In a room on the ground floor there is a class from the early years, the exam year 1956. The former students have already pushed the tables together to chat with the group. “That’s how we always did it in the past,” one laughs. “We told the teacher when he could start the lesson.”
“We’ve seen each other more often lately,” says Ms Hof. The now eighty-somethings hold their own class reunions every few years, meeting somewhere different each time. “But now in this place with the whole school is also nice.”
Mr. Smit left Diever after school, but he really enjoys being back where he was born and raised. “The old Ulo school has been a good basis to continue. The group is not that big today, but it is always nice to discuss our youth.”
Visitors can view old photos, take a picture with each other, listen to speeches by the current location director Schipper, mayor Rikus Jager and Peter de Visser, director of Stad & Esch. The most special moment of the day is the unveiling of a special boulder, as a tribute to founder Pieter Zijlstra, with the name of his son Erwin on it.