Anniversaries & Commemorations

Ghiorghiţă Gogu

Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Marasesti Street, no. 157, Bacau, Romania e-mail: gogugen@ub.ro

Abstract

It was the beginning of 1980. The ones who knew him, remembers the famous general meetings with the employees from Romania, before 1990, which were meant to be a survey time and also a moment of setting up new directions of action for the development of institutions and enterprises. Those were not very popular moments for the employees due to the fact that they were formal, pompous, and sometime full of reproaches for the people in charge with the leadership of the economic institutions and enterprises. Only the people active in the ruling party maybe agreed these meetings believing in their mobilizing effect over the working “people masses”. Back then we were working in a scientific research institution that belonged to The Center of Biological Research Iasi, whose laboratories and offices were placed in The Faculty of Biology, University „Al. I. Cuza” from Iasi. It was launched the so called triad “education-research-production”, which could meant something if it was supported with the proper material and logistic issues, but in fact it was just a slogan, as formal as the meetings we previously spoke about. The lack of a proper financing, the poor endowment of labs, the lack of scientific documentations, of stages of forming and specialization of young researchers made this empty of any content (unfortunately now, after 20 years of freedom and democracy the things are even worst than then).