high point of Cooper's recent
trip to Bamako, the third he
has made in the seven years
that he has chaired the sister
city program. , -!
Cooper and his wife, Helen,
who is also employed by
Kodak, were given the red
carpet treatment, including a
45-minute? conference with
Mali President Moussa Traore
and a reunion luncheon held in
their honor by 17 Malians who
have traveled to Rochester
since the pact was formalized
in 1975.
The Coopers also were com
mended by Hilary J. Cunn
ingham, , the U.S. State
Department's county officer
foe Mali. '
"I believe the effort and ex
pense voluntarily undertaken
by- private Americans such as
you and Mrs. Cooper does in
calculable good in bettering
the image Of the United States
in the eyes of people who visit
overseas,' Cunningham said.
The fact that Cooper is
employed by the largest
photographic firm in the
world did not go unnoticed in
Mali. He carried a new Kodak
disc camera - with him and
described its African introduc
tion as "a big hit."
"There's a great interest in
photography, in . Africa,"
Cooper said. "People who
have an education recognize
that tradition is fast disappear
ing and people know they
must record, Of course, film is
the best way to do that."
The Rochester-Bamako
connection dates back to 1974
when Cooper was asked by the
mayor to v look into the
possibilities of a sister city
relationship between
Rochester and an African city
since Rochester's non-white
population was growing rapid
ly. Rochester, had five other
sister cities Renne, France;
Wurzburg, Germany; Cracow,
Poland; Caltanissetta, Sicily
and RehovoU ' Israel.
Basmako, Mali became the
sixth in August of 1975.
Having observed the result
of the program for ' seven !
years, -U.S. Ambassador to
Mali Parker Borg said1 "The
type of people-to-people ex
changes carried out under the
sister city program, and the
small charitable or technical
assistance projects carried out
with a minimum of overhead,
are tremendously effective in
generating good feelings
toward. Rochester and the
United States as a whole."
Located in western Africa,
Mali is bounded on the north
by Algeria, on the east by the
Niger Republic, on the west by
Senegal and Guinea and on the
south by Upper Volta and the
Ivory Coast. The tropical
country Covers 465,000 square
miles and is in the same time
zone as Greenwich, five hours
ahead of Eastern Standard
Time.
Primarily Moslem with a
population of nearly seven
million, the country depends
predominantly on agriculture,
but there is some fishing and a
growing interest in mining.
Mali's most famous tourist at
traction is the mysterious, city
of Timbuktu, which was an
important center of caravan'
trade ' between northern and
southern Africa from the 11th
to the 16th century. Diamonds
and gold were carried north
through the city and salt and
incense were carried south, r
From, his hotel window in
Bamako, Cooper could see
women panning for gold and
on closer inspection, saw nug
gets taken from the stream
bed. Since Mali is land-locked,
it has been difficult in the past
to exploit these precious
minerals, but this is changing,
especially since the discovery
of uranium, oil and bauxite in
recent years, Cooper said.
The fact that the River
. Niger runs through Bamako
was an important factor in
selecting it as Rochester's
sister .city. The lay of the land
as well as similarities m people
are factors that Cooper and
( his fellow committee members
tried to match up.
"The sister city program
began in the United States in
1957, when President
Eisenhower decided that the
business of foreign policy was
too important to be left in the
hands of the diplomats only,"
Cooper said. "So he in
augurated a people's program,
initially run by the League of
Cities and later by Sister Cities
International, based in
Washington. D.C."
The mayor of Bamako gave
the citizens of Rochester a col
lection of Malian art, in
cluding traditional musical in
struments and : masks from
some of Mali's tribes: .the
.Bambara, the . Dogon, . the
Bobo and the Fulani.. Bam
.bara seems to be the common.
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