Gerard Blitz This is Me

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   Published on: 7/30/2006   Last Visited: 7/30/2006

   Club Med was founded in 1950 by Gerard Blitz, a Belgian water polo champion who had refused to go to the 1936 Olympics in Nazi-controlled Berlin and fought for the French Resistance. It began as a not-for-profit association providing wholesome, modestly priced R&R to war-weary Europeans.
   
   Alcudia, its first village, was on the Spanish island of Majorca, where Blitz and company dug a well and pit toilets, placed electrical lines and erected a bar hut with a coffee machine.
   
   In those days, the price for a Club Med vacation could be paid on an 18-month installment plan. It included transportation (by train at the time); hearty, family-style meals, with guests pitching in at cleanup; lodging in U.S. Army surplus tents, equipped with hard cots; and activities, especially swimming, water-skiing and sailing, overseen by staff members, known then and now as GOs, for "gracious organizers."
   
   There were calisthenics on the beach, sing-alongs, pretty girls in pareus, parties with conga lines -- but no distinction between GOs and GMs, "gracious members."
   
   Blitz, a big, bear-like father figure, had the same socialist leanings that brought the left-wing Front Populaire to power in France in 1936.

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   1950 • Gérard Blitz creates Club Mediterranée

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   Gerard Blitz launched Club Mediterrannee in Paris in 1950. He was a visionary who wanted to provide exquisite holiday destinations in the Mediterranean, comfortable accommodation, attentive service, a wide variety of sports activities and great food - all in one inclusive package for your convenience.