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In 1951, an intensive executive training program was started at "The Ginckel", a large country estate serving as living quarters and class-rooms for about a dozen carefully selected H.S. graduates. The program was expanded in 1952 to include a parallel group of somewhat older and more experienced young men who lived at home but worked full-time at the Bank where they also attended 3-hour evening classes 4 times a week. In addition, they received one or more hours a week of instruction in fencing, dancing, horseback riding and driving. |
 The 1952 "Kantooropleiding" my head is the second highest and least visible |
My uncle Piet Deijs had been working with this Bank for decades and suggested to my father that I apply for the training program. That year, 1952, there were several hundreds of applicants, but I was interviewed - still wearing the Dutch naval cadet uniform...) and was surprised to be accepted. Although I had little interest in banking and office work, this did, however, achieve my two immediate goals: to earn the money to pay back the Navy and to go abroad to the tropics. |