Katalise

Meet the 88th board

A new academic year means a new CDL board! After a beautiful year it is time for Lara, Jitske, Sjoerd, Chantal and Danique to transfer the baton. It was truly an “Exhilarating” year. Lise, Jasmijn, Joeri, Maartje and Pepijn will form the 88th board “Katalise”. On this page the new board will introduce themselves. We hope to see you all at the rest of the activities this year! Praeses - Lise van den Bos

Hi! My name is Lise and I will be the praeses (chairman) of the Chemisch Dispuut Leiden this year. In my spare time I like to spend time with my family and friends. In the last couple of years I have been very active at the CDL doing a bunch of committees. Maybe you have seen me as the editorial board of the Chimica in the past two years. Last year I started being editor in chief of the Chimica which I still love to do and will continue doing the upcoming year. I am very excited to start this unpredictable and challenging year with the rest of my amazing board members.

Ab actis - Jasmijn Bergsma

Heey. My name is Jasmijn and I will be the ab actis (secretary) of the 88th board of Chemisch Dispuut Leiden this year. I am very interested in doing stuff outside off my comfort zone and training myself and my mind to do new things. This is why I for example went to Canada to actually do my minor, why I’m doing some out-of-the-box courses this year; Spanish and Stars (from the Astronomy Bachelor) and why I’m going to be a board member this year. In Canada I discovered the added value of a study association and after coming back to the Netherlands I was determined to at least try to get on the new board of the Chemisch Dispuut Leiden. “Why Chemisch Dispuut Leiden?”, you may ask. The answer is quite easy: when arriving at the studies molecular Science & Technology in my first year this place is where I felt most at home. This exact same feeling is the one I want to pass onto everyone that comes in contact with us as a study association and I am extremely happy that I will get the opportunity to do this over the year.

Quaestor - Joeri Schoenmakers

My name is Joeri and I will be the quaestor (the treasurer) of the 88th board of the Chemisch Dispuut Leiden. Last year I finished my bachelor degree of Molecular Science and Technology and therefore I will start with the master Chemistry. In my spare time I play field hockey and guitar. Furthermore I like to brew beer, which I sometimes do with the Brew masters of the CDL. Other activities that I organised with the CDL are the Dies, different activities with the AkCie and I almost succeeded to organise the VerO Open Mic Night. Sadly, this activity was cancelled last minute due to the corona pandemic. I am looking forward to organise a lot more fun and educational activities in my board year and I hope I will see you all this year! KAT LISECommissioner of external affairs - Maartje Zweers Hi everyone! My name is Maartje and this year I fulfil the position of commissioner of external affairs. This means that I am in contact with companies to organise interesting career activities for the students. Besides being an active member at the Chemisch 2 0 2 0 - 2 0 2 1 Dispuut Leiden for the past few years, I am also a member of a student association and I work as a tutor for the subject business economics. In my spare time I enjoy cooking a lot, especially now that I am the proud owner of a real pasta making machine!

Commissioner of education - Pepijn Lammers

Hi! I am Pepijn And I will be the commissioner of education this amazing interesting academic year. I just got 21 years old making me the happy youngest member of the board. After a relaxing first year of studying it just so happened that I started doing committees at the CDL. Besides being busy with studying and the CDL I decided to become a member of the student association NSL here in Leiden. Also, within my second year of studying I started to live in the beautiful city that is Leiden. Here I discovered another passion of myself, cooking very good food. Everybody must eat, so why not eat amazing. The main reason to become a board member of the CDL is that studying has to be enjoyable. If I can contribute to an awesome studying experience, then being a board member is in my opinion a very good place to start. See you soon!

The first ALV’s of the year

General Members Meeting - 7 September Committee General Members Meeting - 30 November

Monday the 7th of September was a day that I personally looked forward to for quite some time. That evening “the Wissel ALV” took place, which can be best translated to “the Board Change General Members Meeting”. At this annual meeting, the 87th CDL board passed over the baton to the 88th board, of which I am a proud member. I will tell you a bit more about this special evening!

Due to the coronavirus, we had to exchange our beloved Science Club for another location this evening. Luckily we found a room at the Leidse Lente that could house more than 30 people. This of course meant that all the ALV necessities had to be transported to this location. After everything was set up and all people present were seated, the ALV was opened by Iris and Sanne, who made up the CvV for that evening.

This ALV was quite unique and out of range with the normal traditions that we have at the CDL. Usually the Candidate Board is elected as the f.t. board during the “VerkiezingsALV” (Election General Members Meeting) in May. However, due to the corona lock-down in the spring this ALV had never taken place. This means that by this time in September, we were still the Candidate Board, instead of the f.t. board! This evening was thus very special, because we were both elected as the f.t. board and installed as the h.t. board. As far as we know, this makes us the board with the shortest f.t. period in the history of the CDL, as we could have only called ourselves the f.t. 88th board for 1 hour, 2 minutes and 33 seconds!

Besides the change of boards, this ALV also included the presentation of the settlement of Sjoerd’s financial year and the budget of Joeri’s financial year to come, which were both accepted by the ALV. Furthermore, a large range of committees were installed by Lise, so they can start organizing exciting activities this year!

As the new h.t. board, we all really enjoyed seeing so many of our members turn up for this ALV. We hope to see you again at the next meeting in November! Only a few months into the year, the first ALV (General Members Meeting) of the 88th board ‘Katalise’ was planned. Unfortunately this evening had to take place online via Zoom, because the corona pandemic made it very unwise to meet up with a large group. Even though we as the board would have preferred to see everyone in real life sitting before us in the Science Club, this did mean that we will end up in this history books as the very first board to host an online ALV. I guess every cloud has a silver lining, right?

The digital logistics of the ALV were new to all of us. The board was split up over different locations and our praeses Lise attended the ALV from the same location as the CvV. This way they could consult each other and share the gavel. And they sure needed the gavel this evening! The ALV in November is often referred to as the Committees’ ALV, as many of them are installed during this evening. This year did not differ from this tradition, and the members of no less than fifteen committees were officially installed to help organize amazing activities this year. Thanks everyone who wants to put their time and effort into a committee. You make that the CDL is running full speed, even during a pandemic!

Lastly I will give you a little insight in the way we as the board experienced the ALV. Normally the ALV is quite a serious event, where the board dresses up in their suits and nice shoes. This evening however, we decided that we should take the full advantage of being comfortable at home during the ALV. Therefore we only wore the top half of our suits and wore our pyjama bottoms below, making it a pyjama ALV party! Another first I think. The ALV was finished off with everyone singing the CDL song. Singing online does not work that well as you might know, so this lead to more laughs than actual singing.

After the ALV was closed, many stayed a little longer to play some fun rounds of Skribble and have a beer. Although our first ALV was very different than we would have excepted a year ago, we are happy that many of you took the time to hear and tell about what is going on within our association.

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