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Monthly Bulletin
November 2012
Email: hasp@hope.edu
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
9:00 a.m. coffee, 9:20 announcements and program
Haworth Conference Center, Hope College
Faith, Family, Basketball and Challenges: Winning through it
all! Brian Morehouse and Dean Morehouse
In 16 seasons under coach Brian Morehouse the Hope Flying Dutch have won 20-or-more games fourteen consecutive
seasons, claimed ten Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) titles, made 11 trips to the NCAA
tournament, including two Final Four appearances, and won the Division III national championship in 2006. The 201112 Flying Dutch posted a 22-5 record. In 16 seasons under Morehouse the Flying Dutch are 397-68.
Coach Morehouse was chosen the 2005-06 Division III national coach of the year by the Women's Basketball Coaches
Association (WBCA) and the publication DIII News. The Detroit Free Press included coach Brian Morehouse among the
state's top sports figures in 2006 and among the candidates for the newspaper's annual "Michigan's Best" honor roll. Three
times in his career, (2001-02, 2002-03 and 2008-09), he has been voted the Regional Coach of the Year by the Women's
Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). He has been named the Michigan Collegiate women's basketball coach of the
year by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan three times in his career (2001-02, 2007-08, 2011-12). He
entered the 2011-12 season ranked second among NCAA Division III coaches by winning percentage (.853).
A 1991 Hope graduate who serves as director of the college's Dow Physical Education and Health Center and DeVos
Fieldhouse, Morehouse is familiar with the Hope basketball scene having served in the men's program for a number of
years. He was the men's junior varsity coach for two years, compiling a record of 30-9. He was a student assistant coach
through his undergraduate years. He graduated with honors from Hope with a major in business administration and
minors in history, psychology and sociology and earned a teaching certificate for secondary education.
Morehouse's basketball roots run deep. His father, Dean, was the boy's basketball coach at Fremont (Mich.) High School.
He joined son Brian as an assistant coach in 2000-01. Brian and Dean were honored as "Hometown Heroes" during the
2006 National Baby Food Festival in Fremont. He contributed a chapter to the book, "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside
Basketball," chronicling an experience from the 2006 national championship run (February, 2009). In November, 2010,
he was profiled in a major article in the Grand Rapids Press. He was a contributor to a book Leadership Off the Wall
(2010) by Paul B. Thornton. The author invited contributions of quotes relating to a guiding principle that has led the
individual to achieve success. Morehouse displays a quote in his office by Hope alumnus Max DePree, who is chairman
emeritus of Herman Miller Inc. and the author of books on leadership. The quote: "Leaders should be able to Stand Alone,
Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth and Do What's Right".
He currently represents MIAA coaches on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Conference Captains
Committee and serves as a member of the WBCA board. He also serves as a member of the board of the Hands Up Fund,
and is involved with Special Olympics and Holland Area Hospice.
His wife, Elizabeth (Liz) Hain, a 1993 Hope graduate, played in the college's basketball program for two years. The
Morehouses have two daughters, Megan and Emma. The Morehouses are members of Calvary Reformed Church in
Holland.
MONTHLY MEETING PARKING:
Lot Z – behind Anderson-Werkman building is reserved for HASP members (marked
with orange cones), there are some available spaces in Lot U (for Haworth guests, behind the Kepple House by Dykstra Hall), Pillar
Church parking lot (which you CAN park in the spots labeled “Pillar Church only”, street parking where available, and the lot behind
New Holland Brewery and 84 East where available. The newer downtown parking ramp is also a great option! If you live at
Freedom Village, please consider taking their bus over.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership Directory corrections/changes:
Eugene Biegelman: emb4238@gmail.com
Tom Webber: tlwebber13897@gmail.com
Robert Smit: rjsmit04@charter.net
Margaret (Peg) Kaiser: peg.kaiser09@comcast.net
We welcome the following new members:
DAVID ARMSTRONG
Profession:
Education and Business
Education:
Ohio State University, B.S., Agricultural Education, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Hobbies:
Art, tennis, golf, boating, travel, grandkids
Mentor:
Bob Frey
MARSHA MCGEEHAN
Profession:
Bookkeeper and homemaker
Education:
University of Denver
Hobbies:
Travel, current events, Hope volleyball and basketball, Detroit Tigers
Mentor:
Barbara Coney
NORM WALKER
Profession:
Education:
Hobbies:
Mentor:
Business Manager
University of Maine, Adelphi University
Golf, reading, painting, visiting elderly and shut-ins
Joan Heneveld
PATRICIA WILLIAMS
Profession:
Music Teacher
Education:
Syracuse University, B. Music Ed.
Hobbies:
Music, choir, crossword puzzles, gardening, travel
Mentor:
Audrey Bloemendaal
We express our sympathy to the friends and family of Corrine Sonneveldt, and Harold VandeBunte. Corrine
died October 7, 2012. She joined HASP in 2004 after a career as an Education Administrator. Harold joined
HASP in 1994 following a career as a Pharmacist.
HASP New Member Orientation
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
8:15-9:00 a.m., Donnelly Room, Haworth Center
This is an opportunity for new members to meet the HASP Board of Directors and learn more about the history
of HASP and all the opportunities HASP offers. It is also a great time to have your questions answered! New
members who have been received since May 2012 should have received further information in the mail. Please
call the HASP office with any questions (395-7919).
CURRICULUM
Please note that the fall curriculum calendar and course descriptions are available on our website for your
reference: www.hope.edu/hasp
If you are registered for the Palestinian Christians course on October 31, November 7 and 14, the handouts are
available for you to pick up in the HASP office prior to the start of the course.
November Courses:
Laura VerPlank Film series – Thursday, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 29
Hope Basketball Preview – Friday, Nov. 2
What Makes an Image an Icon – Monday, Nov. 5
Great Conversations – Tuesday, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27, 1:00 p.m.
Palestinian Christians – Wednesday, Nov. 7, 14
Muskegon Museum of Art – Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1:00 p.m.
Juvenile Justice – Thursday, Nov. 8 and 15, 1:00 p.m.
Readers’ Theatre in Holland – Friday, Nov. 9
Books and Writers – Tuesday, Nov. 13
Writing Memoirs – Wednesday, Nov. 14 and 28, 1:00 p.m.
American Issues: Moving Beyond War – Friday, Nov. 16
2012 Election Cycle – Monday, Nov. 19 – meets in KNICKERBOCKER!
Non-Fiction Books – Tuesday, Nov. 20
Encounters with History – Monday, Nov. 26
Dicken’s A Christmas Carol – Monday, Nov. 26, 1:00 p.m.
What’s New in Science – Tuesday, Nov. 27: This session will focus on explaining the significance of the work
of the 2012 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine. Drs. Jim Strickland, Marshall Elzinga
and Ed Anderson will explain the reasons for these awards.
Computer Experiences – Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1:00 p.m.
HASP Classroom Art Display for November:
HASP member Don Zenas will display some of his icons and several landscape paintings in relationship to his
November course, What Makes an Image an Icon?
COMMUNICATIONS
“What appealed to me was how lonely, how exotic, how different that picture of life was from my own. For I
was a city kid, surrounded by neighbors. The nearest, our next door neighbors on both sides, were so close we
shared common walls. Our family lived in a row house- a pattern quite the norm in our Pennsylvania German
mid-sized city of Allentown”…John Hollenbach, 1992
Read this and more in the 2013 edition of the HASP Review. New submissions will be accepted until MARCH
15, 2012.
SERVICE
Additional Volunteers Needed for Hope Classes, Fall, 2012
Here is a repeat request as well as a new request. Either send the form to the HASP office or e-mail
tanis@hope.edu or you may call me at 396-2228 for additional information. Thank you - Elliot Tanis
Professors Carrie Bredow and Sonja Trent-Brown (Psychology) would like HASP volunteers for their
Developmental Psychology classes. Those who have participated in the past have spoken highly of their
experience. You will meet with 3 or 4 groups of 5 or 6 students and share your insights as you reflect on your
adult years and respond to questions from the students. Carrie Bredow’s classes meet on Wednesday,
December 5, 8:25 - 9:20 and 9:25 -10:20. Sonja Trent-Brown’s classes meet on Thursday, December 6, 9:30 10:45 and 3:00 - 4:15. They would like 6 HASP volunteers for each of these sections. Thus far 9 HASP
members have volunteered so there is a need for 13 more volunteers.
Professor Charles Green is teaching a First Year Seminar (FYS) on the theme of Culture, Control, and
Community for students in the Phelps Scholars program (an academic and residential program with a
multicultural group of students who are interested in issues of race and culture). Their semester-end project is a
research poster related to the class theme. The poster presentations will be in the Maas Auditorium on Tuesday,
December 4, from 4:00-5:30. (1) They invite all of you to simply show up, read the posters, and ask questions.
(2) He would like 12-15 HASP volunteers who would be willing to come 30 minutes early, get a brief
training on their grading rubric, and then help grade 4-5 posters each.
I am willing to volunteer. Indicate the Professor and time/date preference.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Name_______________________________ Phone______________ e-mail__________________
SPECIAL EVENTS
HASP Holiday Celebration: Amahl and the Night Visitors, Monday, December 3, 2012
Celebrate the holidays in the magnificent acoustics of Fountain Street Church with a performance of Gian Carlo
Menotti’s beloved adaptation of the story of the nativity and the adoration of the magi. Grand Valley State
University Music Department faculty members, students, and guest artists, will present Amahl and the Night
Visitors in concert version.
One of the most popular operas of all time, it is the story of how a crippled, young shepherd boy’s life changes
forever when he sees an amazing star as big as a window. When three foreign kings following the star in their
search for a wondrous child encounter Amahl and his mother, the result is a timeless and inspiring message of
how faith, charity, unselfish love and good deeds can work miracles. Composed specifically as the first opera
to be written for television, this was the first U.S. network television Christmas special to become an annual
holiday tradition.
The HASP bus will leave the Holland Municipal Stadium at 6:30 p.m. and return at approximately 10:30 p.m.
Cost for the evening is $5.00 per person. Deadline for sign up is Tuesday, November 21. Reservation form is
in the back of this bulletin.
HASP Office News
CONGRATULATIONS to HASP members Henry and Char Stegenga, Myra Berry, and Barbara Timmer for
their 1st place win in downtown’s Live Mannequin Night display for the Warm Friend – you were awesome!
The HASP office will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday Wednesday, Nov. 21-23, 2012.
HASP Insignia Items!
In celebration of our upcoming 25 year anniversary members have the opportunity to order HASP insignia
items. Please see the order form at the back of your bulletin for further information. Samples of each article
will be available for you to see at our monthly meeting and in the HASP office. We will accept orders until
Monday, November 26th. Orders will then be filled within 2 weeks and available in time for Christmas!
HASP 25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
2013 will be HASP’s 25th Anniversary! As you learned at our Annual Business meeting we are starting our
monthly program meetings this year 10 minutes early to spend a little time remembering our beginnings. Below
is the history shared by former HASP president Norm Lunderberg at our October 2, 2012, meeting:
I would like to share with you three things: First, how HASP operated in its earlier years, second, relate more
about the vision of HASP and finally, how this vision was set up within our constitution and bylaws.
HASP Early Operations
We had a humble beginning. Our office and conference room were in a no longer existing Butler type hut that
was originally used by Hope College during World War II. This was located where the parking lot is on
Columbia and 12th. Quite a contrast to what HASP has now. Our classes were all over the campus. We met in
the Presidents room at Graves, in lecture halls, and in unused classrooms. We did learn a lot about where
students were getting their education.
More on vision of HASP
Jacob Nyenhuis told HASP at our July meeting the story of how John Hollenbach as our founder and Hope
President John Jacobson developed HASP. When HASP was started, there were about 30 Life Long Learning
Institutions similar to our HASP. To spread the concept of elder learning, Professor Hollenbach was visiting
other Michigan Colleges telling them about this concept. Three years after the start of HASP, there was a
tenfold increase in lifelong learning institutions in the United States. Today, there are thousands of elder
learning groups in the United State and in the world. John Hollenbach and President Jacobson had Hope
College on the leading and cutting edge of elder learning.
Vision in the Constitution and Bylaws
After HASP was started, a Committee was formed to take their vision and set up the structure of HASP and
formulate the relationship of HASP and Hope College. As a member of that committee, we set up the original
concepts, strategy, and words for the HASP Constitution and Bylaws. May I share with you the foundation and
structure that was established and became the organization that you know as HASP. One can quickly go to the
web page for Hope College and find Hope Academy of Senior Professionals. There one will find our purpose
in our Constitution and Bylaws. Article II – Nature and Purpose In our Constitution first words describe HASP
as a “peer-led Institution”. John Hollenbach and John Jacobson believed HASP should be exactly that – a
volunteer run retirement institution. Eder learning institutions are different in how they are structured and
operate. Many Lifelong learning operations are run and directed by a Dean or Administrator within the
Educational Institution. In some of these institutions, one cannot even order a pad of paper and pencil without
college approval. This control can be also over the type of classes, content and cost. HASP has received a
wonderful opportunity and also a trusted responsibility in the way it was designed.
It was in this time frame that HASP held a multi-state meeting with many institutions to compare programs and
operations. It was there that we learned HASP has been given what I like to call “a holy grail” from Hope
College. As an organization and as individuals, we must do everything we can to be responsible recipients of
this trust. The next words that follow “peer-led Institution” describe HASP as “a branch of Hope College”.
These words were legal terms provided by Jim Townsend from HASP and Joel Bowens from Hope College.
The words make HASP as much a part of the college as any other department e.g. the Chemistry or English
Departments. We are a part of the college. As such – our equipment, Scholarships and Endowment Funds
belong to Hope College. As a part of the college we fall within the insurance protection and also use Hope
College staff support and payroll functions for our Executive Director and assistant. In addition to the term
“branch” are these words. “HASP is subject to superintending control by the President of Hope College. The
membership of HASP has responsibility for designing, managing and carrying out its various activities and
programs.” These legal terms expressed in layman terms mean that the President of Hope has all the trump
cards but we have the responsibility to run HASP. We had one other interesting item within our Bylaws that is
how we are organized as shown in the composition of the Board of Directors.
“The President, Vice-President, Executive Director, Treasurer and the Chairpersons of Standing Committees
shall be ex-officio voting members of the Board of Directors while holding office.”
When a company or firm is structured it has a Board of Directors and Operating Components. This is how
Hope College is organized and how most firms are structured. HASP is different. Our Board of Directors and
our Operating units are one. One of our members was an Organization Manager Professor from a Midwest
college and had doubts about this idea. Over time we have shown that we operate successfully by having all
parties of the organization at the Board of Director Meeting.
Enjoy the responsibility as a member of HASP.
Norm Lunderberg
HASP HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012
$5.00 per person
Name(s): ________________________________________________________________________
No. of people: ___________
Check enclosed in the amount of: __________________
HOPE HASP APPAREL ORDER
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