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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons News from Hope College Hope College Publications 1984 News from Hope College, Volume 15.6: June, 1984 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college Part of the Archival Science Commons Recommended Citation Hope College, "News from Hope College, Volume 15.6: June, 1984" (1984). News from Hope College. 55. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college/55 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Hope College Publications at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in News from Hope College by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Ahope college JUNE 1984 PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF COLLEGE RELATIONS, HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN ' X inside also inside in just spring 462 Articles on birds, baseball cards, Alumni Day and other seasonal fevers become ‘Perfect students’ 4.0-ers, in person and in stereotype alumni Lucky 5 sports Five championships give Hope its fifth all-sports crown CAMPUS NOTES Quote, Unquote is an eclective sampling of things being said at and about Hope. From the baccalaureateaddress of the Rev. Dr. Eugene Osterhaven'37, pro- fessor of systematic theology at Western Theological Seminary: "As a youngster when I would hear the name of this college it sounded Jacob E. Nyenhuis has been appointed strange to me. I didn't like the word Hope's new provost, succeeding David G. 'hope.' 1 didn't just want to hope; 1 Marker who resigned to become president of it it be right wanted — whatever might — Cornell College in Iowa. The appointmentis away. When 1 'became a man and put effective June -15. away childishthings,' the felicity of the Nyenhuis has been a member of the Hope name grew on me. I came to feel that College faculty since 1975, serving most re- when Dr. Van Raalte said that the college cently as dean for arts and humanities. He was his 'anchor of hope for this people holds the academic rank of professor of for the future,' that a sentiment was classics. worth cutting in stone. Nyenhuis has been a leading national "We live, when we live well, by hope. spokesman for humanities education at the the future our strength." From comes post-secondary level. He is past president of the National Federation of State Humanities Councils and past chairman of the Michigan Council for the Humanities. Retiring Alumni Board President Mar- In May he was presented a Distinguished ge Lucking '48 French has added another Service Award by the Michigan Council. possibility to roles availableto women of He has testified before Congress on behalf the '80s. of the National Endowment for the Human- In reviewing the highs and lows of ities and the State Humanities Councils. serving as head of Hope's 14,500-member Nyenhuis is a graduate of Calvin College alumni body, French smugly announced, and received the Ph.D. in classics from Stan- "I now feel as if I have earned the right ford University. to the title of 'Part-time Big Shot,' as my He served 13 years on the faculty of - BURSMA children so affectionatelycall me." GENTENAAR MYERS Wayne State University before coming to Chuck Link '50 and John VerSteeg '65 have Hope. a captain in the U.S. Army, stationed in expired. He is the author of numerous scholarly Germany. Alumni Board officers are: Phyllis Brink '58 Under the burden of students'pens at articles and reviews and the co-author of He teaches courses in macroeconomics,in- Bursma, president; Craig Van Zanten '50, exams time sometimes is fashioned what several books, including Latin Via Ovid. He ternationaleconomics, money and banking, vice president;and Chris Lohman 73, execu- Associate Professor of Sociology Don has held visiting professorshipsat major uni- principles of economics and corporate finance. tive committee. Luidens terms "Essays Extraordinaire." versities and at the American School of Clas- His research specialties include the stock mar- These samples prove that the process of sical Studies at Athens, Greece. ket and money supply, property taxation and Preliminaryplans for a new library have becoming educated is not always an uphill He has been active in community affairs, aspects of inflation. been approved by the Board of Trustees. The • battle: serving on the board of the Louis and Helen proposed five-level facility has been designed "(Rites of passage) refers to the re- Padnos Education Fund of Holland, as an Trustee elections held in May resulted in by the architecturalfirm of Shepley, Bull- quirementduring colonial times of ob- officer in the Holland area committeeof In- the following new members of the Board: Jon finch, Richardson and Abbott of Boston. Plans taining permission in order to travel from ter-VarsityChristian Fellowship,and in a F. Hanson, a businessmanfrom Far Hills, locate it on College Ave. between Graves one colony to another. At that time it leadership role of the 14th Street Christian N.J.; Richard Kruizenga'52, Ph.D., of New Place and 10th St. with a connection to the caused much conflict. However, with Reformed Church of Holland. York City, vice president of the Exxon Corpo- present library, the lower level of which will Howard Johnsons and McDonald's it is ration; Arvella Schuller,a homemaker and house the archives.The remaining two levels much more functionalthan before." Robert Gentenaar, associate professor of co-producer of the TV program, -Tdour of will be converted for classrooms and faculty No beef there, we say. economics, was voted the 1984 Hope Out- Power," who resides in Orange, Calif.; Nancy offices. Another student put Luidens in the standing Professor-Educator. Miller, professor of education at Hope who right mood with the following definition The award, instituted in 1965, is presented will serve as a faculty representative;the A $99,119 grant from the National Science of sociology: "the study (of) people in by the graduating class to the professor who Rev. James Neevel '56, a fifth generation Foundation for a summer honors workshop their environment.How the(y) act, com- they feel epitomizes the qualities of the Hope Hope alumnus from Albany, N.Y.; and Mar- for high school chemistry teachers has been municate, govern, and punish their soci- College educator. He was cited for "intangi- ian Hughes, an educator from Albany, N.Y. received. According to Prof. Eugene C. Jekel, ety as a whole." bles easily recognized by students": his en- Willard C. Wichers '31, a trustee for 35 who will direct the program, 40 teachers will thusiasm, inspiration, conviction and years, was elected to honorary status upon his participate. The program runs June 25-July dedication. retirement. 20. A member of the Hope faculty since 1977, Reelected as officers of the Board are: Margaret Bilkert '41 Lammer of Ka- Gentenaargraduated from Western Michigan Victor W. Eimecke, chairman; Jay Weener, The recently released Gourman college- lamazoo, Mich., was interviewed recently University in 1961 and holds an M.B.A., an vice-chairman; Max D. Boersma, secretary. rating study has left Hope administrators by her local paper to get her reaction to a M.A. and a Ph.D. from Michigan State more amused than irritated. The study gave 1958 article in which she discussed home- University. New appointments to the Alumni Board Hope and more than half of Michigan's other making as a career. Prior to joining Hope's faculty, he was are Jim Bos, a senior from Cerritos,Calif., colleges a "marginal" rating. In 1958 she said: "Sometimes I think personnel manager for the hydraulics division and Bev Babe '50 Kerr of Albany, N.Y. Chris The Gourman report has been widely crit- 'what was I educated for?' And then one of the Bendix Corp. in St. Joseph, Mich. Lohman '73 of Los Angeles, Calif., was reap- icized because the author, Jack Gourman, a of the children asks a question and I (1967-1971). For three years previous he was pointed. The terms of Kay Neevel '82 Brown, professorof political science at California wonder why I didn't have more State University at Northridge, does not ex- education." news from Hope College plain how he arrives at the numerical values In 1984 she weighed those remarks Volume 15, No. 6, June, 1984 (ranging from 2.01 to 4.99 for undergraduate thus: "As far as being educated, I don't Published for Alumni, Friends and Parents of Hope College by the Office of College Relations. offerings)that he uses to rank colleges. think I expressed myself very well. I Should you receive more than one copy, please pass it on to someone in your community. An One analyst,the directorof the well estab- never thought my education was wasted overlap of Hope College constituenciesmake duplicationsometimes unavoidable. lished Higher Education Research Institute at because I was a housewife. When one of Editor: Eileen Verduin Beyer '70 the University of Californiaat Los Angeles, our children was having a rough time in Editorial Staff: Marla Hoffman '82, Eva Dean Folkert '83, Laura Brown '85 says there is "a one-in-a-billionchance" that college and wanted to drop out of school, Richard Angstadt '69 Desien: one could conduct a numerically based study I spoke of the enrichment an education is Photo Staff: Edward Petruski '87, Kristine Veldheer '84, Randal Warren 84, Tom Renner 67 and not come up with duplicationsand gaps for daily living. It's like having a lucky Cover photo: Louis Schakel in the numbers string. Gourman's consecutive six-pence in your shoe." Art: Roger Stitch, Dick Blondin rankings differ by one-hundredthof a point Official publicationnews from Hope College USPS 785-720 is published during February, and there are no duplications.Another crit- April, June, August, October and December by Hope College, 137 East 12th Street, Holland, icism is that it appears that Gourman's secret Michigan 49423.

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