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anniversary REELING IN THE YEARS 50 years of IAESTE Ireland Nick Leonard Former National Secretary NICHOLAS LEONARD’S PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON SOME OF THE PEOPLE AND EVENTS FROM THOSE YEARS …. 50 This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of IAESTE Ireland. Fifty years since Peter O’Neill of University College Dublin’s Mechanical Engineering Department introduced IAESTE to Ireland. It is a celebration of the thousands of young people who benefited from the unique IAESTE experience. Most have faded from my memory, into the mists of time, but some remain. Recently, in a restaurant in Northern Ireland, the waitress at our table turned out to be an architectural student of Queens University Belfast, 14 ANNIVERSARY
“IAESTE Ireland celebrated their 50th Anniversary at the Presidents Residence on 18 September. It was a fantastic event with representatives past and present from within IAESTE, trainees, employers and universities. The recently returned trainees have ignited a new enthusiasm for the programme in Ireland and with the co-operation of companies and universities we hope to have a very active programme into the future”. just returned from a traineeship in Brazil. I had to interrupt my dinner, and she her work, such was her enthusiasm to recount her exciting Brazilian IAESTE experiences! When I drive along the quays in Cork and look at the new apartment blocks, I am reminded of Heraldo, an architectural graduate from Brazil who came here as a trainee in the ‘80s and never left. He rode the Celtic Tiger and continues to leave his unique mark on the landscape of Ireland’s second city. I think too of Frank who came from Bangkok to a two-month traineeship in Dublin and who, years later, is still contributing to Ireland’s booming software industry. Tongdee’s loss has been our gain! My own son, John, traveled to Poland at the height of the Solidarity campaign, learning little about Civil Engineering, a lot about life. When Heraldo arrived I was the new National Secretary, succeeding Jim Reid and operating the IAESTE programme from the Careers Service of University College Cork. During that time we hosted the Annual Conference and I particularly remember the visit to Coolmore stud in County Tipperary. This was prompted by the Egyptian National Secretary, the wonderful, larger than life Ezzat El-Mehairy who embraced people of all nationalities, without exception, in the IAESTE family – and who loved horses! When I retired from UCC I sought a more permanent base for IAESTE Ireland and Leargas, with the backing of the Department of Education, was the obvious choice. This move reflected what had already happened in Northern Ireland, with our IAESTE friends and colleagues running a very successful programme, based within the British Council – and doing it during difficult times in Northern Ireland, under the inspired guidance of Pauline Ferguson, Jim Reid and Pauline Ferguson - names to conjure with! Jim was Ireland’s second National Secretary. Both Pauline and Jim went on to become General Secretaries of IAESTE International. With IAESTE safely within Léargas, I was eligible to seek the newly established post of IAESTE Ombudsman. Another three years with IAESTE, with visits to Bangkok, Vienna and Cartagena. What a bonus! The Colombian post-conference tour into the Andes, including a visit to beautiful and historic Villa de Leyva, will remain forever in my memory. There were just four of us, the late Lucien Seywert from Luxembourg, his wife Adrienne and Uros Kovsca from Slovenia and we had the luxury of a car, a driver and one of Bernardo Baeyen’s students, Leonidas, as translator and guide. Thank you Bernardo for your wonderful generosity and hospitality. I am optimistic about the future. Ireland’s present economic difficulties, along with a proliferation of national and college based work experience programmes, put pressure on IAESTE. Yet Ireland has a number of buoyant industries, particularly software, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and food, which will form the basis for renewal. Most of all, I believe that the unique IAESTE experience is worth fighting for. IAESTE ANNUAL REVIEW 2012 15
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