Manuel Werner is a European gentleman, not too old as I figure from the pictures of his children. His English was a little fractured but not all that bad and of course Google translates. He is obviously computer/web site literate -- here, I found the reference I copied:
Sempervivum-Cultivation - a modern hobby with a long past from Manuel Werner, Nürtingen, Germany
http://manus.heimat.eu/semp-cu...
If someone like that was asked to be an officer early on, we might get more Europeans aboard. MR
