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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons News from Hope College Hope College Publications 1988 News from Hope College, Volume 20.3: December, 1988 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 20.3: December, 1988" (1988). News from Hope College. 82. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college/82 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]. Hope Holland. MI -Non-Profit College Organization AddressPOSTMASTER:49423 U.S. Postage Correction• PAID news from ^ HOPE COLLEGE DECEMBER 1988 PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN X J e fitave much to 6e tfumkfuC for as we approach our second * w Christmas season at Hope College. are tfumkfuCfor the beauty of the coftege and its people, whether in Holland or at a distance. We are thankful for the call to meaningful and rewarding service and for the love of family and of friends, both oCd and new. {Christmas is atimefor sharing, for the joyful worship cf Christ our Savior and the celebration of the fellowship we have with each other. His gifts to us incCudeforgiveness and peace. Christmas reminds us cf His humility and gentleness in bringing these gifts. Christmas reminds us that these gifts are owned through being shared. During this biessed season may each of us be an instrument of Gods grace. May the HoCy Spirit breathe Cife into us . May we bring forgiveness and peace to those who are present with us and to those who are far away. John and Jeanne Jacobson Hope with majors in history and religion, news from holds a master's degree in history from.Kent A HOPE COLLEGE CAMPUS NOTES State University. ( Editor 's note: more concerningthe Joint Volume 20, No. 3 December 1988 Archives and Hope 's history will appear in Published for Alumni, Friends and Parents the Feb., 1989, issue of news from Hope of Hope College by the Office of Public College). Relations. Should you receive more than one copy, please pass it on to someone in your community. An overlap of Hope College ABBOTT AWARD: Richard H constituenciesmakes duplicationsometimes Decker '56 named Hope the recipient of a unavoidable. $30,000 donation from his employer, Abbott Laboratories. As the company’s first Editor: Thomas L. Renner '67 Researcher of the Year, Decker was able to Associate Editor: Gregory S. Olgers direct the $30,000 to the college or univer- '87 sity of his choice. Staff: Marjorie Graves Decker presented the donation to Hope Contributing Writers: Eva Dean '83 College President John H. Jacobson and a Folkert, Kathleen McGookey ’89, Maty delegation of Chicago-areatrustees on Nov. Taylor '89, Tami Tiggleman '89 15. ProfessorDonald Williams Richard Decker Decker, senior research fellow in the Layout: Holland Litho Service, Inc. SCHOLARSHIP FINALISTS: Hope college’s Marshall/Rhodes scholarship Abbott diagnostics division, has been with Contributing Photographers: Louis has had two seniors earn positions as advisor. Daniel Slid, a 1987 graduate, was Abbott Laboratories since 1971. He earned Schakel, Dostie, Jim John Armstrong Mid- finalists in the British Western Region Hope’s most recent Rhodes recipient. his doctorate in biochemistry in I960 from Photo Staff: Jennifer Kochin '92 Marshall Scholarship competition, and one Of Michigan's 12 finalists, two will be Oklahoma State University.Decker lives in of the two is also a state finalist in Michigan news from Hope College k publishedduring selected to compete at the six-state Midwest Deerfield. III., with his wife Mary and three February,April, June, August, October and in the Rhodes Scholarshipcompetition. District level. Ultimately, 32 Rhodes children. December by Hope College, 137 East 12th Carl Gelderloos, a physics major with a Scholarships will be awarded to students in NSF GRANT: The chemistry and ' Street, Holland, Michigan 49423-3698. philosophy minor from Muskegon, Mich., the United States. biology departmentswill share the use of a Postmaster:Send address changes to news and Craig Stapert, a classics major from The Rhodes Scholarshipprogram, new nuclear magnetic resonanceinstrument from Hope College, Holland,Ml 49423-3698. Grand Rapids, Mich., are two of the initiated in 1903, provides the recipientsan funded largely through a grant from the Mid-Western Region’s 18 Marshall Scholar- opportunityto study at the University of Hope College Office of Public Relations, National Science Foundation (NSF). ship finalists. Gelderloos is also one of 12 Oxford in England. DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. According to Michael E. Silver, assistant finalists from Michigan in the Rhodes- Thomas L. Renner ’67, Director professor of chemistry, the NSF grant Scholarship competition. Both students are IT’S The new Joint | Mary Lammers Kempker ’60, Associate OFFICIAL: provides two-thirds of the instrument’s Director seniors. Archives of Holland, located on the ground $265,000 cost. I Gregory S. Olgers ’87, AssistantDirector Hope is one of four schools to have floorof the Van Wylen Library, was The new instrument enables its users to Esther Cleason, Office Manager multiple finalists in the Mid-Western dedicatedon Friday, Nov. 14. probe the environment of the nucleus of Sally Bassett, Receptionist- Scheduler Region’s British Marshall Scholarship The Joint Archives of Holland was | Karen Bos, Secretary different atoms and study molecules at a competition . The other schools with two or created to bring together the collectionsof variety of temperatures. Hope is one of only more finalists are Harvard, Princeton, and the Holland HistoricalTrust, Hope College NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION : Hope the University of eight to ten private liberal arts colleges to College is committed to the concept of equal Michigan. and Western TheologicalSeminary. The have one of the devices. Faculty and rights, equal opportunities and equal protection The British Marshall Scholarshipwas Joint Archives collects material relating. to students conducting research will have an under the law. Hope College admits students established by the British government in Dutch heritage both in West Michigan and opportunity to use the instrument, and the of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, 1947 as a way of recognizingthe United the United States as a whole. chemistry department plans to integrate it sex, creed or handicap to all the rights, States' role in Europe’s recovery following The dediction ceremony was preceded by privileges, programs and activitiesgenerally into its instrumentation course this spring. World War Two. The British Marshall a lecture by Dr. Robert Swierenga, a accordedor made available to students at Hope Scholarshipmay be used at any British professor of history at Kent State University. For the second College, including the administration of its MERCK GRANT: University, and is of a two-year duration. Swierenga, who presented “Dutch Immigra- educationalpolicies, admissions policies, consecutive year the chemistry department Up to 30 of the scholarships, which have scholarship and loan programs, and athletic tion to Michigan and the Middle West," is has been awarded a grant from the Merck and other school-administeredprograms. With an annual value of about $20,000, will be highly regarded as a scholar of Dutch Company Foundation of Rahwa, N.J. The regard to employment, the College complies awarded in 1989. immigration to the United States. department has received $7,500 from the with all legal requirementsprohibiting Gelderloos is also Hope’s fourth state Larry J. Wagenaar ’87 was hired as foundationto support summer research by- discrimination in employment. Rhodes Scholarshipfinalist in three years, archivist in May, and began his duties in students and for the purchase of equipment according to Professor Neal Sobania, the August. Wagenaar, who graduated from needed for research projects. On the Cover: The nativity scene on this issue’s cover is from the upper-left portion of the “Anyone can go along with the crowd, what you did. and you say ’Oh boy. I jSSiB m. Rose Window in the western (College but who will dare to be different? really got bombed . We had a good time. ' Avenue) wall of Dimnent Memorial w;T T Anyone can laugh when everyone else "That is not fun. Fun is knowing who Chapel. Given by the class of 1916, the T', ,* . i is laughing, but who will dare to be you are. and loving yourself, and not f It Rose Window is one of the finest different? takes courage, character, using pharmaceutical extractionsto give • . ' examples of stained glass in western and personality to be different. you artificial fun. That’s why when you Michigan. Cover photograph by Louis “Anyone can dress up just as everyone come down you feel so bad." Schakel. else does and get in the same groups, —Louise Bias, mother of the late Len walk the same walk, talk the same talk. Bias, the University of Maryland Anyone can emulate someone, but who basketball player who died on June 19, Quote, unquote is an eclectic sampling will be willing to take the mask off and 1986, just two days after being drafted of things being said at and about Hope be themselves? College. by the Boston Celtics. Bias addressed “Is not your life worth standing up the issues of peer pressure and substance for — having self-control;being in abuse in her presentation, "Message of “You have no control over the date control of your life? Will you continue Hope. " Bias spoke at Dinient Chape! on you're born; you don’t know when and to bow down and allow someone to Wednesday, Oct. 26. how you’re going to die. What you have manipulate you and control you? No, W, control over, and what you will give an you must stand up for what’s right.