The Voice

Volume 66 Issue 3 Spring/Summer 2021 Article 2

Let's Connect

Sarah Moss Dordt University, [email protected]

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This From the Editor is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at Digital Collections @ Dordt. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Voice by an authorized editor of Digital Collections @ Dordt. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Moss: Let's Connect FROM THE EDITOR FROM THE JAMIN VER VELDE ('99) VELDE VER JAMIN LET'S CONNECT n a sunny yet unseasonably Ochilly day in late June, 257 sixth through eighth grade students arrived on campus. Dordt Discovery Days hadn’t been in-person since 2019, and the campers were eager to stay in the dorms, participate in classes like Survivor Siouxnami and Cooking with Karen, and make new friends. In many ways, 2021 Dordt Discovery Days gave middle schoolers a glimpse of what being a Dordt student could be like. It also gave Dordt faculty and GAME CHANGERS staff a chance to see Dordt anew—to teach classes in a way that Brock Huard, a former Huskies and veteran college football appeals to a younger audience, but analyst who now works for FOX Sports, spoke at the Game Changer Christian Sports Summit. Huard was one of several speakers, including Wayne Simien, a former University also to form new connections with of Kansas basketball player, and Ron Brown, University of Nebraska's director of player students who might one day return development. The summit, which took place in June, sought to equip and inspire current to campus as college freshmen. and future athletic directors, coaches, and teachers in faith leadership. This issue of The Voice of Dordt University looks at the many ways Defenders form connections. Professor of Language Studies Dr. Rikki Brons and fi ve Dordt students IN THIS ISSUE used their Spanish speaking and writing skills to connect with elementary students, hospital 5 The four faculty 8 With the lowest 22 Five seniors who patients, the formerly incarcerated, members who are per foot utility cost studied Spanish during and more. KDCR 88.5 FM spent fi ve retiring this year have in the state among their four years at Dordt decades serving as a bridge between given more than 100 Iowa Association of gained new perspectives Dordt and Sioux County. Classes years of cumulative Independent Colleges on the importance of like History of the Muslim World and service to Dordt. and Universities, Dordt language learning. Methods of Teaching STEM in K-12 works hard to be Schools encourage students to look stewardly with resources. beyond themselves and consider 30 Liz diff erent perspectives. (Friesema, ’05) Hoek Making connections, forming Students now and her family show 10 friendships, being bridge builders– have access to a screen- the love of Jesus these are wonderful ways to printing studio, thanks through adoption. show compassion and to live to the work of Graphic out our faith. They also help us Design Instructor Vaughn continue fulfi lling Dordt’s mission Donahue. 32 to “work eff ectively toward Christ- A few adjustments 6 Herm Van centered renewal in all aspects of were made to this Niejenhuis (’71) contemporary life.” year’s commencement 16 What is the lasting helped to bring ceremony so that the legacy of KDCR 88.5 FM? hockey to Dordt’s class of 2021 would campus both as be able to graduate in a student and as a person. coach. SARAH MOSS ('10), EDITOR

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