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President of EATA 1996 until 1999 I became President of EATA immediately after the separation from the ITAA. Much of my time as president was devoted to rebuilding healthy relationships between the two associations and together with Gloria Noriega, the President of ITAA, I am proud that we were able to continue in a collegiate way. This reconstruction involved dealing […]

President of EATA 1993 until 1996 What I remember most vividly from my time as EATA President (1993 to l996) is the joy and friendship of working with so many people from so many countries and cultures. EATA faced serious challenges just as I started near bankruptcy!!! Erich Hartmann, dear friend (and Treasurer) are you there? There followed over a […]

President of EATA 1992 until 1993 I actually was president of EATA by default. Having lost an internal vote to Ann Waters (in 1991), I became president half a year later after she unfortunately suffered a stroke and had to step down from office. Let me highlight three major developments from this time: The 1992 Stockholm conference was in my […]

President of EATA 1989 until 1991 The most important theme for me in EATA was the spreading and the development of TA in Eastern European countries. In July 1989 we had the first EATA conference in an Eastern European country in Zagreb (Yugoslavia at this time). At the ITAA/EATA joint conference in Brussels, July 1990, a roundtable was conducted by […]

President of EATA 1987 until 1989 It may seem strange that I choose a photo of an elephant to illustrate my time as EATA President – but within that role I negotiated the affiliation with ITAA, and because of that role I was invited to run for election, and became, ITAA President. Because of that, I was able to persuade […]

President of EATA 1982 until 1984 In Villars, in July 1974, when I attended the first European TA Congress, I could not imagine that EATA would experience such growth and that I would later become one of the EATA Presidents. During my presidency we started new committees, defined the job description of the officers, and engaged the first permanent administrative […]