Early Life and Education
Listed in the Who is Who in the East 1986/7 he was born in 1933 on Java, then the Dutch East Indies, grandson of Prof. Guillaume Frédéric Rochat (see Guillaume Frédéric Rochat 1876-1965) and son of Dr. Guillaume Frédéric Rochat and attorney-at-law Bertha Rochat. Gui Rochat was educated at the Latin and Greek Gymnasium school in Zwolle, The Netherlands from 1946 to 1953, after which he entered the Dutch navy in the training program for reserve lieutenant. Following a short unsuccessful spell of being a cadet in the Dutch Naval Academy he entered Groningen University in the Netherlands 1956 as a student in Medicine. This not being a career he desired, his parents who were living then in Iran, sent him to the American University of Beirut, Lebanon where he graduated in 1960 with a major in Experimental Psychology. This enabled him to continue his graduate studies at Indiana University where he met (now divorced) wife Katherine McCollum. They have one child Alexandra Eddings.
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