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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons News from Hope College Hope College Publications 1996 News from Hope College, Volume 27.5: April, 1996 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college Part of the Archival Science Commons Recommended Citation Hope College, "News from Hope College, Volume 27.5: April, 1996" (1996). News from Hope College. 126. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college/126 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Hope College Publications at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in News from Hope College by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 159 years Olympic Inside This Issue of Hope learning Symphonette “down under” ........ 2 Serious clowning . ....... 3 Alumni Weekend events ................ 4 Graduation news ............................ 5 Please see Please see page 16. page five. PUBLISHED BY HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 Hope College 141 E. 12th St. Non-Profit Holland,Ml 49423 Organization U.S. Postage PAID ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Hope College Campus Notes Symphonette to go "down under" SYMPHONETTE DOWN UNDER: The Hope College Symphonette will travel to Australia and New Zealand for its 1996 spring tour. The tour will run May 8-21, and will include performancesin Sydney, Wollongong and Melbourne in Austraha,and Auckland and Hamilton in New Zealand. There will also be opportunities for sightseeing in the performance cities as well as in between, in addition to "homestays"while in both Austraha and New Zealand. The trip grew out of connections that the Symphonette's director. Dr. Robert Ritsema '57, made while in Australia during his spring, 1995, sabbatical. His sabbatical trip, in turn, had its roots in an earher concert tour he had conducted with the Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra. Most important, he noted, is a long- standing interestin taking the Symphonette down under. "They are such wonderful people and look to America very positively in terms of their musical activities," said Dr. Ritsema, who is a professor of music. "Which is not to say that the/ re inferior in their musical programs. They have some marvelousgroups over there." In May, the Symphonette will conduct its first tour of Australia and New Zealand. “Quote, unquote” "Harry Truman once said, 'It's amazing Quote, unquote is an how much you can accomplishif you don't care who gets the credit.' So how much more eclectic sampling of things can we accomplish if we’re not in a competi- the cover said at and about Hope tive mode, but in a collaborativemode with On College. each other? Members of the "Dew Creiv" show their spirit during the Final Four in Salem, Va. The paint on their "We also need to work reflectively faces is functionalas ivellas decorative.Try "reading" them... The story of the men's basketballteam's "Any time we talk about the future we smarter. We need to take the time to stand record-settingseason is on pages eight and nine. have to recognize that change is a way of life. back and set priorities— 'What is important At top center are this year's five faculty retirees, -who have 159 years of service to Hope among Remember that 'permanent whitewateT that I for me to contribute with my life? What is them. Who's who, and their stories, are on page 16. talked about earlier. importantfor me to do? Of all the things I At top right, members of the Baker Scholars observe a Hanes Olympic promotion as part of a "Perhaps we should say leadership is the observe around me, which most need my Winter Break trip to Atlanta, Ga., that provided behind-the-scenes perspective on the forth- way we make the future. And what kind of time?' coming Summer Games. leadership is it going to require of us as "We've all got to, as leaders for the future, people, as women? find time to stand back and reflect so that we Volume 27, No. 5 April 1996 Hope College "It doesn't mean a 'command and control' can keep perspective and keep priorities and Published for Alumni, Friends and Office of Public Relations style of leadership; it will be differentthan keep the salient issues in front of us. I have a Parents of Hope College by the Office of DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. that. Peter Vaill, in his book [Managingas a friend who says the value of a liberal arts edu- Public Relations. Should you receive Thomas L. Renner '67 performing art: New ideas for a world of chaotic cation is, if you knock on yourself there's more than one copy, please pass it on to change] writing about Whitewater, Director of Public Relations permanent someone there to answer. There's a person someone in your community. An overlap Gregory S. Olgers '87 says instead of just working harder, and inside your head that has things to talk about. of Hope College constituencies makes becoming workaholics, we need to do three "We also need to be working spiritually duplication sometimes unavoidable. Director of Information Services things: we need to work collectively smarter, smarter. This may or may not be religion for Lynne M. Powe '86 we need to work reflectively smarter and we you, but it means reaching way down deep Editor Thomas L. Renner '67 Alumni Director need to work spiritually smarter. inside of you for your sense of authenticity, Managing Editor Gregory S. 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If we Alonso, Jim Dostie, Andres Ted Hope College is committed to the concept of I see them as communitiesof which I'm a part have to make tough decisions, we make them Jungblut, Lou Schakel, Dreio Torres equal rights, equal opportunities and equal and I need to reach out and be more collabo- on principles. if s very difficult to find a When ContributingWriters: protection under the law. Hope College admits rative within those environments.' way through that time of whitewater, you Glyn Williams '98 students of any race, color, national and ethnic "In the 1995 freshman data that I have have principlesand you have values that are origin,sex, creed or disabilityto all the rights, mentioned several times, it was encouraging guiding how you approach those decisions." news from Hope College is published privileges,programs and activitiesgenerally and interesting to me that about 70 percent of — Excerpts from "Women Shaping the during February, April, June, August, accorded or made available to studentsat men freshman felt they were equally good at Future," presentedby Dr. Susan Komives of the October, and December by Hope Hope College, including the administration of competitiveness and cooperativeness. About graduate faculty at The Universityof Maryland College, 141 East 12th Street, Holland, its educationalpolicies, admission policies, 75 percent of the women felt they were good College Park as part of the 12th annual Women's Michigan 49423-3698. scholarship and loan programs, and athletic at being cooperative,and were less interested Week at Hope. Women's Week is scheduled in and other school-administeredprograms. Postmaster:Send address changes to With regard to employment,the College in competition.Men and women together recognition of women and their contributions, and news from Hope College, Holland, MI complies with all legal requirements both share skills of being cooperative and col- features a variety of public presentations, open 49423-3698 prohibiting discrimination in employment. laborativethat we can bring to this agenda of classes and sponsoredevents. March was national working collectively smarter. Women's History Month. NFHC April 1996 Campus Notes CHIMING IN: The Dimnent Memorial Chapel chimes will be rededicated on Saturday, May 4. The ceremony will be held at 2:30 p.m. outside the chapel, near the northeast comer, following the Alumni Festival. Serious clowning The chapel's original chimes are being restored. The 20-tome chimes were built by J.C. Deagan Inc. of Chicago, 111., and were dedicated on June 17, 1929. The company I here have been built about 500 sets of the college's variety of serious reasons for chime, known as a tubular bell carillon, between 1916 and 1957. clowning around The effort to restore the chapel's tower through a new effort of voice was spearheadedby Hope senior Ryan the Children’s After Cook of Grand Rapids, Mich. School Achievement TODAY'S CHOIR: Fourteen members of (CASA) Program at the 57-voice Hope College Chapel Choir made an unscheduled appearance on NBC's Hope College. Today Show on Tuesday, March 19. While in New York City during the choir's CASA's new program uses clowns to spring break tour, they donned their choir help teach its elementary-agestudents robes and joined the crowd that typically about the dangers of substance abuse. The gathers during Today's live, morning telecast, approach is intended to be a since the show often provides a glimpse of its non-threatening,entertaining way to outdoor audience.