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- Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:58 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 55926
Mr. Paul van Oyen's wife
Amsterdam, march 15th, 2005 Well, my dear fellow disputants, I am quite sure that Mr. Paul van Oyen is still married to Mrs. Manon De La Rive Box. I alluded to her 'double family name' in an ironic :fadein: way only, because within the SES a lot of people are so much concerned with social class, pre...
- Sun Mar 06, 2005 2:50 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 55926
Paul and Doreen are bro and sis, so not a married couple!
Amsterdam, march 5th, 2005 Well, Shout, you wrote us about the 'children of Paul and Doreen'. I think you made a mistake. As contributor Erik stated above, Paul and Doreen are brother and sister; the children of the Dutch SES founding couple, the late Franciscus and Toos van Oyen. So they can not be...
- Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:23 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: SES jokes and humor
- Replies: 35
- Views: 57352
Djalanam
Well, I do not exactly know why this imaginary SES member did cross the road (opposite Queen's Gate?) but I'm sure he did it in Djalanam.
- Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:16 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 55926
Pooh in SES?
Well: Poohs popular yell 'Tumtumdeedalumtumtum' does indeed sound like some ancient mantra from the Veda's.
- Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:18 pm
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: SES jokes and humor
- Replies: 35
- Views: 57352
Decently dressed Abhinaya dancers
Approximately 22 years ago I was in sunday Plato School in Amsterdam, a forerunner of the later notorious Plato primary School. At the end of term, there always were performances of all activities. These took place in what was called the 'gymnasium', a former garage for... hearses. Before the SES bo...
- Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:48 pm
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 55926
Web sites of Dutch SES
About four years ago, some heavy conflicts took place within the Dutch SES branch School voor Filosofie. Eventually this lead to a split off by a group who wanted to remain loyal to the British mother school. Almost all the premises* of the school, including the name School voor Filosofie, however, ...
- Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:04 pm
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 55926
Paul the match maker
Yes, Mr. Van Oyen was quite famous for his match making capacities. My sister, who stayed in the SES until the late nineties, has a lot of good friends who married a fellow SES student they got acquiainted with thanks to mediation by PvO. And most of these people - indeed - have good marriages, alth...
- Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:51 pm
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 55926
Television item about Dutch youth group residentials
So, Erik, we must know each other personally! How interesting. You were in the group of Mr. Goudsbloem too. He passed away a couple of years ago. Yesterday, when the former Dutch national football team coach Rinus Michels died, I had to think of Mr. Goudsbloem because both Michels and Goudsbloem wer...
- Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:45 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: SES jokes and humor
- Replies: 35
- Views: 57352
I think it takes three!
"Laughter is the best medicine" eh Pieter? :) Here's a question that I think people could play around with (and Pieter, is there a dutch equivalent of this?) "How many SES members does it take to change a light bulb?" I think it takes three SES members. One to keep hold on the worn out bulb and two...
- Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:05 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: SES jokes and humor
- Replies: 35
- Views: 57352
SES jokes and humor
Hello, all of you! Of course, we all suffered (and we still do) from our dictatorial SES past with those annoying teachers/tutors. And the truly sectarian school system has harmed us all (including myself) both psychologically, philosophically, mentally and even physically. But maybe some of you als...
- Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:15 pm
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 55926
Miss Van Oyen
Hi Piet, Thanks for writing. I take it you didn't go to the Plato School since you are 38? I had pen pals from that school for ages - the Meuwisse twins, Rosalinde and Deiudonee, who were lovely. Unfortunately the reputation of the Dutch school was tarnished in the UK by the disgraceful behaviour o...
- Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:54 pm
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 55926
Hello Piet van der Weijden, Your English is much better than my Dutch. You have piqued my interest when you mentioned Mr and Mrs Van Oyen. I remember a Miss Van Oyen when I was at School. She was over here looking after Maclaren for years. To a child she didn't seem very young. What relationship wa...
- Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:33 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 55926
Any experiences with SES practices in Holland?
OHM... Chantee... Chantee... Chantee-hee Well, now that I probably made a good impression on all of you readers, I finally can introduce myself. I am an 'unconscious' lad from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. And uhh.. I'm supposed to write on this forum about my SES past. This sounds simple, but it is n...