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NFHC_Aug06 8/8/06 8:56 AM Page 1 A Visionary Committed Inside This Issue Remembered to Helping Arch Enhanced ............................... 2 Alumni Board President ................. 3 Community Resource ..................... 8 Leading the Way ........................... 24 Please see Please see page 14. page seven. PUBLISHED BY HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 news from HOPE COLLEGE August 2006 Please see pages 12-13. Hope College Non-Profit 141 E. 12th St. Organization Holland, MI 49423 U.S. Postage PAID CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Hope College NFHC_Aug06 8/8/06 8:56 AM Page 2 Campus Scene Hope arch returns as good as new casting new cement caps to go atop the Sometimes there is brick pillars and replacing bricks that virtue in necessity. were damaged in the accident. The pillars were donated by the Class Earlier this summer, a delivery truck of 1912 as the “front entrance” to campus mistakenly backed into the “Hope in the days when Hope was largely College” arch that stands facing College bounded by College and Columbia Avenue in front of Graves Hall, damaging avenues and 10th and 12th streets. The both the metal arch itself and the brick arch was added in 1940, given by the pillars that hold it. college’s chapter of the national Blue Key After five weeks away for repair, the honor society. arch returned on Thursday, July 13, better Today the college occupies some 120 than ever. In fact, who knew? It turns out acres, although not all contiguous, ranging that the letters in “Hope College” are from Central Avenue to the west past made of brass, a quality hidden by Fairbanks Avenue to the east, and from decades of weathering and long lost to Eighth Street to the north to 15th Street to institutional memory. Cleaned and pol- the south. Even so, the arch continues to ished and now protected by a coating that serve as a landmark. It can’t help but do should insure that they maintain their bril- so, both as a distinctive campus feature in liance for years to come, they again shine its own right and standing as it does sur- brightly in the sun. rounded by historic structures like Graves, While away following the Tuesday, Dimnent Memorial Chapel and Voorhees Certainly no one would wish for a truck to back into the landmark “Hope College” June 6, mishap, the metal arch that sup- Hall, and by relative newcomers like the arch in front of Graves Hall, but the experience has ended in a good way. It turns ports the letters was sandblasted and Van Wylen Library and the A. Paul Schaap out that the letters were brass, discovered during the course of repairing the his- repainted. Repair work also included Science Center. toric nameplate. They now shine brightly for the first time in decades. “Quote, unquote” news from HOPE COLLEGE Quote, unquote is an world charm; or that when one is there, one is Volume 38, No. 1 August 2006 surrounded by so much culture and history; eclectic sampling of things or even that she truly is the ‘Paris of the said at and about Hope South.’ It’s not just one thing or one place that On the cover makes Vienna, Vienna. It’s the culmination of The main section features research in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics and College. a thousand things: the Kellers that are filled to engineering, highlighting the volume and variety of activity in the division during the the rafters with atmosphere, the outdoor con- In June of this year, Hope celebrated the 50th summer months. Please see pages 12-13. anniversary of the popular Vienna Summer certs, the amusement park with the biggest School with activities involving both this year’s ferris wheel in the world, the quiet stillness of The photo at top center shows Vienna Summer School Founder Dr. Paul Fried ’46 (right) students and the 2006 alumni tour, which fea- the city after 10:00 at night, the cruises down with students in Vienna in 1958. Dr. Fried died on Monday, July 24. Please see page 14. tured the city as well as the former Yugoslavia. the Danube, Saint Stephen’s Cathedral, the The enduring summer school is a lasting tribute to bombed-out buildings in what used to be the At top right, Kurt Blohm ’06 and Gabe Kalmbacher ’07 (left and center respectively) help its founder, Dr. Paul Fried ’46, professor emeritus Russian zone, the walks through the Vienna install a water filtration system in Nkuff, Cameroon, through an interdisciplinary project of history, who died on Monday, July 24. woods, the Raathaus, the inner, old city sur- initiated by the college’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Please see page seven. In October of 1956, the Anchor ran a series of rounded by the ring, the monuments, the three articles by students who had participated in parks, the Viennese Waltz and of course, the program during its inaugural summer, “In proudly surveying it all, the Viennese people. Volume 38, No. 1 August 2006 Hope College order that the tremendous wealth of experience “I have no doubt that the expression, Published for Alumni, Friends and Office of Public Relations and observation gained in Europe might be shared ‘people with music in their souls,’ originated Parents of Hope College by the Office of DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698 with the Viennese, for they always seem to with those unable to make the trip in person.” The Public and Community Relations. phone: (616) 395-7860 find time for a song or a waltz. The time that excerpts which follow were written by Judy Should you receive more than one copy, fax: (616) 395-7991 Rypma ’57 Baar and published in the October 12 I became most aware of this was during the please pass it on to someone in your [email protected] edition that year. impressive lighting of the Raathaus (City community. An overlap of Hope College Since she penned her reminiscences of the city Hall). It’s a great occasion for the people of constituencies makes duplication some- Thomas L. Renner ’67 half a century ago, more than 2,500 more students Vienna and the whole town turns out for it. times unavoidable. Associate Vice President for Public have made their own Vienna memories and wealth The building is of the beautiful Gothic archi- and Community Relations tecture and is topped by a slender soaring of experience and observation thanks to Dr. Fried’s Editor: Gregory S. Olgers ’87 Gregory S. Olgers ’87 vision. clock tower. It is on the very top of this tower Director of News Media Services Layout and Design: that the lighting begins, in time to the strains Lynne M. Powe ’86 “’When you get to Vienna you’ll forget all of “The Blue Danube Waltz.” Slowly the Holland Litho Printing Service Associate Director of Public and about America.’ These were the words complete massive structure becomes a blaze Printing: Community Relations someone reverently whispered as we were of brilliance. Everyone breathes their ‘ahs’ News Web Printing Services ready to leave Venice and head toward Kathy Miller and ‘ohs’ (for it is a fabulous sight). The of Greenville, Mich. Vienna. These words were in the back of all orchestra breaks into another of Strauss’ Public Relations Services Administrator our minds as two Volkswagen autobuses waltzes, and the streets, sidewalks and parks Contributing Photographers: Karen Bos filled with 14 Hope College students, plus surrounding the edifice are filled with people, Chelsea Kalberloh Jackson, Office Manager luggage, plus Dr. Fried, bounced along the young and old alike, whirling round and Lou Schakel ’71, Zach Trumble ’09 Notice of Nondiscrimination European roads to the ‘Paris of the South.’ round in their traditional Viennese Waltz… Hope College is committed to the concept of “We all felt a bit apprehensive and “One thing we all felt deeply at the end of news from Hope College is published equal rights, equal opportunities and equal perhaps a little wary as we drew nearer to the our stay was that we no longer felt like during February, April, June, August, protection under the law. Hope College admits Vienna that we had heard so much about, and tourists in Vienna. We could go almost any- students of any race, color, national and ethnic October, and December by Hope where we were going to spend the next three- where in the city (population two million) via origin, sex, creed or disability to all the rights, and-a-half weeks living and studying. street car, Volkswagen or feet and get back to College, 141 East 12th Street, Holland, privileges, programs and activities generally Michigan 49423-3698. accorded or made available to students at However, after no more than two or three our Studentenhime without getting lost! Hope College, including the administration of days all feelings of doubt had vanished and When we’d return to ‘our neighborhood’ it its educational policies, admission policies, had left in their place a deep and growing would seem as if we were coming home.