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Christmas Tradition

This will be our thirtieth Christmas together. As we reflect on the celebrations of Christmas we have had over the years, we are struck by the many ways in which our celebration of Christmas has become for us a tradition — almost a ritual.

Our celebration begins with a Christmas Eve service of worship and festivityin our own church. Then, after the children are presumably off to bed and asleep. Mom and Dad fill the stockings which are hung by the fireplace. After a catch-as-you-canbreakfast, there are photo- graphs of all, with the Christmas tree and fireplace as

background . Then , after a prayer of gratitude and dedica- tion together, we have a leisurely period for opening presents. Somewhat later, there is a scramble to have the house sufficiently clean for Christmas dinner, usually with some guests who are not able to be with their family.

As we reflect on all of this, we wonder why it is that these traditionsbecame so quickly "our" way of celebrat- ing Christmas. True, there haye been changes. As the children grew older, we could move from the 7 p.m. Christmas Eve service to the very meaningful midnight service.And over the years we have had to add stockings

to the fireplace,first for our own children, then a son-in- law, a daughter-in-law,a grandchild, and this year a second. No longer do the children all sleep in the same room (with the aid of sleeping bags and mattresses) on Christmas Eve so that no one will miss being ready at an

early hour. And no longer is our alarm set in this room for 2 a.m. so that stockings for Mom and Dad can be filled, and hints left around of unwarranted snooping. But, for the most part our traditions continue,year after year. Is there any significance to the joy we find in celebrat- ing Christmas much the same way, year after year? Or is this simply a matter of sentiment? At its deep- est meaning, each year we celebrate anew the same event — the great Event of the Incarnation, when God invaded history, at a particular time and place, among a people who had been long prepared, to give us his love and grace through Jesus Christ. Each year is, of course, dif- The stalely president'sresidence on the Hope College ferent for us. We are a year older than our last celebra- campus was built in 1886. This pen and ink rendering tion. Some years we have had the privilege of welcoming of the home in a winter settingwas drawn by student a to our celebration. In other years Tim Kurtz of Grand Haven, Mich. new member someone from our large family circle is missing. But each year we celebrate anew the unboundedlove of God in the Incarna-

tion , and experience this afresh in our individual lives and our life together as a family. Celebratingwith the same traditionscan be a powerful reminder of the central mean- This year, in addition to President and Mrs. Van Wylen's Christmas message to ing of Christmas. The challenge is to use these traditions Nexus from Hope readers, we invited several members of the faculty to tell us to experience, in personal and meaningful ways, the love about a special Christmas memory. We hope their highly personal accounts will of God and the abiding presence of Jesus Christ. give all our readers a new or refreshed perspective on this holiday season. See page 3.

Gordon J. and Margaret Van Wylen Christmas 1981

t campus scene cA\ NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981 Guest Scholars Bring Vital Learning Dimension signs for Construction of Complex Molecules Rarely does a week go by at Hope without the was held. Industrial and academic research visit of at least .one guest scholar. They come from as nearby as Western TheologicalSemi- chemists were the invited speakersand gave lec- tures throughout the day to over 100 scientistsin nary across the street from Hope's campus, or the area. The symposium concluded with a lec- from more distant places like Stanford Univer- ture by Dr. Evans which, according to Dr. sity or Boston or New York. Doyle, "left people almost breathless because of Although some of these scholars are invited to the nature of his discoveries and the innovative- Hope to give campus-wideaddresses on subjects ness of his approach." Evans' work, which has of interest to the entire liberal arts community, implicationsfar-reaching into the future, has many others are guests of individualdepart- been attempted by many others, but he is the ments. They come to speak to classes and inform students — often in informal settings — of issues first to be successful. But Evans came to Hope mainly to talk with and opportunitiesrelevant to specific academic students and faculty. He lecturedin three interests. Although they are not exactly Hol- chemistry classes: Structure, Dynamics and land's typical tourists, many of these scholars Synthesis, Biochemistry and Organic Chemis- depart in true tourist style with a complimen- try, spoke with the Presidential Scholars,at- tary pair of wooden shoes in hand. tended the Student Research Symposium, gave News. from Hope focuses on one of these re- an all-college lecture, ate meals with students ALL THE PRESIDENT-MEN: Homecomingweekend 'was the occasion for a special reunion of cent visitors. and faculty and also met with them informally three Hope presidents,Calvin A. Vander Werf (1963-1970), Irwin ). Lubbers (1945-1963) and by Beth Schilliiig throughout the week. Gordon). Van Wylen(1972). They were attending H-Club luncheon just prior to Homecom- Evans feels that studentstoday are much more ing football game in which Hope defeated Albion. "Hove to build," Dr. David A. Evans, profes- __ sophisticated at making decisionsabout schools _ sor of chemistry at CaliforniaInstitute of and careers. He claims that he "fell into" much Technologyand internationallyknown syn- of his career and took the opportunitiesthat thetic organic chemist, told students during his

presented themselves without much • visit from October 26-30. Dr. Evans does do evaluation — and many times "for all the wrong 1982 carpentry for a hobby, but his specialty is build- reasons." ing molecules. "My father (a carpenter)once Although he was a student at many levels for told me that if he had to do it over again, he ALCIMNI quite awhile, he didn't begin to "evaluate the would be a chemist, because it requiresworking ’ system," and its effect on his personalityuntil with your hands and using your mind in an he joined the faculty at UCLA. Now that he can abstract way. 1 always remembered that," Evans objectively reflect on his educationalexperience, TOURS said. he appreciates his liberalarts educationand feels Dr. Evans is a tall, soft-spoken man, his black stronglythat decidingon a college with only an hair just beginning to gray. At only 40 years of undergraduate program is the best route to take. Eleven reasons to consider our 1982 tours age, he is a recognized leader in organic chemis- "This is where it's at as far as I'm concerned. try research— Specifically in methodologyand That's why when Mike Doyle asked me to come I design. Evans develops methods to construct 1. Sixteen years of travel experience with forty-sevensuccessful tours didn't hesitate."Siriall schools offer oppor- complicated, naturally occurring molecules. 2. Christianfellowship; no advance in travel on Sunday tunities, such as research,to undergraduates Many of these molecules are antibiotics which 3. Hope escort arid professionalguide that just aren't available at any universities be- occur in such small quantitiesnaturally that 4. Orientation before departure and reunion after return cause there grad students with training have the their therapeuticvalue is unknown. Once a suf- 5. Travel is at cost edge on enthusiastic, bright, but relatively un- ficient quantity can be syntheticallyproduced in 6. No gimmicks or hidden costs skilfed undergrads. Also, "trade-schools"dump the laboratory,it can be tested for drug potential 7. First-class and deluxe hotels on "too much too fast" and the burn-out rate is and, if found to be therapeutic,pharmaceutical 8. Most meals and all tips and services provided consequently higher, Evans said. "It's like tak- companies can then use Evans' methods to mass 9. Arrangements available for passage from where you live ing a drink out of a fire hydrant. I couldn't have produce the antibiotic. This year he receivedthe 1 0. Opportunity for further travel beyond the tour (tours 3 and 5) handled Cal Tech as an undergraduate." Small ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Or- 11. Alumni, their relatives and friends, and all friends of Hope cordially invited schools also offer a favorableteacher to student ganic Chemistry, one of the most prestigious ratio — fhe best is one on one and "it's down-hill awards given in chemistry . He received his A . B . from there, bottoming out at 350" he grimly from Oberlin College in 1963 and then did his joked. The first class he taught was an Organic . , . 1. thesis work under Robert E. Ireland at Cal Tech MEXICO SUN TOUR at Chem Lab UCLA with 350 students, and After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1967, he joined the 8 Days, March 13—20, approximately$775. Mexico City (cultural Evans calculated that five minutes spent with chemistry department at UCLA and then re- and historical treasures), Taxco (the Silver City), Acapulco (sun, each student would require 30 hours of time — an turned to Cal Tech in 1974. Besides his impor- impossibilityand an extremely frustrating pre- swimming, sailfishing). tant work in chemistry, Evans' life is rich in dicament for a concerned professor. other ways; he is married and has a daughter, When asked "How does one preserve an in- loves to do carpentry work , coach his daughter's 2. WASHINGTON D.C. AND stitution like Hope College?" Evans answered softball and soccer teams, and hike in the • that there should be a distinction between the VIRGINIA ’ mountains with his-family. funding of researchfor small schools and larger 9 Days, April 23— May ^.approximately $740. By travel coach Dr. Evans was at Hope in conjunctionwith the universities. The competition for funds just isn't 1981 Camille and Henry Dreyfu’sDistinguished from Grand Rapids and other points to Washington, D.C., ML fair — "it's like Hope playing Ohio State in foot- Scholars Program which is designed to involve Vernon, Williamsburg, Richmond, Monticello,Shenandoah ball." He also feels that creative ways to increase studentsin the creative discoveries of chemistry. die salaries of the faculty should be devised. Valley National Park, Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Mountains. His was the fourth visit of eminent chemists Evans spent a lot of time talking to students made possiblethrough funds from the Camille personally — listening to their plans and giving and Henry Dreyfus foundation, the legacy of 3. HEART OF EUROPE suggestions,encouragement and vision. "He chemist brothers who recognized the need for 19 days, June 18— July 6, approximately $1,758. Amsterdam, was a fantastic lecturer — he made materialusu- communicationand understanding among scien- ally foreign to me easy to understand," Rich Heidelberg, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Innsbruck, Lucerne, tists in their fields of interest. As part of this Blake remarked. Interlaken,Genev§, Paris, Brussels. Two-night stays in five cities. year's program, a Symposium of Synthetic De- Traveler may remain in Netherlandsseveral days after tour at no m, news from extra air cost. 4. SCANDINAVIA daiHOPE COLLEGE 16 days, July 2—17, approximately$1,958. 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A sports freak I am not. From my armchair

1 watch Hope joggers run effortlessly by my

home, but only the dog runs after them. As I One can hardly accuse my parents of failing walk to school, I am curious about the mecca to teach their four children the real meaning of Dow Center, but 1 resist.Nothing to raise a of Christmas. The front of our big, white, sweat, please. But when winter is in the air, I come alive. With sweaters and long under- Wisconsinfarmhouse was decorated with a wear, I'm game for anything outdoors: mak- simple sign: "Christ Was Born." This mes- ing snowmen, sledding, but best of all skiing. sage was reinforced again and again witli Bible And as I see people of all ages enjoying the readings pertainingto the incarnation.On cross-countryski trails around Holland, I re- Christmas Eve, the children were bundled up My Christmas memories -at Hope are member well the Christmas of 1944 that related mostly to our annual presenta- and sent off to sing Christmas carols for some brought me my first adventure with skis. of the shut-ins in the area. And, of course, we tion of Christmas Vespers. When I first When I was nine, no one had skis. At least drove into Baldwin to participate in the came to Hope College to teach, the first no one in Drenthe, Michigan . And little won- Christmas Eve pageant at Church, only to Sunday afternoon in December was de- der: There wasn't a hill for miles around over return the next morning for an additional voted to a' service in memory of those fifteen feet. We thought ourselvesblessed to , Christmas Day service. who gave their lives on Pearl Harbor have a gradual ten-foot drop behind our house Day. By 1950, this service was so poorly leading to a creek ; it wasa small mountain for Like most children, we were happy enough

a . 1 , to learn about the birth of the baby Jesus, but attended that it seemed unwise to con- child And ever since knew there were such things as skis, I wished to have some. But in we were much more excited about the coming tinue a formal and public observance. • my home, one wished softly— there were six of Santa Claus. I'm not sure that I ever really One of my colleaguesin the music de- children,my father was a rural school and truly believedin Santa Claus, but it was partment, Miss Jantina Holleman, and I teacher, and it was wartime. one of those myths which seemed to converge decided that a seasonalmusical program Exactly how my wish was spoken,. I don't with reality. Each Christmas Eve, before or pageant might be an appropriatesub- remember, but somehow I suggested that a being shooed upstairs and into bed, Dad stitute. So for a few years, we tried to paiT of skis could be shared with my younger would haul baby Lou (my youngest sister) establish an Advent service. brother. He was, afterall,my partner in main- onto his lap and read "The Night Before My memories of the first few years are taining a line of traps set along the nether Christmas" much to our coljective delight. It varied — we had little trouble in getting reaches of our creek. We were death to un- was one of those Voskuil traditions which has other members of the music department wary muskrats and an occasional skunk. And never mind that our pelts were very few, we been claimed by the next generation. to participate— the big problem was to When were morally bound to check all traps every Father finishedreading that get students and the general public to Christmas morning and again at night. So, don't you see attend. classic,we would pin the largest stockingswe useful a pair of skis would be? how could find in our dressersonto the big old Miss Holleman,along with her other Through what Christmas magic I actually $ arm.-chairs in the living room. We knew that duties, spent a lot of time and energy (on receivedmy skis. I'll never know. But more Santa would walk through the unlocked door a stringent budget for advertising) trying beautifulones I had never imagined. Splen- that night (we had no fireplace) and fill our to interest students and townspeople to didly long in our crowded living room, sleek stockingswith all little toys and edible attend our Advent-Christmasprogram. polishedwoodgrain — no present that Christ- goodies. And, knowing that Santa would be Today, with the press for tickets and mas could begin to compare. Nothing would do but that the combined expertiseof the hungry from his cold winter night's work, we seats, that memory has begun to fade but entire family be directed to break a trail with always left him a glass- of milk and two of it was several years before the chapel was them. Someone remembered that skis re- Mom's extra-special butter cookies. I comfortably filled for a program for quired wax. Out came the Johnson's floor Then one year I lost my innocence. Must which the department contributeda large paste as well as a cake of paraffin — we used have been about ten years old. I the of time and talent. made amount both just to be sure. usual preparationsfor the coming of Santa. As the years went by, Vespers (I'm Then out to the hill, all challengingten feet After listening to another dramatic rendition quite aware of its being a misnomer — but of it. Here our troubles began. The only bind- of "The Night Before Christmas," I hung a more of all that later, if you'd like) ings on the skis were leather straps that ran huge white sock (one of those stretchable elas- "caught on" and the problem then be- through slits in the wood and buckled over tic brands), onto my favorite armchair. Milk came one of trying to keep people from one's boots — not over one's ski boots, you being disappointedlet alone violently understand, but simply over one's snow and cookies were Set aside for Santa. I went to boots. With the resultingflexibility, to go bed and actually slept for a couple hours be- upset because they could not get a seat. straightforwardwas possible, but to stem left fore little sister up with This led to an extra program; finally to my woke me news or right was out of the question. In fact, any the present four. that it was already dawn and time to open the change of direction a forward slip- beyond Christmas stockings. A Christmas memory? All that is a slide meant the frustration of crossed skis or As I looked at my stocking, I knew that the memory best forgotten. But there are the of one lost. world would never be the same again. Santa happy memories of Vespers — the My dream of gliding over a winter wonder- Claus had come alright. My little sister had willingnessand generosity of students land never materializedwhen I was nine. My been given a sockful of goodies,and the milk and faculty to give so often of their time equipment defeatedme. But I remained fond and cookies were eaten. But as I reached down and efforts. Happy memories include the of my skis because my brother and I found into my long white sock, I retrieved nothing fact that I rarely heard a complaint by other uses for them than to check our trap line. We found that when placed side by side, already over-worked students that but a hard, cold lump of coal. the skis formed a toboggan, tricky to sit on to Later, my father explained that I had just another Vespers would be added to an , be sure, but an adventuresomechange from already crowded weekend. experienced one of the rites of passage. belly-floppingwith a conventional sled. And For me, the true spirit of Christmas is the followingsummer, we took them along on Dennis Voskuil ever evident in a Vespers presentation. a picnic to the large sand dunes on Lake Assistant Professor of Religion The memories of the readings , the choral Michigan south of Holland where we in- and instrumental music, the drama of vented a new sport: ski-sleddingon Sand. \ the processionaland the general good After toiling through the hot sand to the top will remain among my most treasured of the dune, we careened happily at breakneck memories of Hope College at speed on our makeshift toboggan to the water's edge. And then back up again for Christmastime — one of the many manis- another trip down. festations of what makes Hope unique. The skis I still have. They're shabby and splintered, but they really don't take up much Anthony Kooiker room in the garage. Professor of Music Mary Jellema Teaching Associatein English campus scene NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981 1

Siblings Enjoy Weekend on Campus 1 What Is College Like? I by Marla Hoffman the younger two complained of the cold weather and had to go back to the dorm with some

Jill Knapp, age three, has laid claim to her friends. Yet despite the excitement, by Sunday sister Joy's teddy bear since August when Joy John was ready to return home to see his friends took off to college. Jean, age Seven, has insisted and Jean was ready to see her parents again. that Joy's picture be in her room before she fall Only three-year-oldJill was not the least bit asleep at night. And John, age eleven, has asked pleased with the idea of going home. The atten- questions like, "What is college?"As for Joy's tion she got, not only from Joy, -but from all of own feelings about being away from her sib- Joy's friends as well, led her to decide that she lings, she explains,"I miss them so bad some- wanted to stay at college. "She wouldn't even times. ... I just want to run and hug every little give me a kiss good-bye," Joy related. The all-aroundfavorite activities were every- Idd I see." i The Knapp family is one which was able to day events, but ones which required everyone's take advantage of "Siblings Weekend." cooperation . For instance, when Joy was making Scheduled for the weekend of October 23-25, a gift for her Nykerk secret pal, everyone par- this event was designed by the Student Activities ticipated. Jill enjoyed doing' some "coloring," Committee (SAC) to allow younger sisters and Jean glowed with the chance to "sneak" up to brothers of Hope students to visit the family someone'sroom to deliver the gift, and John i members they miss. Dave Vanderwel,head of appreciatedthe fact that he could understand the Student Activities Office, explains that Sib- part of his sister's life by participating in it. lings Weekend is an old tradition revived just The excitement of staying with Joy at college two years ago, in the spring of 1980. Created to was obvious in all of the visitors. John explained let young sisters and brothers gain a concrete that he had finished all of his work around the idea of what "college" is, this event also allows house as quickly as possible in order to hurry to % high-schoolers,who may be consideringvarious Holland. Jean expressed the fun of being back - college possibilities,to experience life at Hope. with "someone I can climb on." And Jill grabbed The family-orientednature of Siblings Weekend a stuffed lion and attempted to scare everyone causes it, like Parents Weekend, to be a popular with it as she growled it up to their faces. "traditional"event. SiblingsWeekend is one of the many family- To accommodate the wide range of ages and oriented events that Hope College offers — and - i interests of the visiting siblings, SAC'provided a the Knapp family made the most of it. Not only broad variety of activities this year. Events did they have time to spend together,but their which were geared toward the younger crowd togetherness led to learning about caring for includedan OPUS poetry and story-telling pre- each other. For instance, John's caring was obvi- sentationand the movie "Black Stallion."An ous when he was the first to recognize that Jill's event which was limited to the older clientele rambunctious scrambles around the room were i was the mime workshop. Yet, although these putting her in danger of bumping her head. particular activities were geared toward specific Also, for one weekend, Joy experienced the re- age groups, most were the sort of experiencethat sponsibilities of caring for her three younger people of any age group could enjoy, The foot- siblings. "I really don't know how my mother ball and soccer games, the InternationalRela- does it," she exclaimed on Sunday after her tions Club Food Fair and the mime show were parents had taken the others home. enjoyed by those in the Hope community By the end of the weekend, Joy was ready to 1 whether or not they were accompaniedby sib- get back to the books. Asked what she thought lings. she would remember most about the weekend, With such a variety of possible activities,the she replied, "The freedom of going to dinner Knapp family kept busy trying to track down Sunday night without having to worry about the each sibling's favorite event. All were enthusias- others." But this feeling of relief was combined with a sense of something missing once her tic about the chance to play basketballand go 1 swimming at the Dow Center, and the young younger brother and sisters had left. For, al- Hope student Joy Knapp gave her sisters and brother a generous helping of campus life during visitors made sure that Joy got plenty wet even though everyone was more tired on Sunday than their weekend stay on campus. Three-year-old lill and lean, age 7, made sure Big Sis got a though she had forgotten her swimsuit. John they had been on tbeir arrival Friday afternoon, workout at the Dow Center, while fohn clued her in on the subtle points of football during the was happy to share his football knowledgewith the busy weekend was time well spent — spent his older sister at the Saturday game, although together. Saturday game. NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981 calendar of events 5 t What's Happening at Hope?

The Arts , Winter Sports December 5 Christmas Vespers; Dimnent Chapel, 8 p.m. MEN'S BASKETBALL Nov. 28. Tiffin. Ohio, 6 p.m. Jan. 27, 'CALVIN, 8 p.m. 6 Christmas Vespers; Dimnent Chapel, 2, 4:30 & 8 p.m. Dec. 1, at Goshen, Ind., 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30, 'at Albion, 3 p.m. 10 Music DepartmentStudent Redtal; Wichers Aud., 7 p.m. Dec. 5, at Wabash, fhd., 7 p.m. Feb. 3, 'OLIVET, 8 p.m. 11 Madrigal Dinner; DeWitt Center, Kletz Area, 7 p.m. Dec. 9, AQUINAS, 8 p.m. Feb. 6, tCONCORDIA (Mich.), Dec. 12, CONCORDIA (111 ), 3 p.m. 8 p.m. Feb. 10, 'ALMA, 8 p.m. Jan. 5. at Warner Southern,Fla., Feb. 13, 'ADRIAN, 8 p.m. Chemistry Department Seminars 8 p.m. Feb. 17, 'at Kalamazoo,8 p.m. Every Friday Afternoon Jan. 6, at Clearwater Christian, Feb. 20> 'at Calvin, 3 p.m. Fla., 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24, 8 p.m. If you would like to be put on the chemistry department's 'ALBION, Jan. 9, at David Lipscomb,Tenn., Feb. 27, 'at Olivet, 3 p.m. weekly mailing list write Hope College Chemistry Department, 7:30 p.m. Home games played at the Holland Peale. Center, Holland, Ml 49423. Jan. 13, at Aquinas, 8 p.m. Civic Center Jan. 16, ’at Alma, 3 p.m. tWinter Homecoming Jan. 20, 'at Adrian, 8 p.m. 'MIAA Game Jan. 23, 'KALAMAZOO, 8 p.m. Christmas Vespers on the Air WOMEN'S BASKETBALL More than 60 radio stations have indicated they will rebroadcast Dec. 1, UNIV. OF MICH1GAN- Jan. 27, SALMA, 7 p.m. the 1981 Christmas Vespers service during the holiday season. DEARBORN, 8 p.m. Jan. 30, 'at Olivet, 1 p.m. Contact the station in your area for the day and time. Dec. 4-5, GLCA TOURNAMENT Feb. 2, at Spring Arbor, 7 p.m. AT HOPE Feb. 6, 'ALBION, 1 p.m. CALIFORNIA WBNZ — Frankfort WQXO — Munising Dec. 9, at Aquinas,7 p.m. Feb. 10, 'at Adrian, 7 p.m. KSPC — Claremont WATC— Gaylord WKJR — Muskegon ILLINOIS WGMM— Gladwin WOVI— Novi Jan. 2, at Rollins,Fla., 5:30 p.m. Feb. 13, 'at Kalamazoo, 11 a.m. WTAS— Chicago WGHN/WFMG—Grand , WJML— Pe’toskey Jan. 4, at Bethune Cookman, Fla., Feb. 16, 'CALVIN, 7 p.m. Heights > dwin WSDP — Plymouth 6 p.m. Feb. 19, ‘at Alma, 7 p.m. WKDC— Elmhurst WGHN/WFMG—Grand WPHM — Port Huron Jan. 6, at Univ. of Central Florida, Feb. 24, 'OLIVET, 7 p.m. WDCB— Glen Ellyn Haven WEXL — Royal Oak 5 p.m. Feb. 27, SIENA HEIGHTS, 1p.m.

WPEO— Peoria WFUR— Grand Rapids . WSJ M— St. Joseph Jan. 8, at Eckerd, Fla., noon Mar. 1 SMAIAW Tournament INDIANA WMAX — Grand Rapids WLXX — Sault Ste. Jan. 9', at Covenant, Tenn,, 6 p.m. (1st round), 7 p.m. WUEV— Evansville WQON — Grayling Marie v Jan. 13, 'at Albion, 5:45 p.m. Mar. 4-6, Tournament WGVE — Gary WKKM— Harrison WCSY — South Haven SMAIAW WSND — Not'" Dame WCSR— Hillsdale WSAE — Spring Arbor Janet Weisiger, 411 Hartung, Wyckoff, N.J. 07481, (201)891- Jan. 15, 'ADRIAN, 7 p.m. ‘MIAA Game IOWA WHTC— Holland WSTR— Sturgis 2390 or Chris Kazen, 2131 Central Ave., Schenectady, N.Y. Jan. 19, 'KALAMAZOO, 7 p.m. Home games are played at Dow KDCR — Sioux Center WJBL— Holland Jan. 23, 'at Calvin, 1 p.m. Center WLKM— Three Rivers 12304, (518)393-7805. KVDB — Sioux Center WHGR/WJGS— Houghton WBMB — West Branch MARYLAND holland WYFC — Ypsilanti MEN'S SWIMMING WRBS — Baltimore WJBL— Holland WZND— Zeeland . Dec. 5, MIAA Relays at Feb. 17, 'at Alma, 6 p.m. MICHIGAN WHGR/WJGS— Houghton MINNESOTA Great Performance Series Kalamazoo, 2 p.m. Feb. 20, 'at Calvin, 1 p.m. WATZ — Alpena Lake KBEM — Minneapolis Five concerts throughout the 1981-82'schoolyear co-sponsored Dec. 12, at Grand Rapids JC In- Feb. 26-27, MIAA Championships WFYC— Alma WION— Ionia NEW JERSEY by the Holland Concert Associationand the Hope College Cul- vitational at Kalamazoo WPAG — Ann Arbor WKPR— Kalamazoo WKER — Pompton tural Affairs Jan. 23, GRAND RAPIDS JC, March 18-20, NCAA Division III WDFP— Battle Creek WKZO — Kalamazoo Lakes Committee. 1 p.m. Nationals at WAUS— Berrien WYYY— Kalamazoo NEW YORK January 21-22 — Peter Amott, Classical Marionettist Jan. 29, at Wheaton, 111.,7 p.m. Washington & Lee Univ., Springs WMPC — Lapeer WMHR — Syracuse April 17 — The Scholars vocal ensemble of London WPON— Bloomfield WKLA — Ludington NORTH DAKOTA Jan. 30, at North Central, 111., Lexington, Va. Hills WTIQ — Manistique KEYA — Belcourt 1 p.m. 'MIAA MEET WITW— Cadillac WUNN— Mason WEST VIRGINIA Feb. 3, at Valparaiso, Ind., 6 p.m. Home meets are held in Kresge WSDP— Canton WELL— Marshall WSCW — South Char- Feb. 6, 'at Kalamazoo, 1 p.m. Natatoriumof Dow Center WGWY— Charlotte WAGN — Menominee leston Junior Day Feb. 10, 'ALBION, 7 p.m. WDTR — Detroit WRCI— Midland WISCONSIN WBDN— Escanaba WVMO — Monroe WKTS — Sheboygan Friday, April 24 WOMEN'S SWIMMING A special day geared toward the high school sophomore or Dec. 5, MIAA Relays at Calvin, Feb. 3, at Valparaiso, Ind., 6 p.m. 2 Feb. 13, FERRIS STATE, 1 p.m. junior who is just beginning the college-searchprocess. Parents p.m. Dec. 12, at Grand Rapids JC Feb. 17, 'at Alma, 6 p.m. Critical Issues Symposium are encouraged to attend, too. In- vitational Feb. 20, 'at Albion, 1 p.m. March 3-4 Contact Office of Admissionsfor further information Jan. 16, 'at Adrian, 1 p.m. Feb. 26-27, MIAA Championships (616)392-5111, ext. 2200. Theme of the 3rd annual symposium will be Relationshipsin Jan. 19, ‘KALAMAZOO, 7 p.m. at Albion Transition:The Future of Marriage and the Family. Jan. 23, GRAND RAPIDS JC, Mar. 11-13, AIAW Division III Energy depletionhas been a "criticalissue" for the last decade. 1 p.m. Nationals However, with the apparent changes in the family one wonders Model United Nations Jan. 27, 'CALVIN, 7 p.m. 'MIAA MEET Jan. 29, at Wheaton, 111.,7 p.m. Home meets are held in Kresge if we are running out of families as quickly as we are running out Friday, March 12 Jan. 30, at North Central, Natatorium of Dow Center of oil. Among the keynote speakersduring the symposium will 111., The 10th annual Model United Nations is expeaed to involve 1 p.m. be noted authors Letha and John Scanzoni. over 500 high school students from Michigan and Indiana high WRESTLING schools. The UN is designed to give high school students the Nov. 21, at Huntington,Ind. In- Jan. 26, 'at Kalamazoo,7 p.m. opportunity to take on the roles of professional diplomats with vitational,9 a.m. Feb. 5-6, GLCA Tournament at the goal of achieving a particular country's nationalobjectives Curriculum Development for Gifted Dec. 5, HOPE INVITATIONAL,Wabash, Ind. while at the same time fostering a desired international consen- 10 a.m. Feb. 10, 'OLIVET, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 29 sus. Dec. 8, at Grand Rapids Baptist Feb. 13, at Wheaton, III. Tourna- A sequel to the conferenceheld October 19. Again led by Nancy For further information contact Prof. Jack Holmes at the Politi- College, 7 p.m. ment, 1 p.m. Johnson, it will deal specifically with curriculum development cal Science Department (616) 392-5111, ext. 3044. Jan. 9, at Olivet Tournament Feb. 17, 'ADRIAN, 6 p.m. for gifted children.Designed for teachersand administrators. Jan. 12,G.R. BIBLE&G.R. BAP- Feb. 20, MIAA Tournament at Ad- TIST, 7 rian For further information contact Prof. Nancy Miller (616)392- p.m. Jan. 14, at Alma, 7 Feb. 27, NCAA Division III Na- 5111, ext. 3030. p.m. PlaybiU Jan. 16, Christian College Classic, tionalsat SUNY, Cortland, The theatre department will present four productionsduring the at G.R. Baptist,9 a.m. N.Y. Danforth Lecturer school year in the DeWitt Student and CulturalCenter. The box Jan. 20, 'at Calvin, 7 p.m. ,'MIAA Meet office opens approximately two weeks before each show. For Jan. 23, at SW Michigan College Home meets are held in Dow Thursday, February 25 information and reservationscall (616)392-1449. Tournament Center

Dr. Roland Bainton, professoremeritus, Yale University,will Fri.-Sat.,Dec. 4-5 be a guest of the religion department. Dr. Bainton has achieved Wed. -Sat., Dec. 9-12 Young Authors’ Conference preeminencein North America in the field of Reformation "Trojan Women" by Euripides, adapted for stage by Jean-Paul Thursday, April 15 studies. He has published many books and articles for scholars, Sartre. A conference in which children, grades K-6, share books they the general public and for youth. His famous work. Here I Fri.-Sat.,Feb. 26-27 have written under the direction of their teacher. The confer-

Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, has gone into many printings. Wed.-Sat., March 3-6 ence is designed to encourage teachers to have children write, to For further information call the religion department, (616) "Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie motivate childrento write and to demonstrate to childrenthat 392-5111, ext. 3100. Fri.-Sat.,Apr. 23-24 others write and are interestedin what they write. At the Wed.-Sat., Apr. 28-May 1 conference children participate in a variety of creative/ "Under Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas imaginativeactivities. Featured resource person will be author Eastern Bus Trips Marge Frank. March 2-6 and March 30 to April 3 For further information contact Prof. Nancy Miller (616)392- Each year Hope sponsors bus trips for students from the East Visitation Days 5111, ext. 3030. Coast who are interested in visiting the campus. The first trip January 15, February 12, March 5, April 16 scheduled March 2-6 will leave Wyckoff, N.j. and travel south Designed for prospectiveHope College students(transfers, high Youth Days through New Jersey and Pennsylvania en route to Holland. The school juniors or seniors) who are interested in enrolling for the Basketball Youth Day — February 6 second trip scheduled March 30 to April 3 will leave Albany, fall of 1982. Students and their parents are invited to spend a day Youth groups of the Reformed Church are invited to attend. N.Y. and travel west through New York state en route to on campus meeting with students,faculty and staff. Registra- These events are designed more as an activity and do not focus Holland. Cost for these trips will be between $75-5100 which tion begins at 9 a.m. at Phelps Hall. on college enrollment as VisitationDays do. and meals. * Contact Office of Admissionsfor further information Advance registration is required.Contact Office of Admissions 6 campus scene MEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981 Energy Consciousness SB: Abounds Across Campus

by Larry Helder between roof and ceiling, installed cold air vents, and altered the heating/air conditioningto a 'var- Deep in the heart of Peale, joe and foanne iable air volume system' capable of reducing the Sophomore were attending a science seminar amount of air going into a room depending on when, in spite of the lecture, the air started to the room's requirements. The payback period get cold: a valve in the hot water heating system was less than two years, so it's saving us a lot of illl had malfunctioned. A sensor noted the change money." and promptly sent a bundle of electronsvia The new apartments under constructionon Hope's telephone system to a desktop computer 14th Street behind the Dow Center will be in the newly-renovated Sligh building,a long steam-heated and will have the added benefit of city block away. The computer became aware of an inner wall of cement blocks and an outer wall a sudden impulse to turn on a red light, and did of brick: a double wall of insulation. so, blowing impulse equals deviation and red Two other smaller qnergy-saving projects are iv ^ light equals maintenanceman's response. The Dimnent Memorial Chapel and Winants Au- problem was quickly corrected;the computer ditorium in Graves. Ceiling fans were installed and maintenanceman went back to humming. from the lofty peak of Dimnent. Experimental i» fj alterations in the steam valves of the chapel were This is not a scenarioof the future — it is hap- done to define ways pf saving energy by lower- Jt\wm- pening now. In the past, technology found ex- ing the amount of wasted heat. travagant ways to expend energy. Now it has Winants Auditorium was altered considerably turned an about-face,and on Hope's campus-a when ceiling fans were installed; the ceiling was new piece of technology will save a projected insulated;and wooden shutters were mounted $50,000 a year in energy costs. over the windows. Now, regardlessof whether "We've been thinking about using a computer or not the S.E.E. or SAC films are "chilling" for the last seven or eight years," explained (i.e., "Soldierof Orange" or "Alien"), the stu- William Anderson, -vice president of finance. dents are comfortably warm. One project oft the "Since the initial cost has come down suffi- boards for spring is the replacement of all the ciently to bring about a payback on the invest- windows in Graves, a project that will cost ment in three or four years, we think it' s worth $74,000. it." The fart that Hope's buildings are steam- 1 Hope College Physical Plant Director Fred heated may be an advantage in the future. Presi- \V Coates is the man who puts together proposals, dent Gordon Van Wylen is chairing a committee like this computer, and brings his ideas to the to study the feasibility of using the otherwise finance department. Before a lot of work had wasted steam of Holland's Municipal Power been done on the computer proposal, Fred Plant as a source of heat for the city and Hope \\ Coates visited similar installations at Herman College.With a $40,500 gram from the Housing Miller, Inc., Kalamazoo College, and Central and Urban Development authority and the De- College. Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee firm partment of Energy, the committeeis-studying \\N .that Hope has done business with before, was the adaptabilityof Holland's power plant selected as the contractorfor the computer sys- facilitiesto Holland's downtown, and whether tem. The installation of the computer cost providing such steam or hot water heat would be $195,000. worth the initial investment. Computers are a more exotic way to save Also in Hope's future is the proposed under- money than those ways most familiar to us and ground building that will be built where Car- UP if GOES, UP IT GOES: Doublewa/is — one brick and one concreteblock — will make Hope's most evident in the buildings on Hope's campus . negie now stands. The money for this project When Van Vleck and Voorhees were renovated hasn't been raised yet, but there are good rea- 14th St. apartmentbuilding an energy-conserving facility. Projected cost is $1.7 million. The both receivedinsulation in their walls and attic; sons for such a building: building will contain 24 apartments and house 120 students. Move-ins will start with the fall double-paned windows were installed; both have "After VanRaalteburned down and 12th semester. the cheapestform of heating:hot water from the Street was closed off," said Bill Anderson,"we happen to Hope in the future would be our use of campus's main boiler. Infraredphotos were decided the open space looked too nice to put ers are more exotic like computer control of the steam or hot water generated from Holland's taken of Van Vleck after its renovation, which another building there. Although removing environment. Collegesand corporationshave to Power Plant. If that were to happen we could showed considerably lower heat loss. Carnegie and a lot of earth to constructan un- plan ahead for their future energy needs. Ideas consider eliminatingour own power plant, The only energy- related project at Hope that dergroundbuilding would initially cost more that were under considerationfive years ago are open up the center of has received federal assistance is an energy- than a conventional building,an underground just being completed. somethingwhich would makeover of Peale Science Center. building would be more energy efficient, aes- "There was a time when we were a few years campus even more." While Hope's energy future is being en- "We receiveda matching grant of $57,000 to thetically pleasing,and space saving." ahead in our planning," noted Fred Coates. "But gineered and blueprinted,the computer and change the heating and air circulation systems," There are a lot of different ways to save now we're involved in the execution of some of explained Fred Coates. "We insulatedthe space energy. Some involve simple conservation,oth- our past ideas. The biggest change that could maintenance men keep on humming. NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981 faculty profile

Science in Focus: Old Perspective, New Imperatives

When Donald Cronkite tells you what it's like quiredp.e.courses for freshmen in 1900. Again, to be a biologist, he has a habit of borrowing Mast may have come up against some popular images from the worlds of art and music instead notions which undercut his efforts — the 1899/ of talking about thjngs like petri dishes and mag- 1900 catalog states that, "By proper use of the nification levels. advantages offered in this direction(through His classroom lectures and his activities-on- participating in physicaleducation classes), they thd-side all indicate that his interest in'the his- (students)acquire physicalstrength needed to tory of discoveryalmost matches his interest in endure the mental strain incident to student life. the ongoing process. , While physical culture is valued highly, it is not With some subjects it's not unusual for him to j encouraged at the expense of education and fade down a little as he says something, and then morality.-" briefly gaze out into any nearby pocket of un- Given these curricular prejudicesof his peopled space to ponder — and yes,'even day — added to the fact that he was of German, enjoy — his uncertainty: not Dutch, descent and seems to have taken a "He tends as much towards philosophy as rather casual approach to matters of religion— biology," one student— who perhaps is not as far it's not surprisingthat he sometimes displayed a along in the liberal arts process as she might feisty streak. be — mildly complains. Cronkite, no doubt, At Hope at a time of expansion and new build- would considerit a and others point compliment ings, Mast displayedan interest in architecture. to this tendency as his strength. Several years ago when plans were being de- "I'm interestedin students getting a clear veloped for the renovation of Voorhees Hall, view of what scientists are up to, not just what built in 1907, people on Hope's development we know," he has said. "I want them to read staff were surprised to learn that the lovely, papers, to look at tbe evidence,to know some- Flemish-styledormitory had been designed by thing about the experimental process ____ I want an "unknown," a Hope biology professor by the science studentsto discover the ways that science name of S. O. Mast. Mast also layed out plans is like the other liberal arts — it's creative activ- for the science labs to be part of Van Raalte Hall, ity, not just to be something known." built in 1903. His commitment to research is Which isn't to say that the associate professor evident in his suggestion that all science faculty of biology — physicallydistinguished by a wiri- members be given a private room in which to ness, a bounce in his step, and strands of hair conduct their own projects. This suggestion was that hover near his collar in back but avoid his realized at Hope many years later in 1973, when forehead in front — is an imprecise scientist, or I the Peale Science Center was designed to include that he advocates a hit-or-missapproach to the faculty office/lab complexes. study of science. "S. O. Mast gives us a perspectiveon how "When you use the term 'creative activity,' really good we actually have it today," Cronkite you can run into some mistaken notions of just says. "He succeeded in publishing some signifi- what that means. Some people think that creativ- cant work while he was here and the evidence is ity is somethingyou can pull out of thin air, that he was an exacting and rigorousteacher who without needing many resourcesof your own." had some very good students. He had a good deal Creativityin science, Cronkite insists, means of influenceon the campus — but he didn't have a that you still have to know the lists and charts Peale Science Center and he had a very heavy Hope biologist Donald Cronkite and his student researchershave spent many hours in a dark and. diagrams. You also have to understand them teaching responsibility. He was not an atypical room, staring at some little green critterswho respond to light even though they have no eyes or and be able to apply their meaning. And, he person of his day, someone able to produce sci- suggests, the potential for creativity ripens if one any other means of receiving light. But offer these Paramecium bursuria a spot of light, and, sure ence despite what we would now regard as 'hand- enough, they'll respond by moving to that light. By cutting a shaped hole — a star, for example knows somethingof how all those facts were — icaps.' gathered. and then letting the light pass through it, Cronkite and his assistants have been able to make the "Science is looked upon as discovery of the "Textbooks often convey the false notion of a one-celledorganisms congregate into a pattern which duplicatesthe shape of the hole. Thus, by new, but I think sometimes it's useful to under- clear road to the present — this was discovered, using a template which has holes in the shapes of the letters "HOPE," the researchershave been stand how that discoveryhappens. It helps us see and then this which linked to that, and then this able to create the world's smallestcheering squad. Although the paramecia aren't always spaced as the debt we owe. And science does emphasize its and then this. emerges isthis picture of evenly as they might be, they certainlydeserve credit for giving it the old college try. What an traditions. All scientificpapers, for example, in- Scientists have known about the response of Paramecium bursuria to light for quite a while, but unbroken string of successes.Scientific discov- clude extensivebibliographies in which the work ery hasn't been that way at all. Textbooks tend to no one was sure just why it behaved that way. of others is cited. We do have a tradition and a omit mention of all the other roads that were Last year Cronkite and student assistant Sue VandenBrink '81 suggested in a paper that the debt to the people wbo have worked on things taken, all of the blind alleys and failures. I try to paramecia, which are green because algae live inside them, photosynthesize when the lights are on before us. I think that's all brought alive a little deal with these other roads, to some extent any- and gather to the light spot because the oxygen concentrationthere is slightly higher. They put more if you know that one of those persons was their theory to the test by adding an oxygen inhibitor at the gathering spot , and, as expected,the way, in my classes. I present some notions that actually here and conneaed with real-lifeplaces green guests just got up and left. seem absurd to us now, knowing what we know. like Voorhees Hall." I think part of understanding science as a creative It's fitting that Cronkite should be the one to activity means seeing how scientists sometimes kite, were Mast's studies of amoeboid motion until read connertion,however, 1976 when he A ' draw attention to Mast's influence at Hope, be- just go from one slightly erroneous view to and the physiology of the flagellate Century of Hope after having accepteda position cause Mast is one of those earlier scientists to another slightly erroneous view." Chilomonas,which for many years was used on Hope's faculty. At first he wasn't even sure whom Cronkite'sown research owes some direct Cronkite's interest in the history of science widely as a model for a variety of basic studies on that the S. O. Mast given two brief mentions in homage. In recent years, Cronkite has been ex- has resulted in new information on an early cell biology. Mast also was known for a book he that book of Hope's history was the same one he perimenting with parameria's response to light Hope professor,Samuel O. Mast, who joined published in 1911 which dealt with research-to- had encountered in countless other contexts. But (see illustration),which also was one of Mast's the faculty as a young man in 1899 and was date on various organisms' reactionsto light. it indeed turned out to be, and after coming to interests. Hope's first biologist. Like most biology students, Cronkite had Hope Cronkite discovered that most of his new But the main thrust of Cronkite'slab work is Cronkite about long before knew Mast he come across Mast's name in his undergraduate colleagues also had no idea that the S. O. Mast of genetic research.He's learning about mutations knew about Mast's connection to Hope, or, for studies. He learned more of the eminent textbooks had been their forerunner at Hope. which alter cellular processes,particularly that that matter, before he knew about a liberal much biologist while earning his Ph.D. at Indiana Uni- In the years he's been here, Cronkite has as- of water content regulation and the movement of arts college in Holland, Mich. Although Mast versity in the early 1970s because his advisor sembled a good deal of information on Mast for ions, such as potassium. Genetic crosses and had been at for nearly a decade, it was his Hope there had been one of Mast's students at Johns the College archives,including a set of all his biochemical and physiologicalstudies all are first teachingjob, the beginning of his career. In Hopkins. In 1972 Cronkite took his first teaching published papers, largely through corre- used to discover what makes the "sick" cell dif- 1908 he left to earn his Ph.D. from Harvard and job at the University of Redlands in California, spondence with Mast's daughter and son-in-law, ferent from a normal cell. later accepted a teaching position at Johns Hop- and there he met another biologist was well who Mr. and Mrs. John Buck of Maryland. This fall, It's a little like dissection, Cronkite explains, kins University, he a where became wellknown acquainted with the work of Mast. on Oct. 5, Cronkite staged a celebrationof using a large-scale illustration which he admits is biologist. Particularly noteworthy, says Cron- Cronkite didn't learn of Mast's Hope College Mast's birthday for the biology club, an event a little distasteful but never fails to get the idea

which coincidedwith the completion of a display across: If you want to know which nerves control of documents and photos from Mast's life for one what in a dog, you could cut the dog open, sever of the corridorcases in Peale Science Center. a nerve, sew the dog back up and look for what Although Mast built his reputation at Johns doesn't work anymore. And then keep repeating Hope biologist Donald Hopkins, his influence at Hope at the turn of the the process. Cronkite says science century deservesrecognition, Cronkite believes. "We induce genetic mutations and then look should be studied as a Mast came to Hope, afterall, as the first for what doesn't work anymore. When you find creative activity , not sim- biologist— not even 10 years after the majority out what's different about mutant cells, you ply an accumulation of of the faculty had voiced the opinion that science begin to understand normal cells in ways you facts. courses had no place in an undergraduate cur- didn't before." riculum. He taught all the biology there was to Nowadays it's hard for a geneticist to avoid teach and apparently also took on some algebra being drawn into the genetic engineering con- and Prep School classes. In addition,he was a troversy,which many people regard as science's groundbreaker for the physical education de- biggest threat to humanity since The Bomb artment, helping to organizea growing interest (which, incidentally, Cronkite believes can be campus scene

Nykerk Oration Not A Lone

by Marla Hoffman

An excited rapping at the door precedes the freshman's en- trance into the sophomore's dorm room. Suddenly the air fills with electricity; the deliveryof a gift, a delicate potted plant, brings the two friends together to share feelings and ideas one final time. Cries of "I'm so excited,""Are you nervous?", and "Oh — did you feel that way too?" bounce back and forth as the two competitors discuss their final on-stage rehearsalsand the

Saturday morning pre-Nykerkjitters. . . . Jeanine Baisch and . Dawn DeWitt, the orators for Nykerk, 1981, supported each other throughout the progression of tbeir work. this year for the orators involved delving into the had to be an individual effort. This individualismshone through Nykerk. A Hope College tradition. By the time an activity. Work the people and into the speeches, for Jeanine s and s becomes a tradition, it often includes, on the superficial level, a theme of individualism.Elona Van Gent, who, along with Leslie Dawn speeches on exactly the topic took, quite by chance, conglomeration of trite phrases and blithe mottos. In this super- Ortquist,coached Jeanine on the '85 oration, explainsthat the — same — opposing viewpoints. Jeanine argued that the self can ficiality, the Nykerk tradition is no exception.Without thinking coaches choose a theme according to how it might allow the While only be discovered from within before it can be shared with twice, any Hope woman could recite,"Nykerk is Secret Pals and orators room for personal growth. The less concretea subject, others. Dawn pointed out that learningabout oneself can only smiling and meeting in the middle." Yet a kernel of meaning the more the women must formulate and support their ouitf opinions. "Individualism" is a broad enough subject that all take place as one interacts with society and integrates her own also lies within the sugar-coatedlayers of any traditional event ; it it thoughts with others' opinions. it is this true spirit of "meeting in the middle" that was demon- considering must ask themselves what means in their own strated by this year's Nykerk orators. lives ; it is also an appropriatetopic for the two women who work If Nykerk were to be compared to the Pull, the emphasis of Jeanine,the freshman orator from Saline (near Ann Arbor), on their own, apart from the majority of Nykerk song and play November 7 would have been on "winning. " But Nykerk is not Mich., competed in forensics in high school and generally en- participants. a female version of the Pull. It is, of course, an event that joys meeting people and "gettinginvolved." Dawn, the sopho- Each orator had the opportunity to present her own opinions requires all participants to do their best. This effort is demanded of the chosen Preparation for the big night included of any performance. In Nykerk, though, the energy is channel- more orator from Zeeland, Mich. , also competed in forensics in theme. high school ; sbe hopes one day to be a speech teacher and debate everything from researchingand writing to memorizing and led into a creative, rather than a competitive,outlet; as Dawn s and forensics coach. Each young woman placed in state-level presenting.Jeanine and Dawn both struggled through their coach, Julie Garlinghouse, readily exclaims,"Nykerk is a cele- presentationswith their coaches sentenceby sentenceand word bration of the Hope woman rather than a competition."Or as highnign SCIlUUlschool forensicsIUIcIIML:*, ; licimcineither hadIiau beenUCCI* previously ninvolved I V V V-VJ illin a« ...... — - — ------— ------J “ ICQLfc DECEMBER 1981 <^1 campus scene A W inter Happening Saturday, February 6

Academic Seminars (Coffee will be served in the Kletz Registration Area beginning at 9:15 a.m. Each seminar will be offered twice.) Schedule of Events . “The Economic and Fiscal Crisis in Michigan: Reality vs. Registrationand Coffee Ideology” DeWitt Center Kletz 9:15 a.m. Dr. Robert Cline, Professor of Economics, Peale 221 This seminar will examine the current state of the Michigan Academic Seminars 10 and 11:15 a.m. economy and the prospects for economic recovery. The dis- Luncheon 12:30 p.m. cussion will focus on various options available to the State and loc^il governmentsto encourageeconomic growth and diver- Durfee Terrace Room sification.Supply-side options to be discussed include prop- ($5 per person) erty tax reform and possiblechanges in the State business tax structure. Women’s Basketball 1 p.m. “Carcinogens in the Environment” Hope vs. Albion Dr. James M. Gentile,Professor of Biology, Peale 50 Dow Center Gymnasium The majority of human cancers are of unknown etiology. Cancer is thought to be multicausal in origin and probably Men’s Basketball 3 p.m. develops in response to various factors including chemicals, Hope vs. Concordia Lutheran viruses, and irradiation.Humans may be exposed to potential chemical carcinogens from the food they eat, the drugs they (Jayvees 12:55 vs Grand Rapids Baptist) consume and their external environmentExperience with lab- Holland Civic Center oratory animals has revealed that most compounds car- cinogenic in animals are also carcinogenic in humans. How-

Jazz Concert and Refreshments ever, due to the cost involved, it is not feasible to test all new and Holland Civic Center Following the Game existing chemicals in animals. This talk will focus on the iden- tificationof potential environmental carcinogens using short- efy Stage term, less costly means of detection, and the implicationof the identification of a carcinogen with respect to regulatorydeci- sions in government”

“A Rendezvous with History: The Role of Government” m A Panel Discussion Dr. Michael B. Petrovich,Professor of History,Moderator, Peale 27 The panel is composed of several Hope College professors each portrayinga historical personalityfrom different periods of history and addressing the issue of "The Role of Govern- M What About Our Kids? ment" during the life-time of the personality and connecting it %: •ji We will provide supervision, food, and activityfor your children with today. 111 while you attend the seminars and luncheon. “Sacbuts, Krummhoms, and Racketts — Why would a Pre-School Nursery The Alley, DeWitt Center grown man play them?” Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dr. Robert Ritsema, Professor of Music, Wichers Auditorium Cost $3.50 including lunch A demonstration of the instruments used in the performanceof Elementary Activities music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance times, and a At the Dow Center, includinglunch and activities(Bring a swim discussion of the music from those periods and its place in suit if you wish to swim). 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. society. Early musical instruments will be demonstratedand Cost $3.50 including lunch live and recorded examples of early music will be played.

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return 1 . indicate All reservations The final, pre-Nykerk hour: a time for last-minutetouches in Please by February Please number of persons attendingeach event prepaid the dressingroom (center) and, especially, a time when this and tickets will be available atthe reservation desk in the DeWitt Center Kletz. year's orators depended on' the support of coaches,friends and Seminars each other. At top is sophomore orator Dawn DeVJitt and later "The Economic and Fiscal Crisis in Michigan: Reality vs. Ideology" No- (photo far left) with coach )ulie Garlinghouse who attempts to No.. put her jitters to rest. At the other end is freshman orator "Carcinogensin the Environment" jeanme Baisch (left),sharing some inside humor with one of "A Rendezvous with History: The Role of Government" No.. her coaches, Elona Van Gent. “Sacbuts, Krummhoms, and Racketts" No..

l The emphasis on 'doing your best" allows the Nykerk tradi- Pre-School Nursery ($3.50) No- tion of Secret Pals between the freshman and sophomoreclasses Elementary Activities ($3.50) No_ to continue. Admittedly, the "Can't wait to meet you in the rough Luncheon ($5.00) No.. middle— Love, your Secret Pal" statements can easily be shal- rn's low and overestimated.Vet in the 1981 oration, the ties between Men s Basketball Game lanto the orators, who were’ each other's Secret Pals, were deep and General Admission ($2.00) No- (can genuine. They found that they alone could relate to each other, No- with Reserved Seats ($3.00) for no one else faced the same frustrations, struggles — or nonly Students and Children ($1.00) No- joys — of producing an oration. A lonely position? It could have ir own been, if Jeanineand Dawn had pitted their talents against each Send to: Alumni Office, Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423 other. But with the strength of shared experiences,Dawn and isi$ of leanine "met in the middle" — in the middle ground of mutual ism" Enclosed is my check for payable to Hope College. understanding and appreciation — long before the end of the - [hit Nykerk performance. Signed. - — — - Doing their best, caring about each other, and acting within - nnel; that spirit of friendship.These are the Nykerk qualities that - Address l»vv»s allowed a rich fnendship.ro fill the vacuum of the otherwise i Colo* lonely position of orator. Or, as Jeanine expressed it, "We (Jr J> •thing else than keep up Parent- Friend- 10 sports roundup NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981 Hope Grabs MIAA

League championships in footbajl and men's sive tackle Tim Van Dyke, a junior from Hol- cross country, along with national recognition land, Mich.; center Kurt Brinks, a junior from for several athletes, highlighteda successful fall Zeeland, Mich.; tight end Warren Kooyers, a sports season at Hope. junior from Holland, Mich.; tailback Todd At the end of the fall season Hope is in first Holstege, a junior from Grand Rapids, Mich.; place in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Cain; Nelson; and senior defensive back Mark Association (MIAA) all-sports race, an honor Candey, a senior from Traverse City, Mich. awarded the league member who has the best Spencer was voted to the Great Lakes All- cumulative performance during the year in 18 Academic football team for the second year in- men's and women's sports. a-row. He was selected from 11 quarterback Hope has won the prestigiousMIAA all- nominees in a six state area. He is an economics sports award the past two years. This year, for major who carries a 3.7 grade point average on a the first time, the all-sports award is based on 4.0 scale. finishes in both men's and women's sports. Pre- Wolffis was voted the team's most valuable viously the award was based only on men's player while Steve Cameron, a senior from sports. Westchester, 111., was selected recipient of the The all-sports standings after the fall season Allen C. Kinney award which is given by the found Hope with 62 points, followed by Albion coaching staff on the basis of maximum overall with 52, Calvin 50, Adrian 40, Alma 35, contributionto the team. Kalamazoo 30 and Olivet 19. Selectedtri-captains of the 1982 team were Brinks, Holstege and Dave Daniels, a junior FOOTBALL from Phoenix, Ariz. The 1982 schedule was announced as follows: The Dutchmen won their third MIAA cham- Sept. 11, at Wabash, Ind.; Sept. 18, DePauw;

pionship in four years behind an explosive of- Sept. 25, Oberlin ; Oct. 2, at Kenyon, Ohio; Oct. fense that averaged nearly forty points per game 9, at Albion; Oct. 16, Alma (Homecoming); against league opponents. Oct. 23, at Kalamazoo;Oct. 30, Adrian; and The championshipwas a fitting tribute to 12 Nov. 6, at Olivet. seniors who during their college career posted an 18-1-1 record against MIAA opponents-.High- MEN'S CROSS light of the season was a 20-3 victory over pre- COUNTRY viously undefeated Adrian. The Dutchmen had another outstanding sea- The Dutchmen won their last five games in- son, winning the MIAA championshipfor the a-row. Their 6-3 record marked the 10th win- ninth straight year and qualifyingas a team for ning season in 12 years under head coach Ray the NCAA Division III nationalmeet for the Smith who entered the 1981 season as the na- fourth year in-a-row. tion's 11th winningest active NCAA DivisionIII Sophomore Steve Underwood of East Lans- coach. ing, Mich, became the first runner in MIAA Senior Mark Spencer of Traverse City, Mich, history to qualify for the NCAA Division I and Ed Cain of Coopersville,Mich, established (major university)national chamionship meet. several Hope career records. Cain led the MIAA Underwood, who was voted the MIAA's most in scoring with 13 touchdowns, raising his career valuablerunner, finished'fourthat the Division total to a school record 200 points. Spencer M nationals to earn an invitation for the univer- etched his name on every Hope total offense and sity run. passing record. Also contributingto an explosive A strong performance at the league meet offense was senior kicker Keith Nelson of Mid- earned Hope the league co-championship with land, Mich, who tied season records for field Calvin for the third straight year. Calvin nipped goals and extra point conversions. the Dutchmen by one point in a league dual They don't compete for a champion- Nine Hope players were named to the all- meet, but coach Bill Vanderbilt'sharriers came ship trophy, but there is no doubt MIAA team. Senior defensiveend Todd Wolffis back strong to win the league run and cause the that Hope has the best cheerleading of Park, was voted Wyoming Mich, all-MIAA co-championship . squad in the MIAA if not any small for the second year while earning the honor for Senior Mark Northuis of Grand Haven, Mich, college in the nation. the first time were offensivetackle Doug Bras- and Underwood were voted to the MIAA all- chler, a senior from South Haven, Mich. ; offen- league team.

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Sets. Spikedrills. Three-man weaves. Whistle stops. Pop-ups. Stealing. The everyday vocabu- lary of a business major? Hardly. Yet these terms are common ones in the life of Faye Be- rens, a senior and a business major at Hope College. Faye is the first woman at this college to participate in three sports per year throughout her Hope career. The youngest of four children,Faye grew up closest in age to her two brothers.As kids, they never stopped to examine "social roles” when they played together; they simply participated in the activitiesthat they enjoyed. For Faye and the older of the brothers, Warren, this meant basketball. Warren broke many of Hamilton High School's basketballrecords and Faye was quick to catch his enthusiasm for this sport. The two often practiced shooting hoops at the back- yard net together.Before Warren would leave to do his farm chores, he would warn Faye that she had better make a specified number of free- throw shots before his return. From Warren's coaching, Faye moved on to high school sports. Basketballwas the first team she went out for — and by the end of her freshman season, she was starting on the varsity team. With success under her belt, she got in- volved in volleyball and softball as well. Her skills in these sports were obvious to those who saw her play: she held her high school records for the most stolen bases in softball and the most points scored in basketball.Elected all- conference once each for volleyball and basket- ball and twice for softball, she also was elected all-area for basketball. "You've got to stick with it to be good,” Faye Senior fullbackEd Cain became alltime leading Hope scorer as he had at least one touchdown in comments. She has followed her own advice every game this season. t throughout her years at Hope as she has con- HELD HOCKEY tinued to excel in all three of her high-school Hope finished 11th at the national meet. Un- sports. Voted most valuable player in both vol- derwood’s finish earned him All America hon- The Flying Dutch enjoyed another excellent Having a ball — in a variety of sizes — has been a leyball (JV her freshman year) and softball (var- ors. Northuis was 27th at nationalsfor the sec- season, finishing in a_ tie for second place in the way of life for Faye Berens during her college sity her sophomore year), she also has been ond straight year. MIAA race and posting a 9-6-1 overall record. career. She will be Hope's first four-year, three- All-State in softball for three consecutiveyears. Sophomore Scott Vande Vorde was voted the Junior Mary Lou Ireland of Nashau, N.H. led sport female athlete. By the time she leaves Hope, she will have been most improved runner on the team. Tri-captains the MIAA in scoring with 15 goals while team- captain of the basketball team for two years and of the 1982 team will be Jeff Crumbaugh, a mate Polly Tamminga, a junior from Bozeman, leagues.She takes for granted the fact that, of the softball team for three. Last year she junior from St. Louis, Mich.; Brian Taylor, a Mt. , established an MIAA record for assists in a throughout her entire scholastic year, she must receivedthe Barbara Allen Geeting Basketball junior from McBain, Mich.; and Underwood. season. organize her studies and social life around prac- Award; the plaque reads, "In recognitionof a Seven Hope players were named to the Michi- tices and events. Her involvement during the dedicationto God, school, team, and sport.” gan College field hockey team. The team com- school year is continuous; the various seasons WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY Sports certainly are an integral part of Faye's peted in the Great Lakes Sectionaltournament. overlap in such,a way that by the time Faye life. Not only is she involved in three teams at Intercollegiate cross country for women made Players named to the honor team were Tam- finishes her volleyball season, she already has Hope, but she also plays for both the Holland its debut this fall. The Flying Dutch finished minga, Ireland,Melanie Waite, a freshman missed three weeks of basketballpractice. The and the Zeeland slow pitch softball summer fourth in the MlAA standingsand were eighth at from Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Paula Veldman, a basketball and softball seasons overlap in a simi- the AIAW Division III midwest regionalrun. freshman from Red Hook, N.Y. ; Mary Gaffney, wrnmrri lar manner. u ' a sophomore from Union Springs, N. Y. ; Karen mr itlBr 7 The time and energy demands that teamwork Freshman Diane Boughton of Three Rivers, _ »-• Ssv TV a junior N.J. ; -3 A \ ^ involves could lead to Mich, became the first Hope woman to qualify Van Der Eems, from Hawthorne, m - one wonder how academics for the AIAW DivisionIII nationals. At riation- and Jaci Van Heest, a sophomore from Holland, rate in the life of the athlete. Yet Hope's rigorous als she was 52nd among 163 runners. Mich. ’academicstandards don't allow for the distinc- Boughton was voted the team's most valuable Ireland was selected from the Michigan Col- tion between "players" and "students" ; athletes runner while Brenda Vander Werff, a junior lege team to compete at a nationaltournament must learn to organize their time appropriately. from Neenah, Wise., was voted most improved. sponsored by the United States Field Hockey Asked how her sports involvement has affected Carol Bringman, a junior from Traverse City, Association.She was joined by coach Marjorie her academic life, Faye replies, "It makes me Mich., and Vander Werff were elected co- Snyder, also an outstanding field hockey player. organize my time better." Professorshave been captains of the 1982 team. Snyder was invited to the nationalsiorthe sixth understanding of the fact that she sometimes straight year. must miss classes for afternoon events or SOCCER Ireland was voted the team's most valuable weekend tournaments. Yet Faye is careful not to player while Van Heest and Waite were vetted abuse their acceptanceof her schedule:"I try not The Dutchmen were dethroned as MIAA co-most improved. Ireland and Tamminga will to bug them with handing in late papers or post- champions in one of the most balanced league co-captainthe 1982 team. poning tests — otherwise it gives sports a bad races ever. name." Coach Gregg Afman's Dutchmen lost a pair of VOLLEYBALL When sports seem to demand such commit- one goal decisionsto league champion Calvin ment, and time for herself is at a minimum, and tied runnerup Kalamazootwice. Overall the Hope finished second in the MIAA race for the what makes Faye remain so involved? First of all, Dutchmen posted an 11-4-2 record, marking the third consecutiveyear and were runnersup in the sports become her relaxation. Not only does she fifth straight year the team has won ten or more AIAW Division III state tournament. find the competition and physicalactivity to be games in a season. The team's eight shutout Senior Elsie Jerez of Isla Verde, P.R. and enjoyable, but she also believesthat sports in- victories was a school record. sophomoreLindaPercyof St. loseph, Mich, was volvement is a great way to meet people. ' ' Know- Four Hope players were named to the MIAA voted to the AIAW all-state team. Jerez was ing and interacting with lots of different kinds of all-conferencesoccer team. Senior Paul Fowler honored for the third straight year. people is somethingyou'll have to do all your of Albany, N.Y. was named to the honor team )erez was also voted the team most valuable life," Faye explains. She claims that experience for the third straight year while repeatingfor the player for the third straight year while Anne is the best teacher — and that the things she second time were junior Todd Kamstra of Far- Hendrickson, a freshman from Grand Rapids, learns on the courts or in the fields could not be mington, Mich, and sophomore Al Crothers of was voted the most improved. Percy was elected learned just by reading books. Wheaton, 111. Named for the first time was captain of the 1982 team. All seniors view their school lives differently senior Scott Savage of Rochester, N.Y. than they did during their freshman year, and Savage and Fowler were voted co-most valu- GOLF Faye is no exception."She still likes to play, but able players while Peter Rynberk, a & she's not so competitive," says Carol Miknis, freshman from South Holland, 111., was voted the most The Dutchmen finishedfourth in the seven one of Faye's house-mates. Faye insists that she improved . team MIAA race. Senior Dave Mitchellof Grand continues to "play to win," but that she has Tri-captains of the 1982 team will be Kamstra, Rapids, Mich, tied for eighth place in the MIAA learned that, "the meaning of winning isn't as al average. Mitchell was important as making the game a positive expert- profile mindpower NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981

shared by his East Coast colleague:Vander Hill has a feeling that "Middletown" may bomb in Muncie — and he's the person scheduled to talk Probing 'Middle America' about it at a town/gown dinner just before the final segment is aired. Davis has joked that he'll send a suit of armor for the event. "You cannot distinguishan educated man by And yet, observing Muncie — and being held whether or not he believes in God, or in II ! I accountable for it— has become somethingof a UFOS. But you can tell an educated man by way of life for Vander Hill. He arrived there in the way he takes hold of the question of 1968, accepting a teaching positionin the Ball whether or not God exists, or whether UFOS State history department after teaching for two are from Mars." years at Hope, and soon learned it's hard to live — Wayne Booth, in Muncie and not be aware that it's been the Professor of English most studied community in America. In 1970he University of Chicago was named director of the university'shonors program, a four-year offering for the top 10 per -by Eileen Beyer cent of each incoming freshman class. The hon- ors program includes students from all five of - Beginning on March 24 public television will Ball State's colleges. They study liberalarts core present a six-part series in documentary which courses during their first two years and each an award-winningfilmmaker takes a look at the writes a thesis in the senior year. Vander Hill's contemporary conditionof the American dream positionis largely administrativebut he con- in a town which for almost 60 years has had the tinues to engage in academic researchand usu- distinction of being certifiedas "typical U.S. A." ally teaches one class each term. and, as such, has a of national become symbol Not all of his observationsof Muncie have identity. been reported in footnoted research papers. The series, "Middletown,"has been filmed by Some of his impressions are passed across the Peabody, and Academy Award winner Emmy tables of Muncie hangouts, places like the Big Peter Davis, who earned national recognitionfor Wheel Cafe where he periodically meets with his exposure of government propaganda in the White House reporter Saul Friedman or other Report, "The Selling ofthe Pentagon," CBS and journalists who come to the Indiana town to get a for his of the anguish of the documentary reading on America's politicalpulse. Vander Hill Vietnam War, titled "Hearts and Minds." The says he thoroughly enjoys these encounters. Middletown film project has been underwritten^ "I guess I've talked with Friedman more than at a cost of than $3 million funding more by dny other media person. He's- fascinating to lis- giants — the National Endowment for the ten to — he's known all the presidentssince Tru- Humanities and Xerox Corporation. Publicity is man. And he has a properly cynical air about being handled by a New York City agency, most subjeas. My main function,I suspect,is which already is sending out press releases to just to listen to him. But he does bounce some prime audiences for the big event. questions off me as well." The Middletown film project began over four Although his historical perspectivegives him years ago, notin New York City, but in Muncie, both the distance and the information one needs ~Ind., a which has been community code-named to be a good observer and analyzer,Vander Hill ever since the mid-1920s Middletown when two C. Warren Vander Hill, head of the honors program and professor of history at Ball State is, at the same time, someone who has lived and social researchers,Robert and Merrell Helen University,is one of the originators of a PBS series, "Middletown,"which will premiere in March. worked in Muncie for over a decade. He and his Lynd, went there to conduct community studies The series consists of six human dramas found and filmed in the "average" American community wife, the former Joy Philip '60, are raising their which scholars now regard as classic.The Lynds of Muncie, Ind., and was inspired by weUknown community studies conducted there in the 1920s son Jon and daughter Sara there. Has any of selected Muncie as the epitome of the average and 1930s. Middletownin Transition,a report of those early studies, hasn't spent much time on Munrie's "averageness" rubbed off? American city and they went there to probe in Vander Hill's shelves since he first began working on the film project four years ago. Photo by Kay Vander Hill has to admit he's come to ap- microcosm the fundamentalstructures of Bacon, a sophomore tyonors student at Ball State. preciate "the core values of this part of the coun- American life. try" and couldn'thelp contrastingthe life-style A Hope alumnus, C. Warren VanderHill'60, problems and conflicts of American life." Once but real people with ungoing lives. .Their stories of most Muncie citizens with those of the New head of the honors program and professor of he was involved, the Middletown film project will unfold without the intrusion of a narrator. York and Hollywood film people who invaded history at Ball State University in Muncie, and a was anything but small. And Vander Hill and his Those who remember Vander Hill's triumphs as for more than six months. “They live their lives handful of his faculty colleagueswere the colleaguesbecame simply Davis" academic col- a star forward on Hope basketball teams (he was in the fast lane," he says, with an unmistakably originatorsof the Middletownfilm project. This leagues, often unnamed. But they were more a three-time All-MIAA choice) won't be sur- heartlandchuckle. "1 have to admit I've come to much-anticipated and costly venture grew from than willing to have their efforts ride tandem prised to know that he was most involved in the prefer a little slower style." the kind of academic small talk that abounds in with someone who could pull as much weight as second program of the series, "The Big Game," Surrounded on the one hand by a Middle campus coffee shops and in the' hallways that Davis. an examination of the on-court competition of America milieu and on the other by the creme de connect faculty offices. Every so often, the "We all realized that the fame of Davis as the two rival Muncie high schools and how and why la creme of Ball State's enrollment, Vander Hill

"What if we took a look at . . . ?" is compelling creator of the series would be played up by the a game can instill such civic pride in an entire offers an interesting viewon the role of educated enough to result in some grant-seeking.Rarely East Coast media. And that never has been a community. citizens in the thousands of Middletowns located does it result in a project which commands na- problem with any of us. We realized right away Can high school basketballand all the other across America. College and university tional attention. how important he would be to the project." aspects of life in MunCie mean anything to the graduates of today are not as influential as they For Vander Hill, the "Middletown"small talk Airing on six consecutive Wednesday eve- rest of America? Vander Hill admits that it's a might be, he says, not so much becausesorietyis began when he read Studs Terkel's Working, a. nings, "Middletown" will probe beneath the question he sometimesasked while researching unwilling to accept their expertisebut because series of interviews with Americans earning surface of community life in Muncie, offering and then watching the filming of his Muncie not enough of them have enough sense of social ’ money in all sorts of white collar, blue collar and television viewers a look at how citizens of that neighbors. commitment to make a difference in their com- no collar professions.Vander Hill was struck by city run for office, play and worship, labor, love "Why should some guy in L.A. watch this?' munities. The do-gooders which abounded on the dissatisfaction and disillusionmentof many and learn. The series takes its structure from the was the way we often put the question. But I campuses in previous generationsare disappear- of the workers Terkel interviewed,and he con- work of the Lynds, which was divided into six think the series will give viewers across the na- ing, Vander Hill indicates, and one finds in their trasted this with the American dream of upward fundamentalareas: politics, leisure, religion, tion some understanding of what life is like in a place students who are concerned with using mobility which the Lynds had found to be so work, marriage and education*. Each program community of this size in this part of the coun- education to do well — for themselves. secure in Middletown a few decades earlier. will follow the "story" of a separategroup of, try. And what they will see is that many, many One of the observationsthat the Lynds made More small talk: the program manager of Mun- individuals — not charactersfollowing a script. of Middletown's values, many of the things that when they went to Muncie in the 1920s and '30s de's PBS station, based at Ball State, told Vander make the people in these films tick, many of the was that more and more of life in that commu- Hill that the NEH Media Division was looking things that drive them, many of the things nity was being strainedthrough the bars of the for new programs which could be produced by they're afraid of, many of the things they aspire dollar sign, that the acquisitionof material smaller stations. One thing led to another, and IT F! ITT to — these things are the same of people no mat- things was one of the ruling desires of citizens in 1977 Vander Hill and two other Ball State ter where they live. You might look at them there. In the 1980s Warren Vander Hill — like professorsreceived a $15,000 planning grant for \t ml differently if you're going to and fro on a Long his counterpartsat many other campuses — finds a documentarywhich would take another look at Island expressway everyday or driving into the that many of the most intelligent studentsarrive the Muncie made famous by the Lynds. center of Chicago. But the values and problems at his universitywith strong professionalgoals The talk stopped for awhile when those three are common, and I think all viewers will see already set, and that he's having trouble convinc- academics,veterans of manuscript research proj- something of themselves and their neighbors in ing some of them that it's worth their time to ects, realized that none of them really knew the this series." spend a year along the way reading a few of the first thing about making a film. Vander Hill It's Vander Hill's impression that the NEH Great Books. came to the rescue by calling the only filmmaker sees the series as a chanct to strenghten public All of which raises some questions in this he knew, who just, happened to be not a run-of- confidence in their efforts. "It's a totally dif- Mindpower Campaign year. Who is influencing the-reel director but, rather, the widely- "America's Energy is ferent approach from other programs they've whom? Can .higher education really hope acclaimed Peter Davis. Vander Hill and Davis Mindpower" is a national funded, like "The Scarlet Letter,"for example. to be society's illumination,or must it serve had met a few years earlier when Davis had They really took it on the chin for that. . . . They campaign to further public studentsby reflecting the values of society in its passed through town in a then unsuccessful have been looking for programs that involved programs'? awareness of education as the search for some "heart of America" programm- people — not in a Real People' or That's Incredi- "The danger," warns a recent report from The major hope for improving ing. What attracted Davis, whose previous work ble' approach, but in a way which many, many Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of society. Our Mindpower series had dealt with large themes in America's con- people could identify with. Middletown' offers Teaching, "is that, in a desperate bid for sur- examines this theme through sciousness,to a project which in content could that." vival, higher education will imitate its rivals. If profiles of alumni teachers. never be anything but "small town"? The Naturally, Vander Hill will be watching the that happens , higher learning may discover that , filmmaker claims he saw the project as a chance major reviews of the programs with as much having abandoned its essential mission.

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interest with her Hope teacher-training’byoffer- ing a class on antiquesand collectiblesthrough a Literary Winner local adult educationprogram. In addition to her poe’try and fiction, she writes book reviews and Julie Herrick '56 White of South Bend, Ind. feature articles for The South Bend Tribune. received honorable mention in a fiction contest The Septemberissue of Ms. had as its cover recently sponsored by Ms. magazine. Her story, story a feature on mothers and daughters going "The Viewing," placed in the top four of about to college at the same time. White found it a nice 800 entries and was announced a winner in the touch that her winning story was announced in Septemberissue of the magazine. that issue, since she and her daughter also fit into "The Viewing" is the story of a new widow this category . Her daughter is a music major at who takes a clear-eyed,unsentimental look at Indiana University at South Bend. Mother finds the 21 years she spent with her husband and his that her own low residency writing program WHITE PIET LEENHOUTS HOFFMAN WEISS large Italian family, who still consider her an "takes a lot of dedicationon the part of the outsider. should help readers see the 66 bo.oks that stretch says. "You've just got to get the job done." faculty and students(about 20 hours of work per Weiss' track record easily inspires confidence. White, who says she's "always" been in- between Genesis and Revelation as one mean- week), but it's proving to be worth the effort." He earned his degree, with honors, in just terested in writing, pursued a teachingcertificate ingful whole, Piet contends. Hope at Hope. She's now studying writing through a Pjet presents Jonah, the story missionaries three years, majoring in politicalscience. While in school he served on Ottawa County commit- master'sof fine arts, program offered by Warren often use as a starting point in evangelicalef- Wilson College in North Carolina. The program Biblical Pathfinder forts, as the Bible's unifying theme. He logically tees and was administrativeassistant to Rep. James Dressel,R-Holland. He also managed allows her to do most of her work independently exafninesindividual books and the stories they campaigns for Dressel and Ottawa Clerk at home. She writes both fiction and poetry ("In John Piet '36 spent years in classrooms study- contain in the order establishedby the recur- County Krueger '68, was an assistant to a way, one seems an extension of the other, and ing the Bible, completing divinity and missions rence of this theme rather than in their Biblical Dan Hope's

provost and an announcer at a local radio station . they both end up seeming part of the same studies before earning his Ph.D. in philosophy, order. It's to turn anyone's hair grey, thing") and she was an honorable mention win- religion and ethics from Columbia University in Piet explainsin his foreword: "Jonah articu- enough and that's exactly what's happening to Weiss. But in ner in th the poetry divisionof Hope's 1979 1952. But he learned to read the Bible on the lates. the stress or tension in which those who his business,anything that imparts an air of Alumni Opus arts contest. streets of India, where he lived from 1941-1960 follow the way of the Bible must live. Tension is, maturity can't be considered preinature.Given "Ms. magazine had no age limit on its college while associatedwith Voorhees College in Vel- perhaps, the better word, provided one reads all the hoopla his docksiderscaused, his greying fiction contest, and the three runners up, myself lore as professor of English and ultimatelypresi- overtones of creative possibilities into it. The hair just may be perfect timing. One newspaper include, were 51, 50 and 47," White notes. "It dent. remaining books flesh out the implicationsof noted, in fact, that the three-years-out-of- made me think that other women, especially "I had to begin afresh as a missionary there," Jonah. All the books taken together ask their high-school city could pass for well, thdse educated in the '50s, were trying to realize he says. In India he saw the Bible through the readers to look to God with gratitude, to them- manager — some of their earlier goals now. Interestingly, eyes and understanding of those encountering it selves with candor, and to the world with expec- not a day younger than 26. Coopersvilleis a small town that after 30 years the number of women 35 and older who are for the first time and he discoveredthat when the tance and hope." is beginning to signs of to life. enrolledin college has doubled in the past 10 Good Book is considered in fragment form, Piet's book, his fifth, is published by show coming A General Motors Corp. plant will open there in a years." difficultrto-answerquestions abound. WestminsterPress. Publishersplan to translate White has found that different interests can During his years in India and since then as it into the Tamil and Japanese languages. few months and there is a battle underway to stop a private developer from buildjnga landfiH1" combine later in life, sometimes in surprising professor of English Bible and missions at West- on the city's edge. it can't be overlooked ways. She and her husband Dennis recently-de- ern TheologicalSeminary, he has pondered how And that Coopersvilleis now on its fourth city man- veloped a new avocation,buying and selling at to get people to read the Bible intelligently. Community Planner ager in less than two years. flea markets, and she now combines this new His new book, A Path Through the Bible, Thelma K. Leenhouts '66, Ph.D., has been Weiss entered this Rip Van Winkle town right appointed special assistant to Stephen J. Bol- after graduation when he became its assistant linger, Assistantsecretary for community plan- dty manager. He quickly gained the respect of ning and development, at the Department of dry offidals, including the 53-year-old mayor, Housing and Urban Development in who claims that with Weiss' "youth and vigor, Washington,D.C. things will be moving" in Coopersville. Prior to her appointmentLeenhouts was an "You've got to s?t goals," Weiss says. "That's assistant professorin the speech communication important, especially for young people. Know department at the University of Wisconsin- what you want, so when it comes you can grab it. River Falls. She received her B.A. in speech and So may people miss it because they don't know theatre from Hope and her M.A. and Ph.D. in they want it." speech communicationfrom the University of Already predictions abound that Coopersville Michigan. won't be able to hold the nation'syoungest, During the 1980 Presidentialcampaign goal-settingcity manager for long. Leenhouts served as a nationaladvance person for George Bush, traveling to nine States in his behalf. "Working at HUD is quite a change from university teaching, but I'm excited about the positionand the responsibilities and challenges that come with it," she commented. She began her positionin June. Richard W. TeLinde (center) inspects surgical suites at Johns Hopkins Hospital which now bear She is the daughter of Jack '37 and Thelma his name. Kooiker '38 Leenhouts. Surgical Suite Bears His Name Heads New Division Harvey B. Hoffman '64 has been named exec- utive vice president and chief executiveofficer of Surgicalsuites at one of America's foremost the university'sSchool of Medicine and chief . the newly establishedU.S. Division of Lincoln hospitalsnow bear the name of Hope alumnus gynecologistat Johns Hopkins Hospitalin 1.939. First Bank, N.A. of New York. Richard W. TeLinde '17, 'a Baltimore Throughout his career he was active in the The U.S. Divisionis responsiblefor all nonin- gynecologist whose research was the basis for American Gynecological Society,serving as se- ternational activitiesof the bank outside its five the development of the widely used Pap test for cretary, vice president and, in 1953, as president New York State divisions. Hoffman was a senior cervical cancer. of that organization. vice presidentof Lincoln First Real Estate Credit TeLinde was honored for his important con- In 1938 TeLinde and an associate. Dr. Gerald Outstanding Corp. between 1973 and 1978. He was then tributions to the study of gynecologicalpathol- Galvin, wrote one of the first papers on preinva- promoted to manager of the mortgage banking ogy at the meeting of the Johns Hopkins Medical sive cancer of the cervix. TeLinde's research division. He holds a degree from Stonier Investigator and Surgical Society last spring. After the meet- helped demonstrate the relationshipbetween Graduate School of Banking. Theodore R. Oegema, Jr. '67, Ph.D. , associate ing the Johns Hopkins Hospital Richard Wesley carcinoma in situ and invasivecancer. These He and his wife, the former Sharon Burrill professor of biochemistry and orthopaedic TeLinde Gynecological Surgical Suites were ded- findings established the criteria which led to the '64, and their two sons now reside in Rochester, surgery at the University of Minnesota, was icated. development of the Pap smear fest for discover- N.Y. awarded the Kappa Delta Sorority award for Professoremeritus of gynecologicalpathology ing cervical cancer in its early, curable stage. young investigators by the American Academy at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, TeLinde also did pioneer research in an un- of Orthopaedic Surgeons at their recent usual type of ovary tumor and the treatment of meeting ' TeLinde was chairman of the department of Youngest Manager in Las Vegas for his work in the area of or- gynecology for 21 years. He retired from the gonococcal vaginitis in children. During his later At 21, he's the youngest city in the thopaedicsurgery. Hepresented a paper describ-:. universityin 1960 and entered private practice. years at Johns Hopkins he investigatedthe manager ing changes in the structural molecules of the He practicedmedicine until 1974. pathogenesis of the ailment endometnosis. country. John Weiss ’81, recently appointed to intervertebral disc and speculated on possible After studying at Hope for two years, he His book. Operative Gynecology,still is Con- the municipal helm in Coopersville,Mich., relationships to funaion. This work may have graduated from the Universityof Wisconsin. He sidered to be the definitive work on gynecologic hopes that reports of his managerial skills soon will follow all the stories that have application to low back pain, the leading cause of received his medical training at Jtihns Hopkins, surgery.TeLinde worked on the book for almost newspaper emphasized his youthful habits (like wearing work-related disability in this country. where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. a decadeand has contributedto all three editions. docksiders on the job and being excited about Oegema is picturedreceiving award from He completed both his internshipand-residency TeLinde’s wife, Catharine, died in 1967. He finally being able to afford a color TV). Ruth Dolberg, national treasurer of Kappa Delta enecoloKv at Johns Hopkins Hospital. continues to reside in Baltimore and pursues ’ vou're 21 or 51?" he 14 alumni news MEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981 Houhnan '52, recently traveled to Majuro, Mic- The Rev. Jerome Julien '59 is the minister of First Satre and Biography. ronesia,where Gene collected soil samples to be tested Christian Reformed Church of Sheldon, Iowa. Healso for antibioticactivity. Ann Cobb '67 Wessling presented a program, class notes is serving on the board of the new Mid-America Re- Louis William Bixby '49 has written and published a "Weaving for Profit and Sanity," for the Scott Club, formed Seminary at Orange City, Iowa. Grand Haven, Mich. book entitledThe Problems of Education — With Some I Lynn Albert '68 and Irene Edbrooke '68 Burrell are Forward Help. 60's 20's living in Mexico City, where A1 is manager of oper- The Rev. Roger E. Kleinheksel'60 will be the senior GerritKemme '26, M.D., has retired after 50 years of 50's ations for the McCormick plant. pastor of the Fellowship Reformed Church, Hudson- Fran '68 is in charge of and teaching at a medical practice in Drenthe, Mich, and receivedspecial Suzanne H. Brink '50 is working on a year long Gralow ville, Mich., starting)an. 1, 1982. writers'workshop at the Lomalinda Center, Bogota, I recognition for his years pf service,at the Zeeland, projectwith a RCA church in the cosmopolitan area of The Rev. Richard Bakker '61 is the pastor at the Columbia. Mich. Chamber of Commerce banquet on Oct. 27. Montreal City, Quebec. Wantagh (N.Y.j Memorial Cpngregational Church. Bamerd M. Luben '26 is the interim pastor at the Old Donald E. DeWitt '50 has assumed a new positionin Alan Griswold '68 is an account manager for Norton Carl Wm. Vermeulen '61 spent most of October North Church of Dumont, N.). Co., Geneva, 111., responsible for industrialabrasives I medical education at St. Mary's Hospital, Kansas City, working with the White House staff on the final prepa- Esther DeWeerd '28 will be spending December thru Mo. sales in the metropolitan Chicago area.' rations and the execution of the activities for the Bicen- Th,e Rev. Nelson R. Muiphy '68 is the RCA's man- March in lndia. Paul Kranandonk '50 is the senior pastor at the tennial commemoration of the Allied Victory at Alice Van Hattem '28 Jones will be spendingthe Pompton Lakes (N.J.) Reformed Church. ager of information systems, working from the de- Yorktown, Va. nomination's office in New York City. winter in Roatan, Republic of Honduras, promoting Isla Streur '50 Schipper was the program chairman Bruce Turkstra '64 is a senior vice president and Pelon '68 is the principalat the Hopkins timesharing on that island. of the flower show held at the Calder Plaza Building, Thomas directorof data processing for the New York Clearing Julius F. '28 is missions coordinator of the (Mich.) High School. Schipper Grand Rapids, Mich. , as part of the Celebration on the House, New York, N.Y. Chapel in University Park, Akron, Ohio. Grand for former President Gerald R. Ford. Vem Plagenhoef '68 spoke oh the topic "Money and The Rev. Robert G. Anderson '65, chaplain super- Sports" at the Holland Area Chamber of Commerce AntoinetteSikkel '50 has retired from her positionof visor at Connecticut Mental Health Center and lec- Early Bird Breakfast on Nov. 3. directorof medical records at West Suburban Hospital 30's turer in pastoraltheology at Yale Divinity School, was Robert H. Terwilliger'68 is a senior marketingre- in Oak Park, 111. '34 is a sponsor of the International Harold Seekamp recognized at the 1981 conference of the Association search analyst in the marketing department of Kellogg Lois Timmer '51 Appledom is a deacon at the First Youth Exchange Group in Louisville,Ky. for ClinicalPastoral Education, Oct. 13-17 in Estes Co.'s U.S. Food Products Division, Battle Creek, Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Mich. Roger Leestma '36 has written and published a book- Park, Colo. Mich. Robert W. Bedingfield'56 soon will be retiring from let of poems. The Rev. John R. DeVelder '65, associatepastor — Steven Binder '69 is the assistantprincipal at Adams the Navy Chaplain's Corps, at which time he will be Theresa Ruster '38 Reenders of Grand Haven, director of training at Zion's Reformed Church, 5 High School, located near Detroit. the senior pastor of the Bronxville, (N.Y. ('Reformed Mich., has retired from teaching as of ]uly 1. Greenville,Pa. , was recognized at the 1981 conference Church. Mary Richards '69 Watson is singing with Philadel- Andrew Nyboer '39 was the leader at a fall congrega- of the Association for Clinical PastoralEducation, Oct. phia's Singing City Choir, In the 1981-82 season they ThomasTenHoeve Jr. '56 has written an article, 'To tional retreat held in Septemberat the First Reformed 13-17 in Estes Park, Co. Serve Even the Last Man in Line," which was pub- will be touring with the Israeli Philharmonic in Israel Church of Kalamazoo, Mich. His theme was “The Leslie J. dark '66 Hirsch is studying the Suzuki and Eqypt. lished in the Oct. 1981 journal of the American As- New Testament Comes Alive." violin method at Cabrillo College, Capitola,Calif., as sociation of Community and junior Colleges. well as playing in a number of musical groups. 70's Everett J. Nienhouse'58 was- honored as the 1981 Douglas Collins '67 is teaching at the University of 40's W. Henderson '70 is practicingrheumatol- Teacher of the Year by the students of Ferris State Thomas Washington.He recently published a book called Ruth DeYoung '41 Potts writes under the name of College, Big Rapids, Mich. Winter and spring quarters ogy and internal medicine at the Cedarwood Medical Center, St. Joseph, Mich. • Rachel Palmer for HarlequinPublishers. of this academic year, he will be on sabbaticalat South- The Rev. Charles 70 is a missionary for Betty Mulder '45 Burton recently graduated from east MissouriUniversity, where he will study and VanEngen the RCA, serving in Chiapas, Mexico. the United Methodist Church's school for license as a research forensicchemistry. births Brian Gibson '71 is the program planning and de- local pastor and has been appointed to serve two Wayne Nyboer '58 has won a Regional Honors Robert '71 and Carina Bone, Allison Corina, Sept. 3, velopment manager of EightCAP, an agency serving churches in the Charlevoix, Mich., area. Award from MichiganElementary and Middle School 1981, Skaneateles, N.Y. residentsof northeast Grand Rapids, Mich. Eugene VanTamelen '47, professor of chemistry at PrincipalsAssociation. He is a principalin the West Roger '73 and Terry Chockley '77 Crisman, Sarah Charles S. Kan 72 is a senior research chemist with Stanford University, and his wife, the former Mary Ottawa School District,Holland, Mich. Lynne, June 9, 1981, Winfield, 111. the analyticallaboratory of Dow Chemical U.S.A., . Dan '70 and Mary Zuidema '70 Colenbrander, Emily Columbus, Ohio. Joy, June 18, 1981, Holland, Mich. Amy Ting 72 is working at the blood bank at St. Tom '74 and Mary Jo Scott '75 Dekker, Nicole Lynn, Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia. She is also Dec. 2, 1980, Grand Rapids, Mich. working with bone marrow transplants. Lee '71 and Sheri VandenHeuvel'72 DeYoung, Charles W. Gossett 73 has been selectedfor a Pul- Karissa Leanne, Oct. 4, 1981, South Holland, 111. bright Fellowship to teach public administration at the Bert and Madelene Miller '79 Edwards,Emily Lucille, June 27, 1981, Rochester, N.Y. University College of Swazeland in 1982. Charles is Christian A. '73 and Ann Grace Fenton, Ian Lathrop, born March 23, 1981, adopted July 2, 1981, Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. marriages Timothy '72 and L^nn Klaasen '72 Hillegonds, Re- becca Ann, Oct. 20, 1981, Grand Rapids, Mich. Charles J . Aardema '80 and Marilyn ElizabethJohnson Daniel and Barbara Moolenaar '78 MacDougall, '81, Aug. 22, 1981, Kalamazoo, Mich. Daniel Robert, July 13, 1981, Nova Scotia, Canada Patrick Daniel Baggott and Ann Marie Rezelman 79, James and Janet L. Boger '74 Mignano, Sarah May 9, 1981, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Elizabeth,Jan. 31, 1981, Birmingham, Mich. William Edwin Battjes78 and Debra Lynn Hoffman, Harry F. and Adelheid Holthuis '71 Noyes, Frederick Aug. 1, 1981, East Grand Rapids, Mich. Nicholas, May 23, 1961, Ann Arbor, Mich. Thomas Claus 75 and Nancy Westerweel,May 1981, William and Gay Hermance ’80 O'Brien, Meghan Grand Rapids, Mich. Elizabeth,July 26, 1981, Warrenton, Va. Jon Raymond Constant 72 and Mary Kay Babel, July Jeffery K. and Mrs. Riemersma, Jamie Lynn, Oct. 20, 18, 1981, Traverse City, Mich. 1981, Alma, Mich. Dave Feder '80 and Debbie TerHaar '81, Oct. 12, 1981 Michael '75 and Nancy Ruch, Joshua Michael, May -Timothy Cameron Griffin '80 and Marianne Dykema 29, 1981, Grand Rapids, Mich. '81, June 6, 1981, Grand Haven, Mich. ' Roger and Sherri Vos '78 Rushmeyer, Joshua David Harold Kammeraad79 and Nancy Marie Ellis, William, March 18, 1981, Holland, Mien. Sept. 12, 1981, East Grand Rapids, Mich. Gordon '77 and Karen Knudson '77 Sterling,Gordon Tracy Thomas Larsen '81 and Sharon Ann Buck '81, Kenneth, Sept. 14, 1981, New Brunswick,N.J. July 18, 1981, Muskegon, Mich. Larry and Helen Verhoek '68 Yarbrough,Gwendolyn Michael Shaw and Joanne Elizabeth Monroe 73, Oct. Leigh, Aug. 8, 1981, Evanston, 111. 19, 1981, Jackson, Mich. . , Dave '78 and Jan DeWeert 78 Zessin, Timothy David, Gary E. Wright and Margo Merchant 75, Sept. 6, Oct. 21, 1981, Holland, Mich. 1981 Eildert and Mary Etta Buis 71 Zwart, Sara Beth, Oct. Scott Wayne VanderZwaag and Judith Ann Cook '80, 7, 1981, Holland, Mich. 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Please use the space below for news that you'd like to communicate to your fellow Hopeites. Tell us about appointments and promotions, experiencesthat have been meaningful to you, Puppets Capture Imaginations honors that have come your way, travels, hobbies, or ideas that you think are worth sharing with others. This form should also be used to inform us of marriages, births, and advanced degrees. If you have recentlybeen featured in a local newspaper or other publication, please Picture this. It's the middle of the afternoon "Adults also respond well. They are as enter- - attach clippings. and you played hard at recess and now you're tained as the children, and they catch the humor feeling sleepy. The radiator is hissing and you're that sometimes goes over the children's heads." starting to remember the banana in your desk She uses both rod and hand puppets and says Name Class year.

that you forgot to eat yesterday,or maybe it was . she's found pantomime to be the most challeng- (Women should include maiden names) the day before. There's a red bumb on the side of -- ing area of her field. your middle finger from holding your pencil too Now living in Grand Haven, Mich., she at- Street Phone ( ) _ _ tight. The cookie jar was full when you left home tended an InternationalPuppetry Conference this morning, and you're starting to feel pretty last year in VYashington, D.C., where she met City -* 1 State Zip Code. - - _ bummed out about being in school right now. puppeteers from as far away as Moscow. In Au- - Then the teacher brings out the puppets — and gust she was in a class of 20 who studied with the Check here if this is a new address you know you're going to make it. National Lampoon .Puppet Theater at the Na- news notes During the years she was an elementary tional Puppetry Festival in California. c school teacher in both Lansing and Jenison, In between her puppet shows, Zevalkink man- Mich., Jane Decker '72 Zevalkink came to the ages to find time to play lead roles in area civic conclusion that "all childrenlove puppets." She theatre productions and serve as annual chair- I began to use them as teachingaids and five years person of a local Winterfest event. ago decided to concentrate on puppetry as a "My old friends would be surprisedto see me

fulltimeprofession. She has found that puppet now. I used to be shy. I was a late bloomer," she ' theatre is a way to present classictales and fables claims, as she manipulates a favorite puppet to children who might not learn them through sidekick. Ugly Duckling. books. Send to: Alumni. Office, Hope NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981 alumni news

Brenda Heath '77 VanderMeuIen is a financial room teacher in special education in the Fort Worth, currently a program analyst in the U.S. Office of 80's Personnel Management, Washington,D.C. analyst for Herman Miller, Inc. in Zeeland, Mich. Texas, IndependentSchool District. Susan VanDis '77 is working until April as a profes- Amy Lusky.'78 Wright is working at MicrolifeGene- Kelly Bowman '80 is working for Journal News- , Richard Nyhof '73 is doing post-doctoralresea rch'in papers in Ballston Spa, N.Y. microcirculationphysiology in the Department of sional ski instructorat Keystone, Arapance Basin, tics, Sarasota, Fla., on microbial DNA recombination. Lori Anderson '80 Turkhurst is teaching at Cran- Medical Physiology, College of Medicine, Texas A & Colo, and May-Novemberas a commercialartist in Colleen Cochran '79 Borgeld is a dental receptionist brook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. M University, College Station. Kalamazoo, Mich. in Grand Rapids, Mich. She is also attending Daven- port College of Business, studying computerand data Britt Bengson '81 is an associate programmer analyst Robert W. Schellenberg'73 is a senior tax consul- Scott Bradley '78 is at Emporia State University in at Planning Research Corp. in Reston, Va. tant at Touche Ross & Co. in Grand Rapids, Mich. Massachusetts, studying for a master's degree in processing. Mark Cook '79 is a sales representativefor Chandler Carrie Bruggers '81 is teaching at Ferris Jogakuinin Robert Warren Fretz '74 was installed on Oct. 4 as music. is Corp. in Wichita, Kan. Yokohama, Japan. * the minister of the Oradell (N.J.) Reformed Church. Robert Hunt '78 an area sales representativefor the Richard '79 is working toward a doctoral Susanne Hagan '81 is teaching at Seibi Gakuen in Larry Smith '74 is certified in emergency medicine Pitney Bowes Corp., Grand Rapids, Mich. Forman degree in zoology at the University of British Colum- Yokohama, Japan. and is working at the Holland, Mich., hospital. John Savage '78 is the assistant manager of the Holi- Nancy Kropf '81 is a graduate student at Michigan LeRoi DuShane '75 is an interiordesigner at day Inn, Marquette,Mich. bia, Canada. Rebecca '79 Potter is a Young Life leader in State University. Klingman'sin Grand Rapids, Mich. John VanderKolk '78 is a smdent at the University of McKay Ian Macartney '81 is an accounts executive and tech- LaGrange, 111. Margo Merchant '75 Wright is a systems sales con- ' Michigan Dental School. Papagebrge '79 is an account executive ' nical director, for KTVS, Channel 3 television.Sterl- sultant for Management Science Americas in Oak- Karen VanderRoest '78 is an elementaryresource Mary Dana -trainee with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith, ing, Colo. ’ brook. 111. Cynthia Nelson '81 is at the University of Wisconsin Chicago, 111. in the MerchandiseMart. Beverly Kerlikowske '76 Daane has been appointed Patricia A. Pulver '79 is teaching science at Villa GraduateSchool. to the board of directorsof New Actor's Theatre, Mana Academy in Bronx, Y. Kathleen M. Stratton '81 is attending law school at Grand Rapids, Mich., and will'be the producer of

Patricia A Pulver '79 M. P.H . , Aug. , 1981 , University continued from page 7 ble in scientificterms: matter, energy and of Michigan credited more directly to "a general human de- ideas — and that's about it, there isn't much else Charles VanEngen '70 Th.D., Free Reformed Univer- sire to make ends more important than means in the universeas far as science is concerned. For backlogue sity of Amsterdam scientists,it is an absolute necessity to think that Andfea Martin '68 Whippo M.A., counseling/death rather than to scientific enterprise").Cronkite 100 years ago and dying. Sept. 19, 1981 says there are benefitsto be gained from the there's nothing else in the world for scientiststo Jan. 10, 1882 — A small fire in Van Vleck Hall manipulation of bacterial genes — such as- the study. Otherwise, by definition, we can't study was quenched by students. To their delight, the biochemical manufacturing of hormones,drugs it. Yet, some people have taken that and made it Holland chief of the fire brigade later entered the and products for agriculture. Genetic engineer- into a kind of world-view — they've decided deaths they're going to live by that, not just do work by building, armed with his bugle, and demanded a ing also has introduced new techniques which Lester '24 died 3, in light to see the' fire. Brusse on Aug. 1981 Corpus can be applied to other kinds of biologkaT re- it. Christi,Texas, following a long illness. Jan., 1882 — Provisionalpresident G. Henry search, enabling scientists to take out individual "How do you integrate that scientificview of Among his survivors is his wife. Mandeville, who resided in New York City, re- genes and study them at the molecular level. At reality into a Christian world-view that insists ceived a New Year's present of a $3 ,000 donation the same time, Cronkite says there are legiti- there is another reality that transcends? I've Clarence Cook '32 died on Oct. 24, 1981 in Grand to Hope. (During the years 1878-1882 he raised mate fears associatedwith the developmentof been working on that issue for a long time, Rapids, Mich. because I think that many of the responses to it about $20,000 in donations from his fellow New He is survived by his wife, Henrietta; two sons, genetic engineering: have been sort of simple-minded, and it's not a York City residents.) George and Arnie; a daughter, Jackie Buswell; and "In principle, if we can do it vyith bacteria, we three sisters, Florence Datema '34, Edith Knoll, and ought to be able to do it with people. It's the simple issue. It gets into things like determi- 50 years ago Helen Vander Hill. industrial application to people that puts me off. nants, whether we can know about knowing. If a Nov. 14, 1931 — Hope made its radio debut as it J don't like to think of people as things that could scientificworld-view is taken seriously,it H. Dale Cook '28 died on Oct. 22, 1981 in Glendale, participated in a nationalliberal arts colleges be manipulated by industry." doesn't seem to me that there's much room for boosting program. Hope speakers and musical Calif. Closing the gap between science and public an idea like freedom, in the sense of being able to He is survived by his wife, Ethel; and a son, James. organizationswere broadcasted over several increasinglyis being regarded as an imperative, make decisionsand be responsiblefor them. It also gets us into questionslike. is nature? stations. not just something "nice" that could occur. At- What Michigan Word has been received of the death of Reina De - tempts such as Carl Sagan's books and his What do we mean by human nature?" Oct. 26, 1931 — Frank N. Patterson,longtime Jonge '26 in New Jersey. All indications are that science in America is in and well loved professor of biology, died in "Cosmos" television program have been both greater of public ever Phoenix, Ariz. Former students established a Word has been' received of the death of Edward blessed and blasted. Cronkite admits that it's not need support than before. prize in biology in Patterson's name, which has Diepenhorst T8 in Long Beach, Calif. always easy for scientiststo convey what they're Federal funding of research is likely to diminish been awarded annually. doing and why it's important. and there is increasedcompetition from abroad. Adrienne Tyssen '36 Elliott died on Sept. 26, 1981 in "There is a presuppositionamong the general The general population needs to become more Ottawa, III. literate in science, and scientists need to spend 10 years ago - public — and if might even be right — that the She was a teacher prior to her retirement. Winter, 1971— The television program "Star more scientists probe the universe, the more more time informing the public of their work. her survivors are her husband. Gene; and a Among Leading the way on Hope's are scien- Trek" had a fad. they begin to express what they see in terms that campus become campus foster daughter, Dorothy Griffin. tists like Donald Cronkite,a biologist with a Jan. 21, 1972 — Gordon J. Van Wylen, dean of seem contrary to common sense. And that's philosophicalbent who loves ideas as much as the College of Engineering at the University of Andrew Hyma '38 died on November 20, 1981 in been going on for centuries." facts, admires creativity in many modes, and Michigan, was named president-electof Hope Holland, Mich, following an extended illness. Thus, black holes are contemporarycounter- looks for ways that science is like other disci- College,thus ending a search that had lasted 15 He received his Ph.D. degree from MichiganState parts to Galileo's theories of motion and Coper-

months and involved more fhan 100 candidates. University. He was directorof manufacturingat the nicus' notion of earth-turning. plines rather than ways in which they're - De Pree Company for many years prior to his retire- worlds or at least a Pine Grove — apart. Jan., 1972 — Site clearancefor the new science "As you begin to probe levels of nature that — ment. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1906-1910. building was completed. people don't come up against every day, it gets He held membership in the American ChemicalSoci- harder and harder to think about it in ordinary ety and the American Pharmaceutical Society. terms. We are to the point now that much of Surviving are. his wife, Elizabeth De Vries '16 Class of '26 modern physics is so contrary to common sense Hyma ; a son, John H . '38 ; and two sisters, Willamine in so many ways that it's incomprehensible to DECEMBER Hyma '26 and Alice Marie Hyma '28 Kleis. the average person. And it's becoming the same Celebrates 55th

Roderic D. Jackson '54 died on Nov. 19, 1981 in an in other areas of science. . . . automobile accident in Sioux Center, Iowa. His wife, "Added to this, there has been somewhat of a The Class of 1926 held a first-time-ever 55th reunion. This class is a forerunner in Neva, was seriously injured in the accident. cultivation of a language barrier, based on the many - The Rev. Jackson received his B.D. degree from areas, so it is not surprising it is the first class to idea that if somethingcan't be understood, it Western Theological Seminary in 1957. He served must be profound. In Japan, for instance (where celebrate 55 years since graduation from Hope, churches in Tinley Park, 111. and Detroit, Mich, and Cronkite was an exchange scientist for six the Alumni Office notes. was the senior pastor of the Central Reformed Church In 1922, 125 men and women enrolledas months before coming to Hope) , the physicians in Sioux Center at the time of his death. freshmen. Of those 125, 67 are still living. Among his survivors are his wife, Neva; a son, all write their notes in German so they can't be Twenty-five of them, along with their spouses, Larry '79; and two daughters, Lori and Lisa. understood by the patients. I think this illus- attended the gala event at Point on the trates an attitude that scientists have had, the West Word has been received of the recent death of June cultivation of this use of scientific language al- shores pf Lake Macatawa on Oct. 8. The good food and fellowshipwas enjoyed Pyle '44 Janssen in Ann Arbor, Mich. most so that what's being said can't be under- by Among her survivors is her husband,Virgil '49. all. Class members came from as far away as stood. Scientists and public often seem situated at Californiaand Arizona. The reunion was George Painter '32 died on Aug. 14, 1980 in Nar- great distances from each other, but science and planned by Jim Ver Meulen, Margaret Anderson berth. Pa. De Pree, Al Schaafsma, and Ruth Nibbelink is the Last Day to make your con- Christianityoften have ‘found themselves en- Comstock. Ruth Miller '24 Peelen died in June, 1981 in Grand gaged in a downright tug-of-war. Given Cron- tributionto Hope College and A review of the 55 years since their graduation Rapids, Mich. kite's philosophicalbent, it's not surprisingthat shows that of the class entered the profes- have it credited,for state and fed- She received her M.A. in guidance and counseling the issue of the religious implicationsof modern 75.2% sions and 16.8% earned doctoral degrees. Dur- eral income tax purposes, to this . from Western Michigan University. Prior to her re- science is one which has engaged him for many tirement she was coordinator of testing for the Wyom- years. Often, he says, conflicts between science ing the years that records have been kept on calendar year. ing, Mich, public schools. and religion are perceivedof a question of scien- Annual Fund participation, an enviable67%av- Among her survivors are two sons, Allyn and tific hypothesis versus the language of erage participation was recorded.They lead the America's energy is mindpower. E>uane. poetry — or literalversus non-literal interpreta- way in both Annual Fund participation and per- Preserve it. Support quality educa- tions of tbe Bible. But, as far as he's concerned, centage of participation. Along with participat- Word has been received of the death of Orsavilla ing in the Annual Fund, the class participates in tion. Austin '31 Schuitema during August, 1981. there are deep, knottier conflias: capital building programs, the endowment of "What's really at issue, it seems to me, is the Hope, and are Col- Please send your gift to the Word has been receivedof the death of The Reverend question pf what science thinks is ultimately members rememberingHope vl vania. what's real is what's knowa- lege by way of annuitiesand wills. 16 campus scene NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1981 That Thirst Doesn't Mean You're Thirsty

You've probably always thought that you feel water compartmentsleads independently to the sin II, and allpwed access to water. thirsty because your mouth gets dry. Not so, sensation of thirst. During water deprivation, The researchersfound that captopril did not says a Hope College biology professor. water leaves the cells causing them to shrink. have any effect on water intake" after the first 12 The sensationof thirst is aroused through two Special cells, called osmoreceptors, found in a hours of water deprivation,indicating that an- separate mechanisms, one of which appears to be part of the brain-known as the hypothalamusand giotensinII is not necessary to stimulatedrink- more important in the earlier stages and one in in portionsof the gastrointestinal tract, respond ing during this period. But after 24, 36, and 48 the later stages of water deprivation.Dr. Christ- to this water loss by triggeringa series of ner- hours of water deprivation,captopril inhibited \ opher C. Barney, assistant professorof biology, vous signals which eventually lead to drinking. water intake. And the percent inhibition of water discussedthe two mechanisms and the role each intake increasedwith increasinglength of water Wafer is also lost outside the cell — the ex- plays in arousing thirst at a recent meeting of the. deprivation, indicating that the formation of an- tracellularcompartment — during water depriva- American PhysiologicalSociety in Cincinnati, giotensinII becomes increasinglynecessary for tion. This loss leads to a decreasein the volume Ohio. , thirst arousal as the length of water deprivation of blood and tissue fluids. The decreased fluid Dr. Barney's research is one of increases. numerous volume is followed by a drop in blood pressure i The investigatorsalso found that serum os- projects around the world designed to tell us and the release of the chemical renin from the molality and sodium concentrations,factors more about how our bodies work. kidneys. Renin increasesthe formation of an- which reflectintracellular thirst stimulation,in- Dr. Barney joined the Hope faculty in 1980. giotensin II, a hormone that acts at the creased by 12 hours of water deprivationbut . He receivedthe B.S. degree from Wright State hypothalamusto cause drinking.Neural signals changed very little thereafter. Furthermore, University and the Ph.D. from Indiana Univer- fro'm pressurereceptors inside blood vessels may measurementsof plasma renin activity, which sity. also stimulate drinking. reflect the amount of angiotensin II, did not 1 Until quite recently scientiststhought that the Dr. Barney and his fellow investigators.Dr. increase significantly until 24 hours after water' sensationof thirst was caused primarily by the Melvin Fregly and Dr. Rose Threatte of the Uni- deprivation.Renin activity increasedwith dryness of the mouth that follows water depriva- versity of Florida, were interested in finding out greater lengths of water deprivation. tion. Now scientistsbelieve that thirst and drink- the role each compartment plays in arousing Dr. Barney's data clearly indicate that the ing are controlledby two mechanisms which thirst during different periods of water depriva^ thirst which follows water deprivationis caused they have describedby the "double-depletion tion. In research supported by a Hope College by a depletionof both the extracellular and in- \ model.'' , Faculty Development Award and a grant from tracellular compartments.The intracellular According to the model, there are two water NASA, they studied laboratoryrats deprived of compartment appears to be more important in

compartments — one inside the cell and one water for various lengths of time up to 48 hours . the early period of water deprivation;the ex- outside — which are depleted of water during The animals were then given captopril, a sub- tracellular compartment becomes more impor- water deprivation.The depletion of these two stance which inhibits the formation of angioten- tant later. \ CHAMPIONSHIP BASKETBALL!! i Enjoy exciting action featuring the Hope College Flying Dutchmen

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