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The Arts Center Stage • Critical Issues Explored • College Rankings news from hope college

Volume 39, No. 3 December 2007

On the Cover As we celebrate the arts and arts education at Hope in this issue, we feature three Hope mainstays from December 2006: the Chapel Choir, Dimnent Memorial Chapel and Christmas Vespers.

Volume 39, No. 3 December 2007 Published for Alumni, Friends and Parents of Hope College by the Office of Public and Community Relations. Should you receive more than one copy, please pass it on to someone in your community. An overlap of Hope College constituencies makes duplication sometimes unavoidable.

Editor Gregory S. Olgers ’87

Layout and Design “Quote, unquote” Wesley A. Wooley ’89 Printing uote, unquote is an eclectic Cinema,” every student takes a course that IPC Print Services of St. Joseph, Mich. emphasizes “doing” the arts – “Acting for the sampling of things said at and Contributing Writers Q Non-Major” or “Introduction to Creative Writing: Greg Chandler about Hope College. Poems,” for example – or accumulates two Heather Vander Plaat credits in studio and performance courses such as “College Chorus” or “Modern Dance.” Contributing Photographers Across 2007-08, News from Hope Erik Alberg ’90, Paul Anderson ’88, Rob Kurtycz, All four arts departments are accredited—by College is examining a variety of Lou Schakel ’71, Marco Spelton the National Association of Schools of Art and distinctive and outstanding aspects Design, Dance, Music, and Theatre respectively— Hope College Office of Public Relations of a Hope education, both within making Hope unique among the nation’s DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698 the classroom and beyond it. As an phone: (616) 395-7860 undergraduate liberal arts colleges. Accreditation introduction to each issue’s theme, fax: (616) 395-7991 indicates that each department meets national [email protected] “Quote, unquote” is featuring standards for undergraduate and degree programs insights from a member of the and remains continuously involved in the Thomas L. Renner ’67 campus community. Here is Dr. Associate Vice President development of new standards and best practices for Public and Community Relations William Reynolds, dean for the arts in its area. and humanities and professor of English, with The departments furnish students many Gregory S. Olgers ’87 reflections on the arts. opportunities to collaborate closely with their Director of News Media Services professors and their peers as part of the process Lynne M. Powe ’86 culminating in their performing or exhibiting Associate Director of Public and Hope College is committed to the belief that the products of their art. Since all exhibitions, Community Relations the arts are essential to the richness and fullness recitals, and concerts are open to the public, Kathy Miller of every human spirit. The four departments in the arts departments enrich both the Hope Public Relations Services Administrator the Fine and Performing Arts Division—Art and and the surrounding community through such Art History, Dance, Music, and Theatre—and events as Christmas Vespers, the spring semester Karen Bos Office Manager the Department of English’s Creative Writing faculty-choreographed dance concert, four main Program take pride in their classroom and studio stage theatre performances a year, the annual teaching, the range and depth of the performance juried student art show, and the DeVos Musical news from Hope College is published during opportunities available to students, and the rich Showcase. April, June, August, October, and December by Hope College, 141 East 12th Street, exposure to the larger artistic world made possible The arts program at Hope is enriched Holland, Michigan 49423-3698 by departmentally-sponsored guest artists, the further by guest artists invited to campus by Great Performance Series, the Visiting Writers the academic departments (often through the Postmaster: Send address changes to news from Hope College, Holland, MI 49423-3698 Series, the exhibition program of the De Pree generous support of the Patrons for the Arts) or gallery, and the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre. by the Great Performance Series or the Visiting The college’s commitment to the arts is Writers Series. While Hope students benefit Notice of Nondiscrimination Hope College is committed to the concept of equal apparent from its general education (core) greatly from attending the performances and rights, equal opportunities and equal protection under curriculum, the set of courses that all students readings of these nationally and internationally the law. Hope College admits students of any race, color, complete before graduation. Hope stands out known artists, even more important are the national and ethnic origin, sex, creed or disability to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally from most liberal arts colleges in having an interactions—the master classes, the lunches, accorded or made available to students at Hope College, arts requirement separate from that for the the question-and-answer sessions—that bring including the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, and athletic and other school- humanities. Hope’s requirement is distinctive in students and artists together. administered programs. With regard to employment, another way: In addition to taking a classroom No doubt about it, the arts are flourishing at the College complies with all legal requirements prohibiting discrimination in employment. course such as “Survey of Jazz” or “Art of the Hope College.

2 News From Hope College CONTENTS NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE Volume 39, No. 3 December 2007

2 “Quote, unquote” Reflections on the arts.

4 Events Activities forthcoming.

5 Campus Scene Highlights from the halls of Hope. 6 6 The Arts in Review Hope’s vibrant arts programs provide meaningful lessons.

10 Faculty/Staff Profile Mary Schakel ‘69 guides summer theatre. 12 10 12 Alumni Profile Jodi James ’97 blends dance and science.

14 Fall Sports Roundup Highlights from the latest season.

18 Ratings Review Perspective on the role of college rankings. 14 20 Critical Discussions Hope’s annual symposium focuses on major issues.

23 From the Archives Voorhees Hall turns 100.

24 Classnotes 20 News of the alumni family. 23 31 A Closing Look Christmas greetings from the President’s Home.

December 2007 3 Events

ADMISSIONS DE PREE GALLERY MUSIC VESPERS ON THE AIR Campus Visits: The Admissions Changing Identity: Recent Faculty Recital—Sunday, Jan. Radio stations around the country Office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 Works by Women Artists from 27: Gabe Southard, flute, Wichers will carry this year’s Vespers p.m. weekdays, and from 9 a.m. Vietnam—Monday, Jan. 7-Friday, Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of service. Please visit the college until noon on Saturdays. Tours Feb. 1 Music, 3 p.m. Admission is free. online for the list or call the and admissions interviews are There will be an opening Guest Artist—Thursday, Jan. 31: Office of Public and Community available during the summer reception on Friday, Jan. 11, Grand Rapids Guitar Quartet, Relations at (616) 395-7860 for as well as the school year. from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Knickerbocker Theatre, 7:30 p.m. more information. Appointments are recommended. Ticket information TBA. Visitation Days offer specific Guest Artist—Friday, Feb. 1: ALUMNI, PARENTS AND FRIENDS programs for prospective students, Rachael Price, jazz, Knickerbocker Regional Events including transfers and high Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 Satellite Basketball school juniors and seniors. The for general admission, $8 for senior Gatherings—Saturday, Jan. 26 programs show students and their citizens, and $6 for children under Gatherings around the parents a typical day in the life of 18 and Hope students with a valid country to watch the 2 a Hope student. The remaining college ID. Tickets are available at p.m. Hope-at-Calvin men’s days for 2007-08 are Monday, Jan. the DeVos Fieldhouse ticket office. basketball game live. 21; Friday, Feb. 1; Monday, Feb. Concerto/Aria Concert—Thursday, Winter Happening—Saturday, 18; and Friday, Feb. 29. Feb. 7: Dimnent Memorial Chapel, Jan. 19 Junior Days: Friday, March 28; 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Alumni Weekend—Friday- Friday, April 4; Friday, April 18 Faculty Recital—Sunday, Feb. 17: Sunday, May 2-4 Pre-Professional Day: Wednesday, Daniel Spencer, trombone, Wichers Includes reunions for every fifth May 21 Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of class, ’43 through ’83. For further information about any Billy Mayer Sabbatical Show— Music, 3 p.m. Admission is free. For more information concerning the Admissions Office event, please call Monday, Feb. 11-Friday, March 7 Guest Artist—Wednesday, above events, please call the Office of (616) 395-7850, or toll free 1-800- Work stemming from Professor Feb. 20: Keith Kirchoff, piano Public and Community Relations at 968-7850; check on-line at www. Mayer’s spring ’07 sabbatical. (lecture/ demonstration), Wichers (616) 395-7860 or the Office of Alumni hope.edu/admissions; or write: Hope There will be an opening Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of and Parent Relations at (616) 395- College Admissions Office; 69 E. reception on Friday, Feb. 15, Music, 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. 7250 or visit the Alumni Association 10th St.; PO Box 9000; Holland, MI; from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Jazz Ensemble/Combos— Web site at: www.hope.edu/alumni/. Thursday, Feb. 21: Dimnent 49422-9000. The gallery is open Mondays through Memorial Chapel, 7:30 p.m. TRADITIONAL EVENTS Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Opera Workshop—Thursday, Feb. DANCE and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 28: Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk IDT—Friday-Saturday, Jan. 25-26 Please call the gallery at (616) Hall of Music, 7:30 p.m. Admission Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m. 395-7500 for more information. is free. Tickets are $7 for regular admission Admission to the gallery is free. Symphonette—Friday, Feb. 29: and $5 for senior citizens and Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 7:30 students, and will be available at the THEATRE p.m. Admission is free. door. Crimes of the Heart—Friday- Dance 34—Thursday-Saturday, Saturday, Feb. 15-16, and Feb. 28-March 1 Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 20-23 Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m. By Beth Henley Tickets are $7 for regular admission DeWitt Center, main theatre, 8 p.m. and $5 for senior citizens and Celebration of Undergraduate students, and will be available Ticket prices for Hope College Research and Creative through the DeVos Fieldhouse ticket Theatre productions are $7 for Performance—Friday, March 28 office. regular admission and $4 for senior DeVos Fieldhouse citizens and students, and are Baccalaureate and GREAT PERFORMANCE SERIES available at the DeVos Fieldhouse Commencement—Sunday, May 4 Hot Club of San Francisco, ticket office. On theatre performance jazz—Thursday, Jan. 24: Dimnent nights the theatre lobby ticket office INSTANT INFORMATION in the DeWitt Center will be open Memorial Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Updates on events, news and shortly before the curtain rises. Harlem Quartet, A Sphinx athletics at Hope may be obtained Ensemble, strings—Friday, Feb. Musical Showcase—Monday, 24 hours a day by calling (616) JACK RIDL VISITING WRITERS SERIES 22: Dimnent Memorial Chapel, March 3: DeVos Performance Hall, 395-7888. Updated information 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21—Lewis Nordan Grand Rapids, Mich., 8 p.m. Tickets concerning events and listings Rebecca Schull in Journey into and David Griffith are $10 and are available at the through the end of the spring the Whirlwind—Thursday-Friday, Tuesday, March 11—Mark Yakich DeVos Fieldhouse ticket office. semester are available online at March 27-28: Knickerbocker and Tony D’Souza Chapel Choir Home Concert— www.hope.edu/pr/events.html. Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 16—Karen Joy Monday, March 24: St. Francis Tickets for Great Performance Series Fowler de Sales Catholic Church, corner TICKET SALES events are $17 for regular adult The readings will be at the of 13th Street and Maple Avenue For events with advance ticket admission, $12 for senior citizens Knickerbocker Theatre beginning at 7 in Holland, Mich., 7:30 p.m. sales, the ticket office in the front and members of the Hope faculty and p.m. Live music by the Hope College Admission is free. lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse is staff, and $6 for children under 18 Jazz Chamber Ensemble will precede Honors Band Concert—Saturday, open weekdays from 10 a.m. to and Hope students, and are available the readings beginning at 6:30 p.m. March 29: Dimnent Memorial 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) at the DeVos Fieldhouse ticket office. Admission is free. Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. 395-7890.

4 News From Hope College Campus Scene

INTERNATIONAL HONOR: The Kletz Senior Kevin Steinbach of received the “Bronze” Downers Grove, Ill., has award in the “Retail earned second place in an Sales – Single Stand- international competition Alone Concept/ for translating Japanese. Outlet” category Steinbach was one of of the competition two second-place finishers in recognition of worldwide, receiving the overall excellence in “Distinguished Translation operation. Hope was Award,” for translating materials into English the only institution honored in the category’s from Japanese in the Shizuoka International “Small School” division; the other honorees Translation Competition organized by Shizuoka were in the “Medium School” and “Large Prefecture in Japan. He received the award, which School” divisions. RELAY FOR LIFE: The fifth annual Relay for includes a 300,000 yen prize (approximately More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc Life sponsored by Hope raised a record amount $3,000), in Japan on Saturday, Sept. 29. for the American Cancer Society. “This is the most respected Japanese RESEARCH GATHERING: Hope student More than 700 Hope students, faculty and translation competition in the world. I research was highlighted during a major staff raised $52,426 during the relay, held on commend Kevin for his remarkable regional conference designed to highlight the Friday-Saturday, Oct. 19-20. achievement,” said F. Andy Nakajima, assistant significance of undergraduate scientific research The event consisted of a 12-hour overnight professor of Japanese. “He possesses not only in West Michigan. walk in the Dow Center. Normally held at a high level of understanding of the Japanese More than 40 projects conducted by the Pine Grove, the event was moved indoors language (both modern and classical), but Hope students collaboratively with faculty because of inclement weather, but the change also the esthetic sense of the English language mentors were featured during the Van Andel of venue didn’t deter the participants from to make the sentences come alive. Kevin is Institute’s first annual West Michigan Regional surpassing the previous amount raised by more probably the youngest translator who has won Undergraduate Science Research Conference in than $10,000. such a distinguished international award.” Grand Rapids on Saturday, Oct. 20. Students More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc and faculty from seven colleges and universities and the Van Andel Institute participated in the event, which featured approximately 100 poster VERDICTS RENDERED: SERVICE HONORED: presentations by the participating students. The trial for those accused Junior Jon Van Wyngarden in the 1979 murder of Holland, Mich., was More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc of Hope student Janet named the AmeriCorps “Member of the Month” Chandler has ended with CONTEST WINNER: Freshman Emily Feldhake for October for the state of guilty verdicts for all four of Pickford, Mich., has won the first annual Michigan. defendants. Parents’ Weekend Essay Contest. He received the Chandler was a senior Emily’s essay was selected from among honor from the Michigan and working the night more than 30 entries, and focused on the life Community Service desk at the former Blue lessons that she has learned from her father, Commission (MCSC), Mill Inn in Holland when she was murdered on Martin Feldhake. Emily received a gift certificate which funds the state’s 19 AmeriCorps programs. Jan. 31, 1979. The crime had been unsolved for from the Hope-Geneva Bookstore, and Martin Van Wyngarden is in his second year a quarter century when a Hope communication received this year’s Family Anchors Award. as a part-time AmeriCorps member with class taught by former professor Dr. David The Parents’ Weekend Essay Contest, Good Samaritan Ministries’ “Faith in Youth” Schock produced the documentary Who Killed presented by the Office of Alumni and Parent AmeriCorps program, which is a mentoring Janet Chandler? The program made headlines Relations and the Hope Fund, provides students program serving children from the area’s when it aired in early 2004 and was credited with an opportunity to recognize a parent, middle schools. His service site is Calvary with building awareness of the unsolved guardian or extended family member whose Reformed Church, where he works with youth murder and playing a significant role in presence, endeavors, dedication and care have in the after-school program. He has been prompting law enforcement officials to form contributed to his or her personal development praised for his commitment to the families— a “cold-case” team a few months later to re- and academic success. children and parents alike—who live in the examine the crime. A series of arrests followed More ONLINE www.hope.edu/hopefund/pwessaywinner.htm beginning in February 2006 and led to the trial, community and attend the program. which concluded on Thursday, Nov. 1. Van Wyngarden’s involvement blends A total of six people, five men and one his career interest in working with children HOPE IN PICTURES: Competing in the woman, have been convicted, two through with his commitment to applying his faith to world championships of korfball in the Czech plea agreements and four through the trial. making a difference in his community. He is Republic was the The men were all security guards who had pursuing an elementary and English composite experience of a been staying at the hotel while assisting a major at Hope, intending to teach in an area lifetime for Hope local company during a strike at the time where he hopes to make a difference outside students who of the murder, and the woman was one of the classroom as well. were members Chandler’s co-workers. News reports described More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc of the U.S. team. relationships that had soured and jealousy as Visit our Web photo gallery motives in the crime. DINING AWARD: The DeWitt Center’s Kletz highlighting this News from Hope College published a feature Snack Bar received recognition this summer sport unique to about the documentary and the crime in April in the annual Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards most Americans. 2006. Contest of the National Association of College More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc & University Food Services (NACUFS). More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/athletics/korfball.html

December 2007 5 Campus Profile

It’s not often that one can have it all, but it works just that way in the arts at Hope College.

ope is large enough to offer programs that are broad and deep, H but small enough to provide students with one-on-one attention and a rich variety of opportunities to perform and do art. The faculty are gifted and respected artists and scholars who are also thoroughly committed to the students they teach. And even as students in the arts (art, creative writing, dance, music and theatre) benefit from the strong programs and their outstanding faculty, they learn in a broader context that in turn informs their art and gives them many more options after graduation. Hope is on the map nationally for the quality of its arts programs. The college is one of only a handful of institutions nationwide to be accredited in art, dance, music and theatre, and is the only exclusively undergraduate liberal arts college to hold the distinction. It all starts with the faculty. “The most important aspect of our program is the caliber of our faculty,” said Dr. Margaret Kennedy-Dygas, professor of music and chairperson of the department. She counts off several examples from among her music colleagues— concert tours abroad, appearances at Carnegie Hall and other noted venues, recordings, leaders in their research fields. “You’d be hard pressed to find as many nationally and internationally respected “The dance department was crucial in making musicians as we have at Hope,” she said. “It just doesn’t end.” One advantage of the college’s size is that even as individual faculty my decision to attend Hope. It was difficult members are outstanding artist-teacher-scholars, the departments are finding a college whose program focused equally large enough that students can find mentors for multiple specializations within each discipline. in the four major dance forms (ballet, tap, jazz “I think we’re unique in that we offer through our faculty and basic course instruction a really broad range of artistic materials,” said Steve and modern) like Hope’s program. A lot of dance Nelson, associate professor of art and chairperson of the department. programs focus on either ballet or modern, so The mix of opportunities to perform with excellent classroom instruction is Hope is really unique in that respect.” a deliberate and exceptional characteristic of arts instruction at Hope. Pictured is “The Way Within” by guest choreographer Jon Lehrer during Dance 33 last year. Lindsey Ferguson ’09 dance performance and choreography major, communication minor Fredonia, N.Y.

For more reflections from the students whose insights are included with this story, please visit the expanded coverage online. More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc

6 News From Hope College December 2007 7 “When your topic chooses you, you have to across two nights—paying them accordingly— “We have awesome professors in know how to find out more about it,” because the existing venues suited to such groups “I think I’ve accompanied half a Dr. Sellers said. “I never hear creative writing can’t handle the audience demand. Such a the art department, for both studio students complaining about learning.” facility could also provide performance space dozen different singers in my four art and art history classes. I have “This is the lab. This is the conservatory: for area arts organizations, which in turn would years here in lessons and recitals, loved all of the professors that I the liberal arts curriculum,” she said. “It make even greater variety available to the campus which has been a really valuable supports the other work.” community while also serving West Michigan. have had classes with in the art experience because I’ve decided The multiple programs on campus can The West Michigan audience becomes a key department, in both studio and art also give students in the arts additional career consideration in any conversation concerning to attend graduate school for a history classes. I think they are one options. The departments are seeing a growing the arts at Hope. Even as the college schedules ‘collaborative piano’ degree. Plus, of the main reasons that Hope has number of students pursuing dual majors; its programs with a focus on student learning, I’ve become extremely close to studies in dance and management can open all involved appreciate that the audiences such a strong art program.” a career path in arts management; a major include not only students, faculty and staff, but all my singers.” Ashlea Guernsey ’08 in French can add crucial language skills to a members of the broader community. The recent Chris Turbessi ’08 art history and French major major in art history. November Great Performance Series concert by Hope students benefit from individualized piano performance major Greenville, Mich. As a complement to the instruction by the instruction from talented faculty members like the Vienna Boys Choir sold out more than two Nunica, Mich. faculty, the college brings in several guest artists guitarist Larry Malfroid, left. weeks in advance. The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers each year both to perform and to share their Series consistently features a capacity crowd “The consequence, I think, is that the expertise and career stories with the students. “They get to meet professionals from all over at the Knickerbocker Theatre. The college “I’ve taken a wide variety of “Human existence is about mind, body students can build their own tool box that “Almost every one of our artists meets with the country and get to be exposed to what their schedules four Christmas Vespers services, and spirit, and the arts play a huge role in includes more than one area of concentration the students in some way,” said Derek Emerson classes at Hope—philosophies of paths were. There is no one right path. It allows filling Dimnent Memorial Chapel for each. The nurturing human spirit,” he said. “Hope within art, but also could include areas out of ’85, arts coordinator at Hope. “The dancers them to figure out what their personal journey department of dance’s major concert (Dance 34 China and Japan, black-and-white College has as part of its mission and purpose the realm of art through the pursuit of a minor and musicians do master classes. The theatre is going to be.” this year) regularly runs to full houses during photography, ancient Western to expose students to the arts, but if we in the or a double major in the natural sciences, companies speak with them about acting and Even as the programs excel, there is work its three nights in the DeWitt Center main community are willing to invest in the arts social sciences, or the humanities. The way our playwriting. They get to learn from these people, civilizations, classical guitar, to be done. For example, the college’s primary theatre. Some community guests have been at Hope College, then Hope can bring their program is structured allows our students to have plus they get to see them in a different way.” large concert space, Dimnent Memorial Chapel, known to drive from as far away as Detroit, world religions, etc. And these arts to a higher level—and the students are multiple interests and to pursue those interests.” Learning from faculty and visiting artists has served in the role for so long—often filled three hours away, to attend an event at Hope. other disciplines have had a great the beneficiaries of that, but the community On one level, the insights offered by is just one way Hope students study the arts. to its 1,000-seat capacity—that it is easy to Jim and Donna Brooks of Holland, Mich., benefits as well.” the other disciplines can in turn inform the All of the programs offer a blend of theory and impact on my writing.” forget that it wasn’t designed for the purpose, have been co-chairs of the Patrons for the students’ art. That proves particularly true application. Students take the lessons of the a circumstance that has increasingly become a Arts at Hope College since 1990. Comprised Matt Baker ’08 (Editor’s Note: Throughout the school year, each in creative writing, where everything can classroom and apply them beyond it. challenge in recruitment. of community members, the group provides English major, writing minor issue of News from Hope College is providing ultimately be grist for the mill. “There’s certainly a grand partnership “To make music without an acoustically crucial financial support for the college’s arts Grand Rapids, Mich. a focused look at an aspect of the Hope experience. “We have to be in a place where we are hungry between the academic component of the excellent space in which to do it, the process is programs while offering the Patrons themselves In addition to this issue’s emphasis on the arts, we to take Japanese, philosophy, biology,” said Dr. theatre major and the production component,” past year, in the prestigious The Writer’s incomplete,” Dr. Kennedy-Dygas said. “There are the opportunity to share their interest in are examining the liberal arts and the environment Heather Sellers, who is professor of English and said Michelle Bombe, who is professor of Chronicle of the Association of Writers and departments at other institutions that are not the arts together and even enjoy additional [August]; co-curricular learning [October]; director of the creative writing program. theatre, director of theatre and resident Writing Programs. Dance students perform not as strong in terms of faculty and curriculum as interaction with the performers and artists. multicultural and international education [April]; costume designer.“We give them the building only in departmental concerts, but with the we are, but what they have is a new facility. It’s “I’ve learned so much through the arts,” and spiritual life [June]. Past issues are available blocks and the foundation in the classroom, dANCEpROjECt and IDT dance companies, challenging to attract students and faculty to a Donna Brooks said. “They really do open up online at www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc or through the and then our performances are the labor where which are affiliates of the department and department where there’s such a discrepancy.” a new world to us. They allow us to think in a Office of Public and Community Relations.) they get to try those out.” perform region-wide, and with the Strike Dedicated concert space could meet other different way.” There is, in fact, no substitute for the Time Dance Company, which visits schools needs as well. For example, Emerson currently “We’ve just enjoyed not only the arts that experience of performing for the public. throughout the state. The department of music schedules visiting dance and theatre groups Hope College has provided, but the fellowship “The true test of their ability, their schedules more than 100 events each year, of sharing our interest with other arts emotional, mental, physical centeredness, including the department-wide Christmas supporters in the community,” she said. comes through that connection to the Vespers and Musical Showcase programs. “My directors and professors at The Brookses are committed to helping the audience,” said Linda Graham, professor of Theatre schedules four major productions each Hope have instilled in the students programs because they see the college and the dance and chairperson of the department. year, as well as multiple student-directed plays. who listen to always know we’re arts programs in particular as a resource that “It’s the place where you actually give your In addition to their work while on campus, makes an important difference in the area’s art. That doesn’t happen in the classroom,” students can also spend a semester focusing good enough. Of course we won’t quality of life. she said.“The adrenaline difference between a on the arts through participation in the New get every audition, but we can’t “Both of us have lived in this city for rehearsal and a performance is huge.” York Arts Semester or through other off-campus stop there. Being on a small most of our lives, and I think we have a deep The opportunities are plentiful. The programs that include arts-oriented internships campus, I have had many appreciation for the things that Hope College gallery of the De Pree Art Center hangs two or study. Students from multiple departments does for this community,” Jim Brooks said. student shows each year, and students also also gain full-time experience by participating opportunities to explore several “What I’ve seen from the regional planning participate in other shows, like an exhibition in Hope Summer Repertory Theatre both on- aspects of the theatre.” work that I’ve done is that every community at the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, Mich., stage and behind the scenes. that is prospering has some sort of college or Kelly Sina ’08 last year. The twice-yearly Opus literary “They can try out the experience in a full- university nearby. We really understand the musical theatre composite major importance of Hope College and the strategic Hope students form the cast and crew of multiple magazine offers a natural outlet for students time way when they’re not juggling academics, Fall 2007 New York Arts Semester Hope offers experience in a variety of media and main-stage productions each year, like 2006’s in creative writing, but their work is published and it gives them an opportunity to see if that’s Watertown, Wis. role that it plays in the well-being of the greater specializations within the arts. The students above Wonderful Town. off-campus as well—including, within the what they want to do,” Professor Bombe said. Holland-Zeeland area.” are working in the ceramics studio.

8 News From Hope College December 2007 9 Faculty/Staff Profile

as the theatre’s managing director, handling administrative and budgetary matters. In 1984, she was promoted to producing director, a year-round position, which she has held ever since. Summer theatre also found its audience, and Schakel has appreciated the sense of community and even feeling of family that HSRT has developed with its patrons. “Once they knew we were here, they became the most fabulous audience in the world,” Schakel said. “They’re warm and receptive.” At the same time, HSRT works to stay fresh By Greg Chandler not only for its long-time fans but to draw in new audiences as well. “Everybody is going faster, and people are ver a three-month period during the “She is the continuum. She is the constant busier,” Schakel said. “The challenge is to do summer, there might not be a harder- in what is, by nature, an ever-changing O material that people want to take the time working woman in show business than Mary enterprise,” said Professor John K.V. Tammi, to see.” Schakel ’69 Van Heyningen. the founding artistic director of HSRT and First-rate talent helps. Over the years, As producing director of the Hope professor of theatre at Hope. “Mary has HSRT has had some of the finest theatre Summer Repertory Theatre, Schakel has been been an important part of the legacy of the performers in the country. Some of its best- one of the anchors that have led the theatre summer theatre.” known alumni include: from its humble beginnings in the early 1970s, Schakel is slow to take credit for the - Kim Zimmer ’77, a four-time Daytime to its popularity among local residents and theatre’s success and quick to praise those on Emmy winner for outstanding lead actress in a visitors alike, having now worked on more stage or involved with the productions behind drama on CBS’ Guiding Light. than 100 productions. the scenes. - Richard Karn, best known as Tim

Allen’s sidekick on the ABC comedy Home A senior-year course in technical theatre led Mary Schakel ’69 Van Heyningen to a career in theatre and, Improvement and more recently, host of the ultimately, back to Hope and service as producing director of Hope Summer Repertory Theatre. game show Family Feud. - Stechschulte, who appeared in the movie The Manchurian Candidate, and has made “I have so little to do with the success of costumes and lighting. “I loved it,” she said. “That’s what’s great about a liberal arts several guest appearances on NBC’s Law and the theatre,” Schakel said. “I have always had a Schakel was so hooked on theatre that she education. It serves you well, no matter what Order and Law and Order: Criminal Intent. great partner with whom to work—first, John spent the next year at Hope taking additional you do,” she said. - Norbert Leo Butz, a two-time Tony Award Tammi and now our current artistic director, classes in that department, even though she had In fall 1971, the 500-seat DeWitt Center winner, capturing the 2002 award for best David Colacci, who came on board in 1992. already satisfied her graduation requirements. theatre opened its doors. Looking for a way to performance for a lead actor in a musical for I’m sure they would agree that the success of “I was lucky to start with such a small keep the stage in use when students were away Thou Shalt Not, then winning the 2005 award HSRT is all in the terrific people who work department, so I could get some real hands-on from the summer, Professor Tammi and then- in the same category for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. here summer after summer.” experience,” she said. professor Don Finn started the Hope Summer - Jerry Mitchell, who won the 2005 Tony Scan around Schakel’s office on the Schakel then did graduate work in theatre Theatre in the summer of 1972. Schakel Award for best choreography for La Cage second floor of the DeWitt Center, and you’ll at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. designed costumes that first summer. Aux Folles. understand how much she values the people Even though she hadn’t majored in theatre as an “My way to relate to a play was to While Schakel has drawn in performers that are part of the theatre. The walls are lined undergraduate, Schakel’s liberal arts background determine what clothes people needed to from around the country to work with HSRT, with pictures of cast members – some who had prepared her well for graduate school. portray their role,” she said. she also finds talent, both on and off-stage, have gone on to successful careers in television The first couple of years, attendance was among Hope’s student body. and on Broadway, others who continue to low, and Professor Tammi considered shutting “They bring such energy and joy to the perform in local theatre. On one long wall are the theatre down. A former cast member, process,” she said. “In my mind, they are the posters depicting each season’s schedule. “She is the continuum. Tom Stechschulte, called to inquire about the starts of the whole thing.” Not bad for someone who didn’t intend to She is the constant in what upcoming season, and a brainstorm resulted in This past summer, HSRT began a new make theatre a career. Schakel was involved in the adding of “repertory” to the theatre name chapter in its history by expanding to the theatre productions as a high school student. is, by nature, an ever- and formation in 1974. downtown Knickerbocker Theatre, where But when she enrolled at Hope in the mid- Schakel returned to HSRT that summer the musical Godspell was performed. It also 1960s, she had aspirations to become a lawyer. changing enterprise. Mary after having worked for two years at added more performances of the Children’s “I was thinking if you went into theatre, you has been an important MeadowBrook Theatre in Rochester Hills, Performance Troupe. Professor Tammi, who went into it to become an actor,” Schakel said. Mich., just north of Detroit. That year, she returned to the summer theatre for the first A double major in history and political part of the legacy of the handled costume design for the productions time in nine years to direct She Loves Me, was amazed by Schakel’s work. Hope Summer Repertory Theatre’s productions provide performance opportunities for visiting artists and science, Schakel was in her final semester summer theatre.” of The Music Man, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, alumni and students alike. Pictured is the cast of the 2003 cabaret show The World Goes Round, which was at Hope in 1969 when she signed up for a and A Man For All Seasons. “I really became aware of how much she presented at the Park Theatre and included Quincy Marr ’03, Michaun Elise Braun ’05 (foreground), Jenn technical theatre course, needing to fill an – John K. V. Tammi From then on, Schakel’s role with HSRT does, and how much she has to do,” he said. Seracuse, Christine Paterson and Joshua Brandenburg ’03. elective for graduation. She learned about sets, grew. In 1979, she replaced Professor Tammi “It was eye-opening.”

10 News From Hope College December 2007 11 Alumni Profile

doing so well using this interactive space.” Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.” Linda Graham, professor of dance and James had seen an announcement about the chairperson of the department at Hope, program early in her senior year, and had An has kept in touch with James over the pitched to her engineering professors the idea years, inviting her last spring to teach a of using a research project about the effects of May Term class on dance and technology. weightlessness on motor skills as her senior Graham noted that James’s passion, curiosity design project. Ideal and discipline have served her well in her “They told me it would be okay to write professional life. a research proposal instead of designing an “Jodi’s tremendous gift is her ability to object,” recalled James. “This is a perfect be sensitive to the perspectives of dancers, example of how Hope meets students where choreographers, researchers, scientists, their interests lie.” and technologists,” Graham said. “It’s that After graduating from Hope, James began ‘multilingual’ ability – along with her skill in graduate studies in biomedical engineering meeting people where they are and bringing at the University of Vermont, but found it to them to new areas of knowledge – that be the wrong fit because she wasn’t able to By Heather Vander Plaat contributes to her success.” incorporate dance and movement into her As a Hope student, James dove deep research. In 2001, she completed a master’s into dance and the sciences. In addition in dance kinesiology at the University of hen Jodi James ’97 was trying to settle to performing in numerous college dance Utah. After staying another year in Salt Lake W on a college, doors seemed to be closing concerts, she created a dance piece, Oscillation, City to prepare for and dance in the opening in her face when she told recruiters what she for a choreography class, first performing it at ceremonies at the 2002 Winter Olympics, wanted to study: dance and science. She hoped Hope, and then presenting it at the American James started her doctorate in kinesiology at to earn degrees in both areas and to explore the College Dance Festival in Iowa. Her engineering the University of Michigan, but again, didn’t interconnections between the two disciplines, studies also afforded her one particularly find the right match. While searching online but she kept hearing the same response: pick distinctive opportunity: two weeks of training for a different program that would more fully one or the other. and research at Johnson Space Center in integrate dance and science, she discovered James refused. In May Jodi James ’97 returned to Hope and shared her long-time interest in blending dance and technology Houston, Texas. The experience included an AME, but it was a job opening for a lecturer in “I loved them equally and never with current students. Pictured with James are junior Melissa Willett and senior Carolyn Brandis. unforgettable ride aboard the KC-135A, an the program that really caught her eye. Within questioned giving up one for the other,” she airplane that uses steep ascents and sharp three months, she found herself living in said. “I liked feeding that analytical side of freefalls to simulate weightlessness. James (a Arizona and teaching at AME. my brain, but I also loved expressing myself For years, James had been taking dance State University’s Arts, Media and Engineering After joining AME in its infancy in 2003, self-described “space geek”), along with four “It wasn’t until I started in this position through my body.” lessons. As she moved through middle and (AME) program. AME brings together faculty James has spent much of the past four years other Hope students, earned the trip after that I really felt like I was ‘home’ again,” she high school, she also developed a fascination and graduate students from varying disciplines developing motion analysis systems. In 2005, submitting a winning research proposal to said. “Here, I’m able to follow my passions for for the sciences. During her senior year of high – ranging from dance and psychology to she and others at AME worked with well- NASA as part of the space agency’s “Reduced art and science in the ways I want to.” school in Barrington, Ill., her physics teacher computer science and bioengineering – to known choreographers, Bill T. Jones and Trisha introduced her to an idea she’d never considered research concepts in motion analysis. This Brown, to create the groundbreaking motione before – that physics could apply to dance. emerging area revolves around the idea that project, an interactive dance performance “I didn’t realize it at the time, but for years, movement and technology can integrate to that uses motion capture technology and even as a young child, I was experimenting create useful applications in everyday life real-time feedback to analyze and enhance with the principles of physics – momentum, (for example, stroke patients undergoing dancers’ movements as the performance occurs. inertia, gravity, torque – when I practiced rehabilitation can practice reaching and More recently, James has been implementing dancing at home in our basement,” James said. grasping tasks in an interactive environment SMALLab (Situated Multimedia Art Learning During a campus visit to Hope, James that provides visual and audio feedback). Lab) into school classrooms. SMALLab consists began to believe she could blend her dual “AME is a very progressive program,” James of an open physical space (15 feet by 15 feet by interests academically. After receiving said. “Similar models just don’t exist, so we’re 12 feet) framed by aluminum trussing which assurances from faculty in both disciplines that actually changing the paradigm in which we’re supports a vision-based tracking system, video they would work with her to reach her goals, thinking about interdisciplinary education.” projector for visual feedback and speakers for and realizing the size of the college meant “my spatialized audio feedback. Students in the engineering professors would eat lunch next SMALLab environment can use full-bodied to my dance professors,” James was convinced movement to act out, for example, scenes from Hope was the best choice. “I think Hope provided me a book. Based on students’ movements, the “I think Hope provided me with the with the confidence in system feeds audio and visual stimuli (such confidence in myself to not settle for second- as photographs) back into the space. The goal best,” she said. “If you believe in it, you will myself to not settle for is to encourage learning through expressive achieve it.” movement, vocalization and imagination. Today – more than 10 years after second-best. If you believe “Last year, we were in residency at a earning undergraduate degrees in dance and local performing arts charter school, building engineering/physics – James is still exploring in it, you will achieve it.” workshops around SMALLab,” James said. As a prospective student, Jodi James ’97 appreciated the intricate relationship between dance “This year, we’re at a high school, doing that Hope was receptive to her interest in blending – Jodi James and science, but on a professional level. She language arts programs for students who have Junior Lindsey Ferguson is shown live through a transmission from off-site via the Internet, while classmates dance and physics. Most schools weren’t. teaches and conducts research at Arizona difficulty excelling in that area, and they’re Melissa Willett and Carolyn Brandis perform in person in Jodi James’s May Term at Hope.

12 News From Hope College December 2007 13 Fall Sports Roundup

Cross Country Both Hope teams finished in third place in their respective conference standings. Junior Rob Bailey of Portage, Ind., received All-MIAA SustainedSustained first team honors. Korfball The world championships of korfball, played in the Czech Republic, had a distinctive Hope College flavor because the U.S. team was comprised primarily of Hope students and AchievementAchievement recent alumni. Korfball is the world’s only coed team sport and resembles the game of basketball. he pinnacle in athletics is winning a Football Longtime physical educator and softball coach T championship or achieving an individual It was a milestone season for the Karla Hoesch ’73 Wolters introduced korfball distinction. Hope College has been fortunate Flying Dutchmen. The team’s “Wooden to Hope in 2005 through her teaching. Interest to have reached that level of performance many Shoes” rivalry victory over longtime rival in the sport grew to the point that several times over the years. The recently concluded Kalamazoo was the 400th alltime for Hope students were invited to be part of the fall sports season is another example. Hope football. During their march to a U.S. team at the world championships. The Conference championships in two sports, league co-championship with Olivet, the tournament, held in late October and early football and men’s golf, were evidence of that Flying Dutchmen won a school-record November, drew teams from 16 countries. The sustainability. The golf squad won its fifth 14 consecutive conference games. Senior Coach Dean Kreps proudly sang the Fight Song after claiming the Wooden Shoes and counting the 400th all- U.S. team posted a 2-4 record. straight Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic tailback David Book of Three Rivers, Mich., time Hope football victory with a win over rival Kalamazoo. Members on the U.S. team affiliated with Association (MIAA) championship, while the became the first Hope player to top the team Hope included sisters Amanda and Erika football team repeated as conference champions in rushing yardage all four years. Guijarro, seniors from Los Angeles, Calif.; with its sixth title over the past decade. Senior wide receiver Doug Van Eerden Golf Soccer over 14 league games. He was joined on the Kate Madison, a senior from Charlevoix, Individually, senior Dan Tresslar of of Grand Rapids, Mich., was the co-recipient With a come-from-behind effort, the Both Hope soccer teams contended for All-MIAA first team by sophomore midfielder Mich.; Stephen Malvitz, a senior from Ada, Indianapolis, Ind., was voted the MIAA’s most of the league’s outstanding offensive player Flying Dutchmen finished 13 strokes ahead of league championships with strong finishes. Kevin Bartosek of Traverse City, Mich., junior Mich.; Chris Olds, a senior from Brainerd, valuable soccer player for the second year award, and senior fullback George Klupchak runner-up Olivet over the course of the eight- With only one loss over the final 12 games, the back James Trebilcock of Haslett, Mich., Minn.; Gerry Ruffino, senior from Holland, in-a-row, and senior golfers Matt Lapham of of Naperville, Ill., the co-recipient of the Pete tournament season. As league champions, Flying Dutchmen ended in second in the MIAA and senior goalkeeper Mike Amerman of Mich.; Mark Slotman, a junior from Cedar Brighton, Mich., and Tommy Yamaoka of Schmidt Scholar-Athlete Award. Hope earned a berth in the NCAA Division III behind rival Calvin and posted a 13-6-1 overall Indianapolis, Ind. Grove, Wis.; Effie Van Dyke, a senior from Zeeland, Mich., each achieved All-MIAA honors Joining Van Eerden and Booko on the championships to be held next spring. Hope mark. Winners in six of their last eight games, Flying Dutch receiving All-MIAA first-team Spruce, Mich.; Aaron Kenemer ’07 Zeeland, a fourth consecutive year. Amazingly, these All-MIAA first team recognition were senior has won the MIAA championship eight of the the Flying Dutch tied for third place in the honors were senior forward Sarah Cochrane Mich.; Allison Watchorn, a junior from Sault two outstanding golfers ended their league offensive tackle Jake Droppers of Kalamazoo, past nine years. MIAA and ended 10-8-1 overall. of Watertown, Wis., junior midfielder Allison Ste. Marie, Mich.; and Antoine Williams ’07 careers with an identical stroke average! Mich.; junior offensive tackle Erik Ladomersky Tommy Yamaoka won conference medalist League MVP Dan Tresslar topped the MIAA VanBeek of Libertyville, Ill., and freshman Holland, Mich. Wolters accompanied the team Further evidence is Hope’s first-place of Grandville, Mich.; senior tight end Kevin honors for the second time in his career. He in scoring with 15 goals and seven assists defender Courtney Cook of Grand Rapids, Mich. and served as an assistant coach. position in the MIAA Commissioner’s Cup VandenBosch of Grandville, Mich.; senior and teammate Matt Lapham finished their standings after the fall season. An award given defensive end Matt Rugenstein of Grand league careers with identical tournament stroke to the MIAA member college with the best Rapids; senior linebacker Drew Weigel of averages (73.3). cumulative performance in 18 sports over an Saginaw, Mich.; senior defensive back Troy In women’s golf, the Flying Dutch finished entire school year, the honor has been won by Blasius of Gaylord, Mich.; and senior kicker fourth in the MIAA. Senior Julie Hoogerhyde Hope for the past seven years. Chris Bowen of Ithaca, Mich. of Grand Rapids, Mich., achieved All-MIAA first-team honors by finishing second in the seasonal player standings.

Volleyball With a young squad that had just one senior player, the Flying Dutch improved as the season progressed. A turning point came when the Flying Dutch defeated nationally ranked rival Calvin before more than 1,800 fans at DeVos Fieldhouse. The team went on to finish second in the MIAA while posting an overall 24-9 record. Junior Nora Slenk of Holland, Mich., was voted to the All-MIAA first team, while Kara VandeGuchte of Hamilton, Mich., was named the MIAA’s freshman player of the year. VandeGuchte was also named the outstanding Division III freshman volleyball player in the Among many outstanding individual performances this fall season were, from left to right, the MIAA- Great Lakes Region. Seniors Matt Lapham (left) and Tommy Yamaoka literally matched stroke-for-stroke over four years as leading soccer scoring effort by MVP Dan Tresslar, the pass reception prowess of MIAA football MVP MIAA champions. Doug Van Eerden and the play at the net of Great Lakes Region freshman-of-the-year Kara VandeGuchte.

14 News From Hope College December 2007 15 Campus Scene Pioneers Honored

rganized intercollegiate athletic Athletic Representatives (FARs). The students O competition among women has who collaborated on the research were Rachael grown rapidly in recent years, in quality, in Sauerman ’07 and Lisa Smith ’07. They were the number of participants, and in public themselves outstanding athletes while at Hope, awareness. Rachael in soccer and Lisa in swimming. For those reasons, it is a popular Their research, gleaned mainly from misconception that women’s intercollegiate student publications, determined that while sports are a fairly recent phenomenon, notably there were intramural and on-campus athletic since the early 1970s when the national Title opportunities for women dating back many IX legislation was enacted. years, there were also intercollegiate activities SportsSports For many colleges that is true, but at for “premier” female athletes in sports such Hope College women have a long history of as archery, tennis and basketball that went organized intercollegiate competition that dates unrecognized in the media when compared to PoetPoet back many decades. The formal recognition the recognition given men’s sports. of those athletes went largely absent until They compiled a list of the athletes from n a world of well-paid professional athletes, Homecoming weekend in October, when the the late 1930s through 1972. “It is from I high-profile coaches and notable sports college honored female athletes as pioneers this list of acknowledged competitors that personalities, the selection of a college English in women’s sport at Hope. Approximately 50 the authors chose to highlight a cadre of professor as one of America’s most influential of the 240 alumnae who had been identified remarkable women athletes deserving of as participants in athletics while Hope sports educators might seem to be out of place. recognition by the college. Sadly, some have undergraduates between 1938 and 1972 were Not so, according to the Institute for already died so they will never know the presented varsity “H” letters during the annual International Sport, which has included emeritus esteem that posterity holds for them. For the alumni H-Club luncheon. others, it is high time to stand and applaud professor Jack Ridl on its first list of the 100 most The idea to recognize the alumnae was their accomplishments,” the research paper influential sports educators in America. stimulated by the research of two students, now stated. The organization said that during a three- graduates; their professor, Dr. Donald Luidens A photo of the honorees is featured on the year selection process it considered more ’69 of the sociology faculty; and Eva Dean Hope College Web site at: http://www.hope. than 1,500 nominations. The final list is Folkert ’83, director of athletics for women. Dr. edu/pr/gallery/ 07homecoming5.html a literal “Who’s Who” in American sport, Luidens serves as one of the college’s Faculty including Professor Ridl as “sports poet.” More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc Professor Ridl, who retired from full-time teaching at Hope in 2006, has written dozens of sports-themed poems and essays that have been published broadly. Among those honored are tennis players Andre Agassi and Billie Jean King, NCAA executive director Myles Brand, sportscaster Bob Costas, former Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburgh, NBA coach Phil Jackson, Olympic track star Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, NBA players Alonzo Mourning and Bill Russell, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, major leaguer Cal Ripken Jr., Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summit, former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden and golfer Tiger Woods. For Professor Ridl the recognition was well timed. Within a day of receiving it, he also learned that his collection of basketball poems, Losing Season, had been accepted for publication by CavanKerry Press. He will be one of the featured professors during the college’s annual Winter Happening on Sunday, Jan. 26. More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc

16 News From Hope College Campus Profile CompetingCompeting TogetherTogether

The Nykerk Cup competition is in the end a contest, but along the way it’s something more. As the participants in the 73- year freshman-sophomore event prepare during the weeks before, they form friendships that last a lifetime. As the two classes compete on Nykerk night itself, their gift to the audience— primarily families during the Parents’ Weekend tradition— is a program of song, plays and oration that transcends the quest Pictured from the freshman Class of 2011 are Pictured from the sophomore Class of 2010 the song section, which performed “Splish for victory. The sophomores took are orator Robin Baker of Cicero, Ind., who Splash”; orator Sara Saavedra of Holland, Mich., presented “A Second Glance”; the play who presented “The Secret to Democracy”; the cup on Saturday, Nov. 3 this Cinderella and a quest to find the foot that fits and the play Outside the Box, which featured year, but everybody won. the wooden shoe; and the song section, which a cast of familiar cereal-box characters. performed choral highlights from Annie.

December 2007 17 Campus Profile

the last year in particular,” President Bultman said. “Many of my colleagues are loathe to participate.” Hope hasn’t joined the resulting boycott. However, President Bultman is on the board of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), which has developed its own template which in the educators’ estimation emphasizes criteria that are more meaningful, such as data related to the campus experience itself and the results the institutions produce. (More about NAICU’s “University and College Accountability Network,” or UCAN, can be found at www. t’s a rite of autumn in higher education. “As an institution, some of the time we’re naicu.edu.) I going to feel elated that we’re ranked where we In the end, though, President Bultman Each year in August and September, the are and feel good about what raters say about emphasizes that there’s no substitute for thousands of colleges and universities across us,” he said. “And I think other times we’ll direct investigation. the nation start anew. They shake off the feel deflated and think that we’re much better “What becomes most important is to relative calm of summer, welcome back (or than they think we are. Such is the nature of keep in mind the limitations of rankings and When conducting the college search, there is simply no substitute for paying an in-person visit to a newly greet) the faculty and students, and evaluation.” prospective school, one reason that the Admissions Office schedules several Visitation Days throughout the do your own investigation of the institutions get about the work of learning and teaching. “Rankings can be very helpful to families, school year in addition to working with students interested in experiencing Hope through a personalized you’re serious about,” he said. “And the best It’s been that way in the United States for although I don’t think that people should individual tour. Travis Goldwire ‘05 of the admissions staff is shown above leading a tour in November. way to do that is to be on-campus and talk with hundreds of years. take them hook line and sinker because the other people and college personnel about what That’s one rite in higher education, but difference from any one rank to perhaps a they’re trying to accomplish and how they can it’s not the only one. Also each fall, a new much higher or much lower one is oftentimes challenging, and students have to earn an rankings have become so significant that methodology include the influence of do it in ways that would be beneficial to the round of college guides hits the book shelves quite microscopic,” President Bultman said. education, they’re not merely given a diploma. some institutions have taken to shaping their wealth, fame and exclusivity in the schools’ student’s development and future.” and magazine stands. They offer themselves Traditionally, Hope has had much more I like that,” he said. “And we have other practices to affect the publication’s evaluation scores and relative lack of emphasis on what “The most important thing that a student as a resource to families faced with the college cause to be pleased than troubled by its programs that are also noteworthy. In the specifically. At the same time, however, many actually happens during a student’s time on or family can do in choosing a college for study search but can present a bit of a challenge to evaluation in college guide. For example: area of student development we consistently in higher education are unhappy with the campus. is to visit and to find out forthemselves how it the schools, which may variably be thrilled, * The 2008 America’s Best Colleges guide win awards for student activity programming. qualities that the America’s Best Colleges guide “I’m part of several national groups feels to be in an institution with that ethos,” relieved or horrified depending on how they published by U.S. News and World Report includes Our chapel program is the envy of many measures—reported flaws in the publication’s that have talked about these rankings in he said. fare. It’s been that way in the United States for Hope among the nation’s top 100 liberal arts throughout the country.” about 25 years, and given the ubiquity and colleges, and significantly also includes Hope “And so Hope has a lot to commend it. endurance of the genre, both populations – in its listing of the top colleges and universities There’s so much to like about this institution students and schools – can benefit from in the category of “Undergraduate research/ that I would expect that we would do well in understanding the benefits and limits. Creative projects.” The guide also lists Hope as the ratings,” he said. Tips for the College Search “Rankings are an interesting phenomenon an “A+ option for B students.” Even while Hope fares well, nationwide in the times in which we live,” said President * The 2008 Fiske Guide to Colleges includes in higher education there’s some resistance to College guides provide a starting point, but there is no substitute for investigating a potential college James Bultman ‘63. “Obviously, people Hope as one of the country’s “best and the practice of ranking schools, in particular or university personally. Through the years the Admissions program has worked with literally tens of are looking for accountability more than most interesting” colleges and universities, to the U.S. News rankings, which debuted in thousands of prospective students. Vice President Bill Vanderbilt ’88 provides here a prime 11 questions ever before.” and notes that “Hope’s academic and athletic the early 1980s and are arguably the most that experience has shown that prospective students and their families may find helpful to ask when programs continue to grow and prosper, helped influential and best-known. TheU.S. News conducting theirs. out by an array of new facilities.” The guide describes the college as an institution with 1. How can I visit and experience what it would Do they care about each other with an traditional Christian roots and an emphasis on be like to be a student? emphasis on building up the other members undergraduate research where, in the words of “What becomes most 2. What is the academic program like? of the community? one student, “the quality of teaching is off the important is to keep in Is it rigorous and challenging? Are there 8. What is the physical environment like? Are charts.” experiential learning opportunities such as the facilities outstanding places in which to * The books Colleges That Change Lives mind the limitations of internships and research? live and learn? 3. What is the co-curricular program like? 9. Is your education a liberal arts education or and Putting Students First: How Colleges Develop Is it designed in a way to enhance the a vocational education? How does this play Students Purposefully both cite Hope as an rankings and do your academic program rather than detract out in your academic programs? institution that makes an important formative own investigation of the from it? 10. What are the various ways to engage with difference in its students’ lives. 4. I’ve heard your college is a Christian college. faculty at your institution? Is this an “Fortunately at Hope, we have been able institutions you’re serious What does that mean? important part of the learning experience? to talk about most ratings because we generally 5. What is the ethos of the place like – 11. Do you offer off-campus opportunities either have fared very well, as I think Hope should,” about.” what does it feel like to be on campus? internationally or domestically? What are President Bultman said. “Hope is a superb 6. What do students do for fun on your some examples of these opportunities and Hope fares well in guides such as the U.S. News – President James Bultman America’s Best Colleges Guide and Fiske Guide to educational institution.” campus? how do they fit in to other coursework I Colleges. “The academic program is rigorous and 7. What are the people like at your institution? need to complete?

18 News From Hope College December 2007 19 Critical Issues Symposium

program. “Behind that typical Hope student is Tony Castillo, who owns multiple McDonalds this girl who is enriched by her Chilean culture restaurants and is president of the Holland Area and her American culture.” Chamber of Commerce; the Rev. Andres Fierro “I’ve been getting a lot of responses— ’79, pastor of Crossroads Church; and Roberto many e-mails from friends, and a lot of Jara, executive director of Latin Americans students have stopped me and said, “Barbra, I United for Progress. never knew,’” she said. “They love that they “My hope is that people come away from can get a better insight into what immigration Critical Issues thinking that this is a complex is about.” issue and that there aren’t any easy answers,” The symposium program featured a mix of Gonzales said. At the same time, Gonzales national, international and local speakers, and hopes that the discussion, in keeping with the included personal stories as well as overviews of symposium’s ongoing mission, may inspire lasses are cancelled, but it’s not a day off. academic routine to bring the talent, training issues related to immigration and immigration the future leaders receiving their training at C and time of the community and guests to reform. It opened with a keynote address Hope today to play a part in finding those In fact, the college’s long-running Critical bear on a single topic of broad relevance to Tuesday evening by Luis Alberto Urrea, whose answers. “Might there be, not only now or in Issues Symposium is designed to be one of the all involved. book The Devil’s Highway, about a group of the next year, but in the foreseeable future, most intense intellectual exercises of the school “I know of no other college or university Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, some solutions that might come out of these year, and a focal point for conversations both that says, ‘On this particular day, we will have was a 2005 Pulitzer finalist. He urged his conversations?,” he said. For more than a quarter century, the Critical Issues of the era. Above, Grand Rapids, Mich., attorney in and out of class. The symposium engages no other programming on campus so that we audience to become and stay engaged in the Matejka, who has valued the college’s Symposium has engaged the campus community Richard Kessler discusses issues related to the entire breadth and depth of the Hope can in fact dedicate ourselves to an engaging in dialogue with local, national and international immigration during this year’s symposium in issue whichever side they were on. intensive exploration of an issue that she agrees community in conversation with outside experts conversation on whatever critical issue we have experts concerning the most significant challenges October. “We’re Americans. We have to talk to is critical, has the same hope. in exploring together the era’s most important chosen,’” he said. each other,” he said. “Take action. Educate “It’s such a prominent issue now that it’s national and international challenges. The topics are never easy. The symposium yourselves. Vote.” nice that we’re going to have an entire group of “It’s precisely, I think, consistent with the began in 1980 with “The Configuration of The students read the book before arriving Matejka watched the film with her The symposium continued with some students that are educated about the situation mission of a liberal arts institution to bring to Peace in the Middle East.” In the years since on campus, so that they could discuss it in roommate. “When we got back to the room we 17 sessions on Wednesday. Among others, and prepared to do something about it—not the forefront a multitude of disciplines and it has examined a broad range of issues, such small groups during New Student Orientation. wound up talking about it for a long Gerrit-Bartus Dielissen of Utrecht University just at Hope but beyond campus,” she said. perspectives in examining the critical issues as “Lives in Transition: The Future of Marriage Freshman Katy Matejka of Sarasota, Fla., time,” she said. “It ended up spurring some added global perspective by discussion the “I feel like that’s the more important part.” of our time,” said Alfredo Gonzales, who is and Family,” “Earth Matters: Daily Decisions, appreciated the opportunity to engage in the meaningful conversation.” Netherlands’ struggles with immigration—in (Editor’s Note: More about this year’s the annual event’s co-chair and also associate Environmental Echoes,” “Putting Science in college’s intellectual life even before the start of To help further humanize the issue and Amsterdam, for example, fully 60 percent of symposium, including the podcasts featuring provost and dean for international and Its Place: Discovery and Responsibility,” “Race classes. show its local relevance, the college also filmed the population is of non-Dutch descent. Local members of the Hope community, can be found multicultural education. and Opportunity: Echoes of Brown v. Board of “When this book came I was really happy podcasts featuring 16 members of the campus issues were the focus of a panel featuring online at www.hope.edu/cis.) As he has traveled around the country Education,” and “From Auschwitz to Darfur: to have something to do,” she said. “It felt community, faculty, staff and students, in and world, Gonzales has also found Hope to be Genocide in the Global Village.” good that I was preparing for something.” sharing their own immigrant stories—ancestors unique in stepping outside of the day-to-day This year’s symposium explored In addition to reading the book, she worked who had come from Sweden in the 1800s, or “Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping through study questions that the college had who had endured the horrors of the Holocaust America.” The symposium itself was held on posted online, and even discussed it in a “Class in Nazi Germany, or who had been interned in Tuesday-Wednesday, Oct. 2-3, but in keeping of 2011” Facebook group. She enjoyed the the U.S. during World War II because of their “It’s precisely, I think, with the event’s role the discussion was woven subsequent discussion during orientation as well. Japanese heritage. consistent with the mission throughout the semester. “People certainly developed completely Junior Barbra Rubio of Holland, Mich., For the freshmen, the experience began different opinions about it, and that really told of her experience as the daughter of of a liberal arts institution this summer, when each received a copy of came through,” Matejka said. “That was Chilean immigrants and the richness of her to bring to the forefront Bich Minh Nguyen’s memoir Stealing Buddha’s fun—to see how we had all come to our own two-culture experience. Dinner, which focuses on her experience conclusions about the book.” “I really want to bring awareness to a multitude of disciplines growing up in Grand Rapids, Mich., as a Nguyen gave an all-campus address in the Hope community about my culture, my and perspectives in Vietnamese immigrant and the challenges Dimnent Memorial Chapel the following week. background,” said Rubio, whose involvement at she faced as she struggled to fit into American Hope-wide events scheduled in advance of the college has included serving as Nykerk orator examining the critical culture. Hope provided the books through the symposium also included a presentation her freshman year (and oration coach this year), issues of our time.” one of only 11 grants awarded to colleges and on “Segmented Assimilation: Prospects for the as well as participating in Dance Marathon, universities nationwide by the national Phi Immigrant Second Generation” by sociologist working with Video Services, serving as news – Alfredo Gonzales Beta Kappa organization’s “Deliberation about Dr. Alejandro Portes of Princeton University and sports director of WTHS, and tutoring with This year’s symposium topic of immigration was woven throughout the semester, beginning with discussion during Things That Matter” program. and showings of the film Crossing Arizona. the Children’s After School Achievement (CASA) New Student Orientation of the book Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, sent to all new students to read during the summer.

20 News From Hope College December 2007 21 Faculty Kudos

AUTHOR TEAM: In the Recipients of the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES: A book by department of history “Favorite Faculty/ Dr. Joseph LaPorte of the philosophy faculty at Hope, learning in Staff Member” award was the starting point for an international one class follows the are chosen through a conference meeting in the United Kingdom in Yellow Brick Road. In vote open to the entire October. an education course, it student body and The three-day conference “Nature and might include producing conducted at the same its Classification” in Birmingham opened a drawing of a refrigerator. time as elections for on Friday, Oct. 12, with presentations and In engineering, it can the Homecoming court discussion focused on Dr. LaPorte’s book include building a better and king and queen. Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change. The athletic bandage roller. The students are not remaining two days of the event featured More than a dozen provided with a list presentations by other scholars concerning the educators share their of candidates for the conference theme. insights into effective award, but rather are asked to write in the name The event was one of two international teaching strategies as co-authors of the book of the person that they feel should be honored. scholarly gatherings in Europe in which Dr. Beyond Tests and Quizzes: Creative Assessment in The award was first presented in 1996. LaPorte was invited to participate in October the College Classroom. More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc because of his work. The week before, he The book features 14 chapters by current or participated in a workshop for scholars in Turku, former Hope professors concerning ways they Finland, that examined natural kinds as well. have approached teaching and determining how ART FELLOWSHIP: Katherine Sullivan of the More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc much their students have learned. It has been art faculty has been awarded a fellowship for published by Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John a one-month artist’s residency by the Virginia Wiley & Sons Inc., and was edited by husband- Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). SERVICE HONOR: Dr. Nancy Sonneveldt ’62 and-wife faculty members Barbara Skidmore ’70 The VCCA is located near Sweet Briar Miller has received the third annual Lakeshore Mezeske and Dr. Richard Mezeske ’69. College in the foothills of the Blue Ridge ATHENA Award. In addition to the Mezeskes, the authors Mountains in rural Virginia. Sullivan, who Dr. Miller, who is the dean for are: Dr. Susan Mooy ’64 Cherup; Mary Vlieger is an assistant professor of art, is among the social sciences and a professor ’75 DeYoung; Dr. Lee Forester; Dr. Janis Gibbs; approximately 20 fellows focusing on their of education, was honored during a Dr. Rhoda Janzen; Dr. Michael Misovich; Dr. R. own creative projects during a working retreat luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The Richard Ray Jr.; Dr. David Schock; Dr. Thomas this month for visual artists, writers and event celebrated all of the award’s Smith; Dr. Elizabeth Trembley ’85; Dr. Roger composers. 21 nominees, who also included Veldman ’89; and Dr. Kathy Winnett-Murray. Professor Sullivan’s emphasis as both an another member of the college’s More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc artist and teacher is painting and drawing. administration: Vanessa Greene, During the residency she is continuing work on director of multicultural life. a series of paintings and prints addressing issues The ATHENA Award honors POETRY PUBLISHED: The of torture and violence. exceptional individuals who have recently released chapbook More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc demonstrated excellence, creativity of poetry by David James and initiative in their business or profession; ’76 celebrates the seemingly provided valuable service by contributing time small but sometimes MENTOR ACCLAIMED: The students of the and energy to improving the quality of life for surprising moments and Hope chapter of the national Delta Omicron others in the community; and actively assist realizations that become music honorary society have honored Dr. Huw women in realizing their full leadership potential. the component parts of the Lewis of the music faculty with induction as a The Lakeshore ATHENA Awards program is a individual. Chapter Patron. collaboration of the Chamber of Grand Haven, Psychological Clock has Dr. Lewis, who is a Spring Lake and Ferrysburg; the Holland Area been published by Pudding professor of music and Chamber of Commerce; and the Muskegon Area House Publications. James, college organist, received Chamber of Commerce. who is an adjunct associate professor of English the honor on Friday, More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc and director of the Writing Center, is credited in Nov. 2, as a surprise each as D.R. James, since another published poet during a ceremony held has the same first and last name. in conjunction with HELPING KIDS: A new effort at Hope is The new volume’s 24 poems explore and an organ and orchestra focusing on inspiring a brighter future for the reflect on a mix of common and singular events, concert in which he was local elementary-age and high school students ranging from the familiar rituals of a hometown performing in Dimnent participating in the Children’s After School basketball game, to the agility of squirrels as they Memorial Chapel. Achievement (CASA) and Upward Bound raid the birdfeeder, to a conversation with the The chapter programs. condominium to which aging parents will soon nominated him for The Michigan Campus Compact (MCC) move. The chapbook’s title is shared by one of the award for the way that he represents the has awarded a “Brighter Futures” grant to the the poems, which considers the value in taking a national organization’s mission of supporting college for activities to help the two programs new look at old assumptions. excellence in music and musicianship. place additional emphasis on overcoming More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc “We nominated Dr. Lewis for this honor obstacles to academic success and preparing because we as a chapter felt he takes the ideals the students to think about their futures. The of Delta Omicron to heart and represents them $6,000 grant has been awarded to Dr. Deborah FAVORITE PROFESSOR: Dr. James Herrick has to the students at Hope College,” said senior Weiss ’75 Sturtevant of the sociology and received the 12th annual “Favorite Faculty/Staff Tyler Racey of Ludington, Mich., who is the social work faculty through MCC’s “Investing Member” award. chapter’s secretary. “He desires for his students in College Futures Learn and Serve” program, Dr. Herrick, who is the Guy Vander Jagt to attain the highest possible achievement as and is providing support as students in the Professor of Communication, received the award musicians and embodies them himself as a department develop the additional activities on on Saturday, Oct. 6, during halftime of the scholar and performer.” CASA’s and Upward Bound’s behalf. Homecoming football game at Holland Municipal More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc Stadium.

22 News From Hope College Alumni News

sang in Chapel Choir for three years I as a student. Looking back, I am amazed WindowWindow by the talented students that surrounded me in that choir. The quality of music we toto Hope’sHope’s produced remains a highlight of my Hope experience. As a student in Chapel Choir, I also participated in Vespers. I remember processing into Dimnent Chapel, singing from the balcony, encircling the sanctuary to HistoryHistory sing “Silent Night,” and the wonderful fun I had with my friends during those services. Those sorts of performance opportunities are an amazing part of the Hope experience. Mary Boelkins ‘96 They of course make a crucial difference Remenschneider to students who are majoring in the arts, Alumni Director providing an important chance to apply the lessons that they are learning in the classroom. Hope excels, though, in making the experiences available to students who are majoring in other disciplines, and in doing so enriching their lives as well. I majored in psychology, but my time in the choir and as a part of Vespers will be a part of me forever. Even as I treasure my student memories, I appreciate the way that the passage of time is allowing me to value the experiences and traditions in new ways. This year I sat in a pew in the back of the chapel, enjoying Vespers as an alumna. Once again, I was surrounded by talented Hope students creating music and memories that weave the fabric of this tradition of Vespers. This year, I brought my daughter with me to experience this worship service that was such a memorable event for me as a student. Watching my daughter, A distinctive campus landmark has marked a milestone: Elizabeth R. Voorhees Hall has turned 100. The building was built in 1907 to house female students, enraptured by the sounds, sights, and the service, I gained a deeper and has been co-educational since its 1981 renovation. Voorhees Hall was appreciation for Vespers and the way that it has helped connect the designed by Hope biology professor Dr. Samuel Mast, in a Flemish style Hope family for generations. intended to recall the college’s Dutch roots. It is named for Elizabeth Rodman Hope is filled with tradition; some educational, some intense, Voorhees of New Jersey, who with her husband Ralph contributed funds for the residence hall, which cost $40,183 to complete. The photo, taken circa some just plain fun. Vespers is a tradition that brings a sacred, 1940, shows a reception in the main lobby that includes Hope President solemn, and meaningful experience for Hope friends and family. Wynand Wichers standing left of center. For a contemporary (and seasonal) What I enjoyed as a student I now enjoy as an alumna and a mother. exterior view, please see page two. A history of the building written by senior Lauren Berka of Brookfield, Wis., is featured online in the Joint Archives What a wonderful gift from Hope! Quarterly at http://www.jointarchives.org/quarter/fall07.pdf

Alumni Board of Directors Class Notes Officers Table of Contents Karen Gonder ’81 Navis, President, Grandville, Mich. Mark VanGenderen ’90, Vice President, Cedarburg, Wis. Sara Van Anrooy ’82, Secretary, Castle Rock, Colo. 24 Class Notes: 1940s - 1960s Board Members Nancy Wallendal ’72 Bassman, Scotch Plains, N.J. Anita Van Engen ’98 Bateman, Austin, Texas 25 Class Notes: 1970s Bob Bieri ’83, Holland, Mich. Lisa Bos ’97, Washington, D.C. Jason Cash ’07, Brighton, Mich. David Daubenspeck ’74, Vista, Calif. 26 Class Notes: 1980s - 1990s Lori Visscher ’83 Droppers, Maitland, Fla. Gene Haulenbeek ’72, Kalamazoo, Mich. Betsy Boersma ’77 Jasperse, Traverse City, Mich. Brett Kingma ’09, Grand Rapids, Mich. 27 Class Notes: 2000s Carol Rylance ’60 MacGregor, Norcross, Ga. Kat Nichols ’99, Minneapolis, Minn. Sarah Oosterink ’08, Jenison, Mich. Elias Sanchez ’78, Hinsdale, Ill. 28 Marriages, New Arrivals, Scott Schaaf ’88, Seattle, Wash. Todd Soderquist ’96, Canton, Mich. Advanced Degrees Carol Schakel ’68 Troost, Scotia, N.Y. Lois Tornga ’56 Veldman, Okemos, Mich. Liaison 29 Deaths Mary Boelkins ’96 Remenschneider, Director of Alumni and Parent Relations 30 Sympathy to Please accept our invitation to visit the Alumni Office on the internet: www.hope.edu/alumni

December 2007 23 Class Notes

News and information for class Curators of the University of Missouri. Ecke YMCA. He writes, “Thanks to notes, marriages, advanced degrees A Curators’ Professorship is the highest that unit, which is still operating at 98 and deaths are compiled for News from and most prestigious academic rank percent efficiency, every day has been Hope College by Kathy Miller. awarded by the board. Norman is in a gift since the implant nearly 32 years News should be mailed to: Alumni his 45th year of service on the faculty ago.” News; Hope College Public Relations; of the Department of Educational, 141 E. 12th St.; PO Box 9000; Holland, School, & Counseling Psychology. MI 49422-9000. Internet users may In 2007 he presented lectures and 60s send to: [email protected] consulted in Hong Kong, China; All submissions received by the Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; and Betty Whitaker ’62 Jackson of Public Relations Office by Thursday, Beijing, China. Palm Bay, Fla., recently retired after Nov. 15, have been included in John “Jack” Kempker ’58 of 37 years of teaching middle and high Lewis Scudder III ’63 this issue. Because of the lead Lowell, Mich., was added to the Lowell school English in New York, New and his wife, Marilyn, have time required by this publication’s Athletic Honor Wall in recognition Jersey, Florida and Iowa. She held been the fifth consecutive production schedule, submissions of his long-term dedication to Lowell National Board Certification. She is generation of Scudders to received after that date (with the athletics on Friday, Sept. 7. He began a former member of Hope’s Alumni serve in Reformed Church in exception of obituary notices) have teaching and coaching at Lowell in Board of Directors and currently serves America (RCA) missions. They been held for the next issue, the 1960, first in the junior high school as the 1962 class representative. retired this fall after serving deadline for which is Tuesday, Feb. 26. and later in the high school. Joan TenCate ’63 Bonnette of since 1966 in the Middle Ev Nienhouse ’58 of Ellsworth, South Haven, Mich., was judge of the East by pastoring, teaching, Mich., and Carlsbad, Calif., has been Saugatuck Waterfront Invitational consulting, writing and 40s invited to speak during a symposium Juried Art Fair at Cook Park on coordinating communication this month at the University of Saturday, June 30. for mission partners. During Edward J. Kassig ’49 of Minnesota campus medical center David Kenneth Musser ’63 of their service, they worked in Indianapolis, Ind., and his wife celebrating the 50th anniversary of Emmaus, Pa., is the author of Wonder Lebanon, Bahrain, Kuwait, celebrated their 60th wedding the first implantable transistorized Rhymes, a collection of poetry, and Turkey and Cyprus. They anniversary on Friday, Aug. 24, 2007. pacemaker. Ev received a nuclear (Pu Futuristic Transacta, a science fiction were featured in a November Glenn Van Haitsma ’49 of 238) powered heart pacer in April novel, both published by Dorrance 2007 article in The Church Waukesha, Wis., in October taught a 1976, and has been asked to reflect on Publishing Co. Futuristic Transacta, Herald that noted that “Learning in Retirement” (LIR) course the narrow window in the history of his 19th published book, transports their retirement marks 188 titled “Himalayan High” focused on pacemakers when such rare units were the reader into future Earth, where the consecutive years of mission the peoples and culture of Tibet and available to younger patients (he was world is joined under one government. service by members of the Nepal. He and his wife had visited 39 at the time) who were in otherwise Donald Thompson ’64 and Scudder family, begun when Tibet during their year of teaching excellent health and physical Carol Roberts ’66 Thompson of John and Harriet Scudder set English in China during 1991-92, and condition with a long life expectancy. Bomoseen, Vt., are completing a book sail for India in 1819. Now he had accompanied Carroll College Coincidentally, he had already been on the explorations of Henry Hudson retired in Cyprus, Lew and students to Nepal in 1999 as part of preparing a talk titled “Reflections of a and Samuel de Champlain for Purple Marilyn continue to aid and Carroll’s New Cultural Experiences Nuclear (Pu 238) Powered Heart Pacer” Mountain Press. It is juvenile literature encourage the work of Global Program. LIR is a local spin-off to deliver in the San Diego area as the prepared for fourth and fifth grades Mission in the Middle East. program of Elderhostel, and during monthly enrichment lecturer at the and should be available early next the second week of October he and his spring. For the past couple of years wife attended an Elderhostel program Don has been gathering information The award is given by the 114 in Chautauqua, N.Y., on “U.S. Foreign Don Van Etten ’56 of for a book on the early industry and members of the Michigan Association Policy for the 21st Century.” Rapid City, S.D., received resorts of Lake Bomoseen, Vt. Carol of Mayors, which Al is serving as the “Distinguished Service has been working on completing president for a second term. On to Humankind Award” from a novel and recently attended the Tuesday, Nov. 6, he was elected to an 50s Northwestern College in 5th Annual Horace Greeley Writers’ eighth term as Holland’s mayor. Orange City, Iowa, on Friday, Symposium at Green Mountain Tom Ogren ’67 of Pennington, N.J., Lavina “Daisy” Hoogeveen ’52 of Oct. 5, during homecoming College in Poultney, Vt. was recently elected to the Pennington Grandville, Mich., hosted her “Third festivities. He attended Bourgi Hoerner ’65 of Davis, Calif., Borough Council. He is the second Annual Birthday Celebration Hymn Northwestern from 1952 has retired after 25 years of teaching Hope graduate and member of the Sing” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, at through 1953, graduated English as a Second Language to Class of ’67 to be elected to the Eighth Reformed Church in Wyoming, from Hope, and then earned adults for the Grant School District council. The first was the lateDiane Mich. a degree in medicine from the in Sacramento, Calif. She continues Dykstra ’67 Naffziger. Kathryn Phillips ’54 Cook of University of Iowa College of to teach evening classes at American Rein Vanderhill ’67 and Margo Vine Grove, Ky., is the author of Medicine. He served for three River College, also in Sacramento. She Nabor ’68 Vanderhill of Alton, Hand in Hand, published by Trafford years at American Mission reports that the immigrant population Iowa, had their work featured in “Soft Publishing. The historical novel tells Hospital in Bahrain, and then in the area includes Russians, Sand and Wide Prairies,” the 14th the story of Rev. Isaac McCoy and at Park Clinic in Mason City, Ukrainians and other former Soviets, anniversary celebration of The Uptown his amazing wife, Christiana, who Iowa. He was also a four-time Hmong from Laos and other Asians, Gallery in Holland, Mich. New work established Indian mission schools representative in the South and Hispanics. At the time of her by Rein included acrylic paintings in Michigan near Niles and Grand Dakota Legislature, where retirement, she was chairperson of the of Michigan shore scenes, painted Rapids, and eventually had a major he chaired the Health and ESL Department at Grant Skills Center on raw or unsized canvas with thin role in leading the Indian westward Human Services Committee for Adults. acrylic paint. Earlier work included movement. and served on panels Al McGeehan ’66, who is mayor of many close-ups of flowers. Margo’s Norman C. Gysbers ’54 of examining prescription drug Holland, Mich., was named “Advocate works in pastels were on-site paintings Columbia, Mo., was appointed a and health insurance issues. of the Year” at the Michigan Municipal of Midwest countryside. Rein has Curators’ Professor by the Board of League’s fall conference in September. had a long career as an art professor

24 News From Hope College Executives. He and his wife own Floyd Brady ’68 of Chicago, Serendipity Ranch Arabians. Ann Rypstra ’75 of Oxford, Ill., was a featured plenary Ohio, was awarded the title session speaker during the of Distinguished Professor by 2007 Great Lakes Colleges 70s the Miami University Board Association Students of Color of Trustees on Friday, June Leadership Conference held Kenneth Bradsell ’70 of Ridgewood, 22. The award, established at Hope on Friday-Saturday, N.J., preached his first sermon as to attract and retain the most Oct. 19-20. The conference, pastor of the Historic Clarkstown (N.J.) eminent professors, consists attended by approximately Reformed Church on Sunday, Sept. 2, of an annual allowance for 200 students from throughout marking the beginning of his work to professional expenses. When the GLCA, featured the theme help revitalize the 257-year-old church. awarding the honor, the He is also director of operations and “Reclaiming Our Virtues.” university noted that she is support and assistant secretary for the Floyd, who is a special assistant an internationally known Reformed Church in America. to the dean of the College of behavioral ecologist who has Lynn Davis ’71 Austin of Orland Business Administration at the made significant contributions Park, Ill., is the author of A Proper to the understanding of University of Illinois at Chicago Pursuit, a novel published by Bethany biodiversity, chemical $2.5 million in grant funding, and is also director of the Rev. House in September. The story takes communication, predation and has published more than 50 Dr. H.B. Brady Foundation, place in Chicago in the late 1800s and the reproductive behavior peer-reviewed articles in leading presented “Leading While during the time of the World’s Fair. of organisms, using model scientific journals. She is past Bleeding, Acting Locally, Lynne, who speaks and writes full systems with spiders. She president and member of the Thinking Globally.” time, has won three Christy Awards for has collaborated with top board of directors and of the her historical fiction. scientists in her field, including editorial board for the American at Northwestern College in Orange Nancy Forest-Flier ’71 of Alkmaar, colleagues at the University of Arachnological Society. She City, Iowa, and Margo has taught art the Netherlands, donated a kidney Oxford, where she was awarded has received a National Leader classes and is active in the local art to her husband on Wednesday, Oct. honorary membership at St. Scholar Award from Women in community. 31. The operations took place at Peter’s College in recognition Science and Technology, and Steven Piersma ’68 of Zeeland, the Academic Medical Center in of her work as a scholar. She she has been appointed as an Mich., was inducted into the West Amsterdam, and both were successful. has been principal or co- NSF Woman in Science Teaching Ottawa Athletic Hall of Fame during Their daughter started a blog for them principal investigator on nearly participant. a ceremony and banquet held on to relate their transplant adventure, Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Evergreen “A Tale of Two Kidneys” (http:// Commons in Holland, Mich. He ataleof2kidneys.blogspot.com/). Methodist Church, along with her has been accredited and licensed by participated in football, basketball and Holly Nelmes ’72 Moore of husband, James Moore ’72. The Hay Group to administer the baseball at West Ottawa High School Woodstock, N.Y., recently retired James Moore ’72 of Woodstock, Emotional & Social Competence in Holland, earning nine varsity letters after 20 years of elementary school N.Y., became district superintendent Inventory (ESCI), a measure of and all-conference in football and teaching. As graduate of a two-year in the New York Annual Conference emotional intelligence. Mark is baseball. program called The Guild for Spiritual of the United Methodist Church in president of Keystone Coaching and James Robertson ’69 of Trinidad, Guidance, she is very involved in July. After serving as a pastor of local Consulting. Colo., became the chief executive study, teaching and retreats related churches for 31 years, he assumed this Don Egedy ’73 of Santa Fe, N.M., is officer of Mt. San Rafael Hospital in to spirituality. She is also working new position in which he supervises a broker with Barker Realty. He and Trinidad last June. He is a Fellow of as an administrative assistant for the about 70 pastors and 105 churches. his wife have three grown children. A the American College of Healthcare Catskill Hudson District of the United Mark deRoo ’73 of Holland, Mich., profile of Don in the Sunday, Sept. 2,

December 2007 25 edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican, Medical Center, in Charlotte, N.C. On Inspiration and Translation,” noted that his interests include golf, Pete Idema ’89 of Cody, Cathy Fox ’84 Davis of Valley was sponsored by the college’s river rafting and fly fishing. Wy., was recently named Center, Calif., has made a change from French Cultural Studies Colloquium. Joanne Navarra ’74 of Flatrock, Cody Schools’ “Teacher of the the field of education to working as Kathleen and her husband have two N.C., is the operations director of the Year.” He has been teaching a realtor for Brush Real Estate with children, a daughter (age two) and a LakeHouse Lodge and Spa in Flat Rock. eighth-grade science at Cody her husband in Escondido, Calif. She son (age five). Pete Hoekstra ’75 of Holland, Mich., Middle School since 1997. reports that they have teamed up David Cooper ’89 has been teaching who represents Michigan’s Second Prior to that he worked as to serve the north part of San Diego middle school students in special Congressional District in Washington, a field biologist for three- County. education at University Schools in D.C., was honored at the Dutch- and-a-half years, earned a Becky Pochert ’84 Gezon of Greeley, Colo. He lives in Windsor, American Heritage Day Community master’s degree, and taught at Zeeland, Mich., is a case worker Colo., with his wife and his son, Celebration on Friday, Nov. 16, at The Northwest College. and coordinator of a group of Jackson. Pinnacle Center in Hudsonville, Mich. mainly Spanish-speaking seniors at Sara Wiper ’89 Sharp of Granville, Mary Staal ’77 Bajwa and her Evergreen Commons Senior Center in Ohio, reports that she has made Scott Dwyer ’78 of Grand Rapids, husband live in Las Cruces, N.M. Holland, Mich. The group meets to working with youth her life’s work. Mich., was listed in Michigan She is attending New Mexico State socialize, get support, and learn about She is in her third year of teaching at Super Lawyers 2007 Magazine. The University to complete requirements community resources. Granville High School. She teaches annual listing recognizes lawyers to become an RN. Dave McWatters ’86 of Rockford, drama, directs shows, and runs the who have attained a high degree of Sue Van Dis ’77 Campbell of Mich., was inducted into the Rockford school’s ISP (Individual Success Plan) peer recognition and professional Kalamazoo, Mich., defended her High School Hall of Fame on program for academic success. Prior achievement. The selection of the title in the Kalamazoo Women’s Wednesday, Oct. 3. He has coached to joining the high school staff, Super Lawyers is performed by a blue- Golf Association’s City Match Play Rockford men’s high school water she served as the director of senior ribbon panel and a survey of active event at Thornapple Creek Golf Club polo for 10 years, winning six state high ministry for eight years at First lawyers in Michigan, and only five on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Three weeks championships overall and five in the Presbyterian Church in Granville. Sara percent of Michigan attorneys have earlier, she won the Golf Association last five years. The team’s record over and her husband have been married been selected. Scott was also recently of Michigan’s Women’s Senior his tenure is 410-44-2, with 21 of the for 16 years and have three children: elected to the board of directors for the Championship on the Spruce Run athletes being named All-American. Madeline, Will, and Scotty. Autism Society of Kent County. course at Grand Traverse Resort. Gayle Bond ’87 Kuipers of Holland, Glennyce Russcher ’79 Grindstaff Mich., was profiled in theGrand Rapids of Springfield, Ohio, celebrated her Press on Tuesday, Aug. 14, in a weekly ordination into ministry with the 90s Sue Marks ’85 feature of someone who puts a priority United Church of Christ last June and VanOmmeren of West on living a healthier life. She is a Thomas R. TerMaat ’90 of Ada, began ministry with Plattsburg United Charlton, N.Y., was a member health promotion educator at Holland Mich., recently joined the firm of Church of Christ in South Charleston, of the committee that spent Community Hospital, part-time Siebers Mohney PLC as a partner. He Ohio, on Sunday, July 1. She was two years creating Story professor at Hope, personal trainer, focuses his practice in the areas of formally installed as minister on Quilt: Poems of the Place. A fitness instructor and mother of four. no-fault insurance law, transportation Sunday, Sept. 16. project of the Galway Public Kathleen McGookey ’87 of and trucking law, premises liability, Library, the professionally Wayland, Mich., participated in commercial and business litigation, produced book features 121 80s a discussion about how French and general civil litigation. poems written by residents poetry inspired her writing career on Mark Van Genderen ’90 of of all ages (three to 94) of Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Hope. The Cedarburg, Wis., had the opportunity Jay Peters ’80 of Holland, Mich., was Galway, a small rural town presentation, titled “The French Muse: to ring the closing bell of the New York elected to represent the 2nd Ward on in upstate New York, either Stock Exchange in July, celebrating the Holland City Council on Tuesday, from their own experiences Harley-Davidson’s 20th anniversary of Nov. 6. or based on interviews with being listed on the exchange. More Susan Boundy-Sanders ’82 of others or historical materials. recently he was promoted to the Woodinville, Wash., is documentation Sue wrote two poems based position of managing director, Latin program manager at eNom Inc., a on her experiences and also America, and is responsible for all Demand Media company. She is guided production of the revenue, sales objectives, and ongoing also president of the Woodinville book itself drawing on her development of the Latin American Conservancy, a member of the 20-plus years experience markets for Harley-Davidson. citizens advisory panel for the city of in book publishing. The Diane Olsen Van Noord ’91 Woodville Sustainable Development book’s publication was of Holland, Mich., led a one-day Study, and an expert witness in local celebrated with a multi- workshop exploring water-soluble oil land-use hearings. faceted community event paints at the Saugatuck Center for the David Rhem ’82 of Spring Lake, attended by more than 150 Arts on Saturday, Aug. 11. Mich., is one of 33 attorneys with Mark Van Genderen ’90 in April of this year. The David Veldink ’91 and Mary Van the Grand Rapids-based law firm of Cedarburg, Wis., had project recently won the Zoeren ’91 Veldink of Hudsonville, of Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & the opportunity to ring the Joseph F. Shubert Library Mich., and their three daughters were Howlett LLP included in the upcoming closing bell of the New York Excellence Award for 2007 featured in an article in the Grand edition of The Best Lawyers in America Stock Exchange in July, from the New York State Rapids Press on Friday, Oct. 5, about 2008. He is a partner in the firm’s celebrating Harley-Davidson’s Library Association, chosen marathon runner Tim Borland. He labor and employment relations 20th anniversary of being over projects from througout was to run his 34th of 63 marathons practice. listed on the exchange. More the state, including libraries in 63 days on Saturday, Oct. 6, to Steven Guerink ’83 of Zeeland, recently he was promoted in New York City and within raise funds and awareness to fight Mich., reports that organizing mission to the position of managing the State University of New AT (Ataxia-Telangiectasia). Two of trips to Central America and the director, Latin America, and York system. The project the Veldinks’ daughters have the rare Caribbean to build Christian mission is responsible for all revenue, had previously won the 2005 genetic children’s disease. schools is a significant portion of his sales objectives, and ongoing Library Program of the Year Todd Bryden ’92 and his wife work at Worldwide Christian Schools. development of the Latin Award from the Southern recently moved from Idaho back to Timothy Lowe ’83 of Waxhaw, N.C., American markets for Harley- Adirondack Library System. Michigan for his new job at The Dow is a senior scientist with the Dickson Davidson. Chemical Company in Midland. Institute for Health Studies, Carolinas

26 News From Hope College Michael Sparks ’92 of Charlotte, Rob Malda ’98 of Holland, Mich., is the new head coach for Mich., recently celebrated the 10th long, 12 feet wide and eight feet the Kalamazoo Xplosion of the anniversary of the creation of his Web high, and resembles three giant Continental Indoor Football League. site Slashdot. Hershey’s Kisses), one for each He was on the team’s coaching Erik Manninen ’98 of Evans, Ga., side of the country. Emily was staff last season as the strength and completed his internal medicine part of the two-member team conditioning coach and assistant residency last June and is a captain and traveling the West Coast, and defensive coach. physician in the U.S. Army. He and Sarah part of the team traveling Anna Rangel-Clawson ’93 of his wife have three children, Wesley the East Coast, and each logged Holland, Mich., became principal (age seven), Donna (age three) and in more than 30,000 miles. of Van Raalte Elementary School in Gordon (age two). Both interned with Marketing Holland at the beginning of the school Michael Nagelvoort ’98 of Holland, Werks in Chicago as students year. For the previous two years Mich., is an investment executive with Emily Bennett ’07 and and following the tours are now she had been assistant principal of Macatawa Bank at the institution’s Sarah Pratt ’07 both working there as professionals. Jefferson School and dean of students Eighth Street location. participated in a unique As students both had been at Holland High School. Jack Parks ’98 is an OB/GYN opportunity that grew out of involved in Dance Marathon Sonja VanLangevelde ’94 Kilinski practicing in Big Rapids, Mich. He their senior-year internships at Hope, which raises funds for of Holland, Mich., was recently recently graduated from the OB while enrolled in the Chicago and builds awareness of Helen promoted to manager at De Boer, residency program at Spectrum Health Semester program last spring. DeVos Children’s Hospital of Baumann & Company PLC. in Grand Rapids, Mich. Each subsequently toured Grand Rapids through the Jeremy W. Norris ’97 of Grand Anna Resele ’98 has joined IFESH with the Hershey’s Kissmobile Children’s Miracle Network. Ledge, Mich., is a special education (International Foundation for for 14 weeks as “Chocolate The photo above shows them teacher in the Grand Ledge Public Education and Self Help) after receiving Ambassadors” this year, both at Hershey, Pa., and the Schools. her master’s in education from the visiting children’s hospitals photo below shows Sarah with Amy Jarchow ’97 Sheehan moved University of Minnesota, and is in and new cities and meeting the Kissmobile. back to Michigan and is a clinical Rundu, Namibia for the next 11 months. new people while handing out psychologist in practice with Human Carrie Tennant ’98 Shumaker of Hershey’s Kisses and raising Resource Associates in downtown Pinckney, Mich., is a software manager donations for the Children’s Grand Rapids. She and her husband for the University of Michigan. She Miracle Network. The Hershey live in Rockford, Mich. works 30 hours a week managing Kissmobile has been touring Aaron Dean ’98 of Grand Haven, the development, modification and the country for 10 years, with Mich., is in his seventh year as a maintenance of payroll and time 2007 celebrating the 100th teacher and varsity soccer coach at his collection software for the university, anniversary of Hershey’s Kisses alma mater, Grand Haven High School. and reports that the part-time brand chocolates. There are He and the school’s soccer program appointment gives her a little more two vehicles (each is 26 feet were featured in a Saturday, Oct. 6, time to enjoy her husband and infant article in the Muskegon Chronicle. and toddler sons or go out running Rick Frens ’98 of Holland, Mich., with her dog. she drove a 26-foot truck cross-country is the new assistant principal of Sufjan Stevens ’98 of New York 00s for nine months while touring for The Kelloggsville Middle School in the City, was recently featured as one Kennedy Center’s production of Roald Kelloggsville School District, Grand of “37 under 36 -- America’s Young Dana Andrews ’00 of Mableton, Dahl’s Willy Wonka. In September Rapids, Mich. Innovators in the Arts and Sciences” Ga., is a captain in the U.S. Marine she embarked on a year-long journey in the Fall 2007 issue of Smithsonian. Corps and was recently recalled and to Ireland, where she is a volunteer Sufjan recently composed a symphonic appointed a company commander at the Glencree Centre for Peace and piece commissioned by the Brooklyn in the Marine Corps Reserve. He Reconciliation. Academy of Music to celebrate the commands a company of 110 Marines David Fleming ’00 of Holland, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (B-QE). training out of Marietta, Ga. Mich., is director of communications The Sunday, Oct. 28, edition of the Meredith Arwady ’00 of Chicago, for T2 Communications in Holland. New York Times reported that his Ill., is performing the role of Pasqualita David Woody ’01 of Howard City, composition, “The BQE,” would be in the Lyric Opera of Chicago premier Mich., recently earned a Doctor of performed by a 38-member ensemble of John Adams’ new opera, Dr. Atomic Pharmacy degree from Ferris State to sold-out audiences Thursday (libretto by Peter Sellers), in eight University and is a pharmacist at through Saturday, Nov. 1-3, at the performances from Friday, Dec. Spectrum Health-Butterworth campus Brooklyn Academy of Music. Sufjan, 14, through Saturday, Jan. 19. She in Grand Rapids, Mich. who is taking a year to write and work will also perform the role of Dame Jeanette Holloway ’02 on other projects, and to possibly go Quickly in all nine performances of Bayyapuneedi of Kalamazoo, Mich., back to fiction writing, also performed Verdi’s Falstaff with the Lyric Opera is an access specialist with Kalamazoo some of his older songs. of Chicago. The production opens on Community Mental Health and Bryce Bergman ’99 and his Monday, Jan. 28, and runs through Substance Abuse Services. wife have been serving in Ubon, Saturday, Feb. 23. Next year Meredith Raj Malviya ’02 of Grand Rapids, Matt Scogin ’02 of Thailand, since October 2006. They will be making her Metropolitan Opera Mich., has joined the law firm Miller Alexandria, Va., spoke to are sponsored by Spring Lake (Mich.) (New York City) debut in the role of Johnson in Grand Rapids, where he two political science classes Wesleyan Church. They have two Pasqualita in Dr. Atomic. focuses his practice on trusts and at Hope on Monday, Oct. 8, children, Owen (age two) and a baby Joshua Brugger ’00 of Grand estates, taxation, and real estate. commenting on the workings daughter born in Thailand (please see Haven, Mich., has joined Tri-Cities Anna Wagnild ’02 Long recently “New Arrivals”). of bureaucracy in determining Love INC as director of the Christian moved back home to Minneapolis, Krista Meden ’99 Schrotenboer of governmental policy and organization’s new General Store in Minn., and is working in internal Holland, Mich., is office manager of taking questions from those Spring Lake, Mich. communications with U.S. Bancorp Holland Free Health Clinic, where she attending. He is senior advisor Katie Drop ’00 has been working headquarters downtown. She is the has administrative, human resource to the Under Secretary of around the country in theatre and managing editor for seven regional and finance responsibility, in addition Treasury for Domestic Affairs. opera the past seven years, mostly as a intranet sites and is responsible for to other duties. props artisan. In her most recent job writing, editing and loading content

December 2007 27 for 52,000 bank employees. Mentoring Award from Michigan Matt is attending medical school at Imdieke ’03, Oct. 20, 2007, Ann Arbor, Jen Yoh ’02 finished a summer State Senator Wayne Kuipers. The The Ohio State University and Laura Mich. position at Jacob’s Pillow Dance award is given as an effort between the is a program assistant for the Ohio Aaron Jay DeWitt ’03 and Rachael Festival and moved to New York City senator’s office and the Ottawa County Association of Free Clinics. Lynne Sloop ’05, spring 2007, Holland, to work with The Alvin Ailey Dance Mentoring Collaborative to encourage Mich. Foundation on the school staff as the men to choose mentoring as a way to Corrie L. Durham ’03 and Philip M. bursar. get involved in their community. Marriages Hillary, July 7, 2007, Ada, Mich. Amanda Drozer ’03 returned to Bill Flavin ’06 of Holland, Mich., Tyler Andrew Tacoma ’03 and Erin Hope’s campus this fall to work as is in his second year of studies in the Doug Edema ’73 and Barbara Elizabeth Koopman ’05, June 22, 2007, a guest artist with dANCEpROjECt M.Div. program at Western Theological Wright, April 13, 2007, Holland, Mich. Holland, Mich. (formerly Aerial Dance Theatre). One Seminary. Juliet Hasley ’91 and Michael Scott, Jeremy Von Eitzen ’03 and of her new works, commissioned Elizabeth “Libby” Hammon ’06 Aug. 6, 2007, Holland, Mich. Elisabeth van Houwelingen ’03, Aug. by a Hope College Patrons for the of Allegan, Mich., has returned to Faith Michelle Link ’92 and Scott 18, 2007. Arts grant, was featured in the her alma mater, Allegan High School, Anthony Hice ’94, Aug. 25, 2007, Timothy Barlow ’04 and troupe’s performances, which ran where she teaches mathematics. Stanton, N.J. Ashley Johnson ’07, Oct. 5, 2007, Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 25-27, at the Carol Steiner ’07 Litkouhi and her Renae Lynn Geerlings ’96 and Tyler Minneapolis, Minn. Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown husband live in West Lafayette, Ind. Mane, Sept. 3, 2007, Valencia, Calif. Julie Lynette Karger ’04 and Paul Holland. She is a music teacher at Sugar Creek Melissa O’Connor ’96 and Tom Wesley Simon ’04, Aug. 4, 2007, Laura Hahnfeld ’03 of Holland, Elementary School in Crawfordsville, Meuzelaar, Oct. 27, 2007, Evergreen, Holland, Mich. Mich., is a mentor for Good Samaritan Ind. Colo. Sara Page ’04 and Keith Ministries’ Faith in Youth Partnership. Joanna Swanson ’06 is a news Paul Ballard ’98 and Jennifer Szyniszewski, Sept. 22, 2007, Grand She and her mentee ran across the assistant with WILX-TV in Lansing, Stowell, Dec. 27, 2006. Rapids, Mich. Mackinac Bridge on Labor Day 2007 Mich. Annie Jakosz ’00 and Jeremy Henry, Kari Chase ’05 and Joshua Law, with 300 other Michigan residents and Lauren Karlowicz ’07 Cornelius Aug. 25, 2007, Holland, Mich. Aug. 20, 2005, Wheaton, Ill. mentor teams. of Niles, Mich., is a special education Andrew Paul McCulley ’00 and Jordy VandeBunte ’05 and Katie Jay Sanford ’03 of Ann Arbor, teacher at Sister Lakes Elementary Melissa Jane Morrow, July 7, 2007, Stacy ’06, Oct. 6, 2007, Whitehall, Mich., will begin studies for a degree School, Dowagiac (Mich.) Union Scotch Plains, N.J. Mich. at Michigan State University’s Schools. Lauren Elizabeth Lashbrook ’01 Laura Kadzban ’06 and Matthew Osteopathic Medical School starting in Stephanie Knecht ’07 Gates and and Charles Yates Davis, March 31, Pridgeon ’06, Sept. 15, 2007, the Spring of 2008. her husband (please see “Marriages”) 2007, Springfield, Ill. Grandville, Mich. Vincent Scheffler ’03 of Plano, are first-grade teachers at Destino del Sarah Rahmel ’02 and Kevin Bethany Metters ’06 and Kyle Stob Texas, was elected to the alumni Reino in Siguatepeque, Honduras. O’Keefe, Aug. 11, 2007, Naperville, Ill. ’06, Oct. 13, 2007, Holland, Mich. board of directors at Parker College of Kim Harrison ’07 is a design Blaine Cook ’02 and Douglas Turk Stephanie Knecht ’07 and Michael Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas. He will engineer with Adams Golf in Plano, ’02, Oct. 6, 2007, Niles, Mich. Gates, July 21, 2007, Grand Rapids, serve a two-year term beginning in Texas. Amy Quillo ’02 and Jeremy Dewey, Mich. January. Laura Kadzban ’06 Pridgeon and April 8, 2006, Cadillac, Mich. Matt Paarlberg ’07 and Nicki Elisabeth van Houwelingen ’03 Matthew Pridgeon ’06 recently Pete Buis ’03 and Cara Scarpitti, Hartley ’07, July 21, 2007, Ada, Mich. Von Eitzen of Vicksburg, Mich., is a married (please see “Marriages”) and June 18, 2005. Alison Bouwer ’07 and Joshua lawyer for Warner Norcross & Judd. moved to Columbus, Ohio, where Laura Cowen ’03 and Andy Westhouse, Sept. 8, 2007. Betsy Getman ’04 of South Haven, Mich., works as a registered nurse in the surgical intensive care unit at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Mich. Chris Hamstra ’04 is the new head coach for the swimming and diving program at Alma (Mich.) College. He was most recently an assistant coach at Calvin College for one year and prior to that an assistant coach at Hope. Brad Norden ’04 of Grand Rapids, Mich., will begin studies in the nurse anesthesia master’s degree program at the Duke University Graduate School of Nursing in January. Lauren Caluory ’05 of Madison Heights, Mich., moved to the Detroit area to take a new position as marketing coordinator for Plante Moran CRESA in Southfield, Mich. Andrew Meyers ’05 of Holland, Mich., is an assistant director of admissions at Hope. Laura Borovsky ’06 of Royal Oak, Mich., passed her CPA examinations and will receive her certification soon. She is employed as an outside auditor at Delloitte and Touche in Detroit, Mich. Nick DeKoster ’06 of Hudsonville, Mich., a member of AmeriCorps, recently received the Men in

28 News From Hope College Jodi Swope ’94 Osmun and Greg Chris Meyer ’02 and Shanna John D. Ferriby ’85 of Royal New Arrivals Osmun, Carter Gregory, Jan. 30, 2007. Meyer, Landon Carter, Aug. 24, 2007. Oak, Mich., died on Tuesday, Oct. 2, Lisa Anderschat ’95 Lockman and Bethany Buege ’02 Thompson and 2007. He was 44. George Anthony George ’77 and Jim Lockman, Emma Marie, Sept. 16, Gabe Thompson, Naomi Raelynn, Aug. He had been employed by EDS Nancy George, Charlotte Renee, Sept. 2007. 17, 2007. and Perot Systems, and most recently 4, 2007. Marnie Ivan ’95 O’Connell and Benjamin Smies ’03 and Leslie provided IT and technological Timothy Lowe ’83 and Suzanne Ryan O’Connell ’97, Keegan Joseph Canfield ’03 Smies, Owen Richard and assistance to local businesses. Lowe, Joshua Matthew, Feb. 9, 2006. and Addy Laureen, Nov. 16, 2006. Oliver Louis, April 8, 2007. He was preceded in death by his Todd Cioffi ’88 and Erinn Epp, Brian Capps ’96 and Nyasha father, Donald Ferriby. Sophia Margaux Cioffi-Epp, Aug. 9, Spears, August Andrew Capps, Sept. Survivors include his wife, Barbara 2007. 20, 2007. Advanced Degrees Terpstra ’85 Ferriby; their children, Bill Vanderbilt ’88 and Abby Jori Kumpf ’98 Waldron and Sean Sarah, Douglas and Hannah Ferriby; VanDuyne ’91 Vanderbilt, Ivan Moses, Waldron, Coleman Montieth, April 23, Timothy Lowe ’83, Ph.D. in social his sister and brother, Martha Ferriby Oct. 18, 2007. 2007. work, Rutgers, The State University of (Roger Rapoport) and Peter Gavin Kathy Wichnal ’90 Estes and John Bryce Bergman ’99 and Joelle New Jersey, May 2005 Ferriby ’76 (Rochelle Stackhouse); his Estes, Ellory Pearl, Sept. 12, 2007. Bergman, Evy, May 1, 2007. Steven Petroelje ’96, Doctorate of mother, Sally Ferriby; and a niece and Laura Vande Velde ’90 Steenwyk Sarah Kay ’99 Byham and Jonathan Ministry degree, Covenant Theological three nephews. and Dan Steenwyk, Mars Quinn, Sept. Byham, Elijah Graham, March 13, Seminary, May 2007. 9, 2006. 2007. Colleen Antvelink ’97, master’s Word has been received of the Yvette M. VanRiper ’90 and Shannon Lewis ’99 Morgenstern degree in nutrition, University of death of Charles R. Friede ’40 of Anthony J. Mavrinac, Dries James and Stephen Morgenstern, Sullivan Washington, fall 2007. Atlanta, Ga., who died on Wednesday, Mavrinac, Dec. 8, 2006. Hunter. Lori Geuder ’02 DeVisser, M.Ed. Oct. 10, 2007. He was 89. Carolyn Griesmann ’92 Hughes Robin Bolt ’99 Trumble and Chris in differentiated instruction, Grand and Brian Hughes, Brandon Walter Trumble, Drew Thomas, Oct. 14, 2007. Valley State University, summer 2007. Wilbur C. “Bill” Jacobs ’39 of Roger and Emma Mae Grace, Aug. 24, Lesley Sheldon ’00 Hassenrik and Paul D. Hendricks ’02, Master of Toledo, Ohio, died of an accidental 2007. Matt Hassenrik ’00, Molly Ann, Aug, Divinity degree, Fuller Theological drowning on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. Brett Kempema ’92 and Kari Wilt 7, 2007. Seminary, June 2007. He was 89. ’93 Kempema, Celia Caris-MacKay, Jan. Carrie Gilligan ’00 Leonard and Keith Heustis ’02, Master of Arts He was a veteran who served as an 27, 2007. Ben Leonard, Zachary Benjamin, Aug. in religion degree with a special aircraft pilot in the U.S. Navy during Chris Allman ’93 and Dawn 23, 2007. emphasis on the visual arts and the World War II. Allman, Aria Rose, Alexander Will and Jeannette Holloway ’02 church, Gordon-Conwell Theological He practiced law for more than Andrew Christopher, Sept. 18, 2007. Bayyapuneedi and Kishore Seminary, spring 2007. 60 years, beginning as an attorney Jason Evert ‘93 and Kinga Evert, Bayyapuneedi, Raj Krishna, July 2, Kevin Woloszyn ’02, Doctor of in 1946 at what is now Marshall & Elsa Rebeka, March 20, 2007. 2007. Pharmacy degree, summa cum laude, Melhorn LLC in Toledo. He later Bill Boerman ’94 and Liz Boerman, Megan Zeneberg ’02 Freudigmann Midwestern University, Chicago joined Mittendorf, Reiser & Zraik and Keeley Faith, Sept. 24, 2007. and Alan Freudigmann, Kirra Ann College of Pharamcy, Sept. 7, 2007. became a partner in the firm in 1973. Andrea Mulholland ’94 Freudigmann, Sept. 26, 2007. Lisa Nicole Hardy ’03, Doctor of He was preceded in death by his Hockenberry and Scott Hockenberry, Patrick Kinne ’02 and Sarah Kinne, Medicine degree, St. Louis University wife, Mary Jacobs, in 2006, and by a Miles Andrew, May 31, 2007. Alec Dale, Sept. 10, 2007. School of Medicine, 2007. sister, Carol Jacobs ’54 Bosch. Ashley Farr ’05, Master of Business Survivors include his daughters, Administration degree, Cornerstone Joey (George) Cattermole, Janet University, September 2007 (David) Monroe, Jenny (Allan) Spinrad and Molly (Jack) Beaudoin; his son, Steve (Jean) Jacobs; 11 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and his sister, Deaths Mary Ruth Jacobs ’41 Hakken. at Hope College The college is often privileged Kenneth N. Leestma ’52 of Seal to receive additional information in Beach, Calif., died on Thursday, Sept. On the beautiful campus celebration of the lives of members 20, 2007. He was 81. of Hope College. of the Hope community who have Following high passed away. Please visit the expanded school, he served in We offer superior customer service, obituaries we have made available the Army Air Corps online if you wish to read more about as staff sergeant in ample meeting space, and fifty those whose loss is noted in this issue. beautifully appointed guest rooms. Japan. More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc During his 53-year career as Call us to plan your next corporate, William Elferink ’60 of North a minister, he was social, or association event. Hollywood, Calif., died on Friday, Nov. pastor to congregations across the U.S. 2, 2007. He was 72. and the world. Following graduation He was a veteran of the U.S. Army from Western Theological Seminary, who served in Germany for two years. he was ordained and called to be the He worked in California with the founding pastor of Lincoln Avenue U.S. government. Community Church in Pamona, He was preceded in death by four Calif. He subsequently served sisters, Cora Johnson, Mina McBride, Bayshore Gardens Reformed Church Marie DeKam and Vera Wykstra, and in Bradenton, Fla.; El Dorado Park one brother, Henry Elferink. Community Church in Long Beach, Survivors include one sister, Calif.; and New Life Community Jennie (Nelson ’50) Stegeman, and Church in Artesia, Calif. He first 225 College Avenue Holland, Michigan 49423 two brothers, Dirk (Judy) Elferink and retired in 1991, but was asked by the 616-395-7200 or 800-903-9142 www.haworthinn.com Elbert (Shirley) Elferink. Reformed Church in America (RCA) to

December 2007 29 serve churches in northern California Betty Kamps ’45 Miles of and as far away as Bahrain. Lastly Melbourne, Fla., died on Thursday, Dr. Anthony Kooiker, a he served as pastor of congregational Sept. 27, 2007, following a long battle gifted pianist who was retired care at the Crystal Cathedral in with Alzheimer’s. from the music faculty after a Garden Grove, Calif., working with his She had been a vice president of 37-year career at the college, longtime friend Robert H. Schuller ’47. Southeastern Bank for many years. died on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007 He served as president of the RCA, Survivors include a sister, Estella at age 87. represented the denomination in “Dolly” Kamps ’42 Kronemeyer, and a Dr. Kooiker, who was living Japan and India, provided leadership niece and two nephews. in Orange City, Iowa, was a in synods and classes, and served on member of the Hope faculty the board of the Words of Hope radio Bernice Oatmen ’42 from 1950 until retiring in ministry for eight years. Schrotenboer of Grand Rapids, 1987. His service to the music program included helping to He served Hope as a member Mich., died on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007. build the theory and piano of the board of trustees and was She was 86. departments, and developing presented with a Distinguished Alumni She was preceded in death by her the holdings of the music Award in 1986. husband, Paul G. Schrotenboer ’44 in library, in addition to chairing Survivors include his wife, 1998. the department of music from Pella, Iowa, and then toured Elizabeth (Bette) Leestma; five Survivors include her children, 1973 to 1977. for nearly four years as piano children, David ’73 (Cathy Schaub Calvin Schrotenboer, Murray (Jane In 1951, with colleague accompanist with acclaimed ’73) Leestma, Pam Leestma ’75, Dan Galloway) Schrotenboer, Jerry Jantina Holleman, he helped concert violinist Albert Spalding. Leestma, Mary Leestma (Jack) Tackett, (Karen Lewthwaite) Schrotenboer reorganize Christmas Vespers, He joined the Hope faculty upon and Mark (Selina) Leestma; and seven and Ron (Mary) Schrotenboer; which had started in 1941, into Spalding’s retirement. grandchildren, including John (Katie nine grandchildren; and six great- the form in which it continues As an accompanist Dr. Wierenga ’01) Leestma. grandchildren. today as one of Hope’s most Kooiker had performed in both beloved and popular traditional Town Hall and Carnegie Hall in Richard N. McClintock ’55 of Lawrence “Gene” Sharp ’66 events. New York City, and he made his Horton, Mich., died on Thursday, Oct. of Knoxville, Tenn., died on Monday, Dr. Kooiker directed the solo debut at Town Hall in 1954. 18, 2007. He was 74. Sept. 24, 2007. He was 78. college’s Women’s Choir for His experiences performing He was a veteran of the U.S. Army He worked as an electrician for 20 years, and was an active abroad included lecture-recitals who served during the Korean War. many years before being called to the performer in West Michigan on American piano music He worked as the general manager ministry. He graduated from Union throughout his time at Hope, in various music academies of Allen McClure Oil Well Servicing in Theological Seminary and became appearing regularly in solo and in the former Yugoslavia in Mosherville, Mich., for more than 25 a member of the Presbytery, serving faculty chamber music concerts. 1979 at the invitation of the years. He was the Liberty Township as pastor of several churches in He also taught piano students U.S. Information Service and of all ages from throughout the treasurer at the time of his death. Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. He and the Embassy in Sarajevo. greater Holland area. He and Spalding had made He was preceded in death by one his wife, Peggy Sharp, also served as His former home in recordings together, and in son, Richard McClintock, and one missionaries in Zaire, Africa, for four Holland originally stood on 1986 he was featured on a solo brother, Harry McClintock. years and later in Haiti. 12th Street on the site of the album performing work by Survivors include his wife of Survivors, in addition to his wife A. Paul Schaap Science Center. Rachmaninoff and Debussy. 48 years, Lynda L. McClintock; of 61 years, include his daughter, Hope moved the house in 2002 Among other honors, in four children, Brian (Donna) Loretta Jendryka; his sons, Larry to 14th Street, where it now 1964 he received the college’s McClintock, Robin Katz, Jamie Sharp and Mark (Tammy) Sharp; six serves the college in his name Den Uyl Award for his McClintock, and Chris McClintock; grandchildren; and one great-grandson. as Kooiker Cottage, a student outstanding contributions as a seven granddaughters; six great- residence. teacher. He was named “Teacher grandchildren; two sisters, Barbara Ethel Leestma ’33 Swets of In the early years of World of the Year” by the Michigan Theimer and Mary Margaret (Wayne) Holland, Mich., died on Saturday, Oct. War II, he played for the USO at Federation of Music Clubs in Scantland; and one sister-in-law, 13, 2007. She was 95. the Great Lakes Naval Training 1968 and by the Holland Piano Roberta McClintock. She was the first student to Station. He subsequently Forum in 1982. graduate from Hope with a degree in taught at Central College in More ONLINE www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc organ on the then-new Skinner Opus 732 organ. The Ethel Leestma Swets Organ Scholarship Fund was recently Nov. 1, 2007. He was 98. their grandmother Charlene Skirba. established at Hope by family and He was employed by two Detroit In addition to their parents, friends in honor of her. automobile companies as a chemist survivors include their grandparents, She was preceded in death by her and chemical engineer. Gary and Jill VerBeek and Robert and husband, William Swets; her daughter, Survivors include his sons, George Helen Skirba. Ethelanne Swets ’60 Ten Pas, and a Vande Bunte and Ronald (Norma) son-in-law, Ed Curtis. Vande Bunte; four grandsons; four The family of James W. Unger Survivors include her children, great-grandchildren; his sisters and of Oshkosh, Wis., who died on Paul ’63 (Janiece Smoll ’65) Swets, brothers, Frank (Theressa) Vande Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007. He was 86. Marcia Buck, Karen (David) Watson, Bunte, Marian Van Dam, Howard (Kay) He was a veteran who served in Mary (Don) Teasley, and Faith Curtis; Vande Bunte, Ruth (Floyd) Boss, and the U.S. Army during World War II This year’s Hope College Christmas her son-in-law John (Marilyn) Ten Pas Iris (John) Myaard. from 1942 to 1946 in the European Vespers will be available on a ’59; her sister, Sue Leestma ’46 (Frank) Theater. stereophonic, digitally recorded CD. He taught biology at Hope from Call the Hope-Geneva Bookstore Pettinga; her brother, Harold Leestma 1948 until 1952 and retired from a 30- at (616) 395-7833 (toll-free at ’39 (Lois Voorhorst ’39) Leestma; 14 Sympathy to 1-800-946-4673) or shop online at grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; year career as a professor of biology at www.hopebookstore.com and many members of her extended The family of Petra and Stella the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh family. VerBeek, infant twin daughters of in 1983. Tom ’97 and Jennifer VerBeek, who Survivors include his wife of Donald L. Vande Bunte ’31 died on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007. 59 years, Dorothy Unger and his of Holland, Mich., died on Thursday, They were preceded in death by daughter, Ann Leslie.

30 News From Hope College A Closing Look

Christmas greetings from the campus of Hope College! On behalf of the campus community, we wish a blessed Christmas for our many alumni and friends as together we celebrate the birth of Jesus, our Savior and Lord. May your holiday season be filled with peace and joy!

— Jim and Martie Bultman

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