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In MemoriamErvin A. Popa (Head of the financial and legal departments) , Françoise Peponnet (Prof. de 12eme from 1964 to 1967), Peter Belton ('52), Dr. Peter (Vladislav Gociar) Fleming ('70), Yves (Fernandez) Arman ('73), Philippe Szabo ('76)(Scroll to below the last article, for a full list of Lycee alumni and staff who are deceased, to our knowledge.) ● Ervin A. Popa Ingrid (Popa) Fotino ('58) wrote: "Ervin A. Popa, head of the financial and legal departments at the Lycée Français until 1990, husband of former Mathematics teacher Ariane Popa, father of alumnae Ingrid and Alda Popa and grandfather of alumna Domnica Fotino, died on April 18, 2007 at age 98, after a long illness resulting from respiratory complications. Born in Galati, Romania in 1908, he came to the Lycée with a strong French background, having earned a Doctorate in Law from the Sorbonne in Paris. At age 62 he obtained another J.D. from St John’s University School of Law, raising to five the number of graduate degrees he earned in three different countries. Monsieur Popa thus brought to the Lycée a multi-faceted legal experience in addition to a rich financial and business background as treasurer of textile companies in the United States (such as the Reliance Manufacturing Company listed on the N.Y. Stock Exchange) and director of leading textile enterprises in Romania. In 1947 these enterprises were confiscated by the Soviet-imposed Communist regime. He was barred from practicing law and was imprisoned for six months on politically-motivated charges. The ensuing regime of terror forced him to escape with his wife and two young daughters through Communist Yugoslavia, leaving behind family, friends and all their possessions. After an 18-month incarceration in Yugoslavia, they eventually found asylum in France and ultimately in the United States. At the Lycée, in addition to dealing with legal and financial matters, Monsieur Popa oversaw the introduction of health and retirement benefits. His role as a mentor over the years elicited the following comments: “If anyone had a problem, we went to Monsieur Popa, and he always had good advice for us” “He had a wonderful sense of humor, and the wisdom that comes from experience” “He was like a father to me, I could confide in him, he taught me so much, so patiently…” “He understood contracts better than the lawyers, who adopted his suggestions…” “I owe a lot to his ability to weigh things, to think them through clearly....He was demanding, but because I went the extra mile, I learned better” “He knew the IRS backwards, like no one else!” “He knew everything! I never met such a brilliant man, with such integrity and extremely polite” “He was really loved”. In addition to his professional life, he was very active in Romanian causes, particularly the Iuliu Maniu American Romanian Relief Foundation, a charitable and cultural organization catering to the needs of displaced Romanians abroad and destitute families in Romania. Ervin Popa is survived by his two daughters, his two granddaughters, Domnica and Adriana Fotino, and his son-in-law, Mircea Fotino. His family will remember him for his unflinching loyalty, generosity and selflessness, a pillar of strength and love in our lives." ............................................................................ ● Madame Françoise Peponnet Beatrix (Peponnet-Morlot ) Fougeron wrote: "Etiez-vous au Lycée francais entre 1964 et 1967 en classe douzième ? Si oui, Vous vous souviendrez d' un de vos professeurs, Madame Peponnet. Malade depuis un an, d'un cancer, elle est décédée le 22 mars 2008 à Versailles. Elle avait 73 ans et aurait eu ses 74 ans le mois suivant, le 21 avril. Elle est partie bien jeune et dans de grandes souffrances qui ont duré 4 mois. Une de ses grandes joies fut de reparler du Lycée Français, des ses anciens élèves, et de ses années passées dans l'établissement. Par chance et grâce au site des anciens élèves j'ai pu lui donner des nouvelles de quelques uns d'entre vous : elle était émue. Ayez une pensée pour elle. Merci " ............................................................................ ● Peter Belton, '52 From the San Francisco Chronicle Oct. 23, 2007 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/23/BA4FSU76G.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea) "Peter Belton, longtime staff attorney for the late California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk and an influential figure at the court for four decades, has died from complications of post-polio syndrome. He was 74. As a senior assistant during Mosk's record 37-year tenure on the court, Mr. Belton researched and wrote the first drafts of landmark rulings, including the 1978 decision that outlawed racial discrimination in jury selection. He began using a wheelchair as a young man after a polio attack and served 11 years on the San Francisco Handicapped Access Board, which reviews access for people with disabilities when building permits are granted. Members of the court saluted Mr. Belton as someone whose work behind the scenes helped to define the law in California. "This is truly the passing of an era," said Chief Justice Ronald George. "With Peter's loss, the court has lost a part of its institutional history." Justice Joyce Kennard said one of the best decisions she has made on the court was appointing Mr. Belton in 2001 to head a task force that updated and rewrote the rules governing legal appeals in California. "It was Peter's brilliance and his terrific analytical skills that helped the project become a success," Kennard said. "His imprint on California law is indelible." Mr. Belton was born in Chile to a French mother and a British father and moved with his family to Britain and Canada before settling in New York City in 1946. He was a student at Harvard in 1954 when he was stricken with polio during a summer trip to Haiti. He was in an iron lung for a time, but he returned to college a year later, graduated with honors and enrolled at Harvard Law School. He was promptly summoned to the office of the law dean, Erwin Griswold, who told him someone in his condition would never have an active legal career, according to Mr. Belton's oral history, published in the California Legal History Journal. Mr. Belton persisted and graduated from the law school, then moved to California, where he spent a year teaching law at UC Berkeley before joining the staff of state Supreme Court Justice B. Rey Schauer, a conservative nearing the end of a long career. After Schauer retired in 1964, Mr. Belton took what was initially a one-year job with Mosk, the liberal former state attorney general who had just been appointed to the court by then-Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown. They proved to be well-matched in both ideology and temperament. "If you wanted to know how Justice Mosk felt about a case, you would go talk to Peter Belton," said former Justice Joseph Grodin, who served on the court from 1982 to 1987. "He was a resource for the entire court." In a 2000 interview that was part of his oral history, Mr. Belton described staff attorneys like himself as "hired guns" who subordinated their personal views to those of the justices they worked for, but added that his task wasn't difficult under Mosk. "I have worked for Mr. Liberal, and it's been easy sailing," he said. His job included researching and writing the initial version of majority rulings that were assigned to Mosk. According to Olga Murray, another longtime staff attorney, Mosk usually made few changes in Mr. Belton's work. She described Mr. Belton as "probably the best writer I have ever seen at the Supreme Court in my 37 years there." Among the cases he worked on were the 1978 ruling on discrimination in jury selection, eight years before the U.S. Supreme Court issued a similar decision; a 1982 ruling prohibiting testimony by witnesses who had undergone pretrial questioning under hypnosis, and a 1974 decision allowing the spouse of an injured worker to sue the person who caused the injury for "loss of consortium," which includes love, companionship and sexual relations. The latter case had a personal meaning, Mr. Belton said later, because of his own experience. "I was able to appreciate more fully the fact that an injury to me would affect my wife deeply," he said. After Mosk's death in 2001, Mr. Belton transferred to the Administrative Office of the Courts. He worked on the Kennard task force on appellate rules and another panel assigned to simplify jury instructions in criminal cases. He retired in 2005. Mr. Belton is survived by his partner, Celia Bloom; a sister, Suzi Boutin of Fort Myers, Fla.; a daughter, Laurie Belton of San Francisco; three sons, Jeffrey Belton of Trinidad (Humboldt County), Marc Belton of Arcata and Nicholas Koch of Minneapolis; and five grandchildren. He died Thursday. Plans for a memorial service are pending." ................................................................................ ● Dr. Peter (Vladislav Gociar) Fleming, '70 From: New York Times Death Notice (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E5DE113EF932A1575BC0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=) "FLEMING--Peter V., M.D. Born in 1950 in Czechoslovakia, died August 9, 2005 in New York of pancreatic cancer. His road to immigration at age 16 took him to Tunisia, then to Paris, finally to New York. With knowledge only of his native language, his intelligence and diligence enabled his studies at M.I.T. and later studies of medicine. His wisdom and humor will be forever missed by his wife, daughter, sister, parents and friends. Memorial donations may be made to the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research." ................................................................................. ● Yves (Fernandez) Arman, '73 From: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Arman) "Yves Arman, born Yves Fernandez on September 18th 1954 in Nice, died on February 15th 1989, in Sarragosa, Spain. Yves was an art dealer, collector, and writer. The son of French-born American artist Arman, and French composer Eliane Radigue, Yves had one child, a girl named Madison, with his wife Deborah. The Arman family was friends with American artist Keith Haring, who was Madison's godfather. Yves Arman wrote the book Marcel Duchamp: Plays and Wins, which was published by Marval Press in 1984 (ISBN 1299242022). Yves's motto was "In art we trust," and he was also known to say "L'art c'est la vie"--"Art is life."….. Yves Arman died in a car crash in 1989, while driving through Spain to meet with his family and Haring. Haring painted Yves' coffin with his famous icon of an angel, as Yves often wore a 1" pinback of this design." ********************************************************************** ● Philippe Szabo ('76) Jean-Marc Jacot ('75) wrote: "I have the sad task of announcing the sudden and unexpected death of Philippe Szabo (1958-2008), which occurred on February 2nd, 2008, in the Department of Le Gard, Southern France. The cause of death was apparently a brain stroke ("rupture d'anévrisme"). He does not seem to have suffered at the time of his passing. He would have been 50 on February 22nd, 2008. He was staying in the area to renovate a house which he and his wife own in the village of Lézan (Gard). His wife and mother, in New York at the time, had to hurry back to France, to take care of final matters. His body was interred after a Catholic funeral ceremony in the village of Guiscriff, in Brittany, where his family on his mother's side was from, and where he had grown up between the ages of two and eight, just before moving to New York where his parents had settled a few years before him, and where he attended the Lycée until Terminale. His mother is bretonne (lives in Astoria, Queens), his father was a Hungarian refugee (Laslo, re-named Jacques, deceased in the early 1980's, in his early fifties.) I went to the funeral, on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008, talked a bit about him in the Church and sang a song of unity there at the end of the ceremony. Back in 1981, he had offered me a one-way ticket from San Francisco, where our travels had brought us, to Europe, and it was thanks to my travels with him at the time, and his generosity, that I am now living in France. He kept in touch with me throughout the years, although we had grown much more distant during the last few years. His wife, Aurea Szabo, of Brazilian origin, lives and works in New York for the time being, (she's lived many years both in NY and in France) and if you feel like offering her your condolences, you can write to her at: aurea.szabo[at]yahoo.com. She (and his mother) have been back in New York since February 15th, 2008." Claude Falchier ('76) wrote: "The news is quite sad; unfortunately it is all too common during the confusing mid-life years. Philippe was a friend of mine back at the Lycee. We had a common heritage as both my parents are Breton and grew up in the nearby towns of Gourin and Lennon. I left before Terminale/Bac. We kept in touch until my sophomore year of college. In the summer of '76 we got together with Serge Benjamin to celebrate my upcoming 19th birthday and their impending departure to either Brasil or Tahiti. We never talked again. I remember Philippe being free spirited and understood his need to explore different parts of the world." ********************************************************************** DECEASED (Copy the website address and paste into your browser window for further details, where available) Professors/Staff/Administration -Mme. Louise Bégué -Mr. Pierre Brodin (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE4D61F3EF93AA35752C0A961958260) -Mme. Dorothée Brodin (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.23/50/599) & (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E6D7113EF930A1575BC0A9639C8B63) -Mme.Nanette Cérisoles (http://lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.20/50/169) -Mr. Claude Choquet (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EFDC1E3FF933A05757C0A96E958260) -M. Georges A. Deschamps (http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10403&page=67) -Mme. Hélène Ettinger -M. Maurice Galy (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DC1F3AF937A15755C0A965958260) -M. Arje Hary -Mme. Tina Hess (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.22/50/431) -M. Claude Jacot -M. Martin Kieffer (http://sites.google.com/site/aalfnyorg/Home/prof-martin-kieffer) -M. Jacques Lafon -Mme. Marie-Andree Mount -Mme. Nora Mutin -M. Alexander Obolensky -Mme. Ariane Popa (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.22/50/431) -M. Erwin A. Popa (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.27/50/1207) -Mme. Françoise Peponnet (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.27/50/1207) -M. Jules Regnault -M. Robert Roussel -Mme. Michèle Sampson -Mme. Helene Schettino Students (Beer) Stein, Lise '40-prior Jacques Leclerc, '40 Francois Mariani, '40 Victor A. Soskice, '41 François Chapman, '42 Françoise (Cohen) Monteagle, '42 Pierre Frye, '42 Claude Lebel, '42 Michael Woodbury, '42 Claude Barres, '43 Guillaume de Bourgoing, '43 François de Bourgoing, '43 Alix (Hamburger) Deguise '43 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.21/50/580) Pierre Rosset-Cournand, '43 Charles de Ferry de Fontnouvelle, '43 Mathilde Mortimer, '43 Esther (Huisman) Asper, '44 Eleanor Cramer, '44 Raoul Grenade, '44 Natacha (Dorfmann) Ulmann, '45 David Mogoulosky, '45 Antoine Chapman, '46 Françion (Garreaud) Sonnery, '46 Léon Lambert, '46 Muriel (Landau) Michel, '46 Renata Chapiro, '47 Jacques de Panafieu, '47 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.21/50/580) Dominique Eude, '47 Tanaquil (Leclercq) Balanchine, '47 (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E0DA153BF932A35752C0A9679C8B63) Aniouta Pitoeff, '47 Arthur Robbins Jr. Griswold , '47 Maurice Godet, '48 Xavier Bardinet, ('49) Jean Kaminker, '49 Jacques Rouxel, '49 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.21/50/580) 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 (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DD173BF93BA25753C1A966958260) Jules Huot, '51 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.22/50/431) Peter J. Belton, '52 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.27/50/1207) Jeanne (Blanchenay) Kerblat-Houghton , '52 Jacqueline (Contenson) Duguet, '52 Marc de Magnin, '52 Hélène Delgado Chalbaud, '53 Georges de Montebello, '53 (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE7D61F3FF931A25751C1A960958260) Hubert-Michel Ripka, '53 Claire (de Reinech) Sreenivasan, '53 Claudine Brasseur, '54 Angelica Guidotti, '54 Dorita Lochak, '54 Cecile (Muhlstein) Nourrissier, '54 Charles de Toulouse Lautrec, '54 Bernard Mendes France, '54 Christian Segard, '54 René Blanchenay, '55 Patrice de Gramont, '56 Claude Toselli, '56 Anik Vitols, '56 Anne-Marie (Maluski) Chapouton, '57 (http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/auteur.asp?id=1387) Ariel Brun de Pontet, '58 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.21/50/580) Olga Georges-Picot, '58 (http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorsG/P00006460.HTML) James S. Abrams, '59 Franklin Darmory, '60 Keith Brenner, '61 Pierre Blanchenay, '61 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.25/50/1044) Naomi Schor , '61 (http://www.yale.edu/opa/v30.n13/story6.html) François Hervé, '62 Liliane Kahn, '63 Nicole Le Vien, '63 Thomas Taylor, '64 Tibou Lubart, '65 (http://sites.google.com/site/aalfnyorg/Home/co-1965-tibou-lubart) Liliane Francais, '66 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.23/50/599) Francois Ganem, '66 Xavier Gélin, '66 (http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=319976.html) Monique Hirschler, '66 (http://lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.20/50/169) Martine Sironneau, '66 Joya (Utermohlen) Jenks, '66 Nancy (Anholt) Tabor '67 (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E6DB1F3FF933A15751C1A961958260) Yves Bizien, '67 Laurent de Montmollin, '67 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E3DA113AF935A15752C1A9679C8B63 Peter Warren, '67 Georges Bibaud, '68 (http://hometown.aol.com/rogersanit/GeorgeBibaud.html) François Cailliarec , '68 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.15/50/600) David Cohen, '68 Michel Herckens, '68 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.23/50/599) Frederique Hugueny, '68 Carole Hugueny, '68 Marc Verine, '68 Everett Wetchler, '68 Jacqueline Wolff, '68 Aziyade (Venus) Mimran, '68 Alicia (de la Serna) Peel, '69 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.23/50/599) Richard Gorka, '69 Paul Katritsis, '69 Julie-Ann Krewer, '69 http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.19/50/152 Alain Lebarbier, '69 Eva Lewin, '69 Joelle Pinto, '69 Victoria Blumka, '70 Dr. Peter (Vladislav Gociar) Fleming, '70 (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E5DE113EF932A1575BC0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=) Philip Haentzler, '70 (http://www.silive.com/september11/lr/index.ssf?/september11/lr/haentzler.html) Carlos de la Serna, '71 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.23/50/599) Georges Dremeaux, '71 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.22/50/431) Eric de Villepin, '71 Marc Antoine Crespi, '72 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.26/50/1156) Gerard Crouzilhat, '72 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.21/50/580) Christophe Lefebure, '72 (http://lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.20/50/169) Valerie (Noel) Claisse, '72 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.21/50/580) Patricia Perinel, '72 Thomas Ferwerda, '72 Alain Chèvre, '73 Christina Duff '73 Yves (Fernandez) Arman '73 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Arman) Axel Jahan, '73 Corinne Le Fresne, '73 Celeste Schotland, '73 Jeremy Yates, '74 David Cahn, '75 Bénédicte Martin, '75 Sylvie Bassette, '76 Marc Gaschignard, '76 Philippe Szabo, '76 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.27/50/1207) Yvan Antich, '77 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.22/50/431) 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) and http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.24/50/860 Marina Vaillaud, '78 Frederic Kapner, '78 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.23/50/599) Julien Lanoé, '79 Gabriella (Tussusov) Morey, '79 (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DE163DF930A1575AC0A9659C8B63) Dr. Charles Wolff, '79 Françoise Lepeltier, '81 Lofti Mestiri, '81 Pierre Combes, '82 Francis de Montebello, '82 Jenny Kleinman, '83 Chantal Konda, '83 Oulimata Sarré, '83 Makram Tueni, '83 Costanza Anchisi, '84 Hélène (Nguyen) Ommont, '84 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.19/50/152) Adel Pakzad, '84 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.24/50/860) Sappho Garelli, '85 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.23/50/599) Didier Martheleur, '87 Benjamin Gumuchdjian, '88 Olivier Du Pont, '88 Frederic Baer, '89 Romain de Plas, '89 Edem Adjoyi, '92 Bianca Pujol, '95 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.22/50/431) Edward Zeltser, '97 Bertrand Fournier '98 (http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.22/50/431) |
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