Exclusive insight into "Educating for Peace: 100 Years of Ecolint"
Two delegates in the 1956 SUN general assembly, Miss Mace (left) and Miss Abebe (right), respectively representing El Salvador and Ethiopia, follow the bilingual (English/French) debates with the assistance of simultaneous interpretation.
(Photo credit: Ecolint Archives)
Over the decades, the natural, grassy hollow between the Grand Bâtiment and the football pitch, which the drama teacher Drummond-Thompson had fancifully referred to as a “Greek Theatre” in the 1930s, increasingly was used as a venue for assemblies – not least, the memorable ones addressed by Marie-Thérèse Maurette. This photo shows the extent to which this space was being used for this purpose in 1951: a viable proposition when the weather was fine, but it is not difficult to imagine the effect of hundreds of feet on the sloping grass in wet conditions. One can understand why momentum had long been building up for the construction of real Greek Theatre in that hallowed spot: an ambitious project that was launched jointly by teachers and students a couple of years later, in 1953.
(Photo credit: Ecolint Archives)