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Marc van den Hoogen (62), studied Social Geography from 1978 to 1986 and was enrolled in a Master’s study programme in Management of Education from 2001 to 2004. Marc: ‘Yes! I thought it would be fun to study in Amsterdam, but that was clearly not going to happen.’ Frank: ‘I can still hear my mother say: “There’s only one Catholic university, and it’s in Nijmegen.”’ The three brothers didn’t really have a choice about studying in Nijmegen. On the sofa, Paul and Marc have to chuckle at that image.

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Like my younger sister, by the way, who is studying Medicine in Rotterdam.’ Frank and his two daughters therefore teach medical specialists how to perform an emergency airway intervention on a patient.

‘I used to go with my dad as his driver, but now I am a full-fledged member of the team. ‘We teach an emergency airway course together,’ she says.

Like her father, she studied Medicine in Nijmegen and is now also training as an ENT specialist, but in Maastricht. His daughter Nina also grew up under this roof (Frank is a father of four). They gathered for the photograph at the Nijmegen home of Frank, who works as an ENT doctor and trainer at Radboud university medical center. Marc: ‘If you were a hitchhiking couple, the girl went in front so you would be more likely to be picked up.’ The brothers laugh. ‘Two and a half hours by public transport!,’ Frank exclaims. ‘No, and the bus was terrible and too expensive,’ Marc, the eldest, adds. ‘You see, we didn’t have an OV-card in those days,’ says Paul, the youngest. In this Vox we dive into the history of the 100-years old university and look towards its future. This story is part of the new Vox, which can be found on campus this week.