european senate
2015 ISSUE 1
Published by the British Senate on behalf of the Association of JCI Senators in Europe. Editor: Peter Browning. Printed by Ruddocks, Lincoln
What the Duke of Devonshire’s
guests enjoyed
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th March 2015
Your chance to experience another Bill Preece production the British Senate Chatsworth Weekend!
The programme had not been finalised yet but you know
it will be good considering who is organising it – it will be
along these lines:Friday: assemble for meal and socialise.
Saturday: Includes guided tour of Chatsworth, light lunch at
Chatsworth and stroll round the estate returning to the Hotel
in time to prepare for a formal dinner in a private room at the
Dome - the largest unsupported dome in Europe built by the
5th Duke of Devonshire.
Sunday: Walk
Visit www.britishsenate.org.uk for full details
or contact BillPreece at [email protected]
ASE Spring Meeting
You are hereby invited to Harstad, Norway
17th - 19th April 2015
US Annual Senate Convention
Rochester, Minnesota
June 21-25, 2015
Experience US Senate hospitality at their main
meeting of the year. The program includes:• Great River Road “Middle” Wine Trail Tour
• Amish Country Tour with lunch on the farm
• Great River Road “South” Wine Trail Tour
• Mississippi River Valley Tour & National Eagle Center
• Rochester City & Mayo Historical Tour
• Trip to the Mall of America
• Historic Lanesboro & Bluff Country Wineries
• Hal Krekorian Golf Tournament
• Daily Hospitality
• Year End Banquet
For more information contact Sharon Leppla at
[email protected] or +01 507 359 9345
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A small city in North Norway you can come by car, boat (www.
hurtigruten.com) or plane - Sadly not by train.
With a long history the area has been populated since the stone
ages with many stories which you might get to hear. Modern
Harstad is founded on herring and ship building.
I have tried to put together a programme that shows you the city
where I grew up, its past, its present and its future. At the same
time not filling up every minute of time, but leaving time to spend
together with good friends.
For 2500 NOK per person the programme will include a visit to
Statoil, a boat trip to Grøtavær Brygge for dinner, lunch at Røkenes
Gård, a formal dinner and of course a Senate Bar.
A Special invitation to all Senate Presidents & Chairmen - I hope
many will take this opportunity to meet each other and discuss all
the ifs and buts!
Please come and enjoy the north, its mountains, its sea view and
its spirit.
For more information or to book please contact
Aud Schjødt Fredriksen at [email protected]
Get In Touch Welcome
WELCOME
Peter Browning #49104
Letters to the Editor
We are always pleased to receive
‘Letters’ from JCI Senators and
their families with your news, views,
activities or just something you want to
share with your fellow Senators.
Please send your letters or other
contributions for the magazine to the
editor, Peter Browning #49104, The
Coach House, Woodhouse Lane,
Marchwiel, Wrexham, Wales, LL13 0ST
+44 1978 365 451 peter.browning@
virgin.net
Births, Significant Events &
Obituaries
If you have had a significant event in
your life we would be very pleased to
hear about it. Likewise we would like
to hear from you about the deaths,
engagements,
marriages,
births
and significant birthdays of your
fellow Senators. Please send details
and photos to the editor at peter.
[email protected]
Photographs
We are always looking for interesting
photographs of Senators at work, rest
& play so please send them to the
editor at [email protected]
To maintain the high quality print of
the magazine we need high resolution
pictures so please try to send us images
taken with a high number of pixels and
send them as an image file attachment.
Change of Address
If you have moved or changed any
of your contact details please let us
know by contacting Penny Gill #61930,
the Database Manager by email at
[email protected]
or
phoning +44 7765 242 517
Happy New Year and welcome to the
New Look European Senate magazine. I
hope it was not too much of a shock when
it landed on your doormat and like the
improvements/changes we have made –
please tell me what you like and what you
do not like!
You may be wondering why the change
when everyone was telling me that the
magazine was very good. As you know
nothing can stand still - as a professional
‘Change Manager’ and a Jaycee I thought
that after almost 10
years
since
Gavin,
Henry and I met to
change from the old dull
yellow paper style to a
sharper white paper with
a few pictures it was time
to do another refresh of
the design. I know that
over the 8 years I have
been editor we have
evolved the magazine
into what you have come
to expect by first adding
a lot more pictures,
shortening the length
of individual articles
whilst also increasing the pagination and
then introducing some colour and always
tweaking the design - but 10 years of
basically the same design is a long time
in publishing.
I also thought that as we have gone
back down to 3 issues per year due to
the ever increasing postage costs that
we had to give you, our loyal readers,
something back in return – an ALL colour
magazine! This and the fact that 2015 is
the 100th anniversary of JCI prompted me
to decide that it was time for a redesign
while hopefully still retaining the familiar
look and feel of the magazine. I am sure
that with this first one we will not have got
everything right but let us know and the
next issue should be even better.
I also have to thank Jon at Ruddocks
who has come up with much of the
redesign from my briefing and of course
I also have to thank everyone who has
sent me photographs and articles which
have enabled me to fill 48 pages again –
some achievement considering we had a
magazine in November plus one at the end
of December giving a total of 140 pages
in about 4 months! Please keep it up –
both the individuals who send me things
and the Senate Presidents/Chairmen who
cajole people into sending me articles –
as I frequently say the magazine can only
be as good as what I am sent and I could
still receive more from many of the Senate
organisations throughout Europe.
Pictures, which I know
are very important to the
readers, are often famine
or feast – for Leipzig I had
close to 1000 pictures to
choose from while I had
no recent ones of me
for this editorial so I had
to dig out an old one! I
also sometimes only get
pictures that are not really
of the quality you and
I expect. For example
on pages 13 and 16
you will see some small
pictures – that is as large
as we can print them
without the definition deteriorating below
an acceptable print quality so please try to
make sure you get high resolution images
to send me – the camera has usually
taken them at a suitable resolution – it is
the storage and transmission methods that
often reduce the resolution but please also
make sure your camera or phone is set to
take a reasonably high quality image.
Finally imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery and you will see that there are
several examples in this magazine – the
Danish Drumming Out, the Swedish Chain
Changing Dinner (CCD) and the Turkish
CCW (Chain Changing Weekend) have all
spring up after the example of the British
Drumming Out which has been going for
about 40 years!
This is also the 40th year of a bound
magazine!!
Slainte Mhath
Peter Browning
JCI Senator #49104
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IN THIS
ISSUE
Articles & Features
Je Suis Charlie9
Ellen Olsen
Conjugated to the Past
27
Jacques Arnal
A Warm American Welcome34
Russell W. Cooper
World Congress Ramblings21 Senate Calendar
Peter Duffy
Better Late Than Never23
Neil Thomas
Forthcoming Events
Future Highlights
24 & 25
2, 10, 12, 13, 17,
22, 29, 34 & 44
Home Hospitality26
JCI Braunschweig Foundation35
Max Tuijtel
Friedhelm Wachs
All Better For It28
Marco van den Heuvel
Story of the BBC T shirt39
Pauline Ashley
Shadow Tours
From the President
Ellen Olsen
30 – 31
David Grainger
All Change
Ali Akal
BBC News & Views39
Meet the Presidents
Past and Future
Senate Events
A Lot of Laughter!
Senate Matters
Ali Akal
5
13
14 – 16
38
6–7
Margaretha Eriksson
Obituaries
Eric Foster #936522
Alex Burns #3941622
How to Shock
a Swedish Senator!
Mike O’Connell #4022522
32 – 33
Carro Rentzhog
A Trip in German Time
and Space
Regular Features
36 – 37
Gayle & Roger Farr
Boys (& Girls) with their Toys8
Elaine Senior
Norwegians on Tour!18
Grave Danger Tours40
Chris Read
World Congress Reflections41
Sally Fagan
Charlotte Tipsmark
42 – 43
Paul Hill
My personal JCI-Multi-Jubilee20 Golf in the Snow?48
Thomas Spanich
4
Rebecca von Bachellé
Peter Browning
Letters
10 - 12
New Views Through
Old Glasses17
Ole Jacob Raad
New Senators26
Aud Schjødt Fredriksen
A Glimpse of
A Personal Jubilee!19 The Blue Danube!
Welcome3
Grave Danger
Towards the End Senate Contacts
45
46 - 47
In the Next Issue44