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Opus magnificus!
ReplyDeleteCaro Gianni,
ReplyDeletenel riassuntino del mio pezzo sui cento milioni di Francesco Forte mi mettete come gia' promosso DED, ma allora ero direttore del Programme Funding Office PFO. Sono stato promosso solo nel 1998. Se puoi correggere correggi... se no pazienza!
Molto bella l' idea dei riassuntini...Per ora ho letto tutti i riassuntini. Ora dovro' cominciare il lavoro grosso! Da subito posso dire che e' un gran bel lavoro!
Congratulations – you and colleagues have done a wonderful job.
ReplyDeleteI have only looked at a few contributions yet, of course. (But I note that many greatly exceed your guideline!)
I was fascinated by Kathleen Cravero’s piece, as it dealt with a subject close to my heart, but I knew nothing about her story! (Though I knew her later in NY in the mid-80s, and appreciated her a lot).
Perhaps it is not too late to correct a title error in your brief summary of her article, and also at the end of the first paragraph of the article itself. The correct title of the Code is: “International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.”
I think George McBean’s cover is brilliant!
Thanks for noting the error, Peter. We have corrected the web and document versions to add the full title of the Code.
DeleteDear volunteer editors of News and Views!
ReplyDeleteYou've together produced an amazing cornucopia of delights! Absolutely astonishing and wonderful to read!.
I started simply by scrolling down to view the pictures and scrutinize authors' faces now 25 years older than I last remember them. Although we all look slightly different, we remain recognizable and bring heartwarming memories. I'm eager to start reading, selectively as you recommend, but eventually all the articles.
UNICEF revisited - never to be forgotten, always treasured and loved!.
Thank you all -- certainly to the contributors of which I'm proud to be one. As an author I thank you eternally for pushing me to submit my two articles, even allowing some slippage in the deadlines. I would never have forgiven myself had I not been represented among this amazing group of people who helped make the Jim Grant years UNICEF's golden years.
Congratulations! Mary
Dear Mary
DeleteThank you for your compliments which on behalf of the team, we accept. I have marked this to all editors as you requested in your message.
Yes, it was huge task but accomplished with Gianni Murzi as our Issue coordinator, leading us to keep going, Fouad as our chieftain ( a la Africa), Tom and Detlef are the techie wiz editors coming up with solutions to make it attractive and reader friendly , Doreen our formatting expert and wordsmith - we did have a hectic time but made it enjoyable with ditties / jokes and our vying for catchy titles - assembly was a challenge which we successfully sorted out in our weekly mtgs .
Also as Ms Participation, let me tell you it was 200% participatory!!��
Fond regards and happy reading
Sree
Editors -- you have turned our amateur, ad hoc information dissemination efforts into a serious platform for knowledge and change, tapping the wisdom of our retiree savants, movers and shakers. Hats off to you! Gratitude and respect!
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Thank you all! Niloufar
ReplyDeleteDear Omer and Hannan
ReplyDeleteSalam from Islamabad. Hope this finds you well and safe .
I am taking the liberty of forwarding the June quarterly edition of XUNICEF’s News and Views in case it has missed your attention. It includes a wealth of information on UNICEF’s past from different perspectives and is a treasure trove of memorable photos.
I was asked earlier by Islamabad UNICEF senior staff that it would be excellent if the weekly XUnicef News and Views could be shared with the current staff as well for their learning (and hopefully inspiration.) Ofcourse this would be the decision of the Executive Director and your selves.
I too believe this is excellent source of instant knowledge of the past on many issues that are still relevant today.
I am copying this to the distinguished editors who are the movers and shakers of the vast network on XUNICEFers who have UNICEF firmly embedded in our DNA.
I too have two articles in this quarterly which I hope you will find interesting especially the series on Africa led by Fouad’s overview
I take this opportunity to wish you both continued health, happiness and peace as you take UNICEF from strength to strength
With warmest regards
Shahida
Dear Shahida,
DeleteThanks for passing this along to Omar and Hannan who are not yet on our mailing list. I hope that they may join and that your message may spark some interest in the UNICEF History Project which has so far been sadly neglected. Even this important 75th year, seems to have gotten very little attention so far.
We do have quite a few other members on our mailing list who are still serving staff at Hqs, including Henrietta Fore, Kirsi Madi, Paloma Escudero (head of DOC), Noma Owens-Ibie (GSA Chair), and several from the UNICEF@75 history project.
There are also several serving staff in various country offices. So if staff in any UNICEF offices would like to be on our mailing list, please encourage them to sign up as members. You do not need to retire to be a member of XUNICEF. Membership is open to any member of the UNICEF family - staff, former staff, short-term, volunteer, retiree, consultant, contractor, spouse, and natcom staff and retirees - in short, the whole family. All we ask is that they have "a continuing commitment to UNICEF and its mission".
Just pass on the link to the membership form - https://bit.ly/3df5ouq
As you say, the edition "includes a wealth of information on UNICEF’s past from different perspectives and is a treasure trove of memorable photos." Thanks so much for your own contributions to this important cornucopia.
Tom
... have just skimmed this and will return to it but had to send a big congratulations to both of you and whomever is a big part of your team, for pulling it together.
ReplyDeleteBravo and thank you!
Congratulations to you and the Team of Editors for bringing out an excellent Quarterly Report of June 2021.
ReplyDeleteOf course credit also go out to each and every contributors to the Quarterly which read not only interesting, but also reach in content, relevant and very useful information- great to be enlightened on so many aspects of unicef work . Well done , Tom and Group.
I am sure next Quarterly as well as subsequent ones will turn out even more interesting and useful. A big kudos to you and the Team.
Best wishes.
S. Farooq
As I had mentioned before, it is amazing what you and your editors are able to put together so frequently. All the stories sound interesting, and I have started reading some. Your account of Jim Grant's early years is fascinating. I am trying to learn more about Asia and so this history is very relative. I am presently reading Milton Osborne's book on SouthEast Asia which has close to 400 pages, so I doubt I'll get to read all of the Quarterly stories.
ReplyDeleteI trust the Quarterly and the Weekly Updates are also read in UNICEF House. They sure should become part of the the records.
All the best and I wished I could nominate you all for the Pulitzer Prize...
Horst.
I was just about to hit send on an email to you and the XUNICEF editoial team, but you got there first!
ReplyDeleteI have been pouring over the second edition of the UNICEF at 75 series – a treasure trove of stories, tributes and words of wisdom. I am inspired!
We shared this latest edition with our colleagues leading internal communication, who are also combing through. They’re currently fleshing out a content plan around the anniversary and will likely reach out to you in due course.
Thank you for all your pioneering work in gathering so many rich resources to capture UNICEF’s legacy of impact over the past 75 years.
My best wishes,
Sarah
Many thanks, Sarah. So glad that you are enjoying the edition. We editors were overwhelmed with the response we received. I hope this does contribute to thinking about the 75th. It will soon also be time for several natcoms to begin celebrating their own anniversaries - the US comes up next year and I think several others soon after.
DeleteWarm regards and best wishes for your work.
I third that! I got lost (in a good way) in the pages last night. This is everything – and such a rich era for UNICEF storytelling. I think you’ve outdone yourselves with this issue.
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ML (Mary Lynn) Lalonde
Dear ML - glad that you are enjoying the edition. Yes, very easy to get lost among so many stories of the period. Indeed, we editors were often 'lost', and I am not sure we will ever be 'found'. Somehow though we are making our way to the current period. September will cover the most recent 25 years (1997 to today). And - if we survive until then - December will address the coming 25.
DeleteBy the way, I hope you also are seeing our column - A Little Bit of History in our weeklies - https://xunicefnewsandviews.blogspot.com/search/label/History
Warm regards to all. Stay well.
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ReplyDeleteThis special edition is great, thank you. So good to hear from so many lovely people I worked with.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how much freedom we all had, and how we felt empowered to ‘do the right thing’! I wonder if it is still so?
Thank you again for all your efforts.
Best regards
Sally
My dear Franziska —
ReplyDeleteHow thoughtful of you [to share the Quarterly with me]. I much appreciated your article on what you did (and who you were photographed with …) “after graduating from ICVA” [International Council of Voluntary Agencies, based Geneva]. And as I scrolled through, innumerable names brought a flood of memories to the surface: Jim Grant, Lida Lhotska, Kathleen Cravero, Richard Jolly, Janet Nelson, Mary Racelis…
How very important it is to remember where we have been and with whom.
Signed
Cyril Ritchie, former Executive Director ICVA
ReplyDeleteThis message is from Martha Menezes:
A mammoth production indeed! I imagine it was a daunting task with the editing, assembling, layout and the introduction piece to each one's contribution. Kudos to the editorial team.
I have browsed through the stubs and look forward to reading and digesting each presentation in the days/weeks to come. As you said, I am sure many of them (faces and events) will evoke memories and recollections.
It is gratifying to see my story (and the gracious introductory stub) have a niche in this quarterly, alongside the interesting contributions of so many others.
Many thanks
Martha Menezes
Just read the fascinating account of your Africa Section years and all the other contributions from colleagues. Really enjoyed it and feel very privileged having been part of an „era“ that still resonates in so many of us so many years on ...
ReplyDeleteI am sure you received lots and lots of enthusiastic reactions to this wonderful edition of the XUNICEF Quarterly Newsletter. It truly is a masterpiece of collective testimonies from colleagues all over the world. Putting it all together must have been quite something ...
Warmest regards and best wishes,
Marina ��
As I said, the celebration of the second 25 years is beautiful, interesting, funny and even at times moving. Good idea to put summaries, which allow you to choose what you want or can read. I've skipped pieces of former colleagues I don't know, but I've read almost everything. A big job! Thank you again!
ReplyDeleteAnd a big hug.
Marco
Message from David Parker:
ReplyDeleteWhat an extraordinary achievement - a document of this most incredible generation. I'm speechless. Hats off to you all. David
Message from Mehr Khan:
ReplyDeleteAs always the Editorial Team has done a superb job. It is so rich and has contributions from so many people.
I will read it carefully and if there is additional feedback I will certainly provide it. Mehr
Definitely a Magnum Opus. Congratulations. I will revisit this 'document' many times.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, Ken
I think it is a wonderful collection of memories which add the sort of eclectic views that one never gets in any official history of an organization like UNICEF. It is clear from the volume (and the passion with which) people wrote that everyone was committed to the mission of helping children. Not yet having read everything submitted I will keep this PDF for reference and definitely pass on some of its gems (to grandchildren and fellow artist) whenever I get the chance.)
ReplyDeleteUNICEF’s power and influence was always in its capacity to gather information about children which brought about newer and newer approaches to helping governments through a process of revolving staff. It was never solely dependent on size of budgets and in the nineteen seventies it was (arguably) proportionally more influential with governments than it is today. However this role of guiding attention to the issues that children face (unknowingly to themselves) is more important than ever. I hope this document reaches beyond retirees and highlights that need.
So I’m finishing with a large round of applause for you and the team of editors who put this issue together. I can tell it was a major feat… but you have made something memorable and useful. Well done… I, like many others I suspect, will be waiting to read the final episode in the series… to read what the younger retirees say about themselves and how it compares with our crowd. I shall also be on the look out for any responses from the not-yet-retired-from-UNICEF lot.. to see if they pick up any ideas from our generational tome. It shows how much a commitment to the cause we all have- even in retirement. George
I am reading the quarterly with great pleasure. May I seize this opportunity to commend the Editors for their work in putting this Edition together that is worthy of high praise. A magnificent achievement indeed!
ReplyDeleteWow - this was obviously a mammoth task and accomplishment……a true labour of love for our benefit and enjoyment. And enjoy it I did - actually for a period of quite some hours……Since I was “around” all those many years, I was basically familiar with UNICEF's efforts and accomplishments, and also with the names of those who worked diligently at the tasks at hand. Looking back, I am grateful for having had the opportunity of putting my “five cents” into the work of the Budget Section and work/interact with many XUNICEFers - present, and some unfortunately not present anymore. I wish to express a big heart-felt thank you to all the editors for this very special edition in particular, and of course also for all the other communications in-between - past, current, and hopefully future. Gratefully, Sylvia Roth
ReplyDeleteThis is simply a magnificent piece of our collective history. So many parts of that time frame are covered by so many among us. Indeed a very rich part of the Unicef history happened from 1972 to 1996, when so much groundbreaking was achieved for children.
ReplyDeleteI wish to congratulate the team of editors with this colossal piece of important work. The lay-out also is very clear and well done. It will be fun to read all these stories, ( which I will shortly begin to do). I suppose there is a link to comment to the authors.
As before, I will try to contribute an article once in a while when I believe that the story is “fit to print”.
Please tell the editors I was really impressed by this newsletter. Well designed and structured with useful summaries!
ReplyDeleteBut 400 pages!!! Whew!! I guess UNICEF never did anything that was short and brief!!! ��