Prof. S. Sampath addressing the audience, 1968
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This photograph was taken at the seminar organized by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in January 1968. The agenda of the seminar was to “exchange ideas for a possible improvement of the future programmes of the service” and also to make the former scholarship holders aware of the progress in Science and Technology in Germany. Prof. Sampath was the Deputy Director of IIT Madras during this time.
There is a report of Prof. Sampath’s speech in German News Weekly, where it is mentioned that Prof. Sampath paid tribute to the first Director of IIT Madras, Prof. B. Sengupto who had recently retired. It is also reported that he thanked the Federal Republic of Germany, the DAAD, and all the Germans for having helped in making IIT Madras “a bright jewel in the fabric of Indo-German collaboration.”
Seen in the photograph, on the stage, from left, Dr. H. Hessberger (Director, DAAD, India Branch, New Delhi), Prof. A. Ramachandran (Director), Miss. Marga E. Schmitz (Officer-in-charge, Scholarships Division, DAAD, Bad Godesberg), Mrs. Lehnartz, Dr. Emil Lehnartz (President of the DAAD) and Dr. Karl Pfauter (Consul General, Federal Republic of Germany).
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