General Assembly - Vote of thanks
From SI Exco News
GENERAL ASSEMBLY - VOTE OF THANKS
8th April 2006 – Park Hotel, Latina, Italy
The Servas International General Assembly was held here at Latina from Sunday 2nd April through to Saturday 8th April 2006.
There are many persons to recognize for their valuable contribution to the General Assembly and I am taking this opportunity now to say “thank you” to them.
Anna Flammini, Mario Burlando and Uwe Federer and their volunteers (Cristiana, Mila, Teresa, Leonardo and Michael - the host country of Servas Italy who did such a magnificent job of work. “GRAZIE”
Penny Pattison, Chris Patterson, Pramod Kumar, Rami Rafaeli and also in the early stages of their work Muriel Gipalou – many hours of planning the General Assembly agenda in their role of the Agenda Working Group.
Pat Patfoort, Julie Dotsch and Chris Jones - Moderators ‘Extraordinaire’.
Gary Sealey - Interim Program Chair for the General Assembly.
Vibeke Matorp and Marissa Contini – Secretariat.
Elena Praxia - Interpreting the motions for projection onto the main screen
Siri Gunn Simonsen and Dag Eirik Eikeland – Day Zero Presentation.
Demelza Lewis and Alex Dali – Daily publishing of the GA Newsletter.
Amir Levy and Michael Johnson –‘Media Team’ of camera and video.
David Asher – many hours of computer keyboard work to provide us with a complete set of GA Minutes.
Frits Stuurman, Inken Resa-Thomas, Jacqueline Spaak, Julie Dotsch, Mary Jane Mikuriya, Norma Nicholson, Pramod Kumar, Ramesh Sharma - Subject Working Group.
Sylvia Krogh - assisting Elena with motions being projected onto the main screen
Servas International is grateful for the support and assistance provided by the following professionals in preparation for the 2006 General Assembly in Latina:
Legal Advice
Dr. Fresta of Italy, Dr. Huber of Switzerland and Dr. Baumann of Switzerland
Accounting
Raisin-Dadre of Switzerland
Translation
Translators into Spanish:
Ramiro Oliva of Argentina, Alex Casin of Argentina, Beatriz Giri of Argentina, Mónica Bingo of Uruguay/Argentina and Laura Ragucci of Argentina.
Translators into French:
Marcelina González of Argentina, Violeta Viola of Argentina, Karin Evrard of Belgium, Michèle Lescot of Belgium, Danièle Monfette of Canada, Maria Gloria Borsa of Italy, Fanny Bousquet of Belgium and Jean Seymour of England.
Dr. Nelida B. Verdejo of Argentina helped review certain translations for accuracy. Rita Dessauvage of Belgium who helped recruit volunteer translators.
Website
Team Leader - Claudio Pacchiega of Italy.
Stefano Dell’Arti of Italy, Uwe Federer of Italy, Amelia Giodano of Italy, Daniele Passalacqua of Italy, Ender Gencal of Turkey, Ömer Özkan of Turkey, Hans Bruckmann of Netherlands, Jo Verwimp of Belgium, David Wightman of Canada, Gary Sealey of Canada and Stephen Slessor of Canada.
There are many of you not listed here who have assisted Exco in the planning and operation of the General Assembly – please accept my thanks for your contribution.
It would be remiss of me if I did not mention my Exco team of HONORA CLEMENS, CLAUDIO PACCHIEGA, GARY SEALEY and OMER OZKAN. They have been a great team to work with and I appreciate their dedicated involvement and valuable contribution in the day to day running of Servas International. “THANK YOU”.
I wish the ‘new’ Exco team and other S.I. Officers under the leadership of S.I. President Gary Sealey, a happy and rewarding term of office with a bright and successful future for Servas.
In peace and friendship
Geoff Maltby
Immediate Past President – Servas International
