Staying active to remain relevant
Dominique Berthet
During the Director’s New Year address, the Academic Palms were awarded to staff committed to “serving and sharing.” This motto reflects the values of this French honorary order, on par with the Legion of Honor.
The oldest non-military honorary order, it recognizes eminent members of Higher Education, and this year, Bernard Dhalluin, Dominique Berthet, Céline Tempesta, and Laurent Navarro were made knights.
- Philippe Lalevée, former director of the Aix-Marseille-Provence campus, presented the Palm to Bernard Dhalluin, a retired professor for the ISMIN curriculum.
- Jacques Fayolle praised the work of Dominique Berthet at the DSI, Céline Tempesta in communications, particularly for her actions during graduation ceremonies, and Laurent Navarro for his involvement as a research professor and head of the new Pdis program.
Retirements were also celebrated with moving speeches about the journeys undertaken. Michelle Gillet and François Jaujard in Gardanne. The latter had already received a warm farewell during the ISMIN graduation ceremony last November.
In Saint-Étienne, Woo Suck Han, Anna Fraczkiewicz, Jacques Stolarz, and Mireille Batton-Hubert received the miner’s lamp, a symbol of the School and a thank-you gift for their work.
To conclude the ceremony, Jean Rieu, an alumnus, professor, and researcher at Mines Saint-Étienne, gave a fascinating history lesson. He donated metallurgy courses taught by Louis Paul Urbain Le Verrier himself, printed by lithography from Le Verrier’s notes, dating from 18851.
- At that time, reprography methods included either printing (using lead type for large single runs) or lithography: the professor would give his handwritten notes to a workshop where a copyist would produce a copy with elegant handwriting and layout. They could even reproduce diagrams by hand. This copy was then transferred by engraving onto a stone, which was used for printing. ↩︎
