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was light green blouse, dark green tunic and scarlet short pelerine and beret. We had marches through the City streets and carried flags and sang marching songs. The Grail was ahead of its time in wanting women to take their place in community life. After I moved in with Tine Goeman I became interested in the Maria Vereniging, an abstinence movement, of which Tine was a member. |
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This movement's members abstained from drinking alcohol in reparation for the sins committed as a result of over indulgence. The young people's offshoot of this organisation, Servio, often used to perform plays. Two members of "Servio" were Ries and Kees Dobber. When their brother Freek came on holidays from the Seminary of the Salesians in Belgium, (part of the N. France province) they brought him along and that is how I first set eyes on Fred (Freek) Dobber, who was to be my husband. The war ended this pleasurable time, as it brought to a close so many other enjoyable things. The wartime was grim and dull for us young people. Just before the outbreak of the war in May 1940, I tried to get a job with better pay and opportunities than were available for me at Numan's Blikfabrieken. I landed a job as shorthand typist in Dutch and English at Veerman's Import and Export of porcelain and glass (Orrefors). I had done a course in English shorthand in the meantime. I did quite well for a few months, and then the German Army invaded Holland and we were all dismissed because the borders were closed immediately. |
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