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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons News from Hope College Hope College Publications 1975 News from Hope College, Volume 6.1: March- April, 1975 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college Part of the Archival Science Commons Recommended Citation Hope College, "News from Hope College, Volume 6.1: March-April, 1975" (1975). News from Hope College. 7. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college/7 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Hope College Publications at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in News from Hope College by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. /YW c/ "Yt c-juL ; ij V o\ tc news from College Hope Second Class Postage Paid at f March/April, 1975 Holland, Michigan 49423 PUBLISHED BY THE HOPE COLLEGE OFFICE OF COLLEGE RELATIONS Inside Hope now has a first-rate facil- ity to complement its strong programs in the humanities and social sciences. Story begins on page 6. Today's college freshmen are more cautious and conservative in their attitudes. An in-depth look at Hope's freshmen is on page 5. V * ||§f Launching student drive for proposed Physical Education Center are (from left to right) Bob Carlson, Debbie Maxwell, Debbie Gray and Jim Donkersloot. Lost: Some Hope Alumni. Your Rhys Ed Center Drive Underway help is needed to locate former students. See 10. Hope page A concertedeffort is underway at Hope the Lubbers Hall for the Humanities and aged to maintain their level of giving to the College to raise the funds needed to Social Sciences and the budding of two new Annual Alumni Fund while designating an Disappointing best describes construct a new physical education center residence halls. extra gift toward the Build Hope Fund. The Board of Trustees at its January the winter sports season. See Constructionof the building would bring The drive to raise the $3.2 million to completion a long-range program of necessaryto build the physical education meeting committed itself to raise $1 million page 8. campus development which was initiated center will also bring to a close the Build toward construction of the Center. The in 1966. Hope Fund, a multi-million dollar fund college also plans active solicitation of Our annual selection from The Centennial Decade Master Plan has raising program launched in 1972 to sup- Reformed church congregations,major Opus, the student literary publi- brought about construction of the DeWitt port capital, endowment and academic donors and foundations. The student body has also pledged its cation, is on page 12. Cultural Center, the Peale Science Center, programs. Through the end of February the rennovationof the former science hall into Build Hope Fund had reached 70% of its support and hopes to raise $200,000. The $8,850,000 goal with $6,115,255 in gifts and student campaign was launched during a pledges. recent Hope-Calvin basketball game with "A comprehensive program in physical the sale of a 1,000 piece cake that had been educationis an essential part of our total created to look like the architect's rendering program in liberal arts and our stress on the of the proposed Physical Education Center. whole person — mind, spirit and body," Among other imaginativefund raising said President Van Wylen. efforts planned by the students will be the "Our present gymnasium was built in sale of water equivalent to what it will take 1906, just 40 years after the College was to fill the swimming pool in the new founded, wf\en enrollment was less than building. A fraternityis also planning a 400. It has now been in use for almost 70 fund raising Tupperwaresale. years and is woefully inadequate for our At Hope, physical educationand recrea- student body of two thousand and the tion are an essential fiber in the total fabric many instructional,recreational and in- of a liberal arts education. The program tramural and intercollegiateprograms we aims not only at the teaching of physical offer." skills, but also toward making a positive President Van Wylen reported that contribution to the total educationof the $920,000 has been pledged toward the new individual. physical education center. A major portion The physical education staff has not of the gifts ($589,246) has been contributed waited for a new structure to implement by alumni who earned athletic letters while up-to-date programs. attending Hope. Academically,students may major in Constructionof the Center cannot begin physical educationand recreation with a until the full amount of funds have been minor in dance. There are also organized received, accordingto President Van Wy- physical fitness and instructionalsports len. activities for individuals and groups, in- tramural sports for men and women, No, the hula hoop craze hasn't returned to Hope's campus. SueAhlgrim,a freshman from Elmhurst, The effort to raise funds for the project recreationalopportunities for students and III., is picturedtrying her hula hoop skill during annual Winter Carnival which this year had the will involve all of the constituencies of the college.Alumni this year are being encour- continued on page two World Council of Churches, ac- audio-lingual review in the entering the Christian ministry cording to drive co-chairmen Jan Spanish language. and the witness of the church," Weitz, a senior from Westport, Dr. Kraft will attempt to develop said Dr. Henry Voogd, chairman . Conn., and Tim Muler, a junior competency based instructional of the religion department. "The 1 from Hackensack, N.J. for the physical programs educa- uniqueness of the venture is that it The gifts more than doubled the tion activity at programs Hope is an investment in persons rather previous high of $1,900 to the College. than things and as Mr. and Mrs. The fund. Previous drives assisted in Van Ess follow the life ministries of buying a van for a minister in i the recipients they will have the South Africa and the purchase of knowledge that they had a part in an artificiallimb for a Vietnamese STUDENTS PUBLISH Campus the encouragement and deepen- child. IN NATIONAL ANTHOLOGY ing of their calling." Two Hope students have writ- Mr. and Mrs. Van Ess are mem- bers of the Hope Reformed Church Scene ten poems which will be included in the 1975 edition of The National in Sheboygan, Wise. Mr. Van Ess RELIGION PROFESSOR formerly an of the Anthology of Poetry, a compilation was executive RECEIVES FELLOWSHIP of some of the finest poetry being National Box and Specialtiescom- pany in Sheboygan. In their re- Dr. Sang H. Lee, assistant profes- written in America. tirement years Mr. and Mrs. Van sor of religion at Hope, has been "Blue-eyed Boy" by P. J. Col- Ess live in St. Petersburg, Fla. awarded a Fellowship by the dren, a senior from Holland, during the winter months where American Council of Learned Mich., and "The Grestest Show" they are active members of the Societies (ACLS) for the 1975-76 by Joan Schramm, a senior from Reformed-ChristianReformed REORGANIZATION ment which previously had been academic year. Chapel there. Mrs. Van Ess is an IS COMPLETED part of the speech department The award will enable Dr. Lee to accomplishedmusician and serves program. He also played an active devote one full academic year to Reorganizationof the academic as organist of the chapel. Both Mr. role in the planning stages for the writing a new interpretivebook on administrative structure at Hope and Mrs. Van Ess have been active theatre department facilitiesin the the thought of Jonathan Edwards. College has been completed with in the annual Hope College Village DeWitt Student and Cultural The project is to be carried out the appointment of Dr. James J. Square as members of the Wiscon- Center on Hope's campus. principally on the campus of Har- Malcolm as Dean for the Perform- sin contingent. vard University, where Dr. Lee ing and Fine Arts and professor of Dr. Malcolm has been an active will have access to Edwards' un- theatre. performer as well as scholar. He publishedmanuscripts. The ACLS The appointment completes has appeared in summer stock, NATIONAL HONOR FOR televisionand industrial and is a federation of national organi- reorganization of the academic zations concerned with the PROFESSOR'SETCHING structure whereby four divisional commercial films. His television credits have included appearances humanities and the humanistic Bruce McCombs, assistant deans will report to Provost David on Three Sons, elements of the social sciences. professor of art, recently had an Marker who was appointed chief Gunsmoke, My Studio One, Kraft Theatre The projected book, according etching entitled "Boulevard" academic office last summer. and U.S. Steel Hour. to Dr. Lee, will attempt to fill a gap selected for inclusion in the 24th Dr. Malcolm is currently an that has existed in Edwards' national exhibition of prints spon- associate professor of theatre arts At Boston University he is cur- rently serving as chairman of the studies for a long time — namely, sored by the Library of Congress in the School of Fine and Applied graduate department in religion, the need for an explanationof the and the National Collection of Fine Arts at Boston University. He literatureand the arts. basic framework of Edwards' Arts, Smithsonian Institution. served on the Hope College faculty phUosophicaland theological sys- Originated in 1943, the exhibi- from 1963 to 1969. tem. tion is one of the most prestigious Dr. Sheldon Wettack, a member Allen Park, Mich., are among 500 Dr. Lee's research on Edwards competitive print shows in this of the Hope chemistry faculty poems selected for publication GRANT SUPPORTS has been previously aided by a country, attracting over 10,000 since 1967, was appointed Dean from 250,000 entries.

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