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Hope College Non-Profit 137 E. 121h St. Organization Holland, Ml 49423 U.S. Postage PAID ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Hope College DECEMBER 1992 PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 Liberal arts learning Grounded in the liberal arts, a Hope education provides students with not only career skills but the background needed to succeed in a changing, connected world. More on the topic, and on other “Dimensions of Hope,” can he found on pages seven through 14. Also Inside Joan Conway of the music faculty is the Michigan Music Teacher Association's Senior Marcia Vandersall teacher of the year. (left) and junior Alicia See page six. Mendenhall raced their way to the cross country nationals in a fall season sports highlight. See page 20. Campus Notes Volume 24, No . 3 December 1992 Publishedfor Alumni, Friends and Plaque honors Willard C. Wichers Parents of Hope College by the Office of Public Relations. Should you receive more than one copy, please pass it on to \ plaque honoring the late Willard C. someone in your community.An l\. Wichers ’3 1 for his work on behalf overlap of Hope College constituencies of the Holland, Mich., community and Hope makes duplication sometimes College was dedicated on Thursday, Oct. 15, unavoidable. outside the entrance to the Joint Archives of Holland, on the ground level of the college’s Editor: Thomas L Renner '67 Van Wylen Library. Editor: Gregory S. Olgers '87 Wichers, who died at age 82 on May 18, Managing 1991, was active throughout his life both ContributingWriters: Lynne Powe promoting the understanding of local history '86, Scott Runyon '93, Mike Theme '92 and strengthening the community’s ties to Layout: Holland Litho Service,Inc. the Netherlands.He was an involved Printing: News Web Printing Service of alumnus of the college, and had served both Greenville,Mich. as Hope’s first directorof alumni relations Contributing Photographers: Jim and as a member of the Board of Trustees. Dostie, Lou Schakel During the dedication, Hope faculty member Dr. Elton J. Bruins ’50 discussed news from Hope College is published Wichers ’s importanceto the area. Dr. during February, April, June, August, Bruins is the Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkink October, and December by Hope Professor Emeritus of Religion at Hope, a College, 137 East 12th Street, Holland, former friend of Wichers’sand an enthusiast Michigan 49423-3698. A plaque honoring the late Willard C. Wichers '31 was dedicated by Hope College at the of local history. Postmaster: Send address changes to “Bill took the biblical mandate to entrance to the Joint Archives of Holland on Thursday,Oct. 15, 1992. Pictured from left to news from Hope College, Holland, MI ‘remember’ seriously,”Dr. Bruins said. “Due right in the foreground are Deborah Doeden ’88 DuMez, Tim DuMez ’88 (Wichers' s 49423-3698 to his work, we are aware of Hope’s history, grandson), Nell Wichers (Wichers’ s widow) and (at the plaque) Hope College President Dr. Holland history and Dutch- American John H. Jacobson. Hope College Office of Public Relations history. In the unveiling of this plaque we DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. have the opportunity to renew our memory founding of the Netherlands Museum and in of Hope College; Ann Kiewel, directorof Thomas L. Renner ’67, Director also of the great contributionshe made as a his service as Director of the Midwest the Holland HistoricalTrust; and the Rev. Gregory S. Olgers ’87, Assistant trastee and friend of Hope College.” Division of the NetherlandsInformation Paul Smith ’72, directorof the Beardslee Director The plaque reads: “In honor of the life Service.” The plaque includes a photo of Library and assistant professor of theological Lynne Powe ’86, Assistant Director and work of Willard C. Wichers, longtime Wichers. bibliography at Western Theological Barbara Schipper, Office secretary of the Board of Trustees of Hope In addition to Dr. Bruins, those present at Seminary. The Joint Archives of Holland Manager College. He served as a leading figure in the the ceremony included Wichers’swife of 54 contains the historical collectionsof the Karen Bos, Secretary preservation of the Dutch heritage of the years, Nell Wichers; Neal Berghoef, mayor college, seminary and Holland Historical Diana Fowler, Receptionist - Scheduler Holland, Michigan,community through the of Holland; Dr. John H. Jacobson, president Trust. Notice of Nondiscrimination of suffering that there will be on the earth. — Joel E. Cohen, professor of Hope College is committed to the “People have been making guesses about populationsand head of the Laboratory of concept of equal rights, equal the agriculturalcarrying capacity of the Populationsat Rockefeller University, opportunities and equal protection under earth since 1897. The estimates in the last during the address “The Future of the the law. Hope College admits students 50 years or so have ranged from a low of Human Population: What Do We Know of any race, color, national and ethnic 902 million, made in 1945, to a high of 147 and How Do We Know It?” origin, sex, creed or handicap to all the billion, an estimate made in 1967. Recent He spoke on Tuesday, Oct. 27, as a Phi rights, privileges,programs and activities estimates range from three billion on the Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, and visited generally accorded or made available to low side — if everybody in the world Hope for two days. In addition to his students at Hope College, including the Quote, unquote is an eclecticsampling to live as well as public address, he informally with wanted most Americans met administration of its educational policies, of things said at and about Hope College. do up to 30 to 40 billion on the high side. students and faculty and took part in — admissionpolicies, scholarship and loan “How fast are we going towards those classroom discussions. programs, and athletic and other school- “The general qualitativeargument limits now? The answer is that the current His address went on to note that in many administered programs. With regard to [concerning human population growth] rates of human population growth in both tvoys statistics concerning population employment, the College complies with has just two parts. percent per year and in absolute numbers growth are misleadingand long-term all legal requirements prohibiting “One is that the earth’s carrying per year have no historical precedent. Prior projections are difficult if not impossible to discrimination in employment. capacity— its ability to support people at to 1950 there were never, ever in the make. For example, poorer nations have desirable levels of well-being — is not history of humankind rates of global higher rates of populationgrowth than On the cover infinite. There are some finite but population growth like this. wealthy ones, with the result that, if every currently unknown limits on the ability of “At the moment, the population growth country’s rate remains constant, poorer A potpourri of items in our feature represent a variety the earth to support people; to provide rate is about 1.7 or 1.8 percent a year. In nations will yield more people reproducing photograph of disciplinesat Hope, from art, to them with water, food, shelter, numbers it’s about 100 million additional under the higher rate, eventually chemistry, to music, to physical recreationalspace, clothing.. .There’s people a year. So it takes 2.5 years to add increasing the average rate. education, to religion — and the list goes some limit. We don’t know what it is, but the population of another United States to Cohen emphasized that the issues of on. As a liberal arts college,Hope it isn’t infinite. the earth. be treated in isolation. population cannot requires students to enroll in courses in “Second, the rate at which we approach “This has never, ever, ever happened “They depend on economics, they depend many fields, in addition to selectingan that carrying capacity strongly affects how before. We are imposing new stresses on on environment and they depend on academic major. The goal is to stimulate easily we can adapt to the limits that we the earth and we are going towards the culture,” he said. the growth of students as people and to encounter. The rate matters, and a slower population ceiling faster, in absolute Support for his visit came from the prepare them to take their place in the rate is easier. numbers, than ever before in history. I college’s Cultural Affairs Committee and world as responsible and competent citizens. In the story’ "Liberal arts “Everybody knows that going down a argue that we cannot keep growing at the departments of computer science, education a guide for life," on page flight of stairs one step at a time is present rates more than another century. mathematics and sociology. seven, members of the faculty share their generally easier on the body than going “So within the next century mankind has thoughts on the value of the process. down a flight of stairs all at once. And to go through a tremendous transitionfrom At lower left, Joan Conway of the music everybody knows that going around a growing very rapidly to remaining faculty works with junior Matt Kline of bend on a highway is easier at 25 miles an essentiallystationary in numbers, though Schoolcraft,Mich.