After 32 Years, Mr. Augustin Still Searches For Sandrine And His Class Photo Mr.

Augustin always thought of his Parisian stay and of Sandrine of the College Eug ne !elacroi", Paris #$th district

A few scattered memories of his college years have long persisted with Mr. Augustin. A native of Haiti, he was educated in Paris, on his arrival in 1980 in the rench capital. !ven if he doesn"t remem#er the name of the first school he attended, he $eeps intact images of his passage to the %ollege !ugene &elacroi' (e)uivalent to *unior High +chool in the ,nited +tates-, in the 1.th district of Paris. /ut these images, he had them only in his memory and had promised to find the class photos ta$en at the time. +ince the end of the school in 1981, he wanted to get a class photo and contacted a friend who unfortunately didn"t have a copy. A few years later, Mr. Augustin was still thin$ing a#out his stay in Paris and had tried to contact the %ollege !ugene &elacroi' #y ma$ing a written re)uest for this famous class photo. 0ot a chance. His mail had #een returned, accompanied #y the amount he had paid. He had also thought to use new technologies to achieve his goal and to find this photo. 1ast 0ovem#er, he had indeed contacted the we#master in charge of the %ollege !ugene &elacroi'2s we#site, http344clg5delacroi'.scola.ac5paris.fr4. /ut no luc$ on that end. 0o trace of the photo.

6t"s was a mere chance that Mr. Augustin found a trace of his class photo. 7ne day after launching an ad on the we#, he received an email, almost gone unnoticed and he had almost deleted it, imagining that it had something to do with advertising. %urious #y nature, Mr. Augustin opened that mail and followed the instructions. 8he lin$ led him to a site collecting the memories of thousands of classes. He was a#le to refine his search. 8his much sought famous photo of the %ollege !ugene &elacroi', Paris 1.th district, year 1980 was finally displayed in front of him. Mr. Augustin remem#ered well his %ollege student years in Paris #ut also has vivid memories of the rench capital as if time stood still. 6t too$ 91 years for Mr. Augustin2s wish to come true in finding trace of that famous class photo which is now posted in his political campaign we#site page at http344paugustin.com4a#out:pierre. or Mr. Augustin who now lives in ,pper Marl#oro, Maryland ,+A, this photo has a tremendous value. 6t actually #rought tears in his eyes the first time when he saw these photos that he had #een searching for years. 0ow the challenge remains for Mr. Augustin to find +andrine (french5chinese-, the friend of *oel (;nd row, first from left in the photo- and as well his former classmates. 8he first e'changes were initiated with Manuela, who had the good idea to scan and distri#ute their class photos. 6n light of the memories and unforgetta#le love of the rench capital, Mr. Augustin hope to esta#lish in less than five years a division of his company of private security services and investigation services, AdMer$ %orp. 6nc, http344www.admer$.mo#i in Paris, rance. At that time, Mr. Augustin will sei<e on the opportunity to find +andrine and the classmates of the first school he attended as well as the 1980 class of the %ollege !ugene &elacroi'. As time goes, Mr. Augustin"s past #ecome more and more closer to him.