AMASC World Association of Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart 

 “AISBL” 

Fight Poverty 

 2006 – 2010 

 

 

 

 

Mrs. G. Raucq 

Brussels. 

 

Helmond 2010, March 5. 

 

Subject: Amendment for the Statutes from Colombia. 

 

Dear Mrs. Raucq/Dear Gilberte, 

 

Up to now I haven’t received your advice concerning the letter my secretary Gillie Collyer 
sent you on last February 2, I have to send out to the Members of my Board, the Members of 
AMASC and the Emeritus Members in the three languages. This is already more than a month 
ago. 

We received a note from your hand for the General Meeting, but not your opinion on the 
proposed letter we were defend out to Board and Members of AMASC. 

 

Since Kathleen wrote her letter of 2009, December 18 to the Board of AMASC 
concerning the result nominated candidates for the AMASC Board mandate 

2010-2014 I have asked her in a letter dated 2009, December 20 to send me as soon as 
possible well-documented solid evidence. The following sentences in her “D'après les 
renseignements que j'ai pris ici en Belgique où les statuts ont été acceptés, ni Ana, ni Carmen 
ne peuvent se faire élire en 2010. Il faudrait pour cela que les statuts aient été changés avant 
les nominations de 2009.” have to be demonstrated. 

 

On Kathleen’s own initiative you were asked to write a letter to explain to me why I acted 
against the AMASC Statutes and Belgium Law. 

To give you the opportunity to explain this letter to me in all details I invited you to meet the 
Members of the Administrative Office during our meeting in Brussels 2010, February 2. 

After our meeting the Members of the Administrative Office decided to write a letter to the 
Board and to the Members informing them, upon your advice, that the item of the proposal for 
the amendment was to be withdrawen from the Agenda of the General Meeting, like we have 
informed them beforehand that this might be the case after our consultations with you. 

At agreed we sent you the draft of the letter to go out to Board and Members. 

 

Since then till to date we have only received contradictory opinions concerning the evidence 
that your proposed amendment on the General Meeting Agenda is in conflict with the 
AMASC Statutes or Belgium Law. The argument and the advice you gave us at our meeting 
in February 2 and the content of your note of February 20th do not correspond. 

 



 

 

I would like to inform you that it is for this reason that I am now compelled to intervene and 
take my responsibility as President in the best interests of AMASC.The delay in clear 
information to our Members and meanwhile also brought about that duly and according to the 
rules of our Association proposed candidates for the next Board have informed me that they 
will withdraw their nominations. This has put our organisation in a very precarious situation. 

 

Therefore I will put Christina Castro’s amendment on the Agenda for the Board Meeting in 
Malta, 2010, April 6 to ratify the decision taken by email voting so that it will enable the Full 
Members (National Presidents) who have the full voting rights at the General Assembly to 
discuss, decide and vote on this issue. 

 

I hope that you will understand my position and that you will support me in this and in the 
discussion following in the General Meeting. 

 

If you allow me I will be in contact with you again in the near future. 

 

I thank you for all you have done until now. 

With my warmest regards, amitiés Sacré-cordial, 

 

Hermine van Asten-Wennekers, 

AMASC President