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April 2011 ALSO INSIDE: Helping Children in Need • Studying the Stars • Faculty Retirees NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE Volume 42, No. 4 April 2011 On the Cover The institution-wide commitment to service that received national recognition in January is demonstrated thoroughly during the beach clean-up day on Saturday, Sept. 25, organized by the student Environmental Issues Group. Shown among the many who participated are Dr. Tim Pennings of the mathematics faculty, junior Kylen Blom of Holland, Mich., and even Dr. Pennings’s Welsh corgi, Elvis. Volume 42, No. 4 April 2011 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 “Quote, unquote” Gregory S. Olgers ’87 Layout and Design uote, unquote is an eclectic God enabled me and continues to enable me to Wesley A. Wooley ’89 sampling of things said at and do all this, traveling and so forth, I do work with Q a lot of organizations, but the traveling primarily Printing about Hope College. to show me that, ‘Carolyn, that’s not the world IPC Print Services of St. Joseph, Mich. that I created.’ Contributing Writers “I believe that we share more than we differ Each year, Hope Greg Chandler, Chris Lewis ’09 on,” she said. “I’ve learned that in my travels.” commemorates the work of Dr. She returned to school to pursue her M.Div. Contributing Photographers Martin Luther King not with a day at Samford University determined to become an Rob Kurtycz, Lynne Powe ‘86, Lou Schakel ’71 but a week, Civil Rights Celebration agent of change. Week, organized in honor of all Hope College Office of Public Relations “I believe like some of my favorite writers, persons and groups who have DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698 like Gandhi and Malachi, who said by one God phone: (616) 395-7860 worked toward the advancement were we all created; that we must learn to work fax: (616) 395-7991 of civil rights and social justice. together. Dr. King said we will one day learn [email protected] This year’s events included a to build the beloved community, that we will keynote address by Carolyn Maull Thomas L. Renner ’67 learn to work together and to serve each other McKinstry, who at age 14 survived Associate Vice President together. And Desmond Tutu, who said there for Public and Community Relations the September 1963, racially motivated bombing is no future without forgiveness [and] with that of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, forgiveness comes healing. Gregory S. Olgers ’87 Ala., a Sunday-morning explosion that killed Director of News Media Services “So I believe like all of these. And of course four of her friends. Speaking during the annual my favorite, Isaiah, in 51, who says one day the Martin Luther King Luncheon on Tuesday, Jan. Lynne M. Powe ’86 lion will lie with the lamb, and both will be full Associate Director of Public and 18, she shared a message of reconciliation. of the knowledge of God. Neither will do harm Community Relations to each other. And that one day we will walk Julie Rawlings ’83 Huisingh McKinstry set her experience and the together.” Public Relations Services Administrator church bombing in a broader context. She Living again in Birmingham, McKinstry is explained that the first bombing in the second vice president and program committee Karen Bos community had happened in 1948, and that chair for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Office Manager 80 of them remain unsolved. She survived a and president of the Board of Directors of News from Hope College is published during second bombing that destroyed a large portion the Sixteenth Street Foundation Inc., whose April, June, August, October, and December by of her home in 1964. She was among thousands mission is the ongoing maintenance of the Hope College, 141 East 12th Street, of students hosed by firemen during marches for historic church building. An active community Holland, Michigan 49423-3698 civil rights. volunteer, she serves on the Scholarship Postmaster: Send address changes to news from Committee for the “Four Girls” administered In the aftermath, McKinstry said, her faith Hope College, Holland, MI 49423-3698 in humanity “was pretty well destroyed. It was by the Birmingham News. And she spends much not in the best of shape.” of her time traveling and talking with young Notice of Nondiscrimination Time, however, changed that. McKinstry people about her experiences of the ’60s, making Hope College is committed to the concept of equal rights, equal opportunities and equal protection under has been around the country and abroad them relevant to today’s environment. the law. Hope College admits students of any race, color, sharing her experiences. She explained that she “My hope is that as I travel around that I’ll national and ethnic origin, sex, creed or disability to all has met numerous others whose goodwill across pick up followers, or people who also believe like the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at Hope College, racial and cultural boundaries have helped her me: that we have more to share than things that including the administration of its educational policies, to see that things can be different. keep us apart, and that if we are going to build a admissions policies, and athletic and other school- “The Lord began to move me to the beloved community, if we are to walk together administered programs. With regard to employment, the College complies with all legal requirements prohibiting ministry of reconciliation,” she said. “I think as lions and lambs, we have to start here.” discrimination in employment. 2 News From Hope College CONTENTS NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE Volume 42, No. 4 April 2011 2 “Quote, unquote” A message of reconciliation. 4 Events Activities forthcoming. 5 Campus Scene News from the halls of Hope. 6 6 Campus Profile Hope honored nationally for service focus. 8 Campus Profile Student-faculty research explores the stars. 8 10 Faculty Profile Retiring faculty have spent decades making a difference. 12 Student Profile Senior Luke Eastburg dedicates himself to helping children in South Africa. 12 14 Alumni Profile Don Battjes ’68 and Matt Vander Borgh ’84 shape Hope’s new art museum. 14 16 Winter Sports Report The season in review. conceptual rendering only 18 Faculty Profile Eva Dean ’83 Folkert learns and teaches during fall semester in Japan. 22 Classnotes News of the alumni family. 16 31 A Closing Look Snowpocalypse Now. Printed using soy-based inks. 18 April 2011 3 Events DANCE JACK RIDL VISITING WRITERS SERIES Student Dance Concert— Kevin McFadden and Diana Monday-Tuesday, April 11-12 Joseph, non-fiction and poetry, Dow Center, 8 p.m. Admission Thursday, April 14 is free. The readings will be at the Student Dance Concert— HOPE SUMMER REPERTORY THEATRE Knickerbocker Theatre beginning Monday-Tuesday, April 18-19 at 7 p.m. Live music by the Jazz HSRT is planning an exciting Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m. Chamber Ensemble will precede the 40th season, opening in the ACADEMIC CALENDAR Admission is free. readings beginning at 6:30 p.m. Knickerbocker theatre on Friday, Admission is free. Spring Semester June 17, with the wonderful April 28, Thursday—Honors DE PREE GALLERY musical Children of Eden, followed Convocation, Dimnent by Taking Steps, Return to the Graduating Senior Art Show— Memorial Chapel, 7 p.m. Forbidden Planet, I Remember Friday, April 8-Sunday, May 8 April 29, Friday—Spring Festival. Mama, Guys On Ice, and two Classes dismissed at 3 p.m. The gallery is open Mondays through children’s shows. May 2-6, Monday-Friday— Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets go on sale to the Semester examinations and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. public on Monday, May 2, and May 6, Friday—Residence halls Admission is free. Please call the will be available at the ticket office close for those not participating gallery at (616) 395-7500 for more in the main lobby of the DeVos in Commencement, 5 p.m. information. Fieldhouse or by calling (616) 395- ALUMNI, PARENTS & FRIENDS May 8, Sunday—Baccalaureate and 7890. More information can be Alumni Weekend—Friday- Commencement found online at www.hope.edu/ Saturday, April 29-30 May 9, Monday—Residence halls hsrt. close for graduating seniors, Includes reunions for every fifth noon class from 1961 through 1981, and a 50-Year Circle brunch for May Term—May 9-June 3 MUSIC all classes from 1960 and earlier. June Term—June 6-July 1 Jazz Combos Concert—Monday, Bob DeYoung Hope Classic Golf July Term—July 5-29 April 11: Wichers Auditorium of Outing—Monday, June 13 Nykerk Hall of Music, 7:30 p.m. Ravines Golf Club Admission is free.