mardi, janvier 22, 2008

Obituary: WWII helped shape the life of S.A teacher Finder

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA081707.06B.Obit_Finder.2d7f37c.html

Web Posted: 08/16/2007 09:23 PM CDT

Carmina Danini
Express-News

Yvette Finder, who lived through the Vichy government in France in World War II, came to the U.S. with her Holocaust survivor husband and became a teacher, died Sunday of complications from lung cancer. She was 78.
Born Yvette Yolande Mazzia, she grew up in the village of Lapalisse near Vichy in central France.
The right-wing government established in 1940 by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain ruled over unoccupied France and collaborated with the Germans until 1944.
Accepted into medical school after the war, Finder attended only two years out of what was a seven-year program.
She was working as a secretary when she met Rudolf Finder, a translator at a military base in France.
German and Jewish, he joined the U.S. Air Force after he was liberated from a concentration camp.
Yvette Finder
Born: Sept. 10, 1928, in Lapalisse, France
Died: Aug. 12, 2007, in San Antonio
Survived by: Two sons, Dr. Steven Finder of San Antonio and Phillip Finder of Austin; two grandchildren, Christopher and Allison, also both of Austin; and a brother, Jean Guy Mazzia of Toulouse, France.
Services: Visitation today from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Porter Loring Mortuary North, at 2102 N. Loop 1604 East and Gold Canyon Road; memorial service at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Porter Loring Mortuary North chapel. Her cremated remains will be buried in the Lapalisse cemetery next year.
Donations can be sent to the Animal Defense League of San Antonio, 11300 Nacogdoches Road, San Antonio 78217.

They married and in 1962, came to San Antonio. He later taught German and French at Kennedy High School.
Meanwhile, his wife, who spoke little English, studied toward a degree in education at what's now the University of the Incarnate Word.
Her master's was from Our Lady of the Lake University.
"She had taken some English in school in France and they had lived on an American base in Germany but college was something else," said one of her sons, Dr. Steven Finder. "She was immensely proud of having gone to college here."
Her first teaching job was at John Jay High School. She taught French for nearly 20 years, then switched to another subject — world history.
"She liked teaching French but she loved world history, which she taught for the last 10 years at Jay," said her son.
She didn't totally abandon the French language because she also taught it at San Antonio College.
Finder, her husband and Steven, their eldest son, became naturalized American citizens in 1965.
Rudolf Finder died in 1994.
Teaching and traveling were the things his mother loved the best, Steven Finder said.
"Her mother lived to be 100, and I expected her to do the same. She was living on her own and in good health," he said.
Finder was a past president of the L'Alliance Francaise of San Antonio.


cdanini@express-news.net

Obituaries : Yvette Yolande Finder

Yvette Yolande Finder
Born in Lapalisse, France on Sep. 10, 1928
Died Aug. 12, 2007 and resided in Boerne, TX.



Yvette Finder, former longterm John Jay High School teacher, died Sunday morning at Methodist Hospital as a result of complications due to her ongoing battle with lung cancer. She was 78 years old at her death.

Yvette was born Yvette Yolande Mazzia, on September 10th, 1928 in Lapalisse, a small village found in the center of France, near Vichy. She spent her teenage years growing up under the infamous Vichy government of World War II.

In 1952, she married Rudolf Finder, a German holocaust survivor, who had recently joined the American Air Force. And in 1962, she and Rudy moved to San Antonio with their two young sons. Barely speaking English, she enrolled in Incarnate Word College, where in 1965 she earned her Bachelor’s degree. In the same year she was also naturalized as an American citizen. She later earned her master’s degree from Our Lady of the Lake University.

Yvette was one of the original teachers at John Jay High School where she remained until her retirement in 1993. Originally teaching only French, she later switched to world history, a subject she always loved dearly. Even upon her retirement from teaching high school, she continued to teach at San Antonio College.

Yvette was active in a number of organizations, to include L’Alliance Française of San Antonio, where she served as a past president.

Yvette is survived by her two sons. Steven Finder, MD and his wife Kimberly live in San Antonio. Phillip Finder, his wife Lisa, and her two grandchildren, Christopher and Allison, live in Austin. She is also survived by her younger brother, Jean Guy Mazzia, who lives with his family in Toulouse, France.

Her remains will be cremated and her ashes will be buried in the cemetery at Lapalisse later next year.

La Suisse panique devant une éventuelle pénurie de cervelas dans LE MONDE

La Suisse panique devant une éventuelle pénurie de cervelas
LE MONDE | 21.01.08 | 15h19 • Mis à jour le 21.01.08 | 15h19
GENÈVE CORRESPONDANCE


La saucisse nationale suisse est en danger. Depuis presque une semaine, le cervelas, ce petit boudin rose de 12 centimètres de longueur et 3,8 centimètres de diamètre, consommé à 160 millions d'exemplaires par an, fait la "une" de l'actualité. Le boyau de zébu brésilien qui sert d'enveloppe à ce pilier de la culture nationale helvète, et qui permet de lui donner un croquant et une courbure si caractéristiques, pourrait faire défaut dans six mois, les stocks étant épuisés.

La fautive : l'Union européenne, dont la Suisse n'est pourtant pas membre. Depuis le 1er avril 2006, Bruxelles, par souci de prévention contre l'encéphalite spongiforme bovine (ESB), a interdit l'importation de boyaux de bovins en provenance du Brésil. Cette directive est suivie par Berne. Les consommateurs et les professionnels du secteur cherchent une alternative. Outre la mise en place d'un groupe de travail comprenant des industriels de la viande, du commerce des boyaux, des scientifiques et des membres de l'Office vétérinaire fédéral, une conférence de presse s'est tenue, mardi 15 janvier, à Zurich.

Rölf Büttiker, sénateur du canton de Soleure et président de l'Union professionnelle suisse de la viande (UPSV), a expliqué qu'une pénurie durant l'Euro de football 2008, en juin, était impensable. "Ce serait comme un pompier sans eau", a-t-il déclaré, rappelant que la saucisse, consommée en salade, en grillades, omniprésente lors des fêtes, vacances et pique-niques en famille, revêtait "une dimension sociale et politique au même niveau que le chocolat".

L'UPSV a annoncé avoir testé douze solutions pour remplacer les zébus brésiliens. Trois semblent acceptables : le boyau de boeuf d'Uruguay, qui présente presque les mêmes qualités, mais est produit en trop petites quantités ; celui du porc chinois, qui, s'il se comporte bien à la cuisson, est difficile à peler ; et enfin une enveloppe à base de collagène dont le défaut serait de brûler trop vite.

En attendant, les producteurs croient encore pouvoir convaincre l'Union d'accorder à la Suisse "une fenêtre d'importation". Le Conseil fédéral (gouvernement) a été sollicité pour intervenir auprès de Bruxelles.

Agathe Duparc