Inauguration of Academic Year 2009/2010

The 8th Academic Year in the history of the WSF was inaugurated on Saturday, 3 October 2009.

As usual, this solemn and joyous ceremony took place in Wrocław Town Hall. The old medieval walls of the city’s most representative building resounded sonorously with the academic hymn Gaudemus Igitur, sung by our new students, young and full of enthusiasm.

The ceremony started with a speech given by the WSF Rector Profesor ordinarius Zdzisław Wąsik, in which he summarised the school’s latest achievements and presented its prospects for the following academic year.

Like every year, the inaugural lecture was delivered by a special guest. In 2009 we were pleased to host Professor Lilianna Sikorska with a lecture “Burnt Journals – Fiction in Life and Literature”. Professor Sikorska was the Rector of Wyższa Szkoła Języków Obcych in Szczecin for many years and she is currently the Head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

During the ceremony the best last year WSF graduates were awarded prizes and diplomas.

„Prima inter pares” – the award for the best student – was given to Magdalena Gawliczek-Kapelusz

The first year students gathered in the Town Hall waited expectantly for the ceremony of matriculation. The WSF Rector Professor Zdzisław Wąsik awarded the representatives of our new students their record books. There were also four international students from Spain and Hungary among them who began education at our school as a part of the Erasmus Programme. After swearing the Student Oath, the Rector officially accepted all of them as members of the academic community.

And this is how the Academic Year 2009/2010 has started.

An Inaugural Mass, celebrated by Reverend Professor Piotr Nitecki, took place at Wrocław University Church on Sunday, 4 October 2009.