Wikipedia

Today, a friend informed me that I made it to Wikipedia. The page describes an annual debating tournament, ‘Bonapartiaans Debat Toernooi’, in Amsterdam. In 2001, Ronald Broeke and myself formed the team from The Hague and were able to win from the home playing team. Which proved to be quite unlikely in the years that would follow.














The photo shows the finals against, if I remember correctly, the Rotterdam team. I’m the person with the blue shirt in the lower right corner (some things never change).

Interesting detail about that meeting room is that is used to be the anatomy lecture room for the hospital ‘Binnengasthuis’. When the hospital moved to a new location in 1981, the building became the downtown campus for Amsterdam University.