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Hello,
my name is Karin
Höijer and my father, Björn Höijer, was chairman of GEAR in the
beginning of the 1980's. I don't know if you ever met him,
but the reason I am contacting you is to let old research
colleagues know that my father has passed away. I saw online that
you have an informal GEARplus-group and perhaps there is someone
in this group who remembers my father and would appreciate hearing
these sad news?
I had the pleasure as a child to travel with my father to the
conferences in Ivalo and Cambridge and I also remember the
conference in Stockholm. These were unforgettable experiences
for me, but I was so young that it is hard for me now to remember
who the other nice researchers were that I met.
Kind regards,
Karin Höijer
Uppsala, Sweden
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Peter Meneer writes on Dec 3rd, 2012:
Karin, I
too was present in Ivalo and Cambridge and remember you well -
as a young person, even younger than you are now. For
Ivalo I was the newly appointed BBC member for the UK, and
for Cambridge was the co-host. Didn't we all have a good - but
very different - time at each?
Time marches on....................
and now I am retired too. But we Oldies, as you see, manage
to keep in touch - not least with Margareta Cronholm whom I am
sure you know well.
I remember your distinguished
Father well of course too, and send you my condolences.
As proof of
my brain cells working slightly better than usual, you and your
parents did a trip by car round the top of
Sweden/Norway immediately after (or before) the
Ivalo conference. I was very impressed at your adventurous
family plans. Visions of your getting stuck in snow drifts,
thousands of kms from any human habitation......................
All the
best to you, 33 years later
Peter Menneer
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Michael Type writes on Dec 3rd, 2012:
Dear Friends,
As requested by Peter Diem, it is a
pleasure to send you warmest greetings for this Christmas and the
forthcoming year which I hope will see some improvement on 2012,
although I am not too optimistic with regard to the latter. The
idiots who run our respective countries and the overpaid
bureaucrats of the European Union in Brussels just don’t see to
wish to bite the bullet and bring some sanity to the financial
situation. I feel privileged to live here in Switzerland where the
authorities have managed to keep the economy on an even keel for
the time being. One of the good things about 2012 was the
most enjoyable reunion in Hilversum of Gearplus members which was
so well organized by Wim Bekkers and his team. It was a real
pleasure to see friends again and to catch up on their news. Roll
on the next reunion planned for Switzerland.
Peter
Menneer
wrote on Dec 4th, 2012:
Dear Friends,
Trust Michael to be first off the block. Well done, Michael.
And well done, Peter, for stimulating us into action. I
am probably not alone amongst our GEARplus community in being
closer now to 100 than 50. In that spirit I have just stood
down after 3 years as chairman of a local chamber choir. Time
for someone else to take over. [She is a family doctor.] Have
a look at www.thephoenixsingers.co.uk.
......... But still continue as a trustee of a fund raising
organisation set up to obtain financial security for the choir
at the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace, 15km outside
London. If you find yourself in London, do pay a visit.
[Trains every half hour - out of Waterloo Station.] We have
set ourselves a target of creating an endowment fund of £1.5m.
We are now halfway there: www.chapelroyal.org/choralfoundation.
.........And still chair a local committee of volunteers who
look after a 16th century community building in our village
that is used for private parties, art exhibitions, meetings of
local societies and the like: www.churchhousecrowcombe.org.uk.
Valori approves of these non-domestic activities, I think.
Keeps me out of (some) mischief.
Happy Christmas to everyone.
Peter
Menneer
Stable
Cottage
Crowcombe
Taunton TA4 4AA
Somerset
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1984 618263
Dear former colleagues,
everlasting friends:
Merry
Christmas and happy New Year!
This time
without tricks nor electronics gimmicks, but with my warmest
affection.
-José
Ramón Rubio. Madrid, Spain
Dear colleagues in GEAR and Karin Hoijer,
For many years Bjorn Hoijer was head of
the department, SR PUB, where I my self ended as the last head. So
Bjorn was my predecessor also in GEAR and before us two there was
just Ola Melén, one of the GEAR founders. I know the Bjorn
appreciated the work in the GEAR-group and for many years he was
inspired by the colleagues there in the daily work with the rest
of us. He was always very keen on the meetings I remember
how proudly he hosted GEAR in Stockholm 1984. The next year he was
taken ill and sent me as his personal representative to Barcelona.
There I could see for myself why he was so fond of the group!
Like Karin Hoijer I also remember the
Ivalo meeting very well. I was recently appointed head of all our
interviewers and there was a large media strike going on in
Sweden. We used the interviewers to get an idea of how people
spent the extra time the black TV screen gave them and the results
were presented to the GEAR group in Ivalo. We worked like hell to
get it all ready in time for the trip. This was more than 30 years
ago and not even telefax was in common use at that time and
computers were still run by “men in white”.
I had wished to talk to Bjorn about the
re-union we had in May this year. It was 20 years after start of
the demounting process of SR PUB in 1993. Staff from all decades
between the 1940ies to 1990ies met for dinner and loud
discussions. The founder of the department, Rune Sjodén soon
celebrating his 90ies birthday, came and told us all how the
department was started up just at the end of Second World War in
collaboration with the University of Uppsala. Rune was prehistoric
in GEAR-terms as he left the department already in 1965.
I think within GEAR we can remember Bjorn
Hoijer with warmth. I know he was more comfortable with his
colleagues there than with the sometimes divergent and strong
wills pushing him back at the office in Stockholm.
Margareta Cronholm
To
all
former and current GEAR members: Dear friends and colleagues,
I wish a Merry Christmas and a wonderful year 2013!
Kind regards
Heinz
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From
Kristina: Click on the image!
Dear active and former colleagues in GEAR,
After almost one year as retired I can tell you that there is
not much more time “on the other side of the fence” but there
is a lot of fun to be engaged in! I have still some contact
with the PSB but also work with local history in different
projects – messages on rune stones, agricultural projects in
the urban environment and early industry producing gas and
electricity in the city center are three perspectives that
interest me a lot and engage me even more at the moment.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Margareta Cronholm
and Michael:
Dear Peter,
Nice to
get your news as well. Excellent photos: the Massada one
reminds me of a visit I made there with the EBU
Statistical Group some years ago. At the foot of the
mountain there were reproduction of Roman siege
machines built for the Hollywood film about Massada. I
wonder if they are still there.
A
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Michael
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for me 2012 was a successful year. After having left Online
Research with GfK Austria after almost 12 years I occupied
myself writing the biography of a famous senior politician -
Leopold Guggenberger (94) -who was mayor of Klagenfurt for
24 continuous years. I made a trip to Israel and two trips to
Greece, where I will also spend my Christmas vacation with the
family of my wife Eva. And of course there was GEARplus in
Hilversum at the end of March! As far as I can see, I do not
have special plans for next year except a trip to Oman in
February and a lecture in Moscow in April. Whoever wants to come
to Vienna - please let me know well beforehand. I would love to
have many of you here as visitors. In the meantime do not forget
to let us know about what you are doing and how life is with
you.
Dear All
Thanks for all your best wishes for happiness in 2013.
If all the wishes
we received became true, then we would be super happy. However,
too much of something, even if it's very good can become boring
and is unrealistic concerning happiness.
So, I wish all of you an interesting year with some downs and
ups again, with surprises, with new experiences and
life contents, but mainly health and fitness until the end
of 2013.
Personally I have walked the Via Francigena to Rome and
shorter walks to different destinations, flew as the years
before, bothered my family as usual and built up my
Steinmann Foundation (www.schloss-wyl.ch).
I hope this year I will still have enough energy to
walk the reversed St. James Way from Switzerland to Vienna and
again with my wife from Berne to St. Moritz, as we did
before our marriage.
I hope that then I will still be fit enough to invite you all to Schloss Wyl in Spring 2014.
Kindest regards,
Matthias
