Frans Devroye

A first timid collection of photographs of Frans Devroye.
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Frans Devroye: bottom right. This is his soccer team, but I do not know anything about it.

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Papa used to make graphs, scribbled on the back of large envelopes. His scribbly writing would indicate his patients for the day, and his routes were carefully planned. I never understood the system of circled and boxed names--I wish I had asked him.

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René Natens and Pa in Luxemburg for a Sachem election.

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1970

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Monaco

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Right: 1973.

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Left: Papa in Casablanca or Marrakech.

Right: Papa, the consummate photographer. It is largely thanks to him that we have this wealth of thousands upon thousands of family pictures. I think no other family in Tienen can match this in terms of breadth and coverage.

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During the hula hoop craze, Santaclaus brought us a hula hoop, which Papa immediately tried out. Mid 50s, I guess.

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Papa in his office when he turned 72 years old (June 1995).

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In Rome.

Picture from his youth in the OLV College in Tienen, taken from here. First row, on the left: Paul Van Lindt. Second row: Paul Crolla. Third row, Frans Devroye, André Crolla and Vandereycken.

Picture from 1947: all medical graduates at the KUL in 1947. He is in the fron row, third from the left. Eugeen Van Nuffel is in the second row, sixth from the right, bespectacled. The web page is here.

The doctors listed there are: Arthur AGNEESSENS*, Andre BALIS*, Willem BERGEN*, Omer BOEYKENS*, Marcel BOON*, Jozef BOONANTS*, Rene BROEKAERT*, Luc BUYTAERT*, Maria CLAESSENS, Jozef COLAERT*, Etienne COMER*, Albert CONVENTS, Luc COOLENS, Rene COOSEMANS*, Antoon de BEUKELAAR, Gustaaf DE BOM*, Henri DE CLIPPELE*, Guillaume DECOCK, Lucien DE FOUR, Roger DE GRAEVE, Jaak DELBEKE*, Julien DELEU, Willem DENYS*, Edward DE PAUW*, Raymond DERAEMAEKER*, Gilbert DE SMET, Marcel DE SMET*, Ludo DE VOCHT, Frans DEVROYE*, Paul DE WINTER*, Xavier DIERCKX*, Henri ELIAERTS*, Hubert FRANCKX*, Augustin GAEREMYNCK, Jozef GEERTS*, Frans GOORIS, Andre GRYSON, Guillaume HAENEGREEFS, Reimond HAERS*, Albert HILLEN, Jozef JAMAR*, Hugo JANSSENS*, Herman JANSSEUNE, Roger KNOCKAERT, Stefaan LEMAHIEU*, Paul LINDEMANS*, Paul MACHTELINCKX, Willy MICHIELS*, Jozef MULIER, Jozef NAUWELAERTS*, Lucien OTTE, Desire PELICAEN*, Mathieu PETERS*, Jan PROOST*, Willy ROMBAUT*, Jose ROUSSEL*, Leon RUITERS, Herman SMET*, Thomas SNOEKS, Gerard SPAAS, Jozef STEYAERT, Karel TROCH, Henri VAN ADORP*, Leo VAN ALSENOY*, Rafael VAN DE KERCKHOVE, Clara VAN DEN BOSCH, Margriet VANDENBOSCH, Constant VAN DE PERCK*, Hendrik VAN DER HENST*, Raymond VANDEWIELE, Paul VAN EECKHOUTTE, Carola VAN GASTEL, Jozef VAN GOETHEM, Paul VAN HOUTRYVE*, Hendrik VAN MOLKOT*, Eugeen VAN NUFFEL, Arthur VAN PASSEL, Florent VERHELST, Robert VERSCHUEREN*, Lambert VINKEN, Jacques VUYLSTEKE, Frans WILLEMYNS, Jozef WOUTERS.

With his classmates. He is the third from the left.
As a boy scout.
In a soccer team.
At the university in the medical faculty.
Click on the picture to get a full size. Here he is a young doctor, possibly in 1948, seen leaving one of his patients' houses.
Crossing a river during a holiday with Pepe and Tante Ja.
In the back of his first car.
On a holiday in Switzerland.
Posing
On a holiday in Rome.
Dancing with his sister.
With his friends.
On the road.
With Wim, probably taken in 1954.
With his four kids, probably 1957 or 1958.
With Wim, probably taken in 1959 or 1960.

Contact

Luc Devroye
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
lucdevroye@gmail.com
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc