Acknowledging Herman Kooyman MSC, 85.
Congratulations to Brother Herman Kooyman MSC on his 85th birthday.
Born in Holland, Herman migrated to Australia. He made his profession on26th February 1964. He worked in MSC schools and in more recent times in the Northern Territory where he still is.
With Abzalon, Superior General
Here are some quotes from a message last year and posted on this site,
From 2019; ‘Herman Kooyman reports that he has a new mobility scooter to zip around Darwin on.’
He says “I am quite happy with it, only the batteries are a lot smaller. We made a wooden box and fixed that on the scooter with two extra batteries. So now Bro. Ted (Ted Merritt) thinks that I should be able to do about 50 kms on the batteries. That is even better than my old scooter.
I am including a photo of the Hindu temples I made and so far I have made 22 of them. But that is the last of them for me because they are just too hard for me to make. I still have other jobs so I will not run out of work.”
He is still making things. His latest project is making homes for birds.
2014, Golden Jubilee of Profession and the Darwin Community
