Oct04_wrapAround 10/19/04 10:19 AM Page 1 PUBLISHED BY HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 news from HOPE COLLEGE October 2004 “Your help is needed now to successfully complete Legacies: A Vision of Hope, and will sustain Hope’s excellence in undergraduate higher education for years to come. Your gift will enhance the worth of every Hope degree, and will make a difference in the lives of generations of students yet to know the value of the Hope experience.” — Dr. James E. Bultman, President Hope College Non-Profit 141 E. 12th St. Organization Holland, MI 49423 U.S. Postage PAID CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Hope College Oct04_wrapAround 10/19/04 10:19 AM Page 2 Legacies: A Vision of Hope Four cornerstones With four major initiatives, the Legacies: A Vision of Hope campaign is affecting every department and every student. SCIENCE: To build a new science center and renovate the Peale Science Center ENDOWMENT: To increase the endowment to provide ongoing support for college operations and programs DEVOS FIELDHOUSE: To help meet spectator facility needs for the college and Holland MARTHA MILLER CENTER FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATION: To build a new academic building for multiple departments More about each initiative can be found in the remainder of this four-page campaign supplement. The Science Center Hope is ranked among the nation’s top schools for undergraduate research and creative projects in the America’s Best Colleges guide published by U.S. News and World Report. The building continues Hope’s traditional emphasis on research-based learning. The new building and renovated Peale together more than double the size of Peale alone. At 30 years old, Peale was desperately in The building has been designed to reflect cross- need of updating for Hope to maintain its disciplinary connections, preparing graduates tradition of excellence in science instruction. for the way that science and scientists work. The building houses the departments of: Even as fund-raising continues, the science • biology center is already in action. The new building • chemistry opened in August of 2003, and the renovated • geological and environmental sciences building in August of this year. Please see • nursing page 20 for highlights from the recent • psychology dedication celebration. Legacies NFHC October 2004 Oct04_wrapAround 10/19/04 10:19 AM Page 3 Legacies: A Vision of Hope Endowment Hope has a small endowment compared to peer institutions: Endowment-Per-Student GLCA Institution (June ‘03) Endowment support is essential for attracting and retaining talented faculty members and students. Wabash College.......................................................................$346,818.60 Earlham College......................................................................$262,108.79 A stronger endowment will ensure that Hope continues to admit Oberlin College .......................................................................$188,083.95 students based upon their academic achievement regardless of their Denison University.................................................................$187,563.70 ability to pay. DePauw University ................................................................$160,765.28 The College of Wooster ............................................................$97,228.90 So far, the campaign has added 160 new endowment funds, including Kalamazoo College...................................................................$91,228.91 133 new scholarships and four new endowed professorships. More Kenyon College .........................................................................$77,396.67 support will make an even bigger difference. Albion College...........................................................................$74,312.54 Ohio Wesleyan University.......................................................$61,445.03 Consider how outstanding Hope is even with its small endowment. Antioch College.........................................................................$42,344.83 Imagine how much more outstanding Hope could be with an even Hope College ............................................................................$34,079.68 larger endowment. Your gift will help it happen. The Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse The DeVos Fieldhouse is being built on a 20-acre, park-like setting on the eastern gateway to both The aging Civic Center’s court is shorter Holland and Hope, bridging the Buys Athletic than regulation, ineligible when Hope is Complex to the core campus. in the NCAA playoffs. The fieldhouse will be home court for men’s and Displays inside the building will tell the women’s basketball, and women’s volleyball, story of Hope athletics sport-by-sport. seating approximately 3,500. It will be the first The fieldhouse will also prominently home court on campus for the men’s basketball display the trophies and awards won by team since 1930. The building will also house the Hope teams of the past. athletic training program and offices for the department of kinesiology. Relieved of some of its use in intercollegiate athletic competition, the Dow Center will be more available for its intended purpose—recreation by the student body in general. The growing popularity of the college’s intramural program makes the Dow much in demand. Gift opportunities include purchasing engraved bricks that will line the main entry plaza for $250 each. The fieldhouse is scheduled to open in the fall of 2005, in time for the 100th anniversary of Hope basketball. NFHC October 2004 Legacies Oct04_wrapAround 10/19/04 10:19 AM Page 4 Legacies: A Vision of Hope The Martha Miller Center for Global Communication and campus development The building will house the departments of modern and classical languages and communication, and the offices of international education and multicultural life. The emphasis is on synergy: on ways that the four programs can interrelate, finding connections that will make them even stronger together than they are individually. The building is scheduled to open with the start of the 2005-06 school year. When the Martha Miller Center is completed, space in Graves and Lubbers halls will be available for other departments also in need of additional room. A variety of campus improvements have already been completed, including the construction of new weight and exercise rooms, and of two new dance studios, in the Dow Center, and the restoration of the stained glass windows and mortar joints of Dimnent Memorial Chapel. Additional campus projects planned include the renovation of Graves and Lubbers halls, and the restoration of the chapel’s Skinner organ. Every gift matters—please help now! Launched in the fall of 2000, the $105 million Legacies campaign will conclude at the end of December. Hope needs your support to fully realize the campaign’s real goal: to sustain and enhance, in a lasting way, the outstanding educational experience the college provides to the leaders of tomorrow. To participate, please choose the option that works best for you: ...return the enclosed gift reply envelope ...give online You may now make a gift online. Visit Hope’s secure giving page, where you can make a one-time gift at www.hope.edu/giving/online/ and view additional information about giving to Hope. ...give by phone Call the Office of College Advancement at (616) 395-7865. Have your credit card ready, and a member of the staff can take the gift by phone. ...mail a check or money order (payable to Hope College) to: Hope College Advancement Services PO Box 9000 Holland, MI 49422-9000 ...transfer stock The college welcomes gifts of stock. To ensure prompt and accurate processing of your gift, it is important to notify Hope of your intentions by calling the Office of College Advancement at (616) 395-7775. For additional information, please contact the ...increase your gift through a corporate matching gifts program Office of College Advancement at (616) 395-7775, Many companies offer employees, and even retirees and/or spouses, e-mail [email protected] a matching gift benefit that maximizes your gift to Hope. or visit www.hope.edu/giving/online/ Legacies NFHC October 2004 N.F.H.C.-OCT'04 10/19/04 10:27 AM Page 1 Pull ’04 Clad in Inside This Issue Style Enrollment Record Redux ............. 2 Homecoming Reunions .............. 8-9 Generational New Students ... 10-11 Honored for Service ..................... 12 Please see Please see pages page five. six and seven. PUBLISHED BY HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 news from HOPE COLLEGE October 2004 The new science center is a monument, a physical manifestation of the generosity of those who care about Hope and Hope students. In its ongoing impact on the campus community, it will take that generosity far into the future. No less a reflection will be the lives touched by the building. Every student who learns in a classroom, explores in a lab, is guided by a mentor or studies in the atrium, shaped by those experiences, will carry the magnanimity far beyond Hope and the undergraduate years. It is a story with a rich past at the college, even as for the new building it is just beginning. To celebrate both, alumni, students, parents, faculty and friends of Hope gathered together on October 8. Please see page 20 for more. Hope College Non-Profit 141 E. 12th St. Organization Holland, MI 49423 U.S. Postage PAID CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Hope College N.F.H.C.-OCT'04 10/19/04 10:27 AM Page 2 Campus Notes Enrollment sets record college’s history, 781. The previous high, It’s a familiar refrain at set