its grounds with rocks, mud and tree-trunks. Through Pierre Cérésole she got acquainted with the Quakers. She spent time at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham and joined the Quakers in 1930. She was the first "clerk" of the Swiss branch, founded the annual meeting of Quakers in Switzerland as well as the magazine Entre Amis. From 1946 to 1952, she was the first International President of SCI. After Cérésole’s death, she published his biography and several of his papers. In 1955, she was involved in the founding of the foreign aid organisation Helvetas (now Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation) together with Rodolfo Olgiati and others. She died in Lausanne in 1976. Personality Hélène Monastier is described as a born educator, "having the gift of bringing out of each of her students the best, through her respect for the personality of children", her love and her severity. "With the brain of a CEO, she had all the assets: great clarity of thought, rapidity of decision, innate sense of organization, good pen and a lot of humor". Tribute On October 3, 2003 a commemorative plaque in her honor was placed in Lausanne (Pré-du-Marché 17). Publications Hélène Monastier, Pierre Ceresole, un quaker d'aujourd'hui. Paris, 1947. Hélène Monastier, Edmond Privat, Lise Ceresole, Samuel Gagnebin, Pierre Ceresole d'après sa correspondance. Neuchâtel, 1960. Textes de Hélène Monastier et Pierre Ceresole et de Arnold Bolle, Lausanne, Alonso Diez, 1954. References External links (French) 1882 births 1976 deaths 20th-century Quakers Female Christian socialists Quaker socialists Swiss anti-war activists Swiss Christian pacifists Swiss Quakers Swiss women activists