Editorial
I'm not a writer and it is hard for me to do it. For
some reason I chose studying Exact Sciences. When
the time to sit and think about the contents of the editorial
comes, I have to admit I feel overwhelmed.
I want to find the best words, choosing them to
build a sufficiently effective message to convey my
thoughts, desires and projects about IULTCS and
AAQTIC but I do not know if I always succeed.
What I do know clearly is that the passion I feel for
my work encourages me to do so and it has been like
this since many years ago.
Anyway, I'll try again: the subject of this editorial
will be "How to enrol more members to join us in
the work of various AAQTIC committees".
What mechanisms of seduction -understand this
word as the ability to generate engagement and interest-
could I use to reactivate our Association, to go
back to the same level of activities we used to have
10 -15 years ago?
Many people tell me times have changed and that
is true. The chemical suppliers that traditionally were
key gear motors that drove the activities developed
at AAQTIC, are being reconverted and some of them
have decreased their activity level in our country.
Moreover, only a few chemists and technicians working
at the tanneries can spend a few hours per week
or month, to attend courses, lectures and / or conferences,
neither as students nor as teachers.
At that point in my thoughts, I suddenly remind
what I learned a few years ago in an Ontology Language
course I attended named "Language creates
reality". To look at what happens to us as a problem,
means to see only a part of what happens. The other
possibility would be to see which is revealed as a
possibility.
I think we can reverse the current situation we are
facing at AAQTIC by becoming an "OFFER" to our
beloved Argentina Leather Industry.
If we can detect what the current needs of our partners
are, what topics are of interest to those working
in this industry, for sure AAQTIC will recover the
enthusiasm and passion that inspired those who founded
it. I will not make names as I fear to forget some
dear colleagues / friends and also I’m afraid I will
feel sad.
They transcended, left their mark in our industry
and that’s the reason why we remember them. Ourselves,
AAQTIC current partners, also need to leave
our trace. To overcome discouragement, recover the
interest and desire to participate. To convene young
people from Argentina and Latin America to join
AAQTIC. They bequeath our knowledge and experience
and enrich us with their fresh and innovative
ideas. Is there a better way to TRANSCEND?
I invite you to implement a thought of Antoine de
Saint Exupery, author of The Little Prince: "Turn reality
into dreams and dreams into reality."
Hopefully next time, when I sit down to write the
editorial for the last issue of the 2014 magazine, I
will not have trouble describing all the hits that, together,
we have achieved this year.
Lic. Patricia Casey - Presidente
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