RESUME OF DR. SORIN SONEA, President of Honour

Personal Data

• M. Sorin Sonea was born in 1920 at Cluj in Romania. He studied at the Medecine Faculty of Bucarest where he obtained his B.S.  - 1944

• At the end of the war, he was responsible of a campaign against infectious diseases  (1945 - 1946)

• He carried out post-doctoral studies in Paris specializing himself in the contagious diseases and thereafter in medical microbiology 

• He obtained a Diploma in Hygiena and the title of Foreign Assistant for the hospitals of Paris

• Arrived in Canada in 1950, he was appointed professor-assistant at the Department of microbiology and immunology of the Medecine Faculty of the University of Montreal

• Was named professor aggregate and 

• Professor 

• Director of the Department of microbiology and immunology 

• Obtained the title of professor emeritus; 

• Was named member of the Royal Society of Canada; 

• Received a doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Quebec. 

• He is the author of 112 scientific articles and of three books. 

• Since 1993, he has been the President of Movement and since January 2003 he is President of honour. 

• Mrs Monica Matte was born in 1924 at Bucharest in Romania 

• Mrs Matte was married and had two children

• She was spoking French, English, German and Romanian 

• Diploma from The Academy of International Law of Haye; 

• Diploma of High International Studies from the University of Paris; 

• Doctorate in Law from the University of Paris; 

• B.A. in social service from the University of Montreal.  

• Teacher at the Provincial School for Domestic Arts of Montreal;  

• Teacher of the School of Social Aid of Montreal;  

• Teacher at the CEGEP of Old Montreal.  

• Member of the Corporation of Quebec Professional Social Workers; 

• Commissaire à la Commission des droits de la personne du Québec;  

• Founder and general manager of the Orientation Program for a New Departure; 

• Member of the Canadian Consulting Council for Women Status;  

• Member of the Canadian Court for Human Rights.  

• Member of the Association of Bachelors of the University of Montreal; 

•  Itspresident and 

•  Vice-president of Y.M.C.A.  

•  Pasteur Hospital of Montreal  

•  Fine Arts Museum of Montréal  

• MontrealWomen's Council 

•  Foundation for Human Rights 

•  Quebec Women Federation and 

• Christians' Action for Torture Abolition.  

• Member of Canada Order 

• One of the 50 women chosen by Quebec Archbishop during the celebration, in 1990, of the 50-th aniversary of Quebec women right to vote 

• Medal awarded by the Federation of Quebec Ethnical Groups for services done for the ethnical cause; 

• One of the ten women of the year within "Salon de la Femme" of Montreal  

• First woman accepted as member of Club Richelieu, etc.