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In MemoriamNicolas Reynard ('77), Bernard Mendès France ('54), Gerard Crouzilhat ('72), Valerie (Noel) Claisse ('72), Ariel Brun de Pontet, ('58), Jacques Rouxel ('49), Jacques de Panafieu ('47), Alix (Hamburger) Deguise ('43)(Scroll to below the last article, for a full list of Lycee alumni and staff who are deceased, to our knowledge.) ● Nicolas Reynard ('77) died in a tragic air plane crash on November 11, 2004. This obituary appeared in National Geographic News. "Geographic Photographer Dies in Amazon Plane Crash, by Caroline Braun National Geographic Society (November 12, 2004): French freelance photographer Nicolas Reynard, who had worked for the National Geographic Society several times, died yesterday. The seaplane in which he was traveling crashed in the Negro River near Manaus in northern Brazil.... Reynard was on assignment for three French magazines. Reynard, who was based in Paris, photographed the August 2003 National Geographic cover story, "Into the Amazon." For the assignment, he spent three and a half months following an expedition through virgin jungle in Brazil's westernmost Amazon Basin. The expedition gathered information on the territory of the Flecheiro tribe, a remote, uncontacted indigenous people living in the far recesses of the Brazilian Amazon. (Read Reynard's field notes from the assignment: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0308/feature1/assignment2.html) Reynard also photographed the September 2003 Adventure magazine story, "The Gabon Experiment." (See photos by Reynard of Gabon, Africa: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0309/photo_index.html) Reynard first worked with National Geographic in 1996, when he provided photographs and wrote almost 70 dispatches for the nationalgeographic.com Web feature Korubo: Expedition Contact. The expedition culminated in the first ever peaceful contact with the hitherto uncontacted Korubo Indians of Brazil. "He was a friend as well as a photographer, dedicated to both his work and to the people he photographed. We will miss his presence, but he will remain in our hearts," National Geographic Editor in Chief Bill Allen said. Valerie May is a National Geographic senior editor and former nationalgeographic.com managing editor. She worked with Reynard on the Korubo expedition and remembered him as "exciting, energizing, and fascinating. His enthusiasm brought us to the limits of what was possible with the Korubo Indian story." THE ACCIDENT Daniel Rosenthal, the French honorary consul in Manaus, said the seaplane in which Reynard was traveling yesterday had taken off and landed repeatedly to allow the photographers to shoot. "Suddenly it was gone," he told Agence France Presse. "There was nothing left but the floats." "The seaplane sank deep in the river, where the waters are murky, and divers took time finding the airplane, which broke in thousands of pieces," local fire chief Franz Alcantara said. Reynard traveled the world on assignments documenting such diverse subjects as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the gulf war, Caribbean sharks, and stingrays. His work appeared in numerous international magazines, including Life and the New York Times Magazine. He was photo editor-in-chief of the French magazine VSD in 1999. Reynard is survived by a young daughter. Funeral arrangements are pending." ******************************************************************************** ● Michel Mendès France ('54) informed us that his brother Bernard Mendès France ('54) passed away in 1991. ******************************************************************************** ● Bea Mezei-Rhodes ('73) sent us this sad news regarding Gerard Crouzilhat, '72: "I was browsing through the different class years on the Lycée website and realized that you are always searching for alumni information. I wanted to let you know that Gerard Crouzilhat, Class of 1972 passed away several years ago. I believe he died of a heart attack following complications with diabetes. Last I heard his mother was working at Bloomingdales in the city. That's all I know and wanted to pass it on." ******************************************************************************** ● Patrice Claisse informed us that his wife Valerie (Noel) Claisse, '72 passed away in Octorber, 1995. ******************************************************************************** ● Wendy (Kupsick) Sherman ('58) wrote to us regarding Ariel Brun de Pontet, '58: "I see you are looking for information on my colleagues from the class of 1958. One of them, Ariel de Pontet, died [recently]. I don't know more than that." We were able to find further details on Ariel's passing, which was memorialized in the "Princeton Alumni Weekly" of 7/4/2001 as follows: "Ariel Brun De Pontet '62: Ariel died at home in Washington, D.C., of colon cancer on Sept. 23, 2000. Never one to dwell on illness, he sustained his family and friends with his gusto for life and incredible integrity. He was admired at Princeton and beyond for his continental savoir faire and grace. Born in Lisbon as his parents fled the Nazi invasion of Paris, he lived in New Orleans and Mexico before returning to France in 1948. His father's business and a deep connection to their adoptive America kept the family shuttling between Paris and NYC. Ariel graduated from the Lycee Francais in NYC. Ariel's life was wonderfully multicultural, multilingual, and ecumenical. His passions included his 32-year career at USIA's office of research, his family, and languages. Ariel relished not fitting the mold - a Lycée boy in Tiger Inn, a slow driver in a green Corvette dubbed Frogie. He was a parent who believed in and delighted his children, a Frenchman who loved America and served it with honor. Ariel leaves his wife of 23 years, Joan, their four children, Thomas Glade, Julia Glade Bender, Stephanie Brun de Pontet, and Philippe de Pontet '63, and six grandchildren. His sister, Joelle, and father, Dr. Andre Brun de Pontet, live in Paris. His first wife, Lorraine Baillargeon, died in 1975." ****************************************************************************** ● Sebastien Laurentie ('49) shared this with us: "Cher amis: Triste nouvelle. Jacques Rouxel ('49) est mort il y a quelques jours. Il etait en premiere et en math-elem de 47 a 49. Je crois qu'il est retourne en France apres le bac et qu'il a fait HEC. Il a connu une certaine notoriete dans les annees soixante grace a une emission de tele "Les Shaddok", sorte de dessin anime loufoque. Le deuxieme principe de la logique shaddok est: "pourquoi faire simple alors qu'on peut faire complique?", remarque que s'attiraient certains eleves de philo lorsque notre prof, Alyette Sotiroff, rendait les copies. Preuve que les etudes sont utiles." Further details were given in Le Monde.fr of April 27, 2004, as follows: Jacques Rouxel, le père des Shadoks, est mort Jacques Rouxel, le créateur des Shadoks, est décédé dimanche à Paris à l'âge de 73 ans "des suites d'une longue maladie", a annoncé son entourage lundi 26 avril. Ses funérailles auront lieu vendredi au cimetière du Père Lachaise. Né le 26 février 1931 à Cherbourg, dans la Manche, M. Rouxel a décroché son baccalauréat au lycée français de New York en 1946. Diplômé de l'Ecole des hautes études commerciales (HEC), il avait développé son goût pour le dessin pendant son service militaire en tant que contrôleur de l'Aéronavale, qui l'avait conduit notamment en Algérie, en Tunisie et en Egypte. En 1957, il avait entamé une carrière dans la publicité, pour se tourner vers l'audiovisuel en 1961. En 1965, il était entré à l'ORTF au sein du service de la recherche. Au cours d'expériences sur des prototypes de machines à dessin animé, il avait créé les célèbres personnages des Shadoks et ceux, moins connus, des Gibis. A la question "comment l'idée des Shadoks vous est-elle venue ?", Jacques Rouxel répondait que "les idées ne viennent pas, il faut aller les chercher ! Là, la vraie idée de départ, c'était de faire des spots publicitaires sans publicité. Plus exactement : des trucs très courts, transposer à la télé le concept de ‘comic strip' de journaux, du genre Peanuts dont j'étais fan... " "UN MONDE ÉPOUSTOUFLANT" La première série de 52 épisodes des Shadoks est diffusée à la télévision à partir de mai 1968 et divise la France en pro-Shadoks et anti-Shadoks. Suivront deux autres séries de 52 épisodes chacune, diffusées à partir de juin 1970 puis de décembre 1974. En 1973, Jacques Rouxel fonde avec Marcelle Ponti et Jean-Paul Couturier le studio aaa, au sein duquel il réalise quelque 80 dessins animés éducatifs, institutionnels ou publicitaires, comme une série sur l'histoire de l'aspirine ou une campagne sur le passage à l'euro pour un réseau de stations-service. En 1970, il avait publié une bande dessinée quotidienne des Shadoks dans France-Soir, en collaboration avec Jean-Paul Couturier. Les Shadoks apparaîtront à nouveau en bande dessinée hebdomadaire en 1993 dans le magazine Globe. Une quatrième série d'animation de 52 minutes des Shadoks, Les Shadoks et le big blank, est diffusée en 2000 sur Canal+. Jacques Rouxel a également publié six albums : Les Shadoks Ga Bu Zo Meu, Les Shadoks et les Gibis Infos, Les Shadoks : la vengeance du marin, Les idées de Valeoman, La Course à la Lune et Les Shadoks et le désordinateur. En 2003, était paru un Abécédaire raisonné des Shadoks. Le studio aaa, qu'il a continué à animer avec Marcelle Ponti, a produit ou coproduit, outre la plupart de ses films, plus de 60 courts métrages ou séries et une quinzaine de documentaires, en dessin animé et en prises de vues réelles. Le comédien Claude Piéplu, narrateur des Shadoks, dont la voix reste emblématique de cette animation, s'est déclaré lundi "bouleversé et très triste" à l'annonce du décès de leur créateur. "Les Shadoks sont immortels", a assuré le comédien, pour qui Jacques Rouxel "était un poète, un créateur unique avec une imagination débordante et si personnelle. Avec les Shadoks, il nous a transmis un monde époustouflant qui nous emmenait très loin sur une planète qui était finalement la nôtre, avec des histoires farfelues et des métaphores basées sur une philosophie de la vie et de l'humain". Des Shadoks, il reste aussi quelques "devises" inoubliables : "Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué ?" "Quand on ne sait pas où l'on va, il faut y aller… et le plus vite possible". "S'il n'y pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y a pas de problème." "Pour qu'il y ait le moins de mécontents possible, il faut toujours taper sur les mêmes. La plus grave maladie du cerveau, c'est de réfléchir." ******************************************************************************* ● We recently learned, via Jean-Francois Galy's ('69) Internet research, that Jacques de Panafieu, '47 passed away in March, 2001. The Association Corps Conscience published this obituary: "Né en 1930, Jacques de Panafieu était l'un des pionniers du Développement personnel en France. Il nous a quitté en mars 2001. Au début des années 70, alors directeur de l'atelier de création d'Information et Publicité (la régie de R.T.L.), il participe à un stage de bioénergie et Gestalt, et y revit sa naissance. Sa vie bascule : " En revivant ma propre naissance, j'ai eu la certitude que ma vocation était d'aider les autres à devenir eux-mêmes. " A 44 ans, il quitte son poste pour se former aux États-Unis en techniques de communication, créativité et dynamique de groupe. De retour en France, il s'attache à mieux faire connaître le Rebirth. En près de trente ans de carrière, il a donné ou supervisé plus de 30 000 séances de formé quelque 300 thérapeutes. Il a aussi importé la " clarification " et les " séminaires intensifs ", méthodes conçues il y a 30 ans par le psychothérapeute américain Charles Berner, et fondées essentiellement sur la découverte de la personnalité profonde. Il aimait à répéter sa phrase clé : " Si vous ne savez pas qui vous êtes, qui donc est en train de vivre votre vie à votre place ? ", et pousser les gens à prendre conscience de leur potentiel. Auteur d'ouvrages de vulgarisation des méthodes de Développement personnel, " La Clarification ", " Qui suis-je ? " et " Le Rebirth " (Bernet-Danilo, 1997 et 1998), il venait de créer les Ateliers du Changement, un groupement de thérapeutes spécialisés dans ces méthodes peu connues." Another obituary can be found at this website: http://www.i-breathe.com/thb41/obituary_-_jacques_de_panafieu.htm ***************************************************************************** ● Eléonore M. Zimmermann ('49) informed us that her good friend Alix (Hamburger) Deguise ('43) passed away. Eléonore wrote: "Alix, who had a truly remarkable career worth mentioning in your newsletter, was a friend, a person I was very fond of and admired." Eléonore sent us this notice from a Connecticut newspaper (notes in brackets are hers): "Alix Sophie Deguise, 79, of Niantic, passed away on Thursday, July 29, 2004, a few hours after her husband [Pierre Emile Deguise, a distinguished 19th century scholar and a specialist in Benjamin Constant, who was born in 1915, and who served in the French army and in the Resistance] succumbed as well at Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London. Alix S. Deguise, née Hamburger, was born in Paris on Jan. 24, 1925, the daughter of Maurice Hamburger, deceased in 1938, and Helena Gerzon Hamburger, whose father founded Gerzon department stores in the Netherlands, and whose mother, Sophia Gerzon, died in the concentration camp at Sobibor. Alix was raised in France and came to New York as a refugee with her mother and brother in 1940. A heroic Portuguese consul, A. de Sousa Mendes, was instrumental in the success of their escape from occupied Europe by providing visas to enter into Portugal from where they could take the boat to the USA. She attended the Lycée Français of New York. At the age of 18 she decided to leave Smith College in order to join the Corps of Charles de Gaulle's Voltaires Français in London, was trained as a civil affairs officer and was attached to the British Army as a Liaison officer. She landed in Normandy on D-Day+24 and was immediately set to work in the vast relief and evacuation work for the cities of Caen, Boulogne, and Calais in France. She was sent to the liberated south of Holland and then to Germany. Her team received citations from the second Canadian Corps of the 1st British Army for their relief work and for the repatriation of French prisoners of war. She helped to provide care to the survivors of concentration camps, Bergen-Belsen among them, where many of her own relatives had perished. Alix received a Masters of Arts degree in English from the University of Aix-en-Provence, France. She later obtained a Doctorat des Lettres from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. For 20 years Alix taught French literature and civilization at Connecticut College. With her friend and colleague, Jane Torey, she created the Women's Studies programs that she helped coordinate. Her publications include a biography, articles and four critical editions of French 18th century novels. She belonged to the American Society for 18th-Century Studies and European 18th-Century Associations in the Netherlands, France and Switzerland. She lectured in the U.S. and overseas. A member of the Fondation de la France Libre, she served on its executive board in New York City. Alix and her husband ..... were active volunteers for Amnesty International, first as caseworkers then on the urgent appeals. She was a volunteer for both the American Cancer Society and Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London for 15 years. Alix married Pierre Emile Deguise of Autun, France, in 1948, who passed away a few hours before her on the same day at the age of 89. [He was Professor of French at the University of Connecticut for many years before retiring]. Alix is survived by her son, Jacques J. Deguise of Bordeaux-Merignac, France, her daughter, Hélène J. Deguise, of Wassenaar, Netherlands, and her partner, Emile Wolff; her son Philippe E. Deguise, and his wife, Barbara Bennett ....." *********************************************************************** Professors/Staff/Administration Mme Louise Bégué Mr. Pierre Brodin Mme Nanette Cérisoles (http://lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.20/50/169) Mr. Claude Choquet M. Georges A. Deschamps M. Maurice Galy M. Arje Hary M. Claude Jacot M. Martin Kieffer Mme. Marie-Andree Mount M. Alexander Obolensky M. Roussel Mme. Michèle Sampson Students Jacques Leclerc, '40 Francois Mariani, '40 Victor A. Soskice, '41 François Chapman, '42 Françoise (Cohen) Monteagle, '42 Pierre Frye, '42 Claude Lebel, '42 Guillaume de Bourgoing, '43 François de Bourgoing, '43 Alix (Hamburger) Deguise '43 Pierre Rosset-Cournand, '43 Charles de Ferry de Fontnouvelle, '43 Esther (Huisman) Asper, '44 Eleanor Cramer, '44 Raoul Grenade, '44 Natacha (Dorfmann) Ulmann, '45 David Mogoulosky, '45 Antoine Chapman, '46 Léon Lambert, '46 Françion (Garreaud) Sonnery, '46 Muriel (Landau) Michel, '46 Renata Chapiro, '47 Jacques de Panafieu, '47 (http://www.i-breathe.com/thb41/obituary_-_jacques_de_panafieu.htm) Dominique Eude, '47 Tanaquil (Leclercq) Balanchine, '47 Arthur Robbins Jr. Griswold , '47 Maurice Godet, '48 Jean Kaminker, '49 Jacques Rouxel, '49 (http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-362595,0.html) Alice (Lorsy) Birner, '50 Jean Breffort, '50 Alexis Kalioujny, '50 (http://lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.20/50/169) Chantal (Laurentie) Lusby, '50 Delphine (Seyrig) Youngerman, '50 Jeanne (Blanchenay) Kerblat-Houghton , '52 Jacqueline (Contenson) Duguet, '52 Marc de Magnin, '52 Hélène Delgado Chalbaud, '53 Georges de Montebello, '53 Hubert-Michel Ripka, '53 Claire (de Reinech) Sreenivasan, '53 Claudine Brasseur, '54 Angelica Guidotti, '54 Dorita Lochak, '54 Charles de Toulouse Lautrec, '54 Bernard Mendes France, '54 Christian Segard, '54 René Blanchenay, '55 Patrice de Gramont, '56 Claude Toselli, '56 Anne-Marie (Maluski) Chapouton, '57 Ariel Brun de Pontet, '58 James S. Abrams, '59 Olga Georges-Picot, '59 (http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorsG/P00006460.HTML) Franklin Darmory, '60 Keith Brenner, '61 Naomi Schor , '61 (http://www.yale.edu/opa/v30.n13/story6.html) François Hervé, '62 Nicole Le Vien, '63 Thomas Taylor, '64 Tibou Lubart, '65 (http://hometown.aol.com/rogernyc/TibuObituary.html) Francois Ganem, '66 Xavier Gélin, '66 Monique Hirschler, '66 (http://lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.20/50/169) Martine Sironneau, '66 Yves Bizien, '67 Laurent de Montmollin, '67 Georges Bibaud, '68 (http://hometown.aol.com/rogersanit/GeorgeBibaud.html) François Cailliarec , '68 David Cohen, '68 Frederique Hugueny, '68 Carole Hugueny, '68 Marc Verine, '68 Everett Wetchler, '68 Jacqueline Wolff, '68 Julie-Ann Krewer, '69 (http://hometown.aol.com/rogersanit/Krewer_Eulogy.html) Eva Lewin, '69 Victoria Blumka, '70 Philip Haentzler, '70 (http://www.silive.com/september11/lr/index.ssf?/september11/lr/haentzler.html) Gerard Crouzilhat, '72 Christophe Lefebure, '72 (http://lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.20/50/169) Valerie (Noel) Claisse, '72 Patricia Perinel, '72 Alain Chèvre, '73 Axel Jahan, '73 Corinne Le Fresne, '73 Bénédicte Martin, '75 Sylvie Bassette, '76 Ivan Antich, '77 Nicolas Reynard, '77 (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1112_041112_reynard_crash.html) Philippe Dehais, '78 (http://lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.20/50/169) Marina Vaillaud, '78 Julien Lanoé, '79 Dr. Charles Wolff, '79 Françoise Lepeltier, '81 Lofti Mestiri, '81 Francis de Montebello, '82 Jenny Kleinman, '83 Chantal Konda, '83 Oulimata Sarré, '83 Makram Tueni, '83 Hélène (Nguyen) Ommont, '84 (http://hometown.aol.com/rogersanit/Ommont_Eulogy.html) Didier Martheleur, '87 Olivier Du Pont, '88 Frederic Baer, '89 Patrick Bahr, '89 Benjamin Gumuchdjian, '91 Edem Adjoyi, '92 Bertrand Fournier, '98 |
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