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CURRENT POOTS OF SOME INTEREST


                  Several of these are potential relatives.

                  Abraham L. Poot has a Ph.D. in engineering and is laboratory coordinator
                  for the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at Western
                  Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo.  He has achieved some fame as
                  the team leader and advisor for the Sunseeker solar powered automobile
                  program since 1990.  They have competed in several American Solar
                  Challenge races, races that are now over 2,000 miles long.



                  Andre A. Poot is a professor of Biochemistry at the University of Twente in
                  the Netherlands.



                  Arie Poot is a minister, born in DeLier (southwest of Delft), Zuid Holland
                  about 1952.  He attended Calvin Theological Seminary in Michigan in
                  1976.  He was with the Christian Reformed Church, in Iowa and then
                  served in Washington State as a hospital chaplain until he left that
                  position in 1990.  He is now a professional counselor, helping the
                  troubled with Christian based psychological counseling.  He was also a
                  script consultant for a movie titled "The Production".



                  Anton Poot is a gospel choir director in Halfweg, near Amsterdam,
                  Holland.




                  Hendricus Jacobus (Jacques) Poot was born August 1955 in Schiedam
                  (southeast of Delft), in the Netherlands.  He is the son of Martinus Poot.
                  He received a doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1978, and
                  a Ph.D. at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, 1984.  He is a
                  world renowned international economist and educator.  He has many
                  publications, honors, and prestigious positions to his credit.  He works at
                  the Institute of Socio-Economic Planning in Tsukuba, Japan and is a
                  professor at Victoria University.  He is widely cited for his research on
                  international migration in the global economy.


















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