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rphe 1980s saw many JLchanqesJLchanges at HopeHofce College.Cod % - Some were planned and some were noC— and it is perhaps fitting that the decade tft§t opened with the ^ JW| hunting of Van Raafte Hall closed with the renovation of 3* Van Zoeren and VanderWerf Halls.

TT* ven Before the 1980s faded) however, plans for the next J-J 10 years were underway. In March of 1989 "Hope in the Future, ” the strategic planning process initiated hy President John H. Jacobson, began to investigate directions for the collegers future. In January, the Board of Trustees adopted the “Hope in the Future" ^inat report. As this decade progresses, so, too, will implementation of the report's recommendations news from HOPE COLLEGE CAMPUS NOTES Volume 21, No. 4 February 1990 commissioned via the U.S . Naval Academy and the Naval ROTC Scholarship Program. Published for Alumni, Friends and Parents Today 70 percent of all U.S. Marine Corps of Hope College by the Office of Public officers enter through PLC. Relations. Should you receive more than one The program consists of two six-week copy, please pass it on to someone in your community. An overlap of Hope College officer training courses that college under- constituenciesmakes duplicationsometimes graduates take during the summer: PLC- unavoidable. junior and PLC-senior.Successful candi- dates are offered commissions as U.S. Editor: Thomas L. Renner ’67 Marine Corps officersupon receipt of their Associate Editor: Gregorys. Olgers '87 Baccalaureate. “The program was very rigorous Contributing Writers: Lora Huizenga — challenging physically, emotionallyand '90, Stephanie Wright ’91. . mentally,” Church said. “I was mainly Layout: Holland Litho Service, Inc. pleased to have graduated, but to have Contributing Photographers: received the award was an honor indeed.” Jim Dostie, Louis Schakel Church was presented two trophies Photo Staff: Stephanie Grier ’93 commemoratinghis accomplishments at a ceremony held at Hope in December. One news from Hope College is publishedduring trophy is Church’s to keep, and the other February,April, June, August, October and will be displayed at Hope until next year’s December by Hope College, 137 East 12th honoree is selected. Street, Holland, Michigan 49423-3698. Church is earning a major in mathematics Postmaster:Send address changes to news Junior Elliott Church of Traverse City, Mich, received the 1989 Commandant’sTrophy at Hope, and he tutors mathematics with from Hope College, Holland,MI 49423-3698. the Upward Bound program at the college. from the U.S. Marine Corps for achieving the highest average in Platoon Leaders' He is the son of William ’64 and Sandra Hope College Office of Public Relations, Class-senior. Pictured from left to right are William ’64 and Sandra Sissing ’64 Church, Sissing ’64 Church. DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. his parents; Elliott Church; Brigadier General (retired) Roberts. Raisch and President Thomas L. Renner ’67, Director John H. Jacobson. USA TODAY HONOR: Senior Mary Lammers '60, Kempker, Associate Director Jennifer Haskin of Farmington Hills, Mich, Gregory S. Olgers ’87, AssistantDirector MARINE HONOR: Elliott Church, a Leaders’ Class (PLC)-senior, a demanding, is one of 121 college seniors named to the Janet Mielke ’84 Pinkham, Assistant junior from Traverse City, Mich., was six- week U.S. Marine Corps officer first USA TODAY ALL-USA college Director named the 1989 Commandant’sTrophy candidateclass. academic teams. Esther Cleason, Office Manager recipient by the U.S. Marine Corps. Platoon Leaders’ Class was instituted in Out of 749 students nominated by their Rhonda Dreyer ’88 Faber, Church was selected for the honor from the late 1930s as a means of increasing the schools, 60 were named to three 20-member Receptionist- Scheduler approximately600 participants nationwide number of commissioned officers in the all-academicteams while another 61 Karen Bos, Secretary by achieving the highest average in Platoon U.S. Marine Corps, supplementing those (see "CAMPUS” on page 3)

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION : Hope College is committed to the concept of equal quickly recognized and treated problems psychologicalinsights invaluable and rights, equal opportunities and equal protection such as cancer and appendicitis. Once would strongly advise premed students under the law. Hope College admits students to study the field.” of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, you know the correct diagnosis, it’s easy sex, creed or handicap to all the rights, to look back and interpretthe early Dr. Myers, a member of the Hope privileges, programs and activitiesgenerally symptoms accordingly. faculty since 1967, has authored or accordedor made available to students at Hope “For many physicians I have known, co-authored nine books. He recently College, including the administration of its the intrinsicmotives behind their wrote Exploring Psychology,an intro- educationalpolicies, admissions policies, entering the profession — to help ductory psychology text designed with scholarship and loan programs, and athletic people, to be scientificallystimulated — community colleges in mind. Exploring and other school-administeredprograms. With Quote, unquote is an eclectic sampling soon become ‘over-justified’by the high Psychology is a briefer, paperback regard to employment, the College complies of things being said at or about Hope pay. Before long, the joy is lost. The version of Dr. Myers’ other introductory with all legal requirementsprohibiting College. extrinsic rewards become the reason to psychology text, and has built-in discrimination in employment. — Burton F. VanderLaan'73 in “A practice, and the physician, having lost pedagogical aids. Physician Looks at Social Psychology, " the altruistic motives, works to increase The hard-cover text from which On the Cover: an excerpt from page 160 of Social ‘success,’ measured in income. Exploring Psychology is derived is used Psychology (third edition) by David G. Hope College is ushering in the new “ ‘Self-serving bias’ is ever present. by a quarter of a million students Myers, John Dirk Workman Professor of decade with a bang — Van Zoeren and We physicians gladly accept personal annually. Psychology. Dr. VanderLaan is a physi- VanderWerf halls are newly-renovated, credit when things go well. When they He has published scientific articles in cian living in Orland Park, Illinois. and Hope in the Future, the strdtegic don’t — when the patient is misdiag- more than two dozen journals. Dr. He discoveredDr. Myers ’ book plan, has charted directionsfor the nosed or doesn’t get well or dies — we Myers-hasalso published articles for the while browsing through the Hope- college in the 1990s — creating much to attribute the failure elsewhere. We were lay public in magazines such as Saturday Geneva Bookstore during a visit to the anticipate. given inadequate information or the case Review, Psychology Today, Today’s Hope campus. Intrigued by the text, he was ill-fated from the beginning. Education and Science Digest. As the college faces the coming decade, bought a copy. "He wrote me a letter on “I also observe many examples of Dr. Myers is also well regarded by his it is appropriate to reflect upon the past, the social psychology of medicine, ‘belief perserverance.’ Even when students. He received the H.O.P.E. and so this issue contains a retrospective which / adapted, with his permission, presentedwith the documentedfacts (Hope OutstandingProfessor Educator) on the 1980s. And, because this issue for the just-released new edition," Dr. about, say, how AIDS is transmitted, award in 1972, and in 1974 was invited celebrates both the college's future and Myers said. "The concepts he 's referring people will strangely persist in believing by the senior class to be the college’s its past, Dimnent Memorial Chapel made to all have been explained in the book" that it is just a ‘gay’ disease or that they commencement speaker. an ideal cover illustration, symbolizing as “ W eading this book helps me under- should fear catching it from mosquito it does the Hope College of yesterday, bites. It makes me wonder: How can I today and tomorrow. _I^stand the human behaviorsI observe in my work as a cancer specialist more effectively persuade people of For a look at the final report of Hope in and as medical director of a large staff what they need to know, and act upon? the Future, see pages six and seven . For of physicians. A few examples: “Indeed, as I observe medical attitudes a retrospective on the 1980s, see page “Reviews of medical records illustrate and decision making I feel myself five. The story of the Van Zoeren! the T knew it all-along phenomenon,’ submerged in a giant practical laboratory VanderWerfrenovation appears on pages physicians looking at cases in hindsight of social psychology.To understand the eight and nine. often believe they would have more goings-on around me, I find social

TWO NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990 CAMPUS (continued from page 2) Sociologists’ study finds RCA students, including Haskin, received honorable mention recognition.

Judges looked for a blend of scholarship, initiative, creativityand leadership. They clergy and laity opinion closer also looked for students committed to serving others. ^^llergy and lay members of mainline were much more protective than the lay factionalized as it was, and stability is FACULTY DEVELOPMENT: The V_x Protestant churches appear to have members of the theological and historical more likely.” fewer differences of opinion than they did traditionsof the church, supporting tradi- expanding faculty development program at Although their research does not directly in the late 1960s, according to a recent study tions such as the church’s creeds and Hope College has received support through address the question of how the change by Hope sociologists Dr. Donald A. confessions. Conversely,the clergy were a $250,000 challenge grant awarded by the evolved, Dr. Luidens and Dr. Nemeth Luidens ’69 and Dr. Roger J. Nemeth. more liberal than lay on Knight Foundation of Akron, Ohio. RCA members suggest that one of Hadden’s earlier predic- In a study of the members of the Re- social and politicalissues such as defense Faculty development activities to be tions has come to pass. “As Hadden formed Church in America (RCA) published spending, welfare programs, the death funded by the grant include introductory speculated, the most liberal clergy seem to in the December issue of The Review of penalty and permitting prayer in public programs to assist new faculty in gaining a have left the church,” Dr. Nemeth said. Religious Research, the two sociologists schools. strong start as scholar-teachers or teaching “They found that they could act more found that pastors seemed to be more On a seven-point scale, with “1” being artist. The college will also establishKnight effectively upon their liberal agenda — conservative than parishioners on matters “far left” and “7” being “far right,” the Fellowshipsto fund research activities of especially as it related to welfare and civil of traditionaltheology, while lay members clergy placed themselves near the mid- established teacher-scholars,and there will rights issues— through secular institutions were more conservative on political issues. point: 4.1. The laity, by contrast, placed be funds aimed at revitalizing the teaching such as the social service system and in “One of the reasons often cited for to the right, at 4.5, of veteran faculty. themselves more politics.” conflict in the mainline churches during the although neither group was far from the The faculty development project will Dr. Luidens and Dr. Nemeth have late 1960s and early 1970s was that the midpoint. also allow faculty to examine ways to conducted joint research into issues of explore their disciplines relativeto the clergy tended to be more liberal on both _ “In contrast to a single-mindedconser- Protestantism and the Reformed Church in theological and politicalissues,” Dr. vatism the laity and a single-minded Christian faith. Workshops will assist the among America since 1986. Among their collabora- said. to faculty in teaching the college’s senior Luidens “This prompted many liberalism among the clergy, we found that tive efforts is a series of articles entitled seminar courses. become politically and sociallyinvolved — there were ‘parties’ within both groups that “The RCA Today,” published in The Church Dr. Jacob Nyenhuis, provost of Hope especially in anti-Vietnam War and Civil were liberal and conservative,” Dr. Nemeth Herald in 1987. Rights activities in a way that angered said. clergy liberal in College, is project directorfor the program. — “Some were more Dr. Luidens, an associate professor of many lay people.” Dr. Nyenhuis also wrote the grant proposal politicaland theological issues, as were sociology and chairperson of the sociology submittedto the Knight Foundation. “In a celebrated study on this pattern. some laity. On the other hand, some clergy department, has been a member of the Hope Professor Jeffrey suggested that The grant is part of nearly $3 million Hadden were more conservative on both agendas, College faculty since 1977. He is currently awarded to 13 private liberal arts colleges there was a ‘gathering storm in the churches’ and they were supported by some of the lay involved in a major research project inves- because of this profound disagreement and universitiesfrom II states through the members.” tigatingthe religiousbeliefs and behaviors between ministers and Dr. foundation's “Excellencein Undergraduate members,” Dr. Luidens and Dr. Nemeth suggest that of post-World War II Presbyterians. Education Program." Ail of the grants are Luidens said. a “pluralistpatchwork of perspectives” is Dr. Nemeth, an associate professor of challenge grants to be matched by the Dr. Luidens and Dr. Nemeth noted that operating in the Reformed Church in sociology, has been a member of the Hope the to be significantly recipients.Participation in the program is churches seemed America. faculty since 1983. On Oct. 28 he was by invitation. more subdued in the 1980s than they had “With this cross-roughingof their designated Michigan’s Outstanding “It was an honor for us to be invited to been only a decade before. They surveyed viewpoints, the clergy and laity have found Sociology Professor of the Year, in a apply for a Knight Foundation grant, and clergy and'laity in the RCA in order toimder- more grounds for agreement than existed category that included all of Michigan's an even greater honor to receive it,” said stand what had happened to the 1960s rift. in the 1960s and 1970s, " Dr. Luidens said. four-year colleges, for his outstanding (see "NOTES" on page 12) Their analysis showed that the clergy “As a consequence, the church is not as record as a teacher and scholar.^

Symposium topic is “The Quest for Justice: Christian Voices”

The 11th annual Hope College Critical Issues Symposium will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 28 and Thursday, March 1, and will include the conferring of an honorary degree upon the Reverend Allan Boesak of the Republic of South Africa.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28 2. “Christ and the Freeing of Women;” Rita 11 a.m. Morning Chapel Nakashima Brock and Lynn Japinga; VanderWerf 102 “Justice: A BiblicalVoice;” Nicholas Wolterstorff of 3. “Politicaland Economic Rights and Christian Yale University; Dimnent Memorial Chapel Justice:A Black Perspective;” James Washington, 7-8:30 p.m. Allan Boesak professor of religionwith Union Theological Seminary; Awarding of honorary degree and keynote address Mass Conference Room 8:40-9:40 p.m. Focus Sessions 4. Panel: “Can Violence Advance the Cause of

1. “The Politics of Hunger;” Kathy Pomeroy of Bread Justice?;”Donald Cronkite, professor of biology, Hope for the World; Wichers Auditorium College; Jack Holmes, professor of politicalscience, 2. “Economic Freedom vs. Economic Justice: The Case Hope College; James Van Hoeven, World Alliance of of theThird World;” Alejandro Chafuen of Atlas Economic Reformed Churches, Geneva, Switzerland; and mod- Research Foundation; Maas Conference Room erator Wayne Boulton professor of religion, Hope 3. “Justice and Prisoners of Conscience;" Felix College; VanderWerf101 Richter of Amnesty International;VanderWerf 102 11:30 a.m. -12:40 p.m. Lunch 4. “Christ and the Oppressed:Biblical Perspectives,” “The Shattering of Apartheid: South Africa in the Pablo Deiros, Hope Northrup Lecturer; VanderWerf 101 Coming Decade;” Brown bag session with Allan Boesak THURSDAY, MARCH 1 and James Van Hoeven; Maas Auditorium 9 a.m. Keynote Address 12:45-1:45p.m. Keynote “The Abuse of Love: Justice in Personal Relations;" “Freedom, the Basis of Justice;” Michael Novak; Rita Nakashima Brock, assistantprofessor of religion DeWitt Theatre with Pacific Lutheran University; Dimnent Memorial 2-2:45 p.m. Wrap-up Chapel “Within the Quest: Can Christian Voices Find 10:15-11:15a.m. Focus Sessions Harmony;” Nicholas Wolterstorff; DeWitt Theatre 1. “A Theology of Economics;" Michael Novak, 2:45-3:30 p.m. Panel Discussion former U.S. ambassador,and professor of religionand “The Final Refrain: A Dialogue;”Allan Boesak. public policy with American Enterprise Institute; Michael Novak, Rita Nakashima Brock and moderator Reverend Allan Boesak Winants Auditorium Nicholas Wolterstorff; DeWitt Theatre

NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990 THREE EVENTS

ACADEMIC CALENDAR 1989/90 SPORT SCHEDULES For a copy of the spring 1990 Hope College athleticschedules, March 1, Thursday — Critical Issues Symposium (classes not write to: Office of Public Relations; Hope College,Holland, in session. Topic is “The Quest for Justice: Christian Voices”) Mich. 49423. March 15. Thursday — Spring Recess begins, 6 p.m. March 26. Monday — Spring Recess ends. 8 a.m. April 27, Friday — May Day; classes dismissedat 12:30 p.m. SYMPHONETTE TOUR April 30-May 4, Monday-Friday — Semester examinations Friday March 16 — Church of the Chimes; San Jose, May 4, Friday — Residencehalls close for those not participating California in Commencement, 5 p.m. Sunday, March 18 — Calvary Reformed Church; Ripon, Calif. May 5, Saturday — Alumni Day Monday, March 19 — Bethany Reformed Church; Redlands, May 6, Sunday — Baccalaureateand Commencement Calif. May 6, Sunday — Residence halls close for graduating Tuesday, March 20 — Church on the Hill; Norco, Calif. seniors, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 25 (a.m.) — Crystal Cathedral; Garden Grove, Calif. ADMISSIONS Additionalperformances were planned but not scheduled by the time news from Hope College went to press. For VisitationDays informationconcerning performances or concert times, For prospectiveHope students, includingtransfers, high please call the music department at (616) 394-7650. school juniors and seniors. Visitations are intended to show students and their parents a typical day in the life of a Hope student. There will be ample opportunitiesto meet students, CHAPEL CHOIR TOUR faculty and staff. Thursday, March 15 — New Hope Reformed Church; Dublin. Friday, March 2 Friday, March 30 Ohio (held at the Performing Arts Centre, Dublin School Holland Area Program — March 16 System) A special program geared for Hollaand area students. Friday. March 16 — Sunnyside Presbyterian Church: Winches- Junior Day 1989 — April 20 ter, Va. A day designed specifically for high school juniors and their Sunday, March 18 — Central Presbyterian Church: Baltimore. parents to help them begin the college search. Md.

Pre-Medicineand Pre-EngineeringDay — May 1 1 Monday. March 19 — North Branch Reformed Church: Nonh Activities for high school juniors interested in becoming Branch. N.J. medical doctors or engineers. Tuesday. March 20 — Second Reformed Church: Wyckoff. N.J. Explorientation ’90 — July 15-21 THE ARTS Wednesday, March 21 — New Hackensack Reformed Church: A “mini-college”experience for students who will be juniors Wappingers Falls. N.Y. Faculty Recital Series — Sunday, Feb. 18: Robert Thompson, and seniors in high school in the fall of ’90. Thursday, March 22 — Niskayuna Reformed Church: trumpeter;Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 4 p.m. For further informationabout any Admissions Office event, Schenectady. N.Y. Student Recital — Thursday, March 1 : Dimnent Memorial please call 9616) 394-7850 or write: Office of Admissions, Friday. March 23 — Greece Baptist Church; Greece. N.Y. Chapel, 7 p.m. Hope College, Holland, Mich. 42423. Sunday. April 22 — Home Concert: Dimnent Memorial Senior Recital — Saturday,March 3: Heather Thompson, Chapel. pianist; Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE For performance limes, please contact the music department Faculty Recital Series — Sunday, March 4: Wichers office at (616) 394-7650. Gandhi — Feb. 23-March 1 Auditorium, 4 p.m. The Four Adventures of Reinette& Mirabelle — March 16-22 Musical Showcase — Ttiesday, March 6: DeVos Hall in Grand SPECIAL EVENTS Tom Jones — March 23-29 Rapids, Mich. , 8 p.m. Call (616) 394-7860 for information. Voices of Sarafina! — April 7-12 Great PerformanceSeries — Thursday, March 8: featuring Musical Showcase — Tuesday, March 6: DeVos Hall, Grand the Lydian String Quartet, masters of contemporary music Rapids, Mich., 8 p.m. LECTURES and standard quartet repertoire; Dimnent Memorial Chapel, A concert featuringall dimensions of the Hope College

Woodrow Wilson VisitingFellow 8 p.m. Call (616) 394-6996 for ticket information. music department, includingthe Chapel Choir, College Senior Recital Friday, 9: Kelly Stratil, Chorus, Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Collegium Singers, The Federal Republic of Germany, its progress and relations — March to other nations will be the focus of a visit by Dr. Wilhelm bassoonist; Wichers Auditorium, 8 p.m. Orchestra,chamber ensembles and soloists. A. Kewenig, lawyer and former member of Parliament of Alumni Concert Series — Saturday, March 10: Tickets purchased through Hope College are $8.50 each, West Berlin, during the week of Feb. 25. LorraineDuso, oboist; Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. and may be ordered sending payment to: "Office of Public Scholar in Residence Guest Recital — Sunday, March 1 1 : featuring Roy Schaberg , Relations;Hope College; Holland, Mich. 49423. " For French homist; Wichers Auditorium, 4 p.m. informationcall the Office of Public Relationsat (616) Dr. Keith E. Yandell , professor of philosophy and of South College Orchestra Wednesday, 14: with Asian studies at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison, is Hope — March Roy 394-7860. presentinga series of lectures as the Spring, 1990, Hope Schaberg, French homist; Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Dance XVI — Thursday, April 5 -Saturday, April 7: Main College Scholar in Residence. Artist Piano Series — Friday, March 30: Kenneth Bos, guest Theatre, DeWitt Center. pianist; Chapel, 8 p.m. annual event featuring an outstandingguest artist, His topic is "What Can One Know in One's Heart? Is Dimnent Memorial An Religious Experience Evidence,for Religious Call (616) 394-7650 for ticket information;students choreographed by Hope faculty and performed by Hope free with Hope ID. students. Belief?” Each of his lectures will be held from 1 1 a.m. until noon in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall. Alumni Concert Series — Saturday, March 31 : Beth Botsis, Tickets are available two weeks prior to the performances. II: The Religious Data: ExperienceEast and West — soprano; Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Call the theatre ticket office at (616) 394-7890. Thursday, Feb. 15 Faculty Recital Series — Sunday, April 1: John Gilbert, HI: The Principle of Experiential Evidence — violinist;Wichers Auditorium, 4 p.m. ALUMNI AND FRIENDS Thursday, March 8 Student Recital — Thursday, April 5: Wichers Auditorium, REGIONAL EVENTS 7 p.m. TV: The State of the Evidence : The Question Answered — Detroit, Mich. — Thursday, March 29 Great PerformanceSeries — Friday, April 6: featuring The Thursday, April 5 Boston, Mass. — Sunday, June 3 Paul Winter Consort presentingliving music combining As news from Hope College went to press, there was a chance Cedar Grove, Wis. — Tuesday, April 24 classical, jazz and ethnic traditions with themes drawn from that Dr. Yandell ’s lectures would be cancelledor postponed. nature; Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Call (616) Please call the Philosophy Departmentat (616) 394-7550 WINTER HAPPENING 394-6996 for ticket information. shortly before each lecture date to confirm it is still to be held. Junior Recital — Saturday, April 7: Susan Hollar, clarinetist; Saturday, Feb. 17, 1990. INSTANT INFORMATION Wichers Auditorium, 8 p.m. 9 a.m. - Registration Faculty Recital Series — Sunday, April 8: Wichers Au- 10 a.m. - Seminars: Hope Sports Hotline — (616) 394-7888 ditorium, 4 p.m. “A Vision of India” - Boyd Wilson Activities Hotline (616) - 394-7863 “Salute to the Duke” — Monday, April 9: All Duke Ellington “Mysterious Happenings” - Jeanne Jacobson concert with the Hope College Jazz Ensemble; Dimnent “From Russia with Love: The Hope College Chapel Choir THEATRE Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Tours the Soviet Union" - Roger Rietberg and choir members. The Seagull by Anton Chekov, March 2, 3, 7-10 Hope College Collegium Musicum Concert — Tbesday, 11:15 a.m. - Rendezvous with History 12:30 - A dramatic portrayal of life’s tragic injustice. April 10: Maas Auditorium, 8 p.m. p.m. Luncheon 3 - Basketball All performances begin at 8 p.m. in the De Witt Main Theatre. Student Recital — Thursday,April 12: Wichers Auditorium, p.m. MIAA Men’s Admission to all Winter Happening activities is free except Hope Theatre ticketsare available by calling ( 616) 394-7890. 11 a.m. for the luncheon, which costs $6. and the basketballgame. Senior citizens: $4; other adults: $5; and students: $3. The Hope College Wind Ensemble Concert — Tbesday, April Tickets for the game cost $3 for adults and $1 for students. ticket office is located in the De Wirt Centerfoyer and is open 17: Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. For additionalinformation, contact the Office of Public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday,two weeks prior Senior Recital — Thursday,April 19: Verna Bond-Broderick, Relationsat (616)394-7860. to and during a theatre production. violinist;Wichers Auditorium, 8 p.m. FOUR NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990 mm

Van Vleck Hall burns in April of 1980 ( the building is saved). Robin Pfeiffer '84 Eidson celebrated the final out The construction of the Gordon J. and Margaret D. Van Wylen

Van Raalte Hall burned to the ground a week later. The two as Hope won an A1 AW state softball championship Library, opened in January of 1988, added both space for the library 's fires shocked the campus. in 1981. It symbolizeda decade of many accomplish- collection and comfort for its patrons. ments in women’s sports.

Hope in the ’80s: The decade in retrospect

the T7,or Hope College, 1980s were of Hope’s eighth president, Calvin A. All-American in basketball. Hope College is declared the winner for r eventful. The decade saw buildings VanderWerf. A most amazing year in sports as both best total development program, among burned and built, enrollmentand tuition The Vienna Summer School celebrates the football (9-0) and men’s basketball American undergraduatecolleges and rise, and a change in the college’s its 25th anniversary. (22-0) teams are undefeated in the regular universitieswith more than 10,000 alumni leadership. season. by CASE, the Council for the Advancement The college spent more than $25 million 1981-82 and Support of Education(the college wins in the past decade improving the physical 1984-85 the award again during the 1988-89 “Sundog II,” the college’s first outdoor plant — new buildings were constructed; academic year). sculpture, is placed on the lawn outside The college launches a $26 million older buildings were renovated; the grounds The Admissions Office moves into its Phelps Cafeteria. dollar, three-year fund-raising campaign were beautified. new home on the comer of 10th Street and The college hosts Beatrix of the called “The for From 1980 through 1989,''4,722 students Queen Campaign Hope.” College Avenue. Netherlandsand husband Prince Claus in Rob Appell becomes the first Hope male graduated from Hope. Those individuals Hope wins an unprecedentedninth June, 1982, during the Queen’s second visit to win an NCAA national championship as now comprise 28 percent of the college’s consecutiveMichigan Intercollegiate to the United States. he high jumps seven feet. alumni body. Athletic Association(MIAA) All-Sports The new facilities constructed on campus Hope's first-evernational sports Championship. champion is a woman as swimmer Sarah 1985-86 during the decade developed in part from Two coaching legends — Gordon Brewer Stanwood captures the AIAW title in the the need created by growth in the size of ’48 and Russ DeVette ’47 — retire with a 200-yard individual medley. It marks the Dr. Irwin J. Lubbers, the seventh the student body. From the 2,335 students cumulative 69 years service to the college. president of Hope College, dies on Sept. 8 in 1979-80, Hope’s student population beginning of an excellent decade in in Grand Rapids, Mich. He was president climbed to 2,770 during 1989-90. women’s sports. from 1945-63. Tuition rates also climbed. During 1988-89 WTHS becomes a full-fledged FM 1980-81, tuition,room, board and the 1982-83 station (89.9) with its first official broadcast activity fee cost $5,775 for the entire Dr. Calvin A. VanderWerf, eighth The 75-year-old Camegie-Schouten on Sept. 27. academic year. During 1989-90, the same president of Hope College, dies on July 18, Gymnasium is tom down in July, 1982. Constructionof the new Gordon J. and items cost $1 1,936. 1988. He was president from 1963-70. The joint Hope-Calvin Nursing Program Margaret D. Van Wylen Library begins Despite the changes in numbers and the The Van Wylen Library introduces an offers its first courses. in March. campus evolution, however, Hope remains automated library system that allows The new $1.8 million DePree Art Center fundamentallythe same. Today, as in 1980, patrons to locate books from computer and Gallery is completed, as are the new the college remains comitted to providing 1986-87 terminals. The traditonalcard catalogs are $1.6 million College East Apartments. its students with a liberal arts education. removed.

Durfee Hall is renovatedat a cost of $1.1 The new $ 1 . 1 million Maas Student and ~ Today, as in 1980 — and in 1866 — the The Hope College Chapel Choir travels million. Conference Center is completed. college remains committed to providing its \ to the Soviet Union in May and performs The sculpture “Ballyviktor”is added to The Campaign for Hope surpasses its $26 education in the context of the Christian in Moscow, Leningrad,Tallinn and Kiev. Van Raalte Commons as a tribute to the million goal in December — six months faith. Shelly Russell is voted the National college’s founder. before its official completion in June. - Division III female swimmer of the year Commencement is held outdoors — at Daniel Stid ’87 is awarded a Rhodes 1979-80 for a second time. She was a national Holland MunicipalStadium — for the first Scholarship — the first received by a Hope champion seven times during her career. The $1.2 million renovation of the Phelps time. student in more than 70 years. The women’s swimming team was a perfect Max O. DePree ’48 is elected chairman Hall dining room nearly doubles seating ten for the decade, winning 10 straight of the Board of Trustees, succeeding Dr. capacity and introduces the “scatter” 1983-84 league championships. Victor W. Eimicke. system of serving. Men’s basketball remains the premier The college holds its first Critical Issues Renovationsto DeWitt Center, expanded The Philadelphia Center, for which Hope sport, winning 77 percent of its games while to become a student and administrative College is the agent school, celebrates its Symposium. The topic is “Focus on the claiming seven MIAA titles,gaining seven center following the burning of Van Raalte 20th year. Middle East: Israel and the Arab World." NCAA tournamentappearances and beating Hall, are completed. Two fires within a week shock the Calvin 13 of 21 times. campus. Van Vleck Hall, 123 years old, The Board of Trustees approves prelimi- 1987-88 nary plans for a new library that will burns on April 2 1 but is saved. Van Raalte complement the campus' Dutch architecture. is Hall, 78 years old, is destroyed on April 28. Dr. John H. Jacobson inaugurated as 1989-90 Dr. Jacob E. Nyenhuis, dean for the arts the college's 10th president. Dr. Gordon J. 1980-81 and humanities,is appointed the new Van Wylen had retired after having served Renovation of the VanderWerf/ provost in June, 1984. as the college’s president since 1972. Van Zoeren complex provides additional The $1.3 million restorationof 74-year- Hope hosts the NCAA Division III The new $8.7 million Van Wylen Library and remodeled space for several academic old Voorhees Hall is completed.The national cross country championships,a opens in January and is formally dedicated departments. The project is completed early building had closed as a housing unit in first. Crosscountry is a sport of distinction in April. The library replaces Van Zoeren in 1990. 1969 after a small electricalfire. during the 80s as the men’s and women’s Library, which will be renovatedand Hope and Meiji Gakuin University of The Physics-Math Building is re- teams together win 10 MIAAchampionships. transformedinto office and classroom Japan celebrate the 25th anniversary of their dedicatedas VanderWerf Hall, in honor Chip Henry is Hope’s first first-team space. exchange program.

NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990 FIVE Hope in the Future

Steering Committee issues strategic recommendations

,~Vom the several months of research and *We should improve our financial aid r discussion conducted by the 12 plan- program by increasing the proportion of gift ning groups created for Hope in the Future, aid and reducing the self-help component 189 pages of recommendations and informa- in our financialaid packages. The purpose tion resulted. of this is to continue the present level of The Hope in the Future Steering Commit- economic diversity among our students. tee culled from that report a set of strategic The College should also selectivelydevelop recommendations that promised to have a new approaches to merit-basedaid. major effect on the directionof the institution, Diversity seemed likely to generate many positive We recommend that the College continue consequencesand represented a general and extend its commitment to racial and approach to decision making, rather than a cultural diversity among students, faculty, specific response to a specific problem. The and staff. Board ofTrustees conductedan initialreview increasing the multiculturalpresence on

of the Steering Committee’sreport during its our campus should be a top priority for the January meeting, and following additional College. We should increase the number of investigationand input will continue to domestic minority faculty, staff and stu-

discuss the document in May. dents, and be sure that we create a situation

The bulk of the Steering Committee’s on campus that is welcoming and nurturing. report follows. *We should appoint significantnumbers Academic of women to faculty and upper-level staff

We recommend a shift in the balance of positions. We should assure that the Hope Hope’s priorities over the next decade. The experience is as nurturing for women as it past decade has been a highly successful is for men. period of academic enhancement and * We should continue our efforts to make campus development, but we sense that the Hope physically and psychologically time has come for greater emphasis on the accessible and welcoming for faculty, staff, former and diminished emphasis upon Hope In The Future and students with handicappingconditions. the latter. *We should increase the geographical diversity of our student body. In recommendingtop priority for the *We should combine our efforts with enhancement of the academic program, we 1990 other agencies and institutionsto increase are not recommendingthat Hope move the pool of minority applicants to colleges toward the recruitment of an elite student and universities. body. We believe that Hope should define Student Life the excellence that it seeks in terms of its We affirm Hope’s commitment to a students’ educational progress rather than residentialcampus in the context of the in terms of admissions data or other input Christian faith. Our planning for campus measures. Mission Statement of Hope College life should be realistic and attuned to the Our excellence should lie in what our Christian values of our tradition. academic program is able to do for our The mission of Hope College is to offer, with recognized *Hope should continue its commitment capable students and not in our success in excellence, academic programs in liberal arts, in the to be a residentialcampus, while creating recruiting an academicallyelite student even more diversityof living situationson body. setting of a residential, undergraduate, coeducational campus, and striving to improve the *For the next decade the further enhance- attractiveness to students of on-campus ment of the academic program should be college, and in the context of the Christian faith. living. Hope’s top priority. *We should develop more effective educational programs to help students deal *Each academic department and program constructively with health and mental should be continually improving. By the health issues that they face. year 2000 all departments and programs *We should reaffirm the College's should be either strong or exemplary in Vision Statement philosophyand approach to intercollegiate reference to criteria that Hope College will (from “A Vision of in the Future”) develop. Hope and intramural athletics, viz., that we place primary value upon academic accomplishment. *Hope should continue to develop Hope should be, and be recognized as, the leading *We should develop a more intentional aspects of its academic program which program of centers of activity designed to place emphasis on active learning, learning Christian liberal arts college in the country. Hope foster a diverse and fulfilling on-campus by doing, and creative collaboration in should be, and be recognized as, one of the nation’s student social life. learning by faculty and students. These aspects include joint student-faculty leading liberal arts colleges. Opportunities and Challenges research and internshipsthat give hands-on The College has many traditional strengths learning experience. that provide sound footing for future develop-

ments. Two in particular are our historic ties *In response to world developments and emphasis teaching, research and faculty.We should achieve a similar to the Reformed Church in America and the to its own Christian mission, Hope should among service.At Hope all faculty teach and serve improvement in salary and compensation beauty and utility of our campus. become more aggressively international in as academic advisors to students. should for our staff. *We should seek further ways of support- its academic program, its faculty and We encourage a policy of individually-and *For the next three to five years, Hope ing the program and needs of the Reformed student body, and. in its outlook. flexibly-defined professional obligations should strive for stability in the size of the Church in America while enabling RCA *As an encouragement and support to its for faculty.We should strongly encourage student body and the quality of the student people to become more committed to Hope. Christian scholars and as a part of its more substantial faculty involvement as body at entrance. We should also strive to *We should develop an approach which mission, Hope should found an institute to advisors to co-curricular activities. improve the financialbase of the institution. will enable the College to have a more promote scholarship on matters affecting *We should improve the salary, compen- This policy is dictated by current extensive summer program which will use the relation of Christian faith and learning. sation, and faculty load of our faculty to demographic trends and will be reviewed College facilities and also advance the *Different faculty properly have different allow us to attract and retain outstanding periodically. mission of the College.

NEWS FRO/yi HOPE COLLEGE, FEBROARY1990 SIXVfi - V- ... j • - * i. j i , j Hope in the Future

President Jacobson on “Hope in the Future”

TT ope in the Future is a direct result of program. For the next 10 years bricks and LI President John H. Jacobson’s vision mortar will be less prominent in college of Hope College as both the leading development — though to be sure, Christian liberal arts college in the nation academic enhancement can never be and one of the nation’s leading liberal arts separated from plant and equipment. colleges, secular or denominational. “It’s a matter of emphasis rather than Through Hope in the Future, the strategic absolute change. There will be some further planning process he proposed to the Board construction in the ’90s. But the ’80s will of Trustees in January, 1989, methods for stand as the great decade for construction. achievingsuch distinctionhave been “We will continue to enhance our campus identified. in a variety of ways but we will focus even President Jacobson took time recently to more upon the enhancement of the program.”

reflect both on the process in general and a Q: What need is there for placing few of the 20 major strategicgoals named increased emphasis on forging a more by the Steering Committee. internationaloutlook at Hope College? Q: Why is strategicplanning important A: “The recent rapid changes in world Max O. DePree '48, chairman of the Hope College Board of Trustees, speaks during the to the college now, as the college faces the economics and world politics are forcing us Board's discussion of in the Future. PresidentJohn Jacobson, left, listens 1990s? into a real global village.We have talked Hope H. attentively. A: “Hope College is in a strong position for the last 40 years in about the need for now. We want to continue to build on the greater internationalunderstanding and great strengths that we have and achieve cooperation. That has now become much multiculturalpresence at Hope. Why is that And we need to continue to enable RCA our potential. more urgent, and much more a matter of important? people to understandhow very important

“We’re strong in our academic program, present reality than a dream. A: “There are basicallytwo reasons that Hope College is to the Reformed Church in our students, ourfaculty and our campus. “We need to equip our students for a underlie this recommendation. — and what the college can do for the We’re by no means a wealthy institution, much more internationalenvironment. That “One is that we can offer fine educational church as well as the things that we but we do have good resources and loyal reality is coming into being quite aside from opportunities to members of domestic occasionally ask the church to do for the support from our friends and alumni. anything that we might do about it.” minorities,thus providing a benefit to those college. “It’s often said that if you aren’t moving students. We will be more effective in Q: Why is it appropriate,for the college Q: As you look at these goals becoming ahead you’re slipping back. The fact that providing this benefit to those students if to establishan institute to promote scholar- strategiesand eventually becoming im- we’re now in a good situation doesn’t mean we have minority faculty and minority staff. ship on matters affecting the relation of plemented, how do you see the Hope that we can sit back and rest. It does give “Increased minority presence will create Christian faith and learning? College that will result from that implemen- us a good foundation for meeting the chal- a more stimulating, and ultimately a more A: “The Christian college has its roots tation as being different — better — than lenges of the future, the challenges of the useful, educational environment for our not only in Athens but also in Jerusalem. the Hope College we know today? society in which we live and the challenges students, whether they be minority or The responsibility of the Christian college A: “Hope College in the future will be that arise from our own situation. majority students.” is to equip the church to understand and be known for academic strength in more areas “The guiding theme is the great hope we responsive to the world and the learning of Q: The report mentions a program of than has been true in the past. We have great have of achievinga future that is even our own day. \ centers — plural — to foster diverse and academic strength in departmentsthat are greater than our past has been.” “We aim to provide support for faculty fulfilling social life. How did that idea not presently as well known as some of the

develop, and what form do you think it others, and will continue to develop new would take? areas of exceptional strength. “We want to continue to build on the great A: “We started out with the idea that “Studentsincreasingly will be drawn to students had expressed— that they felt the Hope College because it is a place in which strengths that we have and achieve our potential, ” need for a student hangout. they can engage in active learning in joint As we discussedthis and thought more student-facultyresearch, in internshipsand President — John H. Jacobson about it, however, we realized that rather in other active hands-on modes of learning . than one place for students to gather we Students will continue to be drawn to Hope need a lot of places where students with because of the strong commitment to Q: How do you see us proceeding from who desire to participate in the exciting different interests,and different lifestyles Christian faith and academic excellence. this point with the recommendations? intellectualtask of exploringthe relation and habits can congregate. “We will see a change in the complexion A: "The Steering Committee will meet between faith and learning.” “We should have a place where certain of the faculty,and student body and staff. again and appoint subcommittees to prepare kinds of academic interestscan be rein- As the years go by we will see more people Q: Why did the committee recommend more specific reports on each of the 20 forced. We could have places for different of color in our community.” that the student body size be stabilized,and strategicdirections. At their May meeting kinds of recreation. what are the implications of the “current Q: As this process is now a year old the Board will have a document that will “We started from the idea that we need demographic trends” mentioned in the (since it was initially announced) are you enable them to see the full implications of to have one space in which students would eighth recommendation? pleased with the way everything has been the directions that have been proposed. feel comfortable in their ‘off hours.’ We A: “Demographic realities will probably proceeding? “In this stage of the work we will identify moved quickly to the idea that w,e need force the college to stop growing in size for A: “I am pleased with it. I would not specific actions that the college needs to many such spaces.” have imagined that it would go so smoothly undertake. We will also reckon carefully the next few years because the number of Q: What more can you say about the goal or so productively. with the available resources and the pos- 18-year-olds is declining sharply. college stay at its that discusses Hope and the Reformed “It’s a tremendous tribute to the willing- sibilities of gaining further resources.” “The should about present size without dropping in the quality Church in America? ness of Hope people to work hard and to Q: If the top priority at Hope College give their best thought effort. It’s also of the students it admits and it should A: “In the founding and sustaining of and during the 1990s will be further enhance- endeavor to do that without creating a Hope College, the Reformed Church has a great tribute to Ken Gibson, who has ment of the academic program, will how greater strain on its financial resources.” been of central importance. played a major role in helping us think the college differ from the Hope of the “We need to find ways of giving back through the organization and in keeping the 1980s? Q: The report makes five recommenda- some of what we have received. We need process moving, and also to Marj Graves, A: "We will focus more attentionon the tions concerningdiversity. As an example, to support the work of the Reformed Church who has been his highly capable assistant programmatic aspects of the academic let’s examine the goal of increasing the through programs offered at the college. throughoutthis effort." ^ NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990 SEVEN Campus profile There’s no place like home

library and provided space for a resource area and by Greg Olgers ’87 tutoring rooms. Jacqueline D. Heisler, director of the academic support center, is pleased with the change. “This rrihe newly-renovatedVanderWerf/Van Zoeren for us is a wonderful improvement,” Heisler said, 1 complex is a worthy companion to Van Wylen noting that the tutoring rooms are a particular Library, its neighbor to the east. advantage — providinga central meeting place The changes in the original buildings, austere when before tutors and their students had to forage remnants of an earlier decade, are apparent even for study space. from the outside. Gone are the brick sun screens that guarded the buildings’ second floors on Graves Place. Gone, too, is the sense that the buildings “It’s great to have classrooms in the are lesser cousins — forgotten relatives from the same building with our office “wrong” side of campus. facilities . . . And we’re very elated Connecting links join Van Zoeren to Van Wylen and VanderWerf to Van Zoeren . A doorway on the with the facilities we have.” library’ssecond floor makes it possible to travel from the east side of Van Wylen to the west side — Dr. Lamont Dirkse ’50 of VanderWerf without once stepping outside — a Professor of Education and pleasant walk that brings all of the buildings’ chairperson of the department. faculty and staff closer to the center of cahipus. Instead of the fragmented sun screens, tinted, reflectiveglass wraps the upper floor of the two The academic support center shares a full-time buildings — an effect that from the outside makes secretary (also new) with the department of sociologyand social work, which moved to the it seem the sky emanates from the building itself, and on the inside opens the outdoors to the second floor of Van Zoeren from the basement of occupants. Graves Hall. Even the entry foyer, sheathed in varnished The change was especially dramatic for Deborah Weiss ’75 Sturtevant, assistant professor of sociol- wood, embellishedwith brass fittings and domi- A model classroom on the second floor of Van Zoeren Hall contains many aids for help social a nated by a winding, balustraded stairway,tells the ogy and work, who formerly occupied can be used in different ways — they contain grids for graphing,and can hold attachm visitor that he has arrived at a place that deserves windowless, interior office in Graves. She now has floor as a large-scale graph for shoes. a closer look. a bright, second-floor office that provides a wide view of Pillar Church on Ninth Street and down- And, perhaps best of all, the facility has become

• and state-of-the-artaudio-visual equipment allows administration moved into t the new home of four disparate departments that town Holland beyond. for many years had been scattered throughout the “It’s really nice having the window and seeing the students to see what sorts of teaching tools are Zoeren from the renovated& campus’ hidden nooks and crannies. The education the weather,” she said, adding “It’s nice having the available. Even the grid-work carpet can be used 11th Street near the mainten Robin Klay, associate profess and business administration/economicsdepart- extra space, too.” for large-scale graphing. The has proven popular. “It’s used business administrationand a ments moved into the building late in the summer. Dr. Donald A. Luidens ’69, associate professor new room They were joined during the semester break by the of sociology and chairperson of the department,is every hour from about 9 a.m. until about 4:30 faculty since 1979, believes academic support center and the department of happy to see the departmentin its new home. “I’m p.m.,” Dr. Dirkse said. is pleased with their new qn sociologyand social work. pleased that the college is committed to improving The department of economics and business “I think all of us appreciate of campus in terms of bein; The academic support center, previously housed the environment in which faculty members work,” — in the basement of Dimnent Memorial Chapel, is Dr. Luidens said. “We appreciate the fact that the and being with other faculty sociologyand social work department on She said that one concern now in the second floor of Van Zoeren Hall, a move campus has been recognized as a significant that the woul that strategicallyplaces it mere steps from the departmenton had was move

campus and deservingof better quarters.” advantagetheir 1 1 th Street ra As a 1969 Hope graduate, and as a member of fear proved groundless. the Hope faculty since 1977, Dr. Luidens knows “All of us were wonderini well the department’sgeographic history.“My move from the house — tha

guess is that it was probably down in the basement way to interact with each ot

since it was founded in the ’50s,” he said. “I know “But it’s turned out that it’s

for the time I was here in the ’60s they were in the really makes that easy." basement — and I think they were here before Renovationsto VanderWer then.” facilities to the departmentso

The education department,also on the building’s tics and computer science, all

second floor, was previously in the old College tempororily to Van Zoeren Ha

Guest House, on 12th Street between College and was redone. In addition to cos Columbia Avenues. have acquired new classroom “It’s great to have classrooms in the same building ing link to Van Zoeren. Ren

with our office facilities.And we’re very elated with also allowed the south wall to the facilitieswe have,” said Dr. Lamont Dirkse ’50, some of the offices more sp

professor of education and chairperson of the Frank SherburneJr., asso1 department. mathematics and a member Perhaps the department’sgreatest pride is the 1959, was one of those who The CAD (Computer Aided Design) laboratory in model classroom designed specificallywith Jacqueline Heisler, director of the Academic more office space, a better vit the connecting link between Van Zoeren and teaching future educatorsin mind. Special tables, Support Center, moved from a basement-level office of permanent shelving (whit VanderWerf Halls has enhanced the college's marked with grids and able to tip or take attach- in Dimnent Memorial Chapel to a second floor “It looks more like an off engineeringprogram. ments for experiments as needed, ring the room. office in Van Zoeren. did — maybe because of the p

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The wide, sweepingentrywayto Van Zoeren Hall helps establish the building as an important part of the campus. . ^ ^

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(or helpng the education departmentteach tomorrow ’s teachers. Even the tables itlachmntsforexperiments. Here Professor Daniel Paul ’50 uses the checkerboard

d into tie first floor of Van Professor Sherburne said. “And you’ve got this nice ovated iome it occupied on view and sunshine.” mainteance department.Dr. The massive relocationproject — which at times

: profespr of economics and made it seem the college was playing a sophisticated on andimember of the Hope version of musical chairs — has benefitted other . ------— . — ------i _____ lelieveithe entire department departmentsas well. The counseling center and the Several of the interior, walls have had windows added, creating a sense of openness and breaking the new qarters. office of career planning and placement have both monotony of solid-block construction. preciattbeing near the center moved to the business department’sformer home ; of beit* near the library — on 11th Street, gaining a sense of warmth and faculli” Dr. Klay said, privacy their former offices lacked. And career conceit the departmenthad planning and placement’smove created space in re woud eliminate one the student development office for Dr. James R. Itreetnadence:intimacy. The Bekkering ’65 , vice president for student develop- ss. ment services and admissions. jnderiii how it would be to The office of internationaleducation moved : - tht we wouldn’t have a from their house on Columbia Avenue at 1 1 th Street each oier," Dr. Klay said, to the educationdepartment’s former home, hat it’saeen a facility that gaining both space and a central location.The old y.” internationaleducation house became a student derWer have also given new cottage, and upward Bound and the departmentof mentso physics, mathema- modem and classical languages are claiming more :ncc, allhree of which moved of Graves. X?mer eren Hil while their building Even after the start of the semester, fine tuning in[oco>neticchanges, they was still taking place. A new microcomputer lab ssroon ", ace in the connect- in Van Zoeren was being wired; the sound system :n. Reiovingthe sun screen to the model classroom’s observation room was wall w10 nioved out, giving being completed. The grounds, too, now covered norc spce. with snow, are not yet complete. r„ asstf! «e professor of In time, the newness will fade, and as the current lember'fthe faculty since generation of students graduates the building will tSe \vh< bene fitted. He has seem as familiar a part of the campus landscape as etterviw and an entire wall Van Vleck Hall . For now, however, the new facility g (whih he has filled). is a novelty — and even when the novelty wanes • an otVe than the old ones it will remain needed, appreciated and a valued, Still being completedis a terminal room that features Swan microcomputers. The units have their own disk of the f ™anent shelving , ” fitting addition to Hope College, drives and are networked.

COli^E. FEBRUARY 1990 NINE Faculty profile John Van Iwaarden shares enthusiasm for Hope and teaching

mathematics,” he said. by Lora Huizenga ’90 . Professor Van Iwaarden further realizes and is concerned about how far the United States lags behind Japan and other countries A Ithough things have pretty much in math. “It’s been shown very clearly in _/\_settleddown with the renovation and competitionwith other countries that U.S. the changing facilities of the Van Zoeren/ students are definitelylacking in mathemat- VanderWerf complex, there is still a great ical ability,” he said. “And it isn’t that deal happening inside. American kids are dumb. It’s that, I don't Tucked away in office 212 is the warm think they have been really well prepared.”

smile and lively voice of John Van Iwaarden , He does, however, acknowledge that professor of mathematics, whose personality improvement in the disciplineis not only a and presence are sparked with energy. goal but an occurringreality. He said that Professor Van Iwaarden,a Hope alumnus there has been an effort at all levels to himself (1957 graduate), has been on Hope’s improve math instructionin the classroom. faculty since the fall of ’61. During the “I’m really glad to see that there is now mid-60s he worked in the physics depart- going on in our country a real push re- ment, and later, during the boom of the volutionizing mathematics at the high computer age when there was also a surge school, junior high and elementarylevels,” of students, he lent a hand and instructed he said. “I look forward to something, say, John Van Iwaarden '57 (left) gives the play-by-playon WHTC radio for a Hope men's some courses in the computer science in five to 10 years from now. We’re going basketball game. At right is Ray Backus, who does "color. ” Professor Van Iwaarden has departmentas well. to just zip right bak to the top of the world been doing the play-by-play for more than 20 years, demonstratingan enthusiasmfor “I love my job,” he explained. because I think we’re capable of doing that.” the college that extends to his teaching in the math department. But more than that, he has embraced and Education for Professor Van Iwaarden, actualized the goal of not only providing a both learning and teaching, seems to be less Professor Van Iwaarden replied that the solid foundationin education, but making of a process than it is an experience. “Writing is an expression of my feelings answer is a definite yes. that learning real for the students. It’s all “I think the enjoyable part of it is to take for a contribution to the mathematical about application, feels Professor Van a class of students who don’t know a community,” he said. ‘Those textbooks are “Somewhere I’ve read, or heard, or had Iwaarden, whose specialization is in particularsubject — the content of a given extensions of me — they become my someone quote to me that what Hope applied mathematics. course in something — and take them expressionof my professional ideas.” College attempts to do is to develop a “The application of the mathematics is through the subject matter.” When he’s not preparingfor classes and student in a variety of ways: intellectually, where I find a great joy — in showing When he arrives at the final exam or the teaching, or working hard on the next book, spiritually, physically, right on down the people how the stuff works out in the real last day of a course. Professor Van Iwaarden Professor Van Iwaarden may be found on line,” he said. “I think those are all aspects the courts, or in the broadcasting booth. He of what college is there for — to provide has been announcing Hope College basket- an overall, well-roundededucation for ths student.” “Somewhere I’ve read, or heard, or had someone quote to me ball and football games, both home and away, for more than 20 years now. Professor Van Iwaarden is a family man that what Hope College attempts to do is to develop a student Via WHTC, a Holland-areaAM radio as well. He’s been a busy father of six children. in a variety of ways: intellectually, spiritually, physically . . . station, his voice brings all the excitement of the games to Hope fans who aren’t able T\vo are Hope graduates— John Van I think those are all aspects of what the college is there for.” to make it to the field or court themselves. Iwaarden Jr. ’82 and Deborah Van Iwaarden '86 De Mino — and two are presently — Professor John Van Iwaarden ’57 “It’s a hobby I love,” Professor Van Iwaarden said. “It’s also a promotion for attending Hope — Mark, a senior and Hope College to have all the Hope basket- Daniel, a sophomore. said that having his children attend world,” he said. said he asks himself “Have I really ac- ball and football games that we play He “has never been a problem. In fact, He is concerned that students really complished my goal? Did I really pour broadcast— home and away. I feel I’m a Hope it’s been a plus.” Professor Van Iwaarden understand the material. “I don’t want them something into their minds that’s going to part of the presentation of ‘This is Hope likes that he is right on campus with them, just to be number crunchers,”he said. stay there? Do they really understand what College.’ ” Like many others, Professor Van Iwaarden mathematics is?” He also likes to see his broadcasting and can be available for them. The oldest of his children are is genuinely concerned about the lack of Evaluations he’s received say the answer position as showing a faculty member now involved in running a successful family preparationstudents receive in math prior to to all the questions is “yes.” His energy and having fun doing something as a hobby and college. Although he feels the problem enthusiasm, the 110 percent of himself he “thoroughlyenjoying it.” business — VIPets — and have recently opened their third store. Although he is cannot be pinpointed as beginning in the high gives to his job, seem to have paid off. He is rightfully pleased that his broad- mainly a reference person in the business, schools, or potentiallyeven earlier, he did Professor Van Iwaarden’saccomplish- casts bring satisfactionto other people. he noted “It’s a lot of fun — we’re having speculate on just what may be happening. ments extend beyond the classroom.' He is “I’ve had a lot of people over the years say “Unfortunately, I think what has hap- also the author of four textbooks, including ‘We really enjoy listening to you do the a great time doing it." Professor Van Iwaarden is also the proud pened is that people have become more like one released in December. He has an out-of-towngames, John.’ ” grandfather of three, including a bright-eyed robots in their math. Rather than to get the open-ended contract with his publisher — Professor Van Iwaarden himself is a three-month-old. real foundations thoroughly, they’re becom- a compliment to any writer — and noted genuine sports enthusiast. He’s played Between his position on the math faculty ing more and more number pushers,”he that he definitely plans to continue text fast-pitchsoftball for 40 years, spending at Hope and the many shoes he fills beyond said. “People aren’t thinkers like they used writing. some time in a professional league on the that. Professor Van Iwaarden is definitelya to be. They’re more mechanical.” In his books, Professor Van Iwaarden East Coast. He also enjoys golfing, tennis, busy man. But whether he's in the class- Professor Van Iwaarden feels a push in again stresses the importanceof application ping pong, biking and other activities. room, in the broadcast booth, on the playing our society away from ingenuity may be at — so they are very much a reflectionof his “I just have fun being out doing recre- field, or in the pet store lending a helping fault. own philosophy. Most importantly, the texts ation,” he said. “Creativity might be lacking — and are a source of personal satisfactionand When asked if he thinks athletics are an hand, one thing is certain: everythinghe does receives energy and commitment. maybe creativity is what would instillmore pride for him. importantaspect of a college education, ^ TEN NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBROARY 1990 ALUMNI NEWS

Africa to visit Reformed Church missonaries. alumni alert Roger Hendricks’50 since Nov. 1 has been “visitation class notes Max O. DePree ’48 had his book Leadership is an pastor” at First Reformed Church of Portage. Mich. An reviewed in the October issue of VISaVIS, the Robert Kranendonk’50 is married to Barbara Ann News and information for class notes, marriages, magazineof United Airlines Inc. Kranendonk,De Pauw ’60, not Barbara Kranendonk births, advanceddegrees and deaths are compiledby Jean Snow ’49 Bloemendaalof Pembroke, Maine is by Janet Mielke ’84 Pinkham '50 Allen, as was mistakenly reportedin the February, Greg Olgers.The deadline for the next issue is March 1 . teaching English in the continuingeducation program 1989 issue of news from Hope College. at WashingtonCounty Technical College in Eastport. Harvey W. Moes ’50 is HillsdaleCounty (Mich.) 20s Maine. CircuitCourt Judge. Jay Weener ’49 was installed on Oct. 16, 1989 as the Wade Moore ’50 and wife Patricia Kinney ’50 /'N ampus is covered with a layer of fluffy Isabel Everse ’25 Kamps of Gallup, N.M. turned 90 Henry Bast Professor of Preaching at Western Moore both have their ministerial licenses and are in

white snow. . . just in time for the last May. She has six sons, 16 grandchildren and 16 Theological Seminary. He also serves as vice chairman mission work to the Indians and Mexicans in great-grandchildren. Alumni Association’s sixth annual Winter of the Hope College Board of Trustees. Oklahoma. Wade was previously superintendentof Alice Van Hattem ’28 Jones and her husband ofTWo engine assembly with Ford Motor Co. in Cleveland, Happening on Saturday, Feb. 17 — a day Rivers, Wis. are enjoying their winter home in 50s Ohio. “Retired from Ford, rehiredby the Lord!,” he of entertainment, education and excitement. Honduras. notes. Julius Schipper ’28 of Akron, Ohio and wife Janet Shirley Volkema ’50 Richardson of Farmington, Recently, I returned from two meetings observed their 60th wedding anniversary of Aug. 16. * Class of 1950 Mich, in November was unanimously elected her city’s of our California alumni. In Los Angeles, All five children were present to help them observe first woman mayor by her fellow city council members. it, as were his brother and two sisters (all of whom more than 70 alumni and their families 40th Reunion Richard E Welch ’50 in July and October gave have observed their 50th wedding anniversaries). workshopsfor chemistry teachers in Las Vegas, attended a marionette performance of The Alumni Weekend Nevada and Detroit,Mich, respectively.He visited Nutcracker hosted by Hope alumnus Don 30s members of the Hope chemistry faculty this fall , and Battjes ’68, owner of Bob Baker Produc- May 4-6 found seven of his former studentson campus — even M. Carlyle Neckers ’35 of Leesburg, Ra. is a “third though he had retired more than three years ago (he tions. Prior to the show, we were treated to generation grandparent.” Grandson Matthew is a visited or spoke with each of them).

a backstage tour allowing us to see the freshman at Hope. Donald Boss ’50 of Waupun, Wis. retired on Oct. 1 Irene Little ’51 Malewitz of Harleysville,Pa. has retired after teaching for 25 years, and enjoys 3-foot tall puppets up close. Afterward, a David A. Laman ’36 of Artesia, Calif, is serving as Lawrence De Voogd ’50 of Muskegon, Mich., has assistant pastor for visitation and senior activites with recentlyreceived two differentadministrator of the substituting,traveling, crafts and grandchildren. special reception was held. Many thanks to Emmanuel Reformed Church in Paramount, Calif. year awards. He was named the 1988 Administrator Ibm Malewitz 51 of Harleysville,Pa. continues at Don who made the day magical for us all ! Doris Van Lente ’36 Neckers of Leesburg, Ra. is a of the Year by the MichiganReading Association,and teaching Villanova and being their pre-med advisor. the 1989 Administratorof the Year by the Federaland He looks forward to retirementin two years. Our Greater San Francisco area alumni "third generationgrandparent." Grandson Matthew is a freshman at Hope. State ProgramsAssociation. Vern Schipper ’51 representedHope College at the enjoyed an “After Hours” event at the Morris Folkert ’38 of Jenison, Mich, is visitation Holiday Inn of Palo Alto. An abundance of pastor at Seventh ReformedChurch of Grand Rapids, ^ Mich. good food and conversation combined with extremely attractive surroundings made fora 40s winning evening. Thanks go to John DeVries '41 and Jan Evert ’57 who helped us. Class of 1940 If you plan to be in the Holland area next month, please join us for Musical Show- 50th Reunion case, March 6 at Grand Rapids’ DeVos Alumni Weekend Hall. Now in its second year, this annual event featuresthe College’s musical groups May 4-6 in a festive atmosphere. Ticket information

is available by calling the Office of Public Eunice Scholten’40 Jelsma continues to be very involved in the Presbyterian Peace program in Third Relations (616) 394-7860. Presbyterianof Rochester, N.Y. of Genesee Valley Perhaps you are wondering how the Presbytery.She also chairs the Educational Foundation program and Great Decisions discussion group at Alumni Office determines the cities in AAUW which regional events are held. Generally, Harmon Wierenga ’40 and wife Ann Van Eck ’48

they are defined by their alumni population . Wierenga are retired and living in Boise, Idaho. Eloise Boynton ’41 Bosch with her husband Don in To ensure high quality, low cost events, we May attended the “kick-off conference held at New must anticipate attendance of 10 percent, BrunswickSeminary to celebratethe 100 years that or a minimum of 20 people. Reformed Church missionaries have served in the Middle East. In October they visited Muscat, Oman Populationalso plays a role in the and attended the dedicationof a new church in nearby I\iesday, March 6 frequency of events. Regions with smaller Ghala. She also reportsthat their home and car in alumni populations tend to meet every other South Carolina survived Hurricane Hugo without mishap, although "all around us was a disaster." - 8 p.m. year, whereas those with a larger concentra- Walter J. Macak ’41 of Stockton, N.J. is retired and tion may meet several times annually. involved in the restoration of historic homes and bams DeVos Hall in HunterdonCounty. N.J. Should you have an idea for an event in CorneliusPettinga ’42 represented Hope College at Grand Rapids, Michigan your region, please contact me at (616) the inauguration of F. Sheldon Wettack as the 13th 394-7860. I always appreciate hearing presidentof Wabash College on Dec. 3. Featuring the Hope College from you. Vernon Boersma ’44 of Holland, Mich., long a Holland-area pediatricianand an early provider of Music Department medical care programsfor migrant workers, was in ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS November recognized with Holland Rotary Club’s Distinguished Service Award. - Soloists George Lumsden ’44 of Birmingham,Mich, is retired Officers but continues to write business articles for Dartnell — Orchestra Sue Bruggink'73 Edema, President,Grand Publicationsof Chicago,111. Rapids, Mich. — Chapel Choir JeffreyCordes '80, Vice President,Mesquite. — College Chorus Texas Class of 1945 Mary Damstra '68 Schroeder, Secretary.Grosse — Jazz Ensemble 45th Reunion Pointe, Mich. — Wind Ensemble Board Members Alumni Weekend — Collegium Singers William Aardema '79. Parchment, Mich. May 4-6 John Abe ‘79. Naperville. III. — Chamber Ensembles Cal Bruins '61, Phoenix. Ariz. Stanley C. Busman ’73. Minneapolis. Minn. I homas Boslooper'45 is active guest preaching, singing and song leading at the Community Refomied Garret E. DeGraff '71. Averill Park, N.Y. Church in Clearwater. Fla. MarianneHageman '58, De Peru. Wis. Muriun Smallegan'45 receivedthe doctor in divinity James Hanson II '80, Bemardsville, N.J. degree from VirginiaTheological Seminary on Oct. Peter Idema '89. Grand Rapids, Mich. 24. She attended the seminary as its first woman, Betty Whitaker '62 Jackson, West Melbourne. Fla. student. Beverly Bame ’50 Kerr, Nassau. N.Y. Robert J. Danhof ’47. chief judge of the Michigan Thelma Leenhouts'66, Washington.D.C. Court of Appeals, onNov. I became presidentof the For Ticket Council of Chief Judges of the Courts of Appeal. The Steve Norden '74, Dublin, Ohio organization is pan of the American Bar Association Heidi Sunderhaft '91, Columbus. Ohio Information Call and is composed of the chief judges of the 37 slates AnneWalvbord '73 VanderByl, Williamson. N.Y. which now have intemiediateCourts of Appeal. (616) 394-7860 David Veldink '92. Jenison. Mich. Marian Dame ’47 Hoekstra with husband John A. JefferyWinne '73. McMurray, Pa. Hoekstra ’50 in April and May visitedKenya. Tanzania. Malawi, Zimbabwe. Zambia and South

NEW$ FRQM HOPE COLjLE.GE, FEBRUARY 1990 ELEVEN Affairs,with Northwest Airlines Inc., on Thursday, Mich, was elected presidentof the Classis of Lake Shades of the Sunbelt, was just released by the inaugurationof Helen Popovich as the 1 5th president University Presses of Florida. of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich, on Nov. 21 spoke on "The Changing Role of Women in Erie (RCA), and was also electedto the RCA General Synod Executive Committee at the 1989 General Ruth Ziemann ’67 SweeLserhas been named Friday, Nov. 10. Japan" at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, associatedirector of Illinois Institute of Technology's Clayton Borgman '52 of Midland. Mich, from early Mich. Synod. Peter Eppinga ’63 of Pacific Palisades.Calif, was west suburban campus. Septemberthrough mid November worked on a Paul Elzinga "59 in November was featured in an recentlynamed senior vice presidentof Sears Savings Donald Scott ’68. following 1 8 years in the pastorate, wildlife photography project in four Rocky Mountain “Executive Profile"in the Grand Rapids (Mich.) the last 1 1 of which were at the First BaptistChurch states. On his way back to Michigan he stopped at Press. He is chairman of the constructionservices' and Bank, owned by Scars Roebuck. ’63. associate provost and Central College in Pella, Iowa a paid a surprisevisit management firm Elzinga and Wolkers. Robert Gordon an ofRome. N.Y., has accepted the position of minister to Ken Weller '48, president of the college — a former HaroldS. Gazan ’59. director of audits, investigations associateprofessor of education had "Seeing Worlds of world mission support for the American Baptist mentor, coach and friend. "We both had a good time and licensingadministration for the Michigan Close By." an exhibit of his photography, displayed in Churchesof Indiana and the American Baptist December at Studio Angelico on the Siena Heights Churches of Greater Indianapolis.He his with the chance to reflect on good memories," he notes. Department of Social Services (DSS), has been named assumed new College campus in Adrian, Mich. responsibilities on Sept. I. Verna Van Zyl "52 Post retired in August after 26 the 1989 MichiganPublic Servant of the Year by the Bob Klcbe ’63, an agent with Equitable Life in St. Sharon Dykstra ’68 Teusink of Houston. Texas, is years as a speech pathologistwith the Tacoma (Wash.) GAA Foundation Inc. The GAA Foundation is a Louis, has been awarded the designationof Chartered sales manager of Gary Greene Realtors.Better Homes School District. charitable,non-profit corporation affiliated with the Marlene Meninga '54 Craul of Lewisburg,Pa. and GovernmentAdministrators Association. The Founda- Financial Consultant by the American College. Bryn and Gardens ResidentialSales. Mawr, Pa. George ’69 of Kalamazoo, Mich, was the husband Donald were featured in the Dec. 3 Daily tion's Michigan Public Servant of the Year award Arwady Gail Pennington’63 Siefert has moved to Morehead hem (the Sunbury, Pa. newspaper) for their “Moose program is coordinated through the Public Administra- convocation speaker at Central College on Dec. 5, City. N.C. after retiring from 25 years of teaching high speaking on in the Brand" Christmas tree farm. tion Program ofthe Universityof Michigan-Dearbom. "Moral Dilemmas Media." school German. French and English. She plans to work Judith Deenik ’69 Gouwens of Ottawa, Kan., is 60s in real estate and operatea small "bed and breakfast." coordinatorfor the EducationalAssistance Center, an Class of 1955 John Blemendaal '64 of Pembroke.Maine is teaching alternate school for high school dropouts. boat buildingat Washington County Technical College. 35th Reunion L. Calvert Curlin ’64 of Paincsvillc. Ohio is author. 70s Class of 1960 Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of ChemicalTechnology Alumni Weekend 30th Reunion section on chlorine and sodium hydroxide. Helen Rose ’64 Vandenberg ofWyckoff.N.J . on Jan. Class of 1970 May 4-6 Alumni Weekend I became 'director of psychiatricsocial service of St. * Mary’s Hospital. 20th Reunion Paul Wackerbarth ’64 is economic counselor (head May 4-6 of the economic section)at the U.S. Embassy in Thomas Carlson ’55 is vice president of Wheaton's Alumni Weekend ConcessionSupply Co. of Columbus, Ohio and was Warsaw. Poland. C.J. Stringer ’60 represented Hope College at the awarded the Silver Beaver Award by the CentralOhio May 4-6 inauguration of Dr. Abel B. Sykes Jr. as the second Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Class of 1965 William Heydorn ’55 retired from the U.S. Army in president of Lansing (Mich.) Community College on January. 1989 after more than 28 years of service. He Friday, Jan. 12. Susan Wierda ’70 Bolton in October began serving Robert Trimmer ’60 of Elkhart,Ind. is in his second 25th Reunion served as chief of the department of surgery and as principalof Mio (Mich.) AuSable Elementary year as a state officer for the Gideons International. commander of Letterman Army Medical Center. He Alumni Weekend School. received the Legion of Merit for his teaching programs Ronald Beyer ’61 of Allegan, Mich, gave the closing Steven Harms ’70 of Rochester.Mich, is an adjunct at the center. He residesin Tiburon, Calif, with wife prayer at the Layman’a National Bible Association’s May 4-6 lecturer at Walsh College in Troy. Mich. He appears Joan Kilian ’55 Heydorn and works with the luncheon in New York City in November. The bishop in the sixth edition of “Who's Who in AmericanLaw." American Medical Association as an accreditation of the Greek Orthodix Church of North and South Lon Eriks ’71, presidentof the CambridgeGroup of representativein graduate medical education. America was present, and Ed Derwinski of President Merrillville, Ind. , has been appointed chairman of the Richard Decker ’56. senior research fellow with George Bush's cabinet was the speaker. The event took Bruce Neckers '65 and Susan Sonneveldt’67 computerservices committeeof The Commercial Abbott Laboratories,will assume a new responsibility place at the Park Plaza Hotel and was attended by Neckers are “generation student" patents.Their son, Investment Real Estate Council of The National for worldwide scientific support for Abbott's Hepatitis people from throughout the nation. Matthew,is attending Hope College. Association of Realtors (NAR). He- has also been C business. His primary presence will be in L. William Kuyper ’61, a French homist, performs John B. Richardson ’65 of Gallup, N.M., a social named as computer liaison between The Realtors Delkerheim, West Germany. He has been head of the Benjamin Britten “Serenade" for tenor, horn and worker in the Indian Health Service,was awarded the National MarketingInstitute and NAR. Abbott’s divisionalresearch and developmentin strings on a New York Virtuosialbum being distributed U.S. Public Health Service'sCommendation Medal. Stephen Wing ’71 was installed as pastor of the West Hepatitisand AIDS since 1982. He will relocateto by Academy of Sound and Vision in the United Mary Morris ’66 continues to be a reading specialist Broward Community Church in Ft. Lauderdale. Fla., Europe in mid-1990. Kingdom and on the European continent. in the Yonkers School System and lives in Manhattan, which was organized as an RCA congregation on Oct.

John P. Drost ’57 has retired as a minister of the Barbara Wood ’61 of Benicia, Calif, is a certified N.Y., with husband Malcolm, and sons David and 29 with 1 1 2 adults and 59 childrenas charter members. Reformed Church in America and is now living in public accountant with Scott B. Price & Co. of San Michael. Brenda Boote ’72 DeBruyn ofTwo Rivers. Wis. plays Kitchener, Ontario. Francisco, Calif. Robert White ’66 and JoAnne Kemink ’66 White flute with the Lakeshore Wind Ensemble,which is Robert Quisenberry’57 is retiring from the Hamilton Jean Schregardus ’62 Beyer of Allegan, Mich, are "generation student parents."Their son. Erik, is connected with the University of Wisconsin. (Ohio) School District after 30 years with the district initiated and directsthe ShepherdCenter Ministry to attending Hope College. Manitowoc County. — the last 13 as superintendent.His last work day older adults in the Kalamazoo,Mich. area. More than Gerald Auten ’67 is on leave from Bowling Green Bob Douglass ’7z of Park Ridge. III. was recently will be March 15. 200 adults from 55 churches attended the weekly State University and working as an economistin the elected president of the board of Northwest Chicago Calvin P. Langejans ’58 was featured in the Grand “adventure in learning” classes.Jean is also director office of tax policy in the U.S. Treasury Department. Group Home for the Mentally III. a new program of Haven (Mich.) Tribune as directorof the 75-voice of the senior adult ministriesof the Third Reformed Randall M. Miller ’67 co-edited the Dictionary of Lutheran Social ‘Service’s of Illinois (LSSI). Holland Chorale. He has been the director for 29 years. Church in Kalamazoo. Afro-AmericanSlavery, which won a Best Reference Thomas Gouwens ’72 of Ottawa, Kan. . is university Yoshie Ogawa ’58, staff vice president.International Ruth DeBeer ’62 Wilson of Grosse Pointe Woods, Book award from Library Journal. Another book. organistwith Ottawa University,an instructor of music

NOTES such as the Audubon Society. If they first James A. Herrick assistant professor of October by the EducationalTelevision , (continued from page 3) obtain the written permission of the biology communication,has had his article "Miracles Service of the Biomedical Communication department,such organizations are granted and Method" published in the August issue Division of the Southern Illinois University President John H. Jacobson. access to the land. of the QuarterlyJournal of Speech, School of Medicine. “An excellent faculty is a college’s the oldest and most selective journal of The program was produced for television strongest asset,” Dr. Jacobso^said. “Our ADMISSIONS ADDITION: Darryl rhetorical criticism in the field of speech by Dr. Nielsen and directed by Gary' P. on-going faculty development program will Davis has joined the Hope College admis- communication. Kirchner ’77, director of the Educational be enhanced by this grant because it is sions staff as an admissions counselor. Dr. Herrick's recent research focuses on Division. Lighting was coordinatedby aimed at supporting the work of our faculty Davis will be involved with the recruit- the eighteenth century controversy between Mark Verduin ’87. at various points in their careers. ’’The new ment of minority students, and will work the Deists and Orthodox. Christians. The John L. Van Iwaarden ’57 . professor of program will continue through the summer primarily with students in western Michigan controverseyconcerned whether or not mathematics,has published Discrete of 1993 with the funding provided by the and selected schools in the Detroit, Michi- biblical miracles can reasonablybe be- •Structures-EssentialComputer Mathematics Knight Foundationgrant and Hope College. gan and Chicago, Illinois areas. lieved, and thus more generally whether or through Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. RESERVE RESTRICTED: Use of FACULTY KUDOS: not Christianity itself was fit for the Allen Verhey, professorofreligion.was the Hope Collge biology preserve, long a James M. Gentile, dean for the natural acceptance of thinking people. one of five authors involved in writing favoritehiking and cross-country skiing site sciences and Kenneth G. jJerrickProfessor In “Miracles and Method,” Dr. Herrick Christian Faith, Health, and Medical in Practice, which was publishedin October for Hope students and Holland area resi- of Biology at Hope, is one of the managing concludes that the argumentsadvanced the dents, has been restrictedfor the sake of editors of Mutation Research, the leading miracles controversy were shaped not only by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. of the land’s plant and animal life, according internationaljournal on mutagenesis, by the beliefs of the various writers,but by Grand Rapids, Mich. to members of the biology faculty. chromosomebreakage and related sub jects. their objectives in the controversy as well. The book was written by an interdiscipli- The preserve, popularlyknown as the The journal is divided into several monthly He shows that in some instances both Deist nary team of scholars under the auspices of

“Biology Field Station” for many years, is sections so that its readers can receive and Christian writers modified their beliefs the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. west of the city of Holland near Lake concentrated information on subfields of and values in order to make their arguments Current medical-ethical issues examined in Michigan. Owned by the college for more particularinterest to them. As a managing more persuasive, a phenomenon still the book include genetic control,abortion,

than 20 years, the tract consists of approxi- editor. Dr. Gentile is responsiblefor both the common in public debates. surrogate parenting, scarcity and health

mately 50 acres. journal as a whole and for the section entitled Theodore Nielsen, Guy VanderJagt care, AIDS, and death and dying. Increased development and traffic in the “Mutation Research Letters.” Professor of Communicationat Hope Dr. Verhey ’s participationin the book was area, as well as the department’sdesire to The 16-member board of managing College, and two alumni produced an an extensionof an on-going research study the land’s plant and animal life, have editors of Mutation Research consists of a instructionalvideotape on tissue injuries interest. “I’ve been working on medical prompted the decision to limit access. select group of research scientists involved that will be used by medical schools and ethics for a very long time, so when the While the college hopes to eliminate the in academia, government and industry. An physicians throughout the country. Calvin Center was going to do something indiscriminate public use that has occurred international organization, the board “Management of Soft Tissue Injuries" on medical ethics I applied — and was at the facility in the past, allowances are includes representatives from the United was produced for the International Society accepted,”Dr. Verhey said. being made for certain groups whose use Kingdom, Italy, The Netherlands,Japan of Plastic and ReconstructiveSurgeons. An ordained minister. Dr. Verhey has been will be compatiblewith the college’sgoals. and the United States. The 30-minute program was released in a member of the Hope faculty since 1975. TWELVE NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990 with Ottawa University and organist for First Baptist Hill, is Kitty Thomas ’75 Garcia of Rock Mo. Texas, has achieved the distinction of associate of the and is a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer. Church of Ottawa. employed^s a receptionist for the Clark Animal clinic Casualty Actuarial Society.The designation is Susan Marks ’85 VanOmmeren of North Bergen. Paula Nichols 'll participatedin the World Council in St. Louis. Mo. achieved through successfulcompletion of seven N.J. was recentlypromoted to managing editor of of Churches' World Conference on Mission and Dennis Sturtevant '15, chairman of the Ottawa comprehensive mathematical, statisticaland insurance Penguin in York City. Evangelism in San Antonio, Texas, in May. She serves Books New County Departmentof Social Services board, was in examinations sponsored by the Society. Lee Ann DeHaan ’86 Gill of Wyoming. Mich, is on the nationalplanning committeefor the 1990 October reappointedto a three-yearterm on the board Matthew A. McNally ’79 is assistant branch director. National Workshop on Christian Unity, an annual currently employedat ZondervanPublishing House as by the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners. Naval Dental Inprocessing Clinic,Great Lakes, III. ecumenical conference. She also addressed the Stephen Bergmann ’76 of Tempo. Ariz. is married the Market Research Analyst for books. She and her Governing Board of the NationalCouncil of Churches and has three step-daughters.He and his wife. Judy, husband have also recently started their own tool and at their November meeting. 80s are both rehabilitationspecialists for the State of die business, called DigitalTool & Die Inc. John Paarlberg’72 is the Reformed Church in Arizona's Departmentof Economic Security (DES), Tim Griffin ’80 recentlypublished “Family History Denise Swartz ’86 Hutson teachesspecial education America's new minister for social witness. providing services for adults who have physical, Evaluation as a PredictiveScreen for Childhood at Dowagiac(Mich.)Union High School. She is also Ginny Burton ’73 is currentlycounseling pregnant mental or emotional disabilities. In 1989 they were Hypercholesterolemia" in Pediatricsand presented his varsityvolleyball coach at Marcellus High School. teenagers in Bradenton, Fla. recognized for “ServiceAbove and Beyond" by DES. data at the annual meeting of the AmericanAcademy Mark De Witt ’87 of Holland. Mich, since July has Don DeBruyn ’73 ofTwo Rivers. Wis. is on the Board Stephen is also on the CentralArizona Associationof of Pediatrics.He is currentlya fellow in pediatric of Two Rivcrs-ManitowocHabitat for Humanity, Government'sTechnical Advisory Committee and been employed as a store manager with Great Lakes hematology oncology at Children'sMedical Center of which dedicated its first home in November. several mayor's committees on the handicapped. EntertainmentCorporation, a BLOCKBUSTERVideo Dallas,Texas. Russell Gasero '73, archivistfor the RCA. on Jan. Lydia Huttar ’76 Brown of Ann Arbor, Mich, is franchise.He previously spent two years working as Boluyt ’80 of Grand Rpaids, Mich, is 30 spoke on Dordt to the General Ann Hackney "From Program running a full-timefamily day care business, called an assistant teacher with severely emotionally a residential care counselor at an adolescenttreatment CouncihThe ChangingRole of the Particular Synod," “The Purple Cellar,"in her home. center. impaired high school students. at New BrunswickSeminary. Jeffrey Maatman ’76 has been promotedto general Marianne Dykema '81 Griffin is a busy mother of Erin Flaherty ’87 has accepted a position as an Kurt Loosenort ’73 of Comstock Park, Mich, is accounting manager and appointed to the executive two. She was recentlyelected to the board of the associateinformation developer with IBM. which trainingchurch leaders in discipleship,speaking at committeeof CBC Laboratories.CBC is a medical Richardson Heights Homeowner's Association in requiresher relocationto Raleigh. N.C. universityconferences, and helping coordinate testing laboratorybased in Grand Rapids, Mich, with Richardson, Texas. "Family Life Conferences" and "Dad the Family branches throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Vicki L. Hop ’87 is pursuing her masters at Johns Eric Hendrickson’81 has joined FMB-First Michigan Shepherd Conferences" as a staff member of Here's Illinois. Hopkins University. Life W. Mich. Bank as mortgageloans officer. Louise Purring ’76 Shoemaker of Philadelphia,Pa. ConstanceJennings ’87 is elementary music teacher Bob Tiggleman ’73 of Ada. Mich; has been named Phil Johnson ’81 has been named the weekday sports was ordained as a Presbyterianpastor on Oct. 8. She for the Kodiak Island Borough School District in anchor of News 8 Tonight, the 11 p.m. newscast, a vice president-human resources at .Canteen Service became a hospice chaplain for Community Health promotion from the weekend sports anchor position Alaska. She is also directorof the Kodiak Youth Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich. Affiliates of Ardmore, Pa. and a parish associatefor that he held since February, 1988. Orchestra, and recentlyconducted the Kodiak Mary Jo Partridge ’73Tigglemanof Ada, Mich, has First PresbyterianChurch of Pottstown, Pa. David Schriemer ’81 was a guest speaker at the Orchestra in The Nutcracker). been receptionist at the PlymouthRoad Animan Clinic Jon Soderstrom ’76 of Oak Ridge, Tenn. has been . Vicksburg, Mich. Rotary in October. in Grand Rapids, Mich, for 10 years. promoted to director, technology licensing,for Martin Lisa King ’87 of Evanston, 111. this past summer Yolanda Tienstra ’81 in October was re-elected vice Jennifer Gould ’73 TVaylor of Holland, Mich, is a Marielta Energy Systems, and is presidentof Aid to worked onboard the Costa Riviera cruise ship as the presidentof the board of directorsof the Personal full-time dollmakerandtapestry weaver, and a member Distressed Families of Anderson County (ADFAC). children’sactivity director. of the Black River Gallery of Holland and Out of Hand DevelopmentCenter Inc. PDC is an agency that Mark Brown 'll of Ann Arbor, Mich, left employ- Kim Modric ’87 Kuiper of Irving, Texas in September Gallery of Saugatuck, Mich. provides counseling and advocacy servicesto victims ment at Donnelly to return to graduate school , and is of domestic violence. She continues to be employed became Pepsi Financial Manager for Tracy Locke Richard TVaylor ’73ofHolland, Mich, isa Japanese/ working toward a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the as an assistant districtattorney in Wood County, Wis. Advertising. English translator for Cascade Engineering of Grand University of Michigan. He-nopes to eventually join Rapids. Gaye van den Hombergh ’81 is a sales manager for Kristine Hanson ’87 Lefley is currently a third grade Mich. the facultyat a university. District, is Kraft General Foods’ New England located teacherat South Godwin Elementary School in Grand Patricia DeKam ’73 Zilinski of Houston, Texas Robert Gunther 'll of Burlington, Ontatio is in the Boston area. marketing her hand-died scarves in London. England, CanadianNational Sales Manager of Dar. Cup Ltd. Rapids, Mich. Brian Bauer '82 of Richmond, Va. is conducting Santa Fe and Taos, N.M., and Carmel. Calif. Mike Ringelberg'll of Sparta. Mich, is working Rob Peel ’87 has joined the Holland, Mich, offiteof Ron Bultema ’74 isa divisionalmerchandise manager post-doctoralresearch in the molecular genetics with WW Operation Services in ground water Raffensperger,Hughes & Co. , an investment banking with Frederick and Nelson's DepartmentStore in division of Smith, Kline, Beecham in Philadelphia,Pa. remediation,and is primarilyinvolved with the Hooker firm, as an account executive. Seattle, Wash. Tim Gortsema ’82 has been appointed managing ChemicalCompany site in Montague, Mich. editor with Advance Newspapers.He is directoy Kristine Rumery ’87 recently moved to Grand Marianne Meyers '74 Chaudoir teachespiano at the Sharon Adcock ’78 is the marketing manager for University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. responsible for coordinating the East Grand Rapids, Rapids, Mich, from New York and is working afFaul , Management Graphics, a computergraphics firm Ada! Forest Hills, Springs Garry P. ’74 has joined CitizensTrust , Rockford/Cedar and Goebel Group as the advertisingand marketing Kcmpker headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn. Sparta!Kent Cr'fy Advances. He has been with Advance Department of South Haven , Mich, as vice president , coordinator and as a freelancecopywriter. Douglas Crew ’78ofEast Lansing, Mich, is currently and has assumed the responsibilities of head of Newspapers for seven years. enrolled in an anesthesice residency program at Amy Sandgren ’87 is residingand working in Deborah Lockhart ’82 of Kalamazoo, Mich, is a personal trust services. Michigan State University. Washington, D.C. She is working in government news reporter/anchorWOODRadio of Grand Rapids, Myron Schmidt ’74 of Atlanta.Ga., is vice president Todd E. Harburn ’78 has joined Mid Michigan relations for a trade association'Food Marketing with Merchant Bank Group, Swiss Bank Corporation. Mich. Orthopedics in Owosso. Mich. Hespecializes in sports Institute, and is pursuing a law degree part-time at Robert Van Voorst ’74 is in his first year as an assistant Paula Miller ’82 Moran, formerly senior benefits medicine. American University. professorof religion at Lycoming College in Will- officer, has been promoted to assistant vice president MarkyKIapthor’78of Rock Hill, S.C. is employed Theresa Vanden Berg ’87 teaches grades three and iamsport. Pa. He teaches courses in New Testament and consultant at Norstar Emplbyee Benefit Services as senior corporate trainingofficer at Savings of Inc. She provides actuarial and administrativesupport four at East Martin ChristianSchool . She also coaches and Greek language. His revised dissertation.The America Service Corp. in Charlotte. N.C. servicesfor numerousRochester, N.Y. area clients and junior high school basketballand junior varsity Ascent of James, was published in November,and he Ann Renks ’78 Smazik has joined the River Bend serves as consultant to-severalof the firm's largest volleyball. has another book. Building Your New Testament Greek (III.) Schools as a teacher’saide. clients. Vocabulary, scheduled for publicationby Eerdmans 111. is Gail DeWitt ’78 Soderstrom of Oak Ridge, Tenn. is Scott Buhrmaster ’88 of Chicago, working as this spring. Nancy Piersma ’82 Titus has accepted a positionwith active as a volunteer in organizationssuch as Aid to a research writer for a publishing company in the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. She will be DistressedFamilies of AndersonCounty (ADFAC) and Northbrook, III. He is also acting assistant editor for settingup a statewide export developmentprogram. the Girl Scouts, and serves on the board of directors Chicago Advertising and Media Magazine. MarkVanGessel’82ofRaleigh. N.C. isagraduate Class of 1975 of First Methodist’s nursery school. research assistant at North Carolina State University, Julie Cataldo ’88 since June has been a researchaide Marcia Vanden Berg ’78 of Muskegon, Mich, works pursuing a doctorate in the crop science department. in the Monroe County Executive Office in downtown 15th Reunion on the "Youth Team" committeefor the Synod of His research emphasisis agronomicweed Rochester, N.Y. Michigan, planning and working on youth program- management. Mary Foerster ’88 is teaching in a cross categorical Alumni Weekend ming on the synod level. Thomas VanMouwerik’82 is now plant manager for resourceroom, working with K-5 students,inWellton, John E. Broadbent ’79 of Livonia, Mich, has a new May 4-6 job as a systems analyst with World Computer Zircon Corp. for their facility in Ensenada,Mexico, Ariz. Corporation in Auburn Hills, Mich. and divideshis time between there and Imperial Beach, Lin Gann ’88 of Holland, Mich, is employed at Randy Clark ’79 is a medical doctor in family practice Calif. FMB-FirstMichigan Bank, and a member of the Bradley R. Broekstra 'IS is an independent geologist in Muskegon, Mich. Robert Vogelaar ’82 is currentlya researchphysicist Chamber Ambassador Committee.Holland in New Orleans, La. retainedby Harry H. Cullen of Noon John Gibson ’79, associateactuary with United Houston, Texas. at Princeton University. Kiwanis, ProfessionalWomen's Networkingand the Services AutomobileAssociation of San Antonio, Tim Custer ’83 of Grand Rapids, Mich, is Reformed Hope College Non-TraditionalStudent Scholarship Church campus minister at Grand Valley State Fund Committee. University. Becky Buning ’88 Kremer is teaching Spanish at Timothy J. Lowe ’83 is pastor with English Zeeland (Mich.) High School. ,4s NeighborhoodReformed Church in Ridgefield, N.J. Daniel O’Neill ’88 is in his second year of medical Reunion Class Giving is the key He is also bass trombonist with the Ridgewood- school at SUNY-Stony Brook in the school of medicine HOPE COLLEGE Symphony. on a NAVY Health Professions Scholarship. to reaching the $1,100,000 goal ALUMNI Lyn Raymond ’83 is a participantwith Voluntary Karol TYoupe '88 Ostrowskiis a third grade teacher from 50% of our Alumni Services, a service program of Mennonite Board of for the Northville Public Schools. FUND Missions, and serves at Casa Oscar Romero, a Roman Becky Thompson ’88 Prins works with develop- Catholic shelterthat provides food an housing to mentally disabled adults at Kandu industriesof 'kjch 'Meritiiiie 7trji///t‘Jutun refugees who cross the United States border near Holland, Mich.

Brownsville, Texas. Sharron Stephens ’88 has been promoted to assistant Edwin Barkel ’84 recentlypassed the Michigan Bar account executive at Sefton Associates Inc. on the exam and is now licensedto practice law in Michigan company’sDow Plastics account. Sefton Associates CLASS GOALS TO DATE and Ohio. Inc. is a Grand Rapids, Mich. -based marketing and DOLLAR/DONOR DOLLAR/DONOR Karen Kosscn ’84 Custer of Grand Rapids, Mich, is communicationsfirm. an attorneywith Miller, Johnson, Snell andCummis- Jennifer Straley '88 is working toward a masters 1940 $ 30,000/ 77 $20,000 / 45 key. degree in physical therapy at Emory Universityof / 1945 $ 22,000/ 67 $ 9,500 / 45 Brian Gibbs ’84 represented Hope College on Dec. Atlanta,Ga. 1950 $ 50,000/201 $13,500/105 I at the inauguration of John Curry as fifth president Andrea Uncapher '88 is director of Christian of Northeastern University in Boston. Mass. Education for the First PresbyterianChurch in Perry, 1955 $ 20,000/103 55 $16,000/ Bruce Mulder ’84 of Gamer, N.C. is working for Okla. 1960 $100,000/165 $68,000/ 95 WRAL-FM 101.5 as music directorand on-air James Gordon Van Eenenaam '88 is living and 1965 $ 50,000/165 $21,000/ 80 personalityin Raleigh. N.C. working in Washington. D.C. for the U.S. Depanment 1970 $ 25,000/191 $13,000/ 85 Linda Kay Strouf ’84 opened the 1989-90 Alumni of Commerce and Banana Republic. Concert Series with a organ and harpsichord recital on Susan Walter '88 is now working in programming 1975 $ 25,000/181 $12,000 / 95 Saturday, Oct. 21. and marketing for the Boston Ski and Sports Club, Total $320,000/1,150 $173,500/605(54%) Mark Christensen ’85, investment representativefor and isa fitness specialist for the Health Development - — the Edward D. Jones financial firm in Hastings. Mich. . Corp. at Harvard Business School. was named co-vice chair of the Barry Area United Way Brenda Conant '88 Wicrenga ofWyoming. Mich, is Mail your reunion gift TODAY!-- campaign for 1989. clinical coordinator for the night shift med-surg Kimberly Karpanty '85 Rich lives in New York City neurology unit as an R.N.. B.S.N. at Butterworth MEWS IjRQM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990 THIRTEEN Hospital.Both she and husband Dean teach ninth grade Arthur Ernest Rich and Kimberly Karpanty'85, Brett '85 and Lynnette Zahm '86 King, Zachary was bom in Holland Mich, on Aug. 5, 1925, and had Andrew, Oct. 3, 1989. Sunday school at Fair Haven Reformed in Jettison. Oct. 7. 1989, Kalamazoo, Mich. been a residentof Kalamazoo since 1951. Kevin Roney and Monica Bleam '89, Sept. 9, 1989, Brian Whalen and Janet Koopman '74. JuliaClaire, A veteran of World War II, he had been a self- Dean YVierenga ’88 is working at Wedgwood Acres Lansing. Mich. June II. 1989. employed general agent in the insurance industry for Youth Homes as drug and alcohol rehabiliatation Keith Sackcttand Christine Thea Hansen Silva '70, Michael and Beverly Bergstrom'83 McGrath, many years. He was a member of the Second Reformed counselor.He is also attending Calvin Theological Oct. 14, 1989, Bemidjii, Minn. William Anthony, April 11, 1989. Church in Kalamazoo. arts in Seminary, working toward master of degree Jack Segal and Karen Puschcl '81, Nov. 18. 1989, John Meshkin and VickiTcn Haken '73, Nicholas, He was preceded in death by his first wife, Patricia, church education.Both he and wife Brenda teach ninth Jackson, Mich. March 8, 1989. in 1963. Survivingarehis wife, Jane; a daughter and grade Sunday school at Fair Haven Reformed in Charles Shotmeyerand Darlene Hiemstra ’86, Aug, Rick and Vicki Gleason '80 Moskwa, Jacob her husband, Lynda and John Cambum of Lapeer, Jenison. 12, 1989. Michael. Dec. 17, 1989. Mich.; a son and his wife, John and Laura Buter of Peter and Nancy Clair '78 Otterstrom, Ryan Clair, Amy Braksick ’89 Baldwin of Costa Mesa, Calif, is GreggStickels '85 and Stacey Allen, Sept. 16, 1989, Savannah, Ga.; a step-son,John Timmons of May 20, 1989. Washington, D.C.; a step-daughterand her husband, a marketing coordinatorfor Hunter'GreggInc., an Holt, Mich. Philip Alan Tanis '87 and Ann Michelle Fincher. Robert 'll and Nancy Campbell '78 Post, Elise r Dr. Deborah and Dr. Tyler Wadsworthof Minneapolis, environmental consulting firm, in Orange County, Nov. 25, 1989, Holland, Mich. Margaret. May 16, 1989. Minn. ; three grandchildren;two brothers. Gordon and Calif. Robert W. Thompson "79 and Michelle Conlon, Jack ’73 and Lori Puricelli, Taylor Catherine,Aug. his wife. Rose Buter of Grand Rapids, Harvey and his Carin Borr ’89 is the full-time special education Sept, 9, 1989, Boston, Mass. 28, 1989. wife, Jean Buter of Holland; several nieces and teacher at the Allendale. Mich, high school. Mark Van Gessel '82 and Kate Everts, Nov. 10. Randy and Ronda Granger '81 Russ, Bryant Granger nephews. Emily Burris '89 of Lebanon,N.H. is in a Russ, Nov. 13. 1988. new 1989, Raleigh, N.C. Barbara Wood ’-54 Brown Decker died on Michael '85 and Kathryn Troupe '85 Smith, Alison position as a teacher in the Hanover, N.H., school Thomas VanMouwerik '82 and Teresa del Carmon Wednesday.Dec. 20, 1989. She was 57. Raeann, Nov. 5, 1989. system. Carmona Rangel, Oct. 28, 1989, Imperial Beach, She whs bom on Jan. 16, 1932. in New Jersey. She Tom and Susan Ahlgrim '78 Stoddard. Mark Harry Coflill ’89 since November has been the news Calif. lived in Peoria,111. and NewYork before returningto ChristophcrVanWieren'88 and Carolyn Rink '88, Andrew, Dec. 10, 1989. directorfor in Saugatuck, Mich. New Jersey.She graduated from Upsala College in WEVS Lance and Lorraine Hyma '83 Vandever. Lukus Sept. 16, 1989, Holland, Mich. N.J., and had for the ’89 of Holland. is West Orange worked Upper Susan Brown Dekker Mich, Arthur, July 1, 1989, Jack Veld '86 and Susan Bosch '86, July 1, 1989, Potomac Area Agency on Aging in Hardy County. employed as a firstgrade teacher with the Holland David and Patricia Lunderberg'80 Van Wylen, Jeffrey Velthouse and Sherry Martin ’89, Sept. 30, W. Va, Several years ago she moved to McGaheysville, Public Schools. 1989. Thomas Anders Lunderberg, June 3. 1989. Va. , where she was a member of the United Methodist Dean '84 and Debra Wettack '84 Welsch, Lauren David Dryer ’89 of Wheaton. 111. has taken a staff Jeffrey Wright and Susan White ’83, Dec. 2, 1989, Church. Ashley, Sept. 18, 1989. accounting position with Slavic Gospel Association. Evanston, 111. She was married twice. Her first husband, James Daniel '75 and Zuellen Marshall '74 Wiersma. Jane Glenney ’89 of Rochester. N.Y. is teaching H. Brown '52, died on April 11, 1976, and hersecond Andrew Michael, Oct. 5, 1989. special education at Palmy ra-Macedon High School. husband, Robert E. Decker, died Oct. 20, 1987. Scott Heath ’89 is attending graduate school at the Surviving are one daughter, Cynthia J. Brown of births McGaheysville; one son, Carleton J. Brown of Universityoflllinois at Champaign-Urbana.where he Harrisonburg; and one brother,Robert Wood of is pursuing his MBA in finance. advanced degrees Missouri. Lori Lovas ’89 is a center operations manager for George '80 and Mary Baumgartner, George, Oct. 17. 1989. Grid Systems Corp. in Indianapolis,Ind. Editor'snote: due to space limitations,"advanced Deon H. Dekker ’36 of Dallas,Texas died on David and Diana Beyer '81 Batema, Benjamin Amy Martin ’89 is working for Thomas M. Cooley degrees " had to be withheldfrom this issue of new from Tuesday. Dec. 26. 1989 at his home, according to his Thomas, June 7, 1989. Law School of Lansing, Mich, as editorial assistant Hope College.The section will appear in the April issue. wife. Jim andTish Carr '82 Boerigter,Calvin James, June to the directorof publications. 16, 1989 Marthene Van Dyke ’41 Dykstra of Grand Rapids. Lori Cirre ’89 Rawleigh is teaching special education John ’79 and Janet Broadbent, Meghan Elise, Dec. Mich, died on Friday. Nov. 3. 1989. at McKinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. 21. 1989. deaths Monica Bleam ’89 Roney is now a personnel and Robert ’82 and Jill Bush, Matthew Robert, Sept. CatharineHekuis ’16 Hoffman of Holland. Mich, 28, 1989. died on Tuesday. Nov. 28, 1989. She was 97. placement directorin a small company in East R. Evelyn Boven ’55 of Holland, Nfich. died on Glen ’81 and Lisa Bock ’83 Bussies, Tiffany A graduate of Hope PreparatorySchool in addition Lansing, Mich. Sunday, Dec. 3, 1989. She was 56. (Elisabeth, Nov. I. 1989. to the college,she was active in local church activities James A. Schuman ’89 began in November a She was bom in Yonkers, N.Y. She moved toTexas Douglas ’80 and Mary Congdon, Stephen Earl, July in Bergen County, N.J.. and also served fora number two-year commitment with the Peace Corps. He is in 1977, and returned to Holland in 1987. 17, 1989. of years on the Reformed Church in America Board Surviving are her children, Dorothy and Valentin serving in Costa Rica. Steven and Nancy Kcrle ’80 Cope, Andrew Hershel, of Domestic Missions as chairperson of the board's Waltschew of Brownsville, Texas, Dale and Aurora Brenda Swanson ’89 is teaching sixth grade in Niles, June 18, 1989. Kentucky work. Boven of Garca Garcia, Mexico, Edwin and Margie Mich, at Howard Elementary School. Michael '82 and Mary Anne Fischer, Peter William, She was active in variousdivisions of the National Boven of Holland, and Dr. Louis and Mary Jo Boven Aug. 4, 1989. Department pfWomen’s Work and was instrumentalin of Holland; seven grandchildren;her. father, Edwin Thomas '81 and Leslie Franks, Andrew Thomas, the creationof the Guild for Christian Service of the Fischer of Monte Carlo, Calif.; her sisters, Mrs. marriages Jan. 28, 1989. RCA (now Reformed Church Women). Howard (Anita)Gaines of Sunny ville, Calif. , and Mrs. Tim '80 and Marianne Dykema '81 Griffin, She and her husband James, who preceded her in Peter (Marilyn) Johnson of Escondito, Calif.: nieces Alexander Timothy, Sept. 15, 1989. death, served at the First Reformed Church of Marv Baldwin ’88 and Amy Braksick '89, Oct. 28, and nephews. Robert '77 and Leigh Gunther, Samuel Peter, Sept. , HasbrouckHeights N.J.. for 24 years. Her husband 1989. 1989. was stated clerk of the Reformed Church in America JeffR. Boes and Lisa R. Beach '88, Sept. 30, 1989. Carol Bird ’68 Blahut died in an automobile Ray and Ann Boluyt '80 Hackney, Adam Jay, March for 18 years. Thomas A. Bryer and Nancy Roberts ’80, June 17, accidenton Sunday, Dec. 10, 1989 at Livingston,N.Y. 10, 1989. Surviving are her children.Jean H. and Robert T. 1989. She was 43. Bert and Barbara Wrigley ’76 Haggett, Blair Marsh of Hudsonville. Mich., and James E. '50 and Jon Dekker and Susan Brown ’89, Dec. 15, 1989. She and her husband, Eric Blahut '68. served the Kenneth, July 3, 1989. Eleanor M. Van Dahm '50 Hoffman of Holland; five Joseph T. Downey and Kathleen M. Stratton ’81, ReformedChurch at Ghent. N . Y. , for the past 1 3 years. Paul '80 and Mariann Hartje, Eric Paul. Nov. 15, grandchildren;and six great-grandchildren. May 6, 1989. In additionto her husband , she leaves two children — 1989. David Epplett and KristinBoelens '77, July 22, Michelle, age 17. and Eric, age 15. John Robert Koch ’66 died on Aug. 14. 1989. after Kevin and Lorri Hargreaves '86 Heneveld, Matthew 1989, Spring Lake, Mich. a one-and-one-half year bout with cancer. James, Nov. 2, 1989. Harold J. Buter ’49 of Kalamazoo,Mich, died on Erik B. Flom '85 and Barbara M. St Claire,July David '84 and Laura Gibson '84 Hulst, Katelyn Thursday, Jan. 11, 1990. He was 64. Alice Engelsman '36 Redeker of Ridgewood.N.J. 9. 1989, Chicago, 111. Kay, Aug. 15, 1989. A Hope basketballgreat, “Herk" was an all died on Tuesday, Nov. 14. She was 75. Dennis Gerard Gill and Lee Ann DeHaan '86, April Steve and Denise Swartz '86 Hutson, Bryant Michigan IntercollegiateAthlete Association player With her husband, the Rev. Dr. Russell J. Redeker. 8, 1.989. Stephen, Oct. 14, 1989. and had been a resident of Kalamazoo since 1951. He she served congregations in Primghar. Iowa; Spring Keith Granger '88 and Lisa Reenders '89, August, 1989, Holland, Mich. Stephen Gray and Rebecca Herin '88, Aug. 19, 1989. Michael Hansen and Sharon Hoffman '87, June 24, Professor Roger E. Davis dies 1989, Wyckoff, N.J. David Hartt '87 and Rebecca Milas '85, Sept. 2, Roger E , Davis , professor of music , died onThursday, He played an instrumentalrole in the college's 1989, Grand Haven, Mich. Jan. 25 after a valiant battle against lung cancer. acquisitionof the Dutch Pels and Van Leeuwen organ, David Hooker and Karen Van Hoven’88,Oct.20. He had been a member of the college's faculty for 27 installed in the gallery of Dimnent Memorial Chapel in 1989, Holland, Mich. years. His death marked the passingof a talented artist 1971. He also presented the first public recital on the Jerome E. Jaros and Karin L. Hansen '72, Sept. who both inspiredhis studentsand helped shape the organ. 23, 1989. college’s music program. In addition.Professor Davis was himself a fine Randall Johnson '89 and Lisa Homess '88, Aug. “ProfessorDavis had a very profound influenceon recitalist,and performed in many churches in the 12, 1989. our department over the years," said Dr. Robert A. Midwest. Mike Kern and ChristineBruins '85, July 22, 1989, Ritsema '57 , professor of music and chairpersonof the Professor Davis enjoyed organ building and wood- Holland, Mich. department. “He developed an organ instructional crafting as an avocation.He spent many summers on '89 and Teresa Plank, 5, 1989, Chad Kolean Aug. program that is the envy of other schools of our kind pipe organ rebuildingand voicing projectsin several Holland, Mich. across the country.” West Michigan area churches and was often called upon William Lefley and KristineHanson '87, June 17, ProfessorDavis was bom in Akron, Ohio in 1935. to serve as an organ consultant.At his home, he built 1989, Holland, Mich. He received the bachelor of science degree in music an enviable,two-manual pipe organ in a studio which Todd LeMieux and Jennifer Carr '85, March 18, education from the Universityof Akron in 1957, the he designed and built. 1989. bachelorof music degree in organ from Oberlin College A major contributionto, the world of music education Lee, Junc24, 1988. JeffMcKeeby '85andWendy in 1961 and the master of music degree in organ was the appearance of hjs book, published by W.W. Jon KcKecby ’88 and Susan Milanowski'88, June performance from Northwestern University in 1963. Norton, "The Organist'sManual." It has been received 25, 1989. Before coming to Hope College in 1963. he had by students and teachersof organs with justified Paul Mulder and Heather Noll ’88, Aug. 12, 1989, played string bass in the Akron Symphony and held enthusiasm. Highest praise for his book came from many Holland, Mich. positionsas organistand choirmaster at the First sources.The London-based"Musical Times" said its Mary Jane Muller '68 and Ernest Q. Montgomery, CongregationalChurch in Cuyahuga Falls, Ohio and at chapterson ornamentation and fingering constituted one Aug. 17, 1989. - the Sauganash Community Church in Chicago. He had of the finest short essays on the subject. Janette Cooper Blaine Newhouse '86 and Kathleen Piersma, Sept. also worked for the late Homer Blanchard of Delaware, in the London "Church Music Quarterly"said, “to read 2, 1989, Hudsonville, Mich. Ohio for two years in pipe organ building and such concise,stylish and literateprose, particularly, dare Michael Norton and Holly Willson '84, July 15, maintenance. Isay it, anAmericantext book, is a matter of rejoicing." 1989, Ridgewood, N.J. At Hope, ProfessorDavis taught organ and music At the time of ProfessorDavis' death he had nearly Daniel O'Neill '88 adn Maria Noelle Blum Aug. theory, and was the college organist.He directedthe completed a collectionof familiarpieces which he Roger E. Davis 19, 1989, Rhinebeck,N.Y. College Chorus for 20 years. Among major works transcribed,edited and engraved. Michael A. Ostrowski and Karol Maureen Troupe performed was the “Requiem"by Maurice Durufle.with ProfessorDavis was a member of Phi Mu Alpha, '88. July 29. 1989. the composeras guest conductor. He was for 10 years American Guild of Organistsand the American Institute and Christyne Hartsuiker '81, Lawrence Overbeek the chairman and program director of Christmas Vespers. of Organ Builders. Holland Junior High School; a brother, James A. June 3, 1989, Fennville,Mich. In 1971, he initiated the popular Tulip Time organ He is survived by his mother, Lucy T. Davis; four Davis from Akron; Ohio: two sisters.Marian Musick William M. Peterson and Anne Lorraine Boonstra and Lenore Holmes, both from Whittier, Calif,; recital series and managed it until 1988. The recitals children, CynthiaTowell of Coppel. Tex,; Laura Davis, '85, Nov. 4. 1989, Holland, Mich. enable many Hope alumni who have distinguished a student at Hope College; Eric Davis, a student at two grandsons; and his friend and companion Robert C. Rawleigh and Lori A. Cine '89, May 27, themselves in organ performance to return to campus. Holland High School; and Lucy Davis, a student at Norene Walters. 1989. FOURTEEN NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990 Lake, Mich.; and Pella, Iowa. Trained as a/teacher, she taught an ecumenical released-timeBible course for studentsof the Pella Public Schools before moving to New Jersey in 1958. A 30-year resident of Ridgewood, N.J., she had been active in the Old Paramus Reformed Church as a choir member, member of the music committee and in other church-relatedactivities. She was a leader of national • •• stature in the denomination, serving as president of the RICH HERITAGE ReformedChurch Women and as the presiderat the Triennial Conference held in Philadelphia. She was deeply committed to the ordinationof women, and was one of the-Ieadersin that successful struggle. BRIGHT later a real estate FUTURE She was employed as agent with Century 21 in Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J. She passed her state real estate exam at age 65. and went on to become a member of the real estate Million Dollar Sales Club in 1983-84.

Surviving are her husband ; two daughters, Kathleen VandeBerg of Mahopac, N.Y. and Jane Coyle of Newpost,R.I.; a son, James of Philadelphia,Pa.; a

brother, John Engelsmanof Alexandria, La. ; and seven grandchildren.

Minnie Rozeboom ’24 Sanko died on Nov. 10, 1989. She is survived by a son, Tom; a daughter, Barbara; and five grandchildren.

Howard C. Schade ’32 of Seminole, Fla. died on Monday, Sept. 25, 1989. at University General Hospital, Seminole. Bom Oct. 27, 1908 in theBronx.N.Y.,he graduated from New BrunswickTheological Seminary in New Jersey after earning his degree from Hope. From 1935 to 1959, he served pastoratesin Coxsackie, Tappan, N. Terrytown and Nyack, N.Y. In 1958, he was elected presidentof the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America. From 1959

to 1 966 her served at their national headquartersas an Goal executive secretaryof the Board of North American $1,100,000 Missions. He then returned to a pastoralministry in Bogota, N.J., serving there from 1966 to 1972. During his long ministry,Reverend Schade was active in a wide variety of state and community affairs. For example, he had been a member of the Governor’s Conference for the Aging and served on the President’s Conference on Traffic. He had worked as chaplain in both militaryand hospitalsettings.

After retiring to Seminole in 1973 , he was called to be associatepastor of Lake SeminolePresbyterian church from 1974 to 1979. As associatepastor emeritus of that congregation, he continued in ministry there Alumni support - an investment in the minds, by teaching a Sunday school class, leading aThursday morning prayer group and visitation until shortly lives, and potential of young people. before his death. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth;a son, Thomas V. of Tempe, Ariz.; and a brother, Arthur, of Albuquerque,N.M.

Earl M. Slagh ’30 of Elsie, Mich, died on Monday, Dec. 25, 1989. He was 81.

He was bom in Holland, Mich, on March 1, 1908, to Tieman and Alice Boyenga Slagh. He attended Holland High School, and in additionto Hope attended the University of Michigan and the University of St. Louis. He moved to Elsie in 1939. He and Carol Degan were married on Dec. 28, 1937 in Bay City. Slagh was a member of St. Cyrils Catholic Church, and the Elsie United Methodist Church. He served in

the U. S . Army as a captainduring World War II , was a member of the AmericanLegion Post 502 in Elsie, a chartermember of the Elsie Lions Club and a

member of the AMA . He was a retired medical doctor on staff at Clinton Memorial Hospital and the Memorial Hospital in Owosso. Academic Excellei ristiai Surviving are his wife, Carol; two daughters, Kathryn Olson of Ovid, Mich, and Mary Slagh of faith ... The foundi ce 186 Daytona Beach, Fla.; a son, Michael Slagh of Queensland, Australia;and four grand children. He was preceded in death by ms parents,three brothersand four sisters. More tl £0,000 lope's traditk acade sympathy to The RI sustair The family and friends ofWilliamH. Vande Water of Holland, Mich. , who died on Friday, Dec. 8, 1989‘. by gen He was 88. is its m Hope College honored him in 1 97 1 for 50 years of and enr news coverage of Hope athletic events. In 1985, the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Associationhonored him for dedicated and distinguishedservice to intercollegiate athletics since 1920. The BR IT FUT! lear mis His newspaper career began in 1920, and he was a staff correspondent (or The Grand Rapids Press from commit jadersl 1927 to 1985. He wrote the first Tulip Time story to ever appear in an outstatedaily newspaper. Vande Water also wrote for The Holland Sentinel,Detroit With y< ^ontinui kl Alma News, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune and Kalamazoo Gazette. Mater's itage is ired. His civic activities in Holland spanned decades. The organizationsin which he had been involved included theTulipTime board. Hoi land Chamber of Commerce, Boy Scouts and Holland Rotary Club. 1980-81 1 982-83 1984-85 1986-87 1988-89 1989-90 Surviving arc a son and daughter-in-law.Randall P. ’52 and Mary E. DeKock ’72 Vande Waterof Holland; one granddaughter,Nancy Vande Water ’81 Sivertson ofiyier, Texas; two great-grandchildren;two brothers, Bernard and Charles Vande Water; and one sister,Mrs. Ralph (Rorence) Dokter, all of Holland; and several HAVE YOU MADE YOUR ALUMNI FUND GIFT? nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife of 58 years, Kitty, in 1983.

NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990 FIFTEEN Campus profile

The other athletes: intramurals offer fun, friendship, variety

by Stephanie Wright ’91

XT' ave you ever heard of pickleball? It’s XXa fairly unusual sport that combines ping-pong, tennis and racquetball. It’s also one of the new sports being offered through the Hope College intra- mural athleticprogram. The program has been in existence at

Hope for several years. In the fall of 1988, however. Dr. Anne Irwin, already an associate professor of physical education and the athletic directorfor women, became director of intramural sports. With the help of students, Dr. Irwin restructuredthe intramural program so that

it could include more sports and different sports, such as pickleball,than in the past. The program already had traditional sports such as football, basketball and softball, but Dr. Irwin thought that by offering other sports as faell, she could boost participation. “My focus was on trying to get participa-

tion up really high, so I was trying to think of things we could do to hopefullymake that happen or at least give an opportunity to make that happen,” Dr. Irwin said. Consequently,she has shortenedthe seasons so that she could keep the sports already being offered and add new sports Inner tube water polo is one of many activitiesoffered through the intramural program at Hope College. Others include basketball, as well. She is hoping that everyone at Hope football, bowling, miniaturegolf and pickleball. Pictured are senior Melanie Bogo (foreground)and sophomore Andrea Schregardus. will be able to find an intramural sport they Last year their team, “The Anchors, ” took first place against a faculty team called "The Graduates. " like to play. Some of the sports Dr. Irwin has added are fairly traditional,such as tennis, An “OutstandingTeam Award” is given through the program and points out that the to the “Beefcakes” team roster. racquetball, badminton and indoor soccer. to a men’s and a women’s team which has environment of intramurals is so casual that Dr. Irwin is happy with the way the ’ She has also added some unusual sports, accumulated the highest number of points it is a great way to meet people. intramural program is running. like pickleball and inner tube water polo, throughout the year. An “Outstanding Dan Otis, a sophomore from Ludington, She is hoping to continue to build and social sports, like one-day bowling and Individual Award” is given to each man and Mich., has also been fairly involved with participation,and she is experimentingwith miniature golf tournaments. woman who has on an individual basis the intramural program. He was the team activities that may interest people who, as The tactic seems to be working. During accumulated the highest number of points captain of “The Beefcakes,” who finished she puts it, “don’t like to get sweaty.” the 1988-89 academic year, 950 people throughout the year. third last year in overall points. Otis, who She has also thought about orienteering, participated in the intramural program — Doreen German, a junior from Green- finished second for individual points, which for many people would also involve and with 546 persons having been involved ville, Mich., has been very involved with echoed some of German’s comments. learning a new skill. “I’m trying to come a variety of things, so during the past fall semester alone, there is the intramural program since Dr. Irwin took Otis played several varsity sports in high up with everybody every indication that participation will be it over. As a freshman she played on the school, but when he came to Hope he would be interested in at least one thing even higher this year, The campus seems to women’s junior varsity basketball team and decided he didn’t want to play on the varsity during the year,” Dr. Irwin said. appreciate the variety. didn’t know much about the intramural level. He was concerned that being on a She is also concerned that the program This year there are approximately25 program, but as a sophomoreshe was one varsity team would mean having to fit exist for the students and “that everbody is sports or seasons offered to men’s, women’s of the students who helped Dr. Irwin studies around the sport, whereas he feels considered.”She asks students what they and co-ed teams. There are also special re-structurethe program. She also was the that intramurals are very flexibleand don’t think about ideas she has. She calls up some freshmen tournaments offered at the very captain of an intramural team and won the interferewith his studies. of the students who have been very involved beginning of the year to introduce the “OutstandingIndividual Award.” One aspect of intramurals that both Otis in the program or she talks to students she freshmen to the program. And, May Day, German is positive about the program and his teammate Rob Riekse, a sophomore has in class. She also talked to the Sports Management class about the intramural a traditional event at Hope which has often and how it has changed since she’s been at from Grand Rapids, Mich., enjoy is the had many Greek participants, is getting Hope. She discoveredthat for her it has camaraderie of the team. “It helped in my program and asked them if they had any more publicity and participationthrough the been not only a lot of fun, but a great way freshman year to be with a group of guys ideas or suggestions. intramural program. to make friends and relieve stress. She who would get together at least once a week She found it interestingthat some of the Teams can be formed through any found being involved in varsity athletics for the differentcompetitions and put aside things they suggested,such as a T-shirt combination of members of the Hope here very time-consuming and stressful, but our school work for awhile, just be contest to design the championshipT-shirt, community, and while the teams are mostly intramurals has a more relaxed atmosphere guys,” Otis said. “And that camaraderie, were ideas she had already been exploring. is students, there are a few faculty and staff and the activity itself is a great stress release. and the fact that it’s a very, very fun program One thing she thinking about doing this year is a play-off team members. Last year there was a team She says that competitivenessexists but to be involved in brought me back.” having game between intra- called “The Graduates,”which consisted that it is part of the fun. “You can be He said he also likes the variety that the the over-all winning team of Hope’s entirely of faculty members. competitiveand enjoy that part of it, but short seasons and different sports offers. mural men’s basketball and Calvin’s win- If While the main emphasis of the intra- then after the game it’s cool and it’s not like Otis said he believes that there is a lot of ning intramural team. the competition it has of mural program is on participationand fun, you lost the conference championship.You participation in the program, but that he happens, every chance catching there is always going to be competitionin can just go back to the dorm and goof would like to see even more. The number the spirit of the Hope-Calvin rivalry. For of people participating this year is already a sporting event. Keeping these two things around with those same people (you played Riekse, however, there is no question which in mind Dr. Irwin developed a system of against),” German said. up quite a bit from last year at this time, team would emerge on top. points and awards for the program. She also said she has made many friends and Otis said they have added more people “We would probably win,” he said, SIXTEEN NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 1990