On November 11th, at Aoyama Gakuin University, a letter of appreciation was presented to Mr. Hiroaki Kobayashi, President and CEO of Paloma Co., Ltd. A dialogue with the director, "Preparation to challenge-Ale for young people-" was held.
As the number of students in need increases due to the corona disaster, Mr. Kobayashi brought up the bright topic of donating 10 billion yen to the Aoyama Gakuin Mandai Fund.The Mandai Fund is a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University who left a big mark in the Japanese business world and donated most of his personal assets to scholarships for hard-working students. Junshiro Mandai (1883-1959) It is a fund with a name.The fund's operating profit will be used for scholarships that do not require repayment, and the goal is to increase it to 1000 billion yen in the future for world-class education and research.
Failure means doing nothing.I want young people to take on challenges without fear
Mr. Kobayashi is also a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University.I would like to get help from various people, look back on my experience of being invited to Taiwan as a representative of the school during the Aoyama Gakuin era, and somehow return the tangible and intangible benefits I received from the school. He says he made this donation.Mr. Kobayashi himself established the Hiroaki Kobayashi Scholarship Foundation to support students with benefit-type scholarships.Every time he receives a word of gratitude from a parent of a family who received a scholarship, he realizes that the support is a living money.
When asked for ale for young people, he said, "If you do your best to believe that anything is good for society and good for someone, you will have people and friends who will sympathize with you. All you have to do is cling to it, and I want you to move forward without fear of failure. "
Hakone Ekiden approaching the beginning of the year. "I want to win by taking the runner-up" runner-up "," Hara told the students, "Winning not only in Hakone but also in the process, and going out to society through athletics. I feel that it is my mission to nurture students so that they can win afterwards. If I leave it to Hara, I want to win that kind of trust that will produce results. "
In today's world where ancestors have created rules from scratch, Hara raises questions about young people who follow the rules as a matter of course. "I want to say when and for whom the existing rules were created, and now it's your turn to create new rules. Not only do you do what you're told, but the world has changed a lot. Now, I want you to make rules with an eye on 20 or 30 years ahead. Failure is not a phenomenon that happens by doing something, but a phenomenon that does nothing or does not challenge is a failure. " , Sent an ale to the youth.
Efforts to support students and school management
At the end of the game, President Nobuya Hotta expressed his gratitude to Mr. Kobayashi, and he said that he would continue to focus on school management, increase benefit-type scholarships, and focus on student support. Was done.
Mr. Kobayashi has been talking about Hakone Ekiden everywhere he goes to the New Year's greetings since Director Hara led Aoyama Gakuin University to the championship in Hakone Ekiden. He says that he can stir up his love for school.In addition, it is said that the alumni associations of the same school all over the world are looking forward to the New Year's relay road race.Aoyama Gakuin University has become a popular difficult school in both name and reality, as it was transmitted from Hakone Ekiden, but on the other hand, it seems that the appearance of working on school management with such student support is not well known.
The Japanese are very nervous about talking about money.Especially when it comes to school and education.However, the corona wreck has highlighted its importance.Through this dialogue, it was an opportunity to reconsider the way school management and donations should be, and that school education can be backed up only if it is soundly enriched by management.
