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FEBRUARY 1986 PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF COLLEGE RELATIONS, HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN Inside Also Inside New challenges, more demands, Highway to high schools but still an apple for the teacher pages 10-11 pages 6-7 No dumb jocks page 13 ^ news from HOPE COLLEGE CAMPUS NOTES Volume 17, No. 4; February 1986 Published for Alumni, Friends and Parents of Hope College by the Office The Hope College Board of Trustees, of College Relations. Should you during its meeting Jan. 31, awarded the receive more than one copy, please pass general contract for construction of the it on to someone in your community . An Gordon J. and Margaret D. Van Wylen overlap of Hope College constituencies Library. make duplication sometimes un- Construction of the new library on the west avoidable. side of the Hope College campus is scheduled Editor: Thomas L. Renner '67 to begin this spring. Completion is expected Associate Editor: Eva Dean '83 Folkert during the 1987-88 school year. Contributing Writers: Doug Holm The general contractor will be the Pioneer Dr. Rodney Boyer Dr. Francis Fike Dr. James Motiff Dr. Anthony Perovich '86, Mary DeJonge '85 Benishek ConstructionCompany of Grand Rapids Design: Holland Litho Service, Inc. which was the lowest of seven bidders. her bachelor’s and master’s of science from South Africa, and that it would limit invest- Contributing Photographers: Louis Pioneer Construction has been the general the Boston University School of Nursing and ments in U.S. companies that operate in Schakel (pgs. 1,7, 10, 13), Jim DePree contractor on several major projects on the received her doctorate from Teacher’s South Africa to those businesses that sub- (pg- 5) Hope campus, including construction of the College of Columbia University. scribe to the Sullivan Principles,a statement Photo Staff: Dean Warren ’88, Ken Dow Physical Education and Health Center in which companies agree “to eliminate all Hope College will designate a recent Whitcomb '85, Beth Kochin ’88 in 1977 and the renovationof the DeWitt vestiges of racial discrimination, remove all grant from the Atlantic Richfield of Los Official publication news from Hope Center in 1982. race designation signs and desegregateall Angeles, Calif, toward the construction of College USPS 785-720 is published The total project cost is estimated at $8 .7 eating, comfort and work facilities.” the Gordon J. and Margaret D. Van Wylen during February, April, June, August, million dollars. Funding for the project is The Hope College Endowment Fund in Library. October and December by Hope coming from The Campaign for Hope. January included stock in three companies Each year the foundationawards a few College, 137 East 12th Street, Holland, that do business in South Africa. All are unrestricted Liberal Arts Grants to a select Michigan 49423-3698. The Hope-CalvinNursing Program, a signatories of the Sullivan Principles. The group of colleges. This year Hope was one Second class postage paid at Holland, cooperativebaccalaureate nursing program value of the stock was approximately of 1 1 liberal arts institutionsnationwide to against a total Michigan 49423 and additional offices offered at Hope College and Calvin College $820,000 Endowment Fund receive a $25,000 grant. of entry. Postmaster: Send address of Grand Rapids, has received full approval value of $15.8 million. changes to news from Hope College, from the Michigan Board of Nursing. The Hope College Board of Trustees, Several Hope College students, faculty and staff held a sit-in in the Holland, MI 49423-3698. The program received initial approval during its January meeting, approved a series members DeWitt of recommendations from a Task Force Center during the Board of Trustees meeting. Hope College Office of College Rela- from the Michigan Board of Nursing in aimed at “building bridges of communication The sit-in was the culmination of a week-long tions, DeWitt Center, Holland, MI April, 1982. The first class graduated in 1984. With the graduation of the second class with various elements within South African effort by a student group, the Anti- Apartheid 49423-3698. Thomas L. Renner ’67, society.” Action Committee, to increase campus Director of College Relations; Esther last spring, the program became eligible for The Task Force of students, faculty awareness of the situation in South Africa. Cleason, Office Manager; Eva Dean ’83 consideration of full approval by the state members and trusteeswas created last spring “Throughout the week, we’ve been able Folkert, Associate Director of College agency. by the Board of Trustees after receiving a to raise the consciousnessof the group,” Relations; Mary Lammers Kempker There are currently 126 students enrolled request from the Student Congress which senior Robert Hoke of Way land, Mich, told ’60, Associate Director of College in the program. The first two graduating classes totaled 99 students. Ninety-eight asked the Board to assess the relationship the Grand Rapids Press. “The (cultural Relations; Vem J. Schipper ’51, As- between Hope College and South Africa. programs) are wonderful,although we hope sociate Director of College Relations for percent of those graduatessubsequently passed the State’s licensing exam on the first The main issue has been the stock the in the next meetings, the Board of Trustees Alumni Affairs. attempt, a percentageconsidered to be well college owns in American companies that do will begin talking about divestment. Divest- NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION: above the norm. business in South Africa. In 1977 the Board ment is what we are pushing for.” Hope College is committed to the concept of Task Force recommendations approved by The program has been directed since its of Trustees adopted a policy that the college equal rights,, equal opportunitiesand equal inception by Dr. Cynthia Kielinen who holds would not invest in companies domiciled in the Board of Trustees include underwriting protectionunder the law. Hope College admits studentsof any race, color, national “Dr. King had a dream, a dream that hand that rocked the cradle, ruled the and ethnic origin, sex, creed or handicap to I see as important for our own good but world. Yes that’s an old-fashioned all the rights, privileges, programs and saying .. but the philosophybehind it has activitiesgenerally accorded or made also for the development of a better always been a strong concept . .It is available to studentsat Hope College, nation. In his thoughts about his death. including the administration of its educational Dr. King left this simple message when just that women themselves,who are policies, admissions policies, scholarship he said: capable of reaching out to change things, athletic and loan programs, and and other ‘Every now and then I think about my are changing in much of what they do. school-administeredprograms. With regard own death, and I think about my own It is true they still raise families; it is to employment,the College complies with Quote, Unquote is an eclectic sampling funeral .... I don’t want a long true that womanhood has always set the all legal requirementsprohibiting discrimina- of things being said at and about Hope. funeral. And if you get somebody to tone in a good Society. It is just that tion in employment. “As I come before you today I think deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk education has changed. Women now go into new fields but that doesn’t change About the author about the two other times I was here to too long. Tell them not to mention that Dr. Dan Paul, the celebrate Dr. King’s birthday. What I have a Nobel Peace Prize. Tell them them from being women. If they are in author of our feature comes to mind about these times is the not to mention that I have three or four good law, then they become lawyers. That doesn’t them any different. article on the teach- enthusiasm and eagerness I had when I hundred other awards. I’d like somebody make ing profession on If they are good in the sciences, they delivered my messages. This year I have to mention that day that Martin Luther page 6, has been with the same feelings and then more. King, Jr. tried to love somebody .... may become doctors. That doesn’t mean Hope College since Coming before you all today means ‘Say that I was a drum major for they can’t raise a family; that doesn’t 1966. A professor of they to set the to than before this justice. Say that I was a drum major for mean cannot continue education and chair- more me because year peace; that I was a drum major for moral tone.” man of the depart- is the year that Dr. King’s dream — Jane Byrne, former mayor of ment, Dr. Paul holds becomes part of each and every one of righteousness. And all of the other things will not matter. I won’t have Chicago, Hope College Women’s Week his bachelor" s degree us from now on. any from Hope (1950), “We now have set a day aside that money to leave behind.