Word: michaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giovanna took her seat and opened her pad, the school's Dean Sven Stelling-Michaud launched into a twelve-minute speech in fast-paced French ("The new member-state of Viet Nam is particularly happy to be able to participate in the work of the World Health Organization . . ."). With scarcely a second's delay, Giovanna read back the speech in Italian. After that a professor delivered another speech...
...interpreters must not only have the concentration and quickness to translate words and sentences instantly; they must also have background enough to be able to render shades of meaning and to place emphasis where the speakers want it. "We know our requirements are difficult," says Dean Stelling-Michaud, "but they have to be." A translator who is merely a babbling robot can endanger a whole international conference...
...Many Conferences. Founded by a Belgian-born League of Nations interpreter named Antoine Velleman, the school began with only 20 students in one of the buildings of the University of Geneva. By 1951, when Dean Stelling-Michaud took over, Geneva canton authorities were so impressed by it that they agreed to help finance it. Stelling-Michaud added modern equipment for simultaneous translation, built up one of the largest dictionary libraries in the world. By 1955 the school had become an autonomous part of the University of Geneva...
Today no alumni are in greater demand than Geneva's. "There are such a multitude of conferences," says Dean Stelling-Michaud, "that every day we witness a new international organization of some kind." When UNESCO decided to set up its Russian-language section, it asked the school to do the job. When Aramco and Saudi Arabian officials got bogged down in a Geneva conference last year, they called on the school for English-Arabic translators to help the negotiators out. In a sense, says Stelling-Michaud, the Geneva alumnus is rapidly becoming the indispensable international man. "In European organizations...
...Saturday night. After losing to Brown at the start of the season, the Eagles roared back to crush Yale, 11 to 2, and beat the Bruins in a second meeting, 5 to 0. Starring the names that have plagued the Crimson for two years--Don Fox, Jim Tiernan, Dick Michaud, Dick Kane, and Paul Sheehy--B.C. is as good a sextet as New England offers...