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Dear Friends,

This day marks the opening of our Cyber collection of memories from our time in Lausanne and the various Anniversary reunions that have taken place since then. Already news from our colleagues are coming with messages like:

"... Just few minutes was enough to travel from 1978 to now. All of us got old, few passed away but still lots of energy I can feel inside the group.
Now we can be updated imediately by just writing few words. Let´s do it."
SERGIO GARGIONI: sergiogargioni@gmail.com

 Earlier Comments (11)

Jorge Arredondo                                                                                         08/06/2013 5:52am

You are welcome to contribute here with comments on personal, family news, plans, celebrations, or other issues you would like to share with the PED15 community.

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SERGIO                                                                                                        08/10/2013 4:04pm

Great idea to have a special area to put information about us. I would like to read and see (pictures) of all PED 15 friends are doing and what they comment about the day to day life. Let´s practice.

Few words about me. Now almost 65 (Oct 31st) still working hard: CEO of a state foundation for supporting R&D&Inovation projects; teaching part time at University; member of few organizations boards; president of a national council of state foundations.

Married with same wife, Maria Cacilda, one daugther Paula 28, still at home.

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Jorge Arredondo                                                                                         08/10/2013 4:53pm

Great Sergio!!!, and thanks for your quick and positive response!!

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David Evans                                                                                                 08/10/2013 5:25pm

Great stuff Sergio. You make me feel very old - 74 next week. After the shock of losing my wife Ann in 2004 I was very lucky to find Janet who came with me to our 34 year reunion last year. Her first remark "how amazing that you have such good friends from 34 years ago". So I now have 5 children and 9 grandchildren. Interestingly my Swiss grandson has just joined Nestle to make the third generation of my family to join the company. With all this I have no time for work - stopped 5 years ago. Hope everyone will come to the next reunion which will be in Switzerland in the autumn of 2014. Camille will be the organiser

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SERGIO GARGIONI                                                                                     09/01/2013 3:47am

David,

Great news the next reunion in CH autum 2014. I will be there for sure. Any idea about date?
I'll be in London next October 20 to 28 for a official mission. It will be great to meet you and Armitage. I will send you more information latter.

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Jean Pierre Hainaut                                                                                    08/13/2013 5:52pm

I'm really pleased to see the old guard of PED 78 is still alive and full of projects , staying up to date with the technical innovation. Thank you for Jorge and his supporters ,
Yours cordially,
jean pierre

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Jorge Arredondo                                                                                         08/13/2013 6:13pm

Wonderful to know you are pleased with the idea Jean Pierre, and your comments now and in the future are the most valuable motivation to move on with renewed and modernized energy!

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Kurt Schaer                                                                                                  08/19/2013 12:06pm

What a pleasant surprise to hear from PED 15.
My coordinates are unchanged as follows:
e-mail: kurtschaer@bluewin.ch (also: k-m.schaer@bluewin.ch)
mail: Route de Nialin 6
CH-1073 Savigny
phone: ++41 (0)21 781 22 42
Looking forward to good news coming through the link that you are kindly setting up
Best regards and good wishes
Kurt Schaer

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Jorge Arredondo                                                                                        08/19/2013 7:30pm

Hello Kurt!! Wonderful to hear from you after so many years and trust this initiative will help strengthen our communication.
You can’t imagine how many times I’ve brought back the learning experiences during our days at IMEDE, particularly your dissertations on Finance that has evolved to become the center of the present world’s re-shifting, together with the Information and Communication’s developments.
As I understand, you are active in your academic profession; certainly now equipped with the latest technology – imagine how we could survive without Excel those days!!!
You used to say: “I am afraid I’m not mechanically minded, but I appreciate that some of my students have arrived in the world and are able to keep me advised of the time”.
And remember these other famous Quotes?
- “Nobody had really the time to think about the difference between common and preferred shares in terms of convertible bonds… (Merger negotiations)
- “The situation became more tense. Pedro started sucking his pipe more and more until he dropped it and switched to cigarettes…”
- “At 12:47pm all kinds of offers were coming out…”

Best regards.

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roberto naufal                                                                                             08/19/2013 11:18pm

It was a great pleasure to join this young fellows group again , I mean very young due their open spirit and mature kindness of all.

Thanks to THE host Phillip , I wonder where will be next meeting , don´t take too long so everyone will be in good shape for good and daring adventures .

Jorge , congratulations for your work on this site . This was a very nice way to remember those good times .

Wishing the best to all PED-15 members ,

ROBERTO NAUFAL