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Hope .. _ ^ Holland, MI Non-Profit College Oraanization ADDRESS CORRECTION49423 1 1 postage REQUESTED PAID news from in a^HOPE COLLEGE JUNE 1989 FGBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, /MICHIGAN 49423 Music Breaches Barriers Inside Xhis Issue Alumni Weekend features Family expert is Spring sports season brings awards, togetherness and reunions family man individual triumphs pages 6-12 page 13 page 16-17 news from CAMPUS NOTES HOPE COLLEGE Probability and StatisticalInference, which he coauthored with Dr. Robert Hogg of the University of Iowa, is in its 12th year Volume 20, No. June 1989 6 and third edition, and is used by colleges Published for Alumni, Friends and Parents and universitiesacross the country. of Hope College by the Office of Public GROUP EFFORT: Dr. Donald Luidens, Relations. Should you receive more than one associate professor of sociologyand copy, please pass it on to someone in your chairperson of the department,is one of community. An overlap of Hope College three sociologists involved in an on-going constituenciesmakes duplicationsometimes unavoidable. study of the religiousbeliefs and behaviors of post-WorldWar II Presbyterians. Editor: Thomas L. Renner '67 The sociologists’work will follow-up a Associate Editor: Gregory S. Olgers pilot study the group already conducted. The '87 project is supported by a grant from the Lilly Contributing Writers: Carrie Beecher Endowment Inc. of Indianapolis, Ind. '89, Kathleen McGookey '89 “In the last two decades, mainline Protestantism, including the Presbyterian Layout: Holland Litho Service, Inc. Church, has suffered significant member- Contributing Photographers: Paul ship losses,” Dr. Luidens said. “While Chamtiess '90, Ted Jungblut, Louis initial analysis of these losses suggested Schakel they were the consequence of denomina- Photo Staff: Jennifer Kochin '92 tional ‘liberalism’on social and political news from Hope College is publishedduring issues, it has recently become clear that the February,April, June, August, October and real reason for the decline is a differentone. December by Hope College, 137 East 12th The principal cause for the membership Professor Elliot Tanis, right, was presentedthe 1989 Hope OutstandingProfessor Educator Street, Holland, Michigan 49423-3698. drop has been the changes in lifestyle (H.O.P.E.) award by Mary Taylor '89 and David Widmer ’89 Postmaster:Send address changes to news among the generation bom after the Second from Hope College, Holland,MI 49423-3698. H.O.P.E. PROFESSOR: Profes the graduatingclass to the professor who World War.” sor Elliot A. Tanis was presentedthe 25th they feel epitomizes the best qualities of the “The ‘Baby Boom’ generation has Hope College Office of Public Relations, annual Hope Outstanding Professor Hope educator. delayed its marriages and its childbearing. DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. Educator (H.O.P.E.) award by the 1989 Dr. Tanis has been a member of the Hope Many have never been married; others wait Thomas L. Renner ’67, Director Mary Lammers ’60, Kempker, Associate graduating class. faculty since 1965. He is the first member until late in their 20s or even 30s to begin Director Dr. Tanis, a professor of mathematics, of the mathematics department to receive having children. Each of these patterns Gregory S. Olgers ’87, AssistantDirector was honored during the college’s Honors the H.O.P.E. award. results in delayed — and often no — church Janet Mielke ’84 Pinkham, Assistant Convocation on Thursday, April 27. The He is nationally respected for his exper- involvement,”Dr. Luidens said. “In Director award, first given in 1965, is presented by tise in probability and statistics. His book Esther Cleason, Office Manager Sally Bassett, Receptionist- Scheduler Karen Bos, Secretary “The time required to distillthe mission achieve the following: of Hope College to that one sentence was A clearer understandingby the Hope NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION:Hope well spent, for ever since it has sharpened College is committed to the concept of equal College community of where we can go rights,equal opportunities and equal protection the focus of everyone involved with the with this institution. under the law. Hope College admits students college. Broad support for pursuing these of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, “But now we have the amplification of aspirations. sex, creed or handicap to all the rights, these thoughts which is contained in John “—A firm grasp of what it will take to privileges, programs and activitiesgenerally Jacobson’s ‘A Vision of Hope in the Future. ’ achieve them. accordedor made available to students at Hope What a subtle, but great step forward this And, lastly, understandingand College, including the administration of its represents. Consider how it begins: support for the prioritiesthat will have to educationalpolicies, admissions policies, Quote, unquote is an eclectic sampling “ ‘Hope should be, and be recognized as, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic be applied along the way. of things being said at and about Hope the leading Christian liberal arts college in and other school-administeredprograms. With “If we achieve this much, the effort will College. regard to employment, the College complies the country. Hope should be, and be have been highly productive. Indeed, if we “The first thing I want to say is: don’t with all legal requirementsprohibiting recognized as, one of the nation’s leading accomplish that much, we shall be well on discrimination in employment. worry, getting involved with planning is not liberal arts colleges.’ our way towards realizingour shared vision going to be as bad as you think. “What a challenge this vision represents! of Hope in the Future. ” On the Cover: “ ‘Strategic planning’sounds like a As I see it, the Hope in the Future exercise — Dr. Richard J. Kruizenga ’52, guest heavy dose of some very cerebral process. is to make tangible what this vision means speaker at the kick-off dinner for the Hope "Christ is Risen!" proclaim the Russian And most of you don’t regard yourselves as and to provide a broad working plan for in the Future strategic planning exercise. words above the Hope College Chapel ‘planners.’ That’s okay, because one does getting us there. Without these mission Kruizenga is executive vice president for Choir. not need to be an experienced planner to statements, however, we would face an the Exxon Corporation,and involved with be an effective participant. For two weeks in May, the group almost hopeless task. Wth them, the their planning. “What’s needed when we sit in our conducted a concert tour of the Soviet down exercise becomes doable. Dr. Kruizenga is a member of the Hope 12 groups is a mutual thinking through, in “So how do we commence our work? Union. The scene on page one shows the College Board of Trustees, and is serving a common sense way, of the particular Based on my experience,I am going to choir performing in the Leningrad on one of Hope in the Future planning issues assigned to us. make five suggestions that I believe will be Baptist Church on Tuesday, May 16. groups: "Academic Strengths Now and for “To begin at the beginning:planning useful. the Future (What and How). " The choir discoveredthat members obviously involves where we’re going. “The first suggestionis that each group For more information about Hope in the music is a universal language,and found “Knowing where we want to go is explore the possible alternatives.My Future, see page three. their formal concerts and impromptu fundamental.In this regard we have a great second suggestionis: be quantitative performances well received. They also head start based on the initial work of whenever possible. The third one is, let’s learned that the Soviet people are open, Gordon Van Wylen in defining the mission be outward looking. The fourth is that our friendly and generous. of Hope College and John Jacobson’s planning should be hard-headed.The fifth subsequent elaboration: suggestionis that we be bottom-line The cover photograph was taken by Dr. “ ‘The mission of Hope College is to oriented. Michael a choir parent that Magan, offer, with recognized excellence, academic “At the end, what can we hope for? accompanied the group on its tour. The programs in liberal arts, in the setting of an “I do not think the result will be a detailed photographs on pages 14-15 were taken undergraduate,residential, co-educational master plan which identifieseach step to by Paul Chamness, a senior from college and in the context of the historic an even better future for Hope College. For Holland, Mich. Christian faith.’ my part, I would be delighted if we could TWO NEW& FROM1 HOPfe COLLEGE, - JUNE- 1989 addition, having passed through the strug- gles of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, this generation seems to hold an on-going suspicion of all institutions — including religiousones. As a result of these changes in lifestyle and values, large numbers of Baby Boomers have refrained from joining mainline churches.”. More than 500 persons, selected from Presbyterian church membership rolls from throughout the country, will be interviewed for the study.