Hope College Hope College Digital Commons News from Hope College Hope College Publications 1987 News from Hope College, Volume 19.1: August, 1987 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 19.1: August, 1987" (1987). News from Hope College. 74. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college/74 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]. AUGUST 1987 PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN John Jacobson’s freshman year Editor's note:This is the first in a six-partseries on Dr. John H. Jacobson's freshman year as the 10 th president of Hope College. Through the course of this academic year, this series will acquaint you with Dr. Jacobson as he becomes acquaintedwith Hope College. Tt is 10 a.m., the last Monday in June, and a monstrous Mayflower moving van is cast as a large obstacle in the middle of the driveway to the Presidents’ Home. The newly elected president of Hope College is not in the airy, well-windowed President’s Office on the second floor of the DeWitt Center nor is he engaged in any high level meeting with other high level Hope execs. Dr. John H. Jacobson is, instead, tending to another equally important task currently at hand; he’s unpacking. “I can’t help but get this feeling that the boxes I’m sending to the basement should probably be in the attic,” Hope’s new presidentlaughed about the inevitable, tiresome, necessary labors of settling into a new home. Though his inaugurationas the 10th president of Hope College won’t take place in Dimnent Memorial Chapel until Friday, Oct. 9, Jacobson has already taken the lead at Hope’s helm. In fact, the President’s Office in the DeWitt Center wasn’t even vacant for one day. On Wednesday, July 1, Jacobson stepped in as retiring president, Dr. Gordon J. Van Wylen, stepped out the day before, Tuesday, June 30. The transition has been smooth, college officialsob- served, and as the months progress, the sure bet is that Hope will maintain that strength-to-strength, even keel at the presidential level. Unlike some new presidents who are taking over other colleges and universities around the country these days, Jacobson is definitely not walking into a hot bed of problems. Occasionally, a new college chief exec might find that his new abode in higher education has one or two problems that need im- mediate attention and are crying out for action. For continued on page 8 Inside Xhis Issue Campaign Concludes League Celebration Viennese Art We The People The Campaign for Hope MIAA marks Major exhibition on Perspectives on exceeds its goal 100th year display at DePree the Constitution page 3 page 6 page 5 page 10 ^ news trom HOPE COLLEGE CAMPUS NOTES Volume 19, No. 1 August 1987 BACK IN SESSION: Residencehalls academic year will be on the rise. Currently, while Dr. Victor Eimicke of Bronxville, Publishedfor Alumni. Friends and Parents will open and orientationprograms will begin more than 80 new students over last year’s N.Y., the former chairman of the Board of of Hope College by the Office of Public on Saturday,Aug. 29 as Hope College starts figures will enroll in the fall. Last year’s Trustees from 1978-1987, was made an Relations. Should you receive more than one its 126th academic year. enrollment totaled 2,545. honorary trustee. copy, please pass it on to someone in your The opening convocation will be held Kermit Campbell of Midland, Mich. .Terry - community. An overlap of Hope College NEW TRUSTEES: Five new members Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Nagelvoort ’64ofWyckoff,N.J., Max DePree constituencies make duplication sometimes have been elected to the Board of Trustees, unavoidable. Memorial Chapel. The speaker will be Max '48 of Zeeland, Mich., Doris Adams ’52 De according to President DePree, the newly-elected chairman of the Young of Friesland, Wise., Kenneth Elzinga Editor: Thomas L. Renner '67 John H. Jacobson. Board of Trustees.DePree has been a member of Charlottesville, Va., Carl Ver Beek ’59 of Associate Editor: Eva Dean '83 Folken Elected to four-year of the Board since 1982 and most recently Grand Rapids, Mich. , and the Rev. Jay Weener terms were Gary Contributing Writer: Susan Christian'88 served as the chainnan of the college’s '49 of Grand Rapids, Mich, were each DeWitt of Zeeland,. / Layout: Holland Litho Service,Inc. PresidentialSearch Committee. A re-elected to four-yearterms. Hope Mich.; Betty Ann graduate, DePree is the chief executive Board of Trustee officers for 1987-88 are: Contributing Photographers:Louis Duval of Bronxville, Schakel officer of Herman Miller, Inc. in Zeeland. DePree, chairman; Weener, vice chairman; and N . Y. ; Larry Mulder of Mich. Max D. Boersma '46 of Grand Rapids, Mich., Photo Staff: Jeff Barnum '88, Dean Holland, Mich.; and The Board of Trustees will also confer secretary. Warren '88, Beth Kochiri '88 Glen Terbeek ’64 of honorary Doctor of Letters degrees upon Winnetka,111. Officialpublication news from Hope College Peter J DePree and Dr. Victor Eimicke, the former ENGLISH GRANT: Dr USPS 785-720 is published during February. Schakel, the Peter and Emajean Cook of the 1978-1987, at April, June. August. October and December by chairman Board from professor of English, was awarded a grant Hope College, 137 East 12th Street, Holland. the convocation. from the National Endowment for the Michigan 49423-3698. BIO GRANT: The Hope biology depart- Humanities (NEH) to participate in the 1987 Second class postage paid at Holland. ment has been awarded a $40,000 grant from Aston at Rutgers University Michigan49423 and additionaloffices of entry. Magna Academy the National Science Foundation(NSF) to this past June. Postmaster: Send address changes to news specifically support researchexperiences for The topic of this year’s was from Hope College, Holland, MI 49423-3698. Academy “The undergraduates. The project,under the Culture of RestorationEngland 1660-1720.”A Hope College Office of Public Relations, directionof Dr. James Gentile, the Kenneth distinguishedfaculty of specialists in various DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. Herrick professorof biology and chairperson fields explored the relationships between the Thomas L. Renner ’67, Director of the department, is entitled “Support for history, philosophy,politics, literature,music, Eva Dean '83 Folken, Assistant Director Betty Duval UndergraduateResearch in Biological Mary Lammers Kempker '60, Associate art, and architecture of the time. Director Sciences.” The grant will provide summer Schakel ’s training and research have David Van Dyke ’84, Assistant Director stipends for student-researchers. focused on English literature from 1660 to Esther Cleason, Office Manager According to Gentile, only 10 percent of 1740, and he uses an interdisciplinary ap- Barbara Receptionist - Scheduler Hoesman, the colleges and universities which submitted proach in teachingcourses from that period. Donna Schultz, Secretary proposals for this grant were successful in receiving funding. Of the approximately 20 CHEM AWARD: The Department of NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION: Hope biology departmentsacross the nation to Health and Human Services has awarded a College is committed to the concept of equal receive the grant, only four of those schools to F. rights, equal opportunitiesand equal protection public health service grant Dr. Rodney under the law. Hope College admits students are totally undergraduate institutions like Boyer, professor of chemistry and chairper- of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, Hope, Gentile added. son of the department. sex, creed or handicapto all the rights, Glen Ter Seek James Gentile The award of $50,000 will provide support privileges,programs and activitiesgenerally ENROLLMENT FIGURES: Prelimi- Dr. James Gentile, the Kenneth Herrick for eight undergraduate students who will accorded or made availableto students at Hope nary reports from the Admissions Office professor of biology, was elected to a investigate the mechanism of biologicaliron College, including the administration of its show that enrollment for the 1987-88 two-year term as the faculty representative utilization. educational policies,admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs,and athletic ars Fund, Hope currently provides scholar- an equal. and other school-administered programs. With ships for three students at three of South Hope sponsors two other South African regard to employment, the College complies Africa’s five universitiesthat accept non- . students — one at the University of Natal with all legal requirements prohibiting whites. and one at the University of Western Cape. discrimination in employment. “It’s an economically efficient way to have Hope students, the faculty and staff, and the an impact,” said Sobania, adding that the Board of Trustees each fund one of these From the Editor college is to supporting scholarship positions,said Sobania, who For Professor Bob Elder, the U.S. Constitution committed each student for three years — the normal length teaches African history. is a thing of beautyjust by its equivocalwording . Dr. Elder, a self-proclaimedphilospher-political of a degree program in South Africa. The Hope studentsare raising their share of the Quote, unquote is an eclectivesampling of scientist, was Eva D. Folkert’s professorial decision for the funding was made by the money through voluntary contributionsof the source for our story about the Constitution's things being said at and about Hope College. Hope College South African Task Force — a "key deposit,” money usually returned to bicentennialon page 10. students at the of the school year "When you peruse the Constitution, from my In the United States, Elizabeth Gamede joint committeeof Board of Trustee members , end when perspective, it is the vagueness,the shortness, the might be considered a “non-traditional” faculty, staff and students.