Some time I was browsing a bit around on the Internet. A bit bored I gave Google names of people I knew of way back and looked at the results. Most result were unclear and mostly not related to the people I once knew… But one name gave an unexpected result. The name I was looking for was Jan Wormgoor, a teacher of the school for agriculture I went to. Remember, more then 25 years back the people who started to work in IT were not IT educated… they “rolled” into the profession and education was done aside the job. And I was one of those people.
Anyway, I always liked respected Jan Wormgoor as teacher and as person.
Right on top of the results that Google returned that was this one line that grabbed right away my attention: “Achteraf, een mooie tijd… van meester Leppink to afdeling Landbouw” (“In the end, a good time… from teacher Leppink to agriculture school”. It turned about to be book about that Agriculture school in Eibergen where I went to. And why it showed up when I searched for the name Wormgoor? Well.. simple, he was one of the authors of the book!
Of course I wanted to have this book and I was capable to buy one in a very good state from a site for second hand books. And today the book arrived.
I really have to say, what a joy to look through this book. Of course it is very nice to read about the history of this. But as may be understandable my real interest was about the period I went to that school (1980). Great to have back the names of all those teachers that I forgot… meneer Salomons, meneer Van Damme, meneer ter Welle, juffrouw Onstenk, meneer Pos, juffrouw Markerink and more. All those name I forgot about and now I have them back (Well… I didn’t really forget juffrouw Markerink, she was very attractive *coughs* :P).
But also from the class I was in, I only could mostly remember the first names of the guys of my class over then (we had combined classes with other teaching directions of the school), but now I have all names completely again…. as I found this in the book (and it is nice to see your own name there as well):
And as I have a class picture of that class… lets see if I can really put the names to the faces:
Standing: Eric Olthof, Rudie ter Haar, Martin Weeink, Henk Scholten, Jan Groot Obbink, me (arrghhh… that hair and the colors of the clothes!!!!).
Kneeling: Richard Lankheet, Bennie Hofman, Christian Kemink, Jan Scholten, Gerard ter Huurne
Laying: Guus van Rijssel
Bingo… all faces have a complete name again!
I like all these memories. As the book tells us… In the end, it was a good time. And yes, even with the health problems I had at that time (after the appendix surgery).
My next goal? Try to get in contact with Jan Wormgoor…. or any other person of that time at that school…. Sonja and Rob (Koeslag)… you are the first. I hope a lot others may follow…
Dag Rob,
Beetje laat ontdekt, maar ……………………..
Wqar hang je momenteel rond?
Vr. gr.,
Jan
Hallo!
Ik heb u per mail geantwoord 🙂