Summary of our activities in Cannes 1998

Paris, 1st of June 1998.

The main purpose of the meeting was of course to enjoy ourselves and to meet all together again. About 15 alumna came from all around Europe and also from the US : Philip BILLE (MBA'89) and Peter HOLZNECHT (MBA'84) came for example from Belgium, Eric Bernard (MBA'89) and Pierre NECHELIS (MBA'93) from France, Alex HADZINIKOLAIDIS (MBA'89) from Greece, Alfried LEWANDOWSKI (MBA'90) from Germany, ALI FATAH (MBA'90) from San Diego, Gianni CERUTTI (MBA'89) from Italy, Knut BERG JACOBSEN (MBA'91) from Norway, Tuomo HYYSALO (MBA'90) from Finland, and Greg SICARD (MBA'90) from Haiti.

In the first afternoon, we have visited the beautiful castle of the "masque de fer" in Ile St marguerite now a famous movie with Di Caprio.

At night the dinner at " Carlton" took place surrounded by movie star like Andie Mac Dowell, for those who weren't tired we went to Monte-Carlo at the club Paradise to have some Tequila shots. Hopefully the karting race took place the next day at 2pm which allowed us to get some rest. But it wasn't over and we did have a bbq at my house on Saturday night. This was THE night where we took some important decisions :

- Mr. Alex HADZINIKOLAIDIS proposed to organize the next year meeting in Greece.
- Mr. Arnaud HAEFELIN will create the European organization based on an association.

We all think that it is impossible to develop a strong network and a USD alumni spirit in Europe and to keep track of everybody without creating an organization with one person specially dedicated for that. We also underlined the difficulties to maintain a link with the new graduates.

The next day after a brunch at my house we all went to the 1998 Formula 1 Grand Prix in Monte-Carlo. This is always a special event : the track is directly in the town with speeds over than 250 km/h. This year we saw the Mc Laren Mercedes overwhelming the competition : Mika Hakkinen won with more than 30s. on the second.

Finally I would like to thank everybody for coming and I hope that we will be many more next time in Greece to discover this great country all together.

ARNAUD HAEFELIN - MBA'90

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