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<strong>insights</strong><br />
echo<br />
WORLD PEACE DAY 2007<br />
<strong>insights</strong><br />
Hedgefunds -<br />
an interview with<br />
Michael Huttman<br />
Decanting the next<br />
vintage<br />
The Annual Education<br />
Conference<br />
quoi de neuf ?<br />
Greek Theatre<br />
Annual Fund launch<br />
Une bonne nouvelle<br />
sportive<br />
esprit ecolint<br />
Spirit distilled<br />
Global Affairs -<br />
Genève internationale<br />
Journée de la<br />
Francophonie<br />
les anciens et<br />
pas so old ...<br />
A word from the Alumni<br />
Association President<br />
Class notes<br />
Glancing back<br />
coming up or<br />
just been<br />
2007 events<br />
A vos agendas<br />
Kermesses 2008<br />
ecolint magazine in partnership with the Alumni Association<br />
N o 1 • OCTOBER 2007
introduction<br />
I am delighted to have been asked to write an introductory<br />
article for the first edition of echo. I am at the start of my fifth<br />
year as Director-General and, after a long career in national<br />
education systems, count myself very fortunate to be now<br />
helping to run such a diverse, innovative and endlessly<br />
fascinating institution.<br />
Much has happened in the school over the last few years.<br />
Demand for places, both from Geneva’s international<br />
community and from members of the resident community<br />
wishing an international education for their children, has<br />
grown exponentially. We opened a brand new campus – the<br />
aptly named Campus des Nations – in 2005 and look set to<br />
have over 4,000 students during the current school year.<br />
We now have a record 136 nationalities and 86 mother<br />
tongues within our student body. We have also managed to<br />
achieve all this without sinking into the kind of bureaucratic<br />
uniformity one associates with large organisations. We do<br />
not just tolerate diversity of educational provision within the<br />
Foundation; we actively encourage it.<br />
For much of the time our students are chiefly conscious that<br />
they are members of their class, year group, educational<br />
programme or individual school. They are also conscious of<br />
being members of a wider campus - LGB, La Châtaigneraie,<br />
Nations. But they are still above all members of the<br />
International School of Geneva, the world’s oldest and largest<br />
international school and one for which most of them hold<br />
a great affection. They are also, we hope, like many former<br />
generations of students, marked for life by their experiences at<br />
the school, with a respect for those different from themselves,<br />
an openness of spirit and a commitment to the values that the<br />
school has held dear throughout its long history and that the<br />
world needs more than ever at the present day.<br />
The school is buzzing with educational initiatives. There are<br />
more extra-curricular activities and special projects, many<br />
linked with other countries, more work that brings together<br />
different school subjects and much use of new technologies.<br />
We are also renewing our place at the heart of international<br />
education with a prestigious annual Ecolint Education<br />
Conference. One of the purposes of this magazine is to keep<br />
you up to date with a few of these developments.<br />
The International School of Geneva has a distinguished<br />
history. Out of it arose the International Baccalaureate which<br />
is now at the heart of international education for many<br />
thousands of students in over a hundred countries around<br />
the world. The school has also sent out into the world tens<br />
of thousands of its own students, many with the same<br />
commitment as our founders of trying to make the world<br />
a better place, and many of them succeeding, in small and<br />
sometimes even big ways, in all the continents of the world.<br />
Long may Ecolint continue to fulfil this role!<br />
I very much hope that you enjoy reading in this magazine<br />
about what is happening both to the school and to its former<br />
students.<br />
Nicholas Tate<br />
Director-General<br />
Michaelene Stack, Director of<br />
Development at ISG caught up with<br />
Michael Huttman, (LGB ‘78), on a trip<br />
to London.<br />
Mr Huttman is the Managing Director<br />
and Chief Investment Officer of<br />
Millennium Global Investment<br />
Limited, which he founded in 1994.<br />
He agreed to be interviewed, as it just<br />
so happens that from the 1970’s class<br />
years there are several high profile<br />
hedge fund specialists, including :<br />
Fabian Pictet (LGB ’77) of Fabian<br />
Pictet & Partners, Jonathan Lourie<br />
(LGB ’79) and Stuart Fiertz (LGB ’79)<br />
of Cheyne Capital – to name just<br />
three.<br />
We were wondering if Mr Huttman<br />
could shed some light on whether<br />
this career choice sets a trend<br />
amongst alumni or if it is purely<br />
coincidental…<br />
There is a great deal of mythology<br />
about hedge funds. How would you<br />
best describe what you do ?<br />
Hedge funds are total return<br />
investments, with flexibility to invest<br />
across diverse financial instruments<br />
so you aim to generate returns in all<br />
financial markets: both bull and bear<br />
markets or at any point in a market<br />
cycle. Hedge funds provide the fund<br />
manager with considerable flexibility to<br />
select assets and to short (that is to sell<br />
assets they do not actually own). Hedge<br />
fund managers do not manage assets.<br />
Hedge funds managers are often<br />
compared to the hunters of the financial<br />
markets.<br />
Why London (as opposed to<br />
anywhere else in the world) ?<br />
London has enjoyed a healthy<br />
dominance in the hedge fund sector<br />
over the last 10 years but there is a<br />
chance that Geneva could give it a good<br />
run for its money, in terms of expertise,<br />
geography and language. However,<br />
I chose London mainly because of<br />
expertise and geography – the London<br />
desks can wake up with the Far East<br />
and go to bed with the US and language<br />
is not a barrier, as English is the lingua<br />
franca of the financial markets.<br />
<br />
echo N o 1 • OCTOBER 2007
Are we training hunters ?<br />
<strong>insights</strong><br />
Ecolint alumni in the Financial Markets<br />
Based in London, Michael is a dual national of<br />
Switzerland and Great Britain, married to Ecolint<br />
alumnae Nadine Kveim-Huttman, with whom he has<br />
two sons (who boast their very own melting pot of<br />
five nationalities and three religions).<br />
What for you characterises the International<br />
School of Geneva ?<br />
Diversity.<br />
The two most important qualities gained from<br />
your time at the school ?<br />
Openness and tolerance.<br />
Best memory ?<br />
I really enjoyed the Student League of Nations but I<br />
have to say that my best memories are of my class.<br />
We were no more than 12-15 and we were such a<br />
tight-knit group who knew each other so well.<br />
Worst memory ?<br />
Being a candidate of the Swiss Maturité and having<br />
to cram for the second part of my exams over the<br />
final Summer holiday when all of my friends had<br />
finished their IB exams and were phoning up to invite<br />
me to go sailing or just meet up !<br />
Is Ecolint in any way responsible for<br />
your choices ?<br />
Ecolint alumni are to be found<br />
everywhere. Ecolint exposes individuals<br />
to a huge diversity of origins, outlooks<br />
and ways of responding to opportunities<br />
and challenges. The result of which is a<br />
huge openness and sensitivity to both<br />
differences and communalities. This<br />
seems to feed an ability and willingness<br />
to explore avenues not usually<br />
considered : something of an essential<br />
for a hedge fund manager.<br />
The school also recognised each student<br />
as an individual – some may excel<br />
academically, others in sports or art<br />
– but the school nurtured all students<br />
and it also endorsed, if not encouraged,<br />
students to take risks, that is to say to<br />
try and endeavour towards a goal. If<br />
the goal was not attained despite best<br />
efforts the school encouraged students<br />
to learn from the experience. You were<br />
not expected to excel at everything<br />
but you were expected to endeavour.<br />
Learning in this way to calculate the<br />
extent of the challenge – the risk – to<br />
deal with failure and to expect to learn<br />
from the experience and to be resilient<br />
in the face of failure are important<br />
attributes for a hedge fund manager.<br />
What do you think are the biggest<br />
challenges facing students about to<br />
leave Ecolint today ?<br />
The world appears more certain today<br />
– more co-operation at the global level,<br />
less global tension, more of the basic<br />
needs of humanity being met, almost<br />
25 years of global economic growth<br />
with «blips» which have not been as<br />
deep as those previously experienced<br />
and where economic cycles are<br />
increasingly attenuated. However, for<br />
the individual the world is a less cosy<br />
and comfortable place – we are each<br />
thrown into a highly competitive job<br />
market where your competition may<br />
just as well be in Mumbai or Moscow as<br />
in your own neighbourhood.<br />
Many of the traits gained from the<br />
education and social environment that<br />
was and is Ecolint – focus, risk-taking,<br />
resilience – will be critical determinates<br />
of individual success. Particularly where<br />
these are applied with the sensitivity of<br />
years of negotiating your way through<br />
the hugely diverse and complex learning<br />
arena that is an Ecolint playground or<br />
quadrangle.<br />
Founded in 1994, Millennium is<br />
an independently-owned global<br />
alternative investment management<br />
company and one of the longest<br />
established European-based firms in<br />
the alternative investment industry.<br />
Key facts:<br />
• As of 30 June 2007, circa USD<br />
11 billion in AUM (Assets Under<br />
Management) from a global<br />
institutional client base including,<br />
pension fund and corporate clients<br />
from Continental Europe and the<br />
UK, United States and Canada.<br />
• Over 60 experienced professionals<br />
in five locations : London, Geneva,<br />
Guernsey, Miami, Singapore (and<br />
soon New York). London focuses<br />
on trading, risk management and<br />
systems development. Guernsey<br />
and Geneva are dedicated<br />
to operations, settlement,<br />
reconciliation, reporting and<br />
investor relations. Miami focuses<br />
on analysis of special situations in<br />
the Americas. Singapore and New<br />
Delhi focus on Asian investment<br />
opportunities.
Decanting the next vintage<br />
<strong>insights</strong><br />
By Krista Clausnitzer, Development Associate, ISG<br />
ISG students spring from, and<br />
often return to, the four corners of<br />
the Earth. It is always interesting<br />
to know what our graduates go on<br />
to do. This article focuses on the<br />
students who stay on post-16 years<br />
to study.<br />
ISG students are very fortunate in<br />
having excellent resources in the<br />
form of University Counsellors<br />
at each Campus to assist them<br />
with their often difficult and lifechanging<br />
decisions about what<br />
they want to do after graduation.<br />
There are Counsellors responsible<br />
for over-seeing the applications to<br />
the UK, North America and Swiss,<br />
French and other European or<br />
worldwide destinations. I met with<br />
the Counsellors at LGB and La Chât<br />
– and am extremely grateful for<br />
their time and <strong>insights</strong>.<br />
ISG students graduate, aged 17-19,<br />
with either a High School Diploma<br />
or, more commonly, the International<br />
Baccalaureate (IB) or the Maturité<br />
suisse qualifications. Both of these are<br />
available in bilingual options, which half<br />
of our students usually receive. The IB is<br />
increasingly viewed as an international<br />
qualification of choice, particularly in<br />
the UK where a number of high profile<br />
schools recently dropped A-Levels in<br />
favour of the IB. Although ISG is a nonselective<br />
school, we send a large handful<br />
of students each year to the Hautes<br />
Ecoles of Europe, including Oxbridge and<br />
other Russell Group members in the UK,<br />
and many of the Ivy League universities<br />
in the USA. In 2007, ten students from<br />
La Chât alone were offered places at<br />
Oxford or Cambridge universities. A third<br />
of our graduates are going on to study<br />
at the World’s Top 50 Universities (The<br />
Times, Higher Education Supplement).<br />
These results bear testimony not only to<br />
the quality of the students themselves,<br />
but also to the teaching and the guidance<br />
that they receive.<br />
ISG students are an incredibly mobile<br />
and international bunch, often applying<br />
to institutions in more than one country.<br />
In 2007, 99% of our 310 graduates are<br />
going on to further education:<br />
æ 20 are taking a gap year before further<br />
studies.<br />
æ 20 are going to the Worlds’ Top 10<br />
universities.<br />
æ 100 accepted places at the World’s<br />
Top 50 Universities.<br />
æ 25 are going to the University of<br />
Geneva (ranked 39 th ).<br />
æ 1/3 will study in Switzerland,1/3 in the<br />
UK, 1/4 in the USA and Canada.<br />
æ Other study destinations include :<br />
19 to Europe (Spain, France, Holland,<br />
Belgium, Denmark and Norway),<br />
4 to Asia (Japan and India),<br />
4 to Africa (South Africa and Kenya),<br />
4 to Australia and NZ and 2 to South<br />
America (Argentina and Costa Rica).<br />
The experiences of ISG students, the<br />
values and self-belief that they pick up<br />
at school, usually serve them well for<br />
life after school. Perhaps due to the<br />
greater inherent differences of all the<br />
nationalities and the bonds that develop<br />
in finding common ground, community<br />
spirit flourishes. Graduates tend to keep<br />
in touch not only with each other but<br />
also with the school.<br />
The alumni network is very much alive<br />
and kicking, providing many social and<br />
professional opportunities and offering<br />
a strong and vibrant community that<br />
helps to meet and greet newly arrived<br />
students at universities worldwide<br />
and, later on, secure work placements<br />
and introductions in all fields of<br />
specialisation.<br />
One of the proclaimed cornerstones<br />
of an ISG education is that the<br />
diversity of our programmes and the<br />
coexistence of our different educational<br />
traditions provide an excellent all round<br />
international education. This stands<br />
children in good stead wherever they<br />
go on to complete their education. It is<br />
reassuring that the reality bears strong<br />
witness to this particular cornerstone<br />
– both in terms of the excellent<br />
institutions that graduates attend and<br />
the diversity of the destinations that<br />
they choose.<br />
At ISG’s three campuses, there are<br />
currently about 310 graduates each<br />
year : 130 from La Châtaigneraie<br />
and 180 from La Grande Boissière.<br />
Campus des Nations, which opened<br />
in 2005, will have its first graduating<br />
class in 2008 of approximately 40<br />
students.<br />
<br />
echo N o 1 • OCTOBER 2007
Repenser l’Ecole face aux mutations<br />
du monde contemporain<br />
<strong>insights</strong><br />
d’Othman Hamayed, Directeur de l’Education, EIG<br />
Ce moment privilégié où la réflexion philosophique<br />
interpelle les praticiens et décideurs du monde de<br />
l’éducation a été créé à l’initiative de M. Nicholas Tate<br />
dès son arrivée à la direction générale de l’Ecole<br />
Internationale de Genève en collaboration avec<br />
l’Organisation du Baccalauréat International et<br />
l’Association des Ecoles Internationales.<br />
Ces conférences présentent deux caractéristiques distinctes :<br />
d’une part, elles encouragent la réflexion sur l’éducation<br />
dans un contexte social, culturel, économique et politique<br />
en constante évolution et, d’autre part, elles se concentrent<br />
sur les défis communs que doivent relever aussi bien les<br />
systèmes scolaires nationaux que les écoles internationales.<br />
Elles s’adressent donc à un public beaucoup plus large<br />
que celui des écoles internationales, comme en témoigne<br />
l’intérêt de participants venant d’horizons géographiques et<br />
professionnels de plus en plus variés.<br />
En 2006, le thème de la conférence avait anticipé les grands<br />
débats sur la question de l’identité culturelle en traitant<br />
de « l’Ecole à la croisée des cultures » avec la participation<br />
du Professeur Iso Camartin, auteur suisse à qui l’on doit<br />
de nombreux ouvrages sur le thème de la diversité, du<br />
Professeur George Walker, ancien directeur général de<br />
l’Organisation du Baccalauréat International, et de M. Malcom<br />
McKenzie, directeur d’ Atlantic College.<br />
La conférence de 2007 fut consacrée à la question des<br />
langues dans le contexte de l’éducation, une problématique<br />
qui donne lieu à débat dans les systèmes scolaires<br />
d’éducation nationale comme dans les écoles internationales.<br />
L’actualité est riche d’exemples où cette question revêt une<br />
importance cruciale.<br />
M. Charles Beer, Président du Conseil d’Etat, a aimablement<br />
accepté d’ouvrir la conférence pendant laquelle nous avons eu<br />
l’honneur d’écouter le Professeur Claude Hagège du Collège<br />
de France, éminent spécialiste francophone des enjeux<br />
3 ème Conférence sur l’Education<br />
Centre de Conférences<br />
du Bureau International du Travail à Genève<br />
le 12 janvier 2008<br />
de 8h30 à 17h<br />
portant sur les langues et auteur de nombreux ouvrages<br />
en la matière, le Professeur Fred Genesee de l’Université<br />
McGill, expert renommé dans le domaine de l’enseignement<br />
des langues, le Professeur François Grin de l’Université de<br />
Genève, spécialiste en économie de l’éducation et évaluation<br />
des politiques publiques, et la Professeure Hannelore<br />
Lee-Jahnke de l’Ecole de Traduction et d’Interprétation<br />
de l’Université de Genève, experte dans le domaine de la<br />
traduction, de ses effets et de ses enjeux.<br />
Un compte-rendu de ces interventions se trouve sur le site<br />
www.ecolint.ch/news/archives<br />
La Conférence de janvier 2008 se propose de «Repenser<br />
l’Ecole face aux mutations du monde contemporain». Des<br />
conférenciers de renom ont accepté l’invitation de notre<br />
école et viendront stimuler la réflexion des participants.<br />
Ainsi, aurons-nous le privilège de recevoir le Professeur<br />
Howard Gardner de Harvard Graduate School of Education,<br />
le Professeur Philippe Meirieu de l’Université de Lyon,<br />
M. Norberto Bottani, ancien Directeur du Service de la<br />
Recherche en Education de Genève, Mme Monique Seefried,<br />
Présidente du Conseil de Fondation de l’Organisation du<br />
Baccalauréat International.<br />
Le programme détaillé de la prochaine conférence sera publié<br />
dans le courant de l’automne, mais vous pouvez d’ores et<br />
déjà manifester votre intérêt par email<br />
conference@ecolint.ch ou par fax +41 (0)22 787 2557.
To the heart of the matter<br />
our Greek Theatre<br />
quoi de neuf ?<br />
By Jean-Guy Carpentier, LGB Campus Principal, ISG<br />
We are proud of who we are and where we come from and,<br />
for close to half a century, the Greek Theatre at La Grande<br />
Boissière campus has been symbolic of the spirit of Ecolint.<br />
Built with the help of teachers, students and alumni, the<br />
original amphitheatre was constructed in 1934. It was dug<br />
out of the hillside behind our Grand Bâtiment. Twenty years<br />
later, a committee of staff, students and alumni began to<br />
build our Greek Theatre that we know today. Inspired by the<br />
Greek theatre of Epidaurus, in 1953 Mr Robert Stump built<br />
and exhibited in the art studio the first model of what was to<br />
become our Greek Theatre. Works started in 1955. This new<br />
« ancient » structure was inaugurated in 1956. What is certain<br />
is that « Des centaines d’élèves ont pelleté, pioché, poussé<br />
des brouettes ou taillé des pierres pendant deux ans »,<br />
according to M. Pol-Simon at the inauguration of the Greek<br />
Theatre in June, 1956.<br />
year. I am also grateful to the Parent Teachers Association<br />
who agreed to match, franc for franc, further donations to a<br />
value of 100,000 Sfr. The challenge is to match the generosity<br />
of our existing donors to raise the remaining 199,000 Sfr in<br />
this academic year to enable us to complete the renovation.<br />
We want the Greek Theatre to be resplendent when we host<br />
the 2009 World Reunion. The Greek Theatre is a priority for our<br />
2007-08 Alumni Annual Fund here at LGB. We also have left<br />
it to some of the LGB Class ‘73 to share with us what they<br />
think is important and why we need to assure the future of<br />
the Greek Theatre.<br />
l<br />
Over the years the Greek Theatre has suffered from its<br />
constant exposure to the elements. Rain, ice and sunshine<br />
have taken their toll on the concrete and stone structure.<br />
Seats and steps have been eroded and damaged. While<br />
the trees surrounding the theatre provide much-needed<br />
shade, their roots have begun to buckle the steps and have<br />
threatened the structural integrity of the upper levels. And<br />
over the years staff, students and alumni have been called<br />
to help in the restoration of this magnificent edifice and they<br />
remember it fondly – we recently welcomed alumni David<br />
and Nicholas Korda, names familiar to many film fans, both<br />
of whom remembered being called on to roll up their sleeves<br />
and help carry stones to build the theatre.<br />
I am tremendously grateful to the small group of alumni<br />
whose generosity has made it possible to complete the<br />
renovation of the stonework and access to the theatre this<br />
Launching our Annual Fund in 2007/2008<br />
echo N o 1 • OCTOBER 2007
quoi de neuf ?<br />
L’Esprit Ecolint<br />
For those of us who attended Ecolint at<br />
La Grande Boissière, if we had to choose<br />
a symbol that could represent Ecolint,<br />
we believe most of us would choose the<br />
Greek Theatre, just as most people will<br />
choose the Statue of Liberty for the US,<br />
the Great Wall for China, and the Great<br />
Pyramids for Egypt.<br />
A symbol represents the values of its<br />
people, what they stand for, and what<br />
they believe in. We remember Ecolint as<br />
a place where Jews and Muslims shared<br />
food from the same table because their<br />
commonality was « sans porc », when<br />
the simple uttering of racial remarks was<br />
taboo ( and never even considered ), and<br />
when « human rights » were advocated<br />
on our campus years before President<br />
Carter used it as part of his values to<br />
lead the free world! Globalism, a more<br />
recent term, was alive already when we<br />
were at Ecolint and it continues to thrive.<br />
L’ Esprit Ecolint is about seeking<br />
commonality and accepting diversity :<br />
the commonality of human beings<br />
believing in and respecting the goodness<br />
of humanity, and the acceptance of<br />
the diversities in races, religions and<br />
cultures.<br />
Within this atmosphere of mutual<br />
respect and equality, the Greek Theatre<br />
was the gathering place for all of the<br />
more important functions of the school.<br />
It was where we listened to illustrious<br />
visitors like U Thant, where we watched<br />
as the first International Baccalaureates<br />
were presented by Lord Mountbatten<br />
and where just as importantly many of<br />
us « made out ». It was a place where<br />
teachers sat below their students,<br />
a place where no one was « in front<br />
of » anyone else and a place where<br />
everyone could see everyone without<br />
having to turn their heads.<br />
Some of the Class of LGB ‘73<br />
Each year we can make our school<br />
a better place.<br />
The launch of an Annual Fund is<br />
particularly attractive for Ecolint<br />
because gifts collected in one year<br />
will be spent in that year, providing<br />
an immediacy to the benefits (which<br />
is particularly important to the many<br />
families only with us for a short time).<br />
Every single Swiss Franc of your<br />
donation will go directly towards the<br />
goals set by your school ; there are no<br />
deductions for administrative costs or<br />
any other hidden costs subtracted from<br />
your donation. The various projects<br />
supported by the Annual Fund (including<br />
interactive white boards, writers and<br />
artists in residence, new lap tops, data<br />
logging equipment, Sports Centre<br />
equipment and student and staff study<br />
days and conferences) will only be able<br />
to happen to the extent that the targets<br />
are met.<br />
The projects for each school are<br />
determined collaboratively by the staff<br />
and then endorsed by the Campus<br />
Development Groups and Campus<br />
Principals. Amongst their other<br />
projects, all three schools would like<br />
more interactive white boards in their<br />
class rooms. Each white board (with<br />
a projector) costs CHF 6,000 – which<br />
means that 20 gifts of CHF 300 would<br />
change one class room for the better<br />
forever. Students in the 4th grade<br />
commented that, « The white board<br />
allows us to save things from days or<br />
even months ago and come back to<br />
them », « The whiteboard has made it<br />
easy to correct Mr. C’s spelling »,<br />
« We now understand computer<br />
software more because we see Mr C<br />
doing it all the time.»<br />
The Annual Fund is voluntary, so<br />
people can give as little or as much<br />
as they wish. Participation is the key.<br />
In October 2007, a mailing will be<br />
going out to all parents, alumni and<br />
former families, board members, staff<br />
and administration members and our<br />
corporate and institutional partners.<br />
We hope that everyone will help us<br />
make our school an even better place<br />
by supporting our Annual Fund.<br />
For more information or to make a<br />
donation, please visit our website:<br />
www.ecolint.ch / Supporting the<br />
school / Annual fund or call<br />
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Une bonne nouvelle<br />
sportive<br />
quoi de neuf ?<br />
de Christine de Loriol, Communications Attaché, EIG<br />
Le nouveau Centre Sportif de La Châtaigneraie est maintenant en construction<br />
depuis le mois de juillet !<br />
La cérémonie de pose de la première pierre a eu lieu le 25 septembre en présence<br />
des membres des groupes de travail qui ont œuvré activement pour réaliser ce<br />
projet et des membres de la Fondation Hans Wilsdorf pour les remercier de leur<br />
important soutien. En septembre 2008, à l’ouverture du Centre Sportif, parmi d’autres<br />
événements, nous célébrerons les 100 ans du campus comme institution scolaire.<br />
« En 2007, le programme des compétitions sportives a impliqué plus de 29 équipes<br />
de diverses disciplines. Plus de 400 élèves ont participé aux compétitions et se<br />
sont inscrits dans les clubs sportifs des activités extrascolaires » nous raconte<br />
Michel Chinal, Directeur du Campus, « je suis très fier de ce développement des<br />
infrastructures sportives qui sera bénéfique aux élèves de tous les âges tout au long<br />
de l’année scolaire.»<br />
M. Philippe Rossé, de l’entreprise VVR, architecte responsable de la construction du<br />
Centre Sportif, nous a fait part des motivations de son bureau pour ce mandat et nous<br />
en avons profité pour avoir l’avis de Mme Laura Schmoll (parent secondaire) et de<br />
Mme Lauren Roux (parent primaire) sur ce beau bâtiment et ce qu’il va représenter<br />
pour la vie de l’école.<br />
Laura Schmoll and Lauren Roux,<br />
La Chât Parents :<br />
What does the new Sports Centre<br />
mean for sports at La Chât ?<br />
Most importantly, the new Sports<br />
Centre will mean increased facilities<br />
and an enhanced curriculum which will<br />
enable more students to participate<br />
more regularly in sports and fitness<br />
activities while at La Chât. The new<br />
facilities will also certainly help to relieve<br />
the academic scheduling pressures<br />
across the campus.<br />
What do you think students will love<br />
about it ?<br />
Certainly the fact that a new, modern and<br />
attractive building will rejuvenate an area<br />
of the campus that has for far too many<br />
years looked neglected. Also, proper,<br />
spacious changing rooms and showers<br />
will be appreciated, as will the ample<br />
spectator seating for sporting events.<br />
Three things which spring to mind<br />
when thinking about sports at La Chât :<br />
æ A great way to bring the school<br />
community together, whether through<br />
participation or spectator support.<br />
æ An important part of the school<br />
philosophy which encourages<br />
confidence, well-being and a balanced<br />
educational experience.<br />
æ A history and tradition which dates<br />
back to the school’s earliest days.<br />
M. Philippe Rossé, V V R :<br />
Connaissez-vous bien l’EIG ?<br />
Nous avons le privilège de travailler pour<br />
l’EIG depuis de nombreuses années.<br />
Pour répondre au mieux aux exigences<br />
de l’Ecole, nous avons participé à de<br />
nombreuses séances avec les utilisateurs<br />
et les membres de la Direction qui nous<br />
ont fait part de leurs besoins et de leurs<br />
projets et avec lesquels nous partageons<br />
les mêmes ambitions de réussite pour le<br />
futur Centre Sportif.<br />
En quoi le projet du Centre Sportif a-t-il<br />
captivé votre imagination ?<br />
Le bâtiment du Centre Sportif de La<br />
Châtaigneraie a fait l’objet d’un concours<br />
en 2004. Le bureau VVR architectes a eu le<br />
privilège de proposer le projet qui a plu au<br />
jury, par la qualité de son implantation, par<br />
la générosité de ses volumes intérieurs et<br />
sa simplicité fonctionnelle.<br />
La réalisation d’un Centre Sportif nous<br />
semblait offrir une occasion exceptionnelle<br />
de créer un lieu convivial de rassemblement,<br />
au cœur de l’institution, pour<br />
la pratique des sports scolaires, de la<br />
compétition et les loisirs des élèves, ainsi<br />
que pour l’organisation des manifestations<br />
de l’Ecole.<br />
Nous avons conçu un bâtiment de qualité,<br />
techniquement performant, dans lequel<br />
nous l’espérons, les utilisateurs vont se<br />
plaire et dont ils seront fiers.<br />
Trois choses qui viennent à l’esprit<br />
quand on pense à l’EIG :<br />
Notre modeste expérience de la vie sur<br />
le Campus nous permet de relever ce qui<br />
nous paraît être les points forts de l’Ecole :<br />
æ La très grande diversité de la provenance<br />
des élèves constitue un « monde » en<br />
réduction où l’apprentissage de l’autre<br />
est un exercice pratique au quotidien.<br />
C’est le privilège extraordinaire dont<br />
jouissent les élèves de l’Ecole que<br />
d’acquérir, dans ce contexte, un<br />
bagage scolaire, culturel et social,<br />
atouts indispensables pour vivre dans<br />
un monde de plus en plus ouvert mais<br />
exigeant.<br />
æ Le grand sérieux de l’encadrement<br />
que peut offrir l’Ecole par son corps<br />
enseignant et par son administration,<br />
témoigne de la compétence et de la<br />
motivation à dispenser les cours dans les<br />
meilleures conditions.<br />
æ Pour ce qui concerne La Châtaigneraie,<br />
le Campus dispose d’un environnement<br />
magnifique dont le potentiel justifie<br />
pleinement les investissements futurs<br />
en vue de son développement afin<br />
d’offrir aux élèves et aux enseignants<br />
les équipements les plus performants et<br />
agréables possibles.<br />
<br />
echo N o 1 • OCTOBER 2007
esprit ecolint<br />
Spirit distilled<br />
By Diana Smith, Principal of the Primary School, La Châtaigneraie<br />
Our school is in its 84 th year. It is a<br />
wonder how it has continued to grow<br />
and thrive in such a fast changing world.<br />
Values seem to be at the heart of the<br />
matter. Whether we notice as we pass<br />
through or only after years of mature<br />
reflection, our school has values. It<br />
also has conviction and a strong sense<br />
of what it means to be part of the<br />
ISG community : to be exceptional,<br />
an individual and part of the world<br />
community.<br />
Our purpose is enshrined in our Vision<br />
for an International Education but more<br />
wonderfully it is felt and expressed<br />
by generations of students, staff and<br />
families :<br />
Excerpt from Chef Schaller<br />
(a teacher from 1925 - 1967)<br />
« …Dans une école ‘ internationale ’<br />
on peut et on doit rester français,<br />
anglais, …etc, mais on est quelque<br />
chose de plus, on est membre d’une<br />
communauté scolaire où les différences<br />
sont un enrichissement et où s’élabore<br />
une synthèse de toutes les valeurs<br />
permanentes exprimées de façon<br />
différente selon le pays ou la culture<br />
dans lesquels elles s’expriment… »<br />
Text by Louis Johannot,<br />
(a student from 1934 - 1938)<br />
« L’école a un grand mérite : celui de<br />
donner à ceux qui y passent quelques<br />
années les moyens de se préparer à<br />
être des hommes forts, conscients de<br />
leurs responsabilités et ayant sans cesse<br />
devant les yeux l’idéal de paix et de<br />
compréhension mutuelle qui est celui de<br />
l’école.»<br />
Editorial that appeared in the ISG<br />
school magazine ‘Fraternitas’, in<br />
November 1930, by Jean Potter<br />
Chelnov (a student from 1930 - 1931).<br />
« …Between four walls we live together,<br />
and our problems are many. We are a<br />
very diverse group of people and our<br />
common life is an experiment. We are a<br />
sort of miniature world.<br />
Manners and morals, ideas and<br />
ideals, philosophies and principles<br />
vary to an astounding degree in our<br />
small community. Even our senses of<br />
humour clash. We are so very different<br />
from each other that our standard is not<br />
quite definitely set. The standards of a<br />
school rise up out of its prestige and<br />
the convictions left by its graduates as<br />
they go onward into life. Because of its<br />
transient nature, and the fact that it is<br />
made up of more or less cosmopolitan<br />
pupils who are unsettled and rarely stay<br />
for a long period of time, the difficulties<br />
increase. Our school has a unique<br />
problem, and when we complain of<br />
the lack of school spirit we do not<br />
look into the facts of the thing to see<br />
that its attainment is naturally most<br />
complicated.<br />
An achievement demands a clear-cut<br />
aim and whole-hearted striving. We<br />
should have before us our ideal mutual<br />
trust, good-will and understanding, in<br />
little details of our school life as well as<br />
in the greater ones. In common effort<br />
of this sort lies the only chance for a<br />
school spirit.<br />
How actually practical this would be<br />
could only be known in time. But in<br />
seeking to better understand one<br />
another, we are unconsciously fitting<br />
ourselves very well for the world.<br />
The world of today becomes, through<br />
science, more and more a unified<br />
community, with its conflicting and<br />
contrasting lands drawn together.<br />
In principle our school community<br />
illustrates in a small way the situation<br />
to come. In striving for that spirit we<br />
must have or produce unselfishness,<br />
broadmindedness and a sincere wish to<br />
comprehend the convictions of others<br />
in all phases of life. In doing this we<br />
are learning an art which may some<br />
day make us valuable as citizens of the<br />
world, and as seekers of international<br />
peace and prosperity.»<br />
« Why our school is special » by<br />
La Châtaigneraie primary students<br />
in Classes 4, 5, 6, June 2007.<br />
As they were coming to the end of<br />
their school year the La Chât students,<br />
aged 9, 10 and 11 years old, reflected<br />
on what they valued about their school<br />
and shared their thoughts.<br />
æ We have students from all around<br />
the world<br />
æ Avec toutes les différences de<br />
nationalité, on peut tous être amis<br />
æ We can learn several languages<br />
æ We have a very nice Principal<br />
æ On apprend beaucoup chaque<br />
année et on apprend des matières<br />
différentes<br />
æ We have a wonderful Arts Week<br />
æ We have a sports competition<br />
program with other schools<br />
æ We feel safe in our school, it is a<br />
home away from home<br />
æ Nous avons un Conseil d’Etudiants<br />
pour résoudre nos problèmes<br />
æ We are caring because we help<br />
many charities<br />
æ Our Units of Inquiry are connected<br />
to the world – so we understand<br />
world problems like war and famine<br />
æ It encourages good values – caring<br />
and consideration towards each other<br />
æ The teachers respect the students.<br />
The students’ opinions are valued<br />
æ We get a lot more freedom – we are<br />
responsible for our actions<br />
æ We respect each other – no racism<br />
æ Our school recycles
Global Affairs au cœur<br />
de la « Genève Internationale »<br />
esprit editorial ecolint<br />
Depuis septembre 2006, dans le cadre du programme du Baccalauréat<br />
International, Conrad Hughes enseigne les enjeux de la « Genève<br />
internationale » aux élèves du Campus des Nations situé à deux pas de<br />
l’Organisation mondiale pour la santé et le Bureau international du travail.<br />
Ils ont entre 16 et 18 ans et chaque semaine ils prennent le temps de<br />
décortiquer l’actualité et de débattre durant ce cours des enjeux de la<br />
Genève Internationale. Ils découvrent la vie genevoise, le rôle des institutions<br />
internationales, des organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) et des<br />
missions installées à Genève.<br />
« Il s’agit d’ouvrir l’esprit de ces jeunes et de leur permettre de prendre<br />
conscience de la complexité du monde et aussi de leur apprendre à vivre avec<br />
leurs différences » précise Conrad Hughes avec un sourire enthousiaste.<br />
Des intervenants éminents tels que Mme Louise Arbour, Haut-commissaire<br />
de l’ONU aux droits de l’homme ainsi qu’une chercheuse spécialiste du<br />
Timor-Oriental ont ainsi sensibilisé les jeunes élèves aux questions des droits<br />
humains.<br />
Conrad Hughes, originaire du Swaziland, a décidé de mettre sur pied ce cours<br />
de Global Affairs car « quand je suis arrivé à Genève il y a deux ans, j’ai été<br />
frappé de constater à quel point cette ville est un lieu de débats et la proximité<br />
des organisations une chance fantastique pour ces enfants originaires du<br />
monde entier. Une chance dont nous devons profiter.»<br />
Journée de la<br />
Francophonie, le 22 mars 2007<br />
De Founex à Prangins, tout le monde parle français !<br />
d’Olivier Revaz, Professeur à La Châtaigneraie<br />
Un programme qui a retenu l’attention<br />
des médias ! Oui, à La Chât tout le<br />
monde parle français, et plutôt bien<br />
d’ailleurs. C’est justement pour tordre le<br />
cou à des clichés tenaces que tous les<br />
élèves du campus de La Châtaigneraie<br />
se sont attelés le 22 mars 2007 à<br />
célébrer dignement la Journée Mondiale<br />
de la Francophonie, inaugurée par Son<br />
Excellence M. Libère Bararunyeretse,<br />
Ambassadeur de l’Organisation mondiale<br />
de la Francophonie.<br />
A Founex toute la journée, puis au<br />
Château de Prangins dès 17 heures,<br />
l’anglais était quasi banni des<br />
conversations. Nous avons voulu intégrer<br />
cette journée à notre programme de<br />
cours. Le Département de français,<br />
les professeurs francophones ainsi<br />
que 150 élèves des écoles primaire<br />
et secondaire se sont mobilisés pour<br />
préparer un programme riche d’activités,<br />
de rencontres, de conférences et<br />
d’expositions tels que la dictée et<br />
des échanges avec un écrivain, un<br />
ambassadeur, un économiste ou un<br />
cinéaste. Le théâtre a été largement<br />
mis à l’honneur par des productions et<br />
des costumes ainsi que la gastronomie<br />
avec une démonstration de cuisine<br />
moléculaire par Denis Martin, le chef<br />
étoilé de Vevey.<br />
La soirée qui s’est déroulée au Château<br />
de Prangins a été très réussie. Plus de<br />
150 personnes ont suivi les animations<br />
des élèves, on a fait salle comble pour<br />
le « One Man Show » de Florian Raoult,<br />
ancien élève, et pour le concert de Jazz.<br />
Les artistes sont venus gracieusement<br />
pour soutenir la récolte de fonds en<br />
faveur du projet pour le Népal suivi par<br />
les élèves.<br />
Une belle réussite pour nous tous ! Des<br />
informations complémentaires sont<br />
disponibles sur le site web Ecolint page<br />
News ou page Vie scolaire / activités<br />
humanitaires.<br />
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echo N o 1 • OCTOBER 2007
les anciens et pas so old<br />
This year has been an eventful one for<br />
Ecolint alumni all over the world. There<br />
have been reunions in Colorado, Sydney,<br />
Vancouver, Toronto, London and Geneva<br />
and these are only the ones we know<br />
about. Regardless of whether they were<br />
organised by Class Years, local Chapters,<br />
or the Central Committee they are a<br />
testament to the sense of belonging<br />
to a worldwide community that was<br />
fostered by our time at this unique<br />
school. Thank you to all of those alumni<br />
who helped to organise these events.<br />
At the Annual General Meeting last year,<br />
the Alumni Association and the school<br />
agreed to a lump sum annual payment<br />
in lieu of Association subscriptions for all<br />
alumni. This will continue to be the case<br />
for years to come, so we will not be<br />
collecting subscription fees. The great<br />
advantage of this is that we no longer<br />
have to distinguish between those who<br />
have paid their subscriptions and those<br />
who have not.<br />
This publication is just one example of<br />
the considerable resources the school<br />
has put into developing a really effective<br />
alumni programme. Working with the<br />
Alumni Association, the Development<br />
Office has made great strides in this<br />
direction. If you are receiving information<br />
from and about the school first time<br />
in years then it is largely down to this<br />
investment. As always we need your<br />
help to make it even better. We are<br />
looking for class representatives to take<br />
a lead in developing the Class Year pages<br />
of our web-site, volunteers in the Geneva<br />
area who will help run the Alumni shop,<br />
as well as volunteers in Geneva and<br />
beyond who will help organise the next<br />
World Reunion in 2009.<br />
Finally the fact that we are no longer<br />
collecting membership fees does not let<br />
you off the hook completely.<br />
The Alumni Association is actively<br />
supporting the school’s Annual Fund<br />
to be launched this Autumn which will<br />
be supporting projects on a campus or<br />
Foundation-wide basis. I would urge<br />
alumni everywhere to make a gift when<br />
the time comes.<br />
Sam Jarrell LGB ‘72<br />
Alumni Association President<br />
A date for your diaries !<br />
6 th WORLD REUNION in 2009<br />
Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th June 2009<br />
in Geneva<br />
The 5 th World Reunion which took place in 2004<br />
welcomed over 600 alumni, family and friends back to our<br />
campuses. We hope for many more in 2009 !<br />
If you want to make sure all your class are there at the<br />
class dinners, if you would like to see a particular event<br />
or activity arranged, why not join the Alumni Office in<br />
planning for this fantastic event ? If you want to help us,<br />
please contact Fabienne Badibanga at the Alumni Office<br />
by phone +41 (0)22 787 2555, by fax +41 (0)22 787 2635<br />
or by email alumni@ecolint.ch<br />
If you just want to keep an eye on the evolving<br />
programme, why not register now with our alumni<br />
community on http : // alumni.ecolint.ch<br />
Réservez les dates !<br />
6 ème REUNION MONDIALE en 2009<br />
du jeudi 25 au dimanche 28 juin 2009<br />
à Genève<br />
La dernière réunion mondiale qui s’est déroulée en juin<br />
2004 a réunit plus de 600 participants. En 2009 nous<br />
voulons être encore plus nombreux à faire la fête !<br />
Si vous souhaitez réunir votre classe ou participer à<br />
l’organisation d’un événement particulier, rejoignez donc<br />
l’équipe en charge du programme en contactant Fabienne<br />
Badibanga au bureau Alumni par téléphone<br />
+41 (0)22 787 2555, par fax +41 (0)22 787 2635 ou par<br />
email alumni@ecolint.ch<br />
Si vous souhaitez connaître des détails complémentaires,<br />
inscrivez-vous maintenant sur notre site<br />
http : // alumni.ecolint.ch<br />
echo N o 1 • AUTUMN 2007<br />
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Class notes<br />
les anciens et pas so old<br />
ISG sent out a Summer Greetings card in July 2007.<br />
Here are some of the responses we received :<br />
From Left to Right : Carol Gear, Dr Naren Gupta(S-in-L), myself, Dr Adrian Gear and<br />
Ranjana Kaul.<br />
Thanks for the Summer Greetings card received a<br />
short while back. It was nice to hear from you and for<br />
the opportunity to re-establish contact. I have settled<br />
in Montreal, Canada with my wife Ranjana and have<br />
a daughter Rina and son Ishan living in the US. My<br />
daughter is married to Naren Gupta, a surgeon at the<br />
University Hospital in Virginia. My son is still an eligible<br />
bachelor. I have, for the past nearly one year, been<br />
enjoying the joys of being a Grandpa. There are a number<br />
of Ecolint Alumni in North America and I have had<br />
occasion to meet several of them including classmates.<br />
I would be happy to hear from old friends from Ecolint in<br />
the 50’s.<br />
Vijay Kaul LGB left in 1956<br />
José Bernardo Burle de<br />
Figueiredo Jr registered at<br />
our Alumni Website on the<br />
1 st May 2007. José Bernardo<br />
Burle de Figueiredo Sr (LGB<br />
’63), his father, registered on<br />
5th December 2006.<br />
We are waiting for José<br />
Bernardo Burle de Figueiredo<br />
Jr’s uncle and cousin to also<br />
register ! José Bernardo Burle<br />
de Figueredo Jr., La Chât ‘91<br />
En Français or in English<br />
greetings are as warm. (…)<br />
I received your postcard<br />
asking for communication. I<br />
was at Ecolint 1935-40. I am<br />
anxious to be able to find out<br />
about friends from those days.<br />
Gudrun Friis-Williams,<br />
LGB (1935 to 1940)<br />
Although my daughter was<br />
born some months ago<br />
(January 31 st , 2006), I would<br />
like to let my 1999 classmates<br />
get the news… in case<br />
they haven’t received it yet !<br />
Victoria Graham,<br />
LGB ’99<br />
Steven and I are happy to<br />
introduce our baby boy<br />
Sammy! Samuel Robert<br />
Walter Miller arrived with<br />
much fanfare on May 17 th<br />
2007 at 8:04am weighing in at<br />
7 lbs 10 oz and measuring 21<br />
inches. We are doing well and<br />
so thankful to be surrounded<br />
by such loving family and<br />
friends.<br />
Vanessa Camilleri,<br />
LGB ’91<br />
Ecole Internationale 1929<br />
– 1931, âgé de 90 ans.<br />
Universitaire à Paris, médecin,<br />
retraité depuis presque 22<br />
ans. Suis encore en relation<br />
avec mon ami Klaus Dignovity,<br />
résident à Hambourg (R.E.A)<br />
un peu plus âgé que moi.<br />
Nous ne devons pas être<br />
très nombreux du temps<br />
de l’ouverture de l’Ecole<br />
Internationale à Grange Canal.<br />
Jusqu’à sa mort, j’ai rencontré<br />
Karol Meisels à chacun de ses<br />
passages à Paris. Il a marqué<br />
la prise de conscience du<br />
gamin de 14 ans. N’oubliez<br />
pas mon amitié avec Léopold<br />
Goldschmidt, je vois son<br />
neveu qui vit aux USA.<br />
Gabriel Richet,<br />
LGB (1929 to 1931)<br />
Je n’avais passé que trois<br />
années à l’Ecolint, si mes<br />
souvenirs sont bons en<br />
primaire. Je suis veuf d’une<br />
épouse péruvienne et suisse,<br />
ai deux filles Diana (1965) et<br />
Marina (1969). Après quelques<br />
années en Allemagne et<br />
principalement à New York,<br />
j’ai été collaborateur pendant<br />
plus de 30 ans de la banque<br />
Ferrier Lullin & Cie aujourd’hui<br />
Banque Julius Bär. Et je suis<br />
un « retraité » depuis 1994 …<br />
déjà, et toujours bien occupé.<br />
Michel Brandt,<br />
LGB (1941-1944)<br />
I look back fondly to my school<br />
years on your grounds. I was<br />
a Finnish / German teenager<br />
fresh out of Africa (Kenya).<br />
The school welcomed my<br />
uniqueness. My classmates<br />
mostly « displaced » and<br />
« international » like me. We<br />
shared similar souls. I was<br />
never to experience the<br />
calmness and sincerity and<br />
world culture anywhere else.<br />
Anna Kutterman, née Pawelzik<br />
LGB ‘79<br />
(…) Il y a bien longtemps<br />
que je n’ai plus visité<br />
la Châtaigneraie et j’ai<br />
entendu que beaucoup<br />
de choses y ont changé<br />
(…) Je suis marié, avec<br />
une britannique, et j’ai une<br />
fille de trois ans. J’espère<br />
qu’elle aura le même plaisir<br />
que moi-même j’ai eu de<br />
pouvoir faire des études<br />
secondaires dans un milieu<br />
aussi convivial et fascinant<br />
que moi à cette époque.<br />
(…) Mes années à l’Ecole<br />
Internationale furent une<br />
base très solide pour faire<br />
face à la vie professionnelle,<br />
j’y ai beaucoup appris et<br />
non seulement ce qu’on<br />
était supposé apprendre lors<br />
de nos cours mais surtout<br />
sur les autres avec qui on<br />
partage notre planète. La<br />
diversité de cultures qui sont<br />
représentées dans un tel<br />
établissement devrait être un<br />
exemple, pour tout le monde,<br />
que l’on puisse apprendre<br />
quelque chose de chacun<br />
et vivre en paix avec autrui.<br />
Après tout, est-ce qu’on n’est<br />
pas tous de grands enfants<br />
quelque part ?<br />
Pavlik Frank Olsa,<br />
La Chât ‘86<br />
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les anciens et pas so old<br />
So many visits 2006 / 2007<br />
We welcomed over 20 alumni and<br />
former families and staff through the<br />
Alumni Office at La Grande Boissière<br />
this year. Many of the visitors said<br />
they would be delighted to hear from<br />
their former classmates and teachers.<br />
Please do check out the list of visitors<br />
on the News pages of the alumni<br />
website http : // alumni.ecolint.ch<br />
or email us at alumni@ecolint.ch<br />
If we have forgotten to list you please<br />
let us know !<br />
Rita George, LGB ‘62<br />
News from the Antipodes<br />
Marcus Sherwood LGB ’79 has a career (completely<br />
unplanned) background in aviation, communication and IT.<br />
Although remaining active, the battle of the bulge has begun<br />
but optimism (delusion) prevails. Marcus’ fortunes have been<br />
the relationships that he developed with people on his journey<br />
here. Marcus says that in many subtle ways Ecolint has been<br />
a steady keel throughout his life and it is with this in mind,<br />
coupled with life experience, that he looks to the future.<br />
Matt Balogh LGB ‘79 has a market research firm in Sydney,<br />
where his family includes a 17 year old son and 19 year old<br />
daughter. Matt still rides a motorcycle, flies a microlight<br />
aircraft and wears a hat whenever suitable. A teenager<br />
without morals, having failed maths and been banned from<br />
physics from 10 th grade onwards, Matt’s major interests are<br />
statistics, quantum physics and religion.<br />
Rod Katz LGB ’77 has been living in Canberra for 11 years<br />
and is still relatively sane, although unemployable. He<br />
has shown himself to be incapable of persisting in any<br />
endeavour, having been at various times a banker, lawyer,<br />
corporate finance person, transport research scholar, bicycle<br />
advocate and primary care-giver.<br />
Janet Dawson LGB ’74 is working in environmental policy<br />
(now for the Dept. of Environment and Climate Change)<br />
and keeping busy ferrying her daughter Amy (10) to singing<br />
and dance classes and performances, including a recent<br />
school choir performance at the Sydney Opera House ! Janet<br />
is planning a week in Switzerland in September, meeting<br />
up with her parents who will be holidaying in Geneva and<br />
hopefully catching up with some classmates still living in<br />
Geneva as well as Jane Ruth who will be visiting Wengen<br />
from the US.<br />
Janet Shaw LGB ’58 and husband Bob are currently<br />
preparing for a trip to Europe, including taking their two small<br />
grandsons to Geneva and Provence. The whole family will be<br />
together for three weeks before further travels for about five<br />
weeks. They are also hoping to attend the World Reunion in<br />
Geneva in 2009 !<br />
The Big Buzo Night Out<br />
Many of the Sydney Alumni will be attending the first of a<br />
series of plays written by the late Alex Buzo LGB ’62, who<br />
was both a leader in the Australian Alumni group, and one of<br />
Australia’s best know playwrights. The first event will be The<br />
Murphy Show, on the 4 th September 2007.<br />
For more information see : www.alexbuzo.com.au<br />
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Glancing Back<br />
les anciens et pas so old<br />
Andrew Rice / LGB ’40<br />
Andrew has had a career in the<br />
field of international development<br />
and organization. He served as the<br />
Chief Executive Officer for nearly<br />
twenty years at the Society for<br />
International Development (SID)<br />
and held several positions in the<br />
United Nations Association in the<br />
U.S..<br />
It is fascinating to see how even a<br />
brief stint at the ISG can change lives<br />
and influence career choices. Andrew<br />
Rice attended ISG’s LGB Campus<br />
from 1935 to 1936, aged 12 to 13, and<br />
with over 70 years of reflection, he<br />
shares some of his memories :<br />
Looking back, I realize how much the<br />
school’s spirit of internationalism shaped<br />
my professional life. Ecolint operated<br />
in striking contrast to the Italian School<br />
next door where we could observe the<br />
students being trained in the tenets of<br />
Mussolini’s fascism.<br />
I remember watching from the balcony<br />
of the Salle de la Réformation as<br />
Ethiopian Emperor Hailé Sélassié<br />
made his plea – in vain – to the League<br />
Assembly to stop the Italian assault on<br />
his country.<br />
Most of my memories are of less<br />
momentous occasions and revolve around<br />
everyday student life. Some are academic,<br />
such as studying German in French, thus<br />
improving my ability in both languages.<br />
Another is of M. Dupuy’s geography<br />
classes where we meticulously copied<br />
maps of every part of the world. It may<br />
not have been the most « modern » way<br />
of teaching geography, but it left me with<br />
a solid grounding.<br />
Other memories are more lighthearted<br />
like the jam-filled « boules de Berlin »<br />
from morning breaks that gave me a<br />
taste for doughnuts that I have never<br />
lost. I had the excitement of playing<br />
the leading role in J.M.Barrie’s « The<br />
Admirable Crichton », although my<br />
romantic scenes with Lady Mary left<br />
my parents in the audience stifling their<br />
laughter.<br />
I have lost touch with most of my<br />
friends from those early days, but the<br />
spirit of comradeship lives on. I sensed<br />
it especially in November 1963 when,<br />
by chance, I found myself revisiting the<br />
school when a memorial service was<br />
being held for the assassinated John<br />
Kennedy. As an American, I mourned<br />
his loss but it gave me great comfort to<br />
know that my feelings were shared by so<br />
many others. We were all citizens of the<br />
World and, for that, we owed much to<br />
the ISG.<br />
Shahnaz Radjy / LGB ‘00<br />
Do you think that your fellow<br />
students and former teachers would<br />
be surprised to see you where you<br />
are today ?<br />
Yes because I am in a developing<br />
country (Bolivia) and no because of<br />
what I am doing here – volunteer work<br />
with two institutions (Red Cross and La<br />
Paz Children’s Hospital) and starting up<br />
a communications’ company (A-TIC).<br />
They would recognise my idealism and<br />
involvement from school !<br />
Are there three words to describe<br />
you which might be familiar to<br />
fellow students and old teachers ?<br />
Optimistic, overcommitted / busy,<br />
energetic.<br />
What if anything about your time at<br />
Ecolint contributed to getting you<br />
where you are today ?<br />
So many things! It helped forge my<br />
desire to change the world and make<br />
it a better place, confirmed my belief<br />
in people’s ability to be good and<br />
everyone’s capacity to work together<br />
and get along, developed my leadership<br />
and organizational skills, set the<br />
foundation for my self confidence and<br />
“impossible is nothing” attitude…<br />
Support our Gala Première in aid of children<br />
battling to complete their education<br />
9 th March 2008, Victoria Hall, Geneva<br />
We will be celebrating our work and our collaboration with the ISG on the 9 th March<br />
2008 with the Gala Première of a specially commissioned choral work from Scott<br />
Stroman (www.scottstroman.com). More than 300 singers : students of all ages,<br />
parents, staff and friends of the school will take to the stage to support FOTIS.<br />
For more information about the concert, FOTIS’s work or how to make a gift to<br />
support our work please visit www.fotis.ch<br />
What do you think are the biggest<br />
challenges facing students about to<br />
leave Ecolint today ?<br />
Ecolint is a very special place where<br />
nationalities, backgrounds and cultures<br />
mingle every minute of every day<br />
as though it were the most natural<br />
thing in the world. In “real life” things<br />
are not always that easy! Cultures<br />
clash, nationalities disagree, people<br />
sometimes have very odd hangups<br />
and biases against others… Having<br />
to deal with all that suddenly can be<br />
unexpected and difficult.<br />
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coming up or just been<br />
Whatever our former students<br />
go on to do, the ISG experience<br />
seems be something that remains<br />
central as we learned from<br />
Shahnaz Radjy LGB ‘00 (daughter<br />
of Beatriz Crespo-Radjy LGB ’57)<br />
when she came back to visit this<br />
Spring.<br />
How did you get into your current<br />
activity ?<br />
I came to Bolivia to do volunteer work<br />
and by a series of circumstances ended<br />
starting up a communications’ company<br />
( we do websites, video edition, DVDs,<br />
interactive CDs, printed materials,<br />
etc ). The communications bit I built<br />
up through all my activities at Ecolint,<br />
UPenn and the ILO, and the volunteer<br />
work is something I’d always wanted<br />
to do. I chose Bolivia because that is<br />
where my mother is from.<br />
10 ans après…<br />
Rassemblement des Anciens<br />
à la Kermesse de La Châtaigneraie,<br />
le samedi 9 juin 2007<br />
Dix ans après avoir terminé leurs études à La Châtaigneraie… un formidable<br />
rassemblement d’anciens élèves qui se retrouvèrent, grâce à Randel Tolentino et<br />
Thomas Meijer, au stand Alumni de la Kermesse, quel plaisir ! D’autres anciens<br />
élèves, de toutes les années, y compris des très récents et des professeurs ont<br />
pu échanger leurs souvenirs et reprendre contact au cours de cette magnifique<br />
après-midi ensoleillée, qui se prolongea dans la soirée par un somptueux buffet<br />
dans la salle polyvalente. Des visites impromptues des bâtiments nouveaux et<br />
anciens, rénovés et réaménagés furent organisées, et les anciens, émus, purent<br />
revoir leur vieille cafétéria « relookée » en salle d’art, leurs chambres à coucher<br />
sous les toits, à présent dignes bureaux, yearbook room et autres…<br />
Ten years on… Organized with great energy by Randel Tolentino and Thomas<br />
Meijer, a large group of Alumni travelled to meet at the Kermesse ten years after<br />
having left the school, what a fabulous afternoon ! The Kermesse was followed<br />
by a Buffet Dinner in the new building and Alumni, some very recent, others<br />
from ages ago, exchanged memories with staff and friends, and were able to<br />
visit the school, remembering with emotion their old cafeteria redesigned as an<br />
art room, their bedrooms which are offices now, and many more changes.<br />
What for you characterises the<br />
International School of Geneva ?<br />
The International School of Geneva<br />
to me is a place where everyone is<br />
accepted for who they are and which<br />
embodies and fosters humanitarian<br />
spirit.<br />
The two most important qualities<br />
gained from your time at the school ?<br />
Compassion and entrepreneurship.<br />
Best memory ?<br />
Impossible to pinpoint just one best<br />
memory… Going to Istanbul for a Math<br />
contest, the Youth Conference we<br />
hosted at the beautiful Human Rights’<br />
building next to the President Wilson<br />
Hotel, going rafting on the Rhone with<br />
my class for Student’s Day, Kermesses,<br />
dissecting a heart in Biology lab, busy<br />
cafeteria lunches, art classes, sitting on<br />
the green Friday afternoons waiting for<br />
Orchestra practice to start, the enormity<br />
of the playground in primary school,<br />
sharing my mid-morning snack with my<br />
cousin when I was in the « grown up »<br />
primary school playground and she was<br />
still in the kindergarten area….<br />
Andrew Clugtson, Justin Gaywood, Dirk Bettels, Randel Tolentino<br />
Already ten, twenty, thirty years on ?<br />
Celebrating 10, 20, 30, 40 years? If you are planning a drink, dinner,<br />
reunion, gathering, please let Fabienne Badibanga in the Alumni Office<br />
know. We can help you advertise the date and location on our alumni<br />
website.<br />
alumni@ecolint.ch<br />
Tel. +41 (0)22 787 2555<br />
Fax +41 (0)22 787 2635<br />
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2007 Events<br />
La Chât ’97<br />
9 th June 2007 - Randel Tolentino<br />
Our 10 - year reunion started out as an email discussion. We<br />
were all in different countries, all with different ideas on how<br />
to organise the event. Thomas Meijer, Charlotte Conway,<br />
Gabriella Evioni, Andrew Clugston and myself all agreed that<br />
doing something simple would be the best and that meeting<br />
at the Kermesse would be ideal. Then on to dinner at the<br />
Ubobba Restaurant in Geneva.<br />
We had excellent weather - one by one we arrived and<br />
gathered just outside the entrance of the New Building,<br />
next to the alumni stall and did what we came to do -<br />
catch up with old friends and former teachers and have a<br />
good time. We found ourselves right back in the thick of<br />
reminiscing at the restaurant until the late hours of the<br />
evening. With over half of our graduating class attending,<br />
many travelling from as far from the US, our reunion was a<br />
tremendous success. We all felt it all ended too soon, but a<br />
feeling was in the air of already eagerly anticipating the next<br />
reunion.<br />
coming up or just been<br />
LGB ‘75 / ’76<br />
30 th June to 1 st July 2007 - Meera Laurijssen<br />
The perennially young class of ‘75 - ‘76 gathered at Café du<br />
Molard, climbed the Salève, walked in the old town and met at<br />
the Greek Theatre. We were pleased to see some teachers there<br />
and appropriately surprised, chagrined and amused at the various<br />
changes. At dinner in the Gitana in Bellevue we ate – what else<br />
– filets de perches. My thanks to all who came and participated –<br />
it was great fun. Special thanks to Graham and Becky who came<br />
all the way from Australia, and Cathy from the States. Some have<br />
suggested the next reunion in 2012 in London to coincide with<br />
the Olympics.….<br />
Randel Talentino,<br />
Béatrice Hoesli<br />
(Art teacher)<br />
(first row) Meera Pathmarajah-Laurijssen, Graham Dawson,<br />
Eles (Peter Katzin»s girlfriend), Peter Katzin, Ganesh Sundaram,<br />
Per Mahler, David Smith; (second row) Mrs Holden, Norman Holden,<br />
Alan Cocconi, Cathy Brasher-Hwang, Marta Ruth, Rebecca Gaucci-Murray,<br />
Paul Thompson, John McArdle; (third row) Andrew Bassam, Liz Douglas,<br />
John Douglas, Frank Lunt, Mark Zhara, Caroline Head-Hempstead.<br />
La Chât from ‘55 to ’57 - Michel Perrin, journaliste<br />
Ils étaient une soixantaine à se retrouver 50 ans après avoir<br />
fréquenté La Châtaigneraie (Collège Protestant Romand).<br />
D’abord pour un repas au restaurant du Musée Olympique à<br />
Lausanne, puis – un peu moins nombreux – pour une visite de<br />
l’école où ils ont, entre 1955 et 1957, accompli une partie de<br />
leur scolarité, voire préparé leur maturité. Certains avaient fait<br />
le voyage de l’étranger. C’est sur l’initiative d’un ancien élève,<br />
De gauche à droite :<br />
Hans-Peter Jenny, votre directeur Michel Chinal, Jaques Reusser,<br />
John Marinello, Ian Frank, notre directeur Yves de Saussure, Claude Thelin,<br />
Jean -Jacques Manz, Nicolas Kocsis, Fred Pierre-Louis, Lucas Sarasin,<br />
Jean-Marc Ferrier, Michel Perrin, Philippe Cornu, Marc-Henri Plan.<br />
Nicolas Kocsis, aujourd’hui médecin à Lausanne, que cette<br />
réunion a été organisée. Après avoir quitté la Hongrie fin 1956,<br />
Nicolas Kocsis a passé trois ans à La Châtaigneraie avant<br />
d’entreprendre ses études universitaires.<br />
Bon nombre des participants ne s’étaient pas revus depuis<br />
cette époque, mais ils se sont – presque – tous reconnus !<br />
Les retrouvailles ont été particulièrement sympathiques et<br />
chaleureuses, chargées d’émotion parfois. D’autant que<br />
ceux qui avaient entre 15 et 19 ans à l’époque ont eu la joie<br />
de revoir aussi leur ancien directeur, M. Yves de Saussure,<br />
accompagné de son épouse et de sa fille. Yves de Saussure<br />
a tenu à faire lui aussi la visite de la « Chât ». Il a reçu du<br />
directeur actuel, dont l’accueil chaleureux a été très apprécié,<br />
l’ancienne clé de la maison !<br />
Si l’enveloppe du bâtiment dans lequel ces anciens ont passé<br />
une partie de leur adolescence n’a pratiquement pas changé,<br />
l’intérieur, lui, a subi de profondes transformations. Cherchant<br />
ce qui fut leurs chambres, les visiteurs n’ont trouvé que des<br />
salles de classes. L’école, en effet, n’a plus d’élèves internes,<br />
alors qu’ils l’étaient pratiquement tous dans les années 50.<br />
Le site s’est par contre enrichi de constructions nouvelles,<br />
spacieuses et claires, sur ce qui était alors les courts de<br />
tennis ou le terrain de football. Pour ces anciens, ce retour<br />
aux sources a ravivé de nombreux et bons souvenirs. Il y a<br />
été d’autant plus apprécié que le temps, en ce 10 juin 2007,<br />
était particulièrement radieux. Une chance en cette année<br />
marquée par une météo capricieuse.<br />
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coming up or just been<br />
LGB ‘72 / ‘73 - 6 th July to 8 th July 2007 - Sam Jarrell<br />
Our latest Reunion in Jogny this Summer was a special event, perhaps not quite<br />
the numbers of Southampton in 2006 but what a location! The powers that be<br />
even had words with the weather man and managed to conjure up two days of<br />
glorious sunshine in the middle of what had been until then an “été pourri”.<br />
This picture was taken at the Greek Theatre following a wonderful boat trip.<br />
From the back left to the front right : Alan Sharpe, Bernard Reith, Frank Lunt, Ratko Djukanovic, Karin<br />
Bierstein, Michael Rowe, Vicki Verdin, Ivan Stamenkovic, Rajni Chopra, Ambi Sundaram, Jasna Illic,<br />
Claire Watson, Sam Jarrell, Janey Huber, Richard Corbett, Anne Feder, Yoram Singer<br />
La Chât Alumni Dinner<br />
9 th June 2007 - Jennifer Ellis, La Chât ‘06<br />
In June I attended my first<br />
alumni dinner. Eager to<br />
find myself amongst my<br />
former peers, I waltzed<br />
into what might have been<br />
previously called the Salle<br />
Poly. Instead, I found round<br />
tables, delicately adorned<br />
Elaine Griffith, Fayruz Mandil, Jennifer Ellis with dark blue table<br />
cloths and yellow flower<br />
arrangements. I scanned the room. Not many of my peers but,<br />
rather, teachers. I spot Mrs Hatch, Mrs Hoesli, Mrs Wood, Mrs<br />
Curtin and others, all sitting down together and yet surrounded by<br />
students.<br />
Whatever the year, people were mixing freely. At the far end of<br />
the room, I spot a group of previous year’s graduates : huddled,<br />
laughing over a half poured bottle of wine. Outside on the terrace,<br />
another group sits, laughing, chatting, forgetting protocol and<br />
school etiquette in the process. Yet nobody seems to mind, least<br />
of all our pedagogical leaders. Everyone is here to mingle, catchup<br />
and enjoy themselves.<br />
I hope that more of my graduating peers will come and discover<br />
for themselves that this annual dinner and other alumni events<br />
should not remain well-kept secrets.<br />
LGB Coming up for sixty(ish) 10 th to 12 th June 2007<br />
They geared up in fine style for a turning sixty (more or less!)<br />
reunion and Geneva obliged with their very own spectacular<br />
fireworks display – okay we did have to share it with 500,000<br />
others and the Fêtes de Genève.<br />
Participants : Gowri, Prabha, Mrs. Sundaram senior and daughter Lakshmi<br />
Sundaram, Lila Dhami, Arda Yacoubian, Alexa and John Intrator, Riad and<br />
Zein al Khouri and their two great kids George and Mai from Amman, Leena<br />
Kaprio all the way from Helsinki, John and Penny Cole-Baker, Peter and<br />
Diana Wallace, David Beare, Steve Berent, Nalini Parthasarathy, Roseanne<br />
Wildman, Vivian Hakkak, Manu Araoz and Beth Ballin, Mirza Hussain Khan,<br />
Zafar Shaheed, Eashwar and Radhika Kumar, Simone Tabona Ray and Dev<br />
Ray. Some who couldn’t make it sent greetings ( Margo Reiner Vangeli, Axel<br />
Horhager, Hannan Venkataraman, Philip Wheeler, Nandita Jhaveri, Trevor<br />
Blench, Jacquie Richardson ).<br />
Australia Chapter<br />
Matt Balogh LGB ‘80<br />
Contact me at mbalogh@mcnairingenuity.com to get in<br />
touch with Australian Alumni.<br />
There are approximately 140 currently registered Ecolint<br />
Alumni in Australia. The Sydney Chapter of Australian Alumni<br />
tend to get together once or twice a year. Many of us are in<br />
Sydney, although there are also a good covering in Melbourne<br />
and Canberra, and some in various parts of the state of<br />
Queensland.<br />
From left to right in the back row : Marcus Sherwood and wife Barbara, Bob<br />
husband of Janet Shaw, Rod Katz, Colin, husband of Pam Brown, Carmel<br />
Balogh (Matt’s wife), Alex and Harriet Hromas and Vida, Rod’s wife. Matt<br />
Balogh is perched in the middle, while the front row comprises (l to r) Janet<br />
Dawson and daughter Amy, Pam Brown and Janet Shaw.<br />
For the 2007 Winter reunion, it was decided to try holding a<br />
get-together in Canberra, the nation’s capital, and closer to<br />
Melbourne in order to encourage attendance by those living<br />
in all three cities. On Sunday August 18 th , Rod Katz (LGB ‘77),<br />
his wife Vida, and 10 year old daughter Jo hosted the event at<br />
their home.<br />
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à vos agendas<br />
coming up or just been<br />
Each year on our three campuses,<br />
many events are open to all members<br />
of our community.<br />
Please check the school website and<br />
the alumni website for dates or call<br />
the schools directly.<br />
Why not come and join us ?<br />
Sur nos trois campus, chaque année<br />
de nombreux événements scolaires<br />
sont ouverts à nos Anciens junior et<br />
senior. Vous êtes cordialement invités<br />
à y assister.<br />
Dates and details will be updated<br />
regularly and are available on our<br />
websites :<br />
Alumni community at<br />
http : // alumni.ecolint.ch<br />
School website : www.ecolint.ch<br />
All year<br />
All year<br />
All year<br />
2007<br />
Alumni dinners and get-togethers<br />
Campus visits<br />
Theatre shows, Drama nights<br />
19 - 23 November Semaine suisse<br />
November<br />
December<br />
2008<br />
Winter swap sales<br />
Alumni Escalade dinners around the world<br />
12 January Ecolint Education conference in Geneva<br />
9 March Friends of the International School (FOTIS) Gala Première,<br />
Victoria Hall, Geneva<br />
March<br />
March-April<br />
June<br />
June<br />
July - August<br />
Kermesses 2008<br />
31 mai 2008 LGB<br />
Alumni Raclette dinner in Geneva<br />
Arts week & Vernissage Art IB classes<br />
Alumni dinners in Geneva<br />
Graduation ceremonies<br />
Summer programmes<br />
14 juin 2008 Campus des Nations<br />
21 juin 2008 La Châtaigneraie<br />
Humour<br />
A teacher asked some children to write about the sea...<br />
If you are surrounded by sea you are an island. If you don’t<br />
have sea all round you, you are incontinent. (Wayne age 7)<br />
Sharks are ugly and mean, and have big teeth, just like Emily.<br />
She’s not my friend any more. (Kylie age 6)<br />
This is a picture of an octopus. It has eight testicles.<br />
(Kelly age 6)<br />
My uncle goes out in his boat with pots, and comes back<br />
with crabs. (Millie age 6)<br />
When ships had sails, they used to use the trade winds to<br />
cross the ocean. Sometimes, when the wind didn’t blow, the<br />
sailors would whistle to make the wind come. My brother<br />
said they would have been better off eating beans.<br />
(William age 7)<br />
Some fish are dangerous. Jellyfish can sting. Electric eels<br />
can give you a shock. They have to live in caves under<br />
the sea where I think they have to plug themselves into<br />
chargers. (Christopher age 7)<br />
Lipstick In School<br />
According to a news report, a certain school in Garden City,<br />
MI was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of<br />
12 - year - old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would<br />
put it on in the washroom. That was fine, but after they put<br />
on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror<br />
leaving dozens of little lip prints.<br />
Every night, the maintenance man would remove them<br />
and the next day the girls would put them back. Finally the<br />
principal decided that something had to be done. He called<br />
all the girls to the washroom and met them there with the<br />
maintenance man. He explained that all these lip prints were<br />
causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean<br />
the mirrors every night. To demonstrate how difficult it had<br />
been to clean the mirrors, he asked the maintenance man to<br />
show the girls how much effort was required. He took out a<br />
long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned<br />
the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints<br />
on the mirror.<br />
THE MORAL OF THIS STORY :<br />
…There are teachers and then there are educators.<br />
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echo N o 1 •• OCTOBER 2007
Kermesses 2008<br />
LGB – 31 mai 2008<br />
Campus des Nations – 14 juin 2008<br />
La Chât – 21 juin 2008<br />
photos from kermesses 2007<br />
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Fast forward<br />
editorial<br />
coming up in the next issue of echo<br />
in April 2008…<br />
Interview with the Korda brothers : David ‘54 and Nicholas ‘56, our very own<br />
alumni movie moguls<br />
Learning support: learn more about how our Learning Support Programmes<br />
and Learning Centres support students with differing learning needs<br />
Keys to success: how the University and College Advisors on each Campus<br />
help graduates decide where to go on to study<br />
A day in the life: views from a La Chât graduate ‘06 currently studying law at<br />
university in London<br />
Keeping up: school communications in the 21st Century<br />
Alumni visits (visits 2006 - 2007 are posted on the alumni website)<br />
Our On-line Shop will be<br />
launched this Autumn<br />
We will be offering a range of clothing for all shapes,<br />
sizes and ages, each item sporting our school logo.<br />
Whether you are 6 or 60 years old, we are sure we<br />
have something for you!<br />
Check out http : // alumni.ecolint.ch for the launch<br />
of our new school clothing line!<br />
We look forward to seeing our logo wandering the<br />
streets of the world!<br />
Impressum echo magazine<br />
Michaelene Stack, Director of Development | Fabienne Badibanga, Alumni Programme Secretary | Krista Clausnitzer, Development Associate |<br />
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Sandra Venturini, Administration<br />
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