News from Hope College, Volume 28.6: June, 1997 Hope College

News from Hope College, Volume 28.6: June, 1997 Hope College

Hope College Hope College Digital Commons News from Hope College Hope College Publications 1997 News from Hope College, Volume 28.6: June, 1997 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 28.6: June, 1997" (1997). News from Hope College. 133. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college/133 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]. Hope hurls Weightless Inside This Issue All-Sports in Texas. win. H.O.P.E. winner .............................. 3 Alumni Weekend images ......... 6-1 1 Van Raalte arrives ........................ 14 Economy-sized cake ................... 15 Please see Please see pages 12-13. page 24. PUBLISHED BY HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 June 1997 Thank you! The Class of '97 expresses appreciation to the families who helped make their education possible. More graduation coverage is on page five. Hope College Non-Profit 141 E. 12th St. Organization Holland, Ml 49423 U.S. Postage PAID ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Hope College “Quote, unquote” Campus Notes wants, he realizeshe has to take dancing Quote, unquote is an lessons.There is, however, a problem. Even eclectic sampling of in 1983, boys in Norfolk, Virginia do not generally aspire to become ballet dancers. things said at and about He asks me to find out about lessons he can Hope College. take without the rest of the soccer team knowing about it. My friend Kathryn Katherine Paterson,author of literature for Morton's daughter takes ballet, so I say to children and adolescents, received an honorary Kathryn, 'David needs to take ballet degree from Hope on Thursday, April 17, 1997. lessons, but he's not eager for all his While on-campusshe presented the address buddies to know about it. Do you have any "Children of Hope." These excerpts follow her recommendations?' description of her early years as a child of mis- "'Well,' says Kathryn, 'if he's really sionaries in China, and the challenge of being a serious.Gene Hammett at Tidewater Ballet fish-out-of-water fourth grader after relocating is the best teacher anywhere around. Of to Winston-Salem, N.C., following Japan's inva- course, you may find him a bit strange, sion of China during World War II. but — ' "The fourth grade was a time of almost "'W-w-w-wait a minute,' 1 say. 'Gene unmitigatedterror and humiliation for me. who?' I recognize now that some of my best "'Hammett,'she says. 'He sends dancers writing has its seeds in that awful year, but to the Jeffrey and New York City Ballet and I can't remember once saying to my nine- Alvin Ailey every year. He's especially year-old self: 'Buck up, old girl. Someday good with young black dancers. Terribly hard on any kid that he thinks has talent, but you're going to make a mint out of all this A ribbon-cuttingmarked a new relationship that sees Hope and Western Michigan life misery.' he'd give his for them.' University using Hope’s new distance learning classroom jointly. Pictured from left to . "There were, however, two people that I "'Gene, who?' I say again. right are: Richard G. Haworth, chairman and chief executive officer of Haworth Inc., remember with great fondness from that "'Hammett,' she says. 'You may have and also a 1965 WMU graduate and chair of the university’s Board of Trustees;Hope horrible year. One was the librarianof the seen him around town. He's enormous and College President Dr. John H. Jacobson; and Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, president of Calvin H. Wiley School who. I'm afraid, wears great flowing caftans. He does look a Western Michigan University. Please see the story at the top of page three for more. died long before I could let her know what bit weird, but he's a wonderful teacher.' she meant to me. And there was Eugene "'You don't happen to know where he Hammett, the other weird kid in the fourth came from?' grade. "'Well, he came here from New York.' "There was a differencebetween me and "'New York? He wasn't a dancer?' Eugene. I was weird through no choice of "'Oh, yes. He was quite good in his time. my own. I spoke English, as my friends in You wouldn't know it by looking at him Shanghai had, with something of a British now, but he was a fine dancer 20, 30 years accent. I could hardly afford lunch, much ago.' less clothes, so my classmates would, from "'You wouldn't happen to know where time to time, recognize on my back one of he grew up?' On the cover their own donations to charity. On "'Oh, I don't know,' she says. 'North This issue’s "emphasis shot” emphasizes Hope's newest graduates giving their December 7th, the Japanese attacked Pearl Carolina somewhere I think.' families a hand during the Sunday, May 4, Commencement exercises at Holland Harbor, and because it was known that I had "'Next time you see him, would you ask Municipal Stadium. For more on graduation day, please see page five. come from that part of the world, there were him if he remembers anyone named dark hints that I might be one of them. Katherine Womeldorf from Calvin H. Wiley At top center is pitching standout Joshua McManis '97 of Madison, Ind. More "Eugene, on the other hand, was weird School?' about the spring sports season is on pages 12 and 13. by choice. Or mostly by choice. I guess he Some days later the phone rings. didn't choose his looks. He was a perfectly 'Katherine?'an unknown male voice begins, At top right, Peter Ganeff '97 experiences weightlessness aboard NASA's KC- round little boy who wore full-moon, steel- 'This is Gene Hammett.' 135A aircraft. Please see the story on page 24. rimmed glasses long before John Lennon "'Eugene!Do you remember me?' made them acceptable,and sported a half- "T even remember a joke you told me in inch blond brush cut. My only ambition in the fourth grade. I asked you why if you Volume 28, No. June 1997 Hope College in weren't Chinese. 6 the fourth grade was to become somehow were bom China you Published for Alumni, Friends and Office of Public Relations less weird. Eugene's declared ambition was And you said: 'If a cat's bom in a garage, Parents of Hope College by the Office of DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698 to become a ballet dancer. In North Carolina, does it make it an automobile?' Public Relations. Should you receive (616) in 1941, little boys, even well-builtor skinny "Oh, I was funny back then. 'And what phone: 395-7860 more than one copy, please pass it on to little boys, did not want to be ballet dancers about you? You danced in New York, and fax: (616) 395-7991 someone in your community. An overlap when they grew up. now you're a famous teacher of ballet. IP s [email protected] of Hope College constituencies makes "Now sometimes outcasts despise each hard to imagine. You were a little round boy Thomas L. Renner '67 duplication sometimes unavoidable. other, but Eugene and I did not. We were when I knew you.' Director of Public Relations friends for the rest of fourth grade and all of "He laughs. 'Well,' he says, 'now I'm a Gregory S. Olgers '87 Editor Thomas L. Renner '67 the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades. During big round man.' Director of Information Sendees my public school career, Calvin H. Wiley "I saw Eugene a number of times after Managing Editor Gregory S. Olgers '87 Lynne M. Powe '86 was the only school I went to for more than that, and he was a big round man. But I also Layout and Design: Alumni Director a year, and by the time Eugene and I were in saw pictures of him, leaping like a Holland Litho Service, Inc. Kathy Miller the seventh grade, I had fulfilled my modest Baryshnikovfrom the boards of a New York Printing: Nexus Web Printing Services, Manager of Public Relations Services ambition.I was no longer regarded as par- stage. And even if I missed knowing him of Greenville, Mich. Karen Bos ticularly weird. continued to he slim at the Eugene march, when was and gorgeous and Secretary of Public Relations Office or should I say, dance, to a different height of his career, I wouldn't give any- Contributing Photographers Ted Jungblut, Todd Mclnturf, drummer. thing for knowing that it happened as he Notice of Nondiscrimination T moved that summer. I grew up at last had determined it would, back there when Robert Markowitz, Lou Schakel Hope College is committed to the concept of and had a full, rich life in which people we were both weird little nine-year-olds at equal rights, equal opportunities and equal protection under the law. Hope College admits loved me and didn't call me names, at least Calvin H. Wiley School. news from Hope College is published students of any race, color, national and ethnic not to my face. But from time to time over "Eugene died recently, but I will never during February,April, June, August, origin,sex, creed or disabilityto all the rights, the I forget him.

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