News from Hope College, Volume 27.2: October, 1995 Hope College

Hope College Hope College Digital Commons News from Hope College Hope College Publications 1995 News from Hope College, Volume 27.2: October, 1995 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college Part of the Archival Science Commons Recommended Citation Hope College, "News from Hope College, Volume 27.2: October, 1995" (1995). News from Hope College. 123. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college/123 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Hope College Publications at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in News from Hope College by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Map reading Homecoming Inside This Issue a useful skill memories, on the changing Homecoming Hope campus. spirit. Hope a family tradition ................. 3 Vienna leaders honored ................. 5 Writers enliven Hope ..................... 7 Generational New Students ........ 14 Please see Please see page eight pages nine-11. PUBLISHED BY HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 October 1995 Reflections on a unique '95 Pull. Please see pages 12 and 13. Hope College Non-Profit 141 E. 12th St. Organization Holland,Ml 49423 U.S. Postage PAID ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Hope College Campus Notes Center passes preamble Management.Established in 1990, CDS is a Ground broken and full-servicecatering and dining operation with 15 chents in the educational and corpo- management team in rate market in four states. place, the preamble has Melchiori, who assumed his new respon- ended for the Haworth sibilities in May, had been food service director at Hope since 1986. The food service Conference and Learning operation at the college employs more than Center and Cook 200, and provides catering both on- and off- Residence Hall. campus, includingoperating the college's Kletz Snack Bar. Approximately 150 attended the ground He is the college's representativeto breaking ceremony, held on Thursday,Aug. NACUFS, the National Association of 17, near 10 th Street between College and College and University Food Services. His Columbia avenues. Participants included involvement in the community includes Albert McGeehan '66, mayor of Holland, chairing the Food Service Advisory Board of Mich.; G.W. Haworth, founding chairman of the CareerlineTech Center and being a Haworth Inc.; Richard G. Haworth, chairman member of the Hospice Annual Celebration and chief executive officer of Haworth Inc.; Committee. He is a member of St. Francis de Paul Elzinga '59, chief executive officer of Sales Catholic Church. Elzinga & Volkers Inc., construction man- Little was director of the Lake Michigan agers for the project; Hope College President Convention and Visitors Bureau in St. Joseph, Mich., for the last four years. She created the Dr. John H. Jacobson; the Rev. Paul Boersma Site preparation ended for the Haworth Conference and Learning Center and Cook '82, chaplain;and the Shoreline Brass Quartet. full-service conventionbureau and destina- Residence Hall and construction began with a ground breaking ceremony on Creative Dining Services of Zeeland, tion marketingorganization, which serves a Thursday, Aug. 17. Pictured from left to right are Richard Haworth, G.W. Haworth, Mich., has been chosen to manage the center. seven-community region. Dr. John H. Jacobson, Holland Mayor Al McGeehan ’66 and J. Kermit Campbell. Chuck Melchiori is the new facility'sexecu- Little brings more than 15 years of experi- tive director, and Cynthia Little has been ence in the hospitalityindustry. Among her Suites. The Haworth Conference and Learning appointed directorof marketing. accomplishments is the re-opening of the Quarters Hotels and Embassy She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Center is expected to be completed in the fall Creative Dining Services is a joint venture Carlton, Sheraton Corporation's flagship of 1996; the attached Cook Residence Hall by between Hope, Calvin College of Grand hotel, after a $25 million renovation. She has the Michigan Chapter of Meeting May of 1997. Jt Rapids, Mich., and Creative Dining also held marketing positions with Guest ProfessionalsInternational. “Quote, unquote” what it takes to step to the front, to assume HOTE COLLEGE Quote, unquote is an responsibilityfor your own actions, and to eclectic sampling of push the boundaries of your own being." Volume 26, No. 2 October 1995 Dr. Gentile's list also included sugges- things said at and about tions for facing new ideas and challenges, On the cover and he stressed appreciating differentways Hope College. The stillness of the Black River belies the frenzy and fury taking place on its banks on Saturday, Sept. of learning. 23. The view is of the screening banner of the sophomoreClass of '98. The story of this year's Pull is on Learn to work through anxiety. Have "I urge you not to reject one mode of pages 12 and 13. gumption. And never, ever, wash the colored understandingfor the other in your pursuit of At top center is a portion of the oft-changed,official Hope College map. See page eight for an account clothes with the whites. the understandingof any idea, but be recep- of how this summer's house moving has been received. With several hundred parents about to tive to the creativity of your colleagues— even At top right is a bit of Homecoming enthusiasm. Coverage of the iveekend,which ran Oct. 12-15, is on leave their children at college for the first time. when that creativity differs from your own," Dr. James Gentile focused his Sunday, Aug. he said. "Synergy of thought will result, and pages nine through 11. 27, opening convocationtalk on the tips he all involved will move to a higher plane of understandingvery rapidly." would most like to share with his teenage son Volume 26, No. 2 October 1995 Hope College Dr. Gentile also focused attention on the when he reaches college age next year. Published for Alumni, Friends and Office of Public Relations Dr. Gentile's laundry advice stemmed college itself. He noted, for example, that the Parents of Hope College by the Office of DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. from his own undergraduate experience in students should realize that the true measure Public Relations. Should you receive Thomas L. Renner '67 mixing several new bright-red t-shirts with of a college is in its faculty. more than one copy, please pass it on to Director of Public Relations the rest of his wardrobe. "We need to justifiably be proud of the someone in your community. An overlap Gregory S. Olgers '87 "Do I have to go on?/' asked Dr. Gentile, tools, the bricks and the mortar, that help us of Hope College constituencies makes Director of Information Sendees who is the dean for the natural sciences and do that job," he said. "But what we must rec- duplicationsometimes unavoidable. the Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Biology. ognize is that the excellenceof the teachers at Lynne M. Powe '86 "Can you imagine the effect on my wardrobe the institution is what creates the state of mind Alumni Director Editor Thomas L. Renner '67 following the first laundry day? All I can say that we know as Hope College." Kathy Miller Managing Editor Gregory S. Olgers '87 is that I was not alone." He added that those same teachers are a Manager of Public Relations Services Layout and Design: The anecdote also illustrateda broader resource of which students should take Karen Bos Holland Litho Service, Inc. point: that even the small things matter in the advantage — just as they would use the cafete- Secretary of Public Relations Office final mix. "It is what you put into the ria for dinner, and the library in doing Printing: News Web Printing Services mundane of life that dictates how you are pre- research for an English class. of Greenville, Mich. Notice of Nondiscrimination pared to deal with the more critical issues as He also praised Hope's combination of Contributing Photographers: Hope College is committed to the concept of they come along," he said. liberal arts learning and a faith tradition, and Jim Dostie, Erik Holladay, equal rights, equal opportunities and equal Anxiety, Dr. Gentile noted, is inevitable, the variety of perspectives and ethnic back- Ted Jungblut, Lou Schakel protection under the law. Hope College admits and can best be faced by preparingto meet grounds and traditionsfound on campus. "I ContributingWriter Heidi Aronson '96 students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin,sex, creed or disabilityto all the rights, whatever challenge is involved. strongly urge you to learn from the diversity nezvs from College is published privileges,programs and activitiesgenerally "The best way to overcome anxiety is to of life, tradition and thought that you will Hope during February,April, June, August, accorded or made available to students at become very familiarwith the issue at hand," encounter on this campus," he said. Hope College, including the administration of he said. "You must remember that it is peace The lessons to be learned, he said, are October, and December by Hope its educationalpolicies, admission policies, of mind that you are after, because only this importantnot only for the students, but for College, 141 East 12th Street, Holland, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic will allow you to tackle the issue." society in general. Michigan 49423-3698. and other school-administered programs.With Gumption, Dr. Gentile said, "is something "This community must model the future for Postmaster:Send address changes to regard to employment, the College complies to strive for and something to maintain." society — a true understandingand acceptance news from Hope College, Holland, MI with all legal requirements prohibiting "It's an important form of tenacity,"he of the beauty of human diversity," Dr. Gentile 49423-3698 discrimination in employment.

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