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<\/a><\/p>\nHere\u00a0is a photo of the school team in 1990-91. After a merger with other public secondary schools in Amstelveen, the school was renamed Nieuwer Amstel school. I am wearing contact lenses and have less hair.<\/span><\/p>\n Two years later. Can you find me?<\/p>\n This photo is from 1995-1996. I am wearing a brown jacket.<\/p>\n The next year, 1996-97, was my last regular teaching\u00a0 year.\u00a0 Here is my last “Lerarenagenda”, I still have the complete collection \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The following years, until 2002, I worked part-time at my own alma mater, the Free University, on education-related topics. In 2002, at the age of 58, I became a full-time pensionado..:-)<\/p>\n So, it is more than 20 years ago that I was in daily contact with my colleagues, although several of them have become friends, whom I meet regularly when I am back in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n One of them told me in May that there was a plan to organise a reunion of pensionados, who had retired from one of the schools which now, after another merger, form the Amstelveen College.<\/p>\n The date proposed was 5 October, and I was so eager to attend this reunion that I decided to prolong my yearly visit to the Netherlands a few weeks…:-)<\/p>\n In the afternoon of 5 October I went to the Amstelveen College, the old Snellius school building has been demolished quite a few years ago.<\/p>\n The meeting of pensionados was well organised. About sixty of them were present, basically from the schools that had merged into the Amstelveen College, but more than half of them had been working at the Snellius, so there were many familiar faces and fortunately in almost all cases I still could remember their name \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n There was a short introduction about the present status of the Amstelveen College.<\/p>\n But of course the main interest of the attendees was social, meeting former colleagues and chatting about their shared past.<\/p>\n Left three colleagues who were already working for many years at the Snellius, when I arrived in 1976. The right picture shows me with a few colleagues of the former Casimir school, in the past the rival public school in Amstelveen.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n