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Warwick Courier
August 2, 2012 Thursday
UK
THE founder of a Leamington-based awards scheme for young learners
of French was congratulated for her dedication at dinner marking the
scheme's end.
Ninety-four-year-old Arsinoe Wainhouse has been running the Wainhouse
Awards for the past 12 years, but, following this year's ceremony in
March, she has taken the decision to retire.
More than 70 people gathered for a diner to mark the occasion at
Le Bistrot Pierre restaurant in Stratford on Saturday, which was
approriately also Bastille Day, France's National Day of celebrations.
Mrs Wainhouse, who also set up the Anglo-French Society in Leamington
in 1964 and has been made MBE and the French equivalent of CBE for
her services to Anglo-French relations, said afterwards: "I am sad,
but I am ready to retire from this. I hold very dear memories since
setting up the society in 1964. Across the years, I have made some
very good friends.
"This evening was superb. Many of my old friends who had travelled from
far were there. I am very thankful to all those who have helped me."
Mrs Wainhouse, a Francophile Armenian, was born and raised in Egypt
but has lived in England since 1944. She now lives in Newbold Terrace
and continues to take pupils, free of charge, for French conversation
classes.
Warwick Courier
August 2, 2012 Thursday
UK
THE founder of a Leamington-based awards scheme for young learners
of French was congratulated for her dedication at dinner marking the
scheme's end.
Ninety-four-year-old Arsinoe Wainhouse has been running the Wainhouse
Awards for the past 12 years, but, following this year's ceremony in
March, she has taken the decision to retire.
More than 70 people gathered for a diner to mark the occasion at
Le Bistrot Pierre restaurant in Stratford on Saturday, which was
approriately also Bastille Day, France's National Day of celebrations.
Mrs Wainhouse, who also set up the Anglo-French Society in Leamington
in 1964 and has been made MBE and the French equivalent of CBE for
her services to Anglo-French relations, said afterwards: "I am sad,
but I am ready to retire from this. I hold very dear memories since
setting up the society in 1964. Across the years, I have made some
very good friends.
"This evening was superb. Many of my old friends who had travelled from
far were there. I am very thankful to all those who have helped me."
Mrs Wainhouse, a Francophile Armenian, was born and raised in Egypt
but has lived in England since 1944. She now lives in Newbold Terrace
and continues to take pupils, free of charge, for French conversation
classes.