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Text Box: Pierre Juneau, the man behind the creation of IYCS addressed the 60 years celebration of IYCS on 9 September 2006 in Paris, which was attended by many former members in the past few decades. Pierre was the former student from JEC Canada. He is presently based in Montreal after his service as the president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Learn more about him! The group photo of the celebration (NEW)  Text Box: 60th Anniversary of YCS Internationality.   We are celebrating the 60th Anniversary of YCS Internationality. This will mark the anniversary of the first YCS International Meeting that took place in Fribourg, Switzerland from 1 to 8 September 1946.   Since the 1920’s, YCS national movements developed and existed independently. However they gradually became aware of each other’s existence, and of the common points that united them (student identity, objectives, theological and pastoral vision, See-Judge-Act methodology …), arousing a need to reflect together and support each other. Eventually, in the internationalist climate prevailing after the Second World War, the initiative was taken by the Canadian, American, and French YCS to organise an international meeting to respond to that need.   This resulted in the meeting in Fribourg in 1946, which brought 8 national movements together. That meeting outlined the fundamental orientation of the YCS, decided to set up an International YCS Center of Documentation and Information in Paris (International Secretariat today) for the service of all YCS groups existing throughout the world, and an International Commission (replaced by the term International Team today) was mandated to work for all existing YCS movements, to maintain links with the Church hierarchy and to prepare for the future sessions.   Thus, we are reminded of the ‘entity’ and ‘status’ of YCS as an International Organisation which over the years has grown, so that it presently exists in 80 countries throughout the world, and has formed millions of individuals. Therefore, the IYCS International Committee in August 2003 decided that, in 2006, we should mark this 60th anniversary with celebrations world-wide. We thus began the preparations for this event. IMPORTANT NOTICE: National Movements and Regional Teams 60th year Publication of International YCS: Our stories   The publication will be stories of inspiration from Indiviuals about their contribution to the growth of the YCS movement in a specific country, region or International and what it meant to be connected with the movement.   It would be an experience sharing publication which hopefully would draw the present day readers (students and animators and non-members) to understand the role of the movement in the student milieu, society and church in the past decades.   Thus, kindly identify key individuals who would like to share their experiences, on how they have contributed to the growth of the YCS movement and how has it changed their journey of life.   Contributors must write within two A4 pages and attach the contributors’ photo. E-mail: iycs.history@yahoo.com and Cc to mail@iycs-jeci.org OR post to IYCS, 171 Rue de Rennes, 75006 Paris, France.   The publication content: 1. Editorial: 1 page 2. Introduction from the International Team: 1 page 3. History of the International YCS: 4 pages: Louis Vos and International Team 4. History of the regional development: 8 pages: Regional Teams (1 page per region) 5. Stories from individuals (at least 80 contributors):160 pages: National Movements 6. Appendix 1: List of all former members (International and Regional) 7. Appendix 2: IYCS Today 2 pages: International Team 8. Appendix 3: Thank you list 2 pages: International Team   Deadline: Final Date of submission: 31 December 2006   Publishers: Spanish and French Edited by: Santiago Perez, Brazil English(Asia,Pacific, Middle East) Edited by: Alma Aparece, Philippines English (Africa, Europe and North America) & Final Edition: Peter Baldock, United Kingdom Overall Coordination: International Team and Regional Teams   If you require any clarifications, kindly contact Manoj: mathew@iycs-jeci.org   Thank you very much.   With warm wishes,   Manoj Mathew, Margareta Brosnan and Fr. Mike Deeb OP (IYCS International Team)                    

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

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