June 4, 1966

Mr. Saud Fozan
Undersecretary
Ministry of Public Works
Kuwait, Kuwait.

Dear Mr. Fozan,

On submitting my resignation to the Ministry of Public Works, I was very graciously granted permission by you to carry on to completion the two projects I was then working on.

The first was the supervision of the shed for the Planning Board, which to my great surprise was finally finished after a period of 18 months of constant construction.

The second was the design of stage II of the Shaab secondary school. The first setback the project received was when the structural engineer assigned to me, Mr. Trokhotatis, decided it was time for him to resign from the Ministry. With earnest haste, the Ministry then assigned me a new structural engineer, after a slight delay of two months.

Work began once more, and I resumed my negotiations with the Ministry of Education to seek their approval on the design. But by then the Ministry had completely changed hands. Mr. Healy, the only remaining member of the old regime (who was acquainted with the project), was on three months’ leave. Consequently, nobody was willing to make a decision and after several meetings, the brilliant solution that we should wait till Mr. Healy's return, was arrived at.

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We continued working, and within a few days after his return, we were informed that the Ministry of Education was no longer sure that it needed a school in Shaab!

We stopped work once more, while the Ministry made up its mind. Two months later, we were informed that there was immediate need of “stage II,” and they could not understand why the design was taking so long to complete.

So in March I requested once more that my original staff and colleagues be reassigned to me. This was impossible for the moment, for they were all working on other projects; and I was asked to wait till they finished their work. Four weeks later, at last, we resumed our work.

On the 24th of May 1966, I walked into the drafting room to find not only had the environment changed, but my staff and associated colleagues had once more disappeared.
Tracking them down, I found:
a) the structural engineer was assigned more projects to work on.
b) the mechanical engineer was given 3 priority projects.
c) my staff was reassigned to work on other projects, without anybody consulting me.

I lodged my complaint with Mr. Fuchs, informing him that common courtesy requested that I be informed at least.
Mr. Fuchs told me that the decision had come from Dr. Mustafa and that he himself that very day had written a letter pointing out the further delay caused by this move.

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I wish I had the time to sit back and wait for a few more weeks, but unfortunately I cannot, as my duties in the Municipality keep demanding more time from me.
I would therefore very much appreciate it if you could absolve me from my responsibility, and assign the completion of the project to a more patient architect.

I thank you once more for the opportunity given to me.

I remain,
Yours truly.