{"id":5769,"date":"2015-12-10T13:09:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T12:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=43634"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:19","slug":"spotlight-on-r-v-s-v-a-century-of-strong-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/12\/10\/spotlight-on-r-v-s-v-a-century-of-strong-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on R.V.S.V.: a century of strong women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lustrumdiner in 1941<\/span><\/p>

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As one company representative once told mechanical engineering student Sophie de Vries Robb\u00e9: \u201cYou can always pick the R.V.S.V. ladies out.\u201d De Vries Robb\u00e9 is president of the association for the current year, which celebrates its hundredth anniversary this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis representative told me that our members aren\u2019t afraid to air their opinions and they stand out because of their enthusiasm,\u201d De Vries Robb\u00e9 added. \u201cI feel very proud whenever I hear something like that. Of course you shouldn\u2019t generalise, but I do think that this description hits the nail on the head as far as most of us are concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Een groepsfoto uit 1919 van alle toenmalige leden<\/span><\/p>

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Tijdens het lustrum in 1936 maken de leden een rondrit door de stad in een koets<\/span><\/p>

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Lustrumdiner in 1941<\/span><\/p>

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Tijdens een open feest ter ere van de 68ste verjaardag van de vereniging.<\/span><\/p>

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Learning from mistakes<\/h3>

The association has been in existence for one century this year. It was established in 1915, and officially came into being on 12 February 1916. Strictly speaking, however, the association is not quite as old as that, as it disbanded on 7 November 1941 and reformed on 11 Augustus 1945. It has undergone quite a few changes over the years: it has moved to new premises on three occasions, it has seen a great many different activities come and go and it is attracting an increasing number of members.<\/p>\n

But R.V.S.V. member Frederique Vogely says that the atmosphere has always remained the same. Vogely is on the centenary book committee whose task is to compile a book on 100 years of R.V.S.V. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who you talk to, they all say the same. If you ask them about their favourite memories, they all tell you about the friends they made, and how they see the association as a sort of family and also that they learnt a lot from it,\u201d Vogely says.<\/p>\n

Vogely and De Vries Robb\u00e9 are both able to identify with these views. \u201cWhat I really love about the R.V.S.V. is that it gives you the scope and opportunity to achieve personal growth,\u201d says Vogely. \u201cYou can make mistakes and learn from them, which you can\u2019t do in the business world. And it teaches you to persevere simply because of the opportunity to learn from your own mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Members of student society RVSV in 1984.<\/span><\/p>

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Borrelen op de soci\u00ebteit (2004)<\/span><\/p>

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Hedendaags kijkje in \u00e9\u00e9n van de dispuutshuizen van de R.V.S.V.<\/span><\/p>

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Dispuutshuis Huize de Kurketrekker<\/span><\/p>

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You can really be yourself<\/h3>

And it\u2019s no wonder that the R.V.S.V. ladies are persevering people. \u201cIt started off as a small group of women who were studying economics,\u201d says De Vries Robb\u00e9. Those women must have had plenty of guts, because the Economics programme was male-dominated in those days. Possibly this might be the reason why the ladies felt drawn to one another, and why the association still attracts women. \u201cI was the only one at secondary school who went to Rotterdam to study,\u201d De Vries Robb\u00e9 adds. \u201cI got to know the association during Eureka Week and I felt at home straight away, simply because it was females-only. If there are men present, you tend to pay them too much attention. A females-only group allows you to really be yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what about that persistent rumour that the R.V.S.V. will be joining forces with the R.S.C., its male equivalent? De Vries Robb\u00e9 has to laugh at this. \u201cI really don\u2019t know where all these rumours come from,\u201d she says. \u201cWe don\u2019t have any plans for a merger, but we have agreed to work more closely together, for instance, by joint beer purchasing. After all, we are in the same club.\u201d And what about the future? \u201cWell, anything\u2019s possible of course, but right now we\u2019re staying as we are: two separate associations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Installatie van eerstejaars afgelopen jaar in de Hoflaankerk<\/span><\/p>

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