The US Alumni of the College Cevenol will surely forgive their fellow “Anciens” of Europeans, Africans and Asian descent, to believe that somehow Barack Obama’s election is a little bit the College Cevenol “doing”, the College “teaching”…

What you Guys learnt “au College Cevenol” has contributed to this historical moment. You will remember that when you came in the 50s, 60s Tom Johnson was teaching us English at a time when he could not have been served a meal in a restaurant back home…

At a time when France was still fighting Colonial Wars, the College was “International for Peace”. It made the majority of us “Global” well before it was fashionable to use the word.

So Guys come and celebrate with hundreds of other Alumni, with the village of the Chambon/Lignon and the whole Plateau your College’s 70th Anniversary. Come so that we can all thank you in person for giving us back the America the world loves.