Bert Timmermans

We received the sad message from Bert Timmermans’ family that Bert passed away on 11 January 2019. Bert was 77 years old. He worked at our school from 1969 to 1999, initially as a Physics teacher, and in the 1980s and 1990s mainly as an IB coordinator. In 1983, in collaboration with the Alberdink Thijm College in Hilversum and the Wolfert van Borselen in Rotterdam, he was actually the first in the Netherlands to introduce the programs of the International Baccalaureate. In the early 1990s, Bert worked toward the introduction of bilingual education at our school. It is partly his credit that both departments, thirty-five years later, are still firmly anchored in the profile of the Rijnlands Lyceum Oegstgeest. We wish Akke and the family strength in coping with their loss.

John Swieringa