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Photo Courtesy Philippe Cassard-2003 The following information was provided by Benedicte (Tillisch) Busk-Jepsen, a former student of the International School. If you have more information about this school, please let me know. [jp] The International School started in September 1962. I don't know when it stopped, but I think it was there only for about 3 to 5 years altogether. It was an annex to the Lycée Jean Giraudoux, the French boys' school in Chateauroux and it was meant for the children of employees at the NATO part of the US base at La Martinerie. The first year it had pupils from first grade to ninth grade (French: 11. to 3. grade, as they count the grades backwards) and the next year from first to tenth grade (11. to 2.). I think there were 150 to 200 pupils at the school. The school was about 4 miles outside Chateauroux and we went there in school buses, picking up the Americans in 410 and Brassioux. I think that the municipality of Chateauroux had rented or bought the building used as school. It was a small "chateau" - it was a restaurant before it was the school. There was a big park in connection with the school and a number of temporary classroom pavilions. There were classes in the big house, too, and this is also where we had our lunch (a three course French lunch every day - not exactly gastronomical, but OK). Classes were taught in French, as it was a French school, but many of the children had lessons in their own language as well. During breaks we spoke a lot of English. In my class, there were 19 pupils (7 French, 4 Americans, 2 French/Americans (one of these Philippe LeBourveau), 1 Turk, 1 Greek*, 1 Norwegian, 2 Germans, and 1 Dane). There were also Portuguese, Belgian and Dutch pupils at the school. Benedicte (Tillisch) Busk-Jepsen buskjepsen@mail.tele.dk Attendees: Haus and Yyohan
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ANTHONY, Lisa (Burghardt)
- 1975 Little Kid ANTHONY, Paul - brother of Lisa
& Kathy
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KOEPKE, Mike
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GA International School memories: Best Friend was Norwegian. Phonetic spelling of name was "Jell Huwald". Greek friend named Oliver. Rode bus everyday from Touvent. Smell of diesel. Usually scared to death. Played marbles in the dirt. Steelies were coveted. Grand lunches in an old house. Blood sausage, fish with mountains of butter. Yuk. We would stuff our food into hollowed out French bread and smuggle it out. This was the only way to get the little chocolate bar. Incredible site. Keep up the good work. Mike Koepke Atlanta, Georgia |
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LAMOURE, Jean France
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LUNEAU, Etienne Association des Anciens élèves du Lycéee Jean Giraudoux Chateauroux, France 7-25-04 C’est une expérience extraordinaire pour moi de découvrir tous ces témoignages d’un Châteauroux que je n’ai pas connu (je suis né en 1980) et dont mon grand père et mon père m’ont si souvent parlé. "It is an extraordinary experience for me to discover all these testimonies [memories; recollections] of Chateauroux that I did not know [about] (I was born in 1980) and about which my grandfather and my father so often told me." |
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WILLIAMS, Keith
keith_w@att.net 1-28-08 Hello, Just came across this site and the school photos of the children looks "somewhat" familiar. I attended a private school (Saint Solange, spelling?) in 1960-1962 in Chateauroux (Chateaureux). The background with the trees and the walk look very familiar, as does the way the children are posed for the picture. There were teachers that were not nuns, but most of the teachers were nuns. I'm wondering if the name has been changed? Xenia [jpnote: I have heard or read the word "Solange" somewhere, but not in reference to this particular school. If someone writes more about it, I will post it here on this page. Thanks for writing, Xenia.] |
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WISNIEWSKI, Chris - I am almost positive I went to
kindergarten there the fall and spring of 62/63
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Kindergarten & 1st Grade
SEUFERT, Jane - 1976 Little Kid (See brother Jim's entry)
SEUFERT, John - 1976 Little Kid (See brother Jim's entry)
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Info from L. Susan Carter - Little Kid - 1959-60 [Lycee Internationale] It opened classes the fall of 1962 in an old chateau in St Maur, about four miles out of Chateauroux. I was in the 5eme classes the first year, along with Francine Auster, and then in the 4eme the next year (1963-64). The lycee was a remarkable learning environment, operating in combination of buildings that included the chateau as well as pre-fab buildings scattered on the sides of the great pelouse, the lawn that sloped away from the building. The polyglot of languages was impressive, and provided me my first opportunity to meet Muslim students as some of the pupils were children of Turkish officers at the NATO base. I recall Elizabeth Larsen and her sister from Denmark, as well as the Tillisch sisters. [jpnote: See entry above.] Gisela and her brother Bernard were from Germany. Tracy Carpenter, an American, was enrolled as well, along with Candace Crowley, who was quite a young horsewoman, jumping at the time, as I recall. Mr. Foster taught there, as well as M. and Mme Marteau from the French lycee. The school was not without its difficulties. The first winter, there was an outbreak of Hepatitis B that left some students ill and sent the rest of us for vaccines at the base. I have returned to the school twice. Once in 1987, when I found it in substantial disrepair, and again in 2000, when it was back in great form, windows repaired and the whole place gleaming (school was out). I thank my education there for much that has taken place since. When we were students there, Mr. Foster taught us a song, only part of which I remember, that contained the words "... may we remember what we were like in our youth and our day." |
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ANTHONY, Lisa (Burghardt)
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Chris Wisniewski - 62-63 I am almost positive I went to
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LUNEAU, Etienne - French Guest "It is an extraordinary experience for me to discover all these testimonies [memories; recollections] of Chateauroux that I did not know [about] (I was born in 1980) and about which my grandfather and my father so often told me." |
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9-25-06 Hallo! i am on the second photo of the international
school in
Chateauroux.
How nice! It was the class from Mme. Jardot
ou Mme. Grapin ?)
and I am the third-one standing on the ground, left from the teacher.
The girl with the short hair and the white socks.
I am Dutch and in 1964/1965 we went back to Holland. The school
is always in my mind as something very special, all those children from
different countries! I will have to see my photo books from
that time to remember the names of my class-mates, but I can remember
Norberto (Italy) and Caren (U.S.A.) and I
had some very special friends, but their names are not in my mind for
this moment. I am sure it will come again. Just as other people, I
remember very well the bread with little chocolate-bar, we gat that just
before we went home everyday. I remember the lessons from Miss
Trudy Soetekouw , she taught me my own Dutch
language. That was good, I needed them! After those lessons I had
to get back to my classroom, one of the cabins at the edge of the
forest. When I came back into the classroom always everyone stood up
from his chair, we had to do that always when people came in. But not
when children came in the classroom. Because no-one could see if the
incoming person was an adult or a child, many times the class was
standing up when I came back from my lessons from Miss
Soetekouw . I remember I sometimes stayed in
the little hall until the end of the lessons, afraid to get in the
classroom. I remember also once snakes where under the stairs to enter
the cabins. The whole period was very important to me, always when I
come back in France I feel “at home”. It is a precious memory to me.
I hope other old class-mates will respond also, seeing this site about
the international school. I became mother of three children,
I am teacher in classical ballet and drawing. I would like to
know what became of the other-ones. Many greetings from Annemieke
Steenbergen.
