1998. Volume 30, Number 03. December

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PUBLISHED BY HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423
James Bultman
named president
Hope College has chosen
alumnus to lead it into the
next millennium.
Dr. James E. Bultman '63
an
was elected the 11th
dent
Dec.
Hope by
of
Board
presi-
the college's
of Trustees on Friday,
11.
Dr. Bultman is currently
president of Northwestern
College in Orange
Iowa. He
at
will
Hope on
The
assume
City,
office
July 1, 1999.
alumnus to hold
the office was Dr. Calvin A.
VanderWerf '37, Hope's
Dr. James E. Bultman ’63
eighth president, who served
from 1963 to 1970.
"Dr. James Bultman is a proven leader who clearly understands and appreciates the value of an outstanding liberal arts
education in the context of the Christian faith," said J. Kermit
Campbell, chair of the college's Board of Trustees. "He is in a
position to build on the many significantcontributions of
President John H. Jacobson. His vision and energy will help
last
Hope continue to excel, blending sensitivity to the college's best
traditions with commitment to building upon them and creating
new strengths as well."
Dr. Bultman will succeed Dr. John H. Jacobson, who will
retire on June 30, 1999. Dr. Jacobson has served as Hope's 10th
president since July
fis we approach our
last
may
is
that
con tinue to be for each of us a source
of
As the Christ child grew in
wisdom and in stature, so may we all through God's
grace become more fully the people God intends us to be.
blessing and
a
precious
1987.
Christmas at Hope College,
our Christmas wish for the extended Hope family
our college
1,
gift.
— John & Jeanne Jacobson
About Hope’s new president
Thoughts on Hope tomorrow
Tales of presidencies past
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Hope College
The Bultman Era
Presidency
a return to
Hope
service
Hope, including his
joined the education
faculty in 1968, chaired the department of
education from 1976 to 1982, and was
dean of the social sciences from 1982 until
leaving for Northwestern's presidency in
1985. He was head baseball coach at Hope
from 1971 to 1985, and an assistantfootball
coach from 1970 to 1985.
Northwestern, like Hope, is one of
three colleges with ties to the Reformed
Church in America. Northwestern has
1,190 students — reflecting a 40 percent
increase since Dr. Bultman took office.
In addition to setting enrollment
records, under Dr. Bultman's leadership
Northwestern has increased its endowment by a factor of 10, from $2.5 million to
$25 million; raised more than $30 million
for capital campaign projects, including
the renovation of 80 percent of the college's classrooms; and balanced its budget
direct experience with
Becoming Hope’s
president on July
student days.
1 will
mark
a return to familiar
terrain for Dr. James E.
Bultman
’63,
who
in
addition to being a Hope
graduate was a member
of the college’s faculty
for several years.
"I'm as you can imagine, very honored
at being selected," he said. "I'm very
excited about the leadership challenges at
Hope."
"Quite honestly. I'm humbled at the
prospect of meeting the expectations
many hold for us there, but I'm also confident that by God's grace and the support
of a caring constituencywe can make a
differencefor good in the life of the
college,"he said. "We're eager to build on
so many of the attributeswhich Dr.
Jacobson has brought to the college during
the past 12 years."
Dr. Bultman was chosen following a
nationwide search that began shortly after
President Jacobson announced his retirement plans last January.
"We were fortunate in having an outstandingpool of applicants to consider as
we sought a successor to President
Jacobson," said Joel Bouwens '74 of
Zeeland, Mich., chair of the 10-member
search committee. "We looked all of them
seriously,considering carefully what each
could bring to the college as a leader."
"Dr. Bultman stands out for his professional credentials,his
commitment to
the
Hope College ideal, and his genuineness
and warmth as an individual," he said.
"We as a committee feel he's the right fit
for Hope as we aspire to become known as
He
each year.
Dr.
Major enhancementsof the
physical
plant have included construction of a
the cafeteriain 1993.
built
a new
$6.1
million intercollegiateathletic center, dedicated in 1995 as "The James E. and
Martha T. Bultman Center for Health,
Physical Education and Intercollegiate
Athletics" in recognition of his leadership.
While at Northwestern, Dr. Bultman
and
national educationalconcerns. He is curhas been an active leader in statewide
rently serving a two-year term as chair of
the Board of Directors for the Coalition for
Christian Colleges and Universities.He
just
completed
on
his
second three-year term
the National Association
of
the country's premiere Christian liberal
(NAIA) Council
and his service as one of the
five members of the NAIA's Executive
arts college."
Committee. He
Dr. Bultman will assume office having
already had more than two decades of
Intercollegiate Athletics
of Presidents
Iowa
College Foundation,past chair of the Iowa
Associationof Independent Collegesand
is also chair of the
E. Bultman ’63 and Martha Tucker ’63 Bultman speak with students
the Phelps Hall cafeteria in November.
visit to
new
Chapel/Performing Arts Center in 1988,
renovationof the Old Chapel into departmental space in 1990, renovation of the
main classroom building and expansion of
Northwesternalso
James
during a
Universities,and past chair of the
Commission on Campus Concerns for the
National Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities.
He graduated from Hope with a major
in chemistry. He holds a master's degree
and doctorate in education from Western
Michigan University.
Before joining Hope's faculty. Dr.
Bultman taught and coached in the public
schools in Portage, and was the assistant
principal of Portage Northern High School.
Hope
presented him with
She has multiple certificationsin special
education,and is a learning disabilities
instructorat MOC-Floyd Valley High
School.
The Bultmans have two children:a son.
who is a 1990 Northwestern College
graduate living in Overland Park, Kan.,
and a daughter. Heather, who is a 1992
graduate of Taylor University living in
Brodhead, Wis.
Matt,
a
DistinguishedAlumni Award in May of
1995. He received an honorary degree
from Keiwa College,a sister college of
Northwestern in Shibata City, Japan, in
March of 1998.
His wife is Martha Tucker '63 Bultman.
She is co-author of the Friendship Series, a
religious instruction curriculum for the
developmentally disabled that is used
throughout the English-speakingworld.
Members
of
the Search
Committee
A 10-member
committee repre-
senting several segments of the
Hope
family conducted the nationwide
search that ultimately led to Dr.
Bultman's selectionas president.
The members of the committee
were:
Trustees: chair Joel Bouwens
'74 of Zeeland,Midi.; the Rev. Peter
Semeyn '73 of Palos Heights, 111; and
Dr. George Zuidema '49 of Holland,
Mich.; Faculty: Dr. James Heisler,professor of economics,and Dr. Caroline
Simon, associateprofessor of philoso-
phy; Student: junior
Misten
Weeldreyer of Mattawan, Mich.;
Alumni: Mary
Beth Van Dis '80
Grand Rapids, Midi., and
Brian Koop '71 of Holland, Mich.;
Academic Administration: Dr. Nancy
Sonneveldt '62 Miller, dean for the
Bauman
Dr. Bultman’s previous years on
campus, in addition to his student days,
included teaching and coaching. At
left,
he marches second from
right
(next to Dr. William Vanderbilt ’61)
during Commencement in 1985; at
center above, he works as assistant
football coach (with colleagues Ray
Smith and Russ DeVette ’45).
of
social sciences;Non-Academic Staff:
Robert N. DeYoung '56, vice president
for college advancement.
In addition. Dr. Elton Bruins '50,
who is director of the college's A.C.
Van Raalte Institute,served as the
committee'sexecutive secretary.
NFHC December 1998
Campus Notes
Freshmen win Nykerk
I
he house was
the popular Nykerk
—
Civic Center. Nearly 400 students
members of the Classes of '01 and 02, as
well as their upperclassman coaches and
as
full
Cup
Competition continued for
a 64th time on Saturday,
Nov. 7.
the event's organizers — participated.
The event featured its traditionalmix of
song, oration, theatricalproductionsand
meeting "in the middle."
It
The freshman Class of
'02
won
this
year's event, held as always at the Holland
also featured a bit of the unexpected,
when Odd-Year Play Morale Coach Geoff
Abbas '99 of Rochester, N.Y., dropped to
one knee on-stage and offered an
engagement ring to a surprised escort
Kristen Thomason '96 of Holland, Mich.
"We were planning on getting married,
but
I didn't
have a ring and
I definitely
wasn't expecting to get a ring at Nykerk,"
she said. "It was a nice confirmation."
The two competing song sections each
dedicated their songs to President Dr. John
H. Jacobson and Dr. Jeanne Jacobson. It
was the final Nykerk of President
Jacobson's tenure at
on June 30, 1999.
Hope. He
is retiring
In addition to presenting separate
The adventure unfolds during the
play, Once Upon a Fairy Tale.
’02
selections competitively, the two classes'
song sections joined to sing "A Dream is a
Wish Your Heart Makes."^t
An unexpected Nykerk moment, as Odd-Year
Play Morale Coach Geoff Abbas ’99
of Rochester, N.Y., drops to one knee on-stage and offers an engagement ring to
a surprised escort Kristen Thomason ’96 of Holland, Mich. The answer was yes.
“Quote, unquote”
Quote, unquote
is
before me, each one presenting an inspir-
an
life and womanhood.
Watching and listeningto them created a
feeling of respect in me for these
strangers.It also left me with plenty of
questions for them.
"Although the topic that they discussed was very important,I was more
engaged in the unsaid topic. What set
these women apart from all of the rest?
Where did the courage come from for
them to take the extra step to become who
they are today? Did they have extremely
supportiveparents? Am I really that different from them?
"The answer to the last question, I
hope, will unfold in the next few years of
my life. 1 do not necessarily want to be a
feminist, but I want to become passionate
and knowledgeable about something.
Everyone has it within himself or herself
to become successful like the women that
we listened to. 1 just want to be sure that
I take full advantage of all my opportunities to become as well-known as they
have. I want to make a difference.
ing attitude toward
eclectic sampling of
things said at and about
Hope College.
This year's Critical Issues
Symposium con-
cerned "Feminismand Faith: Implications for
Life," and ran Tuesday-VJednesday, Oct. 6-7.
The event, one of the best attended in the symposium's 19-year history, featured speakers
from many perspectives,and drew an even
greater number of reactions.Some applauded
the range, and some were appalled by
it.
Particularlywell-receivedzvas the panel
discussion"Feminismand Faith: A Diversity
of Voices," which played to a standingroom-onlycrowd in the DeWitt Center main
theatre.The panel featured insightsfrom
women representingfour differentfaith traditions — Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and
Buddhist— and representinga variety of life
and career experiences.The session's moderator zvas the Rev. MarchieneVroon Rienstraof
the Reformed Church in America.
At its best, the symposium prompts those
attending to considertheir ozvn perspective on
panel impressed me. They
the topic at hand, whether in accord or dis-
to
agreement zvith the speakerspresented. Here
ly important in
is
one student'sreaction to the panel, written
for one of the college's First-Year Seminars.
Author Shari Lezvis of Brighton,Mich., is a
student
in the seminar "Living
with
Intensity,"taught by Dr. Timothy Pennings
of the mathematics faculty. For
the
college's
more about
nezv First-Year Seminar
program, please see the story on page seven.
"There sat four
intelligent
women
NFHC December 1998
"Plainly said, the four
make
women on
the
made me want
sure that I do something sincere-
my
life. They presented
not only their beliefs, but also themselves
and professional manner.
"As a result of that hour-and45-minute discussion panel, I stopped to
take a closer look at the direction that I
want my life to head in. I surely would not
mind creating a role for myself in life as
they have in theirs. Now it is just a matter
in an intelligent
of having faith in myself to do so/'i^t
On the cover
At
left,
accompanying the annual Christmasmessage from Drs. John and Jeanne
Jacobson, is a composite zvindozv formed from elements of severalof the stained glass
zvindozvsin Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The images zvere chosen zvith a seasonal and
Hope theme
in
mind. At
right is Dr.
James E. Bultman
'63, zvho zvill
become Hope's
11th president on July 1, 1999.
Volume
3
30, No.
December 1998
Published for Alumni, Friends and
Parents of Hope College by the Office of
Public Relations. Should you receive
more than one copy, please pass it on to
someone in your community. An overlap
of Hope College constituencies makes
duplicationsometimes unavoidable.
Editor: Thomas L. Renner '67
Managing Editor: Gregory
S. Olgers '87
Layout and Design:
Holland Litho Service, Inc.
Printing: Nezvs Web Printing Sendees
Hope College
Office of Public Relations
DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698
phone: (616) 395-7860
fax: (616) 395-7991
[email protected]
Thomas
L. Renner '67
Director of Public Relations
Gregory S. Olgers '87
Director of Information Services
Lynne M. Powe '86
Alumni Director
Kathy Miller
Manager
of Public Relations Services
of Greenville, Mich.
Contributing Photographers:
Karen Bos
Secretary of Public Relations Office
Cory Olsen, Lou Schakel '71
Contributing Writers:
Dr. James E. Bultman ‘63,
Dr. Neal Sobania '68
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of
equal rights,equal opportunities and equal
protection under the law. Hope College admits
students of any race, color, national and ethnic
origin,sex, creed or disabilityto all the rights,
privileges,programs and activitiesgenerally
accorded or made available to studentsat
Hope College, including the administration of
its educationalpolicies, admission policies,
and athletic and other school-administered
programs. With regard to employment, the
College complieswith all legal requirements
prohibiting discrimination in employment.
Events
'
Academic Calendar
Spring Semester'99
Sunday — Residence halls open, noon
Jan. 11, Monday — Registrationfor new students, 3:30-4:30
Jan. 10,
Maas Center auditorium
— Classes begin, 8 a.m.
Feb. 12, Friday — Winter Recess begins, 6 p.m.
Feb. 17, Wednesday — Winter Recess ends, 8 a.m.
March 19, Thursday — Spring Recess begins, 8 a.m.
March 29, Monday — Spring Recess ends, 8 a.m.
April 2, Friday— Good Friday. Classes not in session, but not
p.m.,
Jan. 12, Tuesday
an officialholiday
April 29, Thursday— Honors Convocation; Dimnent
Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m.
April 30, Friday— Spring Festival; classes dismissed at 1 p.m.
May 3-7, Monday-Friday— Semester examinations
May 7, Friday— Residence halls close for those not participating in
May
May
9,
May
9,
8,
Commencement,5
p.m.
Saturday — Alumni Day
Sunday — Baccalaureate and Commencement
Sunday— Residence halls close for graduating seniors,
7 p.m.
May Term
'99
— May 10-28
June Term '99 — June 1-18
Summer Session '99 — June 21-July 30
Summer Seminars '99 — Aug. 2-6
Admissions
Campus
The Great Performance Series will feature “Les Violons Du Roy” on Tuesday,
p.m. weekdays, and from 9 a.m. until noon on Saturdays. Tours
and admissions interviewsare available during the summer as
well as the school year. Appointmentsare recommended.
Visitation Days offer specific programs for prospective students, including transfers and high school juniors and
seniors. The programs show students and their parents a
typical day in the life of a Hope student. The remaining dates
for 1998-99 are as follows:
518
Monday,
Jan.
Friday, Feb. 26
Friday, Feb.
Friday, March 12
Fine Arts Audition Day: Friday, Feb. 19
Junior Days: Friday, April 9; Friday, April 23
Senior Day: Saturday, April 17
(for admitted students)
Pre-Professional Day: Wednesday, May 19
(for juniors)
(616) 395-7850, or
toll free
PO
Box 9000; Holland,
MI; 49422-9000.
Dance
Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m.
Tickets are $5 for regular adult admission,and $3 for
senior citizens and students, and will be available at
the door.
Dance 25 — Thursday-Saturday,March 11-13
DeWitt Center, main theatre, 8 p.m.
Tickets are $5 for regular adult admission, and $4 for
senior citizens and students, and will be availableat the
theatre lobby ticket office in the DeWitt Center. The
office may be called at (616) 395-7890. Its hours are:
Monday-Friday,10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, noon-5 p.m.
The department of dance will celebrate the concert's 25th year
with a dinner for alumni of the concert. For more information,
please call the department at (616) 395-7700.
Contemporary Motions — Friday-Saturday, April 9-10
Tickets are $5, and will be availableat the door.
Student-ChoreographedDance Concert — Monday-Tuesday,
April 26-27
Admission is
free.
De Free Gallery
Admission is
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Featuring the film Powers of 10 by the 20th century designers Charles and Ray Fames, and other related works.
Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
during the summer. During the school year, the gallery is open
Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and
The gallery is open
1
p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission
is
free.
free.
Interlochen Trio — Thursday, Feb. 4: Wichers Auditorium of
Nykerk Hall of Music, 11 a.m. Admission is free.
Interlochen Trio Concert — Thursday, Feb. 4: Dimnent
Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
Junior Recital— Friday, Feb. 5: soprano PatriciaRhiew of
Farmington Hills, Mich., Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m.
free.
Trumpet Clinic— Friday, Feb. 12: with Vincent D'Martino,
Snow Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music, 2 p.m.
Admission is free.
Convocation Recital — Thursday, Feb. 18: with soprano
Karen Peeler, Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music,
11 a.m. Admission is free.
Jazz Guitar Clinic — Friday, Feb. 19: with Jack Wilkins and
Frank Bruno, Snow Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music, 3
p.m. Admission is free.
Faculty Recital Series— Sunday, Feb. 21: soprano Linda
Dykstra, Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music, 4
p.m. Admission is free.
Joint Junior Recital — Monday, Feb. 22: tenor Seth Gardner of
Battle Creek, Mich., and double bass Nick Knebl of
Ludington,Mich., Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of
Music, 6 p.m. Admission is free.
Organ Recital— Monday, Feb. 22: with Jane Watts, Dimnent
Student Recital— Thursday,Feb. 25: Wichers Auditorium of
Orchestra Concerto/Aria Concert — Friday, Feb. 26: Dimnent
Junior Recital— Saturday, Feb. 27: organist Krista Shinew of
Somerset, Pa., Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission
is
of 10 — Saturday, Feb. 20-Friday,March
Sunday from
Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music, 4 p.m.
Great PerformanceSeries — Tuesday, Jan. 26: Les Violons Du
Roy, chamber orchestra,Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m.
Admission is
InSync Dance Theatre — Friday-Saturday, Jan. 20-30
Powers
Faculty Recital Series — Sunday, Jan. 24: Wichers
395-6996.
Student Recital— Thursday, Jan. 28: Wichers Auditorium of
Senior Recital— Friday, Jan. 29: violinist Syeung Mishler of
Chesaning, Mich., Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 6 p.m.
1-800-968-7850or write: Hope
College Admissions Office;69 E. 10th St.;
Music
Tickets are $10.50 for senior citizens, $12.50 for other adults
and $6.50 for students. For more information, call (616)
For further informationabout any Admissions Office event, please
call
Jan. 26.
Visits: The Admissions Office is open from 8 a.m. to 5
free.
Faculty Recital Series— Sunday, Feb. 28: Wichers
Auditorium of Nykerk Hall
of Music, 4
p.m. Admission
is
free.
Junior Recital — Friday, March
5:
trumpeter Joshua Rasdall of
Hutchinson, Kan., Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 6 p.m.
Admission is free.
Horn Recital — Saturday, March 6: with Janine Gaboury-Sly,
Wichers Auditoriumof Nykerk Hall of Music, 6 p.m.
Admission is free.
Senior Recital — Saturday, March 6: pianist Robin Bolt of
Lansing, Mich., Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
ImprovisationClinic — Wednesday, March 10: with Clay
Jenkins and Kim Richmond, Snow Auditorium of Nykerk
Hall of Music, 2 p.m. Admission is free.
Jazz Ensemble — Wednesday, March 10: with Clay Jenkins
and Kim Richmond, Maas Center, auditorium, 7 p.m.
Admission is free.
"The L.A. Scene"— Thursday,March 11: with Qay Jenkins
and Kim Richmond, Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of
Music, 11 a.m. Admission is free.
Junior Recital — Friday, March 12: soprano Joy Eisenga of
McBain, Mich., Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 6 p.m.
Admission is free.
Senior Recital— Saturday, March 13: pianist Beth Quimby of
Williamsville, N.Y., Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
Faculty Recital Series — Sunday, March 14: Wichers
Auditoriumof Nykerk Hall of Music, 4 p.m. Admission is free.
Musical Showcase— Monday, March 15: DeVos Hall, Grand
Rapids, Mich., 8 p.m. Tickets are $9. Additional information
I
concerning tickets will be availablein early 1999.
Student Recital — Thursday,March 18: Wichers Auditorium
of Nykerk Hall of Music, 6:30 p.m. Admission is free.
Chapel Choir Home Concert — Monday, March 29: Dimnent
Organist/Composer— Thursday, April 1: with A1 Fedak 75,
Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 11 a.m. Admission is free.
Student Recital-Tuesday, April 6: Apollo String Quartet,
Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
Student Recital— Thursday, April 8: Dimnent Memorial
Chapel, 11 a.m. Admission is free.
Senior Recital— Friday, April 9: pianist Gwen Veldhof of
Zeeland, Mich., Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
Junior Recital— Saturday, April 10: mezzo-soprano Renee
Meyer of Mount Vernon, Iowa, Wichers Auditorium of
Nykerk Hall of Music, 6 p.m. Admission is free.
Symphonette Concert — Saturday, April 10: at Third
Reformed Church, 111 W. 13th St., Time TBA. Admission
charge
TBA.
Opera Workshop — Monday, April 12: Wichers Auditorium
of Nykerk Hall of Music, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
Wind Ensemble Concert — Wednesday, April 14: with Jim
Okada, Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 7 p.m. Admission is free.
Great PerformanceSeries— Thursday, April 15: Elaine Elais,
jazz sextet, "The Three Americas," Dimnent Memorial
Chapel, 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.50 for senior citizens, $12.50
for other adults and $6.50 for students. For more information, call (616) 395-6996.
NFHC December 1998
Christmas Vespers
Bring a beloved Hope tradition home for the holidays by enjoying
Christmas Vespers on one of the radio and PBS stations that will feature the
service this year. Contact the station in your area for the day and time.
ALABAMA
Florala — WKWL-AM
Huntsville — WNDA-FM
Escanaba— WCHT-AM
Grand Rapids — WFUR-FM
Thursday, Dec. 17, 9:30 p.m.
Hillsdale— WCSR AM/FM
Holland— WHTC-AM
ARIZONA
KWRB-FM
KTBA-AM
Tuba City— KTBA-AM
Window Rock— KTBA-AM
Sierra Vista—
' Window
Rock —
Monday, Dec.
Friday, Dec.
ARKANSAS
p.m.;
Wednesday,
25,
24,
3
p.m.;
9:30 a.m.
Holland— WJQ-AM
Thursday, Dec. 24, 7 p.m.
Ironwood — WUPM-FM/WHRY-AM
Jackson— WKHM-AM
KOFC-AM
CONNECTICUT
Fayetteville—
Middletown—WIHS-FM
FLORIDA
Kalamazoo—WKPR-AM
Okeechobee—WOKC-AM
Marquette—
WNMU-FM
Midland— WUGN-FM
GEORGIA
Augusta—WLPE-FM
Zeeland—
WGFS-AM
WGNB-FM
Friday, Dec. 18, time
IOWA
TBA
MINNESOTA
Des Moines — KDMI-AM
Mason City— KCMR-FM
Shenand oah — KYFR-AM
Sioux Center — KDCR-FM
Sioux Center— KSOU AM/FM
Spencer— KICD-AM
Waterloo— KNWS AM/FM
Blue Earth—
Hopkinsville
—
Zarephath—
NEW
WAWZ-FM
YORK
Nework,
WACK-AM
WMHR-FM
Allentown—
Wellsboro —
NY—
Syracuse —
WNKJ-FM
WSHO-AM
MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor—
WUOM/WVGR/WFUM-FM
Cheboygan —
WCBY-AM
WHOL-AM
WISCONSIN
Waupun— WMRH-AM
WLIH-FM
DAKOTA
Yankton—WNAX-AM
SOUTH
NORTH CAROLINA r
Mooresville — WHIP-AM
OHIO
Jefferson— WCVJ-FM
Zanesville — WCVA-FM
LOUISIANA
Orleans —
KJLY-FM
NEW JERSEY
KENTUCKY
New
21, 6
Dec. 23, 6 p.m.; Thursday, Dec.
Yuma— KCFY-FM
Covington —
WDBC-AM
Escanaba —
TELEVISION
VIRGINIA
Harrisonburg—
PBS stations WGVU of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
and WGVK of Kalamazoo, Mich., will be carrying the 1998 Vespers service at the
following times: Monday, Dec. 21, at 8 p.m.;
Thursday,Dec. 24, at 10 a.m.; and Friday,
Dec. 25, at 1 p.m. and 10 p.m.
WEMC-FM
WASHINGTON
OREGON
Seattle—
Portland— KPDQ-AM/FM
KNHC-FM
WEST VIRGINIA
PENNSYLVANIA
Huntington—
WEMM-FM
Events
Joint
Archives of Holland
Alumni & Friends
"Sears F. Riepma: An Ecumenical Immigrant"— Through
Friday,March 26
An exhibitionat the Joint Archives of Holland highlighting a 1900 Hope graduate who served the Reformed
Church, Presbyterian Church and Episcopal Church.
The Joint Archives of Holland is located on the lower level of the
Van Wylen Library, and is open Monday through Friday from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free..
Theatre
Hope College Theatre productionsare
Regional Events
Boston, Mass. — ^Thursday, March 11
An 8 p.m. performance of the musical Ragtime at the
Colonial Theatre, 103 Bolyston Street, with a
pre-musical reception (details TBA). Tickets are $58.50
per person. For more information,call Doris Kellom '80
at (781) 646-5902.
Winter Happening — Saturday, Jan. 23
Musical Showcase— Monday, March 15, 8 p.m.
DeVos Hall, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Tuesday,Feb. 23: Jamaica Kincaid (the Meyer Lecture, presented in conjunctionwith Black History Month and
Women's Week); Dimnent Memorial Chapel
Monday, March 29: Jesse Lee Kercheval and Mary Jo Bang
All readings begin at 7 p.m., with live music by the Hope College
March 29 readings beginning at 6:30 p.m. Except for the Feb. 23 reading, the
seriesis held in the KnickerbockerTheatre.Admission is free. For
more information, or to be placed on the series'smailing list, please
call the department of English at (616) 395-7620.
Jazz Chamber Ensemble precedingthe Feb. 23 and
Alumni Weekend — Friday-Sunday,May 7-9
Great PerformanceSeries: "Theater Grottesco," The Angels'
Cradle— Friday-Saturday, Jan. 15-16
The Winter's Tale — Friday-Saturday, Feb. 19-20;
Wednesday-Saturday,Feb. 24-27
By William Shakespeare
Off the Map — Friday-Saturday, April 23-24; WednesdaySaturday, April 28-May 1
By Joan Ackermann
Tickets for
Visiting Writers Series
$7 for regular
adult admission,$5 for Hope faculty and staff, and $4 for senior
Includes reunions for every
fifth
class from '34 through '79.
Holland Golf Outing — Monday, June 28
Homecoming '99 — Friday-Sunday,Oct. 22-24
Includes reunions for the Classes of '84, '89 and
Instant Information
'94.
For additional information concerningalumni events, please call the
Office of Public and
Alumni Relations
Updates on events, news and athleticsat Hope may be
obtained 24 hours a day by calling (616) 395-7888.
at (616) 395-7860.
TraditionalEvents
Musical Showcase— Monday, March 15, 8 p.m.
DeVos Hall, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Honors Convocation — Thursday,April 29
Baccalaureate and Commencement— Sunday, May 9
citizens and students. The ticketoffice opens approximately two
weeks prior to performances. Its hours are: Monday-Friday,10
a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, noon-5 p.m. The office may be called at
(616) 395-7890.
Ticketsfor the Great Performance Series are $10.50 for senior citizens, $12.50 for other adults and $6.50 for students. For
information, call (616) 395-6996.
Knickerbocker Theatre
Downtown Holland at 86
East Eighth Street
For more information, please call (616) 395-4950.
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more
Veritas Forum
LIVE
"The Lewis Event"
Thursday-Saturday,
Jan, 14-16
An intensiveconversation on faith and
HOPE ATHLETICS BROADCASTS
No matter how
forum
will open with a keynote address on Thursday, Jan. 14, and
continue with a variety of addresses, concerts and other
presentations.Although there will be an admission charge
for the concerts, admission to the other events is free.
Details may be obtained through the college'sWeb site,
www.hope.edu,or by calling the Office of Public and
Alumni Relations at (616) 395-7860.
the arts. The
far you live from
Hope College,you can hear
live play-by-playaction of Flying Dutchmen men's basketball
games by calling TEAMLINE. You can hear games broadcast
by WHTC in Holland from any telephone in the U.S. or
Canada, including home, office,car, hotel — even a pay phone.
TEAMLINE provides live game broadcasts of more than 350
college and professionalsports teams.
For more information about TEAMLINE,please write the Office of
Alumni and Public Relations;Hope College;PO Box 9000;
Holland,
Ml
49422-9000.
Campus Notes
FUNNY BUSINESS:
recent prank on campus,
Prompted by a
we thought we'd
see if Hope alumni might be willing to
share word of pranks from their time at
the college.
you have a
If
tale to tell, please
We
names of those
who submit recollections,and we hope
to include the
that the lack of anonymity won't discourage participation (please rest assured that
this isn't the college's
way
of tracking
down long-soughtpranksters...)
Please respond by Monday, Jan. 4. If
we receive enough entries, we'll work up
a feature for the February issue of news
from Hope College. If not, we'll at least
present them on the college's Web site
(www.hope.edu). Either way, in February
we'll tell more about that recent prank we
mentioned earlier.
You can fax us at (616) 395-7991, e-mail
us at
[email protected]
write to us at:
news from Hope College; Hope College
Public Relations; 141 E. 12th Street; PO
Box 9000; Holland,MI 49422-9000.
MAIL CALL: The good news is that the
October issue of news from Hope College was
popular on-campus. Most copies were
scarfed up quickly.
The bad news is that the folks who mail
the issue received too few copies from the
printer,and we didn't have enough extras
around to make up the difference.
As a result, a number of our readers
never received the issue. By scouringthe
In class, students
typically learn about
CEOs and the issues
facing them.
In October, Hope students had a chance
to learn from one, through a week-long
program that the departmentof economics
and business administration hopes to see
grow.
Don Miller '53 and Maxine Mulder '53
Miller of Bellevue, Wash., spent
Sunday-Saturday,Oct. 4-10, at Hope as
"Alumni Executives-in-Residence."
Don,
who is CEO and chairman of the board of
Ederer Inc., spoke during several
economics and business administration
classes, in addition to meeting with
students and members of the faculty
outside of class. His activities also
includedaddressingthe Hope Academy
of Senior Professionals (H.A.S.P.) and a
breakfastattended by about 100 local
business leaders.
It was the sort of visit that Dr. Anthony
Muiderman, who helped organize the
campus, however, we've managed to
obtain a limited number, and will be happy
week, would like to see happen again.
"Good schools do this," said Dr.
Muiderman, who is a professor of
business administration. "And the
students really benefitfrom it."
to send them in response to requests while
supplies last (for speediest results, e-mail
residency program for providinga blend
Dr. Muiderman applauded the
[email protected]). Otherwise, we hope
of insightsfrom the field
that all of our readers will enjoy this issue,
and those to come. And please accept our
of person that a
apologies for the glitch!
studentsperceiveto be the
FRATERNAL TRIBUTE:
its
The Fraternal
sixth annual
Post, who is a Fraternal alumnus, is an
assistant director of admissions.He has
been with the college since 1992.
is
in the early stages of Parkinson's, a
progressive disease of the nervous system.
The
and
into the type
can be.
"He's sort of the antithesisof what our
fraternity's raffle raised $1,000 for the
Parkinson's EducationalProgram of
West
Michigan in his name. The gift was
designated for an exercise program.
"We always donate part of our raffle to
and this one had a
school affiliation," said senior Aaron
Wang of Grand Rapids, the fraternity's
president. "This is the best raffle that I can
remember."
a charity organization,
EMERSONIAN EVENT:
cool. He's laid back. He's coming from the
heart."
"It's good for our students to see that,"
Dr.
Muiderman said.
Senior Adam Paarlberg of Alto, Mich., a
of the calendar year.
He
CEO
CEO of an
international company," he said. "He's
Homecoming
fund-raiser in honor of Stu Post '60, who is
retiring from the admissions staff at the end
Society held
residence
in
send a
few sentences or paragraphs our way.
DO want
Alumni
The
Emersonian Fraternity hosted an evening
of pizza and activities at the Dow Center for
the elementary-agechildren of the
Children's After School Achievement
(CASA) program on Saturday, Oct. 24.
The Emersonians funded the event with
$1,000 they earned through the college's
Greek Life Point Competition,based on a
variety of the fraternity'sactivities.They
conducted the evening with help from the
Sibyllineand Sigma Sigma sororities.
member of the Baker Scholars who helped
develop the Millers'schedule and hosted
them during the week, concurred.
"It's been outstanding. They've been a
pleasure," he said. "They made it very
easy to interactwith them and to spend
time with them."
"One thing in particularthat I've
learned from him is the necessityof
keeping your options open and having the
willingness to take risks to achieve your
ultimate goals," he said. "And not to take
yourself too seriously.To be yourself.To
do what you can, but to let things fall
where they may, too."
Ederer Inc. makes specialized heavy
cranes, working with clients around the
world. Examples include the large cranes
that unload ships at major seaportsin
nations including the United States, Korea,
Taiwan and China; the cranes that
assemble the space shuttle at Cape
Canaveral, Fla.; and the machinery
—
weighing 2,000 tons — for the moveable
roof assembly of the Seattle Mariners' new
stadium. The company received the
Governor's Export
Award
for
manufactured goods for 1986-87, and the
Trader of the Year Award in 1996.
Miller became Ederer Inc.'s president in
Students have a chance to gain from the experiences of alumni through the new
“Alumni Executives-in-Residence”
program started by the department of
economics and business administration.Maxine Mulder ’53 Miller and Don Miller
’53 spent Oct. 4-9 on campus while Don spoke to classes and met with students,
sharing his perceptions as CEO and chairman of the board of Ederer Inc.
1974,
He
and purchased the company in 1984.
Seattle University.
"You can
has worked in the same general field
get
what
to
do
in college,"he
since graduating from the college 45 years
said. "Giving people ideas on
ago.
it
He
is chair of Washington Employers
which has 800 member companies;
chair of the Board of Directors of the State
Export Assistance Center, appointed by
the governor;
the Executive
Committees of the Washington-China
Relations Council and the Washington
Council of InternationalTrade; and past
Inc.,
on
president of the National Crane
how
to
do
— that's what I've been trying to
accomplish."
His message at Hope included the
value in thinking globally, of dealing fairly
and honorably, and
of valuing the
people
involved.
"It's
the 'good guys can
win'
mentality,"he said. Business, he noted, "is
not
all
The
that vicious."
Millers stayed in the
Haworth
campus for their week in
Although Don was featured
Manufacturers' Association of America.
Center on
Miller majored in economics at Hope,
where he was a member of the Fraternal
Society and played football.Don and
Maxine met as Hope freshmen, and
married during the last semesterof their
residence.
senior year.
Hope wasn't Don's first opportunity to
"It's been a delightful experience,"
Maxine said. "Meeting students here,
and faculty — the warmth that we've
experienced here has been just
bring his lifetime'sexperience into an
academic setting. He is also active in the
Mentor Program for MBA students at
during the formal presentations, they
participated in many of the week's other
activitiesas a couple, including eating
with the students in Phelps Hall.
phenomenal."
(See “Campus Notes” on page eight.)
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Campus
Profile
Seminars
stage
set the
he students break into small
groups and get busy.
f
They've been reading the autobiographies of two young
Peace Corps volunteers who served in Africa. The frank
accounts share the best and the worst of the authors'
experiences,providing plenty to talk about.
One group explores the way the author's tenure caused
him to rethink his priorities, and the loyalty of one of his
African friends. Another discusses customs like gift-giving
and hugging — which clash somewhat in the narrative — and
how they might arise culturally.
The class reconvenes, and the groups share their insights.
They also begin to consider other questions,such as: based
on what you've read in the book, would you be willing to be
a Peace Corps volunteer?
Welcome to the world of the new First-Year Seminar
program, where the questions may not have right or wrong
answers and the emphasis is on ideas.
After pilotingsix sessions last fall, the program began in
earnest this year, with all of Hope's 733 first-time-in-college
students enrolled in one of 39 differentseminars.The plan
is to help new students see that learning is an open-ended,
life-long, active process, and that knowledge is not
department-based.
"Some people refer to it as an introduction to a life of the
mind," said Professor Maura Reynolds,who is director of
the First-Year Seminar Program as well as director of
advising.
"Our hope is that the kinds of skills that we're hoping to
develop throughoutthe four years at Hope will have some
coverage in the First-Year Seminar," she said. "The
seminars are primarilydiscussion-driven
and exploring
difficult questions for which there may not be a single, clear
response that everyoneagrees on."
The seminars are a key component of the new General
EducationCurriculum that the facultyapproved in April of
1996 and which the college has been gradually
implementing in the years since.
The courses echo some of the same themes as the popular
and long-running Senior Seminar program with which
students complete their Hope experience. Where the Senior
Seminars are a "capstone," providing an opportunity to tie
together the lessons of four years, the First-YearSeminars are
upon which the rest will build.
Seminars,the First-Year Seminars
provide an eclectic mix of topics from which students may
choose. Titles range from "Music as Social Protest: Woodie
Guthrie and the Great Depression," to "The Future: Past
and Present," to "Jerry, Jenny, Geraldo, and the Wilding of
America,"and "People and their Pastimes."
a first block, the foundation
And
like the Senior
“I appreciate this class a lot
because
learn in
know what we
here goes beyond
I
what we do
in
here.”
The first-hand experience of alumni like former Peace Corps volunteer Peg Helmink ’73 has been a crucial component of the new First-YearSeminar “Hope in the World and the World at Hope.” Each of the college’s39
First-Year Seminars examines a different topic in-depth, and although they vary greatly in theme, they are consistent in emphasizingexplorationof open-ended questions, seeking to set a tone for learning and considering
ideas that will stay with their students throughout their time at Hope — and beyond.
instructstudents in
competitors," he said.
their scholarly work.
Dr. Pennings wondered if he might help students
understandthat sort of zest as a guide for life generally,and
thus was bom the course "Living with Intensity."
The students aren't studying three-on-three basketball,
but they are reading works by or about Malcolm X, Mother
Teresa, Hermann Hesse and mathematician Bertrand
Russell. In his course description.Dr. Penningsnotes, "Since
the four primary people we study have four very different
world views, it will be interestingto compare and contrast
them, to see how each is motivated by their worldview,and
to ask ourselves what there is about each of them that we
would emulate or avoid."
Dr. Robin Klay, professor of economics and business
administration, has drawn upon the experience of Hope
students and alumni for her seminar, "Hope in the World
and the World at Hope." In addition to having her students
discuss accounts by Peace Corps volunteers (the basis of the
beginningof this article),she has them connect via e-mail
with Hope alumni who have served abroad, and in person
with current internationalstudents, to leam more about the
rest of the world and how others serve and live in it.
"This course is founded on the conviction that, 'We need
the world, and the world needs us,"' she said. (The course's
students have even been
—
Katie
Gipson ’02
moved
to action already, playing a
leadership role in developing on-going efforts on-campus to
HurricaneMitch.)
The affective (described as one of the seminar professors
as "touchy-feely")character of the seminars does not
translate into simplicity or an easy "A." As Professor
Reynolds said, "This is a graded class that says something.
raise funds for survivors of
Most departments are represented, which isn't always
obvious from the course titles. With the seminars' focus
being on the "how" of learning and not strictly the "what,"
the instructorsare free to develop themes entirely their own.
"Professors choose topics in just a variety of ways,"
Professor Reynolds said. "In some cases, they are topics that
are avocations for
them. Some
of
them
are tied to their
disciplines."
Dr. Timothy Pennings, associate professorof
mathematics and chair of the department, found the
inspiration for his seminar while watching the intramural
three-on-three basketball championship game at the Dow
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how to find information in support of
Many also use the Web-based Discus
discussion program (developed at Hope) to facilitate
Center. "I was struck by the energy and focus of the
It's
not a fluff.
The
not an extra."
sentiment concerning rigor
It's
was echoed by Mari
Titcombe of Minnetonka,Minn., who although enjoying the
discussion-based
format, noted that the workload for her
two-credit seminar seems more in keeping with the
demands placed upon her by the college's baseline
four-creditcourses.
The seminars also tie in with the library, which helps
discussion outside of class.
An additionaldimension of the First-Year Seminar
program is that the instructorsare the academic advisors for
the 15-20 students in their classes. Formerly, incoming
freshmen were assigned to a faculty member based upon
their anticipatedcollege major. (Once the students formally
declare a major, typicallyas sophomores,they'll take a new
advisor in that department.)
While advisors under the old system had the advantage
of in-depth
knowledge of
the student's intended field,
they often had no other connection with the student.
Now,
they have each advisee in class, and because of the class
format have a chance to connect with the students
personally.
"What struck me
is that I'm gettingto know students in a
whole differentway," Dr. Pennings said. "There's a nice
balance between advising and teaching."
"I think it's nice to have one of your advisors be one of
your professors,"said Bethany Buege of Evart, Mich., who is
in Dr. Klay's class.
"I've had
many
talks with Dr. Klay just
on anything at
all," she said. "I feel like I can really go to her."
Classmate Katie Gipson of Beulah, Mich., agreed. "I
if 1 was on my deathbedand I had nobody else to turn
to, I could go to Dr. Klay — and we've only been here three
months," she said.
know
Although they each value their professor's
personableness, both Buege and Gipson noted that they've
especiallyappreciated the lessons learned in the First-Year
Seminar,which has prompted them to consider questions
they might not otherwise have asked.
"I think 1 walked in here on the first day thinking, 'Oh
no — seminar,"' Gipson said. "But it's one of my favorite
classes, if not
my
favorite class."
"I appreciate this class a lot
because I know what we
we do in here, "she said.
learn in here goes beyond what
"It has to
do with relationsand life."*^
Campus Notes
Roberta Kraft elected
MMTA
president
Immediately prior to becoming presi-
Roberta
adjunct
associate professor of
music, has been
inaugurated as president
of the
dent, ProfessorKraft served a two-year
Kraft,
term as the
Michigan Music
Auditions.
contained.
Dykstra, an assistantprofessor of music
of the
Hope music
faculty has served as
state president. Joan
music, was
MMTA
Conway, professor
of
president from 1990 to
In the midst of
Election '98, the Hope Democrats and Hope
Republicansfound ways to work together.
The two student groups jointly hosted a
debate on Wednesday, Oct. 21, between
RepublicanCongressman Pete Hoekstra '75
and Democrat Bob Shrauger, who were
vying for Michigan's Second Congressional
District. They also helped get
approximately400 voters registeredduring
the campaign season.
In independent activity, the Hope
Democrats and Republicanseach worked
with their respective local party
organizations to arrange visits by the
parties' candidates for governor of
Michigan: Democratic challenger Geoffrey
Fieger on Friday, Oct. 23, and Republican
incumbent John Engler on Friday, Oct. 30.
(Rep. Hoekstra and Gov. Engler won in
the Tuesday,Nov. 3, elections.)
the College Board's deliberations.
all
All of the student
members are
required
two two-day APSC meetings per
year, and two additional meetings through
their other committee work. The meetings
to attend
New York City, and
the College Board pays all travel and
will be held primarily in
lodging expenses.
Sutton was nominated by PhyllisKleder
'73
Hooyman, directorof
financial aid.
She
has been working in the college'sOffice of
Financial Aid since her freshman year.
"Kate is a highly motivated individual
is both thoughtful and articulate,"
Hooyman said. "A young woman who is
very interested in public policy and
who
educational access,she is a natural for this
position."
A
political science major, Sutton will be
participating in the college's Washington
Honors Semester in the spring of
1999,
REPRESENTATIVE:
holding internships in a congressional office
Kate Sutton, a junior from Eaton Rapids,
Mich., has been appointed to serve on the
College Board's Advisory Panel on Student
Concerns (APSC).
and with the U.S. Department of Education.
FACULTY KUDOS:
was
Julie Costello
a
and Linda Dove
of the
English faculty have each received
recognition for outstandingwork in their
of
400
applicantsfor one of
graduate studies.
four vacancies on
the panel. She will
Dr. Costello received the Shaheen
Award, as the University of Notre Dame's
best graduate student in the humanitiesin
the class of '97. The award included a cash
stipend, which she used to attend a
conference in July at St. Mary's University
at StrawberryHill, home of the late
18th-century writer Horace Walpole.
Dr. Dove was awarded the Alice L.
Geyer Prize for 1997 for the University of
Maryland's best dissertation on English
a two-
to
three-year term.
The 16-member
made up
Kate Sutton
high school and
college students from a variety
backgrounds,meets twice a year.
panel,
of
of
In
addition,each student also serves on another
College Board committee or
8
University.
The
MMTA
was founded
in 1885.
The
association seeks to promote and encour-
age the understanding,appreciation and
study of the art of music; to elevate the eco-
nomic and
music; and
artistic standardsof teachers of
to
promote a
closer professional
fraternity.
six.)
BIPARTISANSHIP:
serve
students
rented home and the possessions
Roberta Kraft
is one of the largestof the 50 state
more than
Hope
and faculty,as well as with her husband,
George, with whom she has given roughly
300 programs.
She has taught public school in the
JunctionCity, Kan., HoUand, Mich., and
Saugatuck-Douglas,Mich., school systems.
She is a performing member of St. Cecilia
Music Society of Grand Rapids, and a
member of the American Guild of Organists
and The National Guild.
She earned her bachelor of music education degree at Wheaton College and a
master of music degree at Indiana
"Women
universitiesor teach in private studios. The
chosen from
national pool
also performs actively with
literature.
MMTA
Sutton
Professor Kraft has taught at Hope since
1975, and maintainsa private studio. She
ensuring that students' voices are present in
convention, held at the Crowne Plaza
hotel in Grand Rapids, Mich., on SundayTuesday, Oct. 18-20. She will serve a
two-year term.
The
has approximately 900
members, who are teachers at colleges and
STUDENT
the Holland chapter of the
in 1995.
1992.
She assumed office on Tuesday, Oct.
20, during the association's 113th state
organizationsaffiliated with the Music
Teachers National Association, which has
24,000 members.
Professor Kraft's inauguration marks
the second time this decade that a member
MMTA
Her association with the MMTA began
through the local chapter, Holland Piano
TeachersForum, which was established in
1969 and of which she was a charter
member. The chapter affiliatedwith the
state organization in 1971-72, during the
first of three terms that she has served the
Holland chapter as president.
Professor Kraft began her involvement
with the Student Achievement Testing
program through the local chapter. The
program now tests more than 4,000
preparatory students throughout the state,
stressing not only performances but also
music theory, aural awareness,technique
and sight-reading.She was local chair of
SAT testing for five years.
She received the "Teacher of the Year
(MMTA).
(Continued from page
vice president.Her
included
serving on the MMTA's 30-member Board
of Directorsfor nine years as chair of
Student Achievement Testing (SAT)
Teachers’ Association
MMTA
MMTA's
activity at the state level has also
Award" from
council.
Dr. Dove's dissertationis
at Variance: Sonnet Sequences
and Social Commentary in Early
England."
Modem
and member
Two prizes have been awarded to a
book published recently by John D. Cox
'67 of tire English faculty.
A Neiv History of Early English Drama
collection of 26 original essays,
it
is
a
and was
published by Columbia University Press in
1997. Dr. Cox co-edited the book with
David Scott Kastan of Columbia University.
The Associationfor Theatre in Higher
Educationawarded Dr. Cox's book the 1998
prize for the "outstanding booklength
study in theatre practice and pedagogy."
The committee which selected the book was
chaired by William Worthen, professor of
English and theatre at Northwestern
University. Cox and Kastan each received a
cash prize and a commemorative plaque.
In England, the new Globe Theatre
awarded its Sohmer-Hall Prize for "the best
work published each year on the original
staging of ShakespeareanPlays" to an essay
in Dr. Cox's book. The selectioncommittee,
chaired by Andrew Gurr of Reading
University in England, honored Peter W.M.
Blayney's essay, "The Publication of
Playbooks."
Linda Dykstra of the music faculty
presented a benefit concert at Third
Reformed Church for a Holland-areafire
survivor on Saturday, Aug. 29.
Shannon Cole of Olive Township, Mich.,
benefited from the concert. Her husband
Jeffrey, 26, son Kellee, age three, and twin
18-month-old daughtersSarah and Rachel
died in the August 7 fire. Also killed was
her cousin Melissa's son, Tyler Nichols, age
seven. The blaze also destroyed the family's
of Third Reformed Church,
presented the concert because she was
touched by Cole's plight. She was
accompanied during the concert by Linda
Strouf '84, who is organist at Third
Reformed Church and
also
on
the
Hope
music faculty. Professor Strouf is originally
from Manistee, where the Cole family was
from before moving to Holland.
Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar of
the English facultyare authors of a
number
of entries in The C.S. Lewis
Readers'
Encyclopedia,edited by Jeffrey D. Schultz
and John G. West Jr.
The Encyclopedia, published by Zondervan
Publishing House in August, contains nearly
1,000 short articles dealing with Lewis,
well-known British scholar, Christianwriter,
and author of adult fiction and children's
stories.Its entries elucidate each of Lewis's
writings as well as words, ideas, people and
places related to Lewis. More than 40 scholars
contributed to the volume.
Dr. Schakel contributed entries on
"Cupid and Psyche,"
"Friendship,"
"Reason," "Satire" and "Jonathan Swift."
He also prepared articles on four of Lewis's
writings, "Lettersto Malcolm," "On Science
Fiction," "Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say
Best What's to be Said" and "Till We Have
Faces." Dr. Huttar's entries were on
"Angels," "Demons," "Medieval World"
and "'The Psalms.'"
Dr. Schakel is the Peter C. and Emajean
Cook Professor of English and chair of the
department.Dr. Huttar retired in 1996 after
teaching at
Hope
College for 30 years.
(See “Campus Notes” on page 20.)
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Campus Notes
Leslie
Wessman appointed
college'sparent denomination. They have
Ur. Leslie Wessman
has been appointed to
the college’s new Arnold
and Esther Sonneveldt
four children, all of
great service and dedication to education
and
the church by the people for
whom
chair is named," said President Dr. John H.
Jacobson. "For the college, an endowed
chair provides an opportunity to give
recognition and encouragement to a person
who has served in an exemplary fashion
and who shows promise of continuing to do
so."
Wessman has
"Dr. Leslie
Dr. Leslie
the
served the
college extremelywell as a teacher in the
department of education,and in recent
years through wise and energeticleadership
as chair of the department," he said.
Wessman
secondary' teachers,
the attitudesand perceptions of preservice
to
brain research and
its
formed the first student chapter of the
Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development(ASCD), a
associations,includingthe Association of
professional education organizationwith
Governing Boards of Universitiesand
members worldwide. The Hope
implications for teaching and learning. She
is
a member of
several professional
Colleges.
Hope faculty, she
directorof the Michigan Out-ofFormula District Associationin Lansing.
She had previouslyalso been a master
Prior to joining the
Annual
Conference of the United Methodist
Church presented her with the 1997
"Francis Asbury Award for Fostering
In addition to recognizing faculty
members for excellence, endowed chairs
provide funding for summer research
projects as well as some salary support. The
college has a total of 12 endowed chairs for
faculty.
of the board's Division of Higher
Michigan and dedicated church leaders in
the Reformed Church in America, the
board.
team-building in middle schools,to altering
United Methodist Ministriesin Higher
Education." She was a member of the
denomination'sGeneral Board of Higher
Education and Ministry, a national-level
appointment, from 1989 to 1996, and
chaired the Campus MinistryCommittee
Arnold and Esther Sonneveldtare
leaders in the bakery business in West
member of the West Michigan
Board of Higher Education and Campus
Ministry of the United Methodist Church
from 1983 to 1996, and also chaired the
She sponsored and mentored the
college's education students as they
In January, the West Michigan
often, as in this case, recognizes the
Hope, a local church study book.
departmentsince 1996.
chapter was organizedin 1993.
chair is a very generous
of
She was a
Since joining the Hope faculty. Dr.
Wessman has made addresses or led
workshops on topics ranging from
190,000
by their family.
The Gift
Wessman joined the Hope education
faculty in 1990. She has chaired the
Dr.
The chair is designated for a member of
the education facultywho is an outstanding
teacher and demonstratesa commitment to
the Christian faith and to preparing young
people for the field of education. The chair
was established in the Sonneveldts' honor
and
attended Hope:
bakery and restaurantchain.
Professorship
in Education.
gift
whom
Nancy, Cindy, Susan and Robert.
The Sonneveldt family founded Crescent
Bakery in Grand Rapids in 1906. The bakery
eventually became today's Amie's Inc., a
Endowed
"An endowed
to chair
Education.She played a leadership
role in
was
teacher
at LaVerne University in
California, and had held teaching,
counselingor administrative positions at
secondary schools in Hawaii, Rhode
Island,California and Colorado.
She holds a bachelor's degree from the
University of Wyoming, a master of arts
from Northwestern University, a master of
science from California State University-
developing "Vision and Reality," the
division's visioning document, and
Fullerton,
contributedto the writing of Education:
State University.
an M.H.R.D. from
University
Associates and a doctorate from Michigan
Dolores Nasrallah named to chaplaincy
on
Uolores Nasrallah
of the
campus
ministries staff
has
new Leonard
and Marjorie Maas
Endowed
Chaplaincy.
new program
"She has been active with her colleagues in
developing a relational ministry and in sup-
porting the off-campus and out-of-town
outreach ministry of the chapel program, in
addition to her role in the services of
public worship."
"Having this endowed chaplaincy
defrays a substantial portion of the cost of
the chapel
Grandville to provide on-going support of
that in the future the college will be able to
campus
program at Hope.
endowed chaplaincy
ministries
to the
are for three-year terms.
The college's chaplains work in pastoral and relational ministry with Hope
students, helping the studentsto respond
and spiritualchallenges and to
in their faith. Activities of the
to personal
grow
campus ministries office include weekday
and Sunday evening worship services,
small group Bible studies, and leadership
and service opportunities for students, the
latter including several spring break
mission trips domestically and abroad.
"The active, lively and vital chapel
program that we have depends very much
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Leonard Maas worked in the construction business with his uncles and
eventually took over the business, which
became Gillisse Construction Co.
Through the years his entrepreneurial
1994," said President Dr. John H. Jacobson.
The endowed chaplaincy was estaband MarjorieMaas of
Appointments
Mrs. Lambert Maas.
in the fall of
lished by Leonard
the
and Mrs. Thomas Kelder and Mr. and
and Dolores Nasrallah has
the start of the
been appointed to the
college’s
the staff,
been a very important part of the staff since
program, and
it
spirit has led
continue to have a good level of staffing
for the program," he said.
Reformed Church in America,which is the
college'sparent denomination.
Their sons Tom and Stephen are both
Hope
graduates,
members of
1978 and 1981 respectively.
the classes of
into a variety of
business
Nasrallah joined the college's campus
during the summer of
1994. She was previouslywomen's ministries pastor and adult ministriesassistant
with College Avenue Baptist Church in
San Diego, Calif. She had been with
College Avenue Baptist Church since
1987, and had also been women's ministries director and leadership training
director at the church. Her work experience also includes having been a speech
communicationsinstructor at Christian
Heritage College during 1990-91, and a
graduate teaching assistant at San Diego
State University during 1987-88.
ministries staff
gives assurance
Leonard and Marjorie Maas are
long-time supportersof the college.
Leonard was a member of the college's
Board of Trustees from 1979 to 1993,
serving since as an honorary member of the
board. Marjorie was active in the Women's
League for Hope College,which raised
funds for many years to enhance Hope's
residence halls. They are members of the
him
ventures.
Dolores Nasrallah
Together with their sons, they donated
the college's Maas Center, which was
dedicated in 1986 and stands on
Columbia Avenue at 11th Street. In addition to supporting numerous other
projects,Leonard and Marjorie Maas have
also established the Kelder-Maas
Scholarship, in honor of their parents, Mr.
She holds a master of
theological
studies, with an emphasis in pastoral care
and counseling,from Bethel Theological
Seminary, and a bachelor of arts in journalism and speech communications from
San Diego State University.
Campus
Profile
A decade
of
growth
Supply has bred demand.
It’s
And
also bred supply.
that's the
way
that the Joint Archives of Holland
likes it.
When the Joint Archives opened in October of 1988, it was
somethingof an experiment; it wasn't following anyone else's
model. Housed on the ground level of the then-new Van
Wylen Library, the archives brought together the archivalcollections of the Holland HistoricalTrust (Holland Museum),
Western Theological Seminary and Hope College.
In the decade since, the collectionshave expanded substantially. A guide to all within the archives is not only
complete, but also searchable worldwide on-line. Thousands
of have visited the archives personally to conduct research.
A strong, organized collection draws researchers;the combination encourages others to contribute materials; more
materials strengthen the collection; which appeals to
researchers;and so on. The cycle has been running for 10
years, with the archives growing like a snowball rolling
downhill.
"The program has exceeded
my
expectations to a far
greater extent than I ever imagined it might," said Dr. Elton
Bruins '50, an emeritus member of the religionfacultywho
led the effort to establishthe Joint Archives of Holland. "It's
just remarkable what's
happened."
In fact, the archives is so heavily used that it's near the top
in visitors statewide,according to Larry
Wagenaar
'87,
who
has directed the Joint Archives of Holland since the beginning. The total is currentlyabout 200 per month, up from the
30 visitors per month to whom the archives opened in 1988.
"That puts us in the top five most visited research reposiMichigan,and our client base is very
varied,"Wagenaar said. "We serve foreignscholars, we serve
tories in the state of
the faculty here at Hope College, we serve the students
heavily, we serve the local community. If you look at our reference statistics,we have just a whole spread of people
use this facility."
"It's not uncommon to have our tables
full
on
a
who
given day,"
he said. "So we're a busy place/'
Prior to 1988, the collectionshad been maintainedinde-
pendently with varying degrees
of
preservation,
documentationand accessibility. Under the new system, each
institution retains ownership of its collection, but the central,
public-oriented facility makes effectivemaintenance more
economical while also making access for
member institutions
and other visitors more convenient.
As it happens,the three collectionsare also complementary, making their shared housing an additional boon to
researchers,according to Dr. Bruins.
"And the prime example are the papers and artifacts of
Philip Phelps, Hope's first president," he said. "Before his
daughter, Mrs. John Otte, died, she divided up the Phelps
papers between the seminary, the college and the museum."
"So now, when 1 do research on Phelps or Van
Raalte — and a lot has also since come in to all three collections — it's in one place, and on one computer," he said. "They
may get it out of different boxes in the back room, but it's in
one location."
Major additions to the archives have included the papers
of former U.S. Congressman Guy Vander Jagt '53, the records
of the City of Saugatuck and the Village of Douglas,and
numerous oral historiescollected through archives-spon-
sored projects, the most recent as part of Holland's
sesquicentennialcelebration.
Wagenaar has been active in seeking such materials,but
they also sometimes arrive on their own. He is convinced that
many items would have been discarded if those who owned
them hadn't had the archives to which to turn.
"We've been able to preserve things that would have
ended up in landfills in the area," he said.
In other activity, the archives has hosted conferences of
organizationssuch as the Association for the Advancement of
Dutch American Studies and the Michigan Archival
Association. The staff assists students who are conducting
EQ
Students, faculty, staff, members of the community, and researchers from near and far visit the Joint Archives of
Holland regularly. The archives,located on the ground level of the Van Wylen Library, turned 10 this fall.
research projectsas part of their coursework, and Wagenaar
will be teaching a course this spring on Michigan history.The
archives also provides a home base for the self-supporting
Holland Area Historical Society, of which Wagenaar
is
execu-
tive director.
Finish a review of an institution's first 10 years, and
it's
impossible not to wonder what might happen in the next 10.
Wagenaar sees additional potential for the collection
on-line. He hopes to see the archives work more closely with
the college's parent denomination,the Reformed Church in
The archives is also an importantresource for and complement to the A.C. Van Raalte Institute, established at
Hope in 1994 to support research and writings on the
history of the Holland area. The institute, of which Dr.
Bruins is director, in turn enhances the archives'collections,
both with original source material and the resultant publications, like the 1996 biography,A.C. Van Raalte: Dutch
Leader and AmericanPatriot.
From Wagenaar and part-time student help in 1988, the
archives staff has now grown to include an additional
full-time archivistand a full-time secretary. The archives
also benefits from several active volunteers, who do work
America (RCA). He
from stuffing mailings to processing materials.
a
also speaks cautiouslyabout the eventu-
ality that acquisitions will
one day overwhelm the space
available.
Dr. Bruins sees an obvious solution to that last problem.
"I hope at the next 10th anniversary we can celebrate being
new
in a
"Where
building devoted to historical sources," he said.
Van Raalte Institute and the Joint Archives can be
— we can merge our library collections together — and
nationallyknown center for Dutch-American heritageof
the
together
be
a
the 19th and 20th centuriesin particular."
A new building in
10 years? It seems ambitious.
But then again, in 1978 the same seemed true of the idea of
joint archives for Holland...
Top Ten
One way to measure the impact of the Joint Archives of
Holland is to consider the pieces of history that might have
been lost— or, at least,might have remained out of the public
eye— in the archives' absence.
Here are 10 items or groups of items drawn from the thousands added since the Joint Archivesopened in 1988.
1. Minutesof the Hope College Board of Trustees and Executive
committee. Some 30 years' worth were scheduled for destruction
at a local
bank with other old records.
2. A collectionof original A.C. Van Raalte letters.
3. Visscher glass plate negatives. Rare views of Holland,Macatawa
Rare copies of publicationssuch as The Macatawa Mirror
(circa 1896) are among the thousands of items gathered
since the Joint Archives of Holland opened a decade ago.
Park and other local scenes.
4. JeannetteVeldman missionarypapers. Veldman served the
Reformed Church in America in China during the troubled
transitionto communist rule, including time incarcerated in a
concentrationcamp.
5. Archival salvage of irreplaceableimages following the fire at
Holland Photography studios.
6. "Polar Bear” collectionswhich document area men who served
in the forgotten American campaign in Russia at the end of
World War I.
7. Original 1893 Sanborn InsuranceMap which gives detailed
drawings of Holland buildings.
8. Holland Sentinelnegativeand photo collection, 1955-75. During
a house cleaning before the Joint Archives was established,
thousands of old images were discarded.
9. Michigan Intercollegiate
AthleticAssociation (MIAA) collection
documenting all aspects of the historic collegiate athletic
association.
10.
A
rare,
Hotel,
turn-of-the-century
photograph of the Ottawa Beach
rivaled the Grand Hotel had it
which could have
survived.
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Alumni Profile
By Neal Sobania ’68
Hope and Japan:
early ties
These included churches in Shizoku and Nagoya; the
schools included one for the blind, Steele Academy,
another mission school in Japan, where he was principal,
and Tokyo Women's High School.
When he retired, he used his time to take up the new
role of Christian scholar,realizingtwo of his most notable
achievements,publishing the first Greek-Japaneselexicon
and then a Greek grammar in Japanese.For the first time,
Japanese seminary students could learn Greek directly
from Japanese without having first to become fluent in
another language.
Kimura returnedto his wife and now 15-year-oldson
with an appointment to undertake mission work and Bible
translation. Shortly after his return, he, together with his
wife and her brother, founded Meiji Women's School,
established for the purpose of educatingmodem women.
He later served as both pastor of the Daimachi Church
in Tokyo and also as principal of Shoei Womens' School,
which was founded by Quakers.
In 1893, Kimura was invited by influentialpeople in
Komoro City to found a private school, which he estab-
When
speaking to groups about
international education at Hope,
often remark that one-third of the
graduating class of 1879 was
I
Japanese, including the valedictorian,
who gave the graduation address in
both Latin and Japanese.
The statement never sounds as convincingif
I
say that
the Class of 1879 consisted of only six graduates, and
two
were Japanese, but in reality, for that time period, this is
indeed very significant.
The two men, Kimura Kumaji and Oghimi Motochiro,
both came to Holland in 1871, to begin their studies at the
Hope Academy. How they arrived in Holland, were transformed by their experience and went on to notable careers
in Japan is an extraordinary story.
Both men were adopted, apparently not an unusual circumstance in 19th century Japan. Although both were
born into samurai families,in the highly stratified class
society of feudal Japan theirs were minor samurai families.
Their future prospects must have been quite limited and so
adoption by a more prominent samurai family was
arranged to secure more opportunities.
For Kimura, adoption seems to have meant access to
good education.For Oghimi, it meant employment in the
finance department of the Shogun, then appointment as a
court librarianand finally manager of the finance department, where he served quite directly the Tokugawa
family. (The Tokugawa were the dynasty of shoguns, or
warrior monarchs, who ruled most of Japan from the
beginning of the 17th century.)
However, when the Shogun was overthrown and imperial rule restored under the Emperor in 1867-68 (known as
the Meiji Restoration), the old samurai families were not
just out of power but lost their social privileges and were
stripped of the officially guaranteed stipends and income
on which they lived. Kimura and Oghimi were on the
losing side of this coup d'etat, and thus enemies of the new
government. In fact, Kimura was involved in local fighting in southern Japan only five days after his marriage.He
seems to have turned for help to a prominent statesmanof
the time, Katsu Kaishu, who apparentlyplayed some sort
of bridging role between the Edo Shogunate of Old Tokyo
and the Meiji Emperor.
Subsequently,in 1870, Kimura and Oghimi travelled
together to the United States with Arinori Mori, a
Christian and an official of the Meiji government. Whether
they
knew
each other prior to this
is
Kimura left behind his wife and a three-year-old son,
Yukichi. Oghimi, who was 27 years old at this time, had
been engaged two years earlier to a girl who was eight
years old. (He indeed married her, but when he was 39
and she was 23.)
Kimura and Oghimi arrived in San Francisco in
December of 1870, and travelled to New York by train. On
January 22nd they met President Philip Phelps, who was
back east raising money. President Phelps arranged for
the two penniless young men to attend the Hope
Preparatory School, and they were on their way to
Michigan within days, and, one assumes, Hope's first
many
as
14 Japanese students at Hope, and because most lived in
Zwemer
Hall, that became known as Japanese Hall.
(Zwemer Hall stood where the Western Seminary library
now stands.)
What is extraordinarily clear from the few Kimura
letters
we have seen
is that the
Phelps family was
a
major
influence. Kimura describes President Phelps as "a person
like God," "warm-hearted," "sincere" and a scholar. He
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Among those he invited to join him as teachers was a
former student, Shimazaki Tozon. Tozon, who graduated
from Meiji Gakuin University in 1891, is highly regarded
as a romantic poet and novelist,and wrote MGU's school
song. The time
The Rev.
Philip Phelps, Hope’s first president, brought
several studentsfrom Japan in the college’s early years.
They remembered him fondly— as shown by the memorial service several held in Japan in his honor in 1896.
The group (with a small photo of PresidentPhelps on the
table) includes Hope's first two Japanese alumni,
Kimura Kumaji '79 and Oghimi Motochiro '79 (seated at
center and right), who went from Hope to prominent
careers as educators and missionariesin their native
land. (Photo from the Hope College Collectionof the
Joint Archives of Holland.)
comments on how the Phelpses helped poor people,
and how the "whole town does good works."
But perhaps the greater role was played by Mrs. Phelps.
She was highly regarded as a mother and Wife, playing a
role in the discipline and education of the children-someti iing that stood out, for at this time in Japan women
had no say in such matters. For Kimura, this was not just
eye-opening but of profound significance— as evidenced
by his involvement in the educationof women upon his
also
affection that these students had for President
Phelps lasted long after they departed Holland, This is
most clearly illustratedby a photograph showing five
Japanesemen, all apparently with Hope connections, who
gathered in Japan in 1896, to hold a memorial service after
learning of the Rev. Phelps's death.
Although Oghimi
is said to
have stated that he was
"disinclined to be religious,"the example they found in
the Hope and Holland community led them to
Christianity.They were baptized by the Rev. Abel T.
Hope Church.
Following graduation, both men went on to seminary.
They graduated from New Brunswick in 1882, and were
ordained in Albany as ministers in the Reformed Church
in America and sent back to Japan as missionaries.
Upon his return in 1883, Oghimi was appointed minister at KojimachiChurch in Tokyo. He married in 1884 and
soon thereafterwas appointed a lecturerat Japan Christian
Seminary, a school that later became part of Meiji Gakuin
University.In 1886 he was appointed to the university's
first board of trustees.
Oghimi went on to become a well-recognizedpastor
and educator, serving a number of churches and schools.
Stuart at
that
Tozon spent
in
Komoro
City was very
influential on his writing;indeed, he described it as
follows; "I wenf out as a teacher; I came back as a
student."
While there, he continued to be influenced by his old
teacher, and his fondness for him is most obvious from the
characterizationsof Kimura that are found in Tozon's writings, especially in two short stories in his book Chikuma
River Sketches,one of which is titled
"An Impoverished
Bachelor of Science." The headmaster in this story and in
another similar to it is modeled after Kimura. Tozon
depicts the headmaster of his story as an older man, "his
eyes alight with youthful vigor," "a man of imposing
physique who always set a vigorous pace for one his age."
He was a man of "ineffable elegance"and who like any
good teacher "gestured vigorously" and was an "articulate
speaker" from whom "the sparks seemed to fly when he
got into his subject." With his "long, luxuriant beard" he
must indeed have been
an
imposing
teacher/mentor/pastorto his students and parishioners.
Following nearly 13 years at Komoro City, Kimura
returned to the pastorate, this time at the church in
Nagano, where he served for 1 years, retiring at the age of
73. He returned to Tokyo, where he died 10 years later, in
1
1927.
return to Japan.
The
not clear.
internationalstudent scholarship recipients.
At one time in these early years, there were as
lished in an old city gate.
The lives of these two Hope grads seem to have consisted of pulls and tugs between scholarly/teaching
careers and serving the Japanese churches that were
always in need of pastors and preachers. Throughout their
lives, Kimura and Oghimi seem to have carried on dual
careers following one path and then the other, and sometimes both at the same time.
And yet the opportunities that came to them were not
limited to the church and education;these were very
prominent men, and many sought them out. At various
times in their lives, powerful government figures tried to
pull them into the political realm. This includedKimura
being offered the position of Counsel General in New
York. But each time they turned these other opportunities
down and remained devoted to education and church.
They are indeed graduatesof whom Hope and those in
the community of Holland can be extremely proud.
(Editor's Note: Dr. Sobania is director of international education and a professorof historyat Hope. He notes that his
research on Hope's early Japanese graduates is "a work in
progress" that has benefited greatlyfrom Kaoru Ogirni, the
grandson of Motochiro, and Akitaka Miyao, a retired teacher in
Komoro City.)
tJr
Fall
Sports Roundup
Fall athletes rise
T he all-sports award of
the Michigan Intercollegiate
Athletic Association (MIAA)
has been in existence for
seven decades to honor the
member school with the best
cumulative performance in
the league’s 18 sports for
men and women.
Hope College has won the all-sportsaward
more than any other MIAA member (21
I
Senior Becky Schmidt of
Holland, Mich., was voted
Hope's first-everNCAA vol-
leyball All-American. A
middle-hitter,Schmidt was
voted the most valuable
MIAA
player as both a junior and
senior.
Schmidt and senior Heather
Velting of Byron Center, Mich.,
were voted to the All-MIAA
team, while sophomore
Brower of Hamilton,
Mich., achieved second team
first
Amy
recognition.
times).
Beginning this year, the conference has
Flying Dutch
Win
altered the method for honoring exceUenceby
Golf
creating separate all-sportsawards for men's
Ellen Colenbrander
and women's athleticsand a new Commissioner'sCup for all sports.
So
change makes no difference as
far as the accomplishments of Hope athletic
teams are concerned. Through the fall sports
season, Hope is leading both the men's and
women's all-sports standingsas well as the
new Commissioner'sCup race.
Hope teams won fall league championships
in women's golf and volleyballwhile finishing
second in football, men's and women's cross
country and men's golf, third in women's
soccer and fifth in men's soccer.
Team highlights included the volleyball
and women's cross country teams advancing
to NCAA Division III national championship
far this
competition.
many individualhighlights,
including Hope's first-ever volleyball
There were
is
Crown;
Medalist
won
the
MIAA championshipfor
the
The Flying Dutch
time since women's golf
became an intercoUegiatesport
in 1991. Hope captured six of
the eight conference tournaments to finish 90 strokesahead
of league runnerup Albion.
It was the first golf championship under coach Dr. Donna
fifth
Eaton,
of the
who
took over the
Dutch
helm
this fall. It is actu-
ally Dr. Eaton's second
MIAA
championship,because she
coached the Hope volleyball
team to a title in 1987.
The championship drive
All-American,a two-time NCAA AllAmerican in cross country, the 31st GTE
Academic All-American in school history, and
the MIAA medalist in both men's and
was led by junior Ellen
Colenbrander of Holland,
Mich., who established an
women's
medalist honors for the second
golf.
MIAA
record in winning
time in her collegiate career.
Volleyball Squad Wins
Becky Schmidt
Is
MIAA;
All-American
The Flying Dutch won a school-record
and
competed in the NCAA tournament for the
third consecutiveMIAA championship
second consecutive year.
The league race and tournament trail were
highlighted by matches with Calvin. The teams
split their regular season encounters and were
then matched against each other in the first
round of the NCAA tournament. The two rivals
had to travel 305 miles to Springfield,Ohio,
where the Flying Dutch prevailed in an exciting
four games, 11-15, 15-7, 15-5, 16-14. Host
Wittenberg prevailed over the Flying Dutch in
the next round in five games.
The Flying Dutch won a school-record33
matches under second-year coach Dr.
Maureen Odland, who in two seasons has
guided the team
The
to a 61-12 record.
fall was a season of accomplishment
freshman Eric Wohlfield(top photo) who
was the MIAA men’s golf medalist and
junior Ellen Colenbrander(middle photo)
who achieved MIAA women’s golf medalist
distinction for the second time in her collegiate career. Sophomore Brian Adloff
(bottom photo) establisheda Hope single
season football receiving record.
for
This season she averaged 80.8
Seniors Becky Timmer (left)
national qualifyingwomen’s
and
Cyr
cross o
All-America honors for the second coi
ued a family tradition of athletic excel!
strokes per 18-hole tournament round. Last spring she
achieved NCAA All-Americahonors by finishing seventh in the Division III national
championships.
Hope had five players achieve All-MIAA
recognition, which is determined by seasonal
averages. Joining Colenbrander on the first
All-MIAA team was senior Gina Pelleritoof
Ada, Mich.
Gaining All-MIAA second team honors
were freshman Emily Thielk of Ann Arbor,
Mich., senior Melody Oonk of Holland, Mich.,
and senior Elizabeth Yared of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
marked
the first time
that a
figured into the team saw
strokesper round.
Freshman
Eric Woh!
Mich., capturedMIAA me
league record shattering
the eight conference touin
72.4 strokes, topping
the
o
by over two strokesper ro
Ironically, Wohlfield>
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picture of consistency.H
and
three times had
rdtiiv
Senior teammate
Freshman is MIAA Medalist;
Flying Dutchmen Finish Second
For the second straight year, the Flying
Kentwood, Mich.,
team honors as he
achie
finis
third-bestaverage.Hop
All-MIAA
second
tear
Dutchmen finished runnerup in the MIAA
men's golf standings.Olivet successfully
sophomoresChris Rutan
amd Andy Nietring of Has:
defended its championship,finishingjust over
five strokes per tournament round ahead of the
Flying Dutchmen. That's an advantage of only
Dutch Compete at Na
Becky Timmer An Alt
one stroke per player.
Hope's team average of 385.4 strokes per
round was the college'sbest since the MIAA
tournament format began in 1978. It also
The Flying Dutch WOi
team finished 17th m y
the
NCAA
Division I
the challenge
to
e
)
championshipmeet. MIAA
member Calvin won the
women's national championship.
Hope senior Becky Timmer
Pella, Iowa, earned AllAmerica honors for the second
time in her career as she finished 19th in the field of 180
competitors. A year ago she
was 29th at the national meet.
Other Hope squad runners
included Cynthia Bannink, a
senior from Holland, Mich.;
Andrea Egeler, a sophomore
from Fruitport,Mich.; Jennifer
Ernst, a sophomore from
Westerville, Ohio; Jaimie
Passchier, a sophomore from
Rockford, Mich.; Nicole
Reynolds, a sophomore from
Mattawan, Mich.; and Ellen
Schultz, a senior from Glen
Lake, Mich.
The Flying Dutchmen finished second in the MIAA
of
men's cross country standings.
Each team had two
—
All-MIAA first team runners
Schultz and Timmer, sophomore Joe Veldman of Sawyer,
Mich., and freshman Dylan
Wade of Beulah, Mich. Schultz
became
runner in
country
just the sixth
MIAA women's cross
history to be all-leaguefor four
years. Second team
All-MIAA
honors went to Bannink and
Egeler, junior Paul Berke of
Park Ridge, 111., and sophomore
Bannink were part of the
team. Timmer achieved
ie second consecutive year. Bannink continithletic excellence at Hope.
left)
Cynthia
and
en's cross country
firsttime
the
i
tint
all
Hope players
who
averaged under 80
team sore
round.
m
"nhlfieldof Brighton,
Eric
ired MIAA medalist
honors with a
performance. Over
nferenceiwmaments he averaged
rd
shattering
,
topping^previous
,
strokes
pi
league
mark
Wohlfiridwas
he
eight
never shot over 76
mes had winds of 70.
teammate Mark
Mich, *«ved
as he
s
Piersma of
All-MIAA
first
tiwhedwith the league's
verage h'po golfers
who earned
second lflm recognitionwere
Ami Arbor, Mich.,
lJSt Grand Rapids, Mich.
Chris Ri|Un of
lietringm
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at Nationals;
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"men's cross
17th *
"field of 21
DivisionHI
Flying Dutchmen
Second in
Football;
The end to the season wasn't the way
they'd like, but the Flying Dutchmen were
able to finish second in the MIAA football
standings while posting a 5-4
overall
The Flying Dutchmen won
country
teams at
women's national
five of their
first seven
games but injuriesdecimated the
offensive backfielddown the stretch.The
offense fell on the arm of senior quarterback
Justin Wormmester of Jenison, Mich., who
just missed single season school records by
completing 142 passes for 1,734 yards and
14
DeHommel becomes the 31st Hope
student-athlete
to achieve GTE Academic
All-American recognition.
Dutch Set Scoring Record;
Regional Honor to Tina Gill
The Flying Dutch women's soccer team
scored at a school-recordpace en route to its
10th consecutivewinning campaign. Hope
finished third in the MIAA standings and
posted a 13-5 record while scoring 59 goals.
The MIAA is gaining a reputation as one of
the best Division
III
women's soccer
confer-
ences, as evidenced by the selection of three
teams for the NCAA tournament.
Senior midfielder Tina Gill of Kalamazoo, Mich., was named to the Great
Lakes All-Region team for a third consecutive year, a
Hope
first.
Junior goalkeeperKate Berghorst of
Hudsonville, Mich., and freshman back Emilie
Dirkse of Holland,Mich., were voted to the
All-MIAA first team, while second team honorees were: junior forward Debbie Burr of
Mendon, Mich.; Gill; junior forward Natalie
Rejc of Farmington Flills,Mich.; and senior
forward Gretchen Schoon of Holland, Mich.
Dutchmen Have Rare Losing Year;
Five Players Honored by MIAA
Dave DeHommel an Academic
All-American
the medalist in
twmaments, but he was a
onsistencvHe
Mich.
record.
round.
Vi
Garrett Childs of Breckenridge,
Honored on offense were junior
tackle Dan Wegner of North Muskegon,
Mich., Adloff and Hendzo, while defensive
choices were senior tackle Greg Vaughan of
Traverse City, Mich., senior linebacker
Adam Paarlbergof Alto, Mich., and senior
back Matt Putnam of Greenville,Mich.
Players named to the All-MIAA second
team were Alles and senior defensiveback
Dave DeHommel of Jenison, Mich.
DeHommel also had the distinction of
being named a GTE Academic All-American.
A four-year letterwinner,he was among the
nation's leading kick return specialists and a
starter in the defensivebackfield since his
freshman year. He is majoring in accounting.
first team.
The Flying Dutchmen finished the men's
soccer season strong to gain a .500 mark
(6-6-2) in conference play, but finished with
a rare overall losjng mark (7-10-3). There
was nothing wrong with the defense, as it
yielded only 28 goals over 20 games.
Five players achieved All-MIAA honors.
Named to the first team were junior midfielder Rob' Allison of Kalamazoo,Mich.,
senior back Andy Dressier of Portage,
Mich., and senior back Zach Jonker of
Petoskey, Mich. Second team honorees
were sophomore forward Ben Bacon of
Portage, Mich., and sophomore midfielder
Matt VanderNaaldof Petoskey, Mich.jJt
touchdowns.
Fans were treated
to an
outstandingpass
receiving corps. Sophomore tight end Brian
Adloff of East Grand Rapids, Mich., set a
Hope single season reception record with 49
catches. He and teammates Tinv Alles, a
senior from Grand Rapids, Mich., -and junior
Matt Handzo of Clinton TowpShip,Mich.,
combined for 116 catches, more than any
Hope receiving corps in school history.
Six players were voted to the All-MIAA
No matter the field of competition, Hope athletes had an outstandingfall season. Senior
David DeHommel (top photo) achieved
impressivestats in football as a return specialist and was recognizedfor excellence in
a GTE Academic
All-American,junior goalkeeper Kate
Berghorst (center photo) was an All-MIAA
first team honoree, and senior Becky
Schmidt (bottom photo) became Hope’s first
the classroom as
volleyballAll-American.
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News
Alumni
Alumni Tour
he 1999 alumni tour
will consider Spain’s role
and experience as a
T
cultural
Highlights will include Madrid, Toledo,
Granada, Seville and Salamanca in Spain,
as well as sites in Morocco and Portugal.
The tour will run May 17-June 2.
do the
ancient philosopherslike Plato and
Aristotle, and countless scientific
advances. In halting and expellingthe
Moors in the 1400s, Spain enabled
Christianity to consolidate itselfand flour-
ish in Europe.
crossroads.
"We're going to
will feature
'essential
Spain,"' said Dr. Ion Agheana, professor
of romance languages,who will lead the
tour accompanied by his wife Patricia.
"This kind of tour is overdue, because
Spain was such an important building
block in Western civilization."
Through centuries of exposure to
Islamic civilization, he noted, Spain
helped Europe regain the great works of
By
subsequently
"discovering" and colonizing the New
World, Spain helped reshape the globe.
"If I want to consider myself an educated, well-roundedperson, certainly this
segment of travel will add immeasurably
to my understandingof the Western
world and its evolution,"Dr. Agheana
said.
In additionto examining such
made
capital,
capital of
a grand empire in the 16th century, and
home to one of the world's greatest
Port wine; and Cohimbra, which boasts
Portugal's oldest university,established in
the old imperial
where Christian Europe recon-
nected with the great works of Antiquity.
the last stronghold of the
Moorish Empire, falling in 1492 — the same
year that Columbus sailed west into the
unknown. Seville became the gateway to
the New World.
The tour will include Fez in Morocco,
which will present an opportunity to
encounter an "authentic" Islamic culture,
according to Dr. Agheana. "By that I
the 13th century.
The tour will subsequently return to
mean
Great Britain, Italy (a tour Dr.
Granada was
Spain, stopping in Salamanca, home to
Spain's oldest university, establishedin
the 14th century. The tour will return to
the U.S. from Madrid.
The trip is the latest in a popular series
of tours geared toward alumni and friends
of the college.Previous excursionshave
featured Central and Eastern Europe,
to see Islam as a way of life, not as a
theological abstraction,"he said.
Agheana led
with another trade and exploration power.
"Its destiny has always been intertwined
with that of Spain, although they've tried
in 1993), Scandinavia,Costa Rica, Greece
and Turkey, and Vienna, Austria.
The tour is being organized by
TRAVEL in Holland, Mich., which also
coordinatedthe earlier alumni tours.
across the centuries to remain a geopolitical entity," Dr. Agheana said. Stops will
include Lisbon, the capital; Porto, home of
Additional information concerning the
itinerary and tour costs may be obtained
by calling 1-800-682-0086.
Portugal will provide an encounter
encom-
passing themes, the tour will explore the
characterof each stop on the itinerary.
Madrid, Dr. Agheana said, is the geopolitical center of the country,
museums. Toledo is
Spain
MTA
Alumni Opus/Alumni Invitational Art Show
Recognition of alumni talents and achievements
in the visual
competitionin
ail
forms
and literary arts
of the visual arts
and creative writing
presentation of selected works in the second alumni invitational
show
in the galleryof
the Hope College De Free Art Center and in a special insert to news from Hope College
sponsored by the Hope College Alumni Association and the Department of Art
GUIDELINES, THE LITERARY ARTS
GUIDELINES, THE VISUAL ARTS
1. Competition is open to all women and men
who
have been enrolled at Hope College, whether or
not they graduated, and identify their association
with a class year (ie, ’42, ’69, 78, ’86, ’97).
Current Hope students are ineligible.Entries
should be recent works, i.e. works executed
during the last five years. Graduates of the
Classes of 1994-98 must submit work done after
leaving Hope.
2. Entrants must submit good quality slides. In the
case of three-dimensional
works, at least two
views are required. Slides must include the following information:indicationof top of slide, title
of work, dimensionsof work, media and artist’s
name. The information requestedon the form
provided with these rules must accompany the
slide(s).A piece of paper no smaller than 3 by 5
inches may be used instead of the form as long
as it contains the necessaryinformation (please
print or type). Slides should represent works that
are ready for exhibition.The judges reserve the
right to refuse a work that varies markedly from
HOPE COLLEGE
ALUMNI ARTS
COMPETITION
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the slide presentation.
3. Each entrant may submit no more than three
entries.
4. Slide entriesshould be mailed to: Alumni
Invitational; Hope College Public Relations;141 E.
12th St.; P0 Box 9000; Holland, Ml 49422-9000.
5. Slide entries must be postmarked no later than
Monday, May 31, 1999. Hope College will make
_______ _____ _______ _____ ___
Alumni Arts Entry Form
Name:
Title
State:
_
Grad Class:
class
Poem, Story
Media?
women and men who
year
(ie,
’42, ’69,
78, ’86, ’97). Current Hope
recentwork,
i.e.
writingthat has been done during
the past five years. Graduates of the Classes of
994-98 must submit work done after leaving Hope.
2. Entries must be typed, double-spaced,on one
side of white, 8.5 by 11 inch paper. The name
and address of the author should appear at the
top of the right-hand corner of the first page. All
subsequentpages must be numbered at the top
right-hand corner, and the author’s last name or
the title of the work must appear in the top
right-hand corner of each page. The information
requested on the form provided with these rules
must accompany the work(s). A piece of paper
no smaller than 3 by 5 inches may be used
instead of the form as long as it contains the nec1
essary information (please print or type).
3. Each entrant may submit no more than three entries.
4. Entriesshould be mailed to: Alumni Opus; Hope
College Public Relations;141 E. 12th St.; P0 Box
9000; Holland, Ml 49422-9000.
5. Entries must be postmarkedno later than
Monday, May 31, 1999. Hope College will make
every effort to return entries at the close of the
competition but will not be responsible for the
receipt,
return or condition of entries(those who
wish their original manuscript(s) returned should
enclose a suitableself-addressed, stamped enve-
not be responsible for the
lope).
The sender assumes
all
risks.
receipt,return or condition of the slide entries.
6. The decision of the judges is final.
The sender assumes
7. The Officeof Public Relations retains the right to
all
risks.
gallery of
publish in the December, 1999, edition of news
the De Pree Art Center. The alumni invi-
from Hope College and
show will run during October of 1999.
7. Winners will be notifiedby mail, at which time
Zip:
all
students are ineligible. Entries should represent
tational
or
1.
will
open to
they graduated,and identify their associationwith a
6. The judges will select entries for display in the
Address:
City:
Alumni Invitational
competitionbut
is
have been enrolledat Hope College, whether or not
every effort to return slides at the close of the
Alumni Opus
__
1. Competition
in
a specialbooklet to be
distributedin the gallery of the De Pree Art Center
they will receive information regarding the ship-
(and available through the Alumni Office) any
poem, short story or other piece of creative writing
ment
entered in the competition. Selected pieces
of
works.
8. The Officeof Public Relations retainsthe right to
may
also be reproduced in reviews or subsequent
Alumni Opus-related promotionalmaterials. No
other rights are retainedby Hope College.
photograph for reproduction in the December,
1999, issue of news from Hope College,and in
future Invitational-related
promotional or review
2.
3.
literature, any
invitational
piece of art displayed in the alumni
show.
For further information contact Greg Olgers, Office
of
Public Relations, (616) 395-7860.
NFHC December 1998
Alumni
News
Shirley Knol '49 Leslie and Craig Leslie '51
have been retired for nine years in Leesburg,
Class Notes
Fla.
News and informationfor class notes, marriages, advanced degrees and deaths are
compiled for news from Hope College by Greg
Olgers '87.
News should be mailed to: Alumni News;
Hope College Public Relations; 141 E. 12th St;
PO Box 9000; Holland,MI 49422-9000. Internet
users may send to: [email protected]
All submissionsreceived by the Public
Relations Office by Tuesday, Nov. 10, have
been included in this issue. Because of the lead
time requiredby this publication's production
schedule,submissions received after that date
(with the exception of obituary notices) have
been held for the next issue, the deadline for
which is Tuesday, Jan. 12.
1930s
A. Ruth VanAlsburg'31 Cotts retired in May of
1998 as church librarian of Coral Ridge
Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale,Fla. She
subsequently moved to Lady Lake in northern
Florida to be near her son Ron and his wife
Sonja.
Irving Hellenga '44 of Toccoa, Ga., notes that
wife Myra continuesto use her nursing training
and experienceas a volunteer at the Stephens
County Health Department.
Marian Holman '49 Agre and husband Bill
have retiredin Air Force Village II in San
Antonio,Texas. They travel for six months each
year in their motor home.
John Arnold '49 of Zanesville, Ohio, is a visiting scholar at PrincetonTheologicalSeminary,
doing some work in Aristotle,Jonathon
Edwards and Karl Barth. He notes that the
experience is made possible by a sabbatical
from Ohio University.
Audrey Heasty '49 of Ruskin, Fla., recently volunteered as executiveassistant to the principal
at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of
Theology in Nairobi, Kenya.
Roger Kempers '49 is president-electof the
InternationalFederation of Fertility Societies
(1FFS), an affiliationof the national societies of
50 countries. The society next meets in
Melbourne, Australia. He is only the third
American physician so honored. He is also
presidentof the Obstetrical and Gynecological
Travel Club, which will next meet in Dublin,
Ireland.
I
byline B.H. Stokes.
Minnie Te Ronde '49 of Livonia,Mich., has
pending plans to move to Freedom Village in
Holland, Mich.
uled activities at Hope, and he notes, "The
stories that were told there seemed to get better
and better every five years.")Bob reports that
he still gets into Holland, Mich., a couple times
a month to check on the light industrial park he
developed, to have coffee with old friends and
to keep up on local news.
1960s
1950s
Stu Post '60 of Holland, Mich., is retiring from
Hope College at the end
of the calendaryear.
Harold Brown '62 became ministerfor church
development for the Reformed Church in
America's Regional Synod of the Great Lakes
on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998. He provides leadership in a renewed emphasis of planting new
churches, and also works with established
churches in a movement to revitalizeplateaued
or declining congregations.
Paul S. Hesselink '62 of Las Vegas, Nev., presented an organ concert at Third Reformed
Church in Holland, Mich., on Sunday, Nov. 1,
1998. He is dean of the Nevada School of the
Arts in Las Vegas, and is also an adjunct
member of the music faculty at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas. He performed through a
concert series named for Roger Rietberg '47,
who in addition to being an emeritus member
of the Hope music faculty is also ministerof
music emeritus at Third Church.
Kenneth Musser '63 of Alburtis, Pa., is author
of Sharing the Vision: How to Become Wealthy,
FinanciallySecure, Well-to-Do, which shares
insights in both retirement investment and
voice-automated electronics. The book has
been publishedby Dorrance PublishingCo. Inc.
the admissions staff of
Ann
Wolters '50 Fredrickson of Clearwater,
Fla., and Isla Streur '50 Schipper of Holland,
Mich., celebratedtheir 70th birthdaystogether
with a dinner at the Haworth Inn and
Conference Center at Hope College on
Saturday, Oct. 17. Their birthdays were on
October 16 and October 18 respectively.The
gathering of more than 30 friends and family
members included spouses Phil Fredrickson'50
and Vern Schipper '51, as well as classmates
Lament Dirkse '50, Ruth DeGraaf '50 Dirkse,
Barbara Eilander '50 Stockman and Jan
VanderBorgh'50 Ver Heist.
Philip Huizenga '54 moved from Portage,
Mich., to Franklin, Mass., in October of 1998.
John Roundhouse '54 of Schoolcraft,Mich.,
writes that "retirement is great," and is
involved in church choir,- Kalamazoo Male
Chorus and tutoring With Kids Hope.
Robert Bedingfield '56 spoke at the Topsail
Island (N.C.) Kiwanis Club in Septemberof
1940s
1
Bernice Nichols '49 Stokes of Canastota,N.Y.,
is writing for two news publications, one under
the column name "LakeportLog" and the
class reunions in conjunctionwith the sched-
1998.
Warren Kane '57 of Arlington,Va., receiveda
"Community Hero Award" on Saturday,Oct. 3,
1998, for having made a difference in his county
during the past two years. He was chosen by a
panel of local leaders for the award, presented
by Ballston Common Mall and the Sun Weekly
as part of a NeighborhoodDay celebration. He
has been involved with organizationsincluding
the Arlington Food Assistance Center,
Arlington Kiwanis Club, Arlington Interfaith
Council, Arlington CROP Walk, Arlington
County Task Force on Youth and Arlington
Forest United Methodist Church.
Fran Kramer '58 Koets and Paul Koets '57 of
Orange City, Iowa, have been appointed by the
Reformed Church in America's Office of
Volunteer Services to spend four months managing the RCA mission guest house in San
Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico.
Robert Saunders '59 retired in January of 1998
from the ad agency that he owned. His wife
Karen also retired (from her second grade
teaching job), they sold their home on Lake
Michiganand they moved up north to their
cottage in Shelby, Mich., to enjoy nature,
hunting and fishing. (They hosted numerous
of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Phyllis Yeager-Hoekman '63 of Saint John's,
Newfoundland, Canada, reports that son Rafael
won first place as a cello soloist in the Orford
Arts Centre International Competition in
August of 1998.
Joseph Mayne '64 of Evanston, 111., has been
appointed chair of the Departmentof
Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Loyola
Universityin Chicago, 111. He continuesas conductor of the Loyola Chamber Orchestra, which
is composed of members of the Chicago
Symphony, Lyric Opera Orchestra and Grant
Park Symphony as well as other Chicago-area
professional musicians. The orchestra has presented 78 concerts at Loyola and performed 155
different musical compositions.
Larry Bolt '65 of Oak Forest, 111., is principal at
Chicago Christian High School in Palos
Heights, 111. He is retired as a public school
administratorfrom the Flossmoor,111., schools.
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
'67 of Oakland,
N.J., represented the Reformed Church in
America (RCA), of which he is general secre-
Hope online
tary, during a World Communion Sunday
sendee that brought togetherfour denominations in celebration of the Eucharist for the first
time in more than 400 years. The sendee was
held at the Universityof Chicago’s Rockefeller
Chapel. More than 1,500 attended,representing the RCA, the PresbyterianChurch (U.S.A.),
the EvangelicalLutheran Church in America
and the United Church of Christ.
Marilyn Koman '68 Grace of Stanley, N.M., is
middle school Title I reading teacher.
Fran Gralow '68 of Huntington Beach, Calif., is
with Wycliffe Bible Translators.She recently
sen'ed in Columbia, and ultimatelyhopes to
take a translation position in Africa.
Kenneth Latwinski '68 of Livonia, Mich.,
taught elementary school for 22 years (primarily science and mathematics)and sold real estate
for 10 years. He teaches part-time now, and
also owns his own business.
Hudson Soo '68 of Hong Kong attended the '98
Beijing International Symposium on Secondary
Education on Tuesday-Saturday, Oct. 27-31,
1998.
Jane Breckenridge'69 Ritzema and Rohn
Ritzema '69 of Elk Grove, Calif., had their first
grandchildon Friday, Oct. 30, 1998; their other
son is a junior at Biola Universityin California.
James Robertson Jr. '69 of Salem, 111., is president of the Public Hospital of Salem (BJC
Health System).
Susan Holmes '69 Tell of Black Forest, Colo.,
has developed a Bible study on the Gospel of
Mark that teaches several Bible study methods
as one travels through Mark, "Encountering
Jesus."
1970s
David J. Gouwens '70 of Fort Worth, Texas,
was recentlynominatedby his colleaguesat
Texas Christian Universityfor the Chancellor's
Award for DistinguishedTeaching.He is an
associate professorof theology at TCU's Brite
Divinity School.
Madeline Slovenz '70 of Jackson Heights, N.Y.,
was inducted into the Keyport, N.J., schools'
"Hall of Fame" on Saturday,Oct. 15, 1998, recognized as a teacher-actress.
She recently has
been with the New York City Board of
Education Alternative Superintendency,
working as a high school teacher of global
studies, and also works at the Frederick
Douglass Literacy Center in Brooklyn,N.Y.
Stephen DeBoer '71 of Haslett, Mich., retired
on Oct. 31, 1998, after a 26-year with the
Michigan State Police. He retired as a lieutenant colonel, servingmost recently as deputy
director and commander of the Support
Services Bureau.
Thomas Gouwens '72 of Chicago, 111., is the
minister of music at St. Paul Lutheran Church
in Melrose Park, 111.
Alumni Board of Directors
Officers
Claire Vander Meulen '75 Gibbs, President,Melbourne,Fla.
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interest and year of graduation.)
'81 Griffin, Fort
John Hensler '85, Royal Oak, Mich.
Lynne Powe
'86,
Alumni Director
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ChristineBush '73 Mattera of Doylestown, Pa.,
who writes under the name Christine Bush, has
a new novel on the shelves. Her sixth book of
mystery /romance, titled Whisper a Warning,has
been a fall, 1998, release from Avalon Books.
Christine is a frequentspeaker at writer's con-
ferences and workshops, including The
InternationalWomen's Writer's Guild,
Romance Writers of America, Skidmore College
and PrincetonUniversity.
Douglas Neumann
'73 of Birmingham, Mich.,
is president of Accurate
Stamp Company of
Detroit, Mich.
Barbara Kastelin'74 Boss of Newaygo, Mich.,
is national president of Reformed Church
Women's Ministries, an educationalconsultant
to the Reformed Church in America (RCA) and
a member of Christian Educators of the RCA.
Sherwood Cutler '74 of Seattle, Wash., is
employed with the U.S. Environmental
Protection
Agency. The agency presented him
with Bronze Medals in 1994 and 1995, and for
outstandingpublic sendee in 1994 and 1997. He
receiveda Certificate of Appreciationfrom the
Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1994, a Certificateof
Achievement (CombinedFederal Campaign)in
1996 and a Chairman's Leadership Award in
1998.
Justine Emerson '74 of Juneau, Alaska, was
recently promoted to lieutenant colonelin the
Alaska Army National Guard as a family nurse
practitioner.
Gayle Spangler '74 Flanigan of RochesterHills,
Mich., is director of developmentat Rose Hill
Center, a residential treatment and rehabilitation center for individualswith serious mental
illnesses.
JoDee Keller '74 of Puyallup,Wash., has been
promoted to associate professorin the
Departmentof Sociology and Social Work at
Pacific Lutheran University.
Janet Koopman '74 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is
directorof fund developmentfor the
Community Media Center (CMC) in Grand
Rapids. She notes that the CMC is the first
media center in the country to combine public
access television, community radio and computer/Intemet services in one organization.
Vicki Wiegerink '74 Rumpsa of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is the camp director for Orchard Hills
Swim and Sports Club, and the youth department head for East Hills Athletic Club.
David Young '75 of Germantown, Term., has
joined the Memphis Cancer Center as a staff
hematologist/oncologist. In addition to the
practice of medicine, David enjoys composing
19th century-style
music, surfing the 'Net, exercise on the stairmaster, and family life with his
wife Renee, daughter Sasha and son Andrew.
Jim Stegenga '76 was recently promoted to
senior complianceexaminer by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation.In his new
assignment,Jim is affiliatedwith the Chicago
Regional F.D.I.C. Office and is located in Grand
Rapids, Mich. He previouslyserved in the San
Francisco Office,and was recently honored
with a "Special Service Award" related to a
four-monthassignment in Washington, D.C.,
for "Outstanding Achievement" connected
with the F.D.I.C. Headquarters.
Becki Balok '78 of Berkley, Mich., is the author
of Wake Up: Awaken The SpiritWithin and You'll
Never Be The Same Again, published by Becalm
Publishing Inc. and designed for "all those
seeking a renewed sense of purpose, unextinguishable joy, and relationshipsfilled with
unconditionallove." The book's 28 short chap-
ters pose questionslike "Are You Ready to Start
Over?," "Are You Happy?," "Why Are You
Stuck?,""What Does God Think About?" and
"Where is the Glory?"
Jeff Boes '78 of St. Joseph, Mich., began an e-mail
list for any computer science alumni, or current or
former staff of the department,on Monday, Nov.
2, 1998. Writing the next day, he noted that the
list alreadysported nearly 50 members. Those
wishing to subscribe should send an e-mail
message to [email protected].
Other information may be obtained by e-mailing:
[email protected]
Glen Peterman'78 of Carlisle, Pa., is the new
assistant director of corporate and foundation
relations at Dickinson College.
Kim Westfall '79 Cayes of Glen Allen, Va., has
been presented the award for Outstanding
Feature Article of the Year by the American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for her article
Why EngineersMay be
Poor Students," published in the loumal of
"Tire Need to Learn and
Management in Engineering. It's the first time the
award has ever been presented to a woman.
Kim has also been elected director of membership services with the Richmond Chapter of the
InternationalAssociation
Business
Communicators(IABC).
Douglas Koopman '79 of Kentwood, Mich., has
been appointed program director of the Paul B.
Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity
and Politicsat Calvin College.
Matthew McNally '79 is dental department
head aboard USS Kitty Hawk, CV-63, the U.S.
Navy's only forward-deployed aircraftcarrier,
recentlychanging homeport from San Diego,
Calif., to Yokosuka, Japan. Now a commander,
he reports that he is enjoying the challengeof
caring for the 5,000 men and women of the Kitty
Hawk /Carrier Airwing 5 Team at the 'Tip of the
of
Spear.'
Mary Papageorge '79 and husband William of
Cumming, Ga., are expectingthe arrival of their
adopted daughter (or possibly daughters)from
the People'sRepublic of China.
1980s
Lisa
Gidday '82 of
Littleton,Colo., reports that
she is enjoying life in Colorado, living in the
foothills of the Rocky Mountainsand working
as a private practice internist in a busy internal
medicine practice in South Denver.
Craig Byer '83 of Muncie, Ind., is working on a
double master's degree in TESOL (Teaching
English To Speakers of Other Languages) and
linguistics at Ball State University. He also
teaches English at Ball State, in the Intensive
English Institute(IEI).
Sarah Saddler '83 Christian is coordinatorof
the Family Circle Program of Youth & Family
Counseling based in Libertyville,111.
Julie Minnema '83 Glessner of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is a regional leader with Partylite Gifts.
David Mackenzie '83 of Spring Lake, Mich.,
spoke through the Biology Seminar Series at
Flope on Friday, Dec. 4, 1998. Employed with
Hortech Inc., he presented "Ornamental
Grasses in the Landscape."
Paula Rishel '83 Matheny of Grapevine, Texas,
holds her nursing home administrationlicense
in Texas, and is an assistant administratorat
Dickinson Place in Dallas, Texas.
Linda Oegema '83 Milanowski of Holland,
Mich., is director of human resourcesat Miller
a subsidiaryof Herman Miller Inc.
Brian Mork '83 of Lansing, Mich., after 10 years
of serving as a pilot in the active duty Air Force,
is now flying as an Air Force reserve officer
with the 63 ARS in Michigan. He is pursuing
employment as an astronautwith NASA, as a
military space planner with a federally funded
research and development corporation
(MITRE) and as a pilot on a commercial air
Luis Obispo, Calif., is
taking classes, pursuing his elementary education teaching certificate,and plans to student
teach during the spring. The Cal Poly cycling
team recently finished first in its conferencefor
mountain biking and fourth in a snow-covered
nationalsin Reno, Nev. Randy took second
place in the conference championships in the
Dirt Criterium, sixth in the Down Hill and
eighth in the Cross Country.
Paul Baker '85 of St. Augustin, Germany, has
been promoted to the position of assistant
director participatinginterest controllingat
Deutsche Telekom AG in Bonn, Germany. His
responsibilities now include all of Deutsche
Telekom's satellite communications services.
Anne Bakker-Gras '85 of Holland, Mich.,
receivedthe "Hall of Fame Award" during the
the Great Lakes Regional Conference of the
National Association of Campus Activities,
held in Charleston, W.Va., on ThursdaySunday, Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 1998. She was
honored for her work with the association and
with Hope. She was director of student activities at the college from 1989 until resigningin
October.
Scott Jecmen '85 of Commerce Township,
of Gallup, N.M., spoke at
meeting of the New Mexico Pediatric
Society in October of 1998.
Danielle Redmond '83 of Detroit, Mich., is an
adoption specialist with Evergreen Children's
Services, and has worked in the adoption field
for six years. She writes, "Adoptionis very
close to my heart since all four of my children
are adopted."
Trish Daniels '83 Spence writes that she has
lived in Arizona, Californiaand now Idaho
with husband Robert Spence '82, adding "Boise
is a super place to live in." They have three
daughters, Ashley (seven),Taryn (five) and
Rachel (two), with whom Trish is home
full-time. Robert chose to become a U.S.
citizen,whereas Trish retains her Dutch citizen-
the
fall
ship.
Steven Stallone'83 of New Castle, Del., is vice
president,manager of product development,
with Black Rock InstitutionalManagement
Corporation.
Karen Thompson '83 Wilson and husband
Michael have establishedtheir own language
school in Okayama, Japan, emphasizing teaching English as a foreignlanguage to students
varying from pre-schoolersto adults. The curriculum is designed to meet students' personal
needs, such as preparingfor international
homestays,business meetings, professional
presentationsand examinations,and for families moving abroad. Karen notes that she was
first introduced to Japanese culture through
Hope professorsDr. Donald Luidens '69 and
Dr. James Piers '69 and the Meiji Gakuin
exchangeprogram back in her student days,
and that she is grateful for that influential
experience as Japan has become a "second
home" with eight years invested in teaching
Mich., is
at
Baldwin-Wallace College.
Julie Moulds '85 is the author of The Woman
with a Cubed Head, a book of poems published
by New Issues Press at Western Michigan
Universityof Kalamazoo, Mich. The publisher’s descriptionnotes, "Poet Julie Moulds has
battled non-Hodgkins lymphoma for five
years, through remissions,recurrences,and a
bone marrow transplant.In The Woman with a
Cubed Head, Moulds summons up an exotic
band of kindred spiritsto accompanyher as she
engages the forces of darkness."
Sue Fuller '85 Teman is healthy lifestylescoordinator for United Lifestyles, a program of
United Memorial Hospital in Greenville, Mich.
She develops and implementseducation and
care management programs which help area
residents reduce risk factors that contributeto
preventablediseases.
Philip Fishman '86 of Wyoming, Mich., is
pastor of First Baptist Church of Palo, Mich.
Bruce Hall '86 is a senior manager with Ernst &
Young in Wellington,New Zealand.
Heidi Bussies '86 Mann of Middleville, Mich.,
is teaching in a multi-age K-2 classroom at
was recently promoted to the level of scientist
within the PharmaceuticalResearch and
Development division of the Parke-Davis
Company. He is developing methods of analysis for newly discovered pharmaceutical
compounds and the structure determinationof
synthesisimpurities.He has also started pursuing an M.S. degree in analytical chemistry
with Lehigh University in Bethlehem,Pa.
Satellitetechnologyallows him to attend classes
real-time with other graduate students at
Lehigh while he remains at his work site.
Personal interactionis done through on-air
phone calls and e-mail during the televised
Huntington Woods Elementary School in
Wyoming, Mich. Huntington Woods is a
year-round school founded on the ideas of Dr.
William Glasser, and was certified as the first
class.
is
consultant with Andersen
the dean of continuing education
Laura Gibson '84 Pearson of Lansdale,Pa., is in
clinicalresearch at Merck in West Point, Pa. She
and husband Paul have three children:Katelyn
(nine),Sarah (three) and Jonathan (one).
Duane VandenBrink '84 of Holland, Mich.,
KristineVeldheer '84
a
Consulting. He and wife Julie have two children, Brianna and Steven.
Mamie Marsters '85 Lamberson of Glen Ridge,
N.J., was recently promoted to vice president
and communicationsmanager for First Union
Corporation.She is responsiblefor internal
communicationsand media relations for New
Jersey, New York and Connecticut.She and her
husband, Mike, own a Grand Rental Station in
Bloomfield,N.J.
David Nelson '85 of Berea, Ohio, is assistant to
there.
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Paula Wyn '86 Recknagel and Todd Recknagel
'86 of Muskegon, Mich., own Lakeshore Blimpie
LLP, which with seven outlets is the largest franchise in the system, which has a total of 2,100
outlets in 50 states. The franchisehas been
named the Blimpie 1998 Franchiseof the Year,
chosen from among about 1,500 franchises.
Heather Moore '86 Sardella is self-employed
as a photographer'srepresentative. She lives in
Los Angeles, Calif.,with her husband Donato
and their two border collies.
Alan Supp '86 of Rockford, Mich., recently
resigned from the Grand Rapids, Mich., office
of McDonald & Co. to open a local (Grand
Rapids) office for Tucker Anthony, a
Boston-based brokerage firm. In addition, he
continues to provide reliefveterinaryservices
for his veterinary colleagues in West Michigan.
James Bursma '87 of Stow, Mass., is a regional
marketing manager with Jostens Learning
Corporation.
Cindy Hollenbeck '87 of Okemos, Mich.,
taught the biochemistry class for the ABLE
(Advanced BaccalaureateLearning Experience)
program at the College of Human Medicine at
Michigan State Universityafter completing her
doctoratein biochemistry.She also worked as
a USPTA-certified tennis professionalat the
Michigan Athletic Club in East Lansing,Mich.
She is now working at Parke-Davis in Ann
Arbor, Mich., as a clinical scientistin the Clinical
Cardiovasculardepartment.She is the study
manager for one of the Lipitor (atorvastatin)
clinicaltrials addressingpatients with accelerated coronary heart disease, specificallylooking at
myocardial ischemia reductionwith aggressive
cholesterol lowering in patients with unstable
angina or non-Q wave myocardial infarction.
She still finds time to teach tennis at the
Michigan Athletic Club as an avocational activity and competes in USTA tennis tournaments.
Nancy Kulier '87 Kocsis is the assistant controller at Carrier Corporation,headquartered in
Farmington, Conn. She also recently ran her
first marathon.
Anne Kemper '87 Toohey and husband Sean
are currently living in Bogota, Columbia.
Gwen Abney-Cunningham
'88 of
Kalamazoo,
Mich., visited El Salvador, Central America,
through the international studies program at
Grand Valley State University.
Edward Bobinski '88 of Beulah, Mich., is the
athletic director/ dean of students at Frankfort
High School and pursuing a master of arts in
educational leadership at Western Michigan
University.
Christopher Brown '88 and wife Vicki received
Fellowship status in the American Academy of
Family Physicians at the national scientific
assembly in San Francisco, Calif., in September
of 1998.
Carrie Grabowski '88 finisheda master's in
French literatureat the Universityof Oregon in
1995 and then went to St. Etienne, France, as an
Englishassistant in a high school the following
school year. Last year she returned to the
Universityof Oregon and taught second-year
French as a graduate teaching fellowshipwhile
pursuing a teachinglicense in French. She currently teaches French,mathematics and science
at the fourth grade level in a French-immersion
school in Eugene, Ore.
Scott Schaaf '88 is an orthopedicsurgeon with
A Musical Gathering
Alumni from '56 through '98 joined current students and faculty for the
Alumni Symphonette concert held during Homecoming Weekend on Sunday,
Oct.
. The group was conducted bv Dr. Robert Ritsema '57, professorof
music, who was a charter member of the Symphonette in 953 in additionto
serving currently as conductor of the Orchestra and Symphonette.
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the Orthopedic, Pediatric & Spine Institute in
Crown Point, Ind. He has recently given lectures in spinal fusion in Sorrento,Italy, and
Innsbruck,Austria.
Laura Sherwood '88 of Santa Monica, Calif.,
recently quit her job at Kelly Staff Leasing to
open a human resourceand benefits consulting
company. Applied HR Inc.
Lisa Slover '88 of Belle Mead, N.J., is attending
school for legal nurse consulting.
William Stumpf '88 of Torrington,Conn., is
vice presidentand general manager of Eyelets
for IndustryInc.
Anne Jones '88 White of Mundelein, 111., is
assistant coordinator of Mothers of
Preschoolersat Christ Church and working
part-time for her husband's company. Greens
By White.
Thomas Wight '88 of Superior, Colo., has taken
a position with Wild Oats Markets in Boulder,
Colo., after eight-and-a-halfyears at Wolohan
Lumber Co.
Raymund Woo '88 of Gainesville, Fla., is an
assistant professor of pediatric orthopedic
surgery at the University of Florida at
Sandra Lupkes '89 LaBaugh is an associate in
the securities divisionof Teacher's Insurance
and Annuity Association (TIAA-CREF), the
world's largest pension fund, based in New
York City. She and husband Todd '88 live in
Rye, N.Y.
Debbie Renner '89 Smith of South Haven,
Mich., a second grade teacherin the Coloma,
Mich., school system for nine years, presenteda
paper, "Literature and Writing in Mathematics
Class,"at the MichiganCouncil of Teaching
Mathematics meeting in Lansing in October of
1998.
Joel Tanis '89 of Holland,Mich.,
is
coordinating
the college'sforthcoming"Veritas Form,"
which will run Thursday-Saturday,Jan. 14-16,
1999, featuringconversationon faith and the
arts. Also beginning in 1999, he will have a
regular comic strip, "The Coffee Shoppe," in
The Church Herald, the denominational magazine of the Reformed Church in America.
Lori Lovas '89 Tinkler of Kansas City, Mo., is a
projectmanager with Applied Measurement
Professionals Inc.
Gainesville.
Kurt
Bouman '89
teaches freshman composi-
CoUege of Southern Idaho in Twin
Falls, Idaho. When he's not grading papers, he
cruises around on his motorcycle or runs the
tion at the
1990s
Tori Derr '90 is working with kids in four communities in northern New Mexico for her
dissertation researchin environmental studies
at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies.She will be there for a year or more.
Joy Derwenskus '90 of Grosse Pointe Woods,
Mich., is completing an internshipin internal
medicine at Detroit Riverview Hospital.
rapids on the nearby Snake River.
Kristin
Kuhn
'89
moved
to Springfield, Pa., in
June of 1997, and began teaching at Garnet
Valley Elementary School in September of 1998.
She is pursuing a master'sdegree in supervision of special education at Widener University
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The program featured "Overture to War and Peace," by Sergei Prokofieff;
"Sheep May Safely Graze," by Johann Sebastian Bach; 'The Moldau," by
Bedrich Smetana; "Bugler'sHoliday," by Leroy Anderson; and "Hungarian
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Kimberlee Reinking '90 Van Langeveldeof
Hamilton, Mich., left teachingin June of 1997,
and has been with Key Personnel for the past
six months, dealing with all of the office and
professionalplacements. She also recently
became involved with the Allegan County
Republicans,helping with the local races and
attending conventions. She also notes, "What
little time I have at home, I spend in the garden
or with a good book."
Doreen Marie German '91 Beltz is resident
director of Gilmore Hall at Hope.
Sheri Lutz '91 Blough of Mendon, Mich., is an
elementary special education teacherwith the
Vicksburg Community Schools.
David Herman '91 of Bozeman, Mont., reports
that he will be returning to western Michigan in
the next couple of months as a reprievefrom
the skiing ("the skiing was just too much!").
Shawn Jacob '91 of Holland, Mich., continues
to perform, as "The Amazing Egghead." His
routines include magic, juggling, physical
comedy, sight gags and audience participation.
Brian Knight '91 of Washington, D.C., is director, regulatoryaffairs & research sendees with
NASCUS in Arlington, Va.
Kristen Lambrides '91 of Durand, Mich., is an
entertainmentsign language interpreter.She
has her own business, "handmade sounds."
Karen Looman '91 is in a one-year transitional
internship in the U.S. Navy at the Brooke Army
Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. She
hopes to pursue a career in forensic medicine.
Steven Pierce '91 of Ann Arbor, Mich., is an
investment broker with Key Investments Inc.
KirstenVanZanten '91 Sarginger is pursuing a
master's in mathematicseducation at Penn
State University, UniversityPark.
Daryl Thrasher '91 of Naperville, 111., is a technical services coordinatorwith Effective
Management Systems.
Barbara Bosch '92 Berens is director of development and communicationsfor Camp Fire
Boys & Girls in Grand Rapids,Mich.
ElizabethPaterik '92 Dargis of Holland, Mich.,
recently started a home Web publishingbusi-
where she
is a
systems analyst. In August, they
volunteeredwith Habitat for Humanity
international'sGlobal Village Work Program in
Sri Lanka, completing one house and starting
two others.She writes, "This trip was incredible — changingour whole perspectiveof the
world and giving us a deep appreciationfor all
we take for granted." They also stopped at
Malang, Indonesia,to visit a child they have
been sponsoringthrough
Compassion
International.
Esther Maksymovitch '92 Penn and husband
Daniel are medical interns at Presbyterian-St.
Luke's Hospitalin Denver, Colo., for one year.
They will then be at the Universityof Michigan
for their residencies in ophthalmology (Esther)
and radiology(Dan).
Brian Standish '92 of Grand Rapids, Mich., was
promoted from production supervisor/coach
to production engineer at Zeeland (Mich.)
Chemicals. He is pursuing a master's in industrial engineering at Western Michigan
University.
Ericka Lyszak '93 Benson
of
Kalamazoo, Mich.,
and husband Tim are both employed at
report that they are living happily in Chicago,
111.,
where Julie has accepted a positionat the
Pharmaciaand Upjohn. She is carrying out
postdoctoral research in the antibacterials
program. Her doctoral thesis (please see
"Advanced Degrees") explored the mechanism
office of Jesse Jackson Jr. They both have been
by which anthrax toxin enters cells and investigated how the process can be used to deliver
therapeutic molecules into cells.
Nicole Buono '93 of Saugerties,N.Y., after
graduating from Johns Hopkins (please see
"Advanced Degrees") spent three-and-a-half
months in Senegal and Guinea as a trainer of
Peace Corps volunteers.She has been awarded
a Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship to conduct
'93 of Clarkston,Mich., celebratedtheir fifth
active in his re-election campaign.Kelly is also
active in a local church.
field research in northern Ghana.
Coincidentally,
she will be neighbors with her
brother, Jared Buono '97, who is currently
servingas a Peace Corps volunteerthere. They
welcome news and mail at: Navrongo Health
Research Centre, Ministry of Health, P.O. Box
114, Navrongo, Upper East Region,GHANA.
Julie Tillmann'93 Clark and Kelly Clark '93
Kristin Bauss '93 Ermshler and Dale
Ermshler
wedding anniversary with a European vacation.
Alexander Fink '93 of Saugatuck, Mich., and
new wife Sarah have formed a new business.
The Nines Gallery, which opened
in
September.
month in the mountains of
and studying amongst seven
Last fall they spent a
Thailand, living
groups of tribespeople.
Robert Henderson II '93 is a research associate
with Hazen Research Inc. in Golden, Colo.
Ward Holloway '93 of Dallas, Texas, is a senior
technical consultantwith Checkpoint Software
Technologies Inc.
Christine Logan '93 Paige lives in Royal Oak,
Mich., with her husband Brian '93. She teaches
first grade at a Christianschool in Southfield,
ness.
Peter Ellsworth '92 lived in Boston, Mass., for
four years and worked in the field of human
resources,and then transitionedinto human
resources information systems, working with
Peoplesoftand Oracle. He recently moved to
Hollis, N.H.,
and works for
Fidelity
Investments as a product analyst or business
analyst. He is involved in doing functional
product design work for HR information
systems.
Brian Haight '92 and Nicole Etheridge '94
Haight have moved to the village of Shaktoolik,
Alaska, to serve as pastor and youth pastor of
the ShaktoolikCovenant Church.
Heidi Short '92 Hansing and her husband have
moved to McLean, Va., from Lincolnshire, 111.,
due to her job transfer with Hewitt Associates,
Graduation Honors
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Winter Happening Schedule of Events
(Admission is free unless noted)
Registration:
9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Haworth Conference and Learning Center
Seminars:
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Travel Through the Time of Dance with Our Genie
Presenters: Prof. Maxine DeBruyn and the
Strike
includes summer
Facts About Fat or Why I Can’t Lose
Presenter: Dr. Christopher Barney
graduates and May graduates
whose information wasn’t
available to
Weight
From Religious Fervor to Atheism: How the
NetherlandsBecame A Post-Christian Country
news from Hope
College prior to the publication
of the
Time Dance Company
Presenter: Dr. James
August or October issues
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
SUMWIA CUM LAUDE
Kennedy
A Passage Through India
Presenters: Dr. Marc Baer and Students
Ryan G. Janus, Mt. Prospect,III.
Chaos: New Mathematics Reveals the
Inner Workings of Nature
Presenter: Dr. Timothy Pennings
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Nancy J. Malda, Holland, Mich.
Kimberly M. Powell, Montrose, Mich.
Sally J. Ware, Burr Oak, Mich.
Kristin J. Zimdahl, Elgin, III.
The Universe Through the Eyes
of Hubble Space Telescope
Presenter: Dr. Peter Gonthier
CUM LAUDE
Downers Grove, III.
Mimi HaiVan Do, Holland, Mich.
Marika A. Hawes, Addison, Mich.
Erin 0. Kocourek, Oxford,Mich.
Derek S. Mazurek, Nunica, Mich.
Amy S. Meyers, Portland, Mich.
Jodi B. Royer, Holland, Mich.
George A. Urban, Crete, III.
Daniel K. Capps,
EH
Luncheon:
12:30 p.m.
Featuring entertainmentby student musicians
($9.00 per person, advance reservations required)
Basketball:
3 p.m.
MIAA men’s basketball versus Adrian College in
Holland Civic Center (Adults $5-00, Students $2.00)
For additional information or to request a Winter Happening brochure,
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NFHC December 1998
and is working on a master's degree in reading
Oakland University.
at
Andrew Shufelt '93 has moved
Massachusettsand
is
to
working in the sales force
for Caterpillar Inc. Since graduation,he has
lived in Colorado, Washington, D.C., and New
York, but he reportsthat he plans to stay in
Massachusetts,
and writes, "Selling construction
equipment is challenging yet fun."
Andrew Spencer '93 has completed his doctorate (pleasesee "Advanced Degrees") and is
planning to do post-doctoral research in
Boulder, Colo.
Raymond Touw '93 of Holland, Mich., went to
Malawi, Africa, in April of 1998 for one month,
roofing a church. He works at TLC Automotive,
doing various car and engine repairs. He plans
to become ASE certifiedand have his own repair
shop some day.
Laura Thompson '93 Van Huis and Michael
Van Huis '93 are pursuing full-time missionary
careersin Ghana, West Africa, with Pioneers
International.
Stephanie Grier '93 Van Koevering of Lansing,
Mich., is a spokesperson and media coordinator
for the Michigan Department of Treasury.
Scott Venema '93 of Sierra Vista,Ariz.,completed a master's(please see "Advanced Degrees")
and ROTC in April of 1998, and left his job as a
planner/evaluatorfor Kent County, Mich., to
accept an active duty commissionin the U.S.
Army as a second lieutenantin the Military
IntelligenceBranch. He is now the Battalion S-2,
intelligenceofficer, for l-12th Infantry Battalion,
3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th
Infantry
United Church of Christ.
Halaby '94 of Evanston, II]., is a manager
and pilates instructor with Body Balance in
Chicago,Dl.
Steve Johnson '94 is a tax analyst with Chase
Global Fund Services in Boston, Mass.
Tim McCarty '94 of Newburgh, N.Y., is a
seventh grade English and social studies teacher
at Monroe-Woodbury Middle School in Central
Valley, N.Y., which is 40 miles north of New
York City. He teaches one class of English, one
class of social studies and three classes of study
skills, which is a quarterclass that all seventh
gradersmust take. In addition, he is six credits
away from a master'sdegree in special education and New York State certificationin special
educationgrades K-12.
Dave McWhinnie '94 of Holland, Mich., is a
physical education teacher and baseball and
football coach at South Haven (Mich.) Middle
Amy
Marc Van Soest '97 of Holland,Mich., is a high
school teacher with the Holland Public Schools.
Jeff "Spanky" Amlotte '98 of Walker, Mich., is
director of youth and family ministry at
Mamrelund Lutheran Church in Kent City,
Mich.
Ann Barry '98 is coordinatorof youth ministry
for St. Joseph (Mich.) Catholic Church.
Sarah Carpenter '98 of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a
research associate with the Division of
Kinesiologyat the University of Michigan.
Troy Davis '98 of Topeka, Kan., is employed
with an expansion hockey team for the Central
Hockey League.
Carrie DeVries '98 is an editorialassistant with
the Reformed Church in America at the
Michigan Regional Center in Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Sarah Gorier '98 is a graduate student at the
Patterson School of Diplomacy and International
Commerce of the University of Kentucky at
Lexington, majoring in international politics and
minoring in international commerce.
Brandon Graham '98 teaches physical education
in Hamilton, Mich., at Blue Star and Bentheim
elementary schools, and is an assistant football
coach at Hamilton High School.
Michelle Knauff '98 is a fourth grade teacher at
Delta Center ElementarySchool in Grand Ledge,
Mich.
Jeanette Petkus '98 Neumann of New York,
N.Y., is an account coordinator with Ryan
Drossman & Partners. Tine accounts that she
works with are Arm & Hammer (the baking
soda people), Fiji (a new bottled water direct
from the Fiji islands) and Frederick Wildman &
Sons (a wine importer).She and husband Brad
are living in an apartment in the city that, she
notes, "makes dorm rooms look like palaces!"
Anthony Perez '98 of Comstock Park, Mich., is a
publishingrepresentative with Walsworth
PublishingCompany.
Kimberly Powell '98 of Zeeland,Mich., is a correspondence writer with the Family Research
Council.
Tracey Rynsburger'98 of Colorado Springs,
Colo., is a sixth grade teacher at Aragon Middle
School in Fountain, Colo.
Kathryn Whitfield '98 of Arlington,Va., is a
staff assistantand legislativecorrespondentwith
Mo.,
Colo., this winter.
from Buffalo, N.Y., with wife Kathy Breclaw '96
Van Ek after completinghis master's in philosophy (please see "Advanced Degrees"). He is a
Joshua Ruhrup '97 of RochesterHills,Mich., is
an optical technician in Royal Oak, Mich.
Katy Murphy '97 Van Soest of Holland, Mich.,
is a third grade teacher with the Grandville
Washington, D.C.
Amy Wilderspin '98 of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a
purchasing,vehicles, accounting assistant with
Nissan Research and Development Inc. in
Farmington Hills, Mich.
School.
Blake Crawford '95 of Grosse Pointe, Mich., has
been given additionalresponsibilitieswith the
Interiors System Division of Cambridge
Industries, where he is director of marketing and
communications.
Cynthia Miller '95 and Barton Hisgen '96 are
missionaries, teaching in
Dembi Dolo,
Ethiopia.
Stephen Vandenberg'95 is a physical therapist
at an outpatient clinic in Marinette, Wis., and is
also a fitness trainer with the local YMCA. He
writes that he continuesto ride his bicycle like a
madman, even in the snow.
Amy Zoppa '95 of Alma, Mich., is athleticdirector and head athletictrainer with the St. Charles
(Mich.)
Rebecca Vomastek '93 is a second-year family
medicine resident at Munson Medical Center in
Traverse City, Mich. She will be finishing in
Derek Babin '96 of Portage, Mich., is a physical
therapist at Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo,
Mich.
David Chamin '96 of Ann Arbor, Mich., has
accepted an offer with the Boston, Mass., law
firm of Ropes & Gray to begin in the fall of 2000.
He intends to practice in the firm's corporate
department.
Eric Foster '96 of Washington, D.C., is acting
chief of staff/communicationsdirector with U.S.
rics
and gynecology in her primary care career.
Mary Bosker '93 Woitke and husband Oliver
moved to San Diego, Calif., in July of 1998. She
is pursuing a doctoral internship with
Psychologicaland Counseling Servicesat the
University of Califomia-San Diego.
Anna-Lisa Cox '94 is a doctoral candidateat the
Universityof Illinois, writingher thesis on the
history of Covert, Mich., in the second half of the
Community
Schools.
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson
(D-Texas).
Julie
Ann Looman '96 passed all four parts of the
CPA exam in May of 1998. She is currently
working toward her CPA certificationat a new
is
job, at a
19th century.
Norman '94 Dykstra of Kentwood, Mich.,
an attorney with Morrison, Mahoney and
Miller LLP in Grand Rapids, Mich.
small public accountingfirm in St. Louis,
named Shapiro, Kossmeyer & Flom LLC.
Jeremy Van Ek '96 moved to La Grange, 111.,
Robert Evans '94 of Quincy, Mich., is a
teacher/coachat Quincy Community School.
Daniel Furman '94 of Lancaster, Pa., is in his
first year at Lancaster TheologicalSeminary,
(Mich.) Public Schools.
marketing agency in downtown Chicago,111.
Kathy Breclaw '96 Van Ek moved to La Grange,
Dl., with husband Jeremy '96 after working as a
reading teacher in Buffalo, N.Y., for a year. She
is now teaching fifth and sixth grade mathematics, social studiesand religion at Immaculate
Conception Grade School in Elmhurst,111.
Dan Bannink '97 of East Lansing,Mich., won
the Dinosaur Dash 5K on Sunday, Oct. 4, 1998,
with a time of 15 minutes,25 seconds.
Jennifer Dorn '97 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is
a reporter for Sun Newspapersof Beachwood,
Ohio.
Daniel Foster '97 is pursuing a master's in communication at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee. He received a fellowship to study at
the university, and is currently in his first year.
Marika Hawes-Ruhrup '97 of RochesterHills,
Mich., is employed by Chrysler Corporation.
She is a manufacturingmechanicalengineer, and
is working toward a master of science in engineering management at Oakland University.
Zach Johnson '97 and Shannon Land '98
Johnson of Clinton, Mich., plan to serve in
Christian missions aboard a Mercy Ship beginning in January of 1999.
KierstenKrause '97 of Zeeland,Mich., is a direct
care technician in adult critical care with
Spectrum Health-Downtownin Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Meg Morgan '97 of Chicago, DL, recently finished a series of rigorous auditions only to find
that she has been selected to accompanyMichael
Bolton on his next world tour to promote his
newest compact disc. She will be one of five
back-up vocalists and will begin her tour in the
summer, and notes that she feels as though she
owes her success to the department of music at
Hope. In her spare time, she has just completed
her first 10K run and is presently training for the
upcomingChicago marathon.
Jonathan Pott '97 of Holland, Mich., is an
Internet integrator with Digital Commerce Ltd.
Jeanmarie Redente '97 finished a year as an
Americorps'VISTAvolunteer in Ft. Collins,
Colo., developing,coordinatingand facilitating
health educationprograms in the public schools.
She also works as a residential care giver for
mentally impaired adults. She has returned
from a month in Scotland and Ireland, and is
working at a ski resort in Steamboat Springs,
Division, at Fort Carson,Colo.
June of 2000. She plans to include general obstet-
financial coordinatorfor Frankel, a promotional
Haworth Inn
&
U.S. Congressman Donald Manzullo in
Marriages
Conference Center
Ellen Heath '70 and Robert Kanuck, July 5,
Offering professional meeting
&
1998, Niskayuna, N.Y.
banquet facilities for
your organization, association, company
or
family function.
Kevin Malkewitz '81 and Karen Lundquist,
June 14, 1998, Grand Island, Neb.
Craig Byer '83 and Tomoko, Nov. 29, 1986,
NiigataCity, Japan.
Rebecca Buning Kremer '88 and David
Purnell '91, July 11, 1998.
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Beth Kochin '88 and Brian Powers, May 11,
Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
Mark McConnell '88 and Carla Andrus,
Aug. 15, 1998.
Lori Lovas '89 and Monte Tinkler, Oct. 18,
1997, Incline Village, Nev.
Karen Johns '90 and Kyle Sharp, Oct. 10,
1998, Columbus, Ohio.
William Lloyd Meengs Jr. '91 and Melanie
Abbey Freer, May 30, 1998, Alma, Mich.
David Regnerus '91 and Lisa Franklin '96,
June 27, 1998, Lucas, Mich.
Daryl Thrasher '91 and Ellen Bertke, Oct. 31,
1998,
Our comfortable meeting rooms
can accommodate groups both
small and large.
to the public
1998.
Kirsten VanZanten '91 and Jon Sarginger,
Aug. 1, 1998, The Woodlands, Texas.
Michael Allenson '92
Yemelyanenko, Oct.
16,
Wade Gugino '92 and
A
stay at the
Haworth Inn
access to the
&
Conference Center includes complimentary continental breakfast,
Dozv Center and pool, our own wellness room, and a free daily paper.
1998,
and
Tatyana
1998, Lafayette, Ind.
Eva Nissen, July
4,
New York.
Stephen Schalkhauser '92 and April Lee '93,
5, 1998, Midland, Mich.
DanielleChristiansen'93 and Bruce Beals,
June 6, 1998, Grand Rapids,Mich.
Kelly Clark '93 and Julie Tillmann '93, June
10, 1995, Holland, Mich.
Paul Schlaff '93 and Regina Hartwig,July 11,
Sept.
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1998, St. Joseph, Mich.
Susannah Budd '94 and Don Tuuri '94, June
1998, Holland, Mich.
Lisa Rosenthal'94 and Chris Neuser, Oct. 24,
1998, Harbor Springs, Mich.
Kelly Zacha '94 and Brett Merritt, Aug. 9,
1998, East Lansing,Mich.
Kristin Carlson '95 and Brad Spooner, May
30, 1998, Holland, Mich.
Jennifer Herron '95 and Rob Brueker, Nov. 7,
19,
Janet Swanson '79 and Thomas Kuhr,
Annalee Weiwei Kuhr, born Jan. 24, 1996;
adopted in China, Aug. 13, 1996; Maye Xialan
Tanner Bryce, March 20, 1998.
Jon McKeeby '88 and Susan Milanowski '88
McKeeby, Timothy Jon, Oct. 20, 1995; Jennifer
Kuhr, born April 20, 1998; adopted in China,
Elizabeth, July
Oct.
Hoven, Elizabeth Katherine, Sept. 14, 1998.
Amy Purvis '82 Thurow and Tom Thurow,
Maria Georgina, Oct. 3, 1998.
Beth Dokter '82 Smith and Douglas Smith,
Hayley Marie, Oct. 13, 1998.
Theodore Hacker '83 and Anne Hacker,
Katherine Anne, Sept. 16, 1998.
Sheryl Baar '83 Moon and Randy Moon,
Rachel Moore '95 and David Arnold, Oct. 17,
1998, Alexandria,Va.
Wayne Barrett '96 and Jennifer Richardson
'99, Aug. 16, 1998, Holland, Mich.
Laurie M. Byington'96 and Matthew J.
Kuiper '98, June 14, 1998, Holland, Mich.
Micki Frens '96 and Shawn Anger, Aug. 22,
1998, Douglas, Mich.
Rochelle Gauthier '96 and James O'Brien,
Oct. 10, 1998, Grosse Ue, Mich.
Sarah McClure '96 and Michael Kolk.
Joel Brandt '97 and Sarah Keay '98, Oct. 3,
1998, Holland, Mich.
Marika A. Hawes '97 and Joshua E. Ruhrup
'97, Aug. 22, 1998, Portage, Mich.
Zachary Noel Johnson '97 and Shannon
Elaine Land '98, June 21, 1998.
Katy Murphy '97 and Marc Van Soest '97,
June 27, 1998.
Caryl Scott '98 and Jonathan Wierengo '98,
June 13, 1998, Winnetka, 111.
Jennifer KirstenWuchter '98 and Robert A.
Brown, Aug. 29, 1998, Evart, Mich.
Emmarie Drummond,
Feb. 27, 1998.
James Scott '83 and Janet Arneson '83 Scott,
James Alexander,July 4, 1990; Adelaide Carroll,
June 16, 1993.
Sharon Smith '84 Huff and Thomas Huff,
Hannah Grace, Aug. 31, 1998.
Cheryl Doan '84 Scheuerman and Dan
Scheuerman, Cristina Elise, born Aug. 26, 1998;
adopted, Oct. 1, 1998.
Bruce Hall '86 and Shelley Hall, Andrew
Bruce, Aug. 17, 1995; Zoe Therese, Aug. 16,
1997.
Charlotte Johnson '87 Heideman and Carl
Heideman '88, Hope Kristin,Oct. 21, 1998.
Anne Kemper '87 Toohey and Sean Toohey,
John Francis, Nov.
July
29,
3,
1995; KatherineMargaret,
1998.
DeeAnn Knoll '88 Amos and Chuck Amos,
Nathan James, Nov. 10, 1997.
Michelle Stariha '88 Brower and Curtis
Brower, Daniel Christopher,Sept. 8, 1998.
Brad Huss '88 and Jodi Townsend '89 Huss,
Addison Hope, June 1, 1997.
Tim Kleyla '88 and Dawn Kleyla,Sophia
Adrianna, Oct. 31, 1998.
David Kortering '88 and Lisa Kortering,
Rachel Yvonne, June 26, 1996.
Kari Moore '88 Mahn and Kelly Mahn,
Births
Matthew McNally '79 and Wendy
10,
1998.
David Van Hoven '80 and Maureen Van
1998.
Boruszewski,Sarah Christine, June
9,
1998.
Faculty Positions Available
21,
1997.
Alan Sutton '88 and Anne Marie Sutton,
Mark Gregory, Oct. 16, 1998.
Yolanda DeLeon '88 Vega and John Vega,
Samuel Elias,Nov.
Raymund Woo
1998.
3,
and Kaylene Vorac '90
Woo, Jana Lynn and Reagan Rachel,May 18,
'88
Andrea Schregardus '92 Votava and Brad
Votava '92, Jack Christian, Sept. 9, 1998.
Yalonda Carter '93 Dixon and Eddy Dixon,
Emily Marie Joy, Aug. 24, 1998.
Kristin Marrs '93 Hunt and Jason Hunt,
Justin Robert, Sept.
1,
1998.
Sarah Bussies '93 VanderKolkand Donald
VanderKolk Jr., JocelynAnn, Dec. 8, 1997.
Tara Cook '94 Crawford and Blake
Crawford '95, Brooklyn Gage, Oct. 6, 1998.
1998.
William G.R. (Rob) Angus '89 and Tamera
'90 Angus, Liam Gartley Robertson
Angus, April 20, 1998 (also his father's birth-
Alsum
day).
Kristi VanderKooi '89 BranUettand William
Advanced Degrees
Marvin Burgess
'77,
M.B.A., The University
Eric Bramlett, Sadie Claire, Sept. 22, 1998.
of Chicago Graduate School of Business,
Frances Schrock '89 Traisman and Clifford
Traisman, Quinn Robert, Aug. 20, 1998.
Carl Aronson '90 and Cynthia Schutt '90
Aronson, Samuel Lawrence, Nov. 28, 1995;
Susannah Jean, Oct. 12, 1998.
Kenneth Blough '90 and Sheri Lutz '91
Blough, Jennie Grace, Jan. 7, 1998.
Scott Trumble '90 and Yvonne Dood '90
Trumble, Emily Joan, Sept. 24, 1998.
Jeanine Sammels '91 Behrendt and Dennis
Behrendt,Drew Thomas, June 16, 1998.
Wendy Viening '91 Kragt and Bryan Kragt,
MaKayla Lynn, June 15, 1998.
Fred Persch '91 and Heather Cole '92 Persch,
Cole Frederick, June 28, 1998.
Amy Merkle '91 Pollockand Shane Pollock,
Shayla Elizabeth, Oct. 20, 1998.
K.C. Schuring '91 and Lynn Candela '91
Schuring,Christian John, March 30, 1998.
Greta Kennedy '91 Standish and Brian
Standish '92, Veronica Kristen, Sept. 17, 1998.
Brian Keisling'92 and Jill Eenigenburg '92
Chicago, 111., 1997.
Paula Rishel '83 Matheny, M.A., gerontology, Universityof North Texas, 1997.
Brad Huss '88, master'sin secondary education, Michigan State University.
David Nelson '88, M.A., college studentpersonnel, Bowling Green State University,
August, 1998.
Sandra Lupkes '89 LaBaugh, M.B.A.,
University of Chicago Graduate School of
Keisling, Julia Patricia,Sept.
Lisa
5,
1998.
DeBoer '92 Schreur and Curt Schreur,
Katelyn Paige, Aug.
23,
1998.
Business, June, 1998.
Lori Lovas '89 Tinkler, master of business
administration, Rockhurst College, Kansas
City, Mo., August, 1998.
Joy Derwenskus '90, doctor of osteopathic
medicine. Universityof Osteopathic Medicine
and Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa, May 30,
1998.
Karen Looman '91, KirksvilleCollege of
OsteopathicMedicine,June, 1998.
Holly Brown '92, master of arts, early childhood education.Western Michigan University,
August, 1998.
Brian Standish '92, MBA, Grand Valley State
University, December, 1997.
Campus Notes
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(Continued from page eight.)
The college is seeking candidates for faculty positions available
during the 1999-2000 academic year. Consideration of candidates
is underway unless otherwise specified, and will continue until the
positions are filled. Additional information concerning the
character of each position may be obtained through the college's
World Wide Web home page at www.hope.edu or by contacting
the department chair as follows:
Hope College
P.O. Box 9000
HoUand, Ml 49422-9000
(616) 395-7000
northem Renaissance/Baroque
(Prof. WilliamMayer, [email protected])
Assistant professor, human anatomist/
physiologist (three-year term) (Dr. Harvey
Blankespoor, [email protected])
COMPUTER SCIENCE
discussions between the Greater Portland
Dr. Sellers will go to Georgia State in
Council of Churches, the
(Dr. Allen D. Verhey, [email protected])
March to
PSYCHOLOGY
ceremony.
Archdiocese of Portland and the Holy
Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, which
wished to bring great scholars to Portland
during the Pentecost season each year to
Personality (Dr. John
J.
Shaughnessy,
SOCIAL
WORK
Assistant/ associate professor, MSW plus
post-MSW experience
required (Dr. Deborah
Januaryor August, 1999 (Dr. Herb Dershem,
[email protected])
positions; (1) Ethnic
American
literature(African-American,
creativenon-fiction (Dr. Peter Schakel,
[email protected])
MUSIC
woodwind,master's
required,
doctorate preferred; (2) Coordinatorof
orchestras and teacher of cello; (3) Music
theory, doctorate preferred (1; Dr. Brian
Coyle, [email protected];(2: Dr. Stuart Sharp,
ETfl
assistantprofessor (term, renewable for
up
Huw
Lewis,
read the story at a recognition
Dr. Sellers is a regionalist,a Southern
writer who has been influenced by
Flannery O'Connor, Jill McGorkle and
Lee Smith. She focuses primarily on
women's coming-of-age fiction.
"Fla. Boys" is set in Florida,in a tiny
town near Orlando called Christmas. The
story is part of a collection. Never Told Me,
which was a top-20 finisherin the Iowa
Short Fiction competition in 1996 and
was
Roman
Catholic
discuss questions of paramount
importance to members of many
communions.The goal has been to foster
inter-denominational and inter-faith
learning.
Larry
J.
Wagenaar '87, director of
the
Joint Archives of Holland, concluded
second and
two additional years) (Dr. Hersilia
Alvarez/Ruf,[email protected])
runner-up in the 1996 Associated Writing
Programs competition for best Collection
his
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
of Short Fictionfor 1997.
annual State History Conference, held in
professional activity; commitment to the
character and goals of a liberal arts college
RANK AND SALARY
Tenure track with rank open, unless specified.
Salary commensurate with education and
experience. Terminaldegrees are required for
otherwise noted.
Hope College places a high priority on sustaining a supportive environmentthat promotes
opportunitiesfor ethnic minoritiesand women.
Therefore, applicationsfrom and nominations
of women and minority group members are
especiallywelcomed. Hope collegecomplies
with federaland state requirements for nondiscriminationin employment.
final term as president of
the HistoricalSociety of Michigan at the
Midland on Saturday-Sunday,Sept.
Ability to combine excellence in classroom
all positions unless
Three positions: (1) Director of
[email protected];(3; Dr.
[email protected])
positions: (1) Assistant/associate
professor, generalist,and (2) Visiting
with a Christian perspective.
Asian-American,Latina/o, or Chicano/a),
and (2) Creative writing, specialty in
bands/
Two
teaching with scholarly or other appropriate
ENGLISH
Two
SPANISH
to
Assistant or associate professor, starting
The first lecture was
and Compassion: Looking
Heavenward," and the second was
"Lessons of Lament for Responding to
Piety."
story in the fall issue of the magazine.
Sturtevant, [email protected])
BIOLOGY
The prize, awarded by the literary
magazine Five Points, publishedby
Georgia State University,includes a
and
minority perspective, or (2) World religions
[email protected])
associate professor, Ancient-Medieval-
"Suffering
addresses within the
Either: (1) Christian theology from a
(2)
Art historian/gallery director. Assistant or
story "Fla. Boys."
two
general topic of "Suffering,Compassion,
Suffering."
The Collins Lectureship emerged from
Either: (1) Industrial/organizational,or
ART
presented
stipend of $1,000 and publication of the
RELIGION
Chairperson(see following)
Heather Sellers, associateprofessor of
named winner of the
Paul Bowles FictionPrize for 1997 for her
English, has been
Allen Verhey of the religion faculty
presented the 1998 Collins Lecturesin
Portland, Ore., on Friday-Sunday,Nov.
19-20. The society is Michigan'soldest
13-15.
Historical Society of Michigan reversed
The lecture series began as the
PortlandChristian Lectureshipin 1967.
The series is intended to provide the
clergy, lay leadership and public of the
Portland area with the opportunity to
explore the ramifications of the
a trend of budget losses, posting two
consecutive years of a budget surpluses
and membership gains. The society also
made major strides through an
expanded Michigan History Day,
refinanced longterm debt to ensure
financial stability, worked to improve
the historical journal Michigan Historical
Review and attended to a number of
important capitalprojects, uk
Christian faith.
Dr. Verhey, who is the Evert J.
and
Hattie E. Blekkink Professor of Religion
and
chair of the department at Hope,
cultural organization.
During his term in
office, the
NFHC December 1998
Mark Vanderweg '92, doctor of philosophy
degree, clinicalpsychology. The Universityof
Memphis,Term., Aug. 16, 1998.
Ericka Lyszak '93 Benson, doctorate, microbiology and molecular genetics. Harvard
University, May, 1998.
Nicole Buono '93, master'sin public health,
Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Hygiene
and Public Health, May 20, 1998.
Andrew Spencer '93, doctorate,biochemistry, Michigan State University, 1998.
Scott
Venema
'93,
master's of public
admin-
istration,Western Michigan University, April,
1998.
Lisa Lee '96, master of public administration
with concentrationin non-profitmanagement
and leadership. Grand Valley State University,
June, 1998.
Jeremy Van Ek
'96, master's,philosophy.
University of Buffalo, spring, 1998.
Deaths
Word has been received of the death of
Marcia Jo Brandenburg '73, who died on
Thursday, Sept. 17, 1998. More information
the next issue of news from Hope College.
Word has been received of the death of Edna
Helmbold '33, who died on Sunday, Oct. 25,
1998. More informationwill appear in the next
High School in 1950.
She was valedictorian of the Class of '54 at
Hope, earninga B.S. in biology.She then went
on to the Francis Payne Bolton School of
Nursing and earned a master of nursing degree
news from Hope College.
in 1957.
Robert W. Kamphuis Sr. '52 of Hinesville,
Ga., died on Saturday,Oct. 17, 1998. He was 68.
He was a native of Holland,Mich. He was a
graduate of the Dental School of Medicine at the
University of Michigan.
He retired as a dental officer,with the rank
of colonel, after 28 years of service, and was a
veteranof the Vietnam War.
He had lived in Hinesville for 10 years. He
was a member of the PresbyterianChurch.
Survivors includehis wife, Jackie; children,
Kathy Kamphuis and Robert Kamphuis Jr.,
both of Lancaster,N.Y.; stepchildren,Robin
Phillips of Midway, Dana Mullins of Atlanta,
Ga., and Ron Long of Savannah, Ga.; his
mother, HenriettaBeckman of Holland; and a
sister, Barbara Wilson of Holland.
Wednesday, Nov.
4, 1998.
More information
will appear in the next issue of nezvs from Hope
College.
Floyd Folkert '39, who died on Wednesday,
Nov. 18, 1998. More informationwill appear in
various cultures while living in Ireland, St.
Kitts, Canada and Switzerland.
In addition to their four children, they are
survived by seven grandchildren:Geneva,
Beth, Emily, Kayla, Molly, Bob and Colin.
Alma's survivors also include a brother, Roy D.
Zimmerman.
Alma Zimmerman '54 Milne of Fairview
Wednesday,Sept. 2, 1998.
Marjorie Last '41 Munson of Hutchinson
Island, Fla., died on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1998.
She was 80.
She was a native of Holland, Mich., and
graduated from Holland High School. She was
an elementary teacher in the Holland Public
Schools from 1960 to 1982.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
has been received of the death of
David P. Karsten '51, who died on Tuesday,
Dec. 1, 1998. More informationwill appear in
Park, Ohio, died on
William H. Coons '41, who died on
C-Span.
Alma and Bob met and married in 1960. By
1968 they had four children:Robert John,
Thomas David, Ruth Joy and Mar)' Elizabeth.
In 1994 they decided to retire and began
many travels. They enjoyed experiencing
Word
will appear in the next issue of news from Hope
College.
From 1957 to 1960, she worked in the neurosurgical section at University Hospital,
becominghead nurse. In 1961, she became a
full-time mother.
She was active in many social and religious
organizations,
and enjoyed playing the piano,
singing, swimming, ice skating and watching
She was 66.
She and her husband Robert Milne, who was
67, died in the crash of Swissair Flight 11 1 in the
Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia, Canada. They
were among the 229 people killed when the
plane went down.
She was born on Aug. 20, 1932, in Cleveland,
Ohio, to Adolph and- Ethel Eppink
Zimmerman. She graduated from Rocky River
/
tic
melanoma. She was 54.
She was bom in Oak Park,
111.,
and graduat-
ed from Timothy Christian High School in 1962.
She was a member of Alpha Gamma Phi at
Hope.
She taught preschool, elementaryschool and
special education classes in Illinois and
Michigan. She had a love for children's literature and was instrumental in setting up the
Media Center at Gun Lake Community Church,
which has been named in memory of her. She
enjoyed gardening and walking, and had a
special love for the outdoors.
Survivors include her husband of 33 years,
Robert '66; their children, Matthew '93 of
Ashbum, Va., and Amy '95 of Middleville; and
sisters,Nancy Grabinski '63 Evers of Martin,
Mich., and Karen Grabinski '69 VanWingeren
of Carlinville,111.
Sylvia Loop '66 Smith of Dolton,111., who died
on Sunday, March 2, 1997.
Survivorsinclude her husband, Louis Smith
'57.
Richard Traylor'80, who died on Monday, Dec.
7, 1998. More informationwill appear in the
next issue of news from Hope College.
Velda Blair '32 Van Hartesveldt,who died on
Wednesday,Nov. 25, 1998. More information
will appear in the next news from Hope College.
Ivan.
Survivorsinclude her children, Sandra,
Richard and Raymond.
Judith K. Grabinski '66 Smit of Middleville,
Mich., died on Friday, Nov. 6, 1998, of metasta-
J’S,
Harold Van Wieren '49 of Holland, Mich.,
died on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1998. He was 74.
He was bom on Sept. 9, 1924, to Henry and
Dean Van Wieren, and graduated from Holland
Christian High School in 1942. He spent
three-and-a-halfyears in the U.S. Air Force,
servingin World War II.
While attendingHope, he played basketball
and football,and also varsity baseball for three
years. He was a member of the Cosmopolitan
Fraternity.
In 1946 he married the former Virginia
Brower, who survives him.
He had been a principal at Honor, New Era
and Shelby high schoolsin Michigan. In 1966,
he returned to Holland and taught mathematics
at West Ottawa High School.
He was also footballcoach and athletic
trainer. He had officiated all sports at the high
Hope’s reason
school level for 34 years.
In
addition to his wife, survivors include
two
sons, Howard and Diane Van Wieren of
Holland,and Greg and Kathleen Van Wieren of
Holland; a daughter, Vonda and Tom
Mroczkowskiof Muskegon, Mich.; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren;
brothers and
sisters, Clarence and Janet Van Wieren of
The college seeks to develop the growth of
each student as a competent, creative, and
compassionate person. Its design is to provide
complete opportunity for the fulfillment of
each individual student, not only for his or her
a
what can be given
service to God and humanity.
self-gratification, but also for
to others in
Holland, Mrs. Les (Loretta) Fineoutof Traverse
City, Mich., and Della and Harry Aalderink of
Saugatuck, Mich.; a sister-and brother-in-law,
Jennie and Jim Vande Vusse of Holland; and
nephews and nieces.
William J. Ver Hey '50, who died on Friday,
Dec. 4, 1998. More informationwill appear in
Frieda VanderSchoor'34 Wiegerink, who died
on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1998. More information
will appear in the next news from Hope College.
Alyce Mansen '33 Wolf, who died on Monday,
July 20, 1998. More informationwill appear in
the next news from Hope College.
Contributions from alumni and friends touch each and every student
on campus. They support dedicated faculty and
facilities,
staff,
well-equipped
Word has been received of live death of
Cathie Northouse '73 Yokom, who died on
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1998. More informationwill
appear in the next issue of news from Hope
College.
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join others in being a
Hope supporter?
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The family of Orion Eckert, who was born
and died on Friday, Nov. 13, 1998.
Survivors include his parents, John Eckert
'87 and Wendy Eckert of Andros, Bahamas.
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NFHC December 1998
The Bultman Era
A vision
By
James
E.
Bultman ’63
Hope
of
come
to
Hope's next president shares thoughts on leadership
and the blend of faith and scholarship.
when measured against the totality of
knowledge. We need to discover how to
Leadership...
We know
there. It can be seen, felt,
on the basis of leadership. This
is
leadership?Perhaps it can best
Leadershipis the art and science of inspiring
others to reach their full potential in the pursuit
common
vision.
Permit me to expand brieflyon several
key words in my definition.The artistry of
leadershipis apparent to
creativity
and
all
who observe the
style of various leaders.
No
two leaders function precisely the same.
There is an art, a style, a charisma that is
unique to each leader. In his best-selling
books on leadership.Max De Pree empha-
of leadershipthat characterizes effective
leaders. Hendrix and King imply that while
the artistry of leadership is "terribly illusive"
the science of it is not
"mysterious."There
November provided
an occasion for Dr. James E. Bultman
’63 to share his thoughts for Hope
College as the coming years unfold.
A visit to
campus
in
Certain interpersonalskills, for example, are
crucialto effective leadership. Leaders do
people with dignity and respect.
Leaders do praise publicly and criticize pri-
vately. Leaders do initiate reconciliation.
And, leaders do show an interest in others,
facilitating their development and helping
them to reach their full potential. They are
visible and they create passion, expectation,
and joy in their interactionswith others.
In the inaugural issue of The Presidency,
Frank Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell
University says, "the President is the per-
sonal embodiment of the institution's
values. The successful president accepts
that high obligation." To be most effective
the leader should be for others an example
worthy of emulation.She should stand up
for her convictions— for what is good, right,
just and pure.
Leadership, of course, does not take place
vacuum. Leaders surround themselves
has been and where
now before one formulates what it can be. This requires time
for dreaming,dialoguing and refining with
all of the constituencies. Once defined, the
vision and mission, including the core
values of the institution, must be articulated
it is
often and with conviction by the leader.
Leadership.. .at the Christian
Colleges are educational institutions.As
such their primary goal is to develop the
mind, the intellect. A college is not a business; the goal is not to make a profit, though
there is a desire to be good stewards of
resources. A collegeis not an entertainment
enterprise. It is hoped, even desired, that
students will have fun in college and that it
will be an enjoyable experience for them, but
the purpose is not to throw a party. Nor is
college a sports, music, or theatre factory,
with talentedpeople, place them in the right
though lessons learned in these arenas are
often very important for all of life. A college
is not even a church, though obviously we
treasure the church's importanceand even
engage in many of the same ministries.As a
place of higher education, the primary
positions,and build a team out of them.
John Gardner says:
the leadership that can be called effec-
involves a number of individuals acting in a
team relationship
.
.
.
The important thing
is
not
that the leader cover all bases, but that the team
collectivelydoes.
Finally, leaders
what
have a
— a vision
become. It is
vision
the organization can
a
very close relation-
RCA collegesshould
with a broad brush bring a Reformed
My
vision for the educational experiences
at Christian liberal arts colleges is
broader
than the primary effort in academics. Just as
I'm impressed with breadth in the academic
program, so do
I
value a breadth of devel-
opmental opportunitiesfor the
overall
collegeexperience.
Most Christian liberal arts collegeshave
long espoused the developmentof the
whole person — mind, body, and spirit.In
reality it is this "package" which allows
these institutionsto stand tall relative to
other institutions. But let us not forget that
church-
as Christianliberal arts institutions the
primary effort and attention are eagerly
given to the intellectualdimension. The
of an essential lack of support by the
es or clarity of mission by the colleges,or
reality, of course, is that exclusive attention
Ashcroft and Kerr claim that of the 3,500 col-
to this dimension
leges and universitiesin this country only
stunted development. What we must strive
about 125 remain genuinely protestant
Christian. Few, like the collegesof the RCA,
for then, is a balance which embraces the
integral nature of the spiritualand recog-
maintain a covenantal relationship with
their denomination.Colleges that are "affiliated" with a denomination or are referred
to as "church related" fall within a very
broad spectrum from lock-step allegianceto
nizes the primacy of the academic,while
ent worth of the physical and social. To
no relationshipat
efforts from all of us.
all.
“What we must
embraces the
strive
would
lead to a rather
understandingand appreciating the inherdeliver such an education is a high and
noble calling,deserving of the very best
for... is
Although there can be many
Hope's new vision statementindicates
visible fea-
tures of the Christian dimension on college
a desire to be the leading Christian liberal
campuses such as Chapel, Bible studygroups, FCA chapters and the like, the
primary distinctiveof the Christian liberal
arts college in the country. Given the
talents of this faculty there is unlimited
arts college is bringing a Christian perspec-
examples of ecumenical Christian colleges
that combine the very best in scholarship
with an unapologeticcommitment to the
faith and an unwavering attention to
wholesome living. Shaping this vision
with the Hope community to fit the
unique aspects of Hope College presents
an exciting leadership opportunity.It stirs
transforming and equipping
The process, the quest for knowledge
becomes all-important.None of us, no
matter how productive, will know much
balance which
integral nature of the spiritual and
pursue scholarship,and for administration
and staff to lead, support and facilitatethe
teaching/learning process.
a
recognizes the primacy of the academic, while
understanding and appreciating the inherent worth
of the physical and social. To deliver such an
education is a high and noble calling, deserving of
the very best efforts from all of us.”
tive to the various disciplines.With the
freedom of searching for truth comes the
able for this vision to be that of the leader
NFHC December 1998
began with
colleges have a
ship with their foundingchurches.Because
responsibility
and privilegefor students is to
study and leam, for faculty to teach and
not likely, necessary, or perhaps even desiralone. A vision begins with what is. It's best
to know historicallywhere the institution
prestigious,
faith.
Liberal Arts College
in a
for
practices.
perhaps both, they gradually drifted apart.
On this the record of history is clear.
are behaviors that will enhance or diminish
leadership regardlessof style.
tive
Christian perspective to their programs and
college? Most of the colleges and universities in this country, including the most
ference among leaders, so there is a science
of
young person'shuman potential
developedas possibleif the
stewardship of his life is to honor God. God is
Lord of all; all truth is HLs truth and so our
mandate as scholars is to leam about all
aspects of life. The enduringcompetencies
liberalarts colleges seek to develop— the
ability to think clearly and creatively, judge
wisely, and communicate effectively— will
as fully
But what about the Christian liberal arts
But just as surely as there are artisticdif-
Most
tant. All of a
must be
serve students well in any calling.
sizes this art.
treat all
of Mere Christianity the
attentiongiven to teaching. Rather, empha-
be defined as follows:
of a
quality Christian education. So in the spirit
research university with oftentimes token
unrealized potentialor worse.
is
liberal arts institution is neithera Bible
college with a rather singular focus nor a
for corporations and institutions, indeed all
organizations.Effectiveleadership brings
satisfyingachievement;lack of it leads to
What
designed to prepare more for life than for a
specificjob — and that is infinitelymore impor-
A
also true
to the Christian
sized here is the effective teaching of a
arts education is designed to do this!
fall
commitment
broad-based, inter-related curriculum
continue to leam over a lifetime. A liberal
experienced.Leadership stimulatespurposeful productivity. Nations rise and
When
denominational
tie this should be honored and nurtured.
The RCA, for example, enjoys a relationship
with its three colleges. Although this is not
a narrow, prescriptiverelationship,it is a
covenental one as outlined in the "Covenant
of Mutual Responsibilities."
At its heart the
churchescovenant to support the colleges
and the colleges covenant to provide a
leam and kindle a zest for learningso we can
if it's
cal, intentional
of
the Christian
mind.
There are some Christian colleges which
foster a rather parochial, indoctrinating,
even suffocating stance in their approach.
Personally preferred is a vibrant, ecumeni-
potential for this. But, there are very
my
few
soul!
m
The Bultman Era
Presidential passages
A brief survey of challenges and highlights
from Hope's first 10 presidencies.
1
1
^
A
PHIUP PHELPS
First President,
Hope
'JR.
1866-1878
Sbon-inthewildem^.
Appointed prwapalofthe
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Holland Academy m 1859,
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he has connechons tha p
destroys
much
of
o
supp0rt for
f
Hohand.
AME VENNEMA
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the
team
_
Irwin j.
it
is
a
coup m convinang philanthropist Andrew
finanrf^0
.
only
SS,™816
some
1,300 in the first years
of the
presidency.Massive
construction follows;
first president with a Ph.D., he also hires
1918-1931
The
down
college's fortunes suffer
and do not improve when
World War II enlistment
keeps male enrollment low.
With overall enrollment
I
to about 400 students, there is
even
talk of
brmg in
Program, which
closing Hope's doors. Dr. Withers helps
the
that he
Anny
Specialized Training
in turn helps
%
A.
VANDERWERF
keep the college runrung.
of the nation's top 10
Gordon
’37
j.
van wylen
Eighth President,1963-1970
Ninth President, 1972-1987
A turbulent and
The college enters the 1970s
with a certain ambivalence
concerningits character.
He helps make Hope's
activist time
nationallyextends locally, as
students protest campus
policies like
mandatory
chapel and become involved
in broader issues, such as
demonstratingon behalf of
Civil
^Shte'
role in developing the strong reputation Hope
focus deliberateby crafting
- —
by
,
a mission statement that
emphasizes academic excellence in a Christian
context. The era sees a building boom that
ranges from the completionof Peale through the
construction of the Van Wylen Library. Hope's
reputation grows.
program enjoys today.
JOHN H. JACOBSON
10th President, 1987-1999
j
^
The student body continues
A-
Dr.
James
I1™
President,
The story
of
E.
___
receive national acclaim,
in a
s*
_
bultman
W
1999-
Hope's newest
president has
Hope
should become. Studente,
facultyand programs ahke fj
!
_
to grow, leading to discussion of just how large
M
’09
1931-1945
during the Great Depression,
Student Army Training
Corps, helping to fill and
Hope^chaêfSton
bull,
WYNAND WICHERS
Sixth President,
several talented young scholars. The college's
reputation grows, and in 1957 The Chicago
m
he beaiS a resemblance-to
GymnaSlUm
In the closing months of the
war, Hope hosts a unit of
CALVIN
lubbers ’17
As former GIs flood the
I
desperately needed.
_
nation's campuses, enrollment more than trebles to
Tribune names Hope one
co-ed colleges.
1868)
he possesses business experience that his predecessors
lacked, and at a time when
Dimnent
Fifth President,
the first toe,
KOLLEN (Hope
Hope's first lay president,
effortT8 ^ $f Per/6ar ^ 3920)- He âds the
effort to construct the Memorial Chapel and
Seventh President, 1945-1963
Hope's
and
paid the remainfog'cS
v, hmrselfwhenthe Great Depressionhit
enlist
fatoWorU^b
campus. For
I
fI
following the nation'sentry
lean,
A
J
for violatingthe rule in 1913. The students
Hope men
still
V<m Vleck Hall). Church support from "the
West" is disrupted by the denomination s secession troubles.Even so, construction of the
President's Home and the start of Graves Hall
suggest the shape of things to come.
_
bans
ever-more-popularath-
inherits a policy that
his tenure.) Enrollment drops as
are
whether or not Hope will
continue to operate is an
open question (the college
even has trouble raising $50
to install lightning rods on
d.
(Hope 1896)
during school terms, and
with faculty support suspends the men's basketball
___
Third President, 1893-1911
Edward
letic teams from traveling
___
_
(Hope 1879)
Fourth President, 1911-1918
He
G J.
Second President,1878-1893
11 Times
an ill-funded
is
CHARLES SCOTT
still
to
be
Sfl
Like Pollen, he
will usher
new century
in a
dunng
his tenure; unlike
new nulletoun^WtoTh^n
^
'
alS° USher
a multi-culturalworld.
m
NFHC December 1998

1998. Volume 30, Number 03. December

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