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Volume 44, No. 3 December 2012

On the Cover International students experience the Crane Orchards corn maze in Fennville in October through the college’s “Explore Michigan” program. “Explore Michigan” provides opportunities to enjoy a variety of aspects of the area and its culture as well as chances for fellowship, all part of making study at the college and in the U.S. as meaningful as possible and to help make Hope a home away from home.

Volume 44, No. 3 December 2012 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. “Quote, unquote” An overlap of Hope College constituencies makes duplication sometimes unavoidable.

uote, unquote is an eclectic Dr. Volf identified two primary issues to resolve in Editor Qsampling of things said at and seeking reconciliation: first, the question of identity and Gregory S. Olgers ’87 how one interacts with those who are different; and, about Hope College Layout and Design . second, the question of justice. Wesley A. Wooley ’89 Reconciliation, he said, requires adjusting one’s sense Each year, the college’s Critical Issues of identity to include relationship with other groups; Printing Symposium provides an in-depth examination “Can we make a journey with another person, Walsworth Print Group of St. Joseph, Mich. of a single current issue, stimulating serious adjust and shift and change our identity so as to be able thinking by providing a forum in which to live with that other person?” he said. Contributing Writers “Often when we seek to reconcile, we need to make Greg Chandler, Chris Lewis ’09, students, and faculty and members of the Christina Van Eyl-Godin ’82 Holland community may all engage in that journey. We cannot sever our identity from the discussion with experts across multiple identity of the other person,” he said. Contributing Photographers keynote addresses, focus sessions and other Necessary, he noted, does not mean easy. Rob Kurtycz, Erik Alberg ’90, Lou Schakel ’71 events. Held across two days in the fall, “Sometimes that journey is very difficult to make. Sometimes we do not want to make that journey,” he Hope College Office of Public Relations “CIS” does not stand alone but instead serves said. DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698 as the beginning of reflection and conversation across the phone: (616) 395-7860 Reconciliation, Dr. Volf said, also requires the rest of the school year—and beyond. fax: (616) 395-7991 ability to moderate calls for revenge and a willingness to [email protected] This year’s symposium, held on Tuesday- forgive. Wednesday, Sept. 25-26, explored “Reconciliation: “Punishment does not suffice, and it is often Thomas L. Renner ’67 Hope in a Divided World.” counter-productive,” he said. “Retribution takes us Associate Vice President apart and does not bring us together.” for Public and Community Relations “We live in an increasingly fragile world. A “It’s difficult to forgive,” he said. “Because I have Gregory S. Olgers ’87 world where hunger, political strife, poverty, broken to say, ‘Not only have you injured me, but I am letting Director of News Media Services relationships and fear paralyze heart and spirit. One this injury I have suffered stay with me.’” could ask, ‘Is this the best we can be? In the face of Dr. Volf cited faith as a source of inspiration Lynne M. Powe ’86 impending calamity do we sit idly and accept the and strength in pursuing the challenging work of Associate Director of Public and situation as it is?’” said Alfredo Gonzales ’75, who reconciliation. As an example, he shared the “Prayer Community Relations is associate provost and dean for international and of Saint Francis,” which begins, “Lord, make me an Julie Rawlings ’83 Huisingh multicultural education, and co-chaired the event’s instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me Public Relations Services Administrator planning committee. “We on the Planning Committee sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.” for this year’s Critical Issues Symposium sincerely The challenging work of reconciliation, he said, is Karen Bos believe that there is a better solution to these fracturing aided by remembering that all people are children of Office Manager problems. And that answer is in reconciliation.” God. News from Hope College is published during The two-day discussion was framed by the “We belong to the same community because we April, June, August, October, and December by opening keynote address, “Reconciliation: Why It are created in the image of God,” Dr. Volf said. “If Hope College, 141 East 12th Street, Matters and How to Do It Well,” by Dr. Miroslav we truly mean that the other is created in the image of Holland, Michigan 49423-3698 Volf, author and founder and director of the Yale God, then I will close my arms around that person even Center for Faith and Culture and the Henry B. Wright if it’s a little uncomfortable.” Postmaster: Send address changes to News from Hope College, Holland, MI 49423-3698 Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity He reflected in particular on the model offered School in New Haven, Conn. by Jesus, who even as he suffered on the cross forgave Notice of Nondiscrimination Dr. Volf noted that globalization and the those who had put him there. Hope College is committed to the concept of equal rights, equal opportunities and equal protection under the law. Hope increasing interconnectedness of peoples have made “It isn’t enough just to look at Jesus Christ,” he College admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic reconciliation vitally important. said. “Once you identify with the crucified Christ, it’s origin, sex, creed or disability to all the rights, privileges, “We live in a world that has shrunk,” he said. programs and activities generally accorded or made available suddenly not that you are looking at Christ but you are to students at Hope College, including the administration of its “I have described it as living under the same roof. looking with Christ. Place yourself where Christ was educational policies, admissions policies, and athletic and other You know what happens when you live under the and then look with his eyes at the world. Now what do school-administered programs. With regard to employment, the College complies with all legal requirements prohibiting same roof.” you see?” discrimination in employment.

2 News From Hope College CONTENTS NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE Volume 44, No. 3 December 2012

2 “Quote, unquote” Reflections on reconciliation from the Critical Issues Symposium.

4 Events Activities forthcoming.

5 Campus Scene News from the halls of Hope.

6 Campus Profile International students find Hope a welcoming home.

8 Faculty Kudos Historian’s book inspires playwright.

10 Campus Profile Computer science research has campuswide impact.

12 Campus Scene A visual chronicle as multiple projects shape tomorrow’s Hope today.

14 Campus Scene Exhibition features We wish for each of you a very Merry Christmas. alumni art. As you gather with family and friends to celebrate 16 A Greater Hope the birth of the King of Kings and Lord of Annual “Hope Fund” gifts provide essential support. Lords, our hope and prayer is that the blessings of 18 Alumni Profile Christmas will be yours in great abundance. Award-winning learning game begins as classroom exercise. – Jim and Martie Bultman

23 Classnotes News of the alumni family.

31 Campus Scene Nykerk ’12.

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ACADEMIC CALENDAR DANCE JACK RIDL VISITING WRITERS SERIES Spring Semester Peter Kyle Dance—Friday-Saturday, Shane Book and Mat Johnson, Jan. 6, Sunday—Residence halls open, Jan. 25-26 poetry/novel, Thursday, Feb. 7 noon Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m. Mark Winegardner, novel, Tuesday, Jan. 8, Tuesday—Classes begin, 8 a.m. Tickets are $10 for regular admission, March 26 Feb. 8-13, Friday, 6 p.m. to Wednesday, 8 $7 for senior citizens, and $5 for Ed Hirsch, poetry, Thursday, April 18 a.m.--Winter Recess children 18 and under. The readings will be at the Knickerbocker Theatre March 15-25, Friday, 8 a.m. to Monday, Dance 39—Friday-Saturday, March beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is free. 8 a.m.—Spring Recess 1-2, and Thursday-Saturday, March 7-9 MUSIC April 25, Thursday—Honors Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m. Orchestra Concerto/Aria Concert— Convocation, Dimnent Memorial Tickets are $10 for regular admission, Friday, Jan. 25: Dimnent Memorial ALUMNI, PARENTS & FRIENDS Chapel, 7 p.m. $7 for senior citizens, and $5 for children Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Winter Happening—Saturday, Feb. 2 April 26, Friday—Spring Festival. Classes 18 and under. Jazz Arts Collective and Jazz Featuring multiple seminars and dismissed at 3 p.m. IDT—Friday-Saturday, April 12-13 Combos Concert—Thursday, Feb. 7: home men’s basketball. April 29-May 3, Monday-Friday— Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m. Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Satellite Basketball Gatherings— Semester examinations Tickets are $10 for regular admission, Admission is free. Saturday, Feb. 9 May 3, Friday—Residence halls $7 for senior citizens, and $5 for children Wind Ensemble Concert—Friday, Hope-Calvin men’s basketball. close for those not participating in 18 and under. Feb. 15: Dimnent Memorial Chapel, Find locations at hopecalvin.com. Commencement, 5 p.m. Student Dance Concert—Monday- 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Alumni Weekend—Friday-Saturday, May 5, Sunday—Baccalaureate and Tuesday, April 15-16 Guest Artist—Friday, Feb. 15: VIDA April 26-27 Commencement Dow Center, dance studio, 8 p.m. Guitar Quartet, Knickerbocker Theatre, Includes reunion class activities and May 6, Monday—Residence halls close Admission is free. 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for regular the annual Alumni Banquet. for graduating seniors, noon Student Dance Concert—Monday- admission, $7 for senior citizens, and $5 Tuesday, April 22-23 For more information concerning the above events, for children 18 and under. Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m. please call the Office of Public and Community Musical Showcase—Monday, March ADMISSIONS Admission is free. Relations at (616) 395-7860 or the Office of 4: DeVos Hall, Grand Rapids, 8 p.m. Alumni and Parent Relations at (616) 395- Campus Visits: The Admissions Tickets are $10. Office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 7250 or visit www.hope.edu/alumni. DE PREE GALLERY Guest Artist—Tuesday, March weekdays, and from September through 12: Arunesh Nadgir, piano, Dimnent “PROOF: An Exhibition of May is also open from 9 a.m. until noon Memorial Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Admission Printmaking”—Friday, Jan. 11-Friday, TRADITIONAL EVENTS on Saturdays. Tours and admissions is free. Feb. 8 Honors Convocation—Thursday, interviews are available during the Symphonette Pre-Tour Concert— “Reclamation: Photography of April 25, 7 p.m. summer as well as the school year. Thursday, March 14: Dimnent Memorial Landscapes of Past Industry by Dimnent Memorial Chapel Appointments are recommended. Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Steve Nelson”—Friday, Feb. 22-Friday, Baccalaureate and Visit Days: Visit Days offer specific Chapel Choir Home Concert— March 22 Commencement—Sunday, May 5 programs for prospective students, Monday, March 25: St. Francis de Sales Work by Steven Nelson of the Hope Dimnent Memorial Chapel and including transfers and high school juniors Catholic Church, 195 W. 13th St., at art faculty. Holland Municipal Stadium (DeVos and seniors. The programs show students Maple Avenue, 7:30 p.m. Admission is Graduating Senior Show—Friday, Fieldhouse if rain). and their parents a typical day in the life free. April 5-Sunday, May 5 of a Hope student. The remaining days “Quintetapalooza 2”—Saturday, April Work by graduating art majors. for 2012-13 are: 6: Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Mon., Jan. 21 Fri., Feb. 15 The gallery is open Mondays through Saturdays Music, 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Fri., Jan. 25 Mon., Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 Jazz Combos Concert—Monday, Fri., Feb. 1 Fri., March 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Please call the April 8: Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Junior Days: Spring-semester Visit Day gallery at (616) 395-7500 for more information. Hall of Music, 7:30 p.m. Admission is programs designed especially for juniors. free. Friday, April 5 Vocal Jazz Concert—Tuesday, April Friday, April 12 9: Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Friday, April 19 Music, 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. For further information about any Admissions Jazz Arts Collective and Jazz SPORTS SCHEDULES Office event, please call (616) 395-7850, or toll Combos Concert—Wednesday, April Please visit the college online at hope. free 1-800-968-7850; check on-line at www. 10: Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 7:30 edu/athletics for schedules for the hope.edu/admissions; or write: Hope College p.m. Admission is free. winter athletic season, including men’s Admissions Office; 69 E. 10th St.; PO Box basketball, women’s basketball, and men’s 9000; Holland, MI; 49422-9000. and women’s swimming. Copies may be GREAT PERFORMANCE SERIES obtained by calling (616) 395-7860. THEATRE Suspicious Cheese Lords—Friday, Jan. 18: Dimnent Memorial Chapel, Bobrauschenbergamerica—Friday- TICKET SALES 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15-16; Wednesday- L.A. Theatre Works: Pride and Tickets for events with advance ticket Saturday, Feb. 20-23 Prejudice—Tuesday-Wednesday, Feb. sales are available at the ticket office in By Charles Mee 19-20: Knickerbocker Theatre, 7:30 p.m. the front lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, DeWitt Center, main theatre, 8 p.m. Emerson String Quartet—Tuesday, which is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 Stage Door—Friday-Saturday, April 12- April 2: Dimnent Memorial Chapel, VESPERS ON THE AIR p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890. 13; Wednesday-Saturday, April 17-20 7:30 p.m. By Edna Ferber and George Kaufman This year’s Christmas Vespers service will DeWitt Center, main theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets are $18 for regular admission, $15 be carried by radio stations around the INSTANT INFORMATION for senior citizens, and $6 for children 18 and country. Please visit the college online Updates on events, news and athletics at Tickets are $10 for regular admission, $7 for under. Season tickets are also available for $63 for the list or call the Office of Public and Hope may be obtained online 24 hours senior citizens, and $5 for children 18 and for regular admission, $50 for senior citizens and Community Relations at (616) 395-7860 a day. hope.edu under. $140 for families. for more information.

4 News From Hope College Campus Scene

HOMECOMING IMPACT HONORED: Louise TRADITIONS IN PRINT: Two HONORS: Shumaker ’87, director of longtime Hope traditions, the Pull Homecoming’s disability services, has been tug-of-war and the Nykerk Cup halftime celebration honored for her work supporting competition, are included in the book during the college’s the vision of creating communities Campus Traditions: Folklore from the Old- football game on without barriers for people with Time College to the Modern Mega-University Saturday, Oct. disabilities, receiving the “Ability by Simon J. Bronner, Distinguished 13, included Award” from the Disability Professor of American Studies and the traditional Network/Lakeshore during a Folklore and director of the American announcement of the king and queen as well as reception and ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 23. studies doctoral program at the Pennsylvania recognition of two members of the faculty and The presentation celebrated her pioneering State University, Harrisburg. Through an Odd- staff who have had a particularly meaningful service at the college on behalf of people with Year photo from 2007, the Pull is also among five impact on students. disabilities, noting that establishment of her traditions shown on the cover. Seniors Justin Makowski of Detroit, Mich., position at Hope when she joined the staff in 1987 Published by the University of Mississippi and April Johnson of Zeeland, Mich., were predated the creation of the 1990 Americans with Press, the 475-page book describes and traces crowned as Homecoming king and queen. The Disabilities Act by three years. historical changes to traditions at colleges and Social Activities Committee and student life office The college’s office of disability services universities across the country and reflects on presented appreciation awards to Susan Mooy ’64 offers assistance to all students with disabilities their role at the institutions. As the publisher Cherup, who is the Arnold and Esther Sonneveldt both in the classroom and in day-to-day life on notes in describing the book, “From their Professor of Education, and Kerri Langerak ’99 campus, seeking to equip them with skills which beginnings, campuses emerged as hotbeds of Allen, resident director in Dykstra Hall. will promote independent living after they leave traditions and folklore. American college students The game itself also provided cause for Hope and pursue careers anywhere in the world. inhabit a culture with its own slang, stories, celebration, with the Flying Dutchmen defeating Shumaker has mentored more than 500 students humor, beliefs, rituals, and pranks. Simon J. the visiting Alma Scots 49-14. with disabilities during her 25 years at Hope. Bronner takes a long, engaging look at American A gallery of Homecoming images is available hope.edu/nfhc campus life and how it is shaped by students and online. at the same time shapes the values of all who pass through it.” hope.edu/pr/gallery EDUCATION ACCLAIMED: Recognition hope.edu/nfhc continues for the department of education, which has been accredited for seven years, the maximum HOLLAND IN possible, by the Teacher Education Accreditation BLOOM: Hope’s Council (TEAC). NURSING EXCELS: hometown of The program also received highest-possible Hope College Nursing Holland has taken “Above Standard” designation in the three overall continues to be among the home the top spot in “Quality Principle” categories by which TEAC select group of programs the 25,000-50,000 evaluates programs: Evidence of Candidate nationwide whose graduates population category Learning, Evidence of Faculty Learning have achieved a 100-percent of the America in and Inquiry, and Evidence of Institutional pass rate on the profession’s Bloom competition Commitment and Capacity for Program Quality. national licensing exam. for the second year in a row. Hope’s campus was The accreditation is the second recognition Every Hope nursing graduate who took the included when the judges visited Holland this past highlight for the department within recent National Council Licensure Examination for summer. months. This summer, the program was one Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) during 2011-12 The program announced the 2012 winners of only two in the state to earn a 70, the highest (December and May) passed on the first attempt. during the annual America in Bloom Symposium score possible, on the newly released 2010-11 It is the second year in a row that 100 percent of and Awards Program, held in Fayetteville, Ark., Michigan Department of Education Teacher the program’s graduates have done so. in September. Preparation Institution Performance Scores. The most recent reported state and national In the Criteria Competitions, in which all averages were 90 percent and 88 percent hope.edu/nfhc of the cities compete, the Holland took the top respectively. According to the National Council award in the Environmental Effort Criterion. of State Boards of Nursing’s program report, only Holland also placed in the top four cities in the NFL INTERNSHIPS: six percent of all nursing-education programs Floral Display Criterion. NFL competition earlier nationwide achieved a 100-percent pass rate In addition, America in Bloom surprised all this year provided a between April 2011 and March 2012. of the competing cities with 10 special awards reunion opportunity for this year. Holland took the top spot in the Best athletic-training majors Community Gardens award and was nominated Kurt Buchholz ’12 of HOPE IN PICTURES: by the American in Bloom judges for the “Most Grand Haven, Mich., Please visit the college online Attended Community Festival.” Holland was also and senior Pete Aune of to enjoy extensive photo inducted into the Circle of Champions; a new Gaylord, Mich. (pictured left and right), who were galleries organized by topic designation introduced by America in Bloom at serving as interns with rival teams. and chronicling a variety of the symposium. Buchholz is a season-long intern with the events in the life of Hope. America in Bloom judges rated the New England Patriots and Aune was completing Pictured is “IMAGES: A community based on six criteria (Floral his second summer internship with the New Reflection of Cultures,” a Display, Landscaped Areas, Urban Forestry, Orleans Saints. student-organized sampling of cultural heritage Environmental Efforts, Heritage Preservation, The two teams had been practicing together from around the world, held on Saturday, Nov. 17. Overall Impression). and then competed on Thursday, Aug. 9. The hope.edu/pr/gallery host Patriots won the pre-season contest, 7-6.

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connections with Hope graduates that they Program may have had as a teacher or a youth leader overseas. In addition, three recruiters in Helps Make the Admissions Office of the college have begun traveling to specific regions of the world to increase Hope’s efforts in recruiting international students to Hope. “We’re strong academically, so we highlight Hope our strong science programs and opportunities for undergraduate research. We also highlight our national accreditation in all the arts,” Miller for HomeHome said. “It’s the combination of strong academics, the personal attention students receive from International faculty and staff, and the family-like atmosphere which attract students to Hope.” This past fall semester, Miller recruited in Turkey and Greece, while Gary Camp ’78 participated in a recruiting trip to Latin Students America, and Adam Hopkins ’02 recruited in India and Saudi Arabia. Camp plans to cover parts of Asia during a recruitment trip this spring. By Greg Chandler Polanco heard about Hope through a Multiple activities across the school year are providing an opportunity for international students to become discipleship training program she attended acquainted with their host nation—and sometimes to have some old-fashioned fun in addition to the lessons atalie Polanco had no idea what to expect In that first weekend, Natalie and about learned. Fall Break in October featured a visit to the Crane Orchards corn maze in Fennville south of Holland. in Switzerland where the leaders were Hope N when she arrived on the Hope campus in 30 other new international and third-culture graduates. mid-August after flying nearly 2,000 miles from (U.S. students who live abroad) students hiked “They told me all about it, and how they her native Dominican Republic to start her the Sleeping Bear Dunes in northwest Lower saw it was a great match for me,” she said. college career. Michigan, visited Mackinac Island, camped at This was the second year that the Hope the students to get to know each other outside University (Japan), Meiji Gakuin University So Natalie visited the Hope web site and saw Like most any college freshman, Natalie was Timberwolf Young Life Camp and sat around international education office has conducted the context of the Hope College campus,” (Japan), Technos International College (Japan) the opportunities for learning, and applied right nervous, particularly because she didn’t know a bonfire. the Explore Michigan program. Amy Otis- said Otis-De Grau, a native of Germany who and Liverpool Hope University (United Kingdom) away. anyone at Hope yet. “I felt I had known everyone for years,” De Grau ’96, Hope’s international education moved to America while in high school. “By the for short-term programs. Having students from There are ample opportunities throughout Once she arrived, though, it didn’t take long Natalie said. “One of the moments I will director, says the program has been of great time the students return to campus, they have so many different countries has historically been the academic year for the international students for her to connect. A pre-orientation adventure treasure forever is the night we were all sitting benefit in helping international students adjust built a community amongst themselves.” a strength of Hope’s international program, Otis- to share their background and culture with trip conducted through Hope’s international around the fire, eating s’mores, and playing a to American culture and integrate themselves Barbara Krom ’84 Miller, associate director De Grau said. the rest of the campus community, including education office, called Explore Michigan, game to learn each other’s names. into campus life. of admissions and international recruitment at “There’s so much learning that can take place a global coffee hour early in the academic not only helped Natalie adjust to her new “We were all laughing, talking, listening, “It’s a great bonding experience, and allows Hope, says Explore Michigan is important in for everyone involved, both for international year, an International Education week in home, but also build relationships with fellow and simply having a good time. To me, it was helping the new students realize they have each students and American students,” she said. November, a cultural showcase called “Images: international students, many of whom were that night that brought us all together.” other for support, even before they take their While Explore Michigan provides a great A Reflection of Cultures,” and an international away from home for the first time in their lives. For Ohanes Khacherian, a freshman first class. opportunity for international students to food fair in February. There’s even a pumpkin- from Jordan, Explore Michigan provided “The kids are forming relationships in those connect before classes begin at Hope, the carving competition in the fall during which an opportunity to see a fresh-water lake for “I feel that Hope is a big two days that often takes them weeks or even college’s international education program offers international students are teamed up with the first time in his life. His only previous family, where everyone on months to form otherwise,” Miller said. opportunities throughout the year to get together, American students, Otis-De Grau said. experience with a large body of water was the campus is always available The integration to a new culture isn’t including field trips to the corn maze at Crane’s One key area of support for international salty Red Sea in his native land. limited to the students, either. Parents and Orchard, located in the rural community of students comes from U.S.-born students who “Explore Michigan totally blew my mind. It if you need them. I just family members who accompany their Fennville, Mich., about 15 miles south of Holland; have studied overseas through Hope. “They’ve was one of the most exciting trips I have ever love how everyone truly children to Hope have their own orientation the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park had the experience of being the international had in my life, and I was so astonished by how experience, thanks to support from the college’s in Grand Rapids, Mich.; and cross-country skiing student. When they’re back on campus, they’re amazing Michigan is,” Ohanes said. “I couldn’t cares. This has made my advancement office, while the students are and sledding trips to a local county park. drawn to that community,” Otis-De Grau said. take my eyes off the trees and the green grass. transition to Hope easier taking part in Explore Michigan. They go on The Explore Michigan program is made Natalie Polanco is now dealing with her first The Sleeping Bear Dunes completely reformed and smoother.” a trip to Chicago, attend a West Michigan possible by generous support from donors experience with winter weather in the northern the idea of how a beach looks like.” Whitecaps baseball game, have dinner with who see the value of having an international U.S. So far, she is happy she made the decision Xavier Wu, a freshman from China, called Alfredo Gonzales, Hope’s dean of international presence on the Hope campus, as a way of to come to Hope. Explore Michigan “my favorite experience” -- freshman and multicultural education, and go on a boat fulfilling the college’s mission of educating “I feel that Hope is a big family, where of his first months as a Hope student. “I met ride on Lake Michigan, Otis-De Grau said. students to live lives of service and leadership in everyone on campus is always available if you The week before the semester started served as a pre- Natalie Polanco of many interesting people through having fun need them,” she said. “I just love how everyone orientation, with events for students as well as their the Dominican Republic Hope currently has 83 international students a global society, Otis-De Grau said. parents—and sometimes both together, as with a picnic with them, who have become my friends now,” from 35 countries on five continents. In addition, International students come to Hope truly cares. This has made my transition to at Tunnel Park along Lake Michigan north of Holland. he said. the college also hosts students from Ferris through a variety of channels, often through Hope easier and smoother.”

6 News From Hope College DecemberJune 2012 7 Faculty Profile Historian’sHistorian’s BookBook Inspires Inspires PlayPlay

cholars typically pursue a topic because it has S captured their imagination. They hope that the work that they produce captures the imagination of others as well. In a humanities discipline such as history, that usually means a book or article that might find use in courses or serve as a crucial resource for other researchers as they in turn push understanding in new directions. Inspiring a writer across the Atlantic to develop a play? Well, that can happen, too. Dr. Marc Baer, professor of history and Above is a moment from English playwright Adrian Bunting’s award-winning play Kemble’s Riot, which focuses on chairperson of the department, heard this past the 66 nights in 1809 that patrons rioted in protest against theater-owner John Kemble’s decision to increase prices spring from a British playwright who read his first and reconstruction that reconfigured public seating as expensive private seating. The production involves members book, Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London, of the audience either in support of or opposition to the character of Kemble. (Photo courtey of Adrian Bunting) and turned the material into a play. Kemble’s Riot, by Adrian Bunting, has been celebrity and popular culture.” staged to glowing reviews, and was named The production began with Bunting’s chance The play Kemble’s Riot, which “Best Theatre Show” at the 2011 Brighton discovery of Dr. Baer’s 1992 scholarly book in a Festival, England’s largest arts festival. After Brighton book shop more than a decade earlier. has been staged to glowing the play’s presentation this past summer at the “I didn’t hesitate to buy it as soon as I saw the reviews, began with British Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotsman.com noted title,” Bunting said. “Without the book, there “This production has it all. A political rant would have been no play.” writer Adrian Bunting’s with laughter and tears. There is enough to For 66 nights in the fall of 1809, as Dr. Baer’s discovery of historian Dr. contemplate for days,” while The Times of London book recounts, audiences at the newly rebuilt Marc Baer’s book Theatre and said, “Fascinating, artfully understated modern Covent Garden theatre rioted over an increase in resonances make you think about Reithianism, ticket prices. The theatre had burned the previous Disorder in Late Georgian December, and manager John Kemble raised the London in a Brighton shop. prices to help recoup the construction cost. At the same time, the reconstruction had removed a section previously available to the public and Dr. Baer, who is a specialist in modern reconfigured it as expensive private seating. The British history, had likewise initially discovered riots became an organized movement that crossed the event through serendipity. He was visiting class and culture and ultimately succeeded in the University of California to review microfilm prompting Kemble to lower prices and apologize. of primary sources for another project when he Bunting, who had never heard of the riots, found references to the riots. He initially thought became drawn by the audience in particular. that they’d make an interesting side-project, “The fact they organised themselves so efficiently, but by the time he was done he’d developed with such unity of purpose should be an a 291-page book that not only described the inspiration to us all,” he said. events in detail but set them in their wider In fact, those attending become the rioting context, also exploring the audience’s tactical audience, acting in opposition to—or perhaps in use of theatricality and the event’s significance as support of—the character of Kemble. modern democracy developed in Great Britain. “They were the main character in the “I kept researching, and at some point when story,” Bunting said. “Without the crowd there I had about a 50-page manuscript I realized that is nothing. I decided that it would be possible it was way too big for an article,” Dr. Baer said. to write the play in such a way that the audience “To me that’s how scholarship works. You can could easily be persuaded to ‘join in,’ a long and plan what you’re going to do, but you can also let Dr. Marc Baer of the Hope history faculty with his 1992 established theatrical device not used so often the muse strike you and say, ‘No, this is something book Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London. these days. Fortunately it works.” else altogether.’”

8 News From Hope College Fall Sports Report

Memorable Jenna Grasmeyer and teammates celebrate a successful volleyball season. Moments Celebrated ope’s fall sports season could Achieving All-MIAA first team Hnot be measured as much in honors were: Cross Country – junior conference championships won as Camille Borst of Allendale, Mich., in past years, but there were many senior Sharon Hecker of Grandville, memorable accomplishments by Mich., junior Sam Pederson of teams, athletes and coaches. Mount Prospect, Ill., and senior Even though there was not a Blake Rottschafer of Spring Lake, conference championship trophy to be Mich.; Football – junior Tim Klaus hoisted, it wasn’t a matter of the fall of Saugatuck, Mich., junior Connor teams not achieving. No team finished Parcell of Cadillac, Mich., sophomore below third place in its respective Joe Droppers of Kalamazoo, Mich., MIAA standings, and at the end of the junior Santino DiCesare of Dorr, fall season Hope trailed Commissioner Mich., and freshman Dean DeVries Cup standings leader Calvin by just of Grand Rapids, Mich.; Men’s four all-sports points. Hope recorded Golf – sophomore Collin Breit of second-place conference finishes in Muskegon, Mich.; Women’s Golf men’s and women’s cross country, – senior Charlotte Park of Grosse men’s golf and volleyball. The women’s Pointe, Mich., and sophomore soccer team tied for second place. The Flying Dutch qualified for cross country nationals. Brittany Haight of Otsego, Mich.; The football and women’s golf teams Men’s Soccer – junior Grant Neil of finished third and men’s soccer team Rapids, Mich., was a third-team All- Evan Finch of Ann Arbor, Mich., was Holland, Mich., and Jason Muller tied for third. Every Hope team eligible American. Bratschie had the distinction named a finalist for the Fred Mitchell of Petoskey, Mich.; Women’s Soccer to compete in NCAA-qualifying post- of being a three-time All-MIAA and Outstanding Place-Kicker Award, –sophomore forward Lindsey Bieri season tournaments reached that goal. All-Region honoree. Her father, which is given to the nation’s top of Holland, Mich., and sophomore For the first time in a quarter Steve Bratschie ’80, was an All-MIAA collegiate place-kicker among the more forward Courtney Schmidt of Lowell, of a century, the Flying Dutch were football player. than 750 collegiate football teams. Mich.; and Volleyball – senior Greer NCAA Division III Great Lakes The tradition of achieving All- The recipient is chosen based on Bratschie of Grand Rapids, Mich., Regional women’s cross country MIAA football honors continued in one excellence on the football field and in sophomore Jenna Grasmeyer of champions and their longtime coach, Hope family. A sophomore offensive the community. Finch was successful Hudsonville, Mich., and junior Mari Mark Northuis ’82, was honored as tackle, Joe Droppers of Kalamazoo, on every kick he attempted in league Schoolmaster of Portage, Mich. the Regional Coach of the Year. They Mich., became the fifth member of his games. His community service Hope’s outstanding athletic went on to place 10th at the NCAA family to achieve the honor when he has included working with special facilities came into focus once again in Championship, their best finish in was named to the All-MIAA first team. education students as a swimming mid-November as the NCAA Division nearly two decades. He joined his grandfather Don “Doc” instructor. Junior quarterback III women’s volleyball championships Hope volleyball celebrated two All- Van Hoeven ’56, his father Kurt ’79, Michael Atwell of Geneseo, Ill., was were held at DeVos Fieldhouse. A Americans in the same season for the his brother Jacob ’08 and his brother named the Midwest Region’s top record crowd of more than 3,500 first time in school history. Sophomore Josh ’12 as first-team all-league players. quarterback academically. In addition fans packed the arena for the national outside hitter Jenna Grasmeyer of And all of them have been offensive to achieving All-MIAA honors for his championship match. The NCAA Hudsonville, Mich., was named a linemen! athletic performance, Atwell, who is women’s basketball final four return to AVCA first-team All-American, while Two football players received majoring in biology, has maintained a DeVos in March. senior setter Greer Bratschie of Grand distinct honors. Junior placekicker 3.88 cumulative grade point average. hope.edu/pr/nfhc

DecemberJune 2012 9 Campus Profile

“The software has allowed my research group to develop visual models for specific Collaborative, cases of the abstract mathematical questions we have been studying,” said Dr. Stephenson. “Basically, we’re studying a puzzle that can be set up on any graph or network. The software Research lets us create graphs through point-and-click with a editing, set initial values as a starting point for the puzzle, put the puzzle online for others to solve, or tell the computer to solve the puzzle and output the result.” Dr. Stephenson believes the partnership Hope between computer scientists and mathematicians is quite practical. “While computer scientists and Focus mathematicians are often interested in similar By Chris Lewis ’09 Focus questions, they tend to approach these questions long-standing and nationally recognized Charles Cusack, and Matthew DeJongh, in different ways,” he said. “The two approaches A Hope tradition, collaborative student- worked directly with students on projects often complement one another nicely and lead faculty research helps students gain real-world that are having a direct impact on the Hope Several collaborative faculty-student computer science research projects are having a direct impact on the to work that either group would have trouble Hope community, providing an opportunity for the students involved to see the results of their work in experience, teaching them skills that serve them community, allowing students to witness the completing alone.” action in addition to learning through the process. For example, a survey mechanism developed by Dr. Ryan value of their research first-hand. This summer, Dr. DeJongh and several Hope throughout their lives while allowing them McFall’s research group is intended to serve a variety of campus needs, and earlier this fall was used in the to contribute to tangible projects that offer Since 2009, Dr. McFall has been developing voting for the Homecoming king and queen. student researchers continued to improve a solutions to unsolved problems. a general-purpose online survey system, which software program that is currently being used by Such work has literally taken students is used primarily for teaching evaluations. scientists throughout the world. The program, around the globe, but sometimes it also During the last two summers, he has of Berrien Springs, Mich., initiated a pilot Dr. Jipping continued, “The H2O program “We enjoyed working together so much this known as CytoSEED, allows scientists to view, focuses a bit closer to home. This summer, collaborated with students to finalize the system project in software development, an Android has several recording opportunities that allow summer that we decided to go into business manipulate, and analyze models of an organism’s for example, four computer science faculty and test its capabilities. This past summer, app known as Hope FIT. The app was created incentives and encouragement to be given to with each other,” Stathakis said. “We have metabolism. Dr. DeJongh and his team have members, Drs. Ryan McFall, Michael Jipping, he partnered with junior Matthew Johnson of for two specific purposes: to record students’ faculty and staff who record their physical since recruited two other students to partner spent more than three years on the project and White Lake, Mich., junior Michael Henley of workouts during their enrollment in Hope’s activity. Our app will record workouts, goals, with us. We’re very excited about it.” have even published their findings in the journal Grand Haven, Mich., and sophomore Nicholas Health Dynamics class, and document faculty and biometrics, which will be fed into the In the meantime, Dr. Cusack’s research Bioinformatics. CytoSEED serves as a resource DeJongh of Holland, working side-by-side with and staff members’ workouts as they participate program’s database.” has been focused on a problem known as for users of the Model SEED genomic-analysis them full-time for 10 weeks, in order to design, in the college’s wellness program, H2O. “There are many different fitness tracking graph pebbling, a mathematical game in software, which is based at Argonne National implement, test and debug the system. Becky Schmidt, assistant professor of apps on the market, but none were specific which pebbles can be moved between vertices Laboratory and which Dr. DeJongh and Hope To further test the system, the team created kinesiology, and Sue Beckman, director of H2O, enough to what we are trying to do in Health on a graph according to a strict set of rules. biologist Dr. Aaron Best, along with Hope an online survey specifically for Homecoming, had been searching for a software system to Dynamics or had the opportunity to record the Originally, Dr. Cusack was determined to students, had previously helped develop. allowing students to select 10 seniors for track workouts and biometric indicators, such as kind of information needed by H2O wellness implement mechanisms to learn algorithms for “The software helps scientists understand Homecoming Court; once the Homecoming weight and blood pressure, for quite some time. for faculty and staff,” Professor Schmidt said. playing the game by recoding and analyzing how a bacterium of interest converts nutrients Court was chosen, students used the system to “One of the primary ways people become “This project created the opportunity for skilled players’ moves. But, he has realized that into biomass and energy. If they’re studying elect senior Justin Makowski of Detroit, Mich., self-motivated to exercise is through a sense of students, faculty, and staff to come together software he recently designed with computer bacteria that cause disease, they can use this as Homecoming King and senior April Johnson accomplishment that they get from reaching under a common technology to positively science majors can actually be used to visualize software to investigate ways of killing the of Zeeland, Mich., as Homecoming Queen. goals and seeing what they have done,” influence exercise and health behavior for all.” graphs and verify whether or not algorithms bacteria,” Dr. DeJongh said. “If scientists are “The generality of the system has also Professor Schmidt said. “This app will allow Cooke and Stathakis are so enthused by are correct. interested in energy and environmental issues, allowed it to be used for tasks such as gathering students to track their progress, report the work the outcome of the project that they plan to Various Hope mathematics professors, they can also use this software to study bacteria registration information for conferences and they have done, and set goals that will keep develop new apps after they graduate – as including Dr. Darin Stephenson, have begun to useful for energy production, toxic waste cleanup, competitions on Hope’s campus, finding times them working hard.” business partners. use Dr. Cusack’s software to solve puzzles. and carbon sequestration.” for meetings to be held, and signing up for From May to June, Dr. Jipping, Stathakis, Through such collaborative projects, online advising appointments,” said Dr. McFall. and Cooke created four separate versions of computer science students have a rare “I also hope it will be a useful tool for people the app and presented them to Beckman and opportunity to gain real-world experience, on campus to conduct online surveys.” Professor Schmidt. contribute to projects that will be used “It is exciting to know that just about every “Each delivery brought new ideas and “It is exciting to know that just about every Hope student will by thousands of people, and receive the Hope student will interact with this project,” many design changes. The design that was gratification of knowing their assistance directly Johnson said. “When everything works and completed at the end of the summer is not the interact with this project. When everything works and I see influenced their projects’ feasibility. I see it really helping the Hope community, it final version,” Dr. Jipping said. “We are still it really helping the Hope community, it makes me proud.” “Research students learn almost in an makes me proud.” working on that version and will be completing ‘apprentice’ role rather than as a student,” Dr. Ryan McFall ’93 and student researchers Mike Prior to the end of spring semester 2012, and testing it until the end of the fall semester -- Matthew Johnson ’14 Dr. McFall said. “This type of learning – and Henley and Matt Johnson work on their survey Dr. Jipping and seniors John Stathakis, of so that it can be used in Health Dynamics the experiences students gain – will help them software in VanderWerf Hall. Shelby Township, Mich., and Timothy Cooke classes next spring.” succeed once they leave Hope.”

10 News From Hope College DecemberJune 2012 11 Campus Scene From to Start

TENNIS CENTER: The dedication of the new 12-court, outdoor VandePoel-Heeringa Stadium Courts at Hope College on Saturday, Sept. 22, included a variety of activities to celebrate completion of the Etheridge Tennis Complex and the tennis facility’s role as a resource for campus and he Hope campusFinish has very much been a continuing and beginning, each focused on Finish community alike. Participants in the events work in progress across the fall semester, providing students with the best possible space T included former touring tennis professional with projects from east to west concluding, in which to live, learn and grow. Todd Martin, who played in an exhibition game and took time to speak with—and sign RESIDENCE HALL: autographs for—fans of all ages. Used this The townhouse-style apartments of the Tom continue across the winter. Located on Lincoln past summer for the college’s Tennis Academy and Ryan Cook Village have taken shape quick- Avenue between 11th and 12th streets, the four for area youth, the courts will go to work this ly as the construction crews have hurried to apartments, which will serve 60 students, are spring as the new home of Hope men’s and enclose the buildings so that interior work can scheduled to be ready next fall. women’s tennis.

ENGINEERING: A celebration on Friday, Oct. 12, scheduled in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend, made official the start of construction on the 9,000-square-foot, three-level Haworth Engineering Center, which is being added at the northwest corner of VanderWerf Hall. Work had actually started a few weeks earlier, reflecting the college’s commitment to have the space ready in time for the start of classes in the fall of 2013. With some 170 students enrolled in engineering courses each semester and the program one of FOOTBALL: the top majors indicated by prospective students, President James Bultman ’63 and Holland the center will be an active place. (Participants Mayor Kurt Dykstra offer remarks during in the groundbreaking help give the Haworth a brief ceremony during the college’s home Engineering Center a ceremonial start. From game on Saturday, Sept. 22, commemorating left to right are: Dr. John Krupczak Jr., the installation of artificial turf at Holland professor of engineering and chairperson of the Municipal Stadium and the planned sale of department; junior engineering major Lauren the stadium to the college. Even as it becomes Aprill of Cedar, Mich.; Richard Haworth, a part of the campus the stadium remains who is chairman emeritus of Haworth Inc.; a community resource, continuing to serve, President James Bultman ’63; Holland Mayor for example, as home field for Holland High Kurt Dykstra; and Dr. R. Richard Ray Jr., School as well as for the Flying Dutchmen. provost and professor of kinesiology.)

12 News From Hope College DecemberJune 2012 13 Campus Scene Visual Jon Kay ’08 Various Dimensions (2010-ongoing), DVD cases

TraditionTradition David Chapple ’91 Sunoco 6 (2010), hand painted acrylic on poplar wood with clear coat

omecoming Weekend provided an apt Featuring art ranging from the tradition- H occasion for opening an exhibition of al to the cutting edge, from the monumental recent work by alumni of the college’s studio to the minute, the exhibition was a chance art program. The Alumni Art Show, which to celebrate the artists they have become, ran in the gallery of the De Pree Art Center and, in so doing, the program they shared from Friday, Oct. 12, through Sunday, Nov. in common, whether 50 years ago or five. 18, highlighted the talent of former students Here is a sampling of the more than 50 spanning five decades, from 1963 through works that helped enrich the campus earlier 2009, and from as far away as Cambridge, this semester. Mass., and Middleton, Idaho, and as nearby as A complete listing of the 18 participating Hope’s hometown of Holland, Mich. artists is on page 26. Todd Erickson ’81 Rifle River (2010), bronze Erin Selmer ’00 Beaver Escape Velocity (2010), mixed media on paper

Michelle VanderVelde ’90 Calkins Brent Jackson ’03 John Killmaster ’67 Jeffrey Brown ’97 Reconstructing Fences (2011), stained wood Inquiry 5: Wealthy (2010), photograph printed on vinyl, acrylic The Billionaire (2010), watercolor crayon Inset: A Matter of Life (front cover) (2012), pen and ink on illustration board Display Case: Every Girl Is the End of the World for Me (2004), A Matter of Life (2011-12), Any Easy Intimacy (AEIOU) (2004) and Misty (2006), graphic novels, pen and ink on paper

14 News From Hope College DecemberJune 2012 1515 A Greater Hope

years. Comprised of about 20 students, SALC focuses on connecting students and alumni while helping students as they transition from being undergraduates to alumni, and provides leadership experience, networking opportunities Every and professional development training as the members serve as ambassadors at events like Gift Homecoming and Family Weekend. She’s enjoyed the opportunity to connect with the graduates who have preceded her. “To see some of the great things that alumni have done is very inspiring,” Lechner said. SALC’s work also includes coordinating the drive for the annual Senior Class Gift, which By Greg OlgersMatters Matters’87 A class takes advantage of a mild day earlier this semester and meets outside. The Hope Fund, built each year supports the Hope Fund. Some of the effort from the support of alumni, parents and friends of the college, not only helps make the academic program possible includes sharing perspective on what the Hope (whether inside or outside), but supports every aspect of the Hope experience. This year’s goal is $2.8 million. t’s been said before, but it bears repeating. as well as parents and friends, helped build and Fund is in the most immediate sense--“why it’s I continue to fund the college. The dynamic important, this is how it impacted you, whether No student pays the full cost of attending includes a call for today’s alumni to repay the The Hope Fund is so important that it’s an campaign total. The Hope Fund goal for the you realized it or not,” she noted—but Lechner Hope. generosity from which they benefited by doing integral part of the A Greater Hope comprehensive current, 2012-13 fiscal year is $2.8 million. also values what it represents: alumni across That’s easy to see in the case of those who the same for new generations of students. The Hope Fund is so import- campaign, reflecting that the ongoing annual The annual nature of the Hope Fund is the decades helping Hope to be Hope, a place receive need-based or merit-based financial aid, Gifts to the annual Hope Fund are a support and one-of-a-kind campaign initiatives both its utility and challenge. Every July 1, the built, shaped and sustained not only by those but it’s also true for those who pay tuition in crucial way through which alumni make such ant that it’s an integral are working together to make an even stronger total resets to $0, relying on the members of on campus, but by a larger family as well. full. In fact, tuition dollars cover only 76 percent a difference. The Hope Fund directly supports part of the A Greater Hope Hope College for students. New buildings are the Hope family to make gifts and rebuild it Alumni support, she noted, “really speaks of expenses related to each student’s Hope day-to-day operations at the college, literally providing outstanding instructional and learning each year. to the unique nature of the Hope Fund and the education. benefitting every student. comprehensive campaign, space for decades to come; endowment support Some 8,000 alumni, parents and friends integrity and commitment of our alumni—that The difference is covered because others “It just helps to support all dimensions of reflecting that the ongoing will provide scholarships and support college contribute to the Hope Fund annually. The total they continue to support the college even after have given, to help build a future for those they a student education—the academic portion, programs in perpetuity; the Hope Fund is reflects about 22 percent of the college’s alumni. they’ve gone.” don’t even know and likely will never meet. It’s the social portion and the spiritual portion,” annual support and one-of- making a comprehensive difference immediately It’s a quantity that the college is “The Hope Fund isn’t just about a always been that way. said Tom Bylsma ’86, vice president and chief a-kind campaign initiatives and continuously even as the other initiatives hoping to see increase. The envelope that monetary donation,” Lechner said. “The President James Bultman ’63 light-heartedly financial officer for the college. “The beauty move from dream to reality. The Hope Fund accompanies this story has been provided in Hope Fund from my experience represents so calls it a “generational thing,” noting that every of it is that it’s unrestricted and can be used for are working together to represents $20 million of the $175 million the hope that those who appreciated their much more. It’s a gift to preserve the traditions student who has ever attended Hope has been any needs of the college, and thus it helps keep make an even stronger own experience, or parents or friends who and help make Hope the amazing, unique able to do so because earlier generations, alumni our tuition lower, making Hope College more wish to support the college, will help provide place that it is.” affordable for students.” Hope College for students. the same for today’s students. “If we didn’t have the Hope Fund, we might First-time givers or those whose financial not have the same programs or the same level of situation limits their ability to give needn’t services for our students,” he said. worry about the amount. Every gift makes a Long-time supporters of the college, the Rev. financial aid; student services such as health difference, and every gift is appreciated. Donald ’54 and Alice Klepper ’55 Jansma of and counseling, and career services; student In its own way, participation is just as Green Valley, Ariz., have been contributing organizations and activities ranging from Nykerk, significant as the financial support itself. to the Hope Fund for 30 years. A Reformed to intramural sports, to Chapel Choir and Multiple grant-making agencies consider Church in America (RCA) pastor who is now Symphonette tours, to spring break immersion alumni giving in particular when making their retired, Don in the early 1980s served as minister trips; guest speakers and multicultural events; own decisions about whether or not to provide of church relations at Iowa’s Central College, and campus beautification and maintenance, support, and well-known college guides weigh which like Hope is affiliated with the RCA. from lawn care to lighting. it in their institutional evaluations. In the Best Asked at the time to support Central’s annual “Because of the Hope Fund, the Department The largest single fundraising effort in the Colleges rankings by U.S. News and World Report, fund and knowing the difference the fund made, of Geological and Environmental Sciences college’s history, the $175 million A Greater Hope for example, the alumni giving rate reflects five the couple could do no less for the alma mater supported a weekend field trip to southern comprehensive campaign will benefit every percent of each institution’s score, with the they cherished. Indiana and Northern Kentucky for our students student as it strengthens the college’s endowment, publication considering it “an indirect measure “Every month I think about the college when in the Historical Geology course. The students adds several new buildings, and supports of student satisfaction.” (The gifts themselves I write out a check,” Don said. “We both are in the Structural Geology course traveled to immediate needs through the annual Hope Fund. also matter in the U.S. News rankings, which As a member of the Student-Alumni Leadership graduates of Hope, and we appreciated it. Our Tennessee to observe folds, faults and fractures For more information, and to explore supporting weigh per-student spending at 10 percent.) Council, senior Meghan Lechner has valued the chance to meet alumni and see how their commitment to Hope formed during the rise of the Appalachian life was very molded by Hope College.” the college through the campaign, please visit Senior Meghan Lechner of Massillon, is grounded in their own experiences and desire to help The Rev. Donald ’54 and Alice Klepper ’55 Jansma Consider any aspect of the Hope experience, Mountains,” said Dr. Brian Bodenbender, Hope on-line at campaign.hope.edu or contact Ohio, has made an early start on appreciating assure the same impact for new generations. “The have supported the Hope Fund for more than 30 and the Hope Fund plays a role: academic associate professor of geology and environmental Mary Remenschneider, campaign director, at the impact and history of the Hope Fund Hope Fund isn’t just about a monetary donation. The years as a way of giving back. “We both are graduates support including undergraduate research science and chairperson of the department. [email protected] or (616) 395-7775. as a member of the Student-Alumni Hope Fund from my experience represents so much of Hope, and we appreciated it. Our life was very more. It’s a gift to preserve the traditions and help opportunities and technology upgrades; “These trips greatly enhanced hands-on learning.” Leadership Council (SALC) the past two molded by Hope College,” Rev. Jansma said. make Hope the amazing, unique place that it is.”

16 News From Hope College DecemberJune 2012 17 Alumni Profile

creating six unique human body games from scratch and then bundled them into one game: “Body Adventure with Captain Brainy-Pants!” Educator Finds Room In 2011 Dan was invited to Washington, D.C., as one of three finalists for the $50,000 in Developer’s Prize. Although he didn’t win that prize, he was awarded a $25,000 prize for the best teacher-developed game. Learning Soon after, Dan and his family—wife Kathryn MacDoniels ’00 Caldwell and their two sons—relocated to Bloomington, Ind., for where Dan is now dedicating himself full- time to using his experience from the STEM Challenge, along with the prize money, to Fun and finish the human body game, which was recently released for iPad, Mac, Kindle, Nook, and Android. The games could be used in the classroom, but for the most part they are being used by individual children. Dan has also used the time to develop his middle school curriculum into an online curriculum. “The games and music will be embedded GamesGames directly into the online lessons,” he said. (Some of his music and sample games are available at www.PowerUpEd.com.) “The experience will be similar to the current workbook but much more By Christina VanEyl-Godin ’82 efficient. Most of the lessons will be immediately Following a classroom exercise that showed that music was a helpful tool in helping teach his middle school graded by the computer and will allow the fter a year and a half of study at Hope, direction of teaching. His instinct was confirmed students about science, reflecting his earlier experience as a CASA tutor at Hope, Dan Caldwell ’01 was student to get immediate feedback. This will also Daniel Caldwell ’01 still wasn’t sure what when a friend encouraged him to volunteer inspired to develop a game that drew on students’ interest in video games as well. He won a national award allow the teacher to focus more time on helping A for the effort. he was going to do with his life. with Hope’s CASA (Children’s After School students and less time correcting papers.” With his wide variety of interests, a liberal Achievement) program, which offers tutoring Once the Power Up Education Human Body arts education was a great fit for Dan, but to at-risk kids in the community. It was a good curriculum is up and running, with schools narrowing down the options was a bit of a match, and after a semester of tutoring, Dan had this particular group insisted that I also write hands-on learning, which ended up being very outs of building games by trial and error, and signed on for the pilot program, Dan envisions challenge. A few fruitful visits to the college’s found his calling. He continued working with a story. I bargained with them a bit and we helpful,” he said. “I recorded all of the music by using his own kids and their friends as testers. using the same concepts and pedagogy for career office, a vocational assessment test, CASA, began taking classes in the department of reached a compromise—I would write a song for the science curriculum myself and many As he was developing the game, he other science units. “Right now I am thinking it and his own soul searching pointed him in the education, and never looked back. about traveling through the digestive system of the recording techniques came from that learned about the National STEM (Science, will likely be ecology or environmental science, Being a CASA volunteer also gave Dan instead. As I played the song for them I realized class. I also took one jazz bass course at Hope Technology, Engineering, and Math) Video but we’ll see,” he said. an important “ah-ha” moment. “While that they were paying closer attention than ever and the bass guitar tracks on the songs in my Game Challenge, a White House initiative Dan is enjoying the opportunity to combine driving the CASA bus, it hit me that these before. I realized that I was on to something.” curriculum are played by me.” designed to encourage developers to use his many interests in developing a resource same students who struggled to retain school Over the next year Dan created an entire Recognizing that kids also have a passion learning games to improve the teaching of to help children around the country learn. information knew every word to every song on human body curriculum based on music. “I for video games, Dan began to build learning science, technology, engineering, and math Engaged by both the process and possibilities the radio!” Dan said. “It blew my mind! From wrote one song for each system of the human games to go with each song. A self-taught to pre-K through fourth grade students. His he has no immediate plans to return to the that point on I consistently used music in my body and created a series of lessons that use the computer geek (“I remember actually building middle school games were too difficult for classroom, but he also hopes to find new ways classroom in some way, shape, or form.” lyrics of the song to teach the systems of the a computer from parts while at Hope with some elementary students and therefore didn’t qualify in the future to work again with young students Dan graduated from Hope with a degree in human body,” he said. of my dorm mates”), he learned the ins and for the competition, so Dan went to work directly, perhaps inspiring them not only with elementary education with a science composite Dan used the curriculum in his classroom the content of the new curriculum but through major and began his career as a middle school as he completed and perfected it. Now in use the lessons he’s learned along the way. science teacher at Gouverneur Middle School in several classrooms, the Power Up Education “I really love the creative aspect of my in Gouverneur, N.Y. During those nine years, Human Body curriculum includes music, games, “While driving the CASA bus, it hit me that these same current business project,” Dan said. “It’s Dan began to apply his observation about and a student workbook, and is targeted to incredibly fulfilling, and I feel that there is music as a learning tool in his classroom. middle school students, although the content students who struggled to retain school information knew every an opportunity for the fruits of that creative “One of my favorite hobbies has always could work with ninth and 10th graders as well. word to every song on the radio! It blew my mind! From that effort to do a lot of good in the area of science been playing guitar and writing songs,” he Dan took two music classes at Hope that point on I consistently used music in my classroom in some way, instruction. However, I do miss the kids. I can said. “A few years ago I gave my students an turned out to play an important role as he put see getting involved with kids in an educational Dan Caldwell ’01 with sons Owen and Marshall assignment to write a short story about the the curriculum together. shape, or form.” setting in some way in the future, maybe as they play games from the Power Up Education human digestive system from the point of view “I took a recording class with Professor -- Dan Caldwell ’01 teaching game design on a part-time basis or Human Body curriculum. of the food being digested. For some reason John Erskine that offered a ton of practical even as an after school program.”

18 News From Hope College DecemberJune 2012 19 Alumni Profile

ReturnReturn of of thethe RingRing

ometimes, lost is lost, and cherished items Scott Travis ’06 S missing remain so. Director of Alumni and Sometimes, maybe even 52 years later, they Parent Relations walk in the door. Scott Smith of Bellevue, Ohio, had no connection to Hope College. He had never even been to Holland or West Michigan, but through happenstance he had taken possession of a bit of Hope that eventually inspired a journey—and enduring gratitude. At a garage sale in about 1982, as a young 22-year-old, he’d purchased a box of miscellany for a dollar in a nearby town. Digging through the contents later, he found a gold fraternity ring, labeled with the college’s name, the year 1963 and the Greek letters OKE, and monogrammed with the initials DAM. He wondered if it might have belonged to someone local, but no one he knew in his tight-knit community could fit the initials to a connection to Hope, and so he stored it with other jewelry, and the years passed. After losing his Fraternal Society ring in Ohio 52 years ago, Don Mitchell ’63, at right, had long since given up on Earlier this fall, he was sorting through his ever seeing it again. A visit in October from Scott Smith of Bellevue, Ohio, who had no connection to Hope but was belongings and came across the ring. Clearly, he dedicated to uniting the ring he’d found at a garage sale with its owner, was a singular surprise. reflected, it had belonged to someone before it landed at that garage sale. Maybe, just maybe, Scott Travis ’06, director of alumni and parent took it off,” he remembered. there was a way to connect it with someone who relations. Not yet accustomed to wearing the ring, he might be able to locate its owner or the owner’s What happened next floored him. Travis forgot to put it back on, remembering only as family. And, he could do better than the phone listened to his story, looked at the ring, spent a the group neared Holland some five hours later. or mail. few minutes at the computer, and said, “I think He immediately made some calls and ultimately I know who this belongs to.” The clues on the reached the supervisor of the rest area, who ring meant that the owner could only be one helpfully searched, but to no avail. “It has been a wonderful person, and it was someone that Travis knew. “I even told him what sink it was—it was the He then made a call. third sink from the left,” Mitchell said. experience, knowing that “I had never dreamed that it would happen Following the much more celebratory call in there are honest people like that,” Smith said. October, Travis arranged for Smith to stay at the Neither had Don Mitchell ’63 of Ada, Mich. Haworth Inn as a guest of the college, and then out there and then getting “Scott Travis called me and said, ‘I have the next day Mitchell hosted Smith at Frederik some interesting news for you,’” Mitchell said. Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand my ring back.” “He said, ‘I’ve got a gentleman here from Ohio,’ Rapids, Mich. He also gave Smith a Frater – Don Mitchell ’63 and as soon as he said ‘Ohio,’ I said ‘Oh, no.’” 175th-anniversary cap as a thematic thank-you. It had been April of 1960, and then-freshman What happened to the ring between 1960 Mitchell and other students returning to campus and 1982 is anybody’s guess. What happened in “I thought, ‘I’ve got some time here. Maybe together from back East after spring break had 2012, though, is priceless. I ought to take that ring and drive it to Hope stopped at a rest area on the Ohio Turnpike. As a “It has been a wonderful experience, knowing College. Hopefully I can find somebody to give newly minted Frater he was wearing the treasured that there are honest people out there and then it to,’” he said. “I had a couple days. I had Fraternal Society ring he’d purchased just two getting my ring back,” Mitchell said. “It put me the time off, when I realized that Hope College months before, and he wanted to take care of it. on an emotional high last week.” wasn’t that far away from me.” “I had gone to the sink to wash my hands. “I can’t speak highly enough of Scott Smith,” Once on campus, in October, Smith visited I looked at my new, beautiful, shiny ring and he said. “For him to do this was a very special the Alumni Office—and was met at the door by thought, ‘I’m not going to get soap on that,’ and gift.”

20 News From Hope College Alumni News

fter 10 years at Hope, I thought I had a firm A grasp of what the liberal arts are all about. However, upon entering the classroom from a different perspective, I realized I had more to learn. This semester WindowWindow I taught 17 students in one of Hope’s First-Year Seminar (FYS) courses. These courses are designed to help toto Hope’sHope’s first-year students transition to college by exploring an intellectually important topic and educating them regarding the purpose of a liberal arts education. At the beginning of the course we discussed an article by Nan Keohane, a professor at Princeton and former History president of Wellesley College and Duke University. History Her case for “The Liberal Arts as Guideposts in the 21st Scott Travis ’06 Century” was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education Director of Alumni and in January. While the liberal arts prove valuable for Parent Relations success in an increasingly complex world, they also face criticism as much of higher education becomes more specialized. Amidst this backdrop, Keohane offers five defenses for the liberal arts:

• The liberal arts are “insurance against obsolescence” as many, if not all, fields are rapidly changing; • No matter the profession, the liberal arts “hone the mind, teaching focus, critical thinking, and the ability to express oneself clearly both in writing and speaking”; • This type of education “is the best education for citizenship in a democracy like ours”; • The liberal arts also prepare us for “both society and solitude” by “cultivating taste and the knowledge of the arts and literature and music”; • Through studying the liberal arts, you become part of a “community of scholars,” both past and present.

These five defenses proved valuable for class discussion. But it was through advising my students that I came across another significant reason to value the liberal arts. For students who are less than a year out of high school and just beginning to explore the concept of vocation, the liberal arts A traditional picnic is among the highlights of the 1965 International Summer School provide a framework through which to explore interests. Watching them hosted by Hope and attended here by students visiting from Meiji Gakuin University begin to view the general education curriculum not as classes to “get out of Japan with President Calvin VanderWerf ’37 (left background). Featuring field trips, of the way,” but rather as opportunities for discovery, not only has been points of interest and a variety of activities, the program was designed to help international a highlight of my semester, but is further evidence of the value of a Hope students experience American life in the context of a college community. The spirit of the education. program continues through the present-day’s “Explore Michigan” (discussed on pages six and seven), which across the school year has been scheduling events throughout the state and region for the college’s international students, recognition that when it comes to study- abroad, classroom lessons are only one among many opportunities for learning.

Alumni Association Board of Directors Class Notes Executive Committee Lisa Bos ’97, President, Washington, D.C. Table of Contents Thomas Kyros ’89, Vice President, Grand Rapids, Mich. Anita Van Engen ’98 Bateman, Secretary, San Antonio, Texas Board Members 22 Class Notes: 1940s - 1960s Victoria Brunn ’84, Santa Monica, Calif. Andrea Converse ’12, Lowell, Mich. Holly Anderson ’90 DeYoung, Beaver Dam, Wis. Lori Visscher ’83 Droppers, Maitland, Fla. 23 Class Notes: 1960s - 1970s Brian Gibbs ’84, Bad Homburg, Germany Thomas Henderson ’70, Dayton, Ohio Todd Houtman ’90, Indianapolis, Ind. Sa’eed Husaini ’13, Jos, Nigeria 24 Class Notes: 1970s - 1980s Garry Kempker ’74, Kalamazoo, Mich. Michael McCarthy ’85, Weston, Mass. James McFarlin ’74, Decatur, Ill. Leslie Schoon ’93 Monday, Kirkland, Wash. 25 Class Notes: 1980s - 1990s Juan Carlos Muñoz ’00, Holland, Mich. Nancy Clair ’78 Otterstrom, Bethel, Conn. Samantha Rushton ’14, Warren, Mich. Elias Sanchez ’78, Hinsdale, Ill. David Stavenger ’65, Midland, Mich. Janice Day ’87 Suhajda, Rochester Hills, Mich. 26 Class Notes: 2000s Arlene Arends ’64 Waldorf, Buena Vista, Colo. Liaisons 27 2010s - Marriages Scott Travis ’06, Director of Alumni and Parent Relations Beth Timmer ’00 Szczerowksi, Assistant Director of Alumni and Parent Relations 28 Class Notes: New Arrivals, Learn more about the Alumni Association online Advanced Degrees, Deaths hope.edu/alumni

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News and information for class John “Dave” Haas ’53 of Thousand notes, marriages, advanced degrees and Palms, Calif., has been teaching (at age Almost 55 years ago, five women in retirement years. They are deaths are compiled for News from Hope 80) courses in the Osher Institute, at from the class of 1956 started thankful for the connections with College by Julie Rawlings’83 Huisingh. the University of California, Riverside. a Round Robin letter that has valued friends that all began at In addition to featuring information Osher is a program funded by a continued unbroken to this year. Hope. Participants are Irma provided directly by alumni, this section philanthropist for persons over age 55. When the thick envelope arrives, Derks ’56 (Don ’54) Shull, includes news compiled from a variety The courses he has taught in the past the recipient removes her last Phyllis Maat ’56 (Don) of public sources and shared here to three years are: “Social Issues Through letter and inserts an updated one. Klarup, Barbara Pennings enhance its service as a way of keeping Film”; “Potpourri of Poetry”; and Saved letters reveal a glimpse ’56 (James ’56) Kremer, the members of the Hope family up to “Road to the Rose Bowl: Influences of a slice of society – birth of Mary Burggraaf ’56 (Ed date about each other. of College Football on American News should be mailed to: Alumni Culture.” He reports that he is having children, grandchildren, great- ’58) VanderKooy and Mary News; Hope College Public Relations; fun, and hoping his “students” are also. grandchildren, deaths of parents, Hesselink ’56 (Harold ’55) 141 E. 12th St.; PO Box 9000; Holland, He can’t wait for his 60th class reunion professional moves, graduations, Goldzung. The Kremer MI 49422-9000. Internet users may in April. children and grandchildren’s family has a fourth-generational send to [email protected] or submit Chris Denny ’56 Connaire of weddings/divorces, empty nests, granddaughter, Ann Kremer ’16, information via myHope at hope.edu/alumni. Cambridge, Mass., is working as travels and now adjustments attending Hope. All submissions received by the coordinator of the Sunday school Public Relations Office by Monday, at Friends Meeting at Cambridge Nov. 5, have been included in this issue. (Quakers). In addition to recruiting that it is highly acclaimed: the first Because of the lead time required by volunteer teachers and planning the printing sold out in three months. 60s this publication’s production schedule, curriculum, she organizes service John Hood ’59 of Howard, Ohio, submissions received after that date (with projects and workshops on subjects like attended a Peacemaker Seminar Earl Welling ’60 of Holland, Mich., the exception of obituary notices) have compassionately welcoming children in Ohio, led by Dr. John Kimball, has retired from the Ottawa County been held for the next issue, the deadline on the autism spectrum. She is also director of conference care and church Fair executive board after serving for for which is Tuesday, Feb. 26. fundraising for a chamber music development for the Conservative 33 years. He most recently was the organization. Congregational Christian Conference treasurer and harness-racing manager. Gerald “Jerry” Kruyf ’56 of Grand in October. He notes that those who Bob Gordon ’63 of Tecumseh, Mich., Rapids, Mich., in September returned have used these peacemaking principles reports that he is looking forward to 40s from his eighth trip to Romania, where consistently for fostering individual and meeting the Emersonians at the 50th he organized mission trips on behalf of church relationships have found it to be reunion next spring. Marian Korteling ’47 Levai of his church, LaGrave Avenue CRC in transforming. George Jacob ’63 of Holland, Jacksonville, Fla., still works three days a Grand Rapids. In the past 10 years he Bob Kisken ’59 of Glenrock, Wyo., Mich., recently completed a two-year week in a mental health clinic for children has led more than 60 members of his entered three of his photos in the appointment to serve as Park Township and adolescents. She reports that her church on the mission trips. They help Wyoming State Fair. He won two supervisor, and is presently completing highlight of this year was a family reunion in various building projects. first-place ribbons and one second- 16 years as a member of the West cruise to Mexico, Belize and Honduras Dorothy Skinner ’58 Dale of place ribbon. His photos have also Ottawa Board of Education, which he in July. She has also enjoyed travel to St. Crossville, Tenn., recently published a appeared in Mules & More. He is currently serving as president. He is a Maarten for a week and to Iowa to visit book of inspirational poetry, childhood has photographed a rodeo clown retired school superintendent. family. memories, and mission trip musings reunion in Wyoming, a cowboy poetry Jean Paduch ’63 Peelen reports Gerard Van Heest ’49 of Holland, titled Cornfed, Countrified, and Consecrated. gathering in Montana, a chuckwagon she is happily living on Anna Maria Mich., was the guest of honor at the The book is a collection of things cook-off in Helena, Mont., burro Island off the west coast of Florida. She Arcadian fraternity alumni dinner on written during the last 60 years. It is racing in Colorado and a ranch rodeo is serving as a commissioner on the Saturday, Oct. 13. He was honored for available from most online sources and in Glenrock, Wyo. His photos are Holmes Beach City Commission, has a his many years of faithful service to the directly from the author. She reports available online. local radio show called “Gray Matters: fraternity. 50s The Rivalry Janet Kinkema ’51 Moor along with her husband of 56 years, who is a retired Navy Chaplain, are happily living in Satellite Parties Paradise Valley Estates retirement community in Fairfield, Calif. She reports that life-long volunteer activities have been and still are a joy. Wayne Tripp ’52 and his wife celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Saturday, June 9. Douglas van Gessel ’52 and his wife have been selected to be the “Retiree Chaplains” for the Reformed Church retired ministers and widows in Saturday, February 9, 2013 Southern California. The appointment is Gather with Hope and Calvin fans for the big game under the auspices of the “RCA Benefits of Life.” They continue to work as and join in the tradition at one of over 70 locations. chaplain and spiritual advisor at Artesia Find a party near you at hopecalvin.com Christian Home for the Aged in Artesia, Calif.

2222 News From Hope College Changing Aging,” and is loving life. chaplain for all the RCA pastors Jim Robertson ’69 is now the CEO Jack Siebers ’63 was recently selected and spouses in Illinois, Indiana and for White Mountain Regional Medical by his peers for inclusion in The Best Wisconsin. He is also serving a small Center in Springerville, Ariz. Lawyers in America 2013 in the field of church in Beecher and assisting Faith Jon Smoker ’69 lifted in the AAPF corporate law. He has been selected for Church, Dyer, Ind., in a new satellite. (Amatuer American Powerlifting the honor each year since 2010. He assists in the ministry for his classis Federation) in April in Chicago and set Paul Swets ’63 has recently retired in supervising First Reformed Church in drug-tested world records in the squat, from ministry at Second Presbyterian Tampa, Fla. He reports that he and his 374, bench press, 226 and total 974, Church in Memphis, Tenn. He and his wife enjoy their 11 grandchildren and along with an American record in the wife, Janiece Smoll ’65 Swets, have have recently moved into a new home deadlift of 374 in the 65-69 age group at moved into Freedom Village in Holland, located on the seventh fairway of a local 165. Mich. golf course. Karen Daniels ’64 Bables serves as Fran Gralow ’68 is doing Bible director of adult discipleship at Christ translation and literacy under SIM in Classmates Mary Dykema Memorial Church in Holland, Mich. Angola. 70s She and a team recently presented at Karen Dykstra ’68 Green of San ’73, Sheryl Smith ’73 and a day-long pre-conference training on Diego, Calif., is selling residential real Jim Buter ’71 of Holland, Mich., Karla Hoesch ’73 Wolters “Forming a Congregation Using the estate for Keller-Williams Realty. a veteran of the construction and visited Hope, Alaska, during a Apprentice Series” at the Grace, Grace, Donald Scott ’68 retired on Saturday, furnishings industry, has spent the past 2011 vacation, noting that it is a and More Grace conference at Friends Sept. 1, from full-time ministry with the three years helping Bush Industries must-see location when wearing University. Her blog is available online. American Baptist Churches of Indiana reinvent itself by forming and growing Hope t-shirts even if it is on a Ken Cook ’64 of Holland, Mich., and Kentucky. the BBF commercial furniture brand dead-end road. Mary and Karla presented “The History and Bird Life of Norma Butterworth ’68 McKittrick as its vice president of channel were roommates at Hope and Midway Island” to the Holland Audubon of Birmingham, Ala., has taught development and national accounts. the three of them had previously members on Tuesday, Oct. 9. He was elementary school and also served as a Susan Klaner ’71 Madden of taken a trip in 2010 to Germany among the 50 visitors allowed each year copy editor, copy chief, writer and editor- Onaway, Mich., retired in June 2012 to see the Passion Play. on the island. in-chief at Southern Living and Cooking Light and has moved to Black Lake, where Mark Lewis ’64 of Orange, Conn., has magazines, as well as at a small regional she spends most of the year. She spends been inducted into New Haven Gridiron book publishing company. She currently the winter months in North Carolina lives in the mountains of Tennessee, Club Hall of Fame for his 42 years on the teaches 4K and does freelance editorial visiting family. where she writes the monthly paper for sports desk of the New Haven Register. work. She enjoys spending time with her Sue Acus ’71 Miller of Erie, Pa., a historic town of 203 citizens. She and Roger Mulder ’64 of Holland, Mich., three grown children and their families, finished a six-week run playing French her husband have restored a 1920 L&N and his wife celebrated their 50th including her six grandchildren. horn in the pit orchestra for Les caboose to its original exterior and offer wedding anniversary in October. Karon Armstrong ’69 of Minneapolis, Miserables in Erie. She has retired and it as a guesthouse. They volunteer at the John Mulder ’67 of Louisville, Ky., Minn., was invited by the Russian notes that she has more time to devote Cumberland Gap Historical Park, at the just published Finding God: A Treasury of government to participate in and to performances. animal shelter, and in their town and Conversion Stories (Eerdmans), a collection present a paper at the “Concept of Susan Pattie ’71 was appointed church, and fill their days with travel, of 60 first-person conversion accounts, Data Exchange on Chemical Products director of the Armenian Library and art projects, repairing their “tiny old ranging from the Apostle Paul to the and Chemical Substances Hazardous Museum of America (ALMA). home” and hiking in the mountains with rock star Bono. He and his wife, Mary Properties” in Kazan in May 2012. Kathy Jo Smith ’72 Matthews of their two dogs. Hakken ’66 Mulder have three Alan Jones ’69 of Burr Ridge, Ill., has Cumberland Gap, Tenn., notes that Marvin Younger ’72 of Holland, grandchildren. a new book, Teaching matters most: A school her husband passed nine years ago after Mich., is the president of The Alliance Albert Vander Meer ’67 of Beecher, leader’s guide to improving classroom instruction, a lengthy illness. Retired after 36.8 for Cultural and Ethnic Harmony, and Ill., recently retired but is presently published by Corwin Press. The book is years of teaching special education in a member of International Rotary Club serving the RCA as a retiree-care available on Amazon books. Wayland, Mich., she remarried and in Holland, Mich.

Philanthropic Intent Began as Young Alums Scott ’91 and Suzanne Lobs ’91 Larson met as freshmen at Hope. Their long-term commitment to support the college financially began when Suzanne was a Hope Fund caller as a student. That experience brought her to realize the importance of donor support for Hope. Going beyond just their annual giving, the Larsons included the college in their first will while still in their twenties. The Larsons now frequent the campus from their residence in Jackson, Mich., to visit their children, Andrew and Hannah—both current students at Hope. Due to their own experiences as students and now witnessing their children receiving the same quality education as they did, Scott and Suzanne have made giving to their alma mater a regular part of their philanthropic intentions. Hope is grateful to all of the 700-plus members of the Dimnent Heritage Society for their generosity in supporting the students and faculty of the college. For more than 30 years, planned gifts from donors like Scott and Suzanne have helped shape the character of Hope College and its community.

Scott ’91 and Suzanne Lobs ’91 Larson For more information contact: Voice: (616)395-7779 John A. Ruiter, J.D. E-Mail: [email protected] Dir. of Planned Giving www.hope.edu/advancement

DecemberJune 2012 23 businesses and the creation of more than group’s annual conference in Las Vegas, peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in 5,000 jobs. He is a fellow member of the Nev., in November. America. His practice focuses on business Lambda Alpha International Society for Todd Erickson ’81 of Farmington law, real estate and estate planning. Land Economics. Hills, Mich., is the director of exhibit His recognition by Best Lawyers is Laura Camp ’76 Adams of Round services and teaching in the foundry for his work with trusts and estates. Rock, Texas, and her husband went on at the College for Creative Studies in Outside of his practice, he is very active a “home tour” of Korea with their two Detroit, Mich., and exhibiting bronze in the Grand Haven community. He adopted sons. sculpture at the Robert Kidd Gallery in is currently completing two terms on Dirk Bloemendaal ’76 of Holland, Birmingham, Mich. the Board of Trustees of the Grand Mich., is working towards his 30th year Ian Macartney ’81 of Grand Rapids, Haven Area Community Foundation. as managing counsel for government Mich., has been running a new business He recently led the Love INC Ministry A group of 10 (five couples) affairs at Amway Corporation in Ada, since 2005 and is all about Public Time, Center capital campaign, and served as from Central Reformed Church Mich. His responsibilities include all 50 manufacturing large outdoor tower clocks president of the Loutit District Library in Grand Rapids, Mich. took a state legislatures and the states’ regulatory and, with a Swiss partner (who happens during the library’s expansion and bicycle trip in the Loire Valley arms. He and his wife have a freshman to make all the clocks for Swiss Railways, renovation project. He is also a member of France during September. and junior son at Hope. among others), distributed time systems of the Rotary Club of Grand Haven. Seven of the 10 are Hope Jeff Bremer ’77 is the new assistant city for airport terminals and rail stations. Tracy Ore ’84 of St. Cloud, Minn., graduates. The grads are, left to manager for Port St. Lucie, Fla. More information on the company, was the keynote speaker at the Michigan right: Jeff DeVree ’79, Janis Phil Reed ’77 of Battle Creek, Mich., Lumicron, can be found online. Sociological Societies annual meeting at Lundeen ’80 DeVree, Ken has been promoted to associate professor Betty Buikema ’82 Birner of Calvin College on Thursday and Friday, of criminal justice at Olivet College. He Arlington Heights, Ill., has written Oct. 26-27. She is a professor and chair Bauman ’79, Mary Van Dis also serves as director of the criminal her fifth book, Introduction to Pragmatics. of the Sociology department at St. Cloud ’80 Bauman, Bob Post ’77, justice program and campus safety. She has been the director of graduate State University. Nancy Campbell ’78 Post Sharon Adcock ’78 of Holland, Mich., studies in the English department at Tom Wagner ’84 was one of 1,517 and John Byl ’80. served as a judge for the inaugural Eclipse Northern Illinois University for the past artists who competed in the Sept. 19 to Awards, honoring excellence in film five years and has started a year-long Oct. 7 ArtPrize competition in Grand Phyllis Kleder ’73 Hooyman of and video in Western Michigan. She sabbatical during which she will spend Rapids, Mich. He submitted “Sunrise at Holland, Mich., retired as director of appeared on the local Fox News affiliate the winter quarter as a visiting scholar Isle Royale.” financial aid at Hope College last June to discuss the awards and the state of film in the linguistics department at Stanford Derek Emerson ’85 of Holland, after having served in this capacity for and video in Michigan in general. University. Mich., spoke through the Last Lecture 28 years. During her career, she served Paul Pratt ’78 of Wyoming, Mich., is Cathleen Bast ’82 Holbrook of Series coordinated by Hope College’s as president of the Michigan Student the pastor at First Reformed Church in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., teaches Chapter of Mortar Board on Wednesday, Financial Aid Association, worked as a Grandville, Mich. advanced placement language and Oct. 24, on “The Blessings of Disruption: consultant with the U.S. Department of Laurie Van Ark ’78 is directing the composition at John Jay High School in Ramblings from the Children’s Cancer Education and offered student financial family holiday show The Rented Christmas at Hopewell Junction. Ward.” His son, Oliver, was diagnosed aid testimony before congressional Holland Civic Theatre. Jeff Tyler ’82 of Holland, Mich., with stage-four neuroblastoma in August House and Senate subcommittees in Andy Fierro ’79 of Holland, Mich., presented “A Ministry of Reconciliation 2010. Washington, D.C. She also served as presented “A Ministry of Reconciliation in Holland - Chaos or Community? Elizabeth MacGregor ’85 is an chair of the Washington-based National in Holland - Chaos or Community? Changing or Just Rearranging” on attorney with the Financial Industry Direct Student Loan Coalition. Changing or Just Rearranging” on Monday, Oct. 1, at Hope. He is a Regulatory Authority in Washington, David DeKok ’75 of Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, Oct. 1, at Hope. He is the professor of religion at Hope. D.C., and was recently certified by will have his next book, The Girl Who chaplain at Holland Hospital. Kathy Breyfogle ’83 Crepas of the League of American Bicyclists as a Was Killed in the Library: Betsy Aardsma, Renze Hoeksema ’79 of Canton, Kalamazoo, Mich., is the chief financial cycling instructor. She is now certified Penn State, and the Murderer Who Got Away, Mich., will be the director of State officer for Residential Opportunities. to teach courses such as adult beginning published by Globe Pequot Press in early Government Affairs for DTE Energy She was the CFO of the Kalamazoo cycling and traffic skills 101, which fall 2014. Betsy was from Holland, Mich., effective Jan. 1, 2013. He started the Regional Chamber of Commerce. helps cyclists gain confidence riding in and attended Hope for the 1965-66 and transition phase in September. Linda Miller ’83 of Naperville, Ill., traffic. She commutes to work on her 1966-67 school years before transferring Frank Robison ’79 of Gilbert, Ariz., has been elected to serve as treasurer of bike, has participated in cycling events in to the University of Michigan. She was has been in healthcare for more than the Naperville Junior Woman’s Club for the region and will be leading her son’s murdered in the Penn State University 30 years. Currently, he is working at a a second year. Her younger daughter, scout troop on a 187-mile bike trip next Library on Nov. 28, 1969. hospital in a non-clinical role. He also Cailyn TenHoeve, is a freshman at Hope summer. Michael Waalkes ’75 of Raleigh, N.C., does marketing, promotions and sales this year. Mark Rebhan ’85 and Kristin spoke at Hope College during the weekly for local companies. He is studying Jeff Beswick ’84 of Grand Haven, Stein ’86 Rebhan celebrated the 25th chemistry seminar series on Friday, Sept. health information technology and Mich., was among the Varnum LLP anniversary of their “Hope Merger” on 21. He is the laboratory chief of the computer science in college. attorneys recently selected by their Wednesday, Oct. 10. National Toxicology Program and group Laurie Selwyn ’79 of Hot Springs leader of the Inorganic Toxicology group. Village, Ark., has co-authored a library He presented the address “Metals as science textbook, Public Law Librarianship: toxicants.” Objectives, Challenges, and Solutions, with Rich Williams ’75 of Albuquerque, Virginia Eldridge. Catch All the Excitement N.M., received the Dallan Sanders Sherie Veramay ’79 of Kalamazoo, Rural Economic Development Award Mich., is the development portfolio of Hope Sports by E-mail! from his economic development manager at Starr Commonwealth in peers in NMIDEA, a New Mexico Albion, Mich. Starr provides residential Economic Association and affiliate of the and community-based treatment International Economic Development programs for at-risk children and Council. The award is given annually families. in recognition of a person’s dedication and achievements in rural economic development in New Mexico. He is the director of New Mexico MainStreet 80s Receive the Hope College and the New Mexico Arts and Cultural District Program. During his 10-year Kathy Kurtze ’80 of Carson City, Sports Report by e-mail. To subscribe go to tenure, the program has assisted in Mich., presented a session at the National It’s hope.edu/pr/pressreleases FREE! hope.edu/athletics the establishment of 6,000 new small Council for Teachers of English at the

24 News From Hope College Christopher Cassell ’89 is the in West Aurora School District in Illinois. John Gardner ’87 of Lynn, director of the Grand Rapids specialty Katie Kowalczyk-Fulmer ’92 of Mass., earlier this year received billing group for the Foremost Insurance Grand Haven, Mich., has been named the 2012 “First Responder Hero” Group. the MHSAA Coach of the Year. She is award from the American Red Jon Christinidis ’89 of Grosse Pointe, the Grand Haven girls’ basketball coach. Cross of Northeast Massachusetts. Mich., is a long time DTE Energy Cathy Davidson ’92 Thomas of John works full-time as a senior Regulatory and Nuclear Attorney. Marktbergal, Germany (please see This year he took over as chair of the “Classnote” on her husband, Steven paramedic at Atlantic Ambulance, State Bar of Michigan’s Administrative Thomas ’88), ran her first marathon in which provides emergency response and Regulatory Law Section. Election Seattle, Wash., last year and is looking care throughout Greater Boston to Chair of the Administrative forward to a half marathon in Paris and a and the North Shore, and he also and Regulatory Law Section is the full marathon in Munich next year. does medical teaching and volunteer culmination of years of practice and work Jill VanderWoude ’92 of Grand middle school teaching on the with attorneys in various government Rapids, Mich., has been the director and side. He was off-duty at home in agencies and at the state’s other utilities. lead preschool teacher at Grace Church October 2011 when he responded Elizabeth Dobrosky ’89 Schultz of Preschool in East Grand Rapids, Mich., to a burning-vehicle accident after Holland, Mich., has been a member of for the past two years. Grace Church hearing the crash. As noted in the aid to an injured passenger in the Toastmasters’ International for five years, Preschool is a mission of Grace Episcopal earning her Competent Communicator Church and is a multi-age preschool award citation, “Without thinking smoking car.” The citation further and Advanced Leader Bronze Awards, which serves three-, four-, and five-year- of his own safety, John raced to states, “John Gardner is the kind of as well as several local trophies. Last year old children and their families. the scene where he immediately citizen every community would like she served as her local club’s president. Noelia Altamira ’92 Wise of Holland, provided assistance and medical to have on hand.” She also teaches a class at her local Mich., was recognized for her kind Community Mental Health, and serves caring nature and parent involvement Duke Burdette ’86 and his wife report Louise Shumaker ’87 of Holland, as a deacon at her church. on Wednesday, Sept. 26, by Haworth that they have enjoyed their first year Mich., received the second annual Eric Shotwell ’89 is now a strategic Inc. She is a fourth-grade Spanish in the Seattle area, after spending the Ability Award on Tuesday, Oct. 23. account manager with Desire2Learn immersion teacher and was nominated previous five years in Zurich, Switzerland. This award is given to a person who Incorporated. for the Haworth’s Very Special Teacher They note that “real” football, English, has played a significant role in building Appreciation Contest by one of her and closer (a bit) to family and old friends accessible and livable communities students. She won new Haworth furniture are all very welcome changes. They have for people with disabilities. She is the for the school’s teachers’ lounge and a three daughters, happy to be in English- director of disability services for Hope 90s Visa gift card for classroom supplies. speaking schools finally, ages 16, 13, 12. College. Brett Folkert ’93 of Ada, Mich., ran He is still practicing radiology, currently Kirk Brumels ’88 of Holland, Mich., Michelle Vander Velde ’90 Calkins the Marine Corps Marathon on Sunday, with teleradiology company Virtual was present during the signing of a of Holland, Mich., was one of 1,517 Oct. 28. The 26.2-mile course runs Radiologic. bill that Gov. Rick Snyder signed on artists who competed in the Sept. 19 to Linda Hardin ’86 Helder of East Tuesday, Oct. 23. This bill will require Oct. 7 Art Prize competition in Grand Lansing, Mich., is now working full-time Michigan Department of Community Rapids, Mich., She submitted “Collage as a special education teacher consultant Health to develop materials and training Color Study 64.” in the Lansing School District after on concussion injuries and treatments. Chip Duford ’90 performed in the teaching for 25 years, the last 10 half- He is the president of the Michigan lead role in Hope College Theatre’s time as she has been raising three Athletic Trainer’s Society, as well as an fall production of Sweeney Todd. The children. She enjoys watching family associate professor of kinesiology and production ran in the DeWitt Center sporting events with husband Rich program director of athletic training main theatre on Friday and Saturday, Helder ’85 and visiting their son, Joey education at Hope. Nov. 9-10, and Wednesday-Saturday, Helder ’15, at Hope. Steven Kasten ’88 of Dexter, Mich., Nov. 14-17. Kristine Rumery ’87 Brown of is a pediatric plastic surgeon at The John Mitchell ’90 of Okemos, Mich., is Grand Rapids, Mich., reports she is University of Michigan, Mott Children’s presently working as an anesthesiologist enjoying life and pursuing some of Hospital. He recently earned his master’s with Physician Anesthesia Service at Jeffrey Brown ’97 of Berwyn, her passions, which included opening in Health Professions Education from Sparrow Hospital in Lansing. He and Ill., was the featured author her own marketing communications the University of Illinois, Chicago. He his wife, Michelle Imhoff ’92, chose during the Fifth Annual Tom consulting business and creating a nature operates on both facial trauma victims to stay in the Lansing area after he Andrews Memorial Reading and landscape photography business and children with physical deformities. completed his medical residency a few of the Jack Ridl Visiting years ago. John is also serving as a reserve with her husband, called 2 Browns The new degree will help him as director Writers Series at Hope on medical officer in the U.S. Navy. Photography. More on the photography of the residency program in plastic Tuesday, Oct. 23. His multi- company can be found online. surgery at U of M. Diane Olsen ’91 of Scottsdale, Ariz., media presentation was on Mark DeWitt ’87 of Hudsonville, Jodi Noorman ’88 MacLean of has written, illustrated, and published Mich., serves on the board of directors Grand Rapids, Mich., works part-time three books for women; An Honorable his forthcoming graphic of the new Michigan West Coast in the office of the dean for international Journey of Healing...A Woman’s Story: A memoir A Matter of Life. He Chamber of Commerce, an entity that and multicultural education at Hope. Honorable Journey of Healing...A Workbook also participated in a question- was formed through the merger of Her favorite work on campus is the for Women Recovering from Sexual Betrayal and-answer session earlier the Holland and Zeeland Chambers planning and implementation of the or Personal Loss; and A Daily Journey for in the day (pictured). He is a effective Sept. 1. He chaired the annual Critical Issues Symposium--an Women of Honor...A Writing Journal. More graphic novelist and has been collaboration committee that led the event that she notes still has energy and information can be found online. featured in Chicago’s Museum merger and diligence process. impact on campus life after 30 years. She Lisa Lober ’92 Ashley of Petoskey, of Contemporary Art, and Mich., has been appointed to the Anne Allison ’87 Guy of Grand reports that she is happily married and occasionally teaches comics at Advisory Committee on Pain and Haven, Mich., has been employed has a son, Duncan (a freshman at Hope), the School of The Art Institute. for 10 years at Perrigo Company and daughter, Callie (a junior at East Symptom Management by Governor He also had several pieces in Allegan, Mich., where she is Grand Rapids High School). Rick Snyder. She is the president and currently a team leader for contract Steven Thomas ’88 and his wife, CEO of the Hospice and Palliative Care included in the Alumni Art and international customer service. Cathy Davidson ’92 Thomas, Association of Michigan. Show at DePree Art Center, She is transitioning to a new position relocated in July to Germany, where Kirstan Carroll ’92 Beatty of Elburn, which ran Friday, Oct. 12- representing customer service, sales and Steve is stationed at Storck Barracks. He Ill., received her Master of Science in Sunday, Nov. 18. marketing for Perrigo’s mergers and is currently deployed to Afghanistan as a education specializing in counseling. She hope.edu/nfhc acquisitions department. chaplain with an aviation brigade. continues as a special education teacher

DecemberJune 2012 25 have three daughters and are enjoying being back in their hometown. Jodi Kurtze ’01 Wickersheimer Featured Artists of Chicago, Ill., has been promoted to The following alumni had work in this fall’s assistant vice president for development Alumni Art Show in the gallery of the De Pree and annual giving at Roosevelt University. Art Center. For a select number of works from Cassie Krause ’02 Atallah of the exhibition (News from Hope College could only Holland, Mich., was one of 1,517 artists showcase a few of the dozens of outstanding who competed in the Sept. 19 to Oct. 7 pieces), please see the story on pages 14-15. ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Mich. She submitted “Fruit of the Joan Ten Cate ’63 Bonnette, South Haven, Mich. Brent Jackson ’03, Holland, Mich. Mind and Work of Human Hands.” Mary Piers ’68 George, Holland, Mich. Heidi Bender ’04 Kauffman, Chillicothe, Ohio Erin Hughes ’02 Cobb of Lansing, Mich., is a nurse practitioner for Best John Killmaster ’67, Middleton, Idaho Clarissa Gregory ’05, Baltimore, Md. Practices Inpatient Care located at Todd Erickson ’81, Farmington Hills, Mich. Dylana Pinter ’08 Eisaman, Holland, Mich. Metro Health in Grand Rapids, Mich. Laurene Warren-Grunwald ’89, Nunica, Mich. Jennifer Hansen Sincoff Gard ’08, West Olive, Mich. Josiah Dykstra ’02 of Severn, Md., Michelle VanderVelde ’90 Calkins, Holland, Mich. Jon Kay ’08, Fishers, Ind. spoke at Hope during the Computer David Chapple ’91, Grand Blanc, Mich. Nikolas Burkhart ’09, Chicago, Ill. Science colloquium on “Digital Forensics for Cloud Computing” on Jeffrey Brown ’97, Chicago, Ill. Emilie Puttrich ’09, Cambridge, Mass. Friday, Sept. 28. He is pursuing his Erin Selmer ’00 Beaver, Seymour, Wis. Audrey Wasielewski ’09, Fort Collins, Colo. Ph.D. in computer science at University of Maryland, Baltimore. Dawn Broekhuis ’02 Joldersma of through Arlington, Va., and Washington, Sara Minnaar-Postma ’96 and Duke University in January to obtain her Jacksonville Beach, Fla., is an adoption D.C. her husband have moved to the Master of Science in Nursing for nurse service coordinator at Family Support Craig Maloney ’93 of Royal Oak, Seattle, Wash., area for employment at anesthesia. Services, the lead agency in Northeast Mich., is the host of a creative commons Microsoft. Amy Bos ’99 of Washington, D.C., ran Florida for foster care and adoption. metal music podcast called Open Gail Messing ’96 Schramek of Lake the Marine Corps Marathon on Sunday, She also supervises the Wendy’s Metalcast, and co-hosts a developer Orion, Mich., is working as a nurse Oct. 28. The 26.2-mile course runs Wonderful Kids grant provided by the podcast. More information is online. practitioner at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland through Arlington, Va., and Washington, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Gwen Snyder ’94 of Durham, in the department of orthopedics and D.C. She ensures that there is a continuum N.C., is completing a three-month neurosciences services. Jon Brown ’99 of Holland, Mich., of care so that children and families are volunteer consulting assignment with a Jeremy Bogard ’98 of Grand Rapids, spoke during the Hope for the Nations supported both pre-and post-adoptively. microfinance institute, (MFI) in Costa Mich., is working as a physician assistant event “A Time of Abandoned Devotion” Heather Bachelor ’02 Karlson of Rica. She was connected to the MFI with the neurosurgery group at Spectrum on Saturday, Sept. 29. He is the pastor West Chicago, Ill., works part-time as through NGOAbroad, an organization Health in Grand Rapids, Mich. (please for Pillar Church in Holland, Mich. a certified Doula to assist couples in that places volunteers in different NGOs see “Advanced Degrees”). Josh Schicker ’99 of Decatur, Ga., childbirth. She homeschools her two throughout the world. Chris Caldwell ’98 of Grand Rapids, released a new EP of original music titled oldest children. Cozette Thomas ’94 of Muskegon, Mich., was a panelist member at Hope “Faith, the Poor and Politics” in October Karen Hahn ’02 Wiseman moved Mich., is the program coordinator with on the subject History, Law School and and was featured on the blog for Sojourners from Ypsilanti, Mich., to Grand Haven, Kid’s Food Basket in Muskegon, Mich. the Practice of Law on Friday, Oct. 12. Magazine. Mich., where she joined Spectrum Brett Vander Slik ’94 of Holland, He practices law at Varnum LLP. Health working as a pediatrician. Mich., has been active with being part Timothy Dykstra ’98 of Portland, Geoffrey Bremer ’03 of Black of volunteer tax prep, the RiverBank Ore., spoke at Hope on Friday, Nov. 9, Mountain, N.C., is the CFO of Run Gear Check, mentor to Douglas, through the Biology Seminar Series on 00s Montreat College. SR PGA Championship, a trip with “Salmon Tales from the Northwest.” Daniel James ’03 of Jenison, Mich., Central Avenue CRC to Henryville, He is with the U.S. Army Corps of Dana Andrews ’00 of Petoskey, shared his thoughts on law school and Ind., in June 2012, and serving lunches Engineers. Mich., has been named president and private practice at the annual fall Hope at Central Avenue Church to the Dutch Miriam Garcellano ’98 of Westerville, CEO of Little Traverse Tileworks, a College Pre-Law Society kick-off dinner. dancers, along with vacation Bible Ohio, is a clinical associate professor in designer and manufacturer of custom Jon Ornée ’03 of Holland, Mich., and school in July. the family medicine department at Ohio and commemorative tiles. He also serves Josh Blom ’07 Holland, are members Julie Norman ’94 Wagner of State University in Columbus, Ohio. as president of Sturgeon River Pottery, of AG Silver, which earlier this fall Randolph, N.J., is the manager Sufjan Stevens ’98 of New York City a Petoskey, Mich.-based retailer of released its fourth studio album, Hold of regulatory affairs for Mondelez through his music inspired a ballet that American handcrafts. On. The band celebrated the release International (Kraft Foods) in East has earned critical acclaim. Music from Bryan Boersma ’00 and his wife, with a concert at Wealthy Theatre in Hanover, N.J. (please see “Marriages”). his 2001 electronic-music album Enjoy Melissa Nienhuis ‘00 Boersma of Grand Rapids, Mich., on Friday, Nov. Shirley Lopez ’95 of Lansing, Mich., Your Rabbit, based on the Chinese zodiac, Rockford, Mich., recently adopted nine- 2. In addition to Jon (lead singer, keys, writes articles from home and continues has been adapted for string orchestra year old Lucas from foster care. Bryan guitars) and Josh (bass, backing vocals), with volunteer work. Her program, for Year of the Rabbit, choreographed by was Lucas’ Kids Hope mentor through the band includes Chris McKellar Blankets for Toddlers, has been a success Justin Peck, which premiered at Lincoln one of the local elementary schools. (guitars, backing vocals) and Craig as it continues to reach out to children Center performed by New York City Chanda Wenger ’00 Slenk of Vanderwier (drums). More is on the across the state. Ballet in October. The New York Times Holland, Mich., is the communications band’s web site. David Charnin ’96 of Darien, Conn., said that “the music and the arrangement and website manager for Holland Elizabeth Winne ’03 Sizemore of was a panelist member at Hope on the are rhythmically frisky and inventive.” Christian Schools. Aurora, Colo., recently accepted the subject History, Law School and the In praising the ballet and Peck’s Kristyn Fox ’01 Brown reports that Chief Operating Officer position at Practice of Law on Friday, Oct. 12. He choreography, the publication noted, she and her husband Jon Brown’99 Pfiedler Enterprises in Aurora, Colo. is the managing director, general counsel “The emotion of Year of the Rabbit is joy, recently moved back to Holland after Kelly Parker ’03 Slagh of Holland, and CCO of Strategic Value Partners, epitomized by the ballerinas who are sent nine years in Whidbey Island, Wash., Mich., was inducted into Lakeview LLC. sliding across the floor, toboggans with to serve at Pillar Church in downtown High Schools Athletic Hall of Fame on Valerie Pacheco ’96 Petre pointed toes. The rabbit of Mr. Peck’s Holland. Jon is the new lead pastor. Friday, Sept. 7. of Holland, Mich., is the district imagination is off at a run. Chasing after They are partnering with Hope to John Vinke III ’03 of Munster, Ind., representative for Congressman Bill it will be a pleasure.” connect the students with the church, is the metadata and electronic resource Huizenga. (please see “Marriages”). Kelly Barton ’99 will be attending which is adjacent to the campus. They librarian at Purdue University Calumet.

26 News From Hope College Kathleen Davenport ’04 has involved in the Minnesota Kodaly a concert at Wealthy Theatre in Grand completed her residency in physical chapter. Rapids, Mich., on Friday, Nov. 2. In medicine and rehabilitation at the Anna Cook ’05 of Allston, Mass., addition to Jon (lead singer, keys, guitars) University of Washington and has announces her union with Hanna and Josh (bass, backing vocals), the band moved to New York City for a one-year Clutterbuck on Sept. 14, 2012, in includes Chris McKellar (guitars, backing fellowship in sports and spine medicine at Brookline, Mass. vocals) and Craig Vanderwier (drums). the Hospital for Special Surgery. Tim Fry ’05 of Chicago, Ill., was a More is on the band’s web site. Kristina Kyles ’04 of Baltimore, panelist member at Hope on the subject Lauren Karlowicz ’07 Cornelius of Md., was nominated at the NAACP History, Law School and the Practice of Niles, Mich., is teaching special education Freedom Fund Banquet as a leader of an Law on Friday, Oct. 12. He is in his final grades K-2 in Dowagiac, Mich. organization that is dedicated to helping year at Northwestern Law School. Darcy Cunningham ’07 of Holland, the underserved and underrepresented Dawn Flandermeyer ’05 Kopp of Mich., became operations coordinator population in Kalamazoo, Mich. She is Seattle, Wash., is currently a resident for Salvation Army Booth Family the president and CEO of Clear Path. physician in obstetrics and gynecology at Services in Grand Rapids, Mich., in Emily Zeig ’04 Lindsey of Waterford, the University of Washington (please see October. She formerly served as office Lora Van Uffelen ’02 of Pa., is the pastor of the First Presbyterian “Marriages”). manager for the department of theatre Honolulu, Hawaii, presented Church. Sidra Tees ’05 of Zeeland, Mich., is at Hope. “Exploring the Ocean with Michelle Smith ’04 Sandeen and the registrar for ITT Technical Institute Caroline Coleman ’07 Easow is Acoustics: Science and her husband are currently in the United in Grand Rapids, Mich., which opened currently employed with the University Sea Stories” at Hope on States for six months. In January they for classes in December 2011. of Pennsylvania Health System. (please Friday, Oct. 19, through will return to Tanzania, where they work Katie Hinkle ’06 Axford completed see “Marriages”). the Engineering Seminar with Wycliffe Bible Translators. She her two-year pharmacotherapy residency Shuchen “Debby” Li ’07 notes that Series. Her presentation was recently enjoyed a visit to Hope and with Indiana University Health and her portfolio at work has expanded Holland, Mich. Butler University in Indianapolis in June to include corporate branding and based on an oceanographic Rebekah Stewart ’04 Schicker of 2012. In August, she began her position events. Her new job title is assistant experiment that was funded by Decatur, Ga., attends Emory University’s as assistant professor of pharmacy manager, corporate relations and new the Office of Naval Research Rollins School of Public Health and Nell practice with Ferris State College of media with the Ministry of Community in the Philippine Sea. She is Hodgson Wooodruff School of Nursing. Pharmacy. Her role with the college Development, Youth and Sports in an assistant researcher in the Anne Stevens ’04 is an international includes teaching third-year pharmacy Singapore. She will be pursuing her Department of Ocean and assignment analyst for Mondelez students in the didactic curriculum, Master of Science in communication Resources Engineering at the International, formerly Kraft Foods, in precepting fourth-year students on management at the Singapore University of Hawaii. Chicago, Ill. pharmacy clerkships, and serving as a Management University in February. hope.edu/nfhc Christiana Watkin ’04 Yoder clinical pharmacist in internal medicine Part of her program includes joint had been working in Cameroon with at Saint Mary’s Health Care in Grand campus phases with peers in universities: Wycliffe Bible Translators since 2007, Rapids, Mich. della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano, of human resources and labor relations and she has moved across the border to Mark Johnson ’06 and his wife, Switzerland, and UCLA Anderson program. Nigeria, where her husband has been Allison Dishnow ’06 Johnson, are School of Management in Los Angeles. Jessica Nykamp ’08 Rios of working since 2006, to continue their living in Grand Rapids, Mich., with Whitney Haumiller ’07 Miller is Holland, Mich., is working at West work with Wycliffe together (please see their young daughter, Haven. Mark was currently pursuing a double master’s Ottawa Public Schools as a first-grade “Marriages”). recently promoted to a senior manager of degree at Emory University to become Spanish immersion teacher at Lakeshore Elizabeth Johnson ’05 Camozzi of marketing position at National Heritage a family nurse practitioner and Elementary. St. Paul, Minn., is currently teaching Academies and is currently enrolled nurse midwife (please see “Advanced Krista Grodus ’08 Rivera of elementary music in the Chaska, Minn., in a certificate program at Harvard Degrees”). Indianapolis, Ind., is a fiscal analyst with public schools and is serving on the University in Cambridge, Mass. Jonah Ogles ’07 of Santa Fe, N.M., is the Indiana State Senate. Minnesota Public Radio’s Education Anthony Kreucher ’06 is teaching the associate editor for Outside magazine. Sarah Watkins ’08 was the scenic and Advisory Council. She is actively theology classes at Divine Child High Ashley Smith ’07 of Huizen, properties designer for Hope College School in Dearborn, Mich. Netherlands, is working at a Dutch Theatre’s fall production of Sweeney Kelsey Guisbert ’06 Parente of Waldorf school in the fifth grade one day Todd. The production ran in the DeWitt Charlottesville, Va., is an orthopaedic a week while assisting in the fifth, first Center main theatre on Friday and physician assistant at the University and second grade on the other weekdays Saturday, Nov. 9-10, and Wednesday- of Virginia Hand Center (please see and teaching English and dance to some Saturday, Nov. 14-17. “Advanced Degrees”). grades. She reports that she is thankful Samuel Baker ’09 of Durham, N.C., is Courtney Clum ’06 Peckens of for the challenges, adventures and a design engineer with Black and Beatch Howell, Mich., was a presenter during experiences of life which have formed her in Cary, N.C. (please see “Advanced the engineering seminar at Hope College and brought her to where she is today, Degrees”). on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. She presented and looks to where her life will continue. Emily Mannenbach ’09 Baker Josh Quinlan ’99 of “Bio-Inspired Sensing Nodes for Mackenzie Smith ’07 of Denver, of Durham, N.C., is the residence Louisville, Colo., and his jazz structural Monitoring Applications.” She Colo., joined Teach For America as coordinator at Duke University (please trio held a clinic and performed is a Ph.D. candidate in the department director of institute operations for the see “Advanced Degrees”). a concert at Hope on Saturday, of civil and environmental engineering at Delta Institute, one of the organization’s Lisa Borton ’09 of Fenton, Mich., is a Oct. 13, in conjunction with University of Michigan. nine summer training institutes. Teach lecturer and the resident scenic designer Homecoming Weekend. He Stephanie Van Stee ’06 is a For America is a national education for the department of theatre and dance is a jazz instructor at the postdoctoral research associate in nonprofit that recruits, trains and at the University of Michigan-Flint University of Colorado. The the department of community and supports outstanding recent college (please see “Advanced Degrees”). trio recently had a two-week leadership development at the University graduates and professionals to teach in Graham Carlson ’09 of Holland, of Kentucky (please see “Advanced the nation’s highest-need public schools tour in Costa Rica and a Mich., has been named e-commerce and Degrees”). and become lifelong leaders in education. social media manager for Comprenew two-week United States tour Jillian Koestner ’07 Allen of She was previously at the Catholic of Grand Rapids, Mich. A green to promote their new album Scottsdale, Ariz., is the director of University of America, where she earned company, non-profit Comprenew “Mountain Time Standards” marketing for The Briad Group. a master’s degree in political theory. inspires sustainable living by providing Pictured left to right, Josh Josh Blom ’07 of Holland, Mich., Kendra Helmkamp ’08 of Clermont, IT asset management and best-practice Quinlan, Patrick McDevitt and and Jon Ornée ’03 of Holland, are Fla., is teaching third grade at Oakland electronics recycling through its store Alejandro Castaño. members of AG Silver, which earlier this Avenue Charter School. locations and on-line sales, believing fall released its fourth studio album, Hold Erika Oglesby ’08 is attending hope.edu/nfhc in “compassionate planet stewardship On. The band celebrated the release with Michigan State University’s master’s through renewal of vital resources.”

DecemberJune 2012 27 Comprenew is a self-sustaining branch a session sponsored by the department of of Worldwide Christian Schools, religion.. internationally based in Grand Rapids. Priscilla Oddo ’10 of Gaylord, Mich., Heather Esfandiari ’09 of Ashburn, is currently employed by the Roman Va., is teaching high school mathematics Catholic Diocese of Gaylord in the in Loudoun County, Va. secretariat for communications, where Marissa Grott ’09 of Forest Park, she spends her time writing articles for Ill., is currently working for a private a weekly publication, maintaining the physicians group focused on sexual diocesan website, filming weekly Mass for health that uses innovative technology television, and acting as one of the official and partnerships with labs all over to photographers for the 80-parish diocese. country to provide healthcare to patients Molly Pittsley ’10 of Holland, Mich., is in all 50 states (please see “Advanced attending Grand Valley State University Degrees”). for her Master of Science degree in Sarah Koon ’09 has moved back to the occupational therapy. United States after teaching in Morocco Kelly Raymond ’10 of Holland, for three years. She is now teaching third Mich., is a mental health clinician on the grade in Westland, Mich. crisis services team for Ottawa County Jonathan Koopmans ’09 is a CPA for Community Mental Health. Plante Moran. Ricky Rhodes ’10 celebrated his one- The college’s Alumni Association education at the University of Justine Post ’09 of Durham, N.C., is year anniversery living on God’s mission presented Dr. Daniel Capps Maine, and the Revs. Kaper-Dale pursuing a Master of Divinity from Duke in Guatemala. ’98 of Orono, Maine, and the are co-pastors of the Reformed University after spending three years Katy Smith ’10 is currently teaching Rev. Stephanie Kaper-Dale Church of Highland Park. They living, working and serving throughout first-grade in Waukesha, Wis. ’97 and Rev. Seth Kaper- were featured in the column the Pacific Northwest (with a stint in Erika Bruinsma ’11 of Grand Rapids, Dale ’97 of Highland Park, by Scott Travis ’06, director of Nicaragua). Mich., was hired by Meijer, Inc. as a N.J., (pictured left-to-right) with alumni and parent relations, in the Jillian Greshel ’09 Vander Yacht merchandising associate in the pharmacy Young Alumni Awards on Friday, October issue of News from Hope and her husband, Andrew Vander department. College, and biographical sketches of Yacht ’09, are moving to St. Kitts so Matthew Day ’11 of Franklin, Tenn., Oct. 12, during Homecoming that Jillian can attend veterinary school is a social media specialist at Jackson Weekend. Dr. Capps is an all three are available online. at Ross University at the end of the year. National Life. assistant professor of science hope.edu/pr/nfhc Andy VanderYacht ’09 of Knoxville, Rebecca Dean ’11 is currently living Tenn., spoke at Hope through the in Ecuador, serving as a missionary with on history and humanities internships She is teaching two Australian girls in Biology Seminar Series on Friday, the United Methodist Church for one at Hope. He is currently a student at grades two and kindergarten while living Oct. 26, regarding “Oak Savanna and and a half years, working with Women Western Theological Seminary. with them on their 58,000-acre sheep Woodland Restoration in the Mid and Children’s Ministries in a small Nicholle Taurins ’11 of Wyoming, property. It has been a whirlwind of South.” He is a graduate student at indigenous community. She will next Mich., teaches mathematics at Grand an adventure with kangaroos, horses, University of Tennessee. return to the U.S. and serve one and Rapids Ellington Academy of Arts and sheep, snakes, giant bugs and the native a half years in a yet-to-be-determined Technology. Australians. She notes that she misses placement, with a focus on putting faith Nicholas Campbell ’12 of Chicago, Hope College especially during the into action. Ill., is a private equity analyst at Northern beautiful fall season and Nykerk. 10s Audrey Griffith ’11 of Naperville, Trust. Bethany Stripp ’12 was recently Ill., made the switch from working as a Carrie Anne Engels ’12 of Grandville, named editor-in-chief of Chicago Athlete Marlee Bogema ’10 of Chicago, nurse on the cardiac telemetry unit to Mich., had her grand opening of her Magazine. Ill., was among the presenters during the cancer center as an oncology nurse at new jewelry boutique, What a Gem!, Zachary Van Noord ’12 of this year’s Critical Issues Symposium Edward Hospital in Naperville. on Friday, Nov. 9. She sells fun and Hudsonville, Mich., is a paraprofessional at Hope, which was held on Tuesday- Kelsey Hawkins ’11 is a fourth-grade fashionable sterling silver jewelry. in Hudsonville Middle School. Wednesday, Sept. 25-26, and explored teacher at Ferry Elementary School in Becky Fry ’12 is teaching International the theme “Reconciliation: Hope in a Grand Haven, Mich. Baccalaureate history at Rifle High Divided World.” She presented “Side Marissa Jackson ’11 of Los Angeles, School in Colorado. Effects May Include: Reconciling HIV Calif., is serving a second year with Katherine Karlowicz ’12 Herm of Marriages Exposure and Its After Effects,” in a Americorps in an education-based Niles, Mich., is a fifth-grade teacher, organization called City Year in Los session sponsored by the department of in special education inclusion, in Niles, Carla Plumert ’87 and Rick Angeles. The organization focuses on the nursing. Mich. Capotosto, April 28, 2012, Holland, drop-out rate in the United States and Ken Chamberlain ’10 was the sound Anna Leach ’12 of Washington, Mich. works in schools and communities where designer for Hope College Theatre’s D.C., is the confidential assistant in the Sandra Van Voorhis ’90 and Randy drop out rates are the highest. Marissa fall production of Sweeney Todd. The center for faith-based and neighborhood Karpman, Oct. 17, 2012, Las Vegas, and others are in schools as mentors, production ran in the DeWitt Center partnerships at the U.S. Department of Nev. tutors and role models and working main theatre on Friday and Saturday, Education in Washington, D.C. Kayla Dubbink ’93 and Isaack Park, with students 1:1 and in small groups to Nov. 9-10, and Wednesday-Saturday, Jillian Conner ’12 Rice of Holland, Sept. 22, 2012. provide the support they need to succeed. Nov. 14-17. Mich., was among the presenters during Julie Norman ’94 and John Wagner, Calla Summers ’11 Nyboer of Matthew Clark ’10 is the web this year’s Critical Issues Symposium March 16, 2012. Alexandria, Va., is teaching science at engagement coordinator for Blood:Water at Hope, which was held on Tuesday- Ryan Harmsen ’95 and Melissa Immanuel Christian School. Mission. Wednesday, Sept. 25-26, and explored Immink ’96, July 7, 2012. Caleb Nyboer ’11 of Alexandria, Va., Catherine Hoitenga ’10 Koopmans the theme “Reconciliation: Hope in a Valerie Pacheco ’96 and Steve is a geology consultant at Intek, an oil is a certified child life specialist at Divided World.” She presented “Ishta” Petre, Oct. 13, 2012. and gas consulting firm. Bronson Children’s Hospital. in a session sponsored by the department Ruby Cook ’00 and Matthew Ryan Otterstrom ’11 of Bethel, Jeff Meyers ’10 of Richmond, Ind., of dance. Calantjis, May 12, 2012, Fremont, Conn., is enjoying being back home was among the presenters during this Claire Roembach-Clark ’12 of Mich. in Connecticut. She is teaching at year’s Critical Issues Symposium at Seattle, Wis., is a preschool teacher at Tim Lepczyk ’01 and Ruthann Kindercare, a daycare, preschool, Hope, which was held on Tuesday- Bright Horizons. Thomas, June 9, 2012. kindergarten, and after school care Wednesday, Sept. 25-26, and explored Amberlyn Scheeringa ’12 reports Peter Hunsberger ’02 and Emily provider for shool-age children. the theme “Reconciliation: Hope in a that she is roughing it in the outback Adelman, Oct. 20, 2012. Garret Szantner ’11 of Holland, Divided World.” He presented “A.J. of New South Wales, Australia, where Laura Meengs ’02 and Jonathon Mich., was a panel guest for a discussion Muste: Hope’s Famous Peacemaker” in the summer season is in full bloom. Aikens, Aug. 11, 2012.

28 News From Hope College Amy Bogatto ’04 and Eric Waligora, 2012. Sept. 23, 2012, LaPorte, Ind. Scott Voshel ’98 and Heather Multiple alumni who graduated previously worked with Gordon Cory McCall ’04 and Matthew Fowler-Voshel ’02, Carson James, Sept. within the past four years with Foods/Canada, is teaching in Cooper ’04, Oct. 12, 2012. 21, 2012. majors in French are serving in Bordeaux. Abraham De La Jessica Patrick ’04 and Joshua Brendan Burke ’99 and Amanda France as teachers of high school Rosa ’11, who majored in Majerowicz, Sept. 29, 2012. Burke, Aiden Michael, Sept. 19, 2012. Heidi Snoap ’04 and Mitchell Dan McCue ’99 and Sara Eveland English through competitive French and management and last Kruizenga, Aug. 17, 2012, Grand ’01 McCue, Graeme Seeger, Oct. 16, assistantships awarded by the year taught at a private school in Rapids, Mich. 2012. French government. Caitlin Taiwan, is teaching in Nantes. Joe Christiana Watkin ’04 and Gina Rowe ’99 Pellow and Lance Schrock ’09 Johnson, who Habbouche ’12, who majored in Zachariah Yoder, June 29, 2012. Pellow ’99, Sullivan Jack, Oct. 1, 2012. majored in French and sociology chemistry and French, is postponing Emily Zeig ’04 and Rodney Lindsey Julie Twietmeyer ’99 Rennison and and subsequently completed a medical school for a year to II, June 2, 2012, Shelby Township, Christopher Rennison, Katharine Hope, master’s in Teaching of English to teach in Metz. Gina Veltman Mich. March 25, 2011, and Christopher, Oct. Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. ’12, who majored in French Dawn Flandermeyer ’05 and John 6, 2012. (TESOL), is an English assistant and international studies and is Kopp, Sept. 1, 2012, Seattle, Wash. Dara Spearman-Wardlow ’99 and in two high schools in Montpellier pursuing a master’s in the New Caroline Coleman ’07 and Amit Marlon Wardlow, Walker Uriah, March (her husband, Nathan Johnson York University graduate program Easow, May 7, 2011. 26, 2012. Lauren Karlowicz ’07 and Dustin Jay Wallace ’99 and J’nai Wallace, ’09 is taking seminary classes at the in France, is teaching at the Lycée Cornelius, May 2007. Finley Laura Leafers, April 30, 2012. Institut Protestant de Théologie). and Collège Rabelais (which is their Aaron Raatjes ’07 and Krista Bradt, Seth Gardner ’00 and Cherilyn Ian Amin ’10, who majored in middle and high school) in Meudon, June 16, 2012, Davis, Ill. Gardner, Leighton, Sept. 8, 2012. French and management and just outside of Paris. Kelly Sina ’08 and Nic Lanzillo, Bradley Herrema ’00 and Carrie Oct. 10, 2012, Green Lake, Wis. Herrema, Ryan Denton, Sept. 29, 2012. Amanda Anderson ’09, and Celvin Kathleen Sine ’00 Scheuerle and 2012. Yadira Martinez ’07 Bautista and Ramon Osorio Martinez, Sept. 15, John Scheuerle, Ryan Joseph, Oct. 22, Melissa Hirsch ’03 Romani and Jeff Jesse Bautista, Annalyse Deyanira, Sept. 2012. 2012. Romani, Carter James, Oct. 19, 2012. 21, 2012. Yuliya Ganenko ’09 and Tyler Rae, Kathryn Herweyer ’00 Yeckley and Rachael Bottema ’03 Schwab and Lauren Karlowicz ’07 Cornelius Oct. 6, 2012 , Holland, Mich. Brian Yeckley, Henry James, Sept. 19, Adam Schwab, Noah Alexander, Feb. and Dustin Cornelius, Elizabeth Jonathan Koopmans ’09 and 2012. 14, 2012. Christine, Jan. 7, 2012. Catherine Hoitenga ’10, June 15, 2012. Jason Crottie ’01 and Jeannette Noel Snyder ’03 and Heidi Dykema Jordyn Boles ’08 Solberg and Brent Allison Rogowski ’09 and Justin Johnson ’01 Crottie, Isabella (Bella) ’04 Snyder, Nona Lucille, March 19, Solberg ’09, Jia Blair, Oct. 2, 2012. Tennison, July 28, 2012, Kalamazoo, Noelle, Aug. 26, 2012. 2012. Beula Pandian ’08 Thomas and Mich. Kelly Gormly ’01 Dulong, Nia Mae, Mitch Wacksman ’03 and Heather Kingsley Thomas, Destiny Zoe, March Rachel Austin ’10 and Mark Dec. 30, 2011. Wacksman, Emily Jayne, Aug. 23, 2012. 29, 2012. DeVries, Aug. 25, 2012. Anne Houseworth ’01 Gray and Meredith Treumuth ’04 Gaines and Abby Drake ’09 Lininger and Christina Tassoni ’10 and James Gray, Everett James Frank, July Adam Gaines, Hudson David, March Bradley Lininger ’09, Henry James, Oct. Christopher Van Til, Nov. 17, 2012, 3, 2012. 3, 2012. 13, 2012. Douglas, Mich. Markeen Kostus ’01 Sutter and Eric Jongekryg ’04 and Kelli Jeffrey Mastin ’09 and Magdalene Alyssa Caldwell ’11 and Kyle Brian Sutter ’02, Ethan Brian, May 4, Zoellner ’07 Jongekryg, Leah Eleanor, Reishus ’11 Mastin, Raena Jalyn, July Mirochna, Dec. 28, 2010. 2012. Aug. 28, 2012. 23, 2012. Caleb Nyboer ’11 and Calla Sarah Kelly ’01 Van Balle and Tim Kirkman ’04 and Nina Healy Erik Bodine ’10 and Kara Oakley Summers ’11, July 15, 2012. Derik Van Balle, Anna Marie, May 31, ’05 Kirkman, Nathan Healy, Feb. 18, ’10 Bodine, Kallan Marie, Sept. 21, Matt Herm ’12 and Katherine 2012. 2012. 2012. Karlowicz ’12, July 14, 2012, Holland, Lauren Piotrowski ’01 Wertman Christopher Major ’04 and Alison Laura Stritzke ’10 Nielsen and Mich. and Matthew Wertman, Cora Grace, Major, Evan David, Sept. 13, 2012. Zachary Nielsen ’10, Leo Thomas, May Jeffrey Sweers ’12 and Allyssa June 30, 2012. Mike Postma ’04 and Jenny Rinker 27, 2012. Wagner ’12, Aug. 11, 2012. Jodi Kurtze ’01 Wickersheimer and ’05 Postma, Lucy Hope, July 20, 2012. Alyssa Caldwell ’11 Mirochna and Eliot Wickersheimer, Mila, March 9, Amie Senyk ’04 Winningham and Kyle Mirochna, Aubrie Claire, June 24, 2012. Ryan Winningham ’04, Samuel John, 2012. Brian Bredeway ’02 and Candi Oct. 26, 2012. Paige Barendse ’12 Bosma and New Arrivals Bredeway, Madelynn Grace, Sept. 7, Sara Burns ’05 Creighton and Brad Noah Bosma, Dalton Jeffrey, Sept. 13, 2012. Creighton, Nathanael John, Feb. 17, 2012. 2012. Margaret Lorince ’79 Quilici and Kara Pranger ’02 Payne and Kevin Christina Churchill ’05 Rumbley James Quilici, Anna Szofia (age five) Payne, Rhys Michael, Sept. 28, 2012. and Joseph Rumbley ’05, Charlotte and Nikolas Matyas (age four), Oct. 14, James Scholten ’02 and Lindsay Leigh, Oct. 20, 2011. 2011. Scholten, Emmett Jay, Sept. 18. 2012. Advanced Degrees Andrea Kaffka ’05 Scott and Robert Duane Baldwin ’93 III and Jennifer Will Schubert ’02 and Katie Scott ’05, Hadleigh Grace, March 10, Fleming- Baldwin, Aleah, Feb. 22, 2012. Bauman ’03 Schubert, Joseph William Ryan Pfahler ’85, educational 2012. Christy Cox ’94 Wynne and Billy and Zeke Thomas, Oct. 17, 2012. leadership with an emphasis in Katherine Helmer ’05 Trust and Wynne adopted Harrison’Lei’ Jun from Karen Hahn ’02 Wiseman and superintendency, Grand Valley State Jared Trust, Ethan Thomas, July 28, China on Feb. 14, 2012. He was born Adam Wiseman, Samuel Frederick, Dec. University. 2012. on Aug. 28, 2010, in Nanyang, Henan 1, 2011. Yolanda De Leon ’88 Vega, master’s Lucas Wolfe ’05 and Rachel Province. David Arnoldink ’03 and Julie Visser in education with a emphasis in adult Kuiphof ’05 Wolfe, Benjamin Thomas, Sara Minnaar-Postma ’96 and Scott ’03 Arnoldink, Hudson Thomas, Sept. and higher education, Grand Valley Oct. 23, 2012. Postma, Katie Grace, Sept. 25, 2012. 20, 2012. State University, 2012. Neal Karsten ’06 and Sara Natalie Williamson ’98 Patterson Geoffrey Bremer ’03 and Erin Gail Messing ’96 Schramek, certified Jongekryg ’06 Karsten, Grace Elaine and Jared Patterson, Tyler James, Dec. McGuire, Callan Mae, July 25, 2012. neuroscience nursing certification, July and Hannah Joy, Sept. 25, 2012. 14, 2011. Lisa Moores ’03 Jabaay and Rich 2012. Angela Dykhuis ’06 Reynolds and Vilasack Phothisan ’98 and Jabaay, Landen Cade, April 24, 2012. Jeremy Bogard ’98, Master of Ryan Reynolds, Madeleine Grace, Oct. Phonethiphavanh Ratdavong ’01 Bradley Johnson ’03 and Christa Science in medicine, Western Michigan 27, 2012. Phothisan, Karinne Manila, Sept. 30, Wiggam ’04 Johnson, Avery Emerson, University. Jeff Vandlen ’06 and Kim Mosley 2012. May 10, 2012. Charles Terpstra ’99, Master of ’06 Vandlen, Anna Pearl, Sept. 13, Elayne Provost ’98 and Michael Carrie Meulenberg ’03 Quist and Science in management, Cornerstone 2012. Wolfgang, Benjamin Provost, Aug. 22, Aaron Quist, Mary Christina, May 21, University, August 2012, graduating

DecemberJune 2012 29 He served in the U.S. Navy during Alice Brower ’23 Hoffs of Deaths World War II. Kalamazoo, Mich., who at age 110 He was a missionary on the island was Hope’s oldest graduate, died The college is often privileged to receive of Kyushu and at Ferris Women’s on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. additional information in celebration College in Yokohama Japan for 38 of the lives of members of the Hope years. He was also a calling pastor at She was born on Feb. 25, community who have passed away. First Reformed Church in Holland. 1902. She attended the Hamilton Please visit the expanded obituaries we He and his wife, Eleanore Short Public Schools, and then went on have made available online if you wish ’51 Norden, who survives him, received to Hope Preparatory School before to read more about those whose loss is Distinguished Alumni Awards from continuing at Hope, where she noted in this issue. Hope in 1992. majored in English and music. hope.edu/pr/nfhc He was preceded in death by his As a Hope student, she was a parents; a brother, Marshall Norden; charter member of Sigma Iota Beta Fred Bertsch ’41 of Palm City, sisters-in-law, Patricia Norden and Marion Mappes; and brothers-in-law, (the Sibylline Society), which was Fla., died on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. He was 92. Leon Mappes and Robert Peterson. established by a group of freshman He was stationed at Pearl Harbor In addition to Eleanore, his wife women in the fall of 1919, and was and served almost three years of of 61 years, survivors include his son, the sorority’s president in the fall Alice Brower ’23 Hoffs combat on the destroyer USS Case in the Stephen (Jean Boven ’75) Norden ’74; of her senior year. She was also Western Pacific. daughters, Rebekah Norden ’76 (Keith involved in the Y.W.C.A. established his medical practice. He was a mathematics teacher in ’76) Derrick, Martha Norden ’78, Sarah She taught in Wayland, Her husband preceded her in the Holland Public Schools and later Norden ’78 (Robert ’81) Bast, and Mary Norden ’87 (Mark ’86) Kuiper; Mich., for two years, and worked death in 1971. was a principal. 11 grandchildren, including William in her father’s bank in Hamilton, Survivors include her daughters, He was preceded in death by his first wife, Lorraine Timmer ’42 Bertsch; Norden ’04 and Pieter Norden ’11; one Louise Peppel, Carole Hoffs ’55 Mich., during the summers. She and brother, Charles Bertsch ’38. great-grandson; and several nieces and married Dr. Marinus Hoffs ’24 on (Robert ’52) Bos, Jayne (Thomas) Survivors include his wife, Dorothy nephews, including John (Nancy Riekse March 31, 1927, and they settled Cummings; seven grandchildren; Bertsch; children, Fred (Cindy Marlink ’71) Norden ’71 and Loralee Norden in Lake Odessa, Mich., where he and six great-grandchildren. ’74) Bertsch ’74, Susan Bertsch Bobek, ’75. Martha Ann Bertsch and Mary Jo Bertsch ’78; seven grandchildren; and Barry Van Koevering ’59 of summa cum laude. K-12 principalship, Western Michigan nine great-grandchildren. Lansing, Mich., died on Saturday, Oct. Alyson Payne ’03, doctorate in University, December 2011 and 13, 2012. He was 79. musicology, University of California at master’s in special education, Grand Rick Gumina ’79 of Fort Collins, He served in the U.S. Navy during Riverside, August 2012. Valley State University, July 2012. Colo., died on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. the Korean War. Jill Van De Water ’04 Isola, Kersten Burns ’08, master’s in He was 55. He was an engineer and inventor Master of Divinity, Union Presbyterian public policy, George Mason University, He was an instructor in the for 40 years, working on projects related Seminary, June 2, 2012. May 2012. department of statistics at Colorado to military defense and exploration. Anne Stevens ’04, Master of Art in Krista Grodus ’08 Rivera, Master State University. He was preceded in death by his migration studies, University of Kent in of Public Affairs with a concentration in Survivors include his wife, Judy parents and a brother, George Van England, 2011. policy analysis, Indiana University, May Gumina; daughter, Jamie Gumina; Koevering Elizabeth Johnson ’05 Camozzi, 2012. sons, Josh Gumina, Jeffrey “Ricky” Survivors include two siblings, Master in Music Education with Mark Wheeler ’08, graduate Gumina and Joey Gumina; father Carl; Leola Oonk and David (Linda) Van emphasis on the Kodaly method certificate in the specialty program mother, Rosemary; brothers, Rory Koevering; three children; four (M.A.M.E.), University of St. Thomas in for Alcohol & Drug Abuse (SPADA), (Janet) Gumina, Greg (Cilla) Gumina, grandchildren; and many nieces and St. Paul, Minn. August 2012. Carmen (Sheri) Gumina and William nephews. Elise Edwards ’06, Master of Arts Samuel Baker ’09, Master of “Buddy” (Andrea) Gumina; and two in organizational leadership, Gonzaga Science in electrical engineering, North grandchildren. University, 2012. Carolina State University, May, 2012. Kurt Pyle ’06, Ph.D. in political Emily Mannenbach ’09 Baker, Thelma Kooiker ’39 science, Michigan State University, May Master of Education, North Carolina Leenhouts of Holland, Mich., died on 2012. State University, May 2012. Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. She was 95. Kelsey Guisbert ’06 Parente, Lisa Borton ’09, Master of Fine She worked for the Women’s Army Master of Physician Assistant Studies, Arts, University of Iowa, May 2012. Corps during World War II and was December 2011. Marissa Grott ’09, Master of based at the Pentagon in Washington, Stephanie Van Stee ’06, Ph.D. in Science in leadership and policy studies, D.C. health communication, University of DePaul University, June 2012. She was a teacher in the Holland Kentucky, 2012. Ross Knoll ’09, Master of Arts in Public Schools for more than 20 years. Darcy Cunningham ’07, master’s clinical psychology, Northern Illinois She was preceded in death by degree, public administration, with an University, August 2012. her husband, Jack Leenhouts ’38; This year’s Hope College Christmas emphasis in nonprofit management Diego Romero ’09, Master of Art and her sisters, Charlotte Kooiker and leadership, Grand Valley State in curriculum and instruction with Vespers will be available on a ’33 Kruizenga, Virginia Kooiker stereophonic, digitally recorded University, December 2012. an emphasis in linguistically diverse ’35 Luidens and Ellen Kooiker ’44 CD. All orders placed will be Caroline Coleman ’07 Easow, education, University of Colorado at Barkema. shipped as soon as product Master of Science in Nursing, University Denver, August 2012. Survivors include her children, arrives (around December 19th) of Pennsylvania, August 2012. Allison Rogowski ’09 Tennison, Thelma (Tommye) Leenhouts ’66, and could arrive in time for Whitney Haumiller ’07 Miller, master’s in enviornmental science, John (Roberta) Leenhouts ’69, James Christmas. Bachelor of Science in Nursing Taylor University. Leenhouts ’73, and Jane (Bruce) Call the Hope-Geneva Bookstore and received her registered nurse Matthew Clark ’10, Master of Patterson; eight grandchildren; four at (616) 395-7833 (toll-free at certification, Emory University, August. Education in nonprofit leadership, great-grandchildren; and sister, 1-800-946-4673) or shop online at Ashley Smith ’07, diploma for December 2012. Gwendolyn Kooiker ’52 VanEck. www.hopebookstore.com. primary Waldorf education, Hogeschool Kelly Raymond ’10, Master of Helicon (Netherlands), June 2012. Social Work, University of Michigan Russell Norden ’49 of Holland, Molly Steeves-Van De Wege ’07, School of Social Work, April 2012. Mich., died on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. master’s in educational leadership- He was 86.

30 News From Hope College Nykerk ’12 JubilationJubilation he annual freshman-sophomore Nykerk T Cup competition is a Family Weekend highlight not only for the participants who form lasting friendships and memories across the weeks of preparation, but for the hundreds who consistently pack the Civic Center to the rafters in support and celebration—and themselves become part of what makes the culminating evening so meaningful.

Images from this year’s Nykerk, the 78th since the event was established in 1936, reflect the competition’s traditional mix of song, plays and oration. At top, the freshman song section. In row two, the freshman play, “Toy Story 4,” and sophomore orator Rachael Kabagabu of Okemos, Mich. In row three, the sophomore song section; freshman orator Samantha Cole of Erie, Colo.; and the sophomore play, “A Greater Hope: The Campaign for Hope College.” At left, a full house awaits the beginning of the competition, held on Saturday, Nov. 3, which the freshman Class of 2016 won. A gallery of more than 70 images from this year’s Nykerk is available online. hope.edu/pr/gallery

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