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本帖最后由 ngsunyu 于 2020-5-12 00:14 编辑
谷歌英語翻譯 荷兰极限协会会长 Edward Froon 荷兰語悼文 (kindmax.nl/Kinderpostzegels_Maximafilie_Home.html)。
I am Edward Froon and chairman of the Stamp Association For the Child and Maximafilie where Ronald was also on the board and was the most active board member. There, just like in the family, a big hole has been made and maximaphilia has been struck in his heart.
Stefan called me with the saddest announcement that Ronald had died after returning to the hospital, which he had been in for 10 days. Terrible this message about the most active member of our association.
I had known him for years. Regularly visited The Hague and of course made many calls about current affairs. I'll tell you how he became our most prominent member. When I joined, we often competed in club auctions. First in competition so with each other, but later we found each other unanimous in improving the quality within the association. I was active in the quarterly magazine, the Bulletin of articles on maximaphilia. Climbed up to chair and I persuaded some people to exhibit abroad. We did that in Luxembourg. A friendly small Benelux country with many connections to Germany and France. There we have made many contacts with Foreign Associations. We heard the most from the French about the unwritten rules in the review and we learned a lot from that. We heard from the Germans that we were doing “not good at all”. At a second exhibition two years later in Echternach, we explained together the German chairman why it was good. He had to admit that they were indeed 90% good.
This was followed by an invitation in 2005 to participate in the European Maximaphilia Championships in Corbeille, a small town south of Paris. After work in the flower shop, Ronald came to Paris by TGV, where Vic Henken and I picked up Ronald and Aad Hofmeester for this exhibition. We got enough points to finish in the top 10 as a country. The most beautiful moment came as a surprise on the last day, that the maximum card Ronald had produced of Willem Alexander and Maxima, kissing on the balcony of the Royal Palace on Dam Square, was chosen as the best of the year 2004. The FIP delegates all thought it was a nice romantic card.
The club plowed on and Ronald was already an active member of the Nieuwtjesdienst from the old board meetings. After saying goodbye to the old generation like Henk Salet, Aad Hofmeester and Wim Roffelsen, his victory started with better and better maximum cards. His sense of the right card, color and shape on the stamp was always better than others, thanks to his many years of florist experience in making bouquets. That has then become automatic.
In fact, as the years went by, there was also a switch in the lives of Ronald and Astrid when he suffered from kidney stones for some time. Did they want to continue with the business as the years went by? They have tackled that cleverly. The flower shop was closed and the store rented out. Astrid was able to find a job and later even a permanent position at the UWV and Ronald turned his hobby into his profession. Everyone is gradually familiar with their PhilaRomax webshop.
His best moments in the family atmosphere in recent years were the graduation of Stefan (and Laura of course), the first jobs, their promotions and of course the birth of grandson Milan. In the maximaphilia that was early 2017, when we went to the European Championships Maximaphily in Italy. Exciting to fly to Milan by plane and drive to the Italian Riviera. Ronald did not exhibit with the Netherlands now, but had submitted his latest International collection. Everything about the old royal houses in Europe with maximum cards from 1900 to 1940, usually still sent. This is how maximaphilia was created. The international jury was perplexed, they had never seen this before. The result was exciting, which was announced during a big dinner with all participants and family (especially Italian of course). That then goes from last to 1st place. Things got really exciting for both of us when 3rd place went to an Italian and we were both still in the race. Then I was called for 2nd place and then Ronald as the winner. He had of course earned that for years, but now there was also international recognition at the European Championships. Due to his 1st place and my 2nd place, the Netherlands also became 1st in the country championships. Now, therefore, also international recognition for the Dutch Maximaphilia and the extensive work of Ronald that has been done for this. Extra reward was there on the return night at Schiphol by the presence of Stefan and Laura who inaugurated the Champion. This was shown again in 2016 when the world federation announced that it turned out that it had made the best maximum card in the world for the second time in 2015. With the iconic map of Van Gogh with the straw hat.
On the mourning card we see him laughing while walking with the grandson Milan in the cart. That is a complete family man. You know him in particular. Kees and I who were both allowed from the association are also present, but especially of his beautiful maximum cards that he always managed to make at most issues. That is why we have named him as maker of Heavenly cards on the card near the flower arrangement of the Association that is now with the chest.
The chairman of the Royal Dutch Federation of Philatelic Associations asked me to also express their condolences. You all condolences with this loss. A hole has been made in the family and the circle of acquaintances. His death has hit the Maximafilie in the Netherlands and our association in his heart.
But also a bleeding heart beats and lives on the fun moments in all of our lives.
We will miss his dry humor in The Hague, but not his working attitude, as it is concisely stated on the mourning card: "Come on, continue."
Let's do all that and keep following his good example.
You can view the funeral card by clicking here.
You can leave condolences on the crematorium website via the link:
https://www.henning-uitvaart.nl/diversen/condoleanceregister.
Code to enter is: f85a9
We will commemorate Ronald in our Bulletin and at the next members meeting on October 25 in De Bilt.
By Edward Froon in kindmax.nl/Kinderpostzegels_Maximafilie_Home.html
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