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A spirited Alumni Arts Inside This Issue beginning excerpted Nykerk News ................................... 3 Inauguration Highlights ........ 6-7, 28 Character Honors ........................... 8 Reunion Photos ....................... 20-21 Please see Please see page four. pages 11-18. PUBLISHED BY HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 news from HOPE COLLEGE December 1999 Christmas greetings from the campus of Hope College! The shimmering lights of this blessed season remind us of the birth of our Savior, the Light of the world. May the peace and joy we have in Him light our paths in the year ahead. — Jim and Martie Bultman Hope College Non-Profit 141 E. 12th St. Organization Holland, MI 49423 U.S. Postage PAID ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED Hope College Campus Notes Diversity dialogue discussion sessions, cooperative games Although the college and activity workshops. was on Fall Break, school Several members of the Hope community participated in the event. To was still in session. give the young teens a global perspective, international students at the college led Some 200 students from 12 Ottawa and hands–on music, dance, arts and drama Muskegon county middle schools workshops demonstrating aspects of their gathered at Hope on Tuesday, Oct. 19, for cultures. the fourth annual “Calling All Colors” During the remainder of the school racial unity conference. year, the middle school students will work The all–day event is designed to on racial harmony action plans at their increase students’ awareness of schools. They will attend a follow–up stereotyping and its effects, to offer a safe conference at Grand Valley State place to discuss feelings about race and University in Allendale, Mich., in May. race relations, to help the students learn NOEDA is a grass–roots group that about different points of view and to works to promote racial harmony through expose the students to a college campus. education, advocacy, support networks Some 200 area middle school students met at Hope in October for the fourth annual Organized by the North Ottawa Ethnic and celebrations. It began organizing the “Calling All Colors” racial unity conference. As part of the program, several Hope Diversity Alliance (NOEDA), the area’s “Calling All Colors” conference in international students led workshops that demonstrated aspects of their cultures. conference included small–group diversity 1996. Above, Mizusu Kajiyama of Ferris University in Japan teaches origami. “Quote, unquote” news from Quote, unquote is an graduated a year or so earlier––came back from the secular university that she was HOPE COLLEGE eclectic sampling of attending and she talked to us about what Volume 31, No. 3 December 1999 things said at and about it was like to be our kind of Bible–keeping Christians at a secular university. She had Hope College. just taken her first philosophy course and On the cover she said, ’Oh, it’s weird stuff. They want to The Presidential Lecture Series is con- ask all these questions: “What is truth?”; Our main cover photo features a theme in keeping with the season as an accompaniment sidering the future of higher education “What is justice?”...There’s even some very to the holiday greetings shared by President James Bultman ’63 and Martie Tucker ’63 with a focus on Hope, an on–going com- strange philosopher who tries to get us to Bultman. memoration of the inaugural year of imagine what it’s like that our desk does At top center Jacob Cain leads the MIAA champion football team on to the field. President James Bultman ’63. not exist when we’re not perceiving it.’ The five–lecture series premiered on And we all shook our heads in disgust, or At top right is the opening of the 1999 Alumni Exhibition. Excerpts from the exhibition Friday, Oct. 22, with “A Community of whatever the equivalent of contemporary and the 1999 Alumni Opus magazine appear on pages 11–18. Scholars and Learners: Marks of teenage rhetoric was then. Excellence,” by Dr. Richard Mouw, presi- “And then I’ll never forget what she dent of Fuller Theological Seminary in said. She said, ’You know, I don’t have to Pasadena, Calif. Excerpts follow. answer all those questions. I don’t even “Maybe you all know this, but this year have to ask those questions, because I Volume 31, No. 3 December 1999 Hope College this building, Dimnent Chapel, is 70 years know Jesus Christ, and when you know Published for Alumni, Friends and Office of Public Relations old. It was dedicated in 1929. And on that that Christ is the answer you don’t have to Parents of Hope College by the Office of DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698 occasion the dedicatory address was given worry about the questions.’ And deep in Public Relations. Should you receive phone: (616) 395-7860 by Dr. William Bancroft Hill, who gave in my heart I uttered a prayer that I would more than one copy, please pass it on to fax: (616) 395-7991 this place a speech entitled ’Religion and always be that clear about my convic- someone in your community. An overlap [email protected] Education.’ And he said that this build- tions––that I would never get carried away of Hope College constituencies makes ing, and I’m quoting him now, he hopes by the strange philosophies that they Thomas L. Renner ’67 duplication sometimes unavoidable. Director of Public Relations ’will be the most beautiful and command- taught at colleges and universities. ing of all the campus buildings at Hope “But, alas, it was not to be. I took my Gregory S. Olgers ’87 College.’ And that as such it will be a philosophy courses and I devoured them. I Editor: Thomas L. Renner ’67 Director of Information Services witness to—and I’m quoting him again— really wrestled with those questions: Managing Editor: Gregory S. Olgers ’87 Lynne M. Powe ’86 Alumni Director ’the important belief that education ’What is truth?’ and ’What is justice?’ I Layout and Design: without religion is a failure, but also that even at a certain point wondered whether Holland Litho Service, Inc. Kathy Miller religion without education is ever in sore the desk continued to exist when I did not Public Relations Services Administrator peril.’ And those two things are very perceive it... Printing: News Web Printing Services Karen Bos important for us to keep in mind. “And I had to struggle toward the firm of Greenville, Mich. Office Manager “That education needs religion––those of conviction that I now possess that not only Contributing Photographer: Notice of Nondiscrimination us in Christian higher education want to is Jesus Christ the answer, but Jesus Christ Lou Schakel ’71 insist upon that. But at the same time the is the great questioner. He poses the ques- Hope College is committed to the concept of Christian community desperately needs the tions to us, and we need to be in equal rights, equal opportunities and equal protection under the law. Hope College admits kind of scholarly reflection and learning that communities where faith can take those news from Hope College is published during February, April, June, August, students of any race, color, national and ethnic takes place in communities of this sort... questions very seriously... origin, sex, creed or disability to all the rights, “When I was a student in a large high “Thinking about it is never, in the October, and December by Hope privileges, programs and activities generally school in New Jersey I belonged to a little Christian community, a waste of time and College, 141 East 12th Street, Holland, accorded or made available to students at Bible club that met regularly––Christians in effort. As Stanley Hauerwas puts it, he Michigan 49423-3698. Hope College, including the administration of a large public high school. We met for fel- says, ’I contend that this privilege of schol- its educational policies, admission policies, and athletic and other school-administered lowship, prayed for each other. And we arship and learning comes from a Postmaster: Send address changes to had some discussions about what it meant community that believes that nothing is programs. With regard to employment, the news from Hope College, Holland, MI College complies with all legal requirements for us to be Christians in the high school. more important than to have people who 49423-3698 prohibiting discrimination in employment. I’ll never forget one session in which one of bear the rigors of seeing more truthfully our alums––a young woman who had the way the world is.’” 2 NFHC December 1999 Campus Notes PLANNING AHEAD: The college has been scheduling its traditional events for the forthcoming couple of years. To help those planning ahead, here are some dates for the 2000–01 academic year and the fall of 2001. Everybody wins Please note that 2000–01 includes a rare September Homecoming, a change from October tradition resulting from a combi- he sophomore Class nation of the 2000 football schedule and T other activities on campus. of ’02 captured the trophy, In 2000–01: Community Day, Saturday, but regardless of the Sept. 9, 2000 (night game); Homecoming outcome the Nykerk Cup Weekend, Friday–Sunday, Sept. 22–24, 2000 competition is a winning (reunions for 1985, 1990 and 1995); Pull tug–of–war, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2000; event for all involved. Nykerk Cup competition, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2000; Alumni Day, Saturday, May 5, 2001 It’s better to win, of course, but win (reunions for every fifth class, 1936–81); or lose it’s the friendships formed and memories made that participants talk Baccalaureate and Commencement, Sunday, about months and years later. (And May 6, 2001. for the freshmen there’s always next In fall of 2001: Community Day, year...) More than 325 freshmen and Saturday, Sept.

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