Member's News
No.44
May 2005
 
    

Former FIEP President John Andrews (1934-2005) – in memoriam
F.I.E.P. World President Prof. Dr Manoel TUBINO and F.I.E.P. Vice-President for Europe Prof. Robert DECKER


We pay tribute and honour the memory of a very great teacher, educator and leader with a world-wide fame in the field of Physical Education. John Andrews has first been a FIEP member and its national delegate for Great Britain for 34 years, from 1970 to 2004. From 1974 to 1984, he was our Secretary General and, from 1984 to 2000, our full-time President, unpaid, but a hard worker, very competent and engaged. All this did not prevent him from acting also as a freelance writer, lecturer and consultant on Physical Education and Sport.
During his long career he has not only been a teacher and an administrator, but also an organiser, an animator, and speaker at various national and international in-service training courses. During the last years of his life and up to his death, he was an elected member of FFEPGV Committee Departmental CODEP 86 and regional Committee FFEPGV Poitou-Charentes.
John Andrews was born 9th December 1934 in Buckinghamshire, England. He was engaged during 22 years in Teacher Education at the College of St. Paul and St. Mary, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (now Gloucestershire University), preparing Secondary School specialist teachers of Physical education. In later years he was Principal Lecturer and Senior Tutor in charge of the B.Ed. Secondary School Physical education Specialist course and visiting lecturer involved in the University of Bristol Master’s Degree programme.
His professional memberships in Britain were:
  • Member (now Fellow) of the Physical Education Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (P.E.A.) since 1956.
  • Member (and Council member for 5 years) of the British Association of Advisers and Lecturers in Physical Education since 1964.
  • Founder member of the British Tchoukball Association starting in December 1971, chairman during 12 years. Now Honorary Life President.
Invited in 1971 to meet Dr Hermann Brandt, the inventor of Tchoukball and Michel Favre, he attended a demonstration of this new team game of high educational value. He was so delighted with this game that he decided to propagate and to make known tchoukball all over the world via F.I.E.P.
He became one of the founding members of the British Tchoukball Association, whose Presidency he assumed for 12 years, before becoming its life-long Honorary President.
John Andrews has published several books about Physical Education and more than 120 articles and editorials published and translated in various journals and Conference Reports around the world.. During five years, from 1969 to 1974, he was the editor of “Bulletin of Physical Education” of the national British Association of Advisers and lecturers in Physical Education. For 26 years, he was the editor of the international professional Journal, the FIEP Bulletin (English Edition). From 1983 General Director of all Language Editions. During the final 5 years, he was its director, with Mme G. OUVRARD acting as joint director of a trilingual edition in English, French and Spanish.
On an international level, his functions as FIEP World President made him a member for 24 years of the Executive Board of the International Council for Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) , and of the International Committee for Sport Pedagogy( ICSP), whose chairman he was during the period 1996-2000, with presence and papers at Pre-Olympic Scientific Congresses.
He established working Committees and Protocols of Cooperation with the Arab Sports Confederation (A.C.S.) and the “Union Arabe de l’Education Physique et des Sports” (UAEPS). He was invited as an observer at EUPEA (European Physical Education Association), to the conferences on sport of the Council of Europe and to the Sport Forums of the European Union, to the meetings of ENGSO (European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation), of UNESCO and of the WHO, to the Commonwealth Conference in Brisbane, Australia, 1982 and also in Auckland, New Zealand, and, last but not least, as an invited expert at various meetings organised by the International Olympic Committee, as well as a keynote speaker at 2 sessions of the International Olympic Academy.

Here a personal message from his successor at the Presidency of FIEP, Prof. Dr Manoel Tubino:
The Fédération Internationale d’Education Physique, every one of its Boards Members, delegates and Associated Members, deeply mourns the loss of our Honorary President, John Andrews.
John was present in more than one third of FIEP’s life. During this period he became one of the greatest personalities of World Physical Education in the second half of the 20th Century.
John was a delegate, a General Secretary and the President of FIEP. In every one of these actions he left expressive marks. FIEP’s presence in 124 countries nowadays is a conquest that became possible due to John Andrew’s determination, having made our Federation really strong in Latin America and in Arab Countries.
We have witnessed John Andrew’s commitment and dedication during all his life. John, rest in peace. We shall carry on your mission.




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