Village Chiefs

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1. CC I want to print this page apparently impossible?

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2. A very big congratulations! For this enormous work!
   It brings back memories of being a Village Chief.
   Thank you very much.
   VIOLIN Robert

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   1. Thank you Robert for your thanks, I really appreciate it.

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3. Great, thanks for this looooong list.

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4. Thank you for this titanic work.
   Miss Jonathan Hegarty.

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5. Hello, does anyone have any news of Marie Michelle, former secretary of the club's ski school?

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6. Hello everyone, and thank you again for this wonderful initiative. I would like to point out that there is an error because I appear in this listing even though I have never been a village chief. Kisses to everyone.

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7. Following my last message...I worked as a GO (MNS, land sports + stage manager internship) between 1982 and 86 (from memory) but not as a village chief. Very warm greetings to Myriam (village chief) and Bob (sports manager) in San Ambroggio 83 I think) where Myriam was never able to present the team after the last number "the man from La Mancha" where she played Dulcinéa, a lot of emotions on stage and a lot of pleasure working with them all this season. Kisses to everyone and especially to Guy (sports manager in Marrakech 82) who asked Myriam to take me in the role of Don Quixote. Thank you all, I can't forget you... 😉😘

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   1. You were also a ski instructor in Wengen for my first season, with Jean Pierre Battard and Patrice Hurlin, very good memories and beautiful songs for the restaurant starter! Good luck.
      Lolo

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8. I would just like to say thank you to Myriam Karahoanessian for saving my life in Agadir in 1986, I was GO lumiere and I will never forget it.
   Thank you

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9. Thank you very much for the Village Chef list.
   I am Vittorio and I worked at the Bar in Donoratico from 1976 to 1991. Greetings to my Chef Patrick Chotard from 1985 in Donoratico (Italy).

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10. Thank you Philippe for this impressive research, a kind of spark that brings back to life names and memories sometimes frozen in our memory, but not forgotten. A big hello in passing to all the CDVs and GOs who came to the NY office in the 70s and early 80s...they will recognize themselves, they will remember...

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    1. Hello Daniel... surprising and ultimately logical to find you on this page....yves Bastien bibi... bar Moorea 1973... 48 years later... does that mean anything to you? Looking forward to hearing from you?

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       1. Iorana Bibi,
          François Dupont Maintenance for 6 years Moorea and Bora, Nantes for 20 years after leaving the Club. Is everything okay for you? Best regards. nana

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          1. Still in Nantes?
             Come back to Villars on vacation!
             Patrick JANTET

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             1. Jean Pierre Gaillard
                My best memory is Myriam Karahoanessian who welcomed me one day in Eilat by addressing me (Hello IndianaJones) I had just crossed almost entirely on foot and camel the desert between Pisinne (Iranian village on the far southern border) and Karachi (car breakdown in the middle of the desert after the final checkpoint) exploded engine oil pan! She introduced me to Omar Sharif who was living a happy life playing cards 20 hours a day, yes!
                Fabulous extraordinary woman she devalued cemantics because no compliment or definition can be associated with her, because she is far too superior!

11. I was in the Bahamas Paradise Island around 1989 with Jonathan Bismuth, Eddy in maintenance, Christine as show coach

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    1. Hello Elaine,
       I left Paradis Island in June 1989, I was in Maintenance, I don't remember Eddy, but there was Alain the Plumber. Did you know him?

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       1. Hello Lionel, I knew Alain the plumber (I met him again in January 1990 in Cancun), there was also Eric the carpenter, Marie-Angèle the lingerie assistant, and I was the lingerie manager (so the maintenance team), from October 1988 to the end of May-June 1989.

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12. Good morning

    I am looking for my godfather Laurent Gand, from whom I have had no news for 30 years now....

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    1. Laurent Gand is at GO's Paradise, his wife is on FB

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       1. Laurent was my first CDV at Magic Haiti1994

          Alain Richard

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13. Thank you very much for this site. I was a GO excursion for a few years at Club Med during the period of Jean-Pierre Franquin, Bambi, Philippe Calvet, Arlette Gilles, Francis di Landro and others. So 1986-1992. Gregolimano, Faru, Kos, Djerba la Douce (fire!!), Cargese, (bomb alarm) Foca, Marrakech, Metaponto, Opio, Marbella.
    A big thank you to the great village chiefs and especially to Philippe who gave me 4 weeks at the time to try working in a start-up, (Amadeus) and to take me back, if it doesn't work out. Philippe, I always thank you and I have been working there as a trainer since 1992. Thank you very much for the best training in the world in a splendid atmosphere. Thank you for everything. Doris

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    1. Hi Doris, we were together in Djerba in 1989 when the village burned down and Thierry Louiset died on the night of March 3-4, 1989, 31 years ago. Kisses to all. Among the best years of my life. Gatsby

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       1. Bizzz, and Happy New Year!
          Newman, best memories
          From 75…80
          Sveti, St Moritz, Palinuro, Playa Blanca, Monetier, kemer, vitel….
          Fellah…kiki Lieber…Pierrot….
          fanfan6mass@gmail.com

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14. Bravo and thank you Philippe. You deserve your title of Honorary GO more and more.

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15. Thank you for this initiative. I didn't think it would have touched me so much...😀

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16. Thanks again for all the hard work, great memories and wonderful smiles go's.

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17. Congratulations on this work. My life at the Club: 1978-1985. Caprera, Playa Blanca, Marbeila…Marrakech, resp. Maintenance. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ERA FAVOLOSO!!!
    Alex » the Swiss »

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18. Excellent work. , well done and a big thank you, I was GO hairdresser for the summer season 92 in Marbella at the Don Miguel hotel with Éric Voyer as village chief, it was also the exhibition in Seville, and winter season 92 – 93 still in Marbella but with Francis Dilandro as village chief and for the summer season 93, in Djerba la douce still GO hairdresser and as village chief: Jean – Pierre Grand …so many good memories…

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19. Hello,
    In the list of CDVs, it seems to me that Sczopp is missing.

    Well done for the “memory” work

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    1. Hello
       No I think I saw it in the list however I didn't see Pop or Pop's chefdv in Santa-Julia in Corsica in 1966. Village of huts where Gilbert's son from Capréra took me to Santa-Julia with a riva-type inboard boat and instructed Pop to provide me with a free hut.
       By chance I met at noon at the bar where Gilbert's son had arranged to meet me the coach of the Val-d'isére junior club, who a few months earlier had asked me to join his club after my victory in the Val-d'isére downhill, while I was at the GUC (Grenoble university club with Joubert) and who was responsible for water skiing for the summer!!!
       Even more astonishing, he had one of his nephews hired as Mr. Gilbert Klein, who left us inexplicably halfway through the season, but whose reason we knew, and for good reason, a few days later in the early morning of July 4, 1966, on the platform of Grenoble station, upon the arrival of the train from Paris, where we left, necessity being the law, arm in arm, for an 18-month incorporation into the famous 6th BCA, the only battalion of Alpine hunters to possess a Red fourragère, a burning memory of the fatal battle of Sidi Brahim.
       This is how, during all classes, we were roommates.
       After these I lost sight of him because having done the EOR in order to be able to choose the weapon of incorporation, BCA because of ski fanatic, I was assigned to the rank of aspirant, that is to say second lieutenant, while he remained simple 2nd class and that it was from then on forbidden for him to address me informally! Appointed to the competition team of Chamrousse we never had the opportunity to see each other again, he was demobilized, at the headquarters located in Grenoble, I was in Chamrousse, although distant from hardly more than thirty kilometers the two places retained for each an independence of belonging which did not allow us to see each other again!
       Subliminal desire, taking root in the foundation of a subconscious that was undoubtedly nourished by a multipolar shift from the first second we met, I was a customer, he had the task, then inevitably, came the time after classes, categorical segregation, imposed by the constraints of military regulations, our assignments to each different, he having to be content with the refectory, officers we had lunch in the mess, ditto for the cafeteria, where an identical segregation was in place. Each of us returned to our homes, from an existence shaped into a sociological construction by the provisions of personal pledge developing its own devolved conductance, the years grew bolder to make us prisoners of maliciously worn time, we each took on habits, having had the opportunity to approach show biz and know St Tropez, I acquired a property in the commune of Ramatuelle and it was very logical that I began to frequent Pampelonne, then a particular beach, the Papou club, and one day, incredible surprise, both in swimsuits, we found ourselves, the first moments of amazement diluted in a common pleasure, I tried to inquire about his situation, and there he announced to me with a heavy embarrassment, that in these places of idle distraction he was the beach attendant!
       I had to hide a very real astonishment, many years had passed, thinking that just like me, taking advantage of an economic boom that was called the thirty glorious years he had taken advantage to build a valued entity ensuring him ease, abundance, even opulence, and there I found him in the prime of life living on tips laden with anticonsideration.
       I stayed a few days, never returning to Pampelonne, and when I returned there I learned that the day after our reunion he had resigned.
       Dozens of years passed but I was never able to see him again.

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20. Hello everyone. GO in 1973 in Zinal until 1975. Then in Kusadasi and equipment manager at Cavaserail in 1976. Then maintenance manager at Kaya Oteli in Uchisar until the end of 1979. In 1980 at the restanques. So many good memories. I recognized village chiefs with whom I worked. The best is Mrs. Touze, super kind, and Claude Besson. Thank you, thank you...

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21. I was in charge of the Mini Club, I worked with some of these village leaders, I have excellent memories of it 👍

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22. Great memories of the Club where we took seed to create our formula… Former GMs were our first clients.
    Batard, Claude Besson, Michel & Nanard (?) in the 70s, always in contact with our old companions, music, entertainment, instructors…
    Saint-Moritz, late Roi Soleil, Leysin… The good old days! Thank you

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23. Only two memories of village chief from the time when I was GO Battle Tonio and Dupont Yvette, many others but no memory of the names

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24. The boat managers and villa managers who acted as village chiefs are missing.

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25. So many memories of the 70s, my memories also of the cdv, Dupont Yvette, Tonio Battle, JP Batard, and the others, thank you for this beautiful list, passing through the villages/hotels, the restanques, Leysin, Villard, St.Moritz, Cadaqués, Porto Vechio and the rest, thank you for these distant reunions

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26. I can’t find Léonie De Boer – Cargèse September 2018

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    1. Yes Fanny, that's correct, my list stops in the mid-2010s. I haven't updated it but it will come soon.

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       1. Hello, what wonderful memories with fantastic people:
          GO resp. lingerie (but as much as possible outside ...) from 1988 to 1990: DA BALAIA, SMIR, PARADISE ISLAND, RIO DAS PEDRAS and CANCUN. Extraordinary CDV, and unforgettable GO teams. If we could go back in time ...

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27. Hello everyone

    10 years at the club as a sound engineer (a lot of "American zone") including 8 seasons with the gracious subject of His Majesty: Mike Coltmann
    Michel (the pipe smoker) and his companion Filiz (costume designer then stage manager)

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28. We have an extraordinary memory of Club Med in Kos in 1987 with Jean Pierre Frankin as village chief.

    Thanks to everyone
    Nathalie and Didier,
    the first French people to arrive in the village.

    The best of the best

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