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Hope College Non-Profit 137 E. 12th St. Organization Holland, Ml 49423 U.S. Postage PAID ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Hope College DECEMBER 1990 PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 •t&wm W,,-y ^ ___ ' r . t"' y jry \ i. * th • jj/he MrthjOpChristi is the central event of world history. We date, events as bf/ore ^rmy£fhrisil or after jshnst. But more importantly, for the faithful Christian, fthe birth ofjChrisi^ythe beginning of the understanding of God and of the world and oyvn place in it. The birth of Christ is the beginning point of our understanding of the world’s learning and culture. Christ tetfheJiprd I i^^ofnqtions and also of our own hearts. May this Christmas 1 A ^ 5 ^ yseiptinbea time of peace and joy ^ and also of the 1 j,e unne jucuust / >v' ml Vv>TX Inside This Issue Nykerk is not only a college tradition, but a family tradition as well. See page eight. L P - yiy There were no MIAA championships this fall, but the college's consistent strength has earned first place in the MIAA % All-Sports race thus far. See page 20. news from ^ HOPE COLLEGE CAMPUS NOTES Volume 22, No . 3 December 1990 MARSHALL SCHOLAR: As news her years at Hope, and will receive full assistance while pursuing a medical Publishedfor Alumni, Friends and from Hope College went to press, we degree or research doctorate at the Parents of Hope College by the Office learned that senior Heidi Hudson of of Public Relations. Should you Waukesha, Wis., will receive a prestigious University of Michigan Medical School. receive more than one copy, please pass British Marshall Scholarship Her admission to the university’s medical it on to someone in your community. The British Marshall Scholarship school, furthermore, is guaranteedif she An overlap of Hope College con- program was established by the British meets the school’s entry standards. stituenciesmakes duplication government in 1953 as a way of recogniz- A 1990 graduate of East Kentwood sometimes unavoidable. ing the United States’ role in Europe’s High School, Smith currently intends to recovery followingWorld War Two. pursue a career as a physician.Without Editor: Thomas L. Renner '67 Designed for citizens of the United States the scholarship, she admits, she wouldn’t Managing Editor: Gregory S. Olgers '87 who are graduates of U.S. colleges and be able to attend Hope, and financing and Contributing Writers: Eva Dean universities,British Marshall Scholarships gaining admission to a medical school Folkert '83, Michael J. Theune '92 may be used at any British university,and would also not be the certainty it now is. Layout: Holland Litho Service, Inc. are of two-year duration. The scholarship “I know that the application process Contributing Photographers:Jim is awarded to only 30 students annually. to get into medical school is really Dostie, Ted Jungblul, Lou Schakel stressful,so it will relieve a lot of stress,” This award is the second such major Contributing Artists: Roger Grandia, Smith said. medical school is so honor received by a Hope student in the “And Brad Williams ' 73 past four years. In 1986, Dan Slid ’87 expensive.” Following her life-long interest in the news from Hope College is published received the Rhodes Scholarship. Gina Smith sciences, Smith determined she would during February,April, June, August, Hudson is earning a major in special enjoy a career in medicine about two years October, and December by Hope educationat Hope and is currently student SCHOLARSHIP WINNER: ago. She also decided where she would College, 137 East 12th Street, Holland, teaching in Wisconsin. She intends to con- Freshman Gina Smith of Kentwood, like to go to medical school — and toward Michigan 49423-3698. tinue her studies at the University of Mich., has been named the first scholar- that end the scholarship is providing Postmaster: Send address changes to Manchester next year. ship recipient in the Hope College/ more than mere financial assistance. news from Hope College , Holland, MI At Hope she has been involved in track, University of Michigan Biomedical “It’s just what I’ve wanted to do is 49423-3698 the College Chorus, Nykerk, the Sciences Scholars Program. — go to U of afterwards,” she said. Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the The eight-year scholarship was created M “Gina has an exceptional high school Hope College Office of Public Relations Council for ExceptionalChildren and the during the spring of 1990 for minority stu- DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. Handicap Awareness Committee. She has dents interested in medicine or the basic record,” said Dr. James Gentile, dean for Thomas L. Renner ’67, Director the natural sciences at Hope. “She is very also worked with the Center for Women in medical sciences, and was established Mary Lammers ’60 Kempker, Associate interested in a career in the Transition and as a volunteer in school. jointly by Hope and the University of pursuing Director biomedical sciences, has an avid desire to Hudson is the daughter of Earl “Bud” and Michigan. Recipients will be added annu- Gregory S. Olgers ’87, Assistant gain either the medical degree or the doc- Sara Hudson. She is a 1987 graduate of ally, until a total of eight students are being Director Waukesha High Schools. supported through the program each year. torate in the biomedical sciences following Janet Mielke ’84 Pinkham, Assistant graduation from and articulatesthat The college’s last Marshall Scholarship Smith, selected by a joint committee Hope Director desire very well, and is in general very winner was Lynn Vande Bunte ’64, a phi- from both the University of Michigan and Barbara Schipper, Office Manager losophy major used her scholarship to Hope, will receive research opportunities serious about pursuing her goals.” Marjory Graves, Receptionist -Scheduler who study at the University of Wales. and $6,000 in financial aid during each of (see "CAMPUS" on page three) Karen Bos, Secretary Notice of Nondiscrimination Hope College is committed to the a fork in the road. The Enlightenment ‘Providential history has the potential to concept of equal rights, equal opportuni- reconfiguration of providence would offer Christian historians a coherent, ties and equal protection under the law. have implications both for the philoso- articulated“fiduciary framework” from Hope College admits students of any phy and methodology of history,both for which to advance. That framework can race, color, national and ethnic origin, history’s ends and means. offer a sense of meaning both to history sex, creed or handicap to all the rights, “Scholarsin a number of disciplines and to its study.’ privileges,programs and activities gen- since World War II have preferred “So the West should leam from the erally accorded or made available to post-Enlightenmentalternatives to this Eastern Europeans and Soviets: it is time students at Hope College, including the now traditionalmode of historicaldis- to shake off the chains of the administration of its educational poli- Enlightenment. Much like the English Quote, unquote is an eclectic sam- course. My suggestion is that cies, admissionpolicies, scholarship and Pre-Raphaeliteschool of the 19th pling of things said at and about Hope mainstream historians should join them loan programs,and athletic and other in shedding a secular theology of enquiry century, to paint meaningful pictures school-administered programs. With College. Christians have to return to the middle “Christian history was founded because, quite simply, so-called scientif- regard to employment, the College com- by ic history fails to work. Or, rather, the ages. plies with all legal requirements pro- Luke: laudable end of scientifically-reliable “We at least must be open to study hibiting discrimination in employment. ‘“Many have undertaken to draw up an God’s impact on humankind, though not account of the things that have been ful- knowledge has been perverted by the naive enough to think we can undo the On the Cover filled among us, just as they were handed means employed, the grossest idolatries last five centuries. But while there will When the snow needs shoveling, car down to us, by those who from the first the product of those who thought they be many Christian views of history,there windows need scraping and the air's were eyewitnessesand servants of the had discoveredTaws,’ or as one historian is one God, one faith, one Saviour and chill seems overwhelming, it is easy to word. Therefore, since I myself have has put this ‘pseudo-scientific substitutes forget that winter can also be a time of carefully investigated everything from for discarded religious beliefs.’ one baptism.” Excerpts from “His Story: God, the great beauty. the beginning, it seemed good also to me “My presupposition is that faith, rather Historians, and the Problem of In a way, a snowfall becomes a paint- to write an orderly account for you, most than blinding the historian to the ‘real Providence,”read at the Monday, OcL 8, ing in reverse. While an artist excellent Theophilus,so that you may facts,’ opens up a new dimension beyond Knight Faith and Learning Conference approaches a white canvas and adds know the certainty of the things you have what materialism can offer.