Roelof-Bijkerk-Obituary

Roelof Jan Bijkerk

Boulder, Colorado

1928 - 2024

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Bijkerk, Roelof Jan10/11/1928 - 3/9/2024Boulder, CORoelof "Roel" Jan Bijkerk, 95Roel Bijkerk was born in the Dutch East Indies (what is now Indonesia), the middle son of Jan Bijkerk and Ann Jeanne Bijkerk-McNeill. Life was idyllic there in "paradise" (as he often described it) until 1942 when the...

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Hello, I was a former student in his class . I now study and give readings on the subject of phrenology.

I have just discovered this obituary. I think about Dr. Bijkerk often and ran across this obit just today. My condolences are shared with the family, along with my profound gratitude for the presence of Dr. Bijkerk in my life while a student at Grand Valley University in the early '70's. He was my professor and mentor while completing a B.A. in Psychology. He was also, as he was to many of his students, profoundly influential in my life. I was a single parent a the time, and Dr. Bijkerk...

Wow, I accidentally came across this obituary, while searching the Internet. Roel Bijkerk set the future course of my life, when I, rather randomly signed up in 1962 for an intro psychology course at Calvin College. I was in my soph. year, a first generation farm boy from Hudsonville, with little idea about what I might do with a college education. That semester, Roel struck me as the smartest and most interesting professor I had so far encountered, and he taught in a way that made the...

He had an interesting Life !! May he RIP now with All those who went before him . Sue Willard Gr Mich. I´m all Dutch