The Anchor, European Edition: July 1959
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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1959 The Anchor: 1950-1959 7-1-1959 The Anchor, European Edition: July 1959 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1959 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, European Edition: July 1959" (1959). The Anchor: 1959. Paper 16. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1959/16 Published in: The Anchor, July 1, 1959. Copyright © 1959 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1950-1959 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1959 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Travelers Worship In HOPE COLLEGE Church of Pilgrims, Protestant Cathedral Included among th^ many new experiences we have ANCHOR enjoyed so tar on our tour has been the opportunity to worship in different churches with people of other HOPE COLLEGE VIENNA SUMMER SCHOOL countries. Our first two Sundays were spent aboard the S. S. EUROPEAN EDITION VIENNA, AUSTRIA, JULY. 1959 Waterman, where both Protestant and Catholic services were provided for the passengers. The worshipers descended the stairs leading to the theater, from which came the sound of familiar hymns being played on the Sixty Students Join Hope in Europe piano The sermons were preached in English by Rev. Ftensira, a graduate of Calvin College. For Fourth Vienna Summer Session pi Since the Second World War, when large numbers which the Summer School program has had on the of our students were sent abroad and thus came into campus at home. It has increased interest in languages, contact with other people and cultures, there has be^n history, art, and music. But, even more significantly, a growing interest in various foreign study programs. it has stimulated concern for international relations. Last year's Vienna Summer School group helped to Like many other American institutions, Hope College select an Austrian student who received a year's scho- initially responded to this new student interest in super- larship to the USA. This year's group includes six vised travel and study by providing a European tour American students who were able to come to Vienna program, conducted by the language departments. By because Hope College students helped to raise the 1956, however, it had become apparent that the usual money needed to provide the necessary scholarships. tvpe of study tour program was too limited to meei the different needs ol" all the students interested in No account of the growth of the Vienna Summer broadening their international understanding in many School program would be complete without a sincere fields besides languages. tribute to the valuable services rendered by the Insti- tute of European Studies, which has been our host for the past three years, by the members of the teaching m Begun in 1956 staff, and particularly Mrs. Snow, who served as Women's adviser and supervisor of the German and With the establishment of the Hope College Vienna Music program in 1957 and 1958. The program also Summer School, on an experimental basis in 1956 and owes much to the enthusiasm, ingenuity, and interest in its present form in 1957, Hope College pioneeneid of the students themselves who contributed" many ideas the development of a program which provides all the and suggestions which have helped to make the Hope most important aspects of European travel, study, and College Vienna Summer School program what it is. living. The main features of this program are: an extended study tour which introduces students to Europe, both old and new; six weeks of residence in Vienna for a Hope Alumns Visit Group full academic summer session, and a period of inde- pendent travel prior to the student's return to the Enroute To Vienna PROTESTANT SERVICES have been held in English here United States. since 1607. Throughout our tour of Europe, we were met by Both Protestant and Catholic members of our group European Professors alumni of Hope College. The first of these was David Kinkema, who graduated from Hope in 1957. Dave, were given the opportunity to attend church services who was enrolled in the 1957 Vienna Summer School in English while we were in Amsterdam on our third The most unique part of the Hope College program program, has been in Germany as a U. S. soldier for is the nature and scope of its academic offerings. In Sunday. The Protestant service was held in the English some eighteen months. Last year he obtained leave and 1956, when the first experimental group spent part of Reformed Church of the Scotch-Reformed Presbyterian spent about a week in Vienna with the Hope gr^up. the summer in Vienna, students could enroll either in denomination. Part of the building in which we This year Kinkema, meanwhile advanced to a special a German or history course. Today, four years later, U. S. unit sent to Holland for NATO maneuvers, worshiped had been constructed about 1400 as a Dutch the enrollment has grown from fourteen to sixty stu- happened to spot the two large busses bearing the church. In 1607 the church was converted to the dents. Students have a choice of nine different courses, signs „Hope College Vienna Summer School" in front including Art, German, History, Literature, and Music. English language when used by the Pilgrims after their of a hotel in Amsterdam and excitedly stormed in to The staff now includes seven European professors, as Ilighl from England. join us there for a day. well as guest lecturers, two special tutors, and four We heard a message preached by a substitute pastor, members of the Hope College staff. When we reached Luxembourg, three days later, we Dr. John Primus, who spent four years as a student at In these four years the program has not only ex- were greeted by Gerrit Hoek who also groduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and three panded in numbers and in the scope of its offerings, Hope in 1957. He is stationed in Thionville, France, years at Calvin Seminary. He later did graduate work but has also enjoyed a growing reputation in the United which is near Luxembourg City. He, too, has been in States and in Europe. Hope College Vienna Summer the Army for some time and attended last year's Hope at the Free University in Amsterdam. School groups have been received in special briefings reunion in Heidelberg. It was interesting to note that in Axnsterdam, as in in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, many of our churches at home, the children were and Germany. The arrival of this year's Hope College Later, while we were in Heidelberg, two other gra- seated in the front and left before the sermon to have group was noted last week in four of the Vienna daily duates met us there. Charles Lindahl, '57, spent the day a special service in another part of the church. The papers, by the radio, and in a television program called with us and then continued with us to Nurnberg. „Welcome to Vienna". Chuck, too, had spent some time with last year's group deacons greeted visitors and friends at the door. in Heidelberg and Vienna. He is stationed in Darm- We were also the beneficiaries of a very nice custom stadt, Germany. Living With Families in Amsterdam, the serving of coffee after the service Ronald Kuiper, '58, also met us in Heidelberg and for visitors and members of the church. During this As in the past three years, students have already traveled on our bus to Nurnberg. Ron has only been coffee hour we met a number of young people, some settled in their respective homes, and started to work in Germany a few weeks. He is stationed in Heilbronn of whom ate dinner with us at our hotel and later on their various individual research projects which will and now looks forward to a possible pass or leave to guided us around their city. bring them into contact with a great number of Eu- spend some time with us in Vienna. ropeans during the next few weeks. Also begun has On June 28 in Nurnberg, Pastor Diez had planned the process by which these young Americans grow to Finally, in Nurnberg we met Captain Robert Japinga, to give a special service in English for the Hope group. understand and appreciate the values of a different his wife (the former Sally Schrier) and their two boys, However, due to the fact that Dr. Fried and Pastor culture and their own responsibility in the shaping of Ricky and Billy. Captain Japinga is stationed in Augs- Diez were unable to contact each other in time, many international relations in the future. burg at present. In Nurnberg, we were also met by Reverend and Mrs. Paul Diez. Rev. Diez graduated of us went instead to the Organ Concert at the from Western Theological Seminary in 1954 and now St. Lawrence Cathedral. The concert was one of a Impact On Campus is the pastor of the Lutheran Church in Nurnberg. Rev. series included in the International Organ Festival held Diez had three young men from his congregation with from June 20 to June 28 in Nurnberg. We all agreed Perhaps the most telling effect of this new experi- him who volunteered to serve as guides for those of as that the concert was, indeed, a worshipiul experience. ment in international living which Hope College has who wanted to see the city of Nurnberg.