Ode to Truus Schutte-van Soest | Example for many

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Dear Truus Schutte-van Soest,

Of course I collect the Challenge Cup of the Zonnebloemquiz from you, you said when you won it that you were not sure if you could defend it next year. You were the deserved winner, but only you can sense how you are doing.

We go back a long way together as Geuzenvelders from the very beginning. And our tracks have often crossed. In actions in and for the neighborhood, in the Geuzenveld-Slotermeer district council and lately with the Zonnebloem.

We will certainly miss you there, with your knowledge, your sociability, your poems and songs. During the activities and vacations you enjoyed yourself and we as volunteers enjoyed you. With your active life, your roles in all kinds of clubs and in our neighborhood. With your observant mind and all the things you denounced to all kinds of organizations and the municipality.

You were always someone who operated independently and went her own way. And you have always maintained that to this day. And also at your final departure from your beloved Geuzenveld you will undoubtedly keep a finger in the pie.

Truus, I thank you for all your years of friendship, commitment and dedication to our neighborhood and community. You are an example to many, including me.

Thank you for everything,

Hans Staphorsius, chairman de Brug and Zonnebloem NW

N.B. I am going to suggest to the board that the Challenge Cup, be called the Truus Schutte Trophy . So that you also live on in it!