#nicola trahan

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Nicola Trahan, who has died aged 97, joined the French resistance as a schoolgirl and was awarded the Croix de Guerre avec Palme for her bravery during “numerous dangerous missions”, in particular a series of battles between her Maquis and the notorious 2nd SS Panzerdivision Das Reich. After the second world war she settled in the UK, where she served with the Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association (SSAFA) for 50 years.

Aged 16, while still at school in Valençay, Indre, in central France, she joined the Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI), the resistance organisation run by the Gaullist French authorities in London and known as the Armée Secrète.

According to her French military file, Trahan became a member of the North Indre Maquis, led by Francis Perdriset, a former French army officer who took charge of FFI resistance operations in that area in July 1943. Her main role was as a courier delivering messages twice daily between the various resistance teams.

She also worked as part of the Maquis’ medical team and, amid a heavy German military presence, used her trips cycling between the teams to collect intelligence. A note in a file has one resistance fighter telling another that Trahan would sometimes be late because she liked to sit by the road watching the Germans while eating her lunch. “Don’t worry,” he said. “It provides us with valuable information.”

In an interview with a French newspaper following the liberation of France, Trahan said that once when she was stopped by the Germans she screwed up her FFI identity pass into a ball and swallowed it to avoid arrest. She also recalled taking part in firefights and on one occasion shooting and wounding two German soldiers: “I really liked ambushes; when we put together a team and went off in full truckloads. I had a revolver and a machine gun.”

In July 1944, Perdriset and his Maquis began working closely with a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer Pearl Witherington (later Cornioley), who was also based in North Indre.

Witherington had set up the SOE’s Wrestler circuit in May that year. But on 11 June, five days after the D-day landings, she and the small number of resistance fighters she had assembled were attacked by a much larger German force. They fought them off but Witherington decided she needed an experienced military officer to help her to reorganise her forces.

“Finally, on 25 July [1944], after I had asked repeatedly for a military commander, to my great relief one arrived,” she recalled in her memoirs. “He was an army captain called Francis Perdriset.”

From that point on, the North Indre Maquis was closely integrated with the SOE Wrestler team. Trahan recalled meeting Witherington once, at a parachute drop of weapons and other supplies, where resistance members would have been called upon to remove the supplies to a safe location.

Shortly after Perdriset took over as Witherington’s military commander, elements of the German 2nd SS Panzerdivision Das Reich arrived in the region on their way north to Normandy, having been ordered to destroy the resistance along the way.

They had previously massacred an entire village at Oradour-sur-Glane and, from mid-August, launched a series of attacks against resistance groups in the Indre area, most notably in Valençay itself, where Perdriset was present.

“The Germans did a lot of damage in Valençay,” Witherington recalled. “I wasn’t there but Francis was. He was told to stand against a wall, he really thought he had had it. The Germans set fire to things, shot, killed. It wasn’t as bad as Oradour-sur-Glane but it wasn’t a pretty sight.”

In his recommendation for the award of the Croix de Guerre, Perdriset said Trahan, then only 17, “notably distinguished herself at Valençay from 20 to 30 August 1944 by bringing her commander valuable information which she gathered at the heart of enemy operations”.

Born Nicole in Berck-sur-Mer, in the Pas de Calais, she was the daughter of André Trahan, who worked in the insurance industry, and Jeanne (nee Bourzes), a professor of English.

Nicole initially boarded at the Collège Cévenol at Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in south-central France. She later recalled that her parents took her to the UK when the Germans occupied northern France in 1940, but by 1942 she was at Cours Guynemer, a private school in Valençay.

After the war, Trahan went to the Sorbonne to study philosophy but, having decided that it was not for her, she trained as a nurse at the Ecole d’Infirmières des Associations Diaconesses in Paris, and at Brighton General hospital, in East Sussex, qualifying in 1953. She subsequently worked as a health visitor in Cheshire. She anglicised her name from Nicole to Nicola and was naturalised British in 1957.

The following year she joined SSAFA, first as a member of its nursing service, then as a health visitor working with service families in Germany, Belgium and Hong Kong. Trahan served with the association for 30 years and after retirement continued to work for them as a volunteer for a further 20 years.

Trahan settled in Orcheston, Wiltshire, where she was also a volunteer at Salisbury Cathedral, and enjoyed swimming and walking her dog.

In 2005, she was invited to the unveiling by Queen Elizabeth II of the monument in Whitehall to The Women of World War II, followed by a lunch for female veterans at Buckingham Palace. In 2008 she was appointed MBE.

Nicola (Nicole) Marie Pauline Trahan, resistance fighter and nurse, born 21 December 1926; died 18 January 2024

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Pauline Trahan: SOE Agent.

I have recently been informed that on 4 February 2024 one of the last surviving members of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) French Section died at the age of 97. If her age is correct and was 17 when she parachuted into France, Nicola Pauline Marie Trahan was one of the youngest agents serving with F (French ) Section. RIP

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Le 3e Prix en art actuel du MNBAQ

Les cinq finalistes révélés… et en nouveauté, une bourse en partage!

Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), en collaboration avec RBC, son formidable partenaire financier, est particulièrement fier de dévoiler les cinq artistes finalistes de la troisième édition du Prix en art actuel du MNBAQ, un prix bisannuel unique au Canada. Numa Amun, Nicolas Grenier, Jennifer Lefort, Geneviève et Matthieu ainsi que Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn ont été retenus par le jury.

Un prix prestigieux afin de propulser une carrière

Grâce à la généreuse contribution de RBC au MNBAQ et à sa Fondation en 2013 – ayant permis la création du Prix en art actuel du MNBAQ – deux artistes québécois, Diane Morin, en 2015, et Carl Trahan, en 2017, ont vu leur travail rayonner de façon exceptionnelle. À chaque édition, l’artiste remportant le prix a eu droit à une exposition personnelle au Musée, une publication de nature rétrospective, l’acquisition de ses œuvres pour la collection du MNBAQ à hauteur de 50 000 $ ainsi qu’une bourse.

En nouveauté, la bourse en argent partagée entre les cinq finalistes

Nouveauté cette année, la bourse de 10 000 $, jusqu’alors réservée au lauréat, a été redistribuée aux cinq finalistes, qui se sont vu remettre chacun un montant de 2 000 $. Un second jury se réunira prochainement afin de déterminer le grand gagnant selon les critères établis et son nom sera révélé par l’équipe du Musée par la suite. L’exposition du futur lauréat est prévue au printemps 2019 au MNBAQ, moment où sera lancée sa monographie. Ce prix d’exception contribuera à soutenir sa carrière, mais surtout à lui donner un élan marquant. RENSEIGNEMENTS : 418 643-2150 ou 1 866 220-2150 / mnbaq.org

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The Pool Scene - Alain Caya, Alain Martel, Alain Trahan, Anick Cadorette, Carol Audet, Christian Boisvert, Daniel Gagné, Daniel Sumun, Danny Hewitt, Dany Normandin, Darren Auclair Clément, Dave Simard, Denis Bernier, Dominic Byrne, Eric Cloutier, Éric Duchêneau, Éric Lepage, Gaston Soucy, Ghislain Champagne, Guillaume McNicoll, Harold Rousseau, Jean-François Dorais, Jeff Blais, Jérémie Boutet, Joey Cicero, Karl Tremblay, Louis-Martin Pratte, Luc Salvas, Marc Malette, Marco Caron, Marco Michel, Marie-France Blanchette, Mario Gamache, Mario Jacques, Markus Noe, Martin Daigle, Martin Sears, Medhi Bahloul, Michel Ferland, Michel Gagnon, Nick Jacques, Nicolas Charette, Pat Desbiens, Pierre Jubinville, Pierre Thériault, Réal Fontaine, Rémy Lefebvre, Sébastien Binette, Stéphane Fournier, Sylvain B��liveau, Sylvain Mercier, Tommy Cayer, Valerie Bedard, Yan Lalande, Yves Gaudreault - Quebec Billiards

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Daigle wins Falcon Tour in Drummondville

Here are the Falcon Cues Quebec tour results from march 03-04 from billard Hériot in Drummondville,Québec

1 Martin Daigle 1 200 $ 2 Dany Normandin 915 $ 3 Daniel Gagné 700 $ 4 Alain Martel 500 $ 5 Marco Caron 350 $ 6 Luc Salvas 350 $ 7 Danny Hewitt 225 $ 8 Yves Gaudreault 225 $ 9 Éric Cloutier 125 $ 10 Medhi Bahloul 125 $ 11 Éric Lepage 125 $ 12 Guillaume McNicoll 125 $ 13 – 16 Carol Audet 60 $ 13 – 16 Nick Jacques 60 $ 13 – 16 Stéphane Fournier 60 $ 13 – 16 Martin Sears 60 $ 17 – 24 Valérie Bédard 0 $ 17 – 24 Louis-Martin Pratte 0 $ 17 – 24 Pierre Thériault 0 $ 17 – 24 Dominic Byrne 0 $ 17 – 24 Sylvain Mercier 0 $ 17 – 24 Sébastien Binette 0 $ 17 – 24 Mario Jacques 0 $ 17 – 24 Rémy Lefebvre 0 $ 25 – 32 Harold Rousseau 0 $ 25 – 32 Karl Tremblay 0 $ 25 – 32 Markus Noé 0 $ 25 – 32 Denis Bernier 0 $ 25 – 32 Tommy Cayer 0 $ 25 – 32 Yan Lalande 0 $ 25 – 32 Pat Desbiens 0 $ 25 – 32 Ghislain Champagne 0 $ 33 – 48 Michel Gagnon 0 $ 33 – 48 Marc Malette 0 $ 33 – 48 Gaston Soucy 0 $ 33 – 48 Mario Gamache 0 $ 33 – 48 Dave Simard 0 $ 33 – 48 Sylvain Béliveau 0 $ 33 – 48 Joey Cicero 0 $ 33 – 48 Alain Trahan 0 $ 33 – 48 Pierre Jubinville 0 $ 33 – 48 Anick Cadorette 0 $ 33 – 48 Jean-François Dorais 0 $ 33 – 48 Jeff Blais 0 $ 33 – 48 Christian Boisvert 0 $ 33 – 48 Éric Duchêneau 0 $ 33 – 48 Darren Auclair Clément 0 $ 33 – 48 Alain Caya 0 $ 49 – 64 Réal Fontaine 0 $ 49 – 64 Daniel Sumun 0 $ 49 – 64 Marie-France  Blanchette 0 $ 49 – 64 Jérémie Boutet 0 $ 49 – 64 Marco Michel 0 $ 49 – 64 Michel Ferland 0 $ 49 – 64 Nicolas Charette 0 $

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Exciting news from Galerie Nicolas Robert.

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Glen Rock HS held their 59th Annual Academic Awards Assembly on June 7, 2017.  This Assembly consists of Select seniors receiving Academic Awards As well as Scholarships from different foundations in and around Glen Rock. The students have to apply to them  or are nominated by their peers or a member of the  GRHS faculty.

  This year, the following Scholarships and Academic Awards were given out.

  2017 Scholarships

Bergen County Directors of Guidance Scholarship: Anne Nebbia

Beverly and Leonard Chesler YES Scholarship: Shayna Beldner

Browning – Forshay Scholarship: Julia Rooney

Frank J. Taylor Memorial Scholarship: Christopher Theuerkauf

Frank Kozar Memorial Scholarship: Moira Ryan

GREA Future Educators Scholarship: Lindsay Vachon 

Glen Rock Chamber of Commerce Scholarship: Jake Kinney Andrew Perez

Glen Rock Education Association Scholarship: Erin Dunn

Glen Rock High School Class of 1959 Virginia James Memorial Scholarship: Ayano Endo Laurent Shiels

Glen Rock Jacyees Scholarship: Laurent Shiels

Glen Rock PBA #110 Scholarship: Luke Fisher

Glen Rock Soccer Club Scholarship: Sergio Galvez Emily Schaefer

Glen Rock Women in Community Service Scholarship: Michelle Hillock 

G.R.A.C.E. 9/11 Tribute Scholarship: Caitllyn Drace

Helen E Taylor Memorial Scholarship: Patricia Whyte

Janet Schattin Memorial Scholarship: Caroline Keller

Jed Haubenstock Memorial Scholarship: Katrina Frangulova

Julia Anne Kirsch Memorial Scholarship: Ayano Endo

Karen Coote Ferrari Memorial Scholarship: Kathleen Trahan

Karol Ebeling Memorial Scholarship: Sydney Pifer

Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship: Kathleen Connor

Michael J. Lota Memorial Scholarship: Matthew Alport

Robin Rubinstein Valedictorian Scholarship: Christopher Theuerkauf

Sean Caton Memorial Scholarship: Kathleen Connor Ryan Dooner

Winifred Whitehouse Bender Music Scholarship: Nicola Fornino

Women in Business Scholarship: Hannah Vanderwall

Yaw Paw Camp Foundation Scholarship: Erica Jones James Hunter Somers

Collage Club of Ridgewood Scholarship: Jaclyn Mills

Club Z Tutoring Scholarship: Dean Eleftheriades, Michelle Hillock

      2017 Academic Awards

American History: Jack DeSalvo

Art: Matthew Lacognata 

Biology: Katerina Frangulova

Business Education: Nicholas Elliot Gincley

Calculus: Anne Vandervalk

Chemistry: Christopher Theuerkauf

Choral Music: Patricia Whyte

Digital Art & Design: Kenneth Mao

English: Kathleen Connor

Environmental Science: Erica Jones

Finance / Investment: Christopher Theuerkauf

French: Delphine Troast

Health: Katerina Frangulova

Journalism: Colin Morrow

Latin: Camille Kaselow

Literature: Camille Kaselow

Mathematics: Noah Kastelman

Music: Megan Stoddard

Photography: Deirdre Meaney

Physical Education: Jack DeSalvo

Physics: Delphine Troast

Pre-engineering: Meredith Busch

Psychology: Ayano Endo

Science: Kenneth Mao

Social Studies: Sarah Crawford

Spanish: Victoria Geykhman

Theatre: Patricia Whyte

Valedictorian Award: Christopher Theuerkauf Salutatorian Award: Katrina Frangulova

Principal’s Award: Erica Jones Christina Martin Patricia Whyte

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    GRHS Senior Academic Awards And Scholarships Glen Rock HS held their 59th Annual Academic Awards Assembly on June 7, 2017.  This Assembly consists of Select seniors receiving Academic Awards As well as Scholarships from different foundations in and around Glen Rock.