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REUNION- The HOSTEL years! Can we organise a get-to-gether?
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Started May. 15, 2008
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- Hometown:
- Sydney
- How and when did you come to Australia?
- Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, May 1956. Parents brought me.
- About Me:
- Born in Gouda, Zuid Holland, 1943 (during the war). Thoroughly enjoyed pre-school and primary school, in Gouda. Migrated in april, 1956, having completed much of 6th grade, in the Jan Ligthartschool. Going through four different hostels, having some schooling in Scheyville and Villawood Hostels, I sat out the last few weeks of 6th grade, in Matraville Public School, when the year was really over.
Then South Sydney Boys Junior High, which was disbanded. So we were the first students, in Maroubra Bay High School. Then Wollongong Teachers College and 37 years of teaching primary school.
Married and divorced a colleague. Still good friends. Two children. Retired and doing a lot of oil painting.
- My interests:
- Member of the Boards of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre and the Federation of Netherlands Societies, NSW. Painting in a class for beginners, in Hazelhurst Art and Community Centre.
Addicted to the internet where I started A!! Dutch Australian Connection, in 1996.
- My connection with the Netherlands:
- Particularly, since 1996, via the internet. Various email groups and contacts.
Have been back, in the December 1969 and December 1971, as well as June/July 1997 and July, 2005.
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Our inheritance. Somethings that Mr Ed J. Reitsma (then Consul-General of the Netherlands, in Sydney) said.......
Mr Reitsma addressed a meeting of the Netherlands Society in Sydney, on May 14th, in 2001, along these lines:
He reminded his audience that they had come together to discuss: What do we do with the inheritance but that they must not be disappointed to hear that this concerned not money but the cultural heritage of the Dutch Australians.
He took them back to the… Continue
Posted on October 23, 2008 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment
Dutch Touch
After all these years, addicted to the Apple Mac, I had never bothered to check out how to do a screen capture!
Please go to RedBubble, to see more Dutch touches.
Posted on July 31, 2008 at 12:01pm —
I have her mannerisms! ("The older you get, the more you look like your mother!")
It's July 28, 2008.
On July 28, 1917, in Gouda, The Netherlands, Jacoba Postma, my mother, was born. The fourth of nine children, to the bridge- (and lock-) -keeper, Jan Postma and Betty Schoonens.
After a long period of slowly drifting further and further into Alzheimers, she passed away 4 May, 2004.
!http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9539/mampapajcbe7.jpg!
When they were young teenagers, she'd b… Continue
Posted on July 28, 2008 at 5:25pm —
Johannes Maria, of the Bankstown Club, now residing in the Abel Tasman Village.
He was born 14 July, 1917, the fourth son of Johannes Stephanus Mul and Gijsberta van Reeden, in Gouda, The Netherlands and named after his father and his aunt. So he is: Johannes Maria. Something which embarrassed him the rest of his life. A sister was born a little less than two year… Continue
Posted on July 20, 2008 at 11:03am —
We kids from Villawood Hostel were there first!
That puzzles me a little (but I believe I have heard an explanation).
I was a pupil there for a brief period, in 1956 when it was brand-spanking new.
So this must have been its gestation period, pre official opening?
That's me on the left and Henny Haak, on the right. The girl i… Continue
Posted on July 15, 2008 at 4:27pm —
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I'm not sure exactly why my grandparents came to Australia, just that the war had just ended and they left pretty soon after. It could have been from fear of WW3 or for a better life, but i'm not entirely sure.
I'm very proud of my Dutch heritage though.
I actually intend on travelling to Europe next year some time after uni. Hoping to extensively travel around the Netherlands to get an idea of where half of my family comes from. Should be fun!
Thanks again for the welcome.