We are proud to announce that on September 30, International Translation Day, the Association of Translators and Interp reters of Ontario (ATIO) awarded to Mr. Philippe Tessier, Certified Translator and President of Tessier Translations, i ts most prestigious honour - the ATIO Award - in recognition of his service to the profession and its practitioners.

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October 8, 2002

Philippe Tessier receives the 2002 ATIO Award

On September 30, International Translation Day, the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario (ATIO) named Philippe Tessier, founder and president of Tessier Translations, this year's recipient of the ATIO Award, in recognition of his years of dedication, as a translator, administrator, innovator and motivator, to promoting excellence in the profession.

In honouring the 2002 recipient, Pascal Sabourin, winner of the Award in 2001 and founder of FondATIO, spoke on behalf of ATIO, describing Mr. Tessier as a man of passion and vision who has achieved success through hard work and ingenuity.

A true pioneer

Philippe Tessier, the force behind the creation of the Terminology Service of the federal government's Translation Bureau, began in private business as a free-lance. For the past 20 years he has headed a company-Tessier Translations-that employs some 45 professionals in the field of translation. He has built a company whose organization and structure provide its language professionals with all the support they need to produce texts that bear the stamp of excellence, a quality he deems paramount. The company's documentation centre, job storage, tracking and recall system, and word processing services enable the translators to focus exclusively on the job of translating, and make the company a model in the discipline.

Concern for a job well done

ATIO fully concurs with the nominator of this year's recipient, recognizing Mr. Tessier as a master of the discipline, an organizational stalwart and a model of perseverance, "someone who believes that a job well done and the meeting of deadlines ensure the satisfaction of clients- clients who, moreover, being loyally served all these years, remain faithful to him."

Philippe Tessier was also honoured for his dedication to ATIO as a participant, speaker and sponsor.

Finally, ATIO wished to recognize Philippe Tessier's contribution to training the next generation. Last year, at the invitation of the president of the ATIO Foundation, Philippe Tessier established the MÉLANIE TESSIER MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP, awarded each year to a student at the University of Ottawa's School of Translation. The daughter of Philippe and his wife, Claudette Vaillancourt, Mélanie, who was a translator with TESSIER TRANSLATIONS, succumbed to cancer in 2001.

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