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news from
HOPE COLLEGE
October 2000
Family Time
It’s a busy weekend, but there’s
room for a quiet moment.
Members of the Class of ’90 make
themselves at home at the Haworth Inn
and Conference Center during the
waking side of reunion registration
early on Homecoming Saturday, Sept.
23. The lobby is a perfect place to catch
up with friends, and to relax with a
daughter and a favorite book.
Homecoming Weekend’s activities
provide structure, but the best in the
experience can happen in between as
easily as during. The magic is in
comfortable moments with family––the
immediate family of spouses and
children, and the extended family of
Hope classmates and friends.
For more on Homecoming,
please see pages 10 and 11.
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Campus Notes
Freshmen volunteer early
Some 100 Hope students
spent Saturday, Sept. 2,
doing volunteer work in
Holland through a new
addition to the college’s
Orientation program.
Working in teams of about 10, the students spent 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on
Saturday, Sept. 2, at 10 different sites in the
Holland area through the new “Time to
Serve” program. They worked on projects
ranging from cleaning at Community
Kitchen and the Boys and Girls Club of
Greater Holland, to weeding and planting
for Holland Area Beautiful and Lincoln
Elementary School.
Afterward, the students met to reflect
on the experience and to learn how to
become involved in community service in
an on–going way.
According to Diana Breclaw, director of
student activities and the event’s staff coordinator, the program has two goals: first,
to help students appreciate the importance
of giving of themselves, and, second, to
give the members of the college’s newest
class an additional opportunity to get
together.
“A college education is about more than
getting your degree,” Breclaw said. “We
want students to see that they should be
giving back because they were given a
great privilege to be able to go to college.”
“And most of our students are involved
in service before they ever come to Hope,”
she said.
The service effort was also a follow–up
to the college’s four–day New Student
Orientation
program,
which
ran
Friday–Monday, Aug. 25–28.
“I wanted to do something the second
weekend they were here, both to give them
an activity to look forward to and to give
them a chance to meet different people
than they met during the first weekend,”
Breclaw said.
“Quote, unquote”
Quote, unquote is an
eclectic sampling of
things said at and about
Hope College.
With the Class of 2004 poised at the beginning of the Hope experience, the Rev. Dr.
Gerald Sittser ’72 offered a suggestion for
facing the future: focus wisely on the
present.
Dr. Sittser, who is a member of the religion faculty at Whitworth College in
Spokane, Wash., presented “The Wonder of
the Present Moment” during the Opening
Convocation for the college’s 139th academic year on Sunday, Aug. 27, in Dimnent
Memorial Chapel. Approximately 1,000
people, mostly new students and their families, attended the event.
While he acknowledged that college is
certainly an appropriate time to consider
one’s future direction, Dr. Sittser stressed
that the future is too uncertain to rely upon.
“Sooner or later you’ll also learn how
little control we human beings really have,”
he said. “However well we plan and well
prepared we are, we’re going to encounter
surprises along the way––some wanted,
some not.”
“This present moment is the only time we
really have,” he said. “The past is done,
unchangeable and irretrievable, like a baseball that’s left the pitcher’s hand, headed
straight toward the batter’s box. The future
is not here yet; it only looms ahead as a range
of possibilities, any one of which could
become a reality.”
The key to living in the present, Dr. Sittser
said, is to accept and live it well. He
described a nun that he met who served at
an orphanage in Kenya. Her daily routine,
he said, featured primarily helping the children, prayer and meals, and earned only one
month off every seven years, and yet he
found that she accepted it serenely. He also
cited the Bill Murray character in the film
“Groundhog Day.” Forced to relive the same
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day repeatedly, the character reacts first selfishly and then with despair, but ultimately
uses the experience to learn and to help those
around him.
As the students approach their own
present moments, he offered two suggestions.
“First, I suggest that you be attentive to
the little things,” he said. “There’ll be daily
reading assignments, weekly quizzes and
papers, conflicts with roommates, jobs,
service opportunities, down–time with
friends, moral challenges, often very subtle,
that quietly demand attention. It will be
easy to overlook these little things.”
“Yet the little things we do build habits,
however good or bad; they develop character, whether admirable or despicable; and
they set a course for our lives, whether
toward excellence or mediocrity,” he said.
“Second, I suggest that you be attentive to
one big thing,” Dr. Sittser said. “While at
Hope, search with all your heart for truth.
It’s the one opportunity you will have when
time and resources are at your disposal for
just such a search.”
In particular, he said, the students should
search for religious truth. “The answers to
your questions about God are the most critical of all,” he said. “It is the one ’big thing’
that I encourage you to put at the center of
your education at Hope College.”
The answers, he said, can help in future
uncertainty. While it is not “fair,” he said,
when bad things happen, neither is it fair
when good things do. The good things in
life, Dr. Sittser said, come not because they
are deserved, but because of “God’s undeserved favor.” Such grace, he said, reflects
God’s love for humanity.
“A few minutes ago I mentioned a young
Catholic nun who embraced the present
moment with such serenity. I realize now
that the reason why she could do the little
things so well in the orphanage, so peacefully and so contentedly, is because she had
been attentive to one big thing,” he said. “In
her search for God she learned that in Christ
God had been searching for her. She lived in
grace. And that made all the difference.”
Some 100 students ranged throughout the Holland area on Saturday, Sept. 2,
through the new “Time to Serve” program, a part of New Student Orientation.
news from
HOPE COLLEGE
Volume 32, No. 2
October 2000
On the cover
Our main photo features five members of the Class of ’90. Clockwise from top left are Carl
Aronson ’90, Steve Kozera ’90, Cindy Schutt ’90 Aronson, Barry Fuller ’90 and
Christine Modey ’90 with daughter Lucy.
At top center, sophomore anchor Nate Moore of Manistee, Mich., and moraler Sasha
Snapp of Lombard, Ill., are focused during this year’s Pull tug–of–war. More on the
event is on page six.
At top right, the Blue Angels’ C–130 Hercules cargo plane approaches head-on. Major
David Michael ’89 flies the aircraft with the famous Navy squadron. Please see page 24.
Volume 32, No. 2
October 2000
Published for Alumni, Friends and
Parents of Hope College by the Office of
Public Relations. Should you receive
more than one copy, please pass it on to
someone in your community. An overlap
of Hope College constituencies makes
duplication sometimes unavoidable.
Editor: Thomas L. Renner ’67
Managing Editor: Gregory S. Olgers ’87
Layout and Design:
Holland Litho Service, Inc.
Printing: News Web Printing Services
of Greenville, Mich.
Contributing Photographers:
Donald Luidens ’69, Lou Schakel ’71
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Director of Information Services
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Office Manager
Notice of Nondiscrimination
Hope College is committed to the concept of
equal rights, equal opportunities and equal
protection under the law. Hope College admits
students of any race, color, national and ethnic
origin, sex, creed or disability to all the rights,
privileges, programs and activities generally
accorded or made available to students at
Hope College, including the administration of
its educational policies, admission policies,
and athletic and other school-administered
programs. With regard to employment, the
College complies with all legal requirements
prohibiting discrimination in employment.
NFHC October 2000
Campus Notes
BANNER MAILING II: As reported
here in August, the college has recently
switched to the Banner administrative software system. As was also true then, this
issue of news from Hope College has been
mailed using the new system.
If this copy has reached you by mail,
could you please take a look at the mailing
label on the bottom of the front page to
make certain that all is addressed as it
should be? If something is wrong, we want
to know so that we can fix it. In such an
event, please either e–mail us at
alumni@hope.edu; fax us at (616) 395–7991;
call us at (616) 395–7860; or write us at:
Hope College Alumni Office; 141 E. 12th
Street; PO Box 9000; Holland, MI
49422–9000.
If for some reason you never received
the August issue (which happened, ironically, to the editor...), please let us know
and we’ll be glad to send you a copy while
supplies last.
PHONATHON UPDATE: Speaking of
Banner...
...the college’s annual fund–raising
phonathon, featuring Hope students as
callers, is starting a bit late as a result of the
database transition. Calling should begin
in mid–November, although those from
whom Hope has already received a gift this
fiscal year (since July 1) won’t be contacted
through the program.
MERIT MENTION: Hope has enrolled
more Michigan Merit Award recipients in
the Class of ’04 than any other private
college in the state.
Hope enrolled 410 Merit Award scholarship recipients in this fall’s freshman class.
Hope and Calvin, with 349 Merit Award
winners, were the only private colleges
among the top 20 recipient schools.
Students earned the $2,500 scholarships
for high Michigan Educational Assessment
Program (MEAP) test scores.
GATES SCHOLAR: Aranh Pen, a
junior from Holland, Mich., has received a
Gates Millennium Scholarship for the
2000–01 academic year.
The Gates Millennium Scholars Program
is designed to expand access to higher education for minority students. The program
is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation and administered by the
United Negro College Fund in partnership
with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and
the American Indian College Fund.
The program, which is in its first year,
has named approximately 4,000 scholarship recipients from among more than
62,000 nominations. The merit–based scholarships cover the recipients’ remaining
costs after their colleges and universities
award financial aid packages.
To be eligible for nomination, students
must have at least a 3.3 grade point
average; be accepted or enrolled full–time
in an accredited four–year undergraduate
program or enrolled in a graduate program
in mathematics, science, engineering, education or library science; demonstrate
leadership skills and community involvement; and show significant financial need.
The scholarships are renewable annually.
Pen is a chemistry major. This spring,
she was named a “Beckman Scholar” at
Hope, receiving support to conduct
research full–time during the summers of
2000 and 2001, and part–time during the
2000–01 school year. The funding is
NFHC October 2000
Enrollment tops 3,000
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nrollment at Hope
has exceeded 3,000
students for the first
time in the college’s
history.
Hope has enrolled 3,015 students this
fall. The previous record was 2,943, set in
the fall of 1999. It is the third year in a row
that Hope has had record enrollment.
The record reflects a combination of
strong new–student enrollment and
strong retention of returning students.
The college enrolled 754 first–time students this year, just one short of last year’s
record high of 755 first–time students.
“It was another very, very good year
for us,” said Dr. James Bekkering ’65, vice
president for admissions. “We have so
much to be grateful for.”
The near–record first–time enrollment
is all the more gratifying, Dr. Bekkering
noted, because in May deposits were
running 40–45 behind the total of a year
earlier. The Class of ’04 quickly caught
up, though, even prompting Hope to
create a waiting list.
The admissions staff’s sense, according
to Dr. Bekkering, is that the students were
simply not as prompt in sending their
deposits, rather than that they were
unsure of whether or not they planned to
attend. Fortunately for the late mailers,
Hope was able to take them all––eventually. “We were able to accommodate
everyone in the wait pool right up until
the date that the freshman arrived on
campus,” Dr. Bekkering said.
The student body is comprised of 1,209
men and 1,806 women from 38 states and
through the “Beckman Scholars Program
Institutional Award” that Hope received
earlier this year from the Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Foundation of Irvine, Calif.
She has been conducting research in the
laboratory of Dr. Nicole Bennett, assistant
professor of chemistry, since the spring
semester of her freshman year. The
research is investigating the synthesis of
analogues to taxol, an anti–cancer drug.
Faculty Kudos:
Three members of the Hope faculty and
two alumni are among the poets featured in
New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary
Michigan Poetry.
Priscilla Atkins, Jack Ridl and Heather
Sellers have work represented, as do
former Hope students Kathleen McGookey
’89 of Wayland, Mich., and Julie Moulds ’85
of Delton, Mich. The volume was edited by
Michael Delp, Conrad Hilberry and Josie
Kearns and published by Wayne State
University Press.
Professor Atkins is a reference librarian
with the rank of associate professor at the
college, and Professor Ridl and Dr. Sellers
are members of the English faculty at
Hope.
Freshman move-in day involves family, new students and volunteer upperclassmen alike. With 754 first-time students, the Class of ’04 is the
second-largest ever.
40 foreign countries. Nine percent of the
members of the incoming class are
American minority students.
Students transferring to Hope from
other colleges and universities total 73,
compared with 63 in 1999. There are 107
students in off–campus programs, compared to 98 last year.
The enrollment by class, with last
year’s class in parentheses, is: freshmen,
778 (779); sophomores, 744 (726); juniors,
652 (638); seniors, 719 (669); and special
students, 122 (131).
The largest representation is from
Michigan with 2,336 students, followed
by: Illinois, 231; Indiana, 91; Ohio, 54;
Real–life examples are stressed in a new
precalculus text co–written by three
members of the Hope and Calvin faculties,
part of an on–going effort by the team to
help students understand how mathematics relates to both other disciplines and the
world around them.
Precalculus: A Study of Functions and
Their Applications has been published by
Harcourt College Publishing. The authors
are Todd Swanson, adjunct assistant professor of mathematics at Hope; Dr. Janet
Andersen, associate professor of mathematics and chair of the department at
Hope; and Robert Keeley, who is an associate professor of education at Calvin and
a former mathematics teacher at Holland
Christian High School.
Written in a conversational tone, the
book is designed so that students will read
about, write about and discuss the mathematical concepts they are exploring. It was
written for use in one–semester college
courses in precalculus, but is also intended
to be suitable for year–long high school
courses.
The book stems from an effort that
began in the summer of 1994, when
Andersen, Keeley and Swanson began
developing sets of precalculus problems
for classroom use with support from a
New York, 52; Minnesota, 30; Iowa, 29;
Wisconsin, 27; New Jersey, 25; California
and Pennsylvania, 14 each; and
Colorado, 10.
Foreign countries represented in the
student body include Albania, Belgium,
Bosnia, Bulgaria, Burma, Cambodia,
Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, the
Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, France,
Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Jamaica,
Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea,
Kosovo, Liberia, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan,
Palestine, the Philippines, Romania,
Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,
Tajikistan, Thailand, Ukraine, the United
Kingdom, Vietnam and Zambia.
$150,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation.
Barry Bandstra, professor of religion
and chair of the department, received a
four–star
“Superior”
rating
on
britannica.com and the Newsweek internet–guide site for his textbook Reading the
Old Testament.
The review noted, “This is an excellent
introduction to critical study of the Hebrew
Bible. The tone of the book is conversational, and the lessons are richly augmented by
the integration of maps, tables, timelines,
and illustrations.”
Tamara George of the nursing faculty
has won the 2000 “Excellence in Research
Award” from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Michigan Foundation.
Dr. George, an associate professor of
nursing, won the award in the area of
health policy research for her research
titled “Defining Care in the Culture of the
Chronically Mentally Ill Living in the
Community.” The program recognizes
excellence in health and medical research
by Michigan investigators, and includes
$10,000 for future research.
(See “Campus Notes” on page 14.)
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Events
Admissions
Campus Visits: The Admissions Office is open from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and from 9 a.m. until noon on
Saturdays. Tours and admissions interviews are available
during the summer as well as the school year.
Appointments are recommended.
Visitation Days offer specific programs for prospective
students, including transfers and high school juniors and
seniors. The programs show students and their parents a
typical day in the life of a Hope student. The dates for
2000–01 are as follows:
Friday, Oct. 20
Monday, Jan. 15 Friday, Feb. 16
Friday, Nov. 3
Friday, Feb. 2
Friday, March 2
Friday, Nov. 17
Junior Days: Friday, March 30; Friday, April 20
Senior Day: Saturday, April 21
(for admitted students)
For further information about any Admissions Office event,
please call (616) 395–7850, or toll free 1–800–968–7850 or
write: Hope College Admissions Office; 69 E. 10th St.; PO Box
9000; Holland, MI; 49422–9000.
Music
Artist Piano Series––Friday, Oct. 27: Barbara and Gerhardt
Suhrstedt, Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Tickets will be
available at the door, and cost $5 for regular adult admission
and $3 for senior citizens. Admission is free for Hope students with a current ID.
Symphonette Concert––Saturday, Oct. 28: Dimnent
Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
Great Performance Series––Friday, Nov. 3: Triple Helix,
piano trio, Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Tickets are
$12.50 for regular adult admission, $10.50 for senior citizens
and $6.50 for students. For more information, call (616)
395–6996.
Junior Recital––Saturday, Nov. 4: Paul Jackson of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, violin, Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of
Music, 6 p.m. Admission is free.
Wind Symphony/Orchestra Combined Concert––Friday,
Nov. 10: Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
Faculty Recital Series––Sunday, Nov. 12: Wichers Auditorium
of Nykerk Hall of Music, 4 p.m. Admission is free.
Presentation––Thursday, Nov. 16: “Hugo Wolf: The Man and
His Music,” Louise McClelland Urban, Wichers Auditorium of
Nykerk Hall of Music, 11 a.m. Admission is free.
Student Recital––Thursday, Nov. 16: Dimnent Memorial
Chapel, 6 p.m. Admission is free.
Organ Recital––Sunday, Nov. 19: Ronald Stalford, Dimnent
Memorial Chapel, 3 p.m. Admission is free.
Junior Recital––Monday, Nov. 20: Jennifer Walvoord of
Holland, Mich., piano, Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
Jazz Combos Concert––Tuesday, Nov. 28: Wichers
Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music, 7 p.m. Admission is free.
Jazz Ensembles I and II Concert––Thursday, Nov. 30:
Butch’s, 44 E. 8th St., 10 p.m. Admission is free.
Christmas Vespers––Saturday–Sunday, Dec. 2–3: Dimnent
Memorial Chapel. The services will be on Saturday, Dec. 2, at
8 p.m., and on Sunday, Dec. 3, at 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The public sale of tickets will be held on Saturday, Nov. 18,
from 9 a.m. to noon in the lobby of the DeWitt Center, located
on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. Tickets are $5. Additional
information may be obtained by calling the college’s Office of
Public and Alumni Relations at (616) 395–7860.
Great Performance Series––Wednesday, Dec. 6: Saffire––The
Uppity Blues Woman, Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m.
Tickets are $12.50 for regular adult admission, $10.50 for
senior citizens and $6.50 for students. For more information,
call (616) 395–6996.
Student Recital––Thursday, Dec. 7: Dimnent Memorial
Chapel, 11 a.m. Admission is free.
Student Recital––Thursday, Dec. 7: Wichers Auditorium of
Nykerk Hall of Music, 6 p.m. Admission is free.
Madrigal Dinner––Friday–Saturday, Dec. 8–9: Maas Center
auditorium, 7 p.m. Additional information may be obtained
by calling (616) 395–7650.
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The popular Christmas Vespers program will run Saturday–Sunday, Dec. 2–3. The public sale of tickets will be
on Saturday, Nov. 18.
Academic Calendar
Fall Semester ‘00
Nov. 10–12, Friday–Sunday––Parents’ Weekend
Nov. 23, Thursday––Thanksgiving Recess begins, 8 a.m.
Nov. 27, Monday––Thanksgiving Recess ends, 8 a.m.
Dec. 8, Friday––Last day of classes
Dec. 11–15, Monday–Friday––Semester examinations
Dec. 15, Friday––Residence halls close, 5 p.m.
Dance
Aerial Dance Theater/Eisenhower Dance Ensemble––
Friday–Saturday, Oct. 27–28
Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m.
Tickets are $6 for regular adult admission and $4 for
students and senior citizens, and will be available at the
door. Admission is free for children under 12.
Fall Student Dance Concert––Monday–Tuesday, Nov.
20–21
Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
Hope College Theatre
Alumni and Friends
“Meet the President”
Informal dessert receptions that offer an opportunity to
meet President Jim Bultman ’63 and Martie Tucker ’63
Bultman.
Albany, N.Y.––Wednesday, Oct. 25, 7–8:30 p.m.
At The Desmond Hotel, 660 Albany–Shaker Road.
Pittsford, N.Y.––Thursday, Oct. 26, 7–8:30 p.m.
At The Spring House, 3001 Monroe Avenue.
Regional Events
Various Locations Nationwide––Saturday, Jan. 20
A gathering with Hope and Calvin alumni and
friends to watch the Hope–Calvin men’s basketball
game on a big–screen television. The game starts at 3
p.m. Eastern Time. A postcard with details will be
sent to the areas hosting a satellite party.
For additional information concerning alumni events, please
call the Office of Public and Alumni Relations at (616)
395–7860.
De Pree Gallery
“Juried Student Show”––Friday, Dec. 1–Friday, Dec. 15
Work by Hope students.
Steel Pier––Friday–Saturday, Nov. 10–11; Wednesday–
Saturday, Nov. 15–18
Book by David Thompson. Music and lyrics by John
Kander and Fred Ebb
DeWitt Center, main theatre, 8 p.m.
The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
Tickets for Hope College Theatre productions are $7 for regular
adult admission, $5 for Hope faculty and staff, and $4 for senior
citizens and students, and will be available approximately two
weeks before the production opens. The ticket office is open
Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday
from noon to 5 p.m., and may be called at (616) 395–7890.
Tuesday, Oct. 24: Robin Hemley and Ofelia Zepeda;
Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 7 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 17: Kaye Gibbons; Knickerbocker Theatre,
7 p.m.
Traditional Events
Nykerk Cup competition––Saturday, Nov. 11
Musical Showcase––Monday, April 9, 8 p.m.
Honors Convocation––Thursday, April 26, 7 p.m.
Baccalaureate and Commencement––Sunday, May 6
Visiting Writers Series
Live music by the Hope College Jazz Chamber Ensemble will
precede the readings beginning at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free.
For more information or to be placed on the series’s mailing list,
please call the department of English at (616) 395–7620.
Instant Information
Updates on events, news and athletics at Hope may be
obtained 24 hours a day by calling (616) 395–7888.
NFHC October 2000
Campus Notes
Alumna inspired sculpture
A sculpture by a
Holland native thinking of
her sister has been
added to the north side
of the Hope campus.
Artist Billie Houtman Clark and President James Bultman ’63 during the July
dedication of “Contemplation” on van Tamelen Plaza just east of the Admissions
House.
The sculpture, “Contemplation,” by
artist Billie Houtman Clark of Austin,
Texas, and Holland, Mich., has become
part of the college’s van Tamelen Plaza,
the landscaped area west of the Haworth
Inn and Conference Center. The statue
was dedicated on Thursday, July 25.
Dedicated in the spring of 1997, the
plaza is named in honor of Dr. Eugene van
Tamelen ’47 and Mary Houtman ’52 van
Tamelen of Los Altos Hills, Calif.
Mary van Tamelen, who is the artist’s
sister, and a bench on the plaza helped
inspire the sculpture. The life–sized
bronze figure depicts a seated young
woman enjoying the space and engaged in
reflection as she holds a book in her lap.
“It was my sister sitting on the bench
that started it all,” Clark said. “That’s why
I took a seated figure and a college theme
with a book on the lap.”
The project began with a 19–inch tall
miniature, or maquette. For the full–sized
piece, Clark first posed an adult model and
had her covered with plaster to create a
life–sized, hollow “armature,” or framework, that she next covered with the clay
that she sculpted to produce the finished
look. A series of moulds and pourings––the
“lost wax” process––ultimately yielded the
final bronze work.
She made the sculpture in Texas. It
traveled to Holland in June.
Billie Houtman Clark grew up in
Holland, and she attended Hope for
two–and–a–half years after graduating
from Holland High School in 1951. She
went on to the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts in Boston, Mass., and completed
a B.F.A. in studio art at the University of
Texas at Austin.
Her sculptures include a variety of
figures installed in Austin. She has had
exhibitions in several venues, including
the Laguna Gloria Art Museum and the
Dougherty Art Center in Austin, the
Central Public Library in Houston and the
U.T. Medical Center in San Antonio.
Winter Sports
Men’s Basketball
Women’s Basketball
Men’s & Women’s Swimming
Fri. & Sat., Nov. 17–18.............at Central, Iowa, Tournament
Fri.–Sat., Nov. 24–25 ...Old Kent Classic at VanAndel Arena
Wed., Nov. 29 ..........................................at Aquinas, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Dec. 2..................................UNIV. OF CHICAGO, 3 p.m.
Wed., Dec. 6......................at Manchester, Ind., 7:30 p.m. CST
Fri.–Sat., Dec. 8–9....HOLLAND SENTINEL COMMUNITY
TOURNAMENT
Sat., Dec. 16 ........................GRACE BIBLE COLLEGE, 3 p.m.
Thurs.–Fri., Dec. 28–29............RUSS DEVETTE HOLIDAY
CLASSIC
Wed., Jan. 3........................................*at Kalamazoo, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 6........................................................*ADRIAN, 3 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 10................................................*OLIVET, 7:30 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 17..................................................*ALMA, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 20 ......................................................*at Calvin, 3 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 24..............................................*at Albion, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 27...........................................*KALAMAZOO, 3 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 31 .............................................*at Adrian, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 3 ........................................................*at Olivet, 3 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 10 .......................................................*at Alma, 3 p.m.
Wed., Feb. 14..............................................*CALVIN, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 17......................................................*ALBION, 3 p.m.
Wed.–Sat., Feb. 21–24 ................................MIAA Tournament
Fri. & Sat., Nov. 17–18 ..........at Lake Forest, Ill. Tournament
Tues., Nov. 28........................................at Rochester, 7:30 p.m.
Fri. & Sat., Dec. 1–2 .................HOPE COLLEGE SUBWAY
SHOOTOUT
Thurs., Dec. 7.....................................CORNERSTONE, 7 p.m.
Sat., Dec. 9....................................at Wheaton, Ill., 3 p.m. CDT
Sat., Dec. 16 .....................................at Aurora, Ill., 3 p.m. CDT
Fri.–Sat., Dec. 29–30 .........HOPE CLASSIC TOURNAMENT
Wed., Jan. 3.....................................*KALAMAZOO, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 6 .......................................................*at Adrian, 3 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 10...............................................*at Olivet, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 13 .........................................*SAINT MARY’S, 3 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 17 ................................................*at Alma, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 20 ......................................................*CALVIN, 3 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 24 ..............................................*ALBION, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 27..............................................*at Kalamazoo, 3 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 31..............................................*ADRIAN, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 3.........................................................*OLIVET, 3 p.m.
Wed., Feb. 7.....................................*at Saint Mary’s, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 10 .........................................................*ALMA, 3 p.m.
Wed., Feb. 14 .............................................*at Calvin, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 17 .....................................................*at Albion, 3 p.m.
Tues–Sat., Feb. 20–24..........MIAA Tournament, First Round
Sat., Nov. 11 ....................................................*ALBION, 1 p.m.
Tues., Nov. 14 .....................................*KALAMAZOO, 6 p.m.
Fri.–Sat., Dec. 1–2........................at Wheaton, Ill., Invitational
Fri.–Sat., Dec. 1–2...at Eastern Michigan Diving Invitational
Fri., Dec. 8.............................................at Grand Valley, 5 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 13 .......Illinois/Michigan Quad at Wheaton, 1 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 13 ........................+*KALAMAZOO (DIVING), TBA
Tues., Jan. 16....................................................*at Olivet, 6 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 20 ........................................................*at Alma, 1 p.m.
Tues., Jan. 23............*SAINT MARY’S (women only), 6 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 26 ......................................................*at Calvin, 1 p.m.
Thurs.–Sat., Feb. 15–17 .............+*MIAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
*MIAA Game
*MIAA Game
Central Tournament – Central, Iowa; Hope; Northwestern,
Iowa; Trinity Christian, Ill.
Old Kent Classic – Aquinas; Calvin; Cornerstone; Hope
Holland Sentinel Community Tournament – Aquinas;
Hope; Judson, Ill.; Spring Arbor
Russ DeVette Holiday Tournament – Concordia, Wis.;
Grove City, Pa.; Hope; North Central, Ill.
Lake Forest Tournament – Bowdoin, Maine; Hope; Lake
Forest, Ill.; Wheaton, Ill.
Hope College Subway Shootout – Hope; Spring Arbor;
Thomas More, Ky.; Trinity Christian, Ill.
Hope Classic Tournament – Capital, Ohio; Concordia, Ill.;
Hope; Kalamazoo
Home games played at Holland Civic Center
Starting times are in the time zone of home team.
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Home games played at the Dow Center on Hope College
campus.
*MIAA Dual Meet
+at Holland Aquatic Center
Home meets are held in Kresge Natatorium of the Dow
Center on the campus of Hope College.
Starting times are in the time zone of the home team.
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football in the MIAA via the World Wide
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Pull ’00
Pulling beyond possibility
There are those who say that
getting on the rope and struggling
at total effort for three hours with
an equally committed, equally
matched foe is beyond the possible.
Each year, two teams do it anyway. Such is
the freshman–sophomore Pull tug–of–war, in
which the competitors test the depths of their
endurance in their quest to best their counterparts on the other side of the Black River.
The intensity of the experience shows on the
faces of those making the effort. It shows on
the faces of their fans. And it shows in the
outcome.
The sophomore Class of ’03 won this year’s
Pull, held on Saturday, Sept. 30, in Hope’s
103rd year with the annual contest. While the
Odd–Year class earned its victory having
gained 36 feet 8 inches of rope, that was more
than the footage lost by the freshmen of ’04.
The difference came from stretch, the rope
itself having become a silent tribute to the
competitors of both sides.
Pull images, clockwise
from top right: freshmen Adam Throop and
Mary Beth D’Agusta;
sophomores awaiting
the call to begin; an
intense ’03 fan;
Even–Year enthusiasm;
watching the sophomores from behind
cover.
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Campus Notes
Engineering earns accreditation
The college’s Bachelor
of Science degree with a
major in engineering has
received accreditation from
the Engineering
Accreditation Commission
of the Accreditation Board
for Engineering and
Technology (ABET).
The accreditation follows the department’s first attempt for the recognition.
Hope established the major in 1997.
“ABET is the national accrediting
agency in engineering, and their recognition is an important indication of the
quality of the engineering program at
Hope,” said Dr. John Krupczak Jr., who is
director of the college’s engineering
program and an associate professor of engineering. “It tells employers and graduate
schools that our alumni come from a
program that meets standards important in
the profession, and it tells prospective students that they can expect their education
here to meet those standards.”
ABET outlines several outcomes for the
graduates produced by engineering programs, ranging from an ability to apply
mathematics, science and engineering
appropriate to the discipline; to the ability
to function on multi–disciplinary teams; to
an understanding of professional and
ethical responsibility; to a knowledge of
contemporary issues.
Dr. Krupczak believes that Hope, as a
liberal arts college requiring students to
take classes in many fields, is well positioned to instruct its students on the variety
of levels recommended by ABET.
“The engineering profession has recognized that it needs liberal arts–trained
students,” Dr. Krupczak said. “Engineering
is one of the world’s most global professions. We live in an era of worldwide
corporations and inter–connections, and
engineers must confront not only technical
Dr. Janice Pawloski lectures during
Introduction to Solid Mechanics I.
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but also ethical, legal and social issues in
their work. A liberal arts background is
now being seen as an asset to engineers,
when 20 years ago it was seen as a liability
and all they needed to know was how to
crunch numbers.”
Many students have embraced the
variety of options at the college. The
department has even had students
double–major in dance, finding a natural
link to both disciplines through biomechanical engineering.
The program has five full–time faculty.
Some five percent of the students who
apply to Hope indicate an interest in engineering, and about 13 students graduate
with a major each year. A survey of graduates from 1996 to 1998 found that 100
percent were either employed in engineering or attending graduate school; every
member of the Class of 2000 who applied to
engineering graduate school was accepted
by a program and received either a fellowship or an assistantship.
The accredited major requires 48 hours
of coursework in engineering, as well as
additional work in other science disciplines
and mathematics. In addition to courses
like
“Computer
Aided
Design,”
“Thermodynamics” and “Fluid Mechanics,”
students work in teams with local industry
to solve real–life design problems, and
often find summer internships in engineering with corporations.
The opportunity to work closely with
faculty members is important to students in
the program, and something they realize
that doesn’t happen everywhere. Kellie
Bleecker, a junior from Mount Pleasant,
Mich., who was originally drawn to Hope
by the “wide variety of good programs,”
noted that she appreciates that Hope’s professors can and do give students individual
attention.
Jay Thwaites, a junior from Grand
Rapids, Mich., had also visited a large engineering school when making his college
choice, and appreciated Hope’s more personal approach at the outset. “I thought the
program and facilities equally good here,
but I like this atmosphere 100 times better,”
he said.
Bleecker and Thwaites were among the
students who spent this summer conducting engineering research on campus––as
was their peer Christine Immink, a junior
from Hamilton, Mich., who noted, “I like
the idea that I could come in and do
research. It was open to any of us.”
Engineering instruction began at Hope
about 25 years ago, when in response to
student interest Dr. James van Putten ’55
started teaching a course in electronics
through the department of physics.
Student interest grew, and in the next
decade–and–a–half more courses were
added, as was a second faculty member
with expertise in engineering.
In 1993, the “engineering physics”
program received one of only three grants
in engineering nationwide from the U.S.
Department of Education so that it could be
further developed for use as a model by
other liberal arts colleges. Through the
grant, the curriculum was expanded, more
professors were added––and suddenly the
Students learn together in a small group during the engineering program’s Dynamic
Systems and Controls Laboratory. From left to right are junior Lora VanUffelen,
junior Matt Kalajainen, junior Sam Klooster and senior Josh Danek.
scope of what was happening at the college
had changed. “The result was that we discovered that we didn’t have an engineering
physics program,” Dr. van Putten said.
“We had a bachelor of science in engineering program.”
According to Dr. van Putten, the
expansion was originally intended to
bring to engineering the same methods
that Hope had been using successfully in
preparing students for graduate work in
other science disciplines. “The national
need there is that only about 45 percent of
all Ph.D. graduates in the United States in
engineering are U.S. citizens or permanent
U.S. residents,” he said.
Particularly as the opportunities for
hands–on learning have increased, though,
he feels that the program serves equally
well the 40 percent of engineering majors
who choose to go directly into industry.
“Since about 90 percent of all engineers do
go into industry eventually, this has helped
prepare those bound for graduate school
for their eventual positions in addition to
helping students who want to take a job
right out of college,” he said.
The ABET accreditation provides a concluding high point for Dr. van Putten, who
retired from the faculty at the end of the
1999–2000 academic year after devoting a
quarter century to shepherding the program’s progress.
“It’s a good time to retire,” he said.
“The program is underway, and I think it’s
going to grow.”
“There are more engineers than in any
profession except K–12 school teachers. It is
a very big profession. There is a high
demand,” Dr. van Putten said. “I see no
reason why in 10 years we shouldn’t have
twice the number of majors that we have
now.”
More information about the college’s
engineering program may be obtained at
www.engin.hope.edu.
Junior Kellie Bleecker reviews the guitar she created early in her engineering experience, in the Introduction to Computer Aided Design (CAD) course using
SDRC–I–deas software.
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Faculty Reflections
By Donald Luidens ’69
Barbed wire, milk and honey:
Imagine a country of
great beauty, rich natural
resources, and all
manners of flora and
fauna.
Imagine canyons which rival those of
Zion National Park; imagine ocean shorelines that thrust up in sweeping
outcroppings of granite and volcanic rock,
shorelines which remind one of Maine or
Oregon, dotted with New England–like
towns and fishing villages. Imagine vast
stretches of sandy beachfront, reminiscent of
the dunes of Lake Michigan or the Atlantic
seaboard.
Imagine yellow mountains of slag, slag
produced by the effluence of miles of gold
mines burrowed under cities and mountains
and rivers. Imagine these slag heaps
cheek–by jowl with a shanty–town, home to
millions of people, most living in
eight–by–eight foot, corrugated metal
shacks. Imagine pristine suburbs, with
immaculate lawns and carefully manicured
gardens surrounded by eight–foot walls
mounted with barbed wire or glass shards.
Imagine a country of people who are gracious to a fault, who will welcome you into
their homes and open their hearts to you,
and yet who have been struggling among
themselves for centuries, victims and victimizers, a people welded together by the
accidents of history from many peoples,
straining to find a common identity, yearning to overcome a past written in pain;
imagine a country which is a pioneer in
medical innovation, yet one in which four
out of 10 babies are born HIV–positive;
imagine a country of untold promise and
natural richness––a veritable land flowing
with milk and honey––and yet one of even
greater challenge.
In sum, imagine contemporary South
Africa.
During the last weeks of June, four Hope
College professors experienced South Africa
in all of its many guises. Professors Lynn
Winkels ’81 Japinga (religion), Roger
Nemeth (sociology and social work), Robert
Swierenga (A.C. Van Raalte Institute) and
Don Luidens ’69 (sociology and social work)
participated in a conference held in
Stellenbosch, South Africa. Along with professors from the Netherlands, Hungary,
South Africa and the United States, the four
gave papers on various aspects of their
on–going research. The conference was
supported in part by Hope College, Calvin
College, the Free University of Amsterdam,
and the University of Stellenbosch. The
International Society for the Study of
Reformed
Communities
(website:
http://www.hope.edu/affiliations/issrc/)
brought together sociologists, historians,
ethicists, and theologians who study
Reformed (and Presbyterian) communities
around the world. After meeting at Calvin
College (in 1994) and the Free University of
Amsterdam (in 1997), the ISSRC was invited
to Stellenbosch by Professor Jurgens
Hendriks.
Prior to the conference, the delegates participated in a “traveling seminar” in Pretoria
and Johannesburg, in the northeast of South
Africa. During this phase of the trip they
were introduced to the history of South
Africa, with special emphasis on the causes
and consequences of apartheid (the policy of
segregation of races employed by the white
government of the Republic of South Africa
from 1948 through 1990, one which severely
restricted the mobility of and opportunities
for all blacks).
While staying in the homes of Afrikaans
hosts (the Afrikaans are descendents of the
Dutch and French settlers in South Africa,
many of whom can date their families’
arrivals to the 17th century), the delegates
learned of the life–changing journeys that
this community of whites has undertaken in
the last decade or two. Central to the transformation of life away from apartheid has
been massive reformation in the Dutch
Reformed Church, one of the principal supports for segregation for much of the last
four centuries.
The delegates also traveled to Soweto (for
SOuth WEst TOwnship), which borders the
city of Johannesburg. Begun as the restricted barracks town for black men working in
Pictured at the Cape of Good Hope are four travelers from Hope who participated
in the conference of the International Society for the Study of Reformed
Communities in July. From left to right are Dr. Robert Swierenga, Dr. Lynn Winkels
’81 Japinga, Dr. Roger Nemeth and Dr. Donald Luidens ’69.
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During his visit this summer, author Dr. Donald Luidens found South Africa to be a
land of contrasts. On one side he saw a land rich in natural beauty...
the nearby gold mines (whose presence is
eerily punctuated by the golden mounds of
gravel and slag), Soweto burgeoned during
the 1960s and 1970s into the principal residential area for blacks. Today, over 3.3
million people live in Soweto, many in tiny
shanties which radiate heat in the summer
and provide little shelter during the cold
nights of winter. Often eight or 10 people
reside in one or two rooms, sleeping in shifts
on the floor or on recycled mattresses.
Along the streets of Soweto are all
manner of hawkers, from food vendors
(butchered animals are hung from racks in
the open air) to furniture carpenters/repairers to entrepreneurs selling “pre–fabricated
houses” (four “walls” of corrugated steel
and a roof go for about 2,000 Rand––
roughly $300). White VW microbus taxis
proliferate; transportation to Johannesburg,
15 miles away, is about 50 cents a person, but
takes place in 12 to 16 passenger vehicles,
complete with luggage, shopping bags, livestock, and children. Taxi “wars” are
frequent and brutal, as “turf” is carved out
by the competing companies, often at the
point of the gun. Reportedly, 26 millionaires
live in Soweto, most of whom are owners or
former owners of taxi companies.
Fear of crime and violence is rampant,
fueled by countless rumors of petty and
major violations. The murder rate in South
Africa is more than 10 times that of the
United States. Middle and upper class
homes are sheltered by walls and protected
by dogs. Great caution is taken by all
drivers, fearing that their vehicles may be
stolen—even while they are using them.
Violent crime is not the only kind that
threatens social stability.
The federal government is racing to
keep ahead of the flood of undocumented
immigrants who make their way to
Johannesburg, once an international jewel
of a city. Johannesburg today is reputed to
be one of the most violent and dangerous
cities in all of Africa as it becomes home
for millions of displaced people. One estimate is that 1,500 refugees (“illegal
aliens”) from Mozambique move to the
Johannesburg vicinity every week.
Mozambique’s 80 percent unemployment
makes South Africa’s 40 percent rate seem
extremely promising.
In response, the government lays out
new tracts of residential area at an alarming
rate. Like KOA campgrounds, the government supplies electric outlets and water
lines which jut up along future “streets” on
the edges of Soweto; newcomers purchase
the plot at subsidized rates and then throw
together houses and a new “sub–division” is
created overnight. Meanwhile, more established residents are working to up–grade
the quality of their homes; many are now of
cinder block construction and have three or
four rooms.
It was the experience of the
Hope College delegates that
the future of this auspicious
country of contrasts will rest
on the shoulders of educators and church leaders,
those who can envision a
nation characterized by
justice and reconciliation,
by community and commitment––visionaries such as
the southern Africans at the
conference.
Winnie Mandela lived in Soweto during
the 28–year imprisonment of her husband,
former President Nelson Mandela; her
home was fire–bombed on several occasions
during the final uprisings against apartheid
in the late 1970s, and bullet–holes are still
evident in its walls. Nearby is the modest
home of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a
leader in post–apartheid reconciliation and
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his
efforts. Following his presidency, President
Mandela—who is revered by black,
“coloured” and white alike—moved out of
Soweto to a suburb north of Johannesburg.
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promise and peril in South Africa
...while in contrast he found abject poverty, as demonstrated by the rough metal–
shed homes of Soweto.
Talk of AIDS is everywhere. Estimates
are that 40 percent of the children born in
South Africa contract HIV from their
mothers. Thousands of children are “AIDS
orphans,” having lost both parents to the
dread disease. The delegates were told by
one source that wood is not used in construction any longer because all available
wood is required for caskets for AIDS
victims. One pastor–delegate to the conference, the sole minister of a 5,000–member
congregation in Mozambique, performed
three AIDS–related funerals in the week
before he came to the conference.
The government has undertaken a range
of AIDS awareness programs, including
erecting numerous billboards throughout
Soweto alerting people to medical
resources and preventive information. In
mid–July, an international conference on
AIDS was held in Durban, on South
Africa’s east coast.
The ISSRC Conference was keynoted by
a day of papers presented by southern
African ministers and scholars (in this
region, ministers are often the only scholars
in a community). Presenters from Namibia,
Zimbabwe,
Zambia,
Malawi,
and
Mozambique described scenarios of incredible courage and incredible challenge.
Poverty abounds: the average annual
income for Mozambique is about $140, the
worst in the world; Malawi and Namibia
are not much better. Relying on family networks (which are themselves under attack
by the growing mobility of the populace
and the influx of technology into the major
cities of the area) and their faith (the
Reformed church, with roots in the efforts
of Dutch missionaries, is alive and growing
in all five countries), southern Africans are
striving to carve out a new identity.
The conference topic, “The Reformed
Encounter with (Post)Modernity,” at times
seemed to be a quaint backdrop against
these bitter–sweet narratives. Several of
the southern African delegates spoke eloquently about Africa’s desire to embrace
that which is community–enhancing from
the West, while eschewing those aspects of
modernity which undermine family, community and tradition. From time to time
their cell–phones rang during the conference deliberations, providing an ironic
exclamation point to the mixed blessings of
encroaching modernity.
The future of South Africa remains
cloudy. With mounting tensions in the
region (the recent elections in Zimbabwe
were much on the minds of South Africans
as they watched their northern neighbor
take small steps toward greater democracy), and with immense disparities of
income and opportunity prevailing among
the races, there is great need for hope and
faith. It was the experience of the Hope
College delegates that the future of this
auspicious country of contrasts will rest on
the shoulders of educators and church
leaders, those who can envision a nation
characterized by justice and reconciliation,
by community and commitment––visionaries such as the southern Africans at the
conference.
Campus Profile
Scholarships have impact on lives
For more than a decade
and a half, scholarship
assistance has brought
students from the land of
the Cape of Good Hope to
the land of Hope College.
South Africa has experienced monumental change since the first of the 13 students
arrived on campus in 1985. The old system
of apartheid has fallen, and the democratic
nation of today is working to cope with and
grow beyond the effects of its segregated
past.
As noted in the accompanying reflections
of faculty member Dr. Donald Luidens ’69,
there are many challenges. By providing
opportunities that they would not otherwise
have, Hope is helping equip young students
to live, work and shape their own and their
nation’s future.
“It was difficult for blacks to pursue their
studies under the old apartheid system where
blacks were always told that they were inferior to whites and judged on racial grounds,”
recalled Masabata Molete ’93 Letsiri, who
learned about Hope through her church.
“A Hope College scholarship made a vast
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difference in my life both personally and professionally,” she said. “Personally, it made
me a better person by teaching me tolerance
and understanding that being of a different
race is not an impediment but rather a contribution to cultural diversity. Professionally,
Hope College developed me to be a better
researcher due to the experience and training
I gained in Hope’s psychology department.”
From Hope, Letsiri went on to the
University of Toledo in Ohio, completing a
master’s in educational psychology. She is
now a manager in the Policy and Research
Department
of
the
Independent
Communications Authority of South Africa
(ICASA), a regulatory body like the FCC in
the United States.
Wendy Arendse learned about Hope
through Dr. Jane Dickie of the psychology
faculty, and attended the college during
1990–91 while her husband was enrolled at
neighboring Western Theological Seminary.
“I was able to commence my studies
towards a degree, which I continued on my
arrival back in Cape Town,” she said.
“Previously, I was unable to afford the cost of
the studies here in South Africa and the
chance to commence my studies at Hope
gave me the desire to continue on my
return.”
She completed a diploma in book-keeping
at Damelin College in Cape Town, and is
now the administrator at Central Methodist
Mission Church.
“Being in the States gave my whole family
the experience of different cultures, yet a
sense of global ’likeness’ in so many ways,”
she said. “Being at Hope (and the States) has
opened my perspective on global issues –– it
was good to debate various matters with
friends and colleagues.”
Katlego Setshogoe has been at Hope since
last fall. She learned about Hope through her
aunt’s church, and notes that she was drawn
to Hope in part because the college’s origins
intrigued her.
“It was an opportunity to learn about a
new culture and the fact that South Africa
and Holland had Dutch settlers fascinated
me,” she said.
As far as their nation’s future is concerned, Letsiri, Arendse and Setshogoe see
signs of hope and signs of additional need.
Letsiri and Arendse both noted that in the
six years since the first all-South Africa free
elections, numerous policies have been put in
place to address needs in (for example) education, employment training and Affirmative
Action, health and housing, although much
work needs to be done.
Letsiri mentioned the international AIDS
conference discussed in Dr. Luidens’s article,
and also reported that Johannesburg recently
hosted a major conference on racism. In her
own field, she said, “South Africa is at the
forefront of IT [information technology]
development.”
“In short, even after 47 years of oppression, South Africa has been identified as a
leader in most sectors in Africa,” she said.
Arendse has seen that many people are
frustrated at the slow rate of change in South
Africa. But, she said, “The more important
change –– that of the heart –– will take much
longer. So much prejudice abounds! It’s even
seen in tiny children as they sometimes
display the prejudice expressed in their
homes.”
“But there are glimmers of hope,” she
said. “In projects set up all over the country
to bring about change in various forms ––
heart–change, self–esteem change, living
conditions–change, etc.” Her own church,
for example, is involved in partnership projects including a multi–cultural preschool
center, a shelter for female street children
and a museum chronicling the history of
apartheid.
Herself still preparing for her role in South
Africa’s future, Setshogoe said simply, “The
Rainbow nation is putting the past behind
and trying to move on as best and as united
as we can be.”
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Homecoming ’00
Moments
Clockwise from top right: fans celebrate
Hope’s second touchdown during the game;
the Fellowship of Christian Students use a
Jurassic Park theme during the Homecoming
Parade; members of the Pep Band in
costume before the parade (the parade
theme was “Let’s go to the movies”);
members of the Class of ’85 pose for a
photo; float construction.
1985––Row 1: Jennifer De Vries ’85, Julie Moulds ’85 Rybicki, Melinda Campbell ’85 Hollands, Ian Hollands, Kent Franken ’85, Bob Dame ’83, Cindy Hoffman ’85 Dame, Mary Van Allsburg
’85 Vande Wege, Kathleen Kistler ’85 Arnold, Jayne Courts ’85 Hodgson, Sue Herman ’85 Toering, Kathy Hogenboom ’85 Olgers, Greg Olgers ’87; Row 2: Sarah Smith ’85 Van Oss, Joan
Fekken ’85 Socol, Tim Arnold ’83, Randy Smith ’85, Chris Smith; Row 3: Jonathan Van Oss ’85, Kevin McCollough ’85, Cindy Blight ’85 McCollough, Holly Nichols ’85, Marnie Marsters ’85
Lamberson, Laura Hempstead ’85 O’Connell, Cindy Simmons ’85 Jameson, Dayna Beal ’85; Row 4: Amy Ramaker, Russ Ramaker ’85, Carlotta Ellison ’85, Karen Smith ’85 Hosner, Beth
Trembley ’85, Jennifer TenHave ’85, John LaBarge ’85, Martha Weener ’85 LaBarge, Julie Japinga ’85 VanOordt, Michelle Northuis ’85 Bryson, Bill Bryson ’84, Jana DeGraaf ’85 Cathey; Row
5: Heidi Woehl ’87 Harlow, Jeff Harlow ’85, Tod Gugino ’85, Pat Visser ’85, Shelly Hegedus ’85 Reilly, Lauri Lemmen ’85 VanEyl, Lynne Lager ’85 Field, Bob Kryger ’85, Linda Paul ’85, Ann
Bower ’85 Muenger, Richard Muenger ’86, John Hensler ’85; Row 6: Kathy Smyser, Bill Smyser ’85; Row 7: Bruce Kuiper ’84, Michelle DeBoer ’85 Kuiper, Jean Wend ’85, Brenda Adams
’85 Jackson, Denise VanderSteeg ’85 Frazier, Susan Workman ’85 Stafford, Scott J. Jecmen ’85
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Homecoming ’00
1990––Row 1: Kathy LaCasha ’90 Lind, Melissa Villarreal ’90, Karen Zienert ’90, Marcia Ryder ’90, Christine Siegel ’90, Elizabeth Becker ’90 Bocks, Susie Renner ’90 Williams, Lori Renkema ’90
Paarlberg, Kevin Kingshott ’90, Rhonda Boelkins ’90 Byrne, Bryan Whitmore ’90, Sherry Grupp–Schuen ’90, Melissa TenHaven ’90 Loaney; Row 2: Chad Dykema ’90 (with infant Lydia Dykema),
Kate Boonstra ’90 Dykema, Sandra Kubala ’90 Byrne, Kimberly Krapp ’90 McManaman (with infant Regina McManaman), Lisa Wierenga ’90 DeVries, Nathan Bocks ’89, Mike Williams ’91, Laurence
Paarlberg ’87, Kim King ’89 Kingshott, Eva Gaumond ’90, Dave Byrne (holding Dominick Byrne); Row 3: Suzanne DeKorte ’90 Walters, Jennifer Haskin ’90 Will, Ellen Tanis ’90 Awad, Jim DeYoung
’88, Bob Van Order ’90, Tara Van Order, Cindy DeWitt ’92 Alberg, Erik Alberg ’90; Row 4: Paul Chamness ’90, Heidi Slack ’91 Chamness, Erika Pott ’90, Holly Anderson ’90 DeYoung, Joan Gabrielse
’90 Hughes, Carl Aronson ’90, Cynthia Schutt ’90 Aronson, Lynne Carter ’90 Thoman, Jeffrey Thoman, David Braskamp ’90, Heidi Carigon ’90 Boes; Row 5: Catherine Delia ’90, Michelle Cook ’90
Wilson, Alix Kayayan, David Bradley, Martie Sharp ’90 Bradley, Jennifer Bosch ’90 Vredeveld, Julie Parker ’90 Zylstra, Barry Fuller ’90, Christine Modey ’90, Anna–Marie Postmus ’90 School; Row
6: Susan Blume ’90 Deady, Ron Kragt ’90, Diana Slama ’90 Fox, Yvette M. VanRiper ’90, Jay Courtright ’90, Laura Davis ’89 Courtright, Kurt VanAppledorn ’90 (with Ryan), Cheryl Becker ’92
VanAppledorn, Jonathan Hofman ’89; Row 7: Laura Stover ’90 Rosado, Mason Rosado, Deanna Fordham ’90 Kohl, Steven Kozera ’90, Chris Carpenter ’90, Richelle Kortering ’90 Hofman; Row 8:
Kevin V. Hart ’90, Suzanne Boel ’91 Hart, Eric Lundquist ’90, Rhonda Bohannon ’90 Meyers, Deanna Butts ’90 Jordan; Row 9: Kirk VanderMolen ’91, Laura Magan ’90 VanderMolen, Scott Skipworth
’90, Kim Schaaf ’90 Scanlon, Sean Scanlon ’90, Panechanh Choummanivong ’93 Carpenter, Mark Meyers ’90, Beth Ross ’90 Reo; Row 10: Ted Duncan, Theodore Duncan, Claudine Wagenaar
’90 Duncan, Nicholas Timmer, Cynthia VanDuyne ’90 VanRenterghem, Rob VanRenterghem ’90, Debbie Vliem ’90 Braak, Kelly Ringold ’90 Kievit, Kim Pierce ’90 Burrill, Anne Roos ’90 Potyraj,
Rebecca Weigle ’91 VanBlois, Brent VanBlois ’90, Jackie Krombeen ’91 Weeber, John Weeber ’90; Row 11: Jason Walker, Heather Housenga ’90 Walker; Row 12: Mark Reimer ’90, Rajean Wuerfel
’90 Wolters, Julia Loofbourrow Guth, David Guth ’90, Steve Bulthuis ’90, Lynn Kingma ’90 Cole, Kevin Cole ’88, Tim Gortsema ’90, Suzanne Hartong ’90 Gortsema; Row 13: John Mitchell ’90, Kris
Busman ’90, Teri Timmer ’90, Kathy Baird ’90 Luther, Kirsten Allen ’90 Bartels (and Jake), Erik Sales ’90
1995––Row 1: Amy Antrim ’95 McCurry, Cheri Kolk ’95 Quillan, Kathy Mixer ’95 Brady, Kristen Sytsma ’95 Campbell, Jill Pursifull ’95 Nelson, Sarah Birch ’95 Krahn, Kirk Krahn ’95, Meridith
Hudson ’95, Kathleen Dominiak ’95, Jennifer Kirk ’95 Miller; Row 2: Sara Gortsema ’95 Zang, Carrie Borchers ’95 Baumann, Dan Brady ’95, Jeff Bos ’95, Amy Volkers ’95 Walls, Carrie O’Dowd
’95 Breit, Adam Breit ’95, Donna Levy ’95, Andi McCraine ’95; Row 3: Lisa Anderschat ’95, Josh Hegg ’95, Stephanie Haag ’95, Rachel Dahl ’95, Lisa Eacker ’95, Jill VanVossen ’95 Whalen,
Jodie McGee ’95; Row 4: Amy Fox ’95, Mary Lane ’95, Stephanie Spurway ’95 Ruwet, Angie Fagerlin ’95, Nancy Barta ’95 Shrode, Bart Shrode ’95 (holding Garett), Laurie Martin ’95 Hubbert,
Vonda Evers ’95; Row 5: Heather VanDeHoef ’95 Edwards, Kristin Underhill ’95 VanHaitsma, Jennifer Witmer ’95 Bouwman, Heidi Apol ’95, Amy Cobler ’95, Amy Merkel ’95; Row 6: Stephen
Eckert ’95, Jo Sill ’95 Trembley, Tim Hamilton ’95, Mark Dittmar ’95, Kristin Clark ’95 Williams, Wendy Murray ’95 Glasgow, Lisa Helder ’95 Hazard; Row 7: Mike Yantis ’95, Amy Ferris ’95,
Christine Kaiser ’95 Easley, Tracy Duros ’95 Hammontree, Karen Thomas ’95 Kleinheksel; Row 8: (begins in middle of group) Courtney Alexander ’95 Griffin, Jennifer Nash ’95, Joel Keas ’95,
Theresa Hamilton ’95 Wilson, Channa DeKam ’95; Row 9: Robert George Wiesenthal ’95, Jason Prince ’95, Jeff Hazard ’95, Amy Woolman ’95 VanZetten, Heather Haveman ’95 White
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2000 Generational New Students
Class of ’04 adds 89 more
Fifth Generation
FIFTH
GENERATION
Kristin Klunder (Hopkins, Mich.)
Mother – Mary Davis ’74 Klunder
Father – Jack Klunder ’74
Grandmother – Jane Reus ’45 Davis
Grandfather – Roy Davis ’44
Great–Grandfather – William Reus ’18
Great–Great Grandfather – Leonard Reus (Prep. 1882)
Abigail Wierenga (Holland, Mich.)
Mother – Mary Weener ’79 Wierenga
Father – David Wierenga ’82
Grandmother – Jean Wiersma ’49 Weener
Grandfather – Jay Weener ’49
Great–Grandfather – Henry Wiersma ’25
Great–Great Grandfather – Frederick Wiersma 1899
Fourth Generation
FOURTH
GENERATION
Jenny Alderink (Coopersville, Mich.)
Mother – Sally Meeusen ’76 Alderink
Father – Gordon Alderink ’76
Grandmother – Geraldine Uppleger ’48 Meeusen
Grandfather – Ernest Meeusen ’49
Great–Grandmother – Gertrude Stephan ’21 Meeusen
Molly Baxter (Kennewick, Wash.)
Mother – Mary Esther ’67 Baxter
Grandmother – Marion Boot ’35 Esther
Grandfather – Joseph Esther ’35
Great–Grandfather – Harry Boot 1900
Dmitri Brown (Zeeland, Mich.)
Mother – Lois Maassen ’78
Father – Peter Brown ’77
Step–Father – Christopher Wiers ’81
Grandmother – Edith Herlein ’47 Maassen
Grandfather – Pierce Maassen ’50
Great–Grandfather – Herman Maassen ’16
Seth Brugger (Grand Haven, Mich.)
Mother – Ann Lemmer ’72 Brugger
Father – Barry Brugger ’74
Grandmother – Margaret Bilkert ’41 Lemmer
Great–Grandfather – Henry Bilkert ’14
Mark Dykstra (Ludington, Mich.)
Mother – Nancy Culver ’68 Dykstra
Father – Timothy Dykstra ’68
Grandmother – Bernice Mollema ’32 Dykstra
Grandfather – Adelphous Dykstra ’35
Great–Grandfather – Henry Mollema ’07
Great–Grandfather – Broer Dykstra 1896
Amanda Howe (Dimondale, Mich.)
Mother – Marcia Dykstra ’74 Howe
Father – Gary Howe ’74
Grandmother – Mayneen Jellema ’45 Dykstra
Great–Grandfather – William Jellema ’15
Michael Mulder (Holland, Mich.)
Mother – Kathleen Hoger ’72 Mulder–Sheridan
Father – Jeffrey Mulder ’69
Grandfather – Johan Mulder ’29
Great–Grandfather – John Ter Avest 1899
Todd Neckers (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Father – Craig Neckers ’71
Grandmother – Doris Van Lente ’36 Neckers
Grandfather – M. Carlyle Neckers ’35
Great–Grandfather – Albert Neckers Jr. (Prep. 1890s)
Nathaniel Van Heest (Palos Heights, Ill.)
Mother – Mary Dalman ’77 Van Heest
Father – Timothy Van Heest ’76
Grandmother – Eloise Hinkamp ’51 Van Heest
Grandfather – Gerard Van Heest ’49
Great–Grandmother – Ada Boone ’29 Nabor Raak
Great–Grandmother – Edith Dings ’31 Hinkamp
Great–Grandfather – Franklin Hinkamp ’26
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Phil Waalkes (Raleigh, N.C.)
Father – Michael Waalkes ’75
Grandfather – T. Phillip Waalkes ’41
Great–Grandfather – Albert Waalkes ’15
Christiana Watkin (Holland, Mich.)
Mother – Mary Louise Flikkema ’65 Watkin
Grandfather – John Flikkema ’31
Great–Grandfather – Gerrit Flikkema 1895
Rebekah Oegema (Lawton, Mich.)
Mother – Debra Cleason ’78 Oegema
Father – Gary Oegema ’78
Grandfather – Donald Cleason ’56
Grandmother – Phyllis Andre ’48 Oegema
Grandfather – Cornelius Oegema ’51
Krista Veenstra (Spring Lake, Mich.)
Mother – Kathleen DeWitt ’70 Veenstra
Father – Rick Veenstra ’69
Grandfather – Donald DeWitt ’50
Third Generation
THIRD GENERATION
Brad Brondyke (Holland, Mich.)
Mother – Janet Koop ’75 Brondyke
Grandmother – Mary Lou Hemmes ’46 Koop
Grandfather – Harvey Koop ’43
Kyle Delhagen (Pultneyville, N.Y.)
Mother – Donna Baird ’79 Delhagen
Father – Harold Delhagen ’79
Grandmother – Christine Cloetingh ’56 Baird
Grandfather – Donald Baird ’55
Jon Granberg–Michaelson (Oakland, N.J.)
Mother – Karin Granberg–Michaelson ’70
Father – Wesley Granberg–Michaelson ’67
Grandmother – Carol Van Oss ’62 Granberg
Rebecca Hillegonds (Ada, Mich.)
Mother – Lynn Klaasen ’72 Hillegonds
Father – Tim Hillegonds ’72
Grandmother – Elizabeth Arendshorst ’32 Klaasen
Grandfather – Russell Klaasen ’32
Grandmother – Elizabeth Romaine ’46 Hillegonds
Grandfather – William Hillegonds ’49
Tom Hoesch (Zeeland, Mich.)
Mother – Laurel Riekse ’76 Hoesch
Father – Kenneth Hoesch ’75
Grandfather – James Riekse ’41
Amy Zwart (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Mother – Nancy Rynbrandt ’71 Zwart
Father – Ted Zwart ’70
Grandfather – Thurston Rynbrandt ’41
Sara Zwart (Wyoming, Mich.)
Mother – Mary Etta Buis ’71 Zwart
Grandfather – Harry Buis ’49
Second Generation
SECOND GENERATION
Sara Barber (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Grandfather – Homer Barber ’43
Katie Boss (Newaygo, Mich.)
Mother – Barbara Kastelin ’74 Boss
Father – Richard Boss ’73
Jeremy Brieve (Holland, Mich.)
Mother – Jerri DenBraber Brieve ’80s
Emily Broekhuis (Holland, Mich.)
Father – Rudy Broekhuis ’74
Dana Brown (Pompton Plains, N.J.)
Mother – Charlye Roden ’69 Brown
Ben Byl (Shelby, Mich.)
Mother – Ann Davenport ’79 Byl
Father – Larry Byl ’79
Sara Holleman (Portage, Mich.)
Mother – Lynne DePree ’76 Holleman
Father – Kevin Holleman ’72
Grandmother – Elaine Meeusen ’47 DePree
Grandfather – Paul Holleman ’38
Candice Chavez (Glen Ellyn, Ill.)
Father – Edward Chavez ’75
Amanda Kinney (West Sand Lake, N.Y.)
Mother – Debra Link ’80 Kinney
Father – Timothy Kinney ’82
Grandfather – Charles Link ’50
Lindsay Dalman (Zeeland, Mich.)
Father – Michael Dalman ’81
Micah Maatman (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
Mother – Janice Wassenaar–Maatman ’75
Father – Vaughn Maatman ’75
Grandmother – Ruth Klaasen ’41 Wassenaar
Grandfather – Lester Wassenaar ’38
Brad Norden (Jenison, Mich.)
Mother – Nancy Riekse ’71 Norden
Father – John Norden ’71
Grandfather – James Riekse ’41
William Norden (Dublin, Ohio)
Mother – Jean Boven ’75 Norden
Father – Stephen Norden ’74
Grandmother – Elizabeth Goehner ’36 Boven
Grandfather – Stanley Boven ’36
Grandmother – Eleanore Short ’51 Norden
Grandfather – Russell Norden ’49
Jacob Nyboer (Nunica, Mich.)
Mother – Cynthia Hartman ’74 Nyboer
Father – Andrew Nyboer ’74
Grandfather – Andrew Nyboer ’39
Kristi Creswell (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Mother – Deb Badeau ’74 Creswell
Dawn De Vries (Elgin, Ill.)
Mother – Ruth Kremer ’63 De Vries
Father – David De Vries ’62
Amanda De Young (Holland, Mich.)
Father – Paul De Young ’77
Heidi Dykema (Kentwood, Mich.)
Mother – Janet Zagers ’74 Dykema
Karl Dykema (Grant, Mich.)
Father – Henry Dykema ’67
Rebecca Eggenschwiler (Holland, Mich.)
Mother – Diane Bel ’76 Eggenschwiler
Anna Eriks (Holland, Mich.)
Father – Kenneth Eriks ’69
Elizabeth Foster (Battle Creek, Mich.)
Mother – Laura Eichhorn ’73 Foster
Betsy Getman (South Haven, Mich.)
Mother – Gail Totzke ’73 Getman
Katherine Hall (Holland, Mich.)
Mother – Lynne Castetter ’72 Hall
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The Class of ’04 included 89 Generational New Students. Pictured from left to right are third, fourth and fifth generation students. Row 1: Kyle Delhagen, Abby Wierenga, Molly Baxter,
Christy Watkin, Seth L. Brugger, Todd Neckers, Rebecca Hillegonds, Mark Dykstra, Amanda Howe, Jacob Nyboer, Kristin Klunder; Row 2: Dmitri Brown, Bradley Brondyke, Billy
Norden, Brad Norden, Michael Mulder, Phillip Waalkes, Krista Veenstra, Sara Zwart, Jenny Alderink, Amy Zwart, Jon Granberg–Michaelson
William Hamm (Hazlet, N.J.)
Father – Norman Hamm ’74
Matt Haveman – (Holland, Mich.)
Father – Robert Haveman ’71
Nancy Jackson (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
Mother – Betty Whitaker ’62 Jackson
Sara Kittrell (Walker, Mich.)
Grandmother – Virginia VerStrate ’40 Zoutendam
Grandfather – John Zoutendam ’39
Sarah Klooster (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Grandfather – Melvin Klooster ’31
Nathan Kooistra (Burnsville, Minn.)
Father – Kenneth Kooistra ’75
Kimberly Lauver (Clifton Park, N.Y.)
Mother – Susan Wells ’75 Lauver
Father – Jerry Lauver ’73
Lenee Ligtenberg (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
Mother – Mary Kooiman ’69 Ligtenberg
Father – L. Jack Ligtenberg ’69
J. David Mackinnon (Kentwood, Mich.)
Mother – Brenda Dieterman ’80 Mackinnon
Father – John Mackinnon ’80
Christopher Major (Hart, Mich.)
Mother – Karen Bergen ’76 Major
Father – Michael Major ’76
Geoffrey Miyamoto (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Mother – Cynthia vanderBurgh ’66 Miyamoto
Laura Moreau (Holland, Mich.)
Mother – Barbara Bobeng ’76 Moreau
Father – William Moreau ’76
Katherine Myers (Harrisburg, Penn.)
Mother – Elizabeth Knecht ’79 Myers
Father – Thomas Myers ’78
Dana Nicholson (Jenison, Mich.)
Father – Clifford Nicholson ’80
Robert Ondra (Schenectady, N.Y.)
Grandmother – Louise Loula ’52 Ondra
Grandfather – Robert Ondra ’53
Benjamin Onken (St. Joseph, Mich.)
Mother – Lynette Jones ’71 Onken
Mary Otterness (Rochester, N.Y.)
Mother – Carolyn Ringsmith ’73 Otterness
Father – Richard Otterness ’73
Robert Pekich (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Father – William Pekich ’74
Lindsay Petersen (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Mother – Laural Anman ’73 Petersen
Father – David Petersen ’73
Melinda Phillips (De Forest, Wis.)
Mother – Beverly Kuiper ’75 Phillips
Father – David Phillips ’74
Phillip Pratt (Flint, Mich.)
Mother – Patricia Dryfhout ’81 Pratt
Father – Paul Pratt ’78
Heather Qualman (Northville, Mich.)
Mother – Connie Aldrich ’70 Qualman
Father – Alfred Qualman ’70
Sarah Scholten (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Father – Donald Scholten ’73
Adam Schrier (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Mother – Linda VandenBerg ’76 Schrier
Stephen Moreau (Holland, Mich.)
Mother – Barbara Bobeng ’76 Moreau
Father – William Moreau ’76
Heidi Snoap (Grandville, Mich.)
Father – Dana Snoap ’73
Daniel Morrison (Pickford, Mich.)
Mother – Sarah Lehmann ’78 Morrison
Martha Sorenson (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Grandmother – Mary DeFouw ’47 Gunther
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Anna Swier (Muskegon, Mich.)
Father – Norman Swier ’73
Barry Teshima (Ludington, Mich.)
Mother – Roxanna Spurgis ’74 Gable
Father – Dennis Teshima ’75
Jaclyn Timmer (Grandville, Mich.)
Father – Jack Timmer ’72
Angela Underwood (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Father – David Underwood ’68
Steve Van Beek (Hudsonville, Mich.)
Father – David Van Beek ’68
Blake Vande Bunte (Alto, Mich.)
Mother – Nancy Petroelje ’77 Vande Bunte
Father – Lee Vande Bunte ’75
Amy Vanderhyde (Comstock Park, Mich.)
Father – George Vanderhyde ’70
Ellen Vigants (Portage, Mich.)
Mother – Sandra Champion ’69 Vigants
Carrie Vivian (McBain, Mich.)
Mother – Debra Dowlyn ’75 Vivian
Amy Wakerley (Grand Haven, Mich.)
Mother – Cheryl Cheek Wakerley
Emily Warners (Spring Lake, Mich.)
Grandmother – Arlene Idema Warners ’83
Amanda Weener (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Father – Randy Weener ’78
Eric Wiest (Fargo, N.D.)
Father – David Wiest ’76
Michael Zeilstra (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Grandmother – Margaret VanWyke ’64
Christina Zylstra (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Mother – Helen Dingwall ’76 Zylstra
Father – Stephen Zylstra ’75
Tiffany Zylstra (Batesville, Ark.)
Mother – Sherry Lewis ’76 Zylstra
Father – Kim Zylstra ’76
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Campus Notes
(Continued from page three.)
To be eligible for the “Excellence in
Research Award,” research must have
been published within the last two years
or accepted for publication in a refereed
journal on health or medical care. Dr.
George’s work, based on 11 months
spent studying an urban, public, community mental health day/partial
treatment center, was published in the
April, 2000, issue of the Journal of
Transcultural Nursing.
During the past year and a half, Dr.
George has presented the results of her
research at three international conferences as well as locally. Most recently, in
April, she was a presenter during the
International
Qualitative
Health
Research Conference, held in Banff,
Alberta, Canada.
James Herrick of the communication
faculty is the author of The History and
Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction, published in its second edition by Allyn &
Bacon of Needham Heights, Mass.
The 320–page book traces rhetoric’s
historical progression from the Greek
Sophists of the fifth century B.C. to contemporary studies such as the rhetoric of
science and feminist rhetoric. The text is
intended for junior– and senior–level
undergraduate students.
Lynn Winkels ’81 Japinga of the religion faculty has written a book that
introduces the themes and controversies
of Christian feminism.
Dr. Japinga, an associate professor of
religion, has been teaching the college’s
course on feminist theology for seven
years. She wrote her book, Feminism and
Christianity: An Essential Guide, because
she saw a need for a text that provided
an easy–to–understand introduction to
the topic and the issues involved.
“I wanted to use something that
would be basic and accessible to laypeople and college students, and there
wasn’t a lot out there,” she said. “Part of
what I try to do in both teaching and in
the book is correct some of the stereotypes and try to give people a clear sense
of what feminist theology is all about.”
The book, published by Abingdon
Press of Nashville, Tenn., offers an
overview of feminism generally in addition to outlining a number of feminist
and non–feminist approaches to the
Bible. In her introduction, Dr. Japinga
notes, “It is representative and suggestive rather than comprehensive, but I
hope it will whet the reader’s appetite
for more reading, study, and learning.”
Examples of ways that women are
depicted and discussed biblically run
throughout the text, as do examples of
women in the history of Christianity
through the 20th century. Topics that
receive extended analysis include ways
that God’s gender is interpreted and
Jesus’s gender is understood; gender–
influenced assumptions concerning
human nature, sin and salvation; and the
question of whether or not women
should hold leadership roles in the
church.
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Book examines hearing loss
Dr. David Myers of the
psychology faculty has
written numerous books for
students and general
audiences alike, and although
they have all concerned
topics of interest to him, none
have flowed so directly from
his own life as the latest.
He has written best–selling textbooks
on psychology and social psychology. He
has written popularly–acclaimed books on
happiness and on The American Paradox:
Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty. And
now he has written A Quiet World: Living
with Hearing Loss, released this fall by Yale
University Press, which is a first–person
account of his own encounter with gradual
hearing loss and its effect on his life.
“My perspective combines my vocation
as a research psychologist and writer with
my experiences as the son of a woman
deafened late in life and as a hard of
hearing person,” he writes in his preface.
“This unusual combination, it occurred to
me one day, positioned me to speak about
hearing, hearing loss and hearing interventions as both a participant and an
observer.”
According to Dr. Myers, some 28
million Americans and some 350 million
people worldwide live with hearing loss.
He notes that the hard of hearing are “a
fast–growing group because of the aging
of our population and the cumulative
effects of amplified music, power mowers,
motorcycles and blow dryers.”
He has geared his book not only to
the hard of hearing, but also to their
loved ones––those who help them cope
with their hearing loss. In the U.S., that
latter group includes some 15 million
Dr. David Myers
spouses and 50 million children.
“Drawing on both psychological
research and my own experience, I hope
first to help you understand the sometimes
painful, sometimes hilarious experience of
hearing loss, and second to suggest how
you might more effectively offer love and
advice,” he writes in the preface.
A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss
tells of Dr. Myers’ journey from denial of
his hearing loss to acceptance, and
includes insights gained from others’ experiences as well. He also explores the
technologies that help now and offer hope
for the future.
In the book, Dr. Myers explains why he
resisted having his hearing tested even as
he struggled in his daily life as he
approached age 50. He tells of the stress of
guessing what people are saying, and of
what it feels like to be laughed at when
wrong. He tells of missing 40 percent of
the sermon during a moving church
service, and of leading a discussion group
in which he couldn’t hear much of what
was said. He tells the funny side of hearing
loss, with stories of hard–of–hearing
people whose missing a word caused them
to buy their child castanets for Christmas
instead of a casting net, or to end up in the
wrong locker room.
He explores the limits and potential of
technology. He explains why many
people hate their hearing aids and hide
them in drawers, and what it sounds like
to put a hearing aid on for the first time.
He considers the effectiveness of the latest
adjustable, digital aids; the benefits of
cutting–edge cochlear implants; and the
value of computers as communication
tools for the profoundly deaf.
Given what he views as the important
role that spouses play in helping their partners deal with hearing loss, he also
includes his wife’s account of both her
sympathy and her frustration with his
denial of the problem.
A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss”
is available in hardcover for $18.50.
Excerpts and links to hearing loss
resources are available at www.davidmyers.org.
Dr. Myers is the John Dirk Werkman
Professor of Psychology at Hope, where
he has been a member of the faculty
since 1967. In addition to a dozen books,
he has written scientific and popular
articles that have appeared in some five
dozen periodicals, ranging from
Scientific American to the Christian
Century. His work has been covered in
publications including Newsweek and
Time; featured on ABC, NBC and
National Public Radio; and discussed in
cover stories in Psychology Today and
Redbook, among others.
Guides praise Hope
Hope has been named
a “Best Buy” by The Fiske
Guide to Colleges 2001.
Hope is one of only 40 private or public
colleges and universities in the United States
and Canada named to the “Best Buy” list.
The “Best Buys” are selected from the more
than 300 schools that the guide describes as
among the “best and most interesting” colleges and universities in the United States
and Canada.
The colleges and universities included in
The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2001 were identified by the publication as among “the best
and most interesting institutions in the
nation––the ones that students most want to
know about.” The “Best Buys” were chosen
for offering “remarkable educational opportunities at a relatively modest cost.”
The guide presents essays concerning the
schools it features, with each covering academics, campus setting, student body,
financial aid, housing, food, social life and
extracurricular activities. The write–ups
also include statistics ranging from enrollment, to the SAT or ACT score ranges of the
middle 50 percent of the students, to relative
cost.
“This liberal arts college aims to provide
its 2,900 students a solid education and a
deeper understanding of their purpose in
life,” the guide says of Hope. The guide
identifies Hope as an “inexpensive” private
school.
The Fiske Guide to Colleges is an annual
guide that has been published for nearly two
decades, and is edited by Edward B. Fiske,
former education editor of The New York
Times. Hope has appeared in the guide regularly since the book debuted in the early
1980s. It is the third time that Hope has been
identified as a “Best Buy” since the guide
added the “Best Buy” category in 1995; the
last time was in 1997.
The late summer/early fall is an active
season for the publication of college guides.
Hope is one of more than 1,100 colleges and
universities nationwide profiled in the
Kaplan/Newsweek College Catalog 2001. Hope
is on the guide’s “recommended” national
listing for schools that offer a high level of
individual academic attention from faculty.
Hope is included among the top national–level colleges and universities in the
United States in the annual America’s Best
Colleges guide produced by U.S. News and
World Report. Hope is ranked in the third
quartile in the national listing.
Hope is included in Time/The Princeton
Review’s The Best College for You as a “TIME
500” school. The guide profiles more than
1,500 colleges and universities, and presents
more detailed entries on the “TIME 500”
schools for being in the top third of all
four–year schools nationwide in their
“Selectivity Rating,” a general assessment
that includes factors like the class rank and
average test scores of entering first–year students. Hope is also cited in the article
“Faculty Face Time” in the guide for giving
students an opportunity to conduct research
with faculty members.
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Class Notes
Named to Alumni Board
News and information for class notes,
marriages, advanced degrees and deaths are
compiled for news from Hope College by Greg
Olgers ’87.
News should be mailed to: Alumni News;
Hope College Public Relations; 141 E. 12th St.; PO
Box 9000; Holland, MI 49422–9000. Internet users
may send to: alumni@hope.edu
All submissions received by the Public
Relations Office by Tuesday, Sept. 12, have been
included in this issue. Because of the lead time
required by this publication’s production
schedule, submissions received after that date
(with the exception of obituary notices) have been
held for the next issue, the deadline for which is
Tuesday, Nov. 7.
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Andrea Korstange has
been appointed Junior
Class Representative to
the college’s Alumni
Association Board of
Directors.
Korstange, a junior from Grand
Rapids, Mich., was elected during the
board’s fall meeting, held on
Thursday–Friday, Sept. 21–22, in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend.
She is majoring in accounting and
minoring in French. Her goal is to
become a CPA with a large public
accounting firm, and she spent this past
summer doing an accounting practicum
with Terryberry in Grand Rapids.
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Leon Bosch ’29 of Holland, Mich., and his wife
Virginia celebrated their 65th wedding
anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2000.
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William Poppink ’37 of Sault Saint Marie, Mich.,
and his wife Loma celebrated their 61st wedding
anniversary on Aug. 26, 2000.
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Seymour Padnos ’43 of Holland, Mich., received
the Dixy Lee Ray Award from The American
Society of Mechanical Engineers International in
August of 2000. The award, established in 1999,
recognizes significant achievements and
contributions in the broad field of environmental
protection. He is chair and chief executive officer
of Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Company in
Holland.
Allan Weenink ’43 of Holland, Mich., has received
word from CSS Publishing Co. that his book A
Stewardship Omnibus will be published in the
spring of 2002.
James Cook ’48 of Holland, Mich., has been elected
to a three–year term on the Board of Trustees of
Resthaven Patrons Inc.
Robert Burton ’49 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is one
of three alumni physicians to retire recently from
Spectrum
Health
(Butterworth/Blodgett
Hospitals) and to be named to the “Distinguished
Physicians Society” for those retirees who have
served in an exemplary capacity within the
organization for at least 10 years. The others are
Dr. Harrison Visscher ’51 and Dr. Robert Visscher
’51, twin brothers from Holland, Mich.
Bernice Nichols ’49 Stokes of Canastota, N.Y., and
husband Robert celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary on Tuesday, June 20, 2000. She is
retired from teaching in the Canastota Central
Schools. They have four children, three of whom
are Hope alumni (Marianne Stokes ’73 Kincaid,
Steven Stokes ’74 and James Stokes ’80), and eight
grandchildren.
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Marion Slinn ’50 Glick recently moved to Walla
Walla, Wash., where her youngest grandchildren
live. She also has daughters in Seattle, Wash., and
Denver, Colo. “This is a beautiful area and I’m
very happy to be here,” she writes. She sings in her
church choir and fills in as organist. In September,
she drove east to visit classmate Suzanne Brink ’50
in Sanborn, Iowa.
Harrison Visscher ’51 and Robert Visscher ’51,
twin brothers from Holland, Mich., were among
three alumni physicians to retire recently from
Spectrum
Health
(Butterworth/Blodgett
Hospitals) and to be named to the “Distinguished
Physicians Society” for those retirees who have
served in an exemplary capacity within the
organization for at least 10 years. The other is Dr.
Robert Burton ’49 of Grand Rapids, Mich.
L. James Harvey ’52 of Upper Marlboro, Md., and
his wife Jackie have co–authored the book Every
Day Is Saturday – A Christian Guide To A Fantastic
Retirement, published this month by The Concordia
Publishing House of St. Louis, Mo.
Richard Hagni ’53 of Rolla, Mo., retired from the
University of Missouri as Curators’ Professor
Alumni Board of Directors
Officers
Bruce Brumels ’59, President, Lake City, Mich.
James Van Eenenaam ’88, Vice President, Dana Point, Calif.
Michelle Baker ’89 Laverman, Secretary, Phoenix, Ariz.
Board Members
Duke Nguyen Browning ’80, Houston, Texas
James Bursma ’87, Stow, Mass.
Garett Childs ’01, Breckenridge, Mich.
Nancy Dirkse ’81 DeWitt, Waukesha, Wis.
Eva Gaumond ’90, Bridgewater, N.J.
Claire VanderMeulen ’75 Gibbs, Melbourne, Fla.
John Hensler ’85, Royal Oak, Mich.
Marion Hoekstra ’65, Laurel, Md.
Andrea Korstange ’02, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Neil Petty ’57, Honeoye, N.Y.
Karen Gralow ’75 Rion, Schenectady, N.Y.
Linda Selander ’64 Schaap, Barrington, Ill.
Beth Snyder ’94, Columbus, Ohio
Jennifer Trask ’00, Elm Hall, Mich.
Mary Browning ’69 Vanden Berg, Grand Rapids, Mich. Gregory Van Heest ’78, Minneapolis, Minn.
Ray Vinstra ’58, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Liaison
Lynne Powe ’86, Alumni Director
Please accept our invitation to visit
the Alumni Office electronically:
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She is a member of the Baker
Scholars, and has regularly been named
to the Dean’s List at Hope.
Korstange is a member of the Sigma
Sigma sorority, and is currently serving
as president of the Panhellenic Board.
She participated in the Dance Marathon
fund–raiser for children last year, and
has participated in the spring break
mission trip program organized by the
Campus Ministries Office. She also
served on Student Congress during her
sophomore year.
She is a 1998 graduate of Northview
High School.
Korstange is a Second Generation
Hope student. Her parents are Joann
VerBeek ’73 Korstange and Robert
Korstange ’73. Her brother, Christian,
graduated from Hope in 1999.
Emeritus of Geology as of Friday, Sept. 1, 2000. He
has taught courses and conducted research in the
Department of Geology and Geophysics for the
past 47 years, and served as department chair for
the past 15 years. He and his wife are remaining in
Rolla. In addition, he returned to teach
one–half–time during the current school year at
UMR, is teaching twice as much, and is beginning
a new three–year NSF grant to study fluorspar ore
deposits in Namibia and India. Both ore deposits
are closely related to carbonatite (magmatic calcite)
and alkaline igneous rock intrusions. During the
past summer, he gave talks on the deposits and
other ore deposits at international meetings in
Goettingen, Germany, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Richard Leppink ’53 of Holland, Mich., has been
re–elected to the Board of Trustees of Resthaven
Patrons Inc. He will serve a three–year term.
Arend Lubbers ’53 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is
retiring at the end of June of 2001 as president of
Grand Valley State University. In office for 31
years, he is the nation’s longest–serving university
president.
Norman Thompson ’53 of Ann Arbor, Mich., has
received the Award of Honorary Fellowship of the
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He is the
Henry King Ransom Professor of Surgery at the
University of Michigan Medical School. The
award citation noted his contributions to surgery
generally and to the specialty of endocrine surgery,
in addition to emphasizing his great contributions
“to the educational and scientific activities of
surgery in Australia and New Zealand and of this
College.” He had made numerous visits to
Australasia since 1983, when he was the Graham
Copeland Lecturer to the Sydney University
Department of Surgery at Royal North Shore
Hospital, and has hosted several Australian
Endocrine Surgery Fellows in his department at
the Unviersity of Michigan.
Janice Polhemus ’56 Jessup of Virginia Beach, Va.,
is a real estate broker with Rose & Womble Real
Estate.
Richard Gould ’57 of Coral Springs, Fla., is
celebrating 40 years in the petroleum marketing
business. He joined Cities Service Oil Co. (CITGO)
in 1960 after his U.S. Army service in Germany. He
is now the district manager with CITGO’s
wholesale distributor group, headquartered in
Miami, Fla. His hobby is American history, which
includes refurbishing and target shooting antique
firearms. In his spare and vacation time, Dick is
the advisor to the Aiken County Historical
Museum antique firearms collection in Aiken, S.C.
Stanley Yin ’57 of Hayward, Calif., has a daughter,
Lydia, who married Michael M. Folkerts ’92 in July
(please see “Marriages”).
Cal Langejans ’58 of Holland, Mich., received the
first annual Holland–Zeeland Community Arts
award on Friday, Sept. 8, 2000. The award, a
plaque placed in front of the Holland Area Arts
Andrea Korstange
Council building at 150 E. 8th Street in Holland,
honored him for his contributions to the arts
community. He is former director of the Holland
Chorale and founded the March Festival.
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Rod McLeod ’62 of Weston, Fla., is president and
chief operating officer of AMCV. The company’s
ventures include constructing two 1,900–passenger
vessels for its new United States Lines venture,
which will feature U.S.–flagged vessels and
American crews.
Judith Wiley ’62 Meeuwsen of Holland, Mich.,
retired from the West Ottawa Schools in 1994 after
30 years as an elementary teacher. Her community
activities include serving as a volunteer pianist at
local nursing/retirement homes and at Holland
City Mission; being a member of “Messengers of
Joy,” a local Christian entertainment group for
nursing homes; and participating in Toastmasters.
Roberta Russell ’62 Ponis retired in August after
20 years as coordinator of library services for
Jefferson County Public Schools in Golden, Colo.
Colombine High School was one of the 136 school
libraries she worked with, and she was involved in
the redesign of the library.
Barbara Mortensen ’62 Sanborn of Houston,
Texas, delivered the annual Neckers Lecture
through the Chemistry Seminar series at Hope
College on Friday, Sept. 29. A member of the
faculty at the University of Texas–Houston
Medical School, she presented “A Protein Anchor
Involved in Hormone Signaling in Cells.”
Janet Koopman ’62 Van Dyke of Grand Rapids,
Mich., was a featured recitalist in the Summer
Organ Recital Series of Calvin College, held in the
Calvin College Chapel during July of 2000.
Darell Schregardus ’63 of Holland, Mich., has
been re–elected to the Board of Trustees of
Resthaven Patrons Inc. He will serve a three–year
term.
Paul Wackerbarth ’64 of Falls Church, Va.,
presented the address “Reflections on Poland
1989” at Hope College on Tuesday, Sept. 19,
through the department of history’s colloquium
series. He is a career Foreign Service Officer,
served as Economic Counselor at the American
Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, from 1989 to 1992,
early in the country’s transition from decades of
communist rule.
Ted DeLong ’65, shareholder with DeLong &
Brower PC, Certified Public Accountants, has been
elected president of the Board of Directors for the
Holland Board of Public Works. With assets of
more than $200 million, the local municipal utility
provides electric, water and wastewater services to
the Holland, Mich., area.
Rolland Swank ’65 has joined the Hope College
faculty as a visiting assistant professor of
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mathematics.
Donald Ast ’66 of Houston, Texas, retired on July
29, 1999, after 32 years with IBM, Loral and
Lockheed–Martin. He spent most of his time
working on software development contracts at
Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in
Houston.
Jim Boelkins ’66 recently became vice provost for
the Pew (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Campus of Grand
Valley State University. He moved to Jenison,
Mich., after serving for the last 15 years as the
provost and vice president for academic affairs at
Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa. He writes, “It’s
good to be back in Michigan after being away for
33 years.”
John Elfring ’66 has opened a graphic design
studio in Azle, Texas, that also produces fine art
reproductions.
Thelma (Tommye) Leenhouts ’66 is a singer with
The Washington Chorus in Washington, D.C.,
which was honored to win a Grammy this year for
the best classical recording of the year. The Chorus
received the Grammy for its performance of
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, sung at the
Kennedy Center. Tommye has sung with the
chorus since 1988.
Norman Madsen ’66 is president of Bacone
College in Muskogee, Okla. Founded in 1880 as
Indian University and renamed in 1910, Bacone
College is a two–year school that is adding several
bachelor’s degrees. He became the school’s 17th
president in October of 1999.
Susan Eenigenburg ’67, who holds an M.Div.
degree from Union Theological Seminary in New
York, graduated in May of 1999 from a clinical
pastoral education chaplain training program at
Interfaith Health Care Ministries in Providence,
R.I. She has been chaplain with Hospice of Cape
Cod since July of 1999.
John Mulder ’67 of Louisville, Ky., is president of
Louisville Seminary and moderator of the Board of
Directors of the Louisville Institute. Based at the
seminary and established in 1990, the institute
brings together those who lead religious
institutions with those who study them so that the
work of each might inform and strengthen the
work of the other. The institute is supported
through a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Tom Renner ’67 was presented a service award by
the College Sports Information Directors of America
during the organization’s annual conference in St.
Louis, Mo., on Monday, June 26, 2000. He has
coordinated the sports information program at
Hope and for the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic
Association (MIAA) since 1967.
Frances Wiebenga ’68 has been appointed senior
pastor at the Hilo United Methodist Church in
Hilo, Hawaii.
Paul Hartman ’68 has been appointed senior
director of government and industry affairs for
New Edge Networks. Based in Vancouver, Wash.,
New Edge Networks provides wholesale DSL
service nationally in small, midsize and semirural
markets through local, regional and national
Internet service providers, communications
companies and other strategic partners.
Robert Essink ’69 retired from the U.S. Marine
Corps as a colonel on July 1, 2000, after nearly 31
years of active duty. He and his family now reside
in Virginia Beach, Va.
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Linda Cramer ’70 of Centreville, Va., is a
management consultant with Caliber Associates in
Fairfax, Va.
Christine Peacock ’70 Powers of Aurora, Colo.,
has been elected vice president of the Board of
Directors of Arapahoe House, Colorado’s largest
drug and alcohol treatment non–profit.
Mark Vander Laan ’70 has been appointed by the
mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, to serve as chair of the
Cincinnati Human Relations Commission Review
Committee. He is a partner in Dinsmore & Shohl
LLP, where his practice includes litigation
principally involving business matters, contracts,
securities and fiduciary issues.
Sue Acus–Windover Miller ’71 of Toledo, Ohio, is
the family practice grant coordinator with the
College of Medicine at Ohio University.
Ron Augustine ’72 of Holland, Mich., is operations
manager of Enviro–Clean Services Inc. He has
been awarded the designation of certified building
service executive by the Building Service
Contractors Association International.
Douglas Iverson ’72 of Saugatuck, Mich., has been
elected second vice chairman of the Michigan
League of Community Banks. He is vice chair and
chief executive officer of AmeriBank in Holland,
Mich.
Christine Lohman ’73 Jackson is vice president for
business and finance at the University of
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Nebraska–Lincoln.
Vicki Ten Haken ’73 has joined the Hope College
faculty as a visiting associate professor of
management.
Jocelyn Peterson ’73 Vitanye of Palo Alto, Calif.,
performed three pieces at Carnegie Hall in June of
2000 as part of a 190–member chorus comprised of
singers from seven groups from throughout the
country. At home she continues to be an avid
quilter.
Denise Parker ’73 Wilbourn of Norfolk, Va., is a
teacher with Boys and Girls Club of America.
Lois Veenhoven ’74 Guderian of Lake Zurich, Ill.,
is choral director and middle school music teacher
at Quest Academy in Palatine, Ill. She was one of
10 veteran music educators nationwide chosen to
participate in the highly competitive Northwestern
University Summer Fellowship Program this year.
Howard Hirsch ’75 of Plymouth, Minn., is a
principal financial analyst with Blue Cross and
Blue Shield Minnesota.
Cynthia Clark ’76 of New York City has been
appointed director of technical services for The
Research Libraries at the New York Public Library.
Janet Thomas ’76 is activities manager at Freedom
Village in Holland, Mich.
Edward (Ted) Newcomb ’77 has been elected chief
of staff at Charlevoix Area Hospital, an acute care
facility in Charlevoix, Mich. He continues to
provide physician supervision at the Beaver Island
(Mich.) Rural Health Center and to be medical
director at Boulder Park Terrace Nursing Home in
Charlevoix.
Ned Pfeiffer ’77 has been appointed executive
director, brand strategy and management, in the
Brand Marketing and Communications division of
the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
Brad Bose ’78 of Stockholm, Sweden, teaches and
writes books, and is also a writer for a fitness and
aerobic magazine. He coaches football in Sweden,
and has two national championships, both at the
elite level and one level under. He also has two
silver medals on the national level at the junior
level. In addition, he is the coach to the Swedish
version of American Gladiators.
Michael Drahos ’78 has left the classroom after 22
years of teaching social studies to become the
coordinator of staff and curriculum development
for the Delaware–Chenango–Madison–Otsego
B.O.C.E.S. BOCES is the institution by which New
York State provides educational services to
component districts. His region includes 16 school
districts covering more than 1,800 square miles.
He is responsible for providing inservice,
workshops and learning opportunities to
educators throughout the 16 districts.
Laurie Van Ark ’78 has joined the Hope College
staff as office manager for the Carl Frost Center for
Social Science Research.
Gregory Van Heest ’78 of Minneapolis, Minn., was
chosen as a 2000 “Super Lawyer” in a survey
conducted by Minneapolis–St. Paul Magazine. The
list features more than 1,300 Minnesota lawyers
selected by other lawyers as the best lawyers in the
state, representing approximately the top five
percent of Minnesota’s lawyers.
James Wilkins Jr. ’78 is vice president of quality
manufacturing sciences and senior consultant in
robust design at the American Supplier Institute in
Livonia, Mich.
Sharon Carnahan ’79 was named the Child
Maltreatment Prevention Professional of the Year
for Orange County, Fla., due to her research on
ways to evaluate the effectiveness of child abuse
prevention programs. She is an associate professor
of psychology at Rollins College in Winter Park,
Fla., and director of the Child Development Center.
Isaac Myers II ’79 recently published his novel
SILENCE through iuniverse.com. He collaborated
on the book with his daughter Shamika Myers,
who is a senior at Hope and helped him develop
two of the key characters. Introducing a young
female protagonist, the book has been described as
“Engrossing... A quirky suspense that will leave
the audience breathless as Katherine Mills’ life
unravels, leading her to her biggest challenge...
her fight for survival.” He is a health care
professional, living in Indianapolis, Ind., and is
currently writing the sequel to SILENCE, The Find,
in addition to writing a true story, Mama I
Didn’t–No.
William Patterson ’79 of Wyckoff, N.J., is a former
Town Council member recently elected to the
Bergen County committee. He is vice president of
the AAA and was also recently elected to the
Board of Directors of the AAA.
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Steve Chappell ’80 is with WGVU Public
Broadcasting. Formerly director of corporate
gifts/grant writing, in July he assumed a new role
planning a capital campaign for digital conversion
and developing a major donor program. His
daughter Leah turned one on Sept. 1, 2000.
Erik Jul ’80 of Columbus, Ohio, has been
promoted to executive director of the OCLC
(Online Computer Library Center) Institute. He
has served in a variety of departments in his 14
years with the OCLC, and was most recently the
institute’s associate director.
Glenn Luther ’80 completed the Ironman USA
Triathlon in Lake Placid, N.Y. He completed the
2.4–mile swim, the 112–mile bike and the 26.2–mile
run in 12:34:46. He writes, “It was a totally
awesome experience.”
Barb Arneson ’80 Osburn of Holland, Mich., has
become director of missions and student outreach
in the Campus Ministries program at Hope
College. She was previously the annual fund
director at Hope.
Ginny Van Nostrand ’80 Sweeton of Skillman,
N.J., has been promoted to marketing services
manager for Roper Starch Worldwide, a global
marketing research and consulting firm. She is
responsible for their marketing communications,
as well as being responsible for the company’s
Web site and their corporate intranet. She is also a
worship leader at the Montgomery Evangelical
Free Church.
Judy Cook ’80 Vander Zwaag is in a new job, as a
job coach at Holland Christian High School. She
works with the high school inclusive education
students, taking them to various job sites during
the school year so that they can learn the skills
needed to hold a job after graduation.
Scott Macbeth ’81 recently accepted a new
position with Texas Instruments as a global
marketing engineer, and will be working much of
the Orient in the HVAC industry. He, his wife,
and their five daughters are relocating to the
Boston, Mass., area this fall.
Sarah Cady ’81 Nobles has completed a principal
licensure program through the University of
Denver in Colorado Springs, Colo., and is also
obtaining an endorsement as a director of special
education. She recently accepted a new position in
Colorado Springs with Widefield School District
#3 as the assistant director of special education and
principal of the S.A. Wilson Preschool
Handicapped Program.
Todd Geerlings ’82 of Caledonia, Mich., has
become principal of Pinewood Middle School in
the Kentwood Public Schools. He was previously
principal at Kentwood’s Endeavor Elementary for
four years.
Tim Kasten ’82 is the deputy coordinator for the
United Nations Environment Programme’s
Regional Coordinating Unit for the Caribbean in
Kingston, Jamaica. Now in his third year with
UNEP, Tim is responsible for coordinating projects
in marine pollution control for 28 countries,
including the Caribbean Islands and Latin
American mainland countries that border the
Caribbean Sea. Along with his wife and their two
children (Kyle and Zelie), his leisure time is spent
scuba–diving, snorkeling and “once in a while
longing for snow!”
Sarah Banker ’82 Kelly is teaching at Western
Michigan Christian High School in Muskegon,
Mich.
Jeff Krehbiel ’82 has been called as pastor of
Church of the Pilgrims, a small, diverse
Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation near
DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C. He and his
wife, Cheryl Kiel ’83 Krehbiel, have two children,
Andrea (12) and Kelsey (nine).
David Mitchell ’82 is vice president at Computer
Human Interaction LLC in Seattle, Wash.
Diane Williams–Perry ’82 has accepted a job as a
paralegal/legal secretary with the law firm of
Beattie and Chadwick in Glenwood Springs, Colo.,
and is moving herself and her three daughters
from Craig, Colo., to Rifle, Colo. She also recently
had an article published in the statewide CHEC
Homeschool Update magazine.
James Eickhoff Jr. ’83 of Cincinnati, Ohio, has
been appointed president and chief executive
officer of Student Loan Funding Resources Inc.
(SLFR), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sallie Mae.
He was previously senior vice president of
business development and marketing at SLFR,
which he joined in 1998.
Cheryl Kiel ’83 Krehbiel earned certification last
year from the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards. She recently accepted a
position as professional development specialist
with the Council for Basic Education in
Washington, D.C.
Leslie Ortquest–Ahrens ’83 of Richmond, Ind., is a
member of the German faculty at Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio.
Kathleen Reeder ’83 of Los Alamos, N.M., teaches
chemistry in the Los Alamos Public Schools. She
reports that while she and her family were
evacuated during the Cerro Grande Fire, they did
not lose their home.
Thomas TenHoeve III ’83 of Naperville, Ill., is
associate dean of the College of Pharmacy at the
University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jane Vander Haar ’83 Van Es and Rowland Van
Es Jr. ’83 are missionaries with the Reformed
Church in America. They and their two children
are living in The Gambia in west Africa, where
they are working with the Anglican Church.
Peter Barry ’84 of Ambridge, Pa., is a programmer
with DDI. He and his wife Elizabeth, married in
1991, have five children, Thomas, Daniel, James,
Lauren and John.
Richard Dernberger ’84 notes that he is taking a
career sabbatical in order to be a full–time dad after
14 years in banking. He writes, “Becca (’84),
myself and our three daughters are all enjoying a
more relaxed pace as a family.”
Robert Higuchi ’84, his brother John Higuchi ’89
and their father William Higuchi were featured in
the 1999 annual report of the American Chemical
Society for the family’s tradition of careers in
chemistry. He is a medicinal chemist at Ligand
Pharmaceuticals in San Diego, Calif.
Tracy Ore ’84 of Saint Cloud, Minn., recently
published her first book, titled The Social
Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class,
Gender, and Sexuality, with Mayfield Press. On
August 21–26 she biked in the Alaska AIDS
Vaccine Ride: 510 miles from Fairbanks to
Anchorage to raise money for research on an AIDS
vaccine.
Randy Warren ’84 and his wife have moved back
to the Midwest after 13 years (for him) in
California. He writes, “After years of volunteering
my time with bicycle related issues, I am actually
getting paid to do the same thing now with the
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation.” He also placed
fourth in the recent Chicago Grand Prix bicycle
race, master’s division, one of the largest races of
the year in the Midwest.
Rex Anderson ’85 of Lapeer, Mich., is an attorney
in Davison, Mich. He was on the crew of the boat
that placed first in the annual Bayview Port
Huron–to–Mackinac race in 1997 and 1998.
Tamra Avrit ’85 of Montclair, Va., has been
promoted to deputy director, programs, with
cognizance over social services, employee
assistance, fitness and health promotion, and other
military personnel programs, with the United
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Christopher Bajema ’85 of Grandville, Mich., is an
orthopaedic clinical specialist with Mary Free Bed
Hospital. In 1998 he was named Michigan
Physical Therapist of the Year.
Paul Baker ’85 has been promoted to chief
controller for a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom
AG. In mid–September he moved from Bonn,
Germany, to Zagreb, Croatia, to lead the
controlling and finance function at Hrvatske
Telekomunikacije (Croatian Telecom AG). He will
be there for two years.
Dayna Beal ’85 is the managing partner of The
Image Group. Based in Holland, Mich., the
40–person
firm
provides
integrated
communications through web sites, e–business
applications, brochures, advertising, event
planning, public relations and video. He stays
active coaching (and still playing) soccer and
baseball. He, his wife Marlys Hiemstra ’86 Beal
and their four children enjoy living in Holland and
being active throughout the community.
Lynette Carter ’85 Cole of Jenison, Mich., is a
Kindermusik educator. She also has a card line
called Peaces, selling in several locations in
Michigan, and is active in theatre, currently
playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
Leigh Ann Schott ’85 DenHartog of Hamilton,
Mich., has been tutoring daughter Anna (born in
1996) at home, teaching in her church’s worship
center and volunteering at son Joshua’s school.
Jennifer DeVries ’85 of Elmhurst, Ill., is the team
lead for IBM’s e–commerce education and
certification programs.
Ingrid Dykeman ’85 of Kentwood, Mich., is
singing and performing with the Opera Grand
Rapids Chorus. This past year she performed at
DeVos Hall in Puccini’s Turandot and Verdi’s La
Traviata. She still performs as a cello soloist around
the Grand Rapids area churches, and is the
conductor of her church’s St. Paul Youth Chamber
Orchestra. She also has a new kitten named
Violetta.
Jennifer Heitman ’85 Gamblin of Denver, Colo., is
a freelance writer from home, and reports being
happy to be able to be at home with her young son,
Travis. In 1999, she received the “Gold Pick
Award” from Colorado’s Public Relations Society
of America for a media kit produced while she
worked at the Denver Museum of Natural History.
Tod Gugino ’85 of Holland, Mich., has joined a
new home–based Internet company during a
one–year leave of absence from Hope, where he
has been director of chemistry laboratories for 14
years.
Jeff Harlow ’85 and Heidi Woehl ’87 Harlow of
Holland, Mich., are expecting their fifth child in
January.
Lisa Hendershott–Kraetzer ’85 of Jackson, Mich.,
is a teacher in the Western School District in
Parma, Mich. She has been elected vice president
of her teachers’ union.
Greg Heeres ’85 of Grandville, Mich., founded an
urban golf academy for high risk, urban kids.
Jayne Courts ’85 Hodgson lives in the Grand
Rapids, Mich., area. She is in private practice in
general internal medicine on a part–time basis, and
has three children.
Jonathon Homeister ’85 of Linden, Mich., is a
research investigator in the Department of
Pathology with the University of Michigan.
Cynthia Van Iten ’85 Hurless of Van Wert, Ohio,
is a plant manager with Federal Mogul
Corporation. She was named a 1998 YWCA
Woman of Achievement, and was named one of
“100 Leading Women in the Automotive Industry”
for 2000 by Automotive News.
Cindy Simmons ’85 Jameson recently moved to
Frankfort, Ind., where her husband is an associate
pastor. “I am staying home and learning to be a
pastor’s wife!,” she writes.
Scott Jecmen ’85 and family (his wife and their
three children––Brianna, seven; Steven, two; and
Michael, less than one year) recently moved to
Commerce Township, Mich., in the metro Detroit
area. Scott continues to work at Andersen
Consulting, and was recently promoted to partner.
Robert Karel ’85 recently became associate pastor
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of First Reformed Church in Grand Haven, Mich.
He is also completing a demo tape for work in
commercials and animation after completing
training at Voicetrax of San Francisco, Calif.
Renee Kortman ’85 Kolean of Holland, Mich., in
June of 2000 was appointed to serve on the Park
Township Planning Commission.
Martin Lutzeier ’85 of Novato, Calif., is director of
group sales with Blue Cross of California in San
Francisco, Calif. He and his wife have a daughter,
Katharine (Kate) Elizabeth.
Kathy Metzger ’85 MacGregor of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is a full–time mom and part–time operator
of “Cottage Creations,” her own desktop
publishing business. She notes that in addition to
serving as “soccer, dance and gymnastics taxi
driver,” she is PTA treasurer for Breton Downs
Elementary in East Grand Rapids, Mich.
Matt MacGregor ’85 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is a
partner and owner of King & MacGregor
Environmental Inc., an environmental consulting
firm specializing in wetland areas and shoreline
development. In addition, he coaches son Ian’s
soccer and t–ball teams.
Johnny Marmelstein ’85 has become the freshman
dean of students at St. Margaret of Scotland
Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. He
is also the varsity girls’ soccer coach and teaching
physical education. During his 12–year tenure at
Chadwick School, Johnny developed one of the
top small–school boys’ soccer programs in
Southern California. He led the Dolphins to two
state championships, with an overall record in 12
seasons of 154–90–26 and a CIF playoff record of
22–10–1. He has been honored by several
organizations for outstanding achievement in
coaching and teaching. He was named the CIF–SS
Coach of the Year in 1996 and 1997, the California
Coaches Association and the NSCAA State Coach
of the Year in 1996, and the NSCAA Far West
Region Coach of the Year in 1997; received the
NFICA Section 7 Distinguished Service Award for
Boys’ Soccer in 1998; and was named to Who’s
Who Among America’s Teachers 2000. He and his
wife have two children.
Margaret Oklatner ’85 McCarty of Allenwood,
Pa., will be singing in the Pennsylvania premiere of
Sing for the Cure, a suite of pieces written by breast
cancer survivors.
Cynthia Blight ’85 Mc Collough of Byron, Minn.,
is an associate professor at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn. Her research in the area of x–ray
CT was recently recognized by two awards for
research presentations and numerous invitations
to speak at national and international meetings.
Shelly Hegedus ’85 Reilly of Whitehall, Mich.,
and her husband have been married for 12 years
and have three children: Rosie, 11; Megan, eight;
and Mickey, four. She, her husband, her sister and
her father are all dentists, and practice together,
and are looking to relocate their dental office near
the new Lakes mall in Spring Lake Township. She
recently vacationed at Lake Tahoe “and enjoyed
wonderful hikes, swimming and beautiful
sunsets.”
Michael Schipper ’85 of Middleville, Mich., is
featured in a strength training/health and fitness
video, Never Too Old to Start, scheduled to be in
stores this fall.
Jim Shields ’85 of Westwood, N.J., is vice
president and chief credit officer with Conseco
Finance Corp. – Vendor Services in Paramus, N.J.
Elizabeth Trembley ’85 left her administrative
position at Davenport University to join the Hope
College faculty this fall as a visiting associate
professor of English.
Heidi Trumble ’85 of Jenison, Mich., reports recent
opportunities to return to campus: “I took two
wonderful math classes taught by Mary [Vlieger
’75] DeYoung at Hope College about how to teach
children math using manipulatives. They were
refreshing, enjoyable and have helped in our
homeschool venture. Our boys enjoyed a summer
chemistry camp taught at Hope by Tod Gugino
[’85]. It was great! Being at Hope feels like home.”
Steve Van Kuiken ’85 was recently elected partner
at McKinsey & Company, a management
consulting firm. He and his wife live with their
two children, Andrew (five) and Olivia (three), in
Darien, Conn.
Susan Marks ’85 Van Ommeren following the
birth of her daughter (please see “Births”) has
decided not to return to her job as a managing
editor at Penguin Books. Instead, the family is
relocating to upstate New York, near where she
grew up, and has purchased a 1790s farmhouse in
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Mitch Van Putten ’85 is working with Clarion
Technologies in Holland, Mich.
Diane Boughton ’85 Walker teaches English as a
second language at Stanly Community College in
Albemarle, N.C.
Sonja Smeenge ’85 Wingard of West Olive, Mich.,
is a cost estimator with Herman Miller Inc. She
and her husband have a daughter, Emma (four in
November), and in August she wrote that they
were expecting their second child in September.
Michael Winter ’85 of Lansing, Mich., is metro
director with CBMC USA.
Stephen Witmer ’85 of Atlanta, Ga., formed SE
Witmer Company in the mid 1990s to pursue the
acquisition and development of environmentally
sensitive projects, including but not limited to
landfill development and wetland mitigation
banking. He and his wife have four children.
Jane Northuis ’85 Wright and Dave Wright ’86 are
in their fifth year of living in England. She is
teaching at the local high school, while Dave is a
youth minister in the Church of England.
Marlys Hiemstra ’86 Beal is an active mother of
four children (which gives her plenty of
opportunity to employ her nursing skills). She and
her husband Dayna Beal ’85 reside in Holland,
Mich., and are active throughout the community.
Lisa McCorvie ’86 Frye is a senior instructional
design consultant in the Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan area.
Melinda Simpson ’86 Pettinga of Holland, Mich.,
has been promoted to vice president at Republic
Bank.
Holly Rabbai ’86 of Denver, Colo., is general
manager for a custom design/build landscape firm
in Denver. She writes, “I love living in Colorado,
but try to get back to Michigan each year.”
Jeanne Schmidt ’86 Snide of Kentwood, Mich., is
a legal secretary with Warner Norcross & Judd
LLP.
Michael Wedlock ’86 of Gettysburg, Pa., is an
assistant professor of chemistry at Gettysburg
College.
David Aldrich ’87 of Allen, Texas, has a doctorate
in solid state physics and is employed by Texas
Instruments. On June 13, 2000, he received his first
U.S. Patent, for “Sidewalls for Guiding the VIA
Etch.” He is pursuing a master’s of business
degree at Southern Methodist University in Dallas,
Texas. He and his wife have two daughters.
Jenise Brown ’87 of Lamy, N.M., is attending New
Mexico Academy of Healing Arts for massage
therapy and polarity therapy.
Todd Garth ’87 and his wife live and work in New
Delhi, India, as South Asia regional director and
South Asia resource development manager for
Habitat for Humanity International’s South Asia
Regional Office. Their work encompasses support
for Habitat for Humanity National Offices in India,
Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, and new
country development in Pakistan.
Kurt Arvidson ’88 has joined the investment
management and consulting firm of Norris, Perne
& French LLP of Grand Rapids, Mich., as an
associate. A Chartered Financial Analyst, he is
responsible for corporate, foundation and
individual portfolio management.
Todd Cioffi ’88 of Princeton, N.J., is a Ph.D.
student in theological ethics at Princeton
Seminary.
Dawn Talbot ’88 Curtis of Elkhart, Ind., keeps
busy at home with her two sons, Cameron (two),
and Reese (almost one year).
Robert Hodson ’88 is an assistant professor of
music theory at the State University of New York
at Binghamton.
Kimberly Fenske ’88 Hofstra of Charlevoix, Mich.,
is busy homeschooling her eldest two children,
Alisha and Pieter, in addition to helping her
husband, a pastor.
Timothy Kleyla ’88 of Zeeland, Mich., has been
appointed president of The Mortgage House
Incorporated. He has also been elected to serve on
the board of directors for the Michigan Mortgage
Brokers Association.
David Kuiper ’88 of Zeeland, Mich., has been
promoted to vice president at Republic Bank.
Malcolm Lippert ’88 has joined the faculty of Saint
Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt., as an associate
professor of biology. He specializes in genetics
and microbiology.
Michael Maurer ’88 of Williamston, Mich., is a
senior production underwriter–commercial lines
with Citizens Insurance Co./Allmerica Financial.
He and his wife have three children, Angela (five),
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Nathan (four) and Amanda (less than age one).
Amy Affleck ’88 Meyer of Glenshaw, Pa., is
working as a foreign student advisor at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. She writes, “I
live with my husband and furry gray pup in an
1833 log home. Life is wonderful, with a lot going
on. Stop by for a cup of tea!”
Tammy Boulter ’88 Nieuwenhuis of Plainwell,
Mich., is a day house supervisor at Allegan
General Hospital in Allegan, Mich.
Brian Breen ’89 moved to Mount Pleasant, Mich.,
in July of 2000, and is service manager with an
automotive repair facility. He writes, “What a long
strange trip it continues to be.”
Laura Davis ’89 Courtright and Jay Courtright ’90
moved into their new house in Zeeland, Mich., in
early 2000. Laura is a full–time, stay–at–home
mom for children Trent (five) and Meredith
(three).
Jay is the controller/treasurer at
Fleetwood Group Inc. in Holland, Mich., a position
he has held for about 1.5 years.
John Higuchi ’89, his brother Robert Higuchi ’84
and their father William Higuchi were featured in
the 1999 annual report of the American Chemical
Society for the family’s tradition of careers in
chemistry. He and his father recently helped
launch Lipocine, a lipid–based drug delivery
company in Salt Lake City, Utah.
David Michael ’89 of Pensacola, Fla., was
promoted to the rank of major in the U.S. Marine
Corps on August 1, 2000. He is currently serving
with the United States Navy Flight Demonstration
Squadron, The Blue Angels. He writes, “The job
takes me all over the country and keeps me
traveling over 250 days a year...the flying isn’t that
bad, either!” Please see the feature story on page
24 for more.
David Ropa ’89 and Heidi Elder ’90 Ropa recently
relocated to Madison, Wis., and report enjoying
the area’s natural beauty and proximity to
UW–Madison.
Dale VanValkenburg ’89 and Becky Carr ’90
VanValkenburg report that they are happy to
have been back in West Michigan for the past year.
She has a year–old OB/GYN practice in
Hudsonville, Mich., and, Becky writes, “we all love
living out in the country.” She also reports that
their three children, Rachel (seven), Zach
(two–and–a–half) and Sarah (15 months), keep
them busy.
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Erika Anderson ’90 of Kennebunk, Maine, and her
husband are anticipating the arrival of their second
child.
Ellen Tanis ’90 Awad has joined the Hope College
staff as residential life coordinator in Dykstra Hall.
Timothy Beach–Verhey ’90 of Davidson, N.C., is
teaching theological ethics at Davidson College.
Betty Smith ’90 Bianco of Kalamazoo, Mich., has
taken a new job as the seventh grade teacher at
Holy Angels School, a Catholic school in Sturgis,
Mich.
David Braskamp ’90 of Chicago, Ill., recently took
a new job at Envestnet, a company using the
Internet to assist financial advisors.
Lynn Massey ’90 Breyfogle of Kalamazoo, Mich.,
has accepted an assistant professor position in the
mathematics department at Bucknell University in
Lewisburg, Pa. She will begin there in the fall of
2001.
David Byrne ’90 of Fremont, Mich., opened his
own law firm in February of 2000. He specializes
in real estate, estate planning and small business
law.
Rhonda Boelkins ’90 Byrne of Fremont, Mich.,
began studies this fall in the Ph.D. social work
program at Michigan State University. Her area of
specialty is early childhood development.
Joy Derwenskus ’90 has completed one year of
internal medicine training at Evanston Hospital, a
Northwestern program in Chicago, Ill. She
recently moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to start
neurology residency at Case Western’s University
Hospital of Cleveland.
Susan Hendrickson ’90 Dunkle of Wyoming,
Mich., is a special education teacher with the
Wyoming Public Schools.
Christopher Duryee ’90 of Sun Valley, Idaho, is a
district manager for Infiltrator Systems, overseeing
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
Chad Dykema ’90 and Kate Boonstra ’90 Dykema
live in Grand Rapids, Mich. Chad teaches music at
Jackson Park Middle School in Wyoming, Mich.,
and Kate is an R.N. on the Burn Unit at Spectrum
Health East.
Dana Atkinson ’90 Fastenau of Zionsville, Ind., is
a scientist at Eli Lilly, designing automated assays
for high–throughput screening of drugs.
Barry Fuller ’90 and Christine Modey ’90 have
moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he has joined
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an established ophthalmology practice. He
specializes in eye practice surgery.
Thomas Glass ’90 of Holland, Mich., has taken a
new position as director of outside
plant/engineering with Turnkey Network
Solutions, which specializes in the design and
construction of fiber optic systems for the
telecommunications industry.
Todd Houtman ’90 recently moved from Chicago,
Ill., to Indianapolis, Ind. He is a business analyst
with Eli Lilly and Company.
Kevin Kingshott ’90 of Brighton, Mich., is nurse
coordinator for the ER and Chest Pain Center at St.
Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich.
John Mitchell ’90 of Zeeland, Mich., is a supply
chain engineer with Johnson Controls Inc. He has
been promoted to major in the U.S. Marine Corps
Reserves, and in July completed the Marine
Combat Instructor of Water Survival course.
Lora Huizenga ’90 Monachino of Mansfield,
Mass., founded “SayWhat! Greetings,” a company
that sells hand–crafted cards and gifts. Lora is
principal artist and president of the company,
which she notes is doing very well during its first
year of business.
Erik Sales ’90 of Kentwood, Mich., has a
percussion CD that is about to be released.
Kim Schaaf ’90 Scanlon of Orland Park, Ill., has
started a private family practice in Western Springs,
Ill. She also reports enjoying her two daughters.
Jennifer Schongar ’90 of Mount Vernon, N.Y.,
continues to work at ICC Chemical Corp. in New
York City, and now manages trades between the
firm’s Eastern European offices. She notes that she
enjoys traveling to Hungary and Romania for
annual sales meetings.
Christine Siegel ’90 recently moved back to the
East Coast after living in California for five years.
She is a film and television editor, and is currently
working on the PBS kids show Zoom.
Andrew Stewart ’90 recently changed careers and
is now teaching history at Pattonville High School
in suburban Saint Louis, Mo.
Laura Stocker ’90 of Holland, Mich., is a resource
room teacher at Grand Haven High School. She
also tutors students in reading through the SLD
Learning Center in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Angela Lumbert ’90 Thornburgh of Hastings,
Mich., and her family are hosting an exchange
student from Barcelona, Spain.
Scott Trumble ’90 of Elkhart, Ind., practices
general orthopedic surgery and sports medicine.
Steven Ullenius ’90 will complete his residency in
diagnostic medicine at the end of June, 2001. He
and his wife and daughter will be staying in
Peoria, Ill., where he will be an attending
radiologist at OSF Saint Frances Medical Center.
Laura Magan ’90 Vander Molen of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is finishing her residency in internal
medicine/pediatrics. She and husband Kirk
Vander Molen ’91 plan to move for a time to Peru,
where she will volunteer in a medical capacity.
They are expecting their second child.
Dayna VandeVelde ’90 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is
principal of Knapp Charter Academy.
Cynthia Van Duyne ’90 VanRenterghem and Rob
VanRenterghem
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their
twin
two–year–olds, Grace and Hadley, have returned
to Michigan after a 10–year absence. They have
settled in East Grand Rapids, Mich., and Rob has
taken a position at Steelcase.
Melissa Villarreal ’90 of Holland, Mich., during
the 2000–01 school year is teaching “Human
Behavior in the Social Environment” at Hope
College.
Daniel Wagner ’90 of Scottsdale, Ariz., and his
wife are expecting their first child in November.
Heather Housenga ’90 Walker of Minneapolis,
Minn., is continuing to teach for the Minneapolis
Public Schools, but has switched to a middle
school mathematics/science position. She and her
husband are expecting their first child in January.
Rebecca Bowen ’90 Wierda of Grandville, Mich.,
after a 7.5–year career as a regional director with
Olsten Staffing Services, is now staying home to
raise her three children, Spencer, Gabrielle and
Hogan.
Karen Woo ’90 of Arlington, Va., is a software
engineer with eMotion, a company that provides
digital media management solutions.
Lisa Render ’91 Behrens of Rockville, Md.,
received her master’s in social work in 1994 and
has worked in the Washington, D.C., area ever
since. She and her husband were married in
September of 1996.
Nancy Koole ’91 Bowler of Jackson, Mich., is a
resource room teacher in the Eaton Rapids Public
Schools.
Kamal Perkins ’91 Bridge and Steve Bridge ’91
have moved to Maine. She is a full–time mom, and
he is teaching religion classes at St. Joseph’s
College.
Todd Campbell ’91 is assistant city manager of
Greenville, Mich.
Duy Dang ’91 was promoted to business manager
with Merck & Co. Inc. and has relocated to
Vancouver, Wash.
Stephanie Davidson ’91 of New Haven, Conn., is
a visiting reference librarian at Yale Law School.
Kurt DeGoede ’91 of Mount Joy, Pa., is an assistant
professor in the department of physics and
engineering at Elizabethtown College.
Brian Etzel ’91 has joined the law firm of Howard
& Howard. He concentrates his practice in
commercial litigation in the Bloomfield Hills,
Mich., office.
Terri Forte ’91 Filips has taken a full–time position
in the theatre department at Niagara University in
Niagara Falls, N.Y. She previously taught dance at
Hope, and will continue to choreograph for InSync
Dance Theatre, a professional tap and jazz
company that is a resident company at Hope.
Mike Hitchingham ’91 of Gurnee, Ill., completed
the “Ride the Rockies” bike tour in June of 2000.
The ride covered 460 miles through the rugged
and beautiful mountains of Colorado. Mike also
recently accepted a promotion at Abbott Labs in
Illinois as a regulatory affairs project manager.
Michele Weerstra ’91 Jaeger and her husband
have been enjoying life in New England for the
past two years. Michele is currently the assistant
registrar at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover,
N.H.
Brian Knight ’91 of Washington, D.C., will be
hiking the Appalachian trail beginning March 23,
2001. The 2,200–mile trip from Georgia to Maine
will take approximately five months. Anyone
interested in joining all or part of the hike may
contact Brian at bdkquinn@aol.com.
Lisa Manhart ’91 returned to West Michigan from
Japan to present two concerts in August. She
performed with “Suiryo Taiko,” a Japanese taiko
drum group with which she has been playing for
almost three years.
Cheryl Muma ’91 Ostergren of Hudsonville,
Mich., in May of this year started her own
consulting firm, IDC LLC. IDC stands for
Instructional Design Concepts, and specializes in
analyzing, developing, delivering and evaluating
training programs in the private sector as well as
governmental agencies. Prior to starting IDC LLC,
she was in charge of managing the international
training function of the ARTISTRY brand at
Amway Corp. She completed her MA in
organizational communication at Western
Michigan University in 1997.
Kary Galloway ’91 Rafizadeh is a senior public
relations manager for Unisys Corporation in Blue
Bell, Pa. She had a third son in March (please see
“Births”), and writes, “He’s a welcome toy for big
brothers Camron (age four) and Cole (age two).”
Nola Morrow ’91 Ridl left the death care industry
after a decade of selling caskets and cemetery lots
to become the marketing director of East Side
Manor, an assisted living community for senior
citizens.
Jennifer Quist–Thompson ’91 of Holland, Mich.,
is a security analyst with Meijer Inc. in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Mary Postmus ’91 Van Skiver of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is director of human resources for the
Midwest region of BDO Seidman LLP.
Lisa Roorda ’91 Walchenbach of Burien, Wash., is
an elementary music specialist at University Child
Development School in Seattle, Wash.
Liz Kaye ’92 Bachwich of Alpena, Mich., continues
to enjoy being a stay–at–home mom. She controls
an MOPS (Mothers of Pre–Schoolers) group in her
community. She and her husband were expecting
their second baby in August.
Tracy Bolo ’92 has joined the Hope College faculty
as a visiting assistant professor of accounting.
Kimberly Bouma ’92 Campbell of Kalamazoo,
Mich., is pursuing a master’s in education at
Aquinas. She anticipates finishing by the time that
new daughter Maddie (please see “Births”) starts
kindergarten.
Julee VanAelst ’92 Gwiazdowski is employed
with West Shore Bank of Scottville, Mich., as the
financial services representative for Security First
Financial Services.
Erik Jefferson ’92 of Phoenix, Ariz., is in his eighth
year with Universal Forest Products, based out of
the Chandler facility. After six years with
UFP–Colorado in sales and sales management,
Erik is currently the general manager of operations
for Universal–Arizona. He reports that he is
enjoying the single life, traveling, golfing and
working his tail off for UFP.
Jon Joffe ’92 of Pataskala, Ohio, is director of
employment with OhioHealth.
Julie Artinian ’93 is a program director at a
domestic violence and sexual assault agency, and
runs a 24–hour crisis program.
Karen Atkeson ’93 of Indianapolis, Ind., is
traffic/promotions coordinator with Pacers Sports
and Entertainment.
Karla Marty ’93 Brinkhuis of Dorr, Mich., is a
family independence specialist with the Kent
County Family Independence Agency.
Philip Cratty ’93 of Alliance, Ohio, is the head
You won’t need to get in line to get a
seat at the Holland Civic Center to enjoy
Hope–Calvin basketball this year.
Coming live via satellite will be the Saturday, Jan. 20,
Calvin–at–Hope game (3 p.m. EST).
The Alumni Associations of Hope and Calvin will again be beaming the
live telecast of this classic small–college rivalry across the country.
Last year alumni and friends of the two colleges gathered at more than
20 locations to cheer the orange–and–blue and maroon–and–gold.
If you are interested in hosting a gathering, contact Alumni Director
Lynne Powe ’86 (powe@hope.edu), (616) 395–7860.
Check our website (www.hope.edu/pr/alumni) for locations and
more information.
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women’s soccer and tennis coach for Notre Dame
College, which is in the NAIA and located in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Jason Elmore ’93 of Kansas City, Mo., continues to
serve in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, and is the
prosecuting attorney at Fort Leavenworth.
David Engbers ’93 of Grand Rapids, Mich., works
with Founders Brewing Company.
Pamela Dykstra ’93 Haffenden of Lowell, Mich., is
a manager in the Management Solutions &
Services Practice of Deloitte & Touche in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Angela Hartman ’93 Mahoney of Plymouth,
Minn., writes, “The millennium has been a
wonderful year for us! We were married on April
15th [please see “Marriages”] and are now in the
fun process of purchasing our house and moving.”
Ryan McFall ’93 has joined the Hope College
faculty as an assistant professor of computer
science.
Karl Nicles ’93 of Grand Haven, Mich., graduated
from the pediatric residency program from CS
Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of
Michigan in June of 2000, and joined Port City
Pediatrics in Muskegon, Mich., in July of 2000.
Karen Truss ’93 of Chicago, Ill., is client systems
administrator with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra.
Karla VanHuysen ’93 of Boulder, Colo., is an artist
and art therapist.
Michele Barkman ’93 Walker of Columbiana,
Ala., recently became a paralegal in the Labor and
Employment Group of Burr & Forman in
Birmingham, Ala. She has also been assisting her
husband with the purchase of a Critter Control
franchise office that he has been managing for the
past two years. She writes, “We are operating the
office out of our home and we look forward to
seeing it grow enough for me to retire from the
legal field and work for him out of the house!” She
also notes, “We just purchased a home and there is
an open invitation to anybody who needs to
escape those gloomy winter months up North.”
Adam Warber ’93 is an assistant lecturer in the
Department of Political Science at Texas A&M
University.
Greg Chatfield ’94 is head of security for the
Holland, Mich., campus of Johnson Controls.
Jeff Clark ’94 is community president for the
Holland/Zeeland region for National City. He
plays a leadership role in National City’s
community involvement and its client service and
business development efforts across all business
lines in the region. National City is an $85 billion
financial holding company based in Cleveland,
Ohio and the 10th largest bank in the country, and
has four branches in Holland and one in Zeeland.
Alicia Mendenhall ’94 Elmore of Kansas City,
Mo., is in the last year of her family practice
residency, and is a member of the U.S. Army
Medical Corps reserves, scheduled for active duty
next summer.
Bryan Goodman ’94 of Dearborn, Mich., delivered
the annual Homecoming Lecture through the
Chemistry Seminar series at Hope College on
Friday, Sept. 22. Employed with Ford Motor
Company, he presented “Computer Modeling of
Automotive Exhaust Catalysts.”
David Mih ’94 of Kalamazoo, Mich., is program
manager with MANN+HUMMEL Automotive in
Portage, Mich. He and wife Joanne Aardema ’93
Mih (married on July 1, 1995), recently had a son
(please see “Births”).
Heather Mumby ’94 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is
publications coordinator with the West Michigan
Tourist Association.
Scott Nelson ’94 and Jill Pursifull ’95 Nelson have
returned to Holland, Mich., have purchased their
first house and have a new puppy. Scott
completed a year–long dental residency at the VA
Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., in June of 2000 and
has since joined the dental practice of Dr. Jack
Faber ’59 and Dr. Kevin Rebhan ’84 in Zeeland,
Mich., as an associate. Jill taught secondary
English in the Westwood Community School
District in Dearborn Heights, Mich., for four years
while Scott attended dental school and served his
residency, and is now teaching English at Calvin
Christian High School in Grandville, Mich.
Heidi Zwart ’94 continues to live in Key West, Fla.,
bartending at the Hog’s Breath Saloon and
working part–time for MARC (Monroe County
Association for Retarded Citizens).
Shari Achterhof ’95 completed her M.Div. at
Princeton Theological Seminary in May of 2000.
She won the Graduate Study Fellowship for Parish
Pulpit Ministry, which is taking her to Ghana,
Africa, and Europe for study and travel for nine
months. She left in September.
Lisa Anderschat ’95 of Houghton, Mich., is in her
fourth year at Michigan Tech University. She is in
a new position, as area coordinator for Wadworth
Hall.
She also coordinates the First–Year
Experience program.
Heidi Apol ’95 recently moved to Rochester Hills,
Mich., and began a job with the Troy School
District as an elementary media specialist. She has
a master’s in library science from Wayne State
University, and is pursuing a master of arts in
teaching from Wayne State.
Amy Becker ’95 of Rochester Hills, Mich., is a vice
president with BDB Properties LLC.
Michelle Beecham ’95 of Palm Bay, Fla., is unit
director with Boys & Girls Club of Brevard in
Cocoa, Fla.
Elizabeth Beernink ’95 of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
returned to school to become an elementary
teacher, and is student teaching this fall in a first
grade classroom.
Jennifer Witmer ’95 Bouwman of Kalamazoo,
Mich., was married in December of 1998. She is
pursuing a second bachelor’s, in elementary
education, at Western Michigan University.
Amy Dennis ’95 of Traverse City, Mich., has been
elected to sit on the Christian Education
Committee for the Lutheran Church in Michigan.
Kip Doezema ’95 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is a loan
officer at Heartwell Mortgage Corp.
Mary Pilon ’95 Dutmers of Belding, Mich., and her
husband are expecting their second child in
December.
Their daughter Anna is
two–and–a–half.
Lisa Eacker ’95 is teaching elementary music for
the Oakridge Public Schools in Muskegon, Mich.
Wendy Murray ’95 Glasgow is an assistant coach
for junior varsity and varsity tennis at Grand
Haven (Mich.) High School.
Shane Goldwood ’95 of Kalamazoo, Mich., is a
registered nurse on the oncology unit at Bronson
Hospital.
Krista Ostema ’95 Greendyke of Holland, Mich.,
is an interior designer and new home manager
with Bosgraaf Builders.
Kata Gurski ’95 of Fairfield, Ohio, is pursuing a
doctorate in zoology at Miami University.
Timothy Hamilton ’95 of Holland, Mich., in May
of this year accepted a position as a systems
engineer/designer at Integrated Media Group in
Byron Center, Mich.
Jeffrey Hazard ’95 of Rockford, Mich., and his wife
are missionary appointees with Africa Inland
Mission. They are scheduled to leave for Kenya in
July of 2001. They will be teaching and dorm
parenting at Rift Valley Academy in Kijabe, Kenya.
Joel Keas ’95 of Holland, Mich., celebrated his
five–year anniversary with Johnson Controls
(Prince) in June of 2000.
Kirk Krahn ’95 and Sarah Birch ’95 Krahn have
moved to Lake Orion, Mich. Kirk works in
medical sales. Sarah is pursuing a job in
occupational therapy and is a full–time mom for
Madison, their 22–month–old daughter.
Amy Antrim ’95 McCurry of Hinsdale, Ill., teaches
eighth grade special education at the Clarendon
Hills Middle School. She is pursuing a master’s in
reading, writing and literacy at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.
Colleen Parrett ’95 Murphy is doing a general
surgery residency at Indiana University.
John Nowak ’95 is living in the Tucson, Ariz., area,
and is director of registration for the Perimeter
Bicycling Association of America. He reports
enjoying the area as well as cycling.
Marnie Ivan ’95 O’Connell and Ryan O’Connell
’97 have purchased a house in Holland, Mich.
Lynette Karboske ’95 Prentice of Colorado
Springs, Colo., formed a sacred dance company,
SKirtao, with Kathryn Geyser–Venema ’94. She
also obtained certification as a Bradley instructor
and birthing attendant.
Jason Prince ’95 of Kentwood, Mich., is a second
grade teacher for the Northview Public Schools.
Jennipher Sakala–Uwishaka ’95 is executive
director of the Zambia Association for Research
and
Development,
a
non–governmental
organization that does research and advocacy,
publishing and gender training as well as gender
and development consulting. She writes, “This is
the first chief executive position I have tasted! I am
the busiest mum and wife, but I love my job with
all its exciting challenges.”
Kathryn Schoon ’95 of Holland, Mich., teaches
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English at Holland Christian High School. She is
pursuing a master’s in curriculum and instruction
at Calvin College.
Jennifer Chilcoat ’95 Shaw of Columbus, Ohio, is
director of music at Faith Covenant Church in
Westerville, Ohio. She and husband Nathan Shaw
’94 have a two–year–old daughter, Rinnah.
Mary Cranmer ’95 Tabin of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
is an attorney with Rhoades, McKee, Boer,
Goodrich & Titta.
Jennifer Ueltzen ’95 completed her doctorate in
pharmacy (please see “Advanced Degrees”) and is
now working at Spectrum Health in downtown
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Keely VanTil ’95 was recently commissioned as an
officer in the U.S. Air Force and will be stationed in
Biloxi, Miss., working as an RN in the hospital on
base.
Alyssa Postmus ’95 Vellinga of Holland, Mich.,
writes, “We are no longer vagabonds! We are very
excited about relocating back to Holland. We’ve
gotten Rodney’s green card, which has made our
life a lot easier! Not an easy or fun process.”
Theresa Hamilton ’95 Wilson of Jonesville, Mich.,
is teaching third grade in the Coldwater
Community Schools.
Amy White ’95 of Richmond, Va., went on a
mission trip to Slovakia in July of 2000, helping to
teach Bible and English classes at an English camp
for youth there. She has also been working on her
artwork. She plans to show two pieces this fall,
and showed two other pieces of artwork within the
past few years at the Shockoe Bottom Arts Center
in Richmond.
Heather Myers ’95 Worthington of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is a reading specialist with the Rockford
Public Schools.
Kristen Douglass ’96 is assistant director of
student activities at Augustana College in Rock
Island, Ill.
Erik Eldred ’96 of Kalamazoo, Mich., is a school
psychologist for the Kalamazoo Public Schools.
Aaron Hoffman ’96 is pursuing his doctorate in
zoology at Colorado State University.
Colleen Ortwine–Boes ’96 is a graduate student
and research assistant in the landscape architecture
program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Joel Plantinga ’96 of Lakewood, Calif., on June 18,
2000, was ordained and installed as an associate
pastor of student and family ministries at Bethel
Reformed Church in Bellflower, Calif.
Lynn Smith ’96 Prince of Kentwood, Mich., is in
her fourth year as a high school teacher in
Caledonia, Mich.
Brad Sadler ’96 is in his second year of medical
school at the Chicago Medical School in North
Chicago, Ill.
Rebecca Stephens ’97 Biermann and her husband
(please see “Marriages”) live in Lisle, Ill.
Christopher Casey ’97 of Holland, Mich., is Lotus
Notes administrator with Rapistan Systems in
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Lindy Chelf ’97 had made a location and career
change. From teaching second grade in Colorado,
she has moved to Ohio, and is an assistant
women’s swimming coach at the University of
Akron, a Division 1 school.
Elen Tomer ’97 Fly is teaching dance full–time at
Studio Pavas. She is teaching all ages, from young
children to adults.
Jonathan Fly ’97 is in the film program at Sheridan
College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Sara Hewitt ’97 of Coconut Creek, Fla., is a case
manager for the mentally ill with Archways, which
she reports enjoying more than her previous
responsibilities with the Florida Department of
Children and Families. She works with a new
program for clients who are lower income and
have a primary diagnosis of a mental illness and
quite often substance abuse. The program seeks to
help families become self–sufficient within two
years. She also writes, “needless to say Florida has
a lot better winters than Michigan.”
George Landolt ’97 and Monika Smith ’98
Landolt are living in Alexandria, Va. George
attends Georgetown University for his M.B.A., and
Monika is the assistant director of development at
the Georgetown University Law Center in
Washington, D.C. “We absolutely love it here!,”
they write.
Nick LoPresti ’97 of Kentwood, Mich., is a
financial advisor with Waddell & Reed.
Tyler Murphy ’97 is a first–year medical student at
Medical Collge of Toledo, Ohio.
Shannon Polk ’97 is an associate with Duvin,
Cahn & Hutton, a labor and employment law
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boutique in Cleveland, Ohio.
Michelle Rhoades ’97 of Holland, Mich., is human
resource coordinator with Castex Inc.
Traci Reber ’97 Seeley is in her third year teaching
fifth grade in Three Rivers, Mich. She and her
husband live in their new home in Kalamazoo,
Mich.
Blythe Siddall ’97 is spending a third year in
service with the Peace Corps as a natural resource
management volunteer in Mali, West Africa.
Vicki VanWagnen–Cieciorka ’97 is outreach
counselor for homeless children at University
Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Wash.
Heather Brown ’97 Wagner is teaching fifth grade
at Waukazoo Elementary in Holland, Mich.
Shane Wagner ’97 is the EDI coordinator at Total
Logistic Control in Zeeland, Mich.
Valerie Webb ’97 of Riverdale, Md., is a first–year
law student at the University of Maryland.
Jamey Harris ’97 Wolbert of Big Rapids, Mich., is
a member of the Class of ’04 at Michigan College of
Optometry.
Anna Zawadzka ’97 of Glenview, Ill., in May of
2000 assumed a new role in the Foreign Exchange
and Debt area, and was promoted to senior
accountant, with The Quaker Oats Company in
Chicago, Ill.
Kristi Bakker ’98 of Hamilton, Mich., is in a field
ministry position with Young Life, working with
high school students and supervising the
Hamilton/Saugatuck/Fennville area.
Jennifer Peuler ’98 Bergsma of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is an analytical chemist with Pfizer Inc. in
Holland, Mich.
Stacy Bogard ’98 of Oak Park, Ill., is
communications coordinator with the American
Association of Endodontists in Chicago, Ill.
Tracy Datte ’98 of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a child
therapist with Lutheran Social Services of
Michigan.
Chris DeBoer ’98 and Kara VanderLugt ’98 were
married this summer (please see “Marriages”).
They are living in Lafayette, Ind., while Chris
finishes his master’s in mechanical engineering at
Purdue.
Tim Dykstra ’98 and Lyndsey McDonald ’98 were
married in July (please see “Marriages”) and are
living in Missoula, Mont.
Amanda Fry ’98 Eldred of Kalamazoo, Mich., is a
creative administrative assistant with Associated
Design Services of Portage, Mich.
Heidi Giddy ’98 is teaching with the Jenison
Public Schools.
Brian Giere ’98 of Wyoming, Mich., is a
recordkeeping analyst with Old Kent Financial
Corp. in Kentwood, Mich.
Jill Harkins ’98 is spending a year in Biloxi, Miss.,
as an intern at Back Bay Mission, an agency of the
United Church of Christ.
Joel Johnson ’98 of Zeeland, Mich., is a teacher in
the Hamilton schools.
Kevin Joldersma ’98 is pursuing a doctorate in
Spanish at the University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign.
Melissa Krolik ’98 is teaching English in San Jose,
Costa Rica.
Erik Manninen ’98 of Silver Spring, Md., was
commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S.
Army on June 18, 2000, and is pursuing an MD at
the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda,
Md.
Jeanette Petkus ’98 Neumann is an editor in the
program practices department at CBS in New York
City.
Karen Pirich ’98 is director of marketing and
publicity with Orbis Broadcast Group in Chicago,
Ill.
Andrea Rossi ’98 of Chicago, Ill., is a kindergarten
teacher at LaSalle Language Academy, with the
Chicago Public Schools. She is pursuing a master’s
in education in language literacy and specialized
instruction.
Laura McCraine ’98 Sadler is pursuing a master of
education with secondary certification in English
at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Daniel Shelley ’98 has joined the Hope College
staff as an admissions representative.
Leischen Verwys ’98 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is
working in marketing for Meijer Inc. as a corporate
brands coordinator.
Shannon Werner ’98 of Providence, R.I., is a
counselor at Stonehill College.
Travis Williams ’98 is the executive director of the
Outdoor Discovery Center, an outdoor education
facility in Holland, Mich.
Ellen Byland ’98 Zupancic of Fort Collins, Colo., is
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a registered nurse at Associates in Family
Medicine.
Joseph Zupancic ’98 of Fort Collins, Colo., is a
microprocessor design engineer with Hewlett
Packard.
Kerri Langerak ’99 Allen of Bryan, Texas, is a case
aide/social worker with For Children’s Sake.
Amanda Black ’99 is the secretary of
communication at EverGreen Ministries (CRC) in
Hudsonville, Mich. “I am using all the skills I
learned with the Milestone and Anchor,” she writes.
She is pursuing a master’s in theological studies at
Calvin Seminary, and was elected executive
secretary of the Student Senate. In March, the 1999
Milestone, which she co–edited, received the Gold
Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press,
the highest honor in the field of college journalism.
Rebecca de Velder ’99 Brockmeier is a loan officer
for Heatland Home Finance in Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Katie Cindric ’99 of LaGrange, Ill., is an account
coordinator with Marketing Werks in Chicago, Ill.
Brien Hills ’99 Cruz of Pasadena, Calif., teaches
fifth grade at West Covina Christian School. She
writes, “We are adventuring in California for a few
years while Miguel [Cruz ’00] gets his M.Div. at
Fuller Theological Seminary. God has blessed both
of us with good jobs and wonderful friends. We
miss Hope very much.”
Andrea Gondec ’99 Cuc of Peoria, Ariz., is a social
worker at Boswell Memorial Hospital in Sun City,
Ariz. She and her husband own a restaurant,
“Papa Christos,” in downtown Phoenix, Ariz.
Cory Curtis ’99 is attending Denver University of
Law.
Joy Green ’99 of Chicago, Ill., is a permanent
substitute teacher at Neuqua Valley High School in
Naperville, Ill.
Melissa Hart ’99 of St. Joseph, Mich., is a history
and government teacher at Lakeshore High School
in Stevensville, Mich.
Sheri Hoving ’99 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is a
physical education teacher with the Kentwood
Public Schools.
Emily LaLonde ’99 is completing a degree in
industrial design at Western Michigan University
in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Kelly J. Martin ’99 was awarded a scholarship to
understudy a modern dance company, “At
Marah,” in Philadelphia, Pa. The training program
runs from September until June.
Dan McCue ’99 is a development associate with
CLASS! Publications, a monthly non–profit
publication written by, for and about high school
students in Clark County, Nev. In early September
he wrote, “I sweated out another summer here in
Las Vegas, but look forward to another gorgeous,
sunny fall! Feel free to give me a holler if you’re in
town.”
Corey Monsma ’99 of Hudsonville, Mich., is a
programmer analyst with Johnson Controls in
Holland, Mich.
Tasha Guild ’99 Mulder is employed by Work–Fit
and does industrial athletic training for Delphi in
Saginaw, Mich.
Erin Overmeyer ’99 is a secondary teacher at
Allendale High School.
Amanda Pryor ’99 has joined the Hope College
staff as an admissions representative.
Kathleen Riley ’99 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is
working at Pine Rest Christian Hospital. She is
also attending Western Michigan University
part–time, pursuing a master’s in counseling
psychology.
Reina Vendramini ’99 in September of 1999 began
teaching ballet and jazz at Ada (Mich.) Dance
Academy which, she writes, “I’ve found
particularly challenging and enjoyable with a great
employer, co–workers and students.” This fall,
however, she turned her attention “towards
attending, rather than teaching, classes at the
Grand Rapids School of Ballet. My goal is to train
and perform locally during the coming year in
preparation for auditions for modern/ballet
companies. I also plan on a religious pilgrimage
before Christmas to celebrate the Jubilee year of
the Lord.”
Jeff Whitmore ’99 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is an
entertainment
agent
with
Paradigm
Entertainment.
Darcy Zeh ’99 is teaching fifth grade in inner–city
Saint Petersburg, Fla.
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Dana Andrews ’00 is attending the 175th class of
the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate
School at Quantico, Va., this fall.
Tara Blacquiere ’00 is a secondary teacher in
Zeeland, Mich.
Thomas Bouwens ’00 of Ann Arbor, Mich., is
attending the University of Michigan dental
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school.
Court Buchanan ’00 of St. Louis, Mo., is a student
at Eden Theological Seminary.
Deidre DeKam ’00 has joined the Hope College
staff as chemistry laboratory director.
Sara Duffey ’00 is an elementary teacher in
Petoskey, Mich.
Elizabeth Gibbs ’00 of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a
graduate student in the school of social work at the
University of Michigan.
Jennifer Gliesman ’00 of Holland, Mich., is a risk
analyst with Old Kent Bank in Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Megan Clapp ’00 Gorton and her husband (please
see “Marriages”) are living in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Thaddeus Hackworth ’00 of Washington, D.C., is
pursuing a J.D. at Georgetown University Law
Center.
Lesley Sheldon ’00 Hassenrik of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is an account executive at Fox 17 WXMI.
Dawn Hollidge ’00 of Royal Oak, Mich., works at
Kingswood Hospital in Ferndale, Mich.
Anna Naber ’00 Johnson of Zeeland, Mich., is a
nurse in Holland.
Janet Librizzi ’00 of Orland Park, Ill., teaches sixth
grade at Oakview School in New Lenox, Ill.
Temple Lovelace ’00 has joined the Hope College
staff as an admissions representative.
Jill DeBoer ’00 Low is an elementary teacher in
Traverse City, Mich.
Kemberlee Pease ’00 Mahaffey and Matthew
Mahaffey ’00 are moving to Zeeland, Mich., from
Comstock Park, Mich. She is a social work case
manager at Dwelling Place, and he is youth
minister at First Reformed Church of Zeeland.
MaryBeth Marchionda ’00 of Madison, Wis., is a
second grade teacher at a private school in Sauk
City, Wis.
Rochelle Marker ’00 of Holland, Mich., teaches
fourth grade at Lakewood Elementary in the West
Ottawa Public Schools.
Jack Mulder ’00 of Lafayette, Ind., is pursuing a
doctorate in philosophy at Purdue University.
Shonda Perdue ’00 is teaching special education in
Montague, Mich.
Jenny Pierce ’00 teaches first grade in the South
Haven (Mich.) Public Schools.
Stacey Slad ’00 of Downers Grove, Ill., is an
LD/BD special education teacher (seventh grade)
in New Lenox, Ill.
Jennifer Smith ’00 of Holland, Mich., was featured
in the July/August, 2000, edition of Sports
Illustrated for Women in the “Faces in the Crowd”
section.
Phillip Stawski ’00 is pursuing an MD degree at
the American University of the Caribbean school
of medicine.
Robert Struck ’00 of Holland, Mich., is an accounts
receivable specialist with Johnson Controls.
Kate Sutton ’00 is an administrative assistant for
scholarship administration in the Office of
Scholarships and Student Aid at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Marriages
Marriages
We welcome your news. In fact, we like printing it,
so please keep it coming. Please note, though, that
we don’t publish engagement announcements––
that’s what this “marriages” section is for! Please
write us after your wedding takes place.
Rich Koster ’66 and Marty Newman, Dec. 3,
1999.
Denise Parker ’73 and Ronald Wilbourn, July
17, 1999, Philadelphia, Pa.
Gail Ringsmith ’74 Speer and Mike Speer ’74,
June 3, 2000, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Howard Hirsch ’75 and Sophia Romm, April
16, 2000.
Lori Sievert ’81 and Jon Sanders ’83, Feb. 11,
2000, Fennville, Mich.
Joan Fekken ’85 and Ira D. Socol, Aug. 5, 2000.
Jim Shields ’85 and Rebecca Buhl, June 10, 2000,
Miami, Fla.
Deborah Stevens ’86 and Steve Ball, Aug. 5,
2000, Gun Lake, Mich.
Mary Ann Taylor ’89 and James Michael
Johnson, June 24, 2000, Evanston, Ill.
John R. Bielema Jr. ’90 and Megan Cutts, Sept.
16, 2000, Atlanta, Ga.
John T. Haffenden ’90 and Pamela Dykstra ’93,
Nov. 13, 1999, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Ronald Kragt ’90 and Alix Kayayan, Aug. 21,
1999.
Melanie Scholten ’90 and A.C. Vander Kolk ’90,
July 22, 2000, Allegan, Mich.
Kirk Duthler ’91 and Gaelle Picherit, July 22,
2000, Orleans, France.
Cheryl Muma ’91 and Craig Ostergren, Oct. 23,
1998, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Jennifer Quist ’91 and Jim Thompson, Oct. 18,
1987, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Susan (Sunni) Tenhor ’91 and John–Dominic
Edelen, July 8, 2000, Manahawkin, N.J.
Michael Folkerts ’92 and Lydia Yin, July 22,
2000, Castro Valley, Calif.
Michael Theune ’92 and Katheryn Carpenter
’96, Aug. 12, 2000.
Jennifer Sue Brusveen ’93 and David Maranka,
Aug. 5, 2000.
Joe Clemens ’93 and Andrea Cieri, July 15, 2000,
Falmouth, Mass.
Angela Hartman ’93 and Patrick Mahoney,
April 15, 2000, Minneapolis, Minn.
Michelle Nainys ’93 and Scott Bunyer, July 15,
2000, Galena, Ill.
Karl Frederick Nicles ’93 and Jennifer Marie
Gorecki, Nov. 13, 1999, Wayne, Mich.
Mark Campbell ’94 and Kristen Sytsma ’95,
June 19, 1999, Seeley Lake, Mont.
Eric J. Emig ’94 and Judith L. Miller ’96, April
15, 2000, Whynot, N.C.
Kim Huizen ’94 and Trevor Slot, June 17, 2000.
Amy Antrim ’95 and Michael McCurry, Nov.
27, 1999, Oak Brook, Ill. (The Rev. Ralph Robrahn
’64 and the Rev. Peter Semeyn ’73 officiated.)
Mary Cranmer ’95 and Brad Tabin, June 17,
2000, Spring Lake, Mich.
Tania D’Silva ’95 and Tony De Jonge ’00, May
27, 2000, Melbourne, Australia.
Heather Helmus ’95 and Scott Nyman ’96, July
15, 2000, Holland, Mich.
Angela K. Heyns ’95 and Cory M. Curtis ’99,
July 29, 2000, Holland, Mich.
Marnie Ivan ’95 and Ryan O’Connell ’97, June
24, 2000.
Joel Keas ’95 and Amy Graves, May 20, 2000.
Cheri Kolk ’95 and Steven Quillan, Sept. 9,
2000.
Kristi Oppenhuizen ’95 and Todd Walters, May
25, 2000.
Todd VanderVeen ’95 and Carrie Maines ’98,
Aug. 26, 2000, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Meg Abfall ’96 and Rick Frens ’98, May 27,
2000. (Editor’s Note: We had this one wrong in our
last issue. Sorry about that!)
Erik James Eldred ’96 and Amanda Lucile Fry
’98, July 14, 2000, Dearborn, Mich.
Heather Brown ’97 and Shane Wagner ’97, July
22, 2000.
Kristin A. Clark ’97 and Michael J. Duffy IV,
June 24, 2000, Port Huron, Mich.
Jamey Harris ’97 and Christopher Wolbert, July
16, 2000.
George Landolt ’97 and Monika Smith ’98, May
27, 2000, East Lansing, Mich.
Robert Morford ’97 and Nicole Edgar, July 22,
2000, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Traci Reber ’97 and Scott Seeley, June 14, 2000,
Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Rebecca L. Stephens ’97 and Cliff Biermann,
Sept. 3, 2000, Wheaton, Ill.
Anna Zawadzka ’97 and Joseph F. Sobczak,
May 27, 2000, Chicago, Ill.
Ellen Byland ’98 and Joseph Zupancic ’98, July
14, 2000, Holland, Mich.
Chris DeBoer ’98 and Kara VanderLugt ’98,
July 28, 2000.
Tim Dykstra ’98 and Lyndsey McDonald ’98,
July 29, 2000, Saugatuck, Mich.
Brian Giere ’98 and Sarah Nederveld, Aug. 5,
2000, Hudsonville, Mich.
Lisa Goodin ’98 and Jeff Whitmore ’99, April
21, 2000, Rochester Hills, Mich.
Shane Hanson ’98 and Mollie Schodorf ’98, July
8, 2000, Holland, Mich.
Shawna Hendrickson ’98 and Jeremy Baum,
June 3, 2000, Holland, Mich.
P.J. Huizenga ’98 and Abigail Nienhuis ’98, July
15, 2000.
Joel Johnson ’98 and Anna Marie Naber ’00,
June 10, 2000.
Martin Landes Jr. ’98 and Jill Donehoo ’99, June
24, 2000, Holland, Mich.
Erik Manninen ’98 and Melisa Fortin, April 23,
1999, Opelika, Ala.
Clinton Allen Moore ’98 and Lara Jean Wagner
’98, Aug. 18, 2000, Palos Heights, Ill.
Jennifer Lynn Peuler ’98 and Matthew
Bergsma, Oct. 16, 1999, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Aaron Douglas Vande Wege ’98 and Renee
Michelle Meyer ’00, June 10, 2000, Holland, Mich.
Andrea Vanina Gondec ’99 and Adrian Horatiu
Cuc, May 21, 2000, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Tasha Guild ’99 and Ryan Mulder ’99, Sept. 2,
2000, Lansing, Mich.
Brien Hills ’99 and Miguel Cruz ’00, July 30,
1999, Holland, Mich.
Jessica Joynt ’99 and Michael Balanoski, June
17, 2000.
Kerri Langerak ’99 and Matt Allen, June 17,
2000, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Jeremy Luhmann ’99 and Tricia DeYoung ’00,
July 2, 2000, Traverse City, Mich.
David Lunn ’99 and Stacy Hoglund ’00, June 3,
2000, Holland, Mich.
Melissa Manchester ’99 and Jack Mulder ’00,
Aug. 12, 2000, Holland, Mich.
Megan Clapp ’00 and Jeff Gorton, Aug. 20,
2000, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Katie Ergang ’00 and Kevin Meyering, Aug. 19,
2000, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Scott Gerhardt ’00 and Amanda Heydon ’00,
June 24, 2000, Rockford, Mich.
Matt Hassenrik ’00 and Lesley Sheldon ’00,
Sept. 23, 2000.
Matthew J. Mahaffey ’00 and Kemberlee R.
Pease ’00, June 10, 2000, Holland, Mich.
David Stielstra ’00 and Lynae Joy Prins, July 8,
2000, Holland, Mich.
ReBecca Lynn Renner ’01 and Andrew John
Anderson, Aug. 12, 2000, Holland, Mich.
Births
Births
Richard Spreng ’76 and Patricia Spreng, Kara
Joy, Feb. 29, 2000.
Russell Brown ’84 and Jennifer Brown, Gabriela
Grace, June 28, 2000.
Joel Redeker ’84 and Joreen Domkowski ’85
Redeker, Audrey Marie, July 15, 2000.
Scott Reenders ’84 and Julie Reenders, Collin
Scott, Aug. 8, 2000.
Dayna Beal ’85 and Marlys Hiemstra ’86 Beal,
Landyn Emerson, Aug. 14, 1999.
David Beckman ’85 and Kim Baxter ’87
Beckman, Jennifer Irene, March 31, 2000.
Scott Jecmen ’85 and Julie Jecmen, Michael, Jan.
27, 2000.
Bob Kryger ’85 and Judy Kingsley ’86 Kryger,
Peter Xavier, August, 2000.
Anne Rempe ’85 and James Thiros, Henry
Alexander Thiros, Aug. 20, 2000.
Michael Sturm ’85 and Julie Sturm, Natalie
Charlene, Dec. 9, 1999.
Graduation Honors
This list includes summer graduates
and May graduates whose
information wasn’t available prior to
the publication of the August issue
of news from Hope College.
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Ryan C. Atwell; Muscatine, Iowa
Stephan Dettmar; Saugatuck, Mich.
Elizabeth A. Ornee; Zeeland, Mich.
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Sarah L. Anders; Williamson, N.Y.
Katherine R. Drop; Iowa City, Iowa
Michael S. Hill; Holland, Mich.
Angella P. Huddleston; Romeoville, Ill.
Shari L. Johnson; New Hope, Minn.
Kirsten A. Kincaid; Holland, Mich.
Paul R. Lillie; Saint Paul, Minn.
Andrew J. Ohm; Grand Blanc, Mich.
Guergana K. Sazleykova; Sofia, Bulgaria
Jennifer S. Smith; Holland, Mich.
Christine J. Trinh; Holland, Mich.
Christopher D. Cappa; Naperville, Ill.
Rachel A. Lamb; Brookfield, Wis.
Kelly A. Schermer; Gambier, Ohio
Daniel E. Zoller; Sarasota, Fla.
CUM LAUDE
Alison C. Eichmann; Downers Grove, Ill.
Thaddeus J. Hackworth; Saint Joseph, Mich.
Ashley E. Hall; Frankfort, Ind.
Bradley J. Herrema; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Kristen L. Hess; Lake Orion, Mich.
Tyler J. Jansen; Delton, Mich.
Linda S. Laird; Holland, Mich.
Tannia M. Lascano; Ambato, Ecuador
Jeffrey A. Mulder; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Brittany A. Mull; Marne, Mich.
Jennifer A. Pierce; South Haven, Mich.
Renee K. Rooks; Parkersburg, W.Va.
Joel S. VanderKamp; Midland, Mich.
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Tracy Taylor–Kunst ’85 and Jack Kunst,
Carolyn Janet, Aug. 26, 1999.
Jane VanHaitsma ’85 Lanser and Mike Lanser,
Faith Elizabeth, March 5, 2000.
Susan Marks ’85 Van Ommeren and Len Van
Ommeren, Grace, Aug. 12, 2000.
Linda Van Voorhis–Olson ’85 and Robert
Olson, Annaliese Kathryn, May 12, 2000.
Mary Cooley ’86 Fulton and Lyle Fulton, Blake
Lyle, April 4, 2000.
Debra Kort ’86 Matson and Steven Matson,
Melanie Kate, Aug. 15, 2000.
Renee Bloom ’86 Puppo and Louis Puppo,
Nicholas David, Oct. 29, 1999.
Scott Wierda ’86 and Rebecca Bowen ’90
Wierda, Hogan Scott, July 16, 2000.
Roisin Niekamp ’87 Kunzelmann and Gregory
Kunzelmann, fraternal twin girls, Jan. 11, 1999; also
a son, Patrick, born in 1997.
Amy Reisterer ’87 Preston and Gary Preston,
Sydney Elizabeth, June 17, 2000.
Dawn Talbot ’88 Curtis and Chris Curtis, Reese
Conner, Oct. 23, 1999.
Carrie Terpstra ’88 Hodson and Robert Hodson
’88, Isabel Joy, Dec. 12, 1999.
Kimberly Fenske ’88 Hofstra and Mark Hofstra,
Hannah Angelique, Sept. 13, 1999.
Tammy Boulter ’88 Nieuwenhuis and Rob
Nieuwenhuis Jr., Kendall Robert, March 9, 2000.
Jill Schrotenboer ’88 Rhoades and Peter
Rhoades ’89, Ryan Andrew, Feb. 29, 2000.
Julie Maire ’88 Turner and Bill Turner, Meagan
Elizabeth, July 12, 2000.
Ray Woo ’88 and Kaylene Vorac ’90 Woo,
Braden Reed, April 29, 2000.
Linda Bigelow ’89, Jensen Lynn, born on Sept.
26, 1999, in China, adopted on June 4, 2000.
Steve Cox ’89 and Amy Cox, Julia Helen, Aug.
29, 2000.
Hans Hiemstra ’89 and Kristin Ransford ’91
Hiemstra, Haley Madeline, July 11, 2000.
Elizabeth Larson ’89 Moraw and Michael
Moraw, Matthew David, Aug. 15, 2000.
Lori Lovas ’89 Tinkler and Monte Tinkler,
Justin Lane, Aug. 5, 2000.
Deborah Vliem ’90 Braak and Daniel Braak,
Samuel Lee, April 20, 2000.
Caroline Breault–Cannon ’90 and Brock
Cannon, Katherine Elizabeth, Sept. 27, 1996; Sarah
Elizabeth, June 13, 2000.
Kris Busman ’90 and Sue Dusseljee ’91 Busman,
Jacob Christian, Aug. 28, 1999.
Chad Dykema ’90 and Kate Boonstra ’90
Dykema, Lydia Kathryn, Aug. 13, 2000.
Elizabeth Lovell ’90 English and Tim English,
Patrick Lovell English, Jan. 26, 2000.
Krystal VanWulfen ’90 Bulthuis and Steven
Bulthuis ’90, Bethany Loraine, May 30, 2000.
Jay Havenaar ’90 and Nancy Arneson ’90
Havenaar, Johana Leigh, Jan. 14, 2000.
David Lovett ’90 and Katrina Lindquist ’93
Lovett, Ethan George, March 9, 2000.
John Mitchell ’90 and Michelle Imhoff ’92
Mitchell, Connor Michael, March 28, 2000.
Michelle Owens ’90 Moad and Jay Moad,
Audrey Isabella, July 20, 2000.
Heather Gadde ’90 Moeggenborg and Douglas
Moeggenborg, Noah, born on Feb. 10, 1999, in
South Korea; adopted, June, 1999.
Karen Good ’90 Norz and Charlie Norz,
Alexander Gerhard, Aug. 18, 2000.
Glen Oosterhoff ’90 and Heather Oosterhoff,
Rachel Marie, June 30, 2000.
Bruce Snoap ’90 and Laura Beth Bauman ’95
Snoap, Isabel Renee, Aug. 1, 2000.
Andrew Stewart ’90 and M. Lynn Stewart, Jane
McGinty Stewart, Feb. 8, 2000.
Craig Price ’90 and Britt Lindfors ’91 Price,
Brendan Karl, July 14, 2000.
Jennifer Falk ’90 Rice and Brian Rice, Jared Lee,
June 23, 2000.
George Stamas ’90 and Laurie Heystek ’92
Stamas, Nicholas George.
Scott Trumble ’90 and Yvonne Dood ’90
Trumble, Nathaniel James, May 20, 2000.
Laura Magan ’90 Vander Molen and Kirk
Vander Molen ’91, Isaac Sebastian, May 3, 1999.
Lisa Render ’91 Behrens and Gavin Behrens,
Lillian Camilla (Lily) Behrens, Aug. 17, 1999.
Nancy Koole ’91 Bowler and Richard Bowler,
Sydney Paige, May 15, 2000.
Beth Dreyer–DeGoede ’91 and Kurt DeGoede
’91, Nathaniel Jacob, March 17, 2000.
Gene Halsey ’91 and Laura Campbell ’92
Halsey, Amanda Marie, June 20, 2000.
Heidi Hudson–Mairet ’91 and Stephen
Hudson–Mairet, Emma Elizabeth, April 18, 2000.
Beth Pechta ’91 Kalusniak and John Kalusniak,
Julia Grace, July 24, 2000.
Deborah DeFrancesco ’91 Lone and Scott Lone
’92, Nicholas Scott, Oct. 20, 1999.
DeLynn Pedersen ’91 Mallen and Steve Mallen
’91, Gretchen Grace, July 3, 2000.
Jennifer Quist–Thompson ’91 and Jim
Thompson, Wyatt Westfall Thompson, Jan. 20,
2000.
Kary Galloway ’91 Rafizadeh and Vahid
Rafizadeh, Liam Darius, March 28, 2000.
Kris Ritton ’91 and Kim Mason ’99 Ritton,
Mason James, July 30, 2000.
Greta Kennedy ’91 Standish and Brian Standish
’92, Benjamin Samuel, April 13, 2000.
Lisa Roorda ’91 Walchenbach and Timothy
Walchenbach, Nathaniel Matthew, May 24, 2000.
Kimberly Douma ’92 Campbell and Sean
Campbell, Madeline Joy, July 4, 2000.
Christopher Cole ’92 and Brittany Cole, Julia
Grace, Dec. 24, 1999.
Jennifer King ’92 Dahlgren and Christer
Dahlgren, Erik Nils, March 1, 2000.
Patricia Duell ’92 Hansen and Jeff Hansen, Julia
Nicole, Aug. 6, 2000.
Daniel Van Iwaarden ’92 and D.J. Van
Iwaarden, Danielle Anna, March 24, 2000.
David Grieve ’93 and Brecken Groendyke ’94
Grieve, Kennedy Alexandria, Jan. 21, 2000.
Jason Elmore ’93 and Alicia Mendenhall ’94
Elmore, Zachary Jason, Sept. 4, 2000.
Vicki Freeman ’93 MacMurdo and Tim
MacMurdo, Aaron Michael, May 26, 2000.
Joanne Aardema ’93 Mih and David Mih ’94,
Jason David, July 25, 2000.
Kathryn Markwood ’93 Ochampaugh and
Kevin Lee Ochampaugh, Kyle Allen, Jan. 11, 1996;
Jonathan Eric, Jan. 17, 2000; Jacob Aaron, Jan. 17,
2000.
Craig P. Vandenberg ’93 and Leslie E. Danek
’93 Vandenberg, Ryan Peter, July 4, 2000.
Jim Forsyth ’94 and Rachel Meyer ’95 Forsyth,
Katherine Anne, Aug. 27, 2000.
Sarah Lovell ’94 Koets and Bryan Koets, Joshua
Lee, Aug. 6, 2000.
Tiffany Steffen ’94 Snyder and Peter Snyder,
Grace Tiffany, July 28, 2000.
Michelle DeBoer ’95 Cole and Patrick Cole,
David Patrick, Oct. 11, 1999.
Krista Ostema ’95 Greendyke and Ron
Greendyke, Nicholas Jacob, May 8, 2000.
Courtney Alexander ’95 Griffin and W. Michael
Griffin, Braden Alexander, April 20, 2000.
Kim Baker ’95 Hoekstra and David Hoekstra,
Micah David, Jan. 15, 2000.
Jennipher Sakala–Uwishaka ’95 and Cardinal
Uwishaka, Ishimwe Konda (Ishimwe = praise;
Konda = love), June 18, 2000.
Jenifer Hodge ’95 VanZanten and Brian
VanZanten ’95, Joel Austin, July 1, 2000.
Kristin Clark ’95 Williams and Jeff Williams,
Jacob Matthew, Aug. 20, 2000.
Jennifer Salls ’96 Bailey and Peter Bailey, Mara
Joy, Aug. 16, 2000.
Rochelle Gauthier ’96 O’Brien and James
O’Brien, James Aloysius O’Brien Jr., Aug. 15, 2000.
Joel Plantinga ’96 and Teresa Plantinga, Noah
Abraham, Aug. 24, 2000.
Deana Rennick ’96 and Michael Bugbee,
Willow James Lee Bugbee, July 7, 1999.
Eric Van Namen ’96 and Kim Van Namen,
Luke Anthony, July 4, 2000.
Christa Wierks ’97 Murphy and Robert
Murphy, Acacia Marie, April 23, 2000.
Erik
Manninen
’98
and
Melisa
Fortin–Manninen, Wesley Jacob, Feb. 13, 2000.
Advanced Degrees
Advanced Degrees
Barbara Allaire ’67 Bang, master in social work,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond,
Va., August, 2000.
Richard Mezeske ’69, Ph.E., education,
Michigan State University, May, 2000.
Mary Jean Kline ’72 Lotz, Ph.D., English, The
University of South Dakota, Aug. 3, 2000.
Dennis TeBeest ’75, M.A., theology, University
of Notre Dame, Aug. 4, 2000.
Jean Lightowler ’77 Kirchner, master’s,
instructional design, University of Illinois at
Springfield, Individual Option Program, May,
2000.
Susanne Hagan ’81 Coffey, master of science in
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counseling, the University of North Texas, Denton,
Texas, May 13, 2000.
Tamra Avrit ’85, M.S., national security
strategy, National War College, May, 2000.
Michael Sturm ’85, master’s, educational
leadership, Grand Valley State University, 2000.
Lisa McCorvie ’86 Frye, master’s, in human
resource development, and certificate in
instructional
design
and
development,
Marymount University, Arlington, Va., December,
1999.
Roisin Niekamp ’87 Kunzelmann, MA,
counselor education, Florida Atlantic University.
Robert Hodson ’88, Ph.D., music theory,
University of Wisconsin–Madison, August, 2000.
Andrew Stewart ’90, M.A.T. (teaching),
Washington University, St. Louis, August, 2000.
Steven Bridge ’91, Ph.D., religious studies with
specialization in biblical theology, dissertation
titled “Where the Eagles are Gathered”: The
Deliverance of the Elect in Lukan Eschatology,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., June,
2000.
Julie Artinian ’93, master’s of liberal studies in
women’s studies, Eastern Michigan University,
Ypsilanti, Mich., December, 1999.
Scott Nelson ’94, University of Michigan School
of Dentistry, D.D.S., 1999.
Staci Timmer ’94, master of arts in corporate
communications, DePaul University, Chicago, Ill.,
June, 2000.
Shari Achterhof ’95, master of divinity,
Princeton Theological Seminary, May 15, 2000.
Kristen Sytsma ’95 Campbell, M.S.,
occupational therapy, University of Indianapolis,
December, 1999.
Michelle DeBoer ’95 Cole, master of education,
special education administration, December, 1998.
Kata Gurski ’95, master of science, zoology,
Miami University, August, 2000.
Sarah Birch ’95 Krahn, master of arts,
occupational therapy, College of St. Catherine,
Minnesota, June, 2000.
Colleen Parrett ’95 Murphy, Case Western
Reserve University medical school, May, 2000.
Jill Pursifull ’95 Nelson, master’s in education,
Marygrove College, Detroit, Mich., December,
1999.
Jennifer Ueltzen ’95, doctor of pharmacy, with
high distinction, Ferris State University, 2000.
Kimberly Benton ’96, master of science,
environmental education, Southern Connecticut
State University, New Haven, Conn., May, 2000.
Aaron Hoffman ’96, master’s, zoology with an
emphasis on ecology, Colorado State University,
2000.
Katheryn Carpenter ’96 Theune, M.A.,
communication studies, The University of Texas at
Austin, May, 2000.
Kristin Clark ’97 Duffy, Cooperstown Graduate
Program for History Museum Studies, May, 2000.
Amy Hinderer ’97, doctor of jurisprudence,
Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Tyler Murphy ’97, master of science in
environmental health science, thesis “Age
Dependence of Thiol–Disulfide Oxidoreductase
Enzymes in Rat Heart Mitochondria,” Case
Western Reserve University, August, 2000
Shannon Polk ’97, Case Western Reserve
University School of Law, May, 2000.
Heather Papenek ’97 Rose, juris doctorate, cum
laude, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Ill.
Tracy Datte ’98, master’s, social work,
University of Michigan, December, 1999.
Kevin Joldersma ’98, master’s, Hispanic
literature,
University
of
Illinois
at
Urbana–Champaign, May, 2000.
Shannon Werner ’98, master of science,
counseling, Indiana University, May, 2000.
Andrea Gondec ’99 Cuc, MSW, Arizona State
University, May, 2000.
Deaths
Deaths
Larry Boer ’81 of Holland, Mich., died on
Monday, Aug. 28, 2000. He was 41.
He graduated from Holland High School as
well as Hope, where he majored in mathematics
and computer science. He was a systems analyst at
Herman Miller Inc.
He was a member of the Macatawa Bay Yacht
Club. He was the 1990 National Sailing Champion
in the International 110 Class, and had recently
won the Walloon All Lake 2000 Championship.
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Survivors include his wife, Melissa, of Holland;
his children, Morgan and Lisette Boer, at home; his
mother, Dorothy Boer of Holland; his
parents–in–law, Dr. Ralph and Susan Knopf of
Ann Arbor, Mich.; his brother, Marlin and Laurie
Boer of Holland; his sisters– and brothers–in–law,
Carrie and Mike Vannucchi of San Francisco,
Calif., and Eric Knopf of Mountain View, Calif.;
and two nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father,
Marten.
Word has been received of the death of Natalie
G. Bosman ’46 of Saugatuck, Mich., who died on
Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000. More information will
appear in the next issue.
Hilda Lanting ’34 Bossenbroek of
Hastings–on–Hudson, N.Y., died on Thursday,
March 16, 2000, after a long illness. She was 86.
She was born on March 22, 1913, in Jamestown,
Mich., the youngest of four children born to Dr.
Derk Lanting and Celia Talsma. The family later
moved to Byron Center, Mich.
After Hope she managed a doctor’s office in
Grand Rapids, Mich., until her fiance finished his
studies at Western Theological Seminary in
Holland, Mich. She married Albertus Bossenbroek
in 1936.
After pastorates at Reformed churches in
Guilderland Center, N.Y., and Chatham, N.Y., the
couple moved to Hastings–on–Hudson, where
they lived in the Manse of the Reformed Church
from 1947 to 1964. He accepted a denominational
position as executive pastor of the Regional Synod
of New York in 1964, but the family remained in
Hastings–on–Hudson and she continued to be
very active in the local congregation.
She worked in a program at the Hastings High
School Reading Laboratory. In 1970 she began
employment with Social Services of Westchester
County, where she worked in the Department of
Foster Care and Adoption until 1983, placing
special needs children.
After retiring, she continued to be active in
church life. For many years she produced the
monthly congregational newsletter.
Survivors include two daughters, Margo B.
Taylor of Grand Rapids, and Donna B. Cosenza of
Croton–on–Hudson, N.Y.; and four grandchildren,
Louise, Larry, Albert and Patrick.
She was preceded in death by her husband in
August of 1997, and by a daughter, Nina Kay, last
year in South Africa.
Word has been received of the death of Charles
W. Davidson ’47 of Wellston, Mich., who died on
Saturday, Aug. 26, 2000. More information will
appear in the next issue.
Paul De Vries ’52 of Crete, Ill., died on
Saturday, July 1, 2000. It was his 71st birthday.
He was born on July 1, 1929.
He had served as a pastor for New Era
Reformed Church in New Era, Mich.; Community
Reformed in Lafayette, Ind.; Hope Reformed in
Sheboygan, Wis.; and Fellowship Reformed in
Lombard, Ill. He also served as a chaplain for
Chicago Rest Haven Christian Services and
Chicago–O’Hare International Airport; and as
vice president and president for Particular Synod
of Chicago (now known as the Synod of
Mid–America).
Survivors include his wife, Jean.
John C. Fisher Sr. ’41 of North Fort Myers, Fla.,
died on Wednesday, July 19, 2000. He was 81.
He graduated from Holland High School. He
was a veteran of World War II.
He retired from General Electric Co. in 1981
and moved to North Fort Myers in 1985.
Survivors include his wife, Frances; daughter,
Judy and David Tanis of Holland, Mich.; son, John
C. Fisher Jr. ’65 and Martie Fisher of Holland;
father–in–law, John Mrok of Holland; six
grandchildren; and 12 great–grandchildren.
His first wife, Eunice Robbert ’41 Fisher,
preceded him in death in 1982.
Morris G. Folkert ’38 of Zeeland, Mich., died
on Monday, July 24, 2000. He was 85.
He graduated from Western Theological
Seminary in 1941. He served Reformed churches
in Otley, Iowa; North Holland, Mich.; Grand
Rapids, Mich.; Lansing, Ill.; and Coopersville,
Mich. Following retirement, he was pastor of
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visitation at Seventh Reformed Church in Grand
Rapids.
He was preceded in death by his first wife,
Dorothy, in 1965.
Survivors include his wife, Leona; children,
Mary and Bruce Laverman of Glendale, Ariz., Ellen
and Bradley Klow of South Haven, Mich., Jean and
Austin Spyksma of Hinsdale, Ill., Mrs. Garret
(Nancy) Laning of Lansing, Ill., and Thomas Folkert
of Dallas, Texas; a stepson, Jan and Deloris Nienhuis
of Holland, Mich.; 11 grandchildren; seven
great–grandchildren; five step–grandchildren; six
step–great–grandchildren; brothers and sisters, Dr.
Jay and Marian Folkert of Holland, Wallace and
Laura Folkert of Holland, and Irene and Al Ter Haar
of Forest Grove; and a sister–in–law, Mrs. Gerald
(LaVanche) Veldheer of Holland.
Marie Looman ’40 Huff of Phoenix, Ariz., died
on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2000. She was 82.
She was born on Aug. 1, 1918, in Holland, Mich.
She and her husband, John, who survives her,
pastored churches in Bauer and Rives Junction
before moving to Arizona in 1977. She had also
worked at Consumers Power Department of
Economic Security and Hoover’s Piano and Organ
before the move to Arizona. She was a church
organist, choir director and vocalist.
In addition to her husband, survivors include
three children, Sharon Anderson of Prescott, Ariz.,
Patricia Thompson of Peoria, Ariz., and J. Roger
Huff of Big Springs, Texas; eight grandchildren;
three great–grandchildren; two sisters, Mildred
Huff of Dunedine, Fla., and June Sundin of Phoenix
and Holland; and many nieces and nephews.
W. Howard Kieft ’33 of Northumberland, Pa.,
died on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2000. He was 91.
He was born on Aug. 6, 1909, in Grand Haven,
Mich., a son of the late Martin Sr. and Dena
(Roossien) Kieft. He married the former Lois A.
Menges, who survives him, on June 26, 1958.
He graduated from Grand Haven High School
in 1929, and received a master of arts degree from
the University of Michigan in 1934. He taught high
school chemistry at Benton Harbor Junior College.
He was a veteran of World War II. He served in
the Pacific Theatre with the Army Signal Corps and
participated in the Battle of Okinawa.
He returned to college in 1946 and studied
psychology at Penn State University.
For 10 years, he served as director of testing and
counseling at Bucknell University in Lewisburg,
Pa. For 19 years he also served as a licensed
psychologist and supervisor of special education
for Northumberland County.
He was an active member of the First Reformed
United Church of Christ in Sunbury, and was
active both in the church locally and in the
denomination nationally.
He was an active member of the
Northumberland Historical Society. He was the
society recording secretary from 1971 to 1989, and
was active on the board until becoming an emeritus
member of the board in 1997.
He was a member of several professional
associations. He was active in Scouting, and was a
scout master for two National Jamborees and one
International Jamboree.
He was a member of the Cosmopolitan
Fraternity at Hope. He was a member of the Phi
Delta Kappa professional fraternity, the Alumni
Association of the University of Michigan and the
Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees.
In addition to his wife, survivors include one
brother and sister–in–law, Lester and Norma Kieft
of Lewisburg; three nephews; two great–nieces;
and one great–nephew.
He was preceded in death by five brothers,
Peter, Martin Jr., Gerald, John and Frank Kieft; and
one sister, Katherine Haines.
Henry Kik ’42 of Zeeland, Mich., died on
Tuesday, July 25, 2000. He was 89.
He was born on Jan. 23, 1911, in Rotterdam, The
Netherlands, to Nicholas and Jenny (Boleyn) Kik.
He graduated from Western Theological Seminary,
and later earned a master’s degree in social work
from Michigan State University.
He married Helen J. Ahlstedt on June 3, 1942.
She preceded him in death, on November 28, 1986.
Survivors include his children, Marcia and Dirk
Pastoor of Cincinnati, Paul and Dia Kik of
Hudsonville, Mich., Jeanne and David Ziegler of
Spring Lake, Mich., and Marlene and Donn
VanDerSchie of Holland, Mich.; 14 grandchildren,
Kirstin and Vincent Briones, Jason Pastoor,
Adrianne Pastoor, Paul Jr. and Tracey Kik, Anne
Marie Kik and Alex Rodriguez, Nicholas
Monoyios,
Nicholas
VanDerSchie,
Joel
VanDerSchie, Jacquelyn VanDerSchie, Marlena
Ziegler, and Amalia Ziegler; and one
great–granddaughter, Sierra Rodriguez.
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Victor Eimicke dies
Former Trustee chair
Victor W. Eimicke died
on Monday, Sept. 4,
2000, at age 75.
A resident of Bronxville, N.Y., he had
been chair of the college’s Board of
Trustees from 1978 to 1987. He was
elected to the board in 1976, and in 1987
was elected an honorary member of the
board. He and his wife, who survives
him, established the Maxine & Victor
Eimicke Scholarship Fund in 1979 to
provide assistance to deserving students.
Hope presented him with an honorary degree in 1987.
He was born on Feb. 4, 1925, in New
York City to Victor H. and Anna Gille
Eimicke. He earned three degrees
from New York University: a bachelor’s in 1945, a master’s in 1946, and a
doctorate in business and industrial
psychology in 1951.
Through 1951, he held positions at
NYU, Brooklyn College and Pace
University, and served as vice president
of the Institute for Human Research in
Industry. In 1951 he founded V.W.
Eimicke Associates, which became one
Dorothy Klokkert ’46 Koeman of Holland,
Mich., died on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2000. She was
86.
She was a member of Maplewood Reformed
Church.
Survivors include her children, Millicent
Wewerka of Fort Washington, Va., Paul and Judith
Koeman of Hamilton, Mich., Elizabeth and Jon
Ringelberg of Clare, Mich., and James and Marjorie
Koeman of Hamilton, Mich.; a son–in–law, Paul
Glatz of Kalamazoo, Mich.; a stepson, Terry and
Laverle Koeman of Florida; many grandchildren
and great–grandchildren; a brother, Mineard and
Margaret Klokkert of Holland; sisters– and
brothers–in–law, Cora May Klokkert of Holland,
Andrew and Martha Koeman of Florida, and Mrs.
Lester (Edith) Koeman of Salina, Kan.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
Iman, in 1995; a daughter, Karen Glatz, in 1994; and
a son–in–law, Ronald Wewerka, in 1995.
Ethel VanderZalm ’37 Kozak of Manton, Mich.,
died on Thursday, July 27, 2000. She was 85.
She was born on March 14, 1915, in Grand
Haven, Mich., to James and Amelia (Farmer)
VanderZalm. She graduated from Grand Haven
High School in 1933. She earned a master’s degree
from Barry College in Miami, Fla.
She taught school in Manton and several other
schools. She retired after teaching for 38 years.
She was a member of the Manton Baptist
Church, Eastern Star Lodge No. 189, the Manton
Philathea Club, the Michigan Education
Association, the Wexford/Missuakee Retired
Teachers Association and the National Education
Association. She served on the Manton Library
Board and on the Manton Area Historical Museum
Board.
Survivors include two sisters, Dorothy Jullie of
Grand Haven and Margaret Long of Vashon,
Wash.; a brother, James VanderZalm of Grand
Haven; a step–daughter, Marie Gilbert of Stanton,
Ky.; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by three husbands,
Albert Nienhuis, Herbert Derbyshire and Michael
Kozak; and two sisters, Ida Nieuwkoop and Marie
Brigance.
June L. Lundbom ’40 of Manistee, Mich., died
on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2000. She was 82.
She was born on Nov. 8, 1917, in Manistee, the
daughter of the late Oscar and Laura (Anderson)
Lundbom. She graduated from Manistee High
School, and held a master’s from Northwestern
University in Evanston, Ill.
Prior to retirement, she taught in the Manistee
Area Public Schools for many years.
She was a member of the Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church of Manistee, the Lutheran Church
Dr. Victor Eimicke
of the world’s largest printers of office
forms.
He was a member of several boards
and active in a variety of organizations.
He served as a director of Nathan’s
Famous Inc., Wetson’s Corp. and the
New England Grocer Supply Co. He
was formerly director and president of
the Community Fund of Bronxville,
Eastchester and Tuckahoe; a longtime
Women and the Naomi Circle of the Church. She
taught Sunday school for many years, in addition
to singing in the choir and directing the junior choir
of the church.
She was also a member of the West Shore
Scandinavian Society, the Manistee Area Retired
Teachers Association and the American
Association of University Women.
Survivors include several cousins and second
cousins.
Douglas MacDonald ’41 of Hicksville, N.Y.,
died on Saturday, March 4, 2000. He was 80.
He was born on April 5, 1919, in Flushing, N.Y.
After Hope, he continued his education at New
Brunswick Theological Seminary, and Auburn,
Drew, Princeton and Union seminaries. In addition
to his B.A. from Hope, he held M.Div., D.Min. and
D.D. degrees.
He had been the first pastor of The Parkway
Community Church of Hicksville, which he had
served for 50 years. He drove a tractor to help clear
the fields for the church in 1951. The First
Reformed Church of Hicksville, founded in 1883,
merged with the church in 1953; by 1962, The
Parkway Community Church had more than 800
members.
He had also been president of the Classis of the
Reformed Church in America in Nassau–Suffolk
counties.
His active role in the community included
helping to build the Westbury Youth Center. He
had also helped establish the 600–bed United
Presbyterian Nursing Home in Woodbury, and
served on the home’s board of directors for many
years.
In 1999, he was named “Community Service
Honoree of the Year” by the Hicksville Knights of
Columbus for his 50 years of exemplary service to
the communities of Hicksville, Westbury, East
Meadow and Levittown.
Survivors include his wife, Carol.
Harold F. Mante ’38 of Bethlehem, Pa., died on
Wednesday, July 5, 2000. He was 86.
He was born on Nov. 22, 1913. After Hope he
went on to New Brunswick Theological Seminary
in New Jersey, graduating in 1941.
He was pastor of Glen Reformed Church from
1941 to 1943. From 1943 until retiring in 1980, he
served Presbyterian churches in Rensselaer, N.Y.
(1943–48); Summit, N.J. (1948–1953); Lock Haven,
Pa. (1953–59); and Forty Fort, Pa. (1959–80).
He and wife Bettie Morford ’45 Mante, who
survives him, ran an antique business. In
retirement he also continued to conduct worship
services in nursing homes.
William B. Miller ’41 of Springfield, S.D., died
board member of Lawrence Hospital in
Bronxville; and a trustee and former
treasurer, president and chair of the
National Bible Association. He was vice
president of the board of directors of the
Japan International Christian University
Foundation, a member of the National
Council of the Metropolitan Opera,
president of the board of the Halsted
School in Yonkers, and a former
member of the Yonkers Chamber of
Commerce.
He was active in the Reformed
Church of Bronxville, serving as an
elder and member of the consistory. He
was also a member at large of the
General Synod of the Reformed Church
in America.
He and one of his two daughters, Laura
Klimley, co–authored a book, Managing
Human Resources––Documenting the
Personnel Function, published by
Pergamon Press in 1987.
He and Maxine were married on
Aug. 6, 1955. In addition to her and
daughter Laura, survivors include
another daughter, Alicia Barbieri; and
five grandchildren, Spencer James
Barbieri, James Barbieri, Zoe Brooks,
Graham Sutherland and Preston
William Klimley.
on Wednesday, July 12, 2000. He was 80.
He was an instructor in Bible and religion at
Hope from 1946 to 1948.
He was born on Sept. 22, 1919, in Detroit, Mich.,
to William and May (Elzerman) Miller. He grew
up in Roseville, Mich., and graduated from
Roseville High School in 1937.
He graduated from Western Theological
Seminary with a B.D. in 1944. He also did graduate
work at Princeton Theological Seminary in New
Jersey.
He married Jean Wilma Dake, who survives
him, on Nov. 29, 1946, in Fonda, N.Y. They
pastored Reformed churches in Fonda; Muskegon
Heights, Mich.; Fulton, Ill.; Lynden, Wash.;
Sheldon, Iowa; and Springfield, where he retired in
1984.
In addition to his wife, survivors include five
children, Kathy (Max) Molinaro of Philadelphia,
Pa., Klaire (William) Jameson of Oundle, England,
Kristine Davies of Pella, Iowa, Karol (Thomas)
Eggers of Yankton, S.D., and Harold of California;
six grandchildren; two sisters, Ann (Robert)
Carstens of Vanderbilt, Mich., and Betty (Leonard)
Mooi of Lapeer, Mich.; and one brother, Hendrik
(Rose) of Eden Prairie, Minn.
He was preceded in death by his parents and
two brothers, Harold and Bastiaan.
Milton Ortquist ’58 of Beacon, N.Y., died on
Saturday, June 24, 2000. He was 70.
He had served as pastor of South Bushwick
Reformed in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Reformed
Church of Beacon. He had also served as a prison
chaplain for the state of New York prison system
since 1978.
Survivors include his wife, Janet Kinney ’56
Ortquist.
Helen L. Phillips ’31 of the Whiting section of
Manchester, N.J., died on Friday, June 23, 2000. She
was 90.
She graduated from Ridgewood Secretarial
School. She was born in Monsey, N.Y., and lived
there and in Suffern, N.Y., before moving to
Whiting.
She was a classified advertising manager with
the Journal News of Nyack, N.Y., from 1931 to 1960,
and was subsequently a secretary at Bankers Trust
of Rockland County in Spring Valley, N.Y. She
retired from Bankers Trust in 1973 as an assistant
vice president.
She was a 50–year member of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, a charter member of the
Pinelands chapter of NSDAR in Whiting, and a
member of the Manchester Chapter of Deborah and
the American Association of Retired Persons.
She was a member of the Community Reformed
Church in Whiting, and was a member of the
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church’s women’s guild.
Survivors include a brother and sister–in–law,
Frederick and Naomia Phillips of Whiting; and a
niece, Helen Koepke Glass of Hackensack, N.J.
William R. Ryan ’63 of Holland, Mich., died on
Saturday, Sept. 9, 2000. He was 82.
He was born in Chicago, Ill., the son of the late
William and Marjorie Ryan. He served with the
U.S. Navy during World War II.
He moved to Holland in 1959. He taught
English in Dulce, N.M., and American history at
Grand Haven High School.
Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; children,
Connie and Paul Ver Hoef of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
and Paul and Luanne Ryan of Holland;
grandchildren; great–grandchildren; and cousins.
Arloa May Van Peursem ’33 Tysse of
Holland, Mich., died on Saturday, July 22, 2000.
She was 89.
She was the daughter of the Rev. John ’02 and
Lita Van Peursem.
She taught elementary school in Michigan
and Ohio.
She was a member of Third Reformed Church
in Holland. She was president of Church
Women United in Cleveland for several years.
Survivors include two sons, James ’63 and
Kathy Tysse of Cleveland, Ohio, and John and
Janet Tysse of McLean, Va.; a son–in–law, Tom
Lubbers ’59 of Wilmington, N.C.; 10
grandchildren, including Margaret Niemerski of
Jenison, Mich., Susan Cloud of Alexandria, Va.,
Joshua Lubbers of Boston, Mass., Cynthia Foresta
of Cleveland, Ohio, Gary Tysse of Lyndhurst,
and William Tysse, James Tysse, Charles Tysse,
Elisabeth Tysse and Thomas Tysse, all of
McLean; four great–grandchildren, Rachel and
Kaitlyn Niemerski of Jenison, and Samuel and
Thomas Cloud of Alexandria; a brother–in–law,
Gilbert Plasman ’36 of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and
two sisters–in–law, Lois Tysse ’38 Strom of
Holland, Mich., and Cornelia Tysse ’36 Hartough
of Hilton Head, S.C.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
James W. Tysse ’34; her daughter, Judith Tysse
’60 Lubbers; two sisters, June Van Peursem ’36
Plasman and Elise Van Peursem; and a brother,
George Van Peursem.
Word has been received of the death of Aaron
John Ungersma ’26 of San Rafael, Calif., who died
on Monday, Sept. 18, 2000. More information will
appear in the next issue.
Marjorie Jacobs ’67 Vander Meer of
Winnebago, Ill., died on Saturday, July 8, 2000. She
was 55.
She was born on Oct. 16, 1944, in South Holland,
Ill. She completed a master’s degree in education,
with specialization in art therapy, at Northern
Illinois University in DeKalb in 1988. She held
registration and certification as an art therapist, and
was a licensed clinical professional counselor.
She was an art therapist for social services of the
Missouri Lutheran Synod. She formerly worked
for Aunt Martha’s Youth Services in Chicago
Heights, Ill., and Social Services of the Lutheran
Church in Dixon, Ill.
Survivors include her husband, the Rev. Albert
Vander Meer ’67; a daughter, Jennifer (Ken) Weiss
of Oldsmar, Fla.; a son, Daniel Vander Meer of
Winnebago; and two grandchildren.
James G. Wiegerink Sr. ’33 of Joliet, Ill., died on
At Hope College, we have
much to cheer about.
Saturday, Aug. 12, 2000. He was 90.
He was born on April 3, 1910, in Holland, Mich.
He graduated from Hope as valedictorian with a
B.S. in chemistry, and completed his doctoral work
at Ohio State in 1937.
He had been a chemist with the American Visco
Corp. in Marcus Hook, Pa., for 30 years, retiring in
1970. He had also worked for the Bureau of
Standards in Washington, D.C., working in
research and textiles.
He had been a long–time resident of Yakima,
Wash. He had been a resident of Joliet since 1997,
and had been a member of the Plainfield United
Methodist Church since 1998.
Survivors include his three children, James
(Marietta) Wiegerink Jr. ’63 of Secane, Pa., Anne
Wiegerink ’60 (Charles) Anderson of Plainfield, Ill.,
and Patricia (Robert) Gaudreau of Gloversville,
N.Y.; seven grandchildren; and three great–
grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Frieda
VanderSchoor ’34 Wiegerink in October of 1998;
and two brothers, Lloyd and Gerrit ’33.
MaryJo Girton ’69 Willcocks of Strongsville,
Ohio, died on Friday, March 31, 2000. She was 52.
She was diagnosed with a malignant brain
tumor in October of 1998, and battled the disease
for more then 17 months.
She was born on May 9, 1947, in Sturgis, Mich.,
the daughter of Gladys Girton, still of Sturgis, and
of Joseph Girton, who preceded her in death in
1998. She was the first female in the Girton family
for three generations.
She graduated from White Pigeon High School
in 1965. She majored in education at Hope, and
taught elementary education in the Brooklyn City
Schools for four years. She stayed home to raise her
two children, and taught at Wishing Well Preschool
for a number of years.
In 1984, she joined Realty One and had a successful career in selling real estate. She was also a
dedicated member of the Strongsville United
Methodist Church, serving on many church committees and being active in the Elizabeth Circle.
In addition to her mother, survivors include her
husband, Ernie Willcocks II ’68; a daughter,
Michelle, who is an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio;
and a son, Mark, who will graduate from Purdue
University in December.
Word has been received of the death of
Gertrude Zonnebelt ‘35 of Holland, Mich., who
died on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2000. More information
will appear in the next issue.
Sympathy To
Sympathy To
The family of William Frater Beebe of Holland,
Mich., who died on Saturday, July 22, 2000, at age
82.
He and his wife Marion, who survives him, had
established the William and Marion Beebe
Scholarship Fund at Hope to provide scholarship
assistance to deserving students with financial
need.
In addition to his wife, survivors include their
children, William G. ’69 and Debbie Beebe and
Susan and Richard Muzzy, all of Holland.
g 3,015 students
Enrolled a record-breakin
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Recognized nationally as a “best
Received many prestigious grants for student and faculty research
Your annual contributions help make Hope what it is today...
giving us much to cheer about.
Please consider a contribution to Hope this year.
It will help make Hope what it can become tomorrow.
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Word has been received of the death of Titus
James Hager of Sparta, Mich., who died on
Monday, Sept. 25, 2000, at age 78, while
vacationing in Switzerland.
He was a former member of the college’s Board
of Trustees, serving from 1961 to 1972. He was
elected an honorary member of the board in 1978.
Survivors include his wife, Marjorie; a son, T.
Ronald (Nancy) Hager of Rockford, Mich.; a
daughter, Virginia Gearhart of Grand Rapids,
Mich.; a daughter–in–law, Kristen Hager of Ada,
Mich.; 10 grandchildren; and one sister, Eleanor
DeFoe of Grand Rapids.
Word has been received of the death of Ruth E.
Stringer, who died on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2000, at
age 90 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
She and her husband, Dr. C.J. Stringer,
established the C. James Stringer Jr. ’60 Memorial
Award at Hope for an outstanding junior or senior
psychology student.
The family of Marcy Vanderwel of Holland,
Mich., who died on Friday, Aug. 25, 2000, at age 55.
She had taught at the Holland, Hamilton and
West Ottawa schools, Hope, and Western Michigan
University and Grand valley State University.
Survivors include her husband, David
Vanderwel ’67, and two children, Capt. Mark
Vanderwel of Del Rio, Texas, and Anne Vanderwel
of Holland.
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Alumni Profile
He soars with the Angels
He makes their day.
Being interviewed in the hotel lobby, Major David
Michael ’89 of the U.S. Marine Corps stands out wearing
the distinctive blue and gold flight suit of the Blue Angels.
The other guests know that the squadron is staying in
town for two performances, and he draws attention.
A father and two boys approach. Would he, they ask,
be willing give them his autograph? He doesn’t hesitate to
say yes, and the four chat easily for a few minutes while he
signs.
After they leave, Michael, who has completed his first
year as a member of the squadron, admits that such
attention takes getting used to: “You think, ’Why are you
interested in seeing me? I’m nobody special.’”
It takes getting used to, but he understands it. He, too,
has loved planes since he was a child, and he appreciates
that he is living a dream, flying with one of the most
well–known military units in the world. When people see
him, they see that.
Michael pilots the squadron’s C–130 cargo plane. He
opens the Blue Angels’ performance in Traverse City the
next day, roaring across the audience at 500 feet and
putting the massive four–engine aircraft through a series
of maneuvers that belie its bulk. The squadron’s F/A–18
Hornet jets follow with their signature formation flying
and acrobatics.
Michael didn’t start out planning to be a pilot in the
Blue Angels. For that matter, he hadn’t started out
planning to attend Hope.
When he graduated from high school in 1984, Michael,
a native of Big Rapids, Mich., didn’t know what he wanted
to do. So he stayed in town, took classes at Ferris State
University, worked in the family business, and assisted his
former high school football coach, Geoff Stewart ’76.
He also spent time studying in Spain, and learned that
he liked to travel. He decided to major in Spanish, which
he couldn’t do at Ferris.
At about that time, still working with Stewart, Michael
took one of the high school football players to Hope for a
visit.
“And when I was down there I was more sold than he
was,” he said. “I decided to go there.”
“I had a great experience at Hope,” Michael said. “And
Major David Michael ’89 (he was promoted after this
photo was taken) of the U.S. Marine Corps is living a
dream, flying with the Blue Angels.
I think it’s good to be around some people that have high
ideals, that set their standards high, because that
challenges you to do it, too.”
“Being at Hope, seeing people that aspired to some very
lofty things, kind of made me do the same thing,” he said.
“It wasn’t acceptable just to get mediocre grades.
Everybody was striving for more excellence than that.”
After graduation, equipped with his Spanish major, he
originally went into education, teaching in the Virgin
Islands for a year.
Major Michael flies the squadron’s C–130, both in support of the unit and during the team’s air shows. The aircraft’s maneuvers (shown is a Jet–Assisted Take Off) belie its bulk.
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“It was a great job,” he said. “But I noticed something
while I was there: that I just didn’t have a passion for
teaching.”
“A lot of the teachers went to the teachers’ lounge and
would talk about this great assignment they worked on all
weekend long,” he said. “I thought, ’You know what?
They really, really love what they’re doing. I just think it’s
okay. So there has to be something out there that I would
look at like that.’”
“And aviation was the thing that I’ve always liked,” he
said.
He applied to be a military pilot. He wasn’t convinced
that he’d even be chosen, but he knew that if he didn’t at
least try he would always wonder, “What if?” But then...
“Lo and behold I got selected, and here I am in the
Marine Corps flying airplanes,” he said.
When it came time to choose a flying assignment, he
requested C–130s because he reasoned that he would have
a chance to continue to travel.
“And for me to be a junior captain––some guy that’s in
his late 20s––and to be in charge of an airplane on some
other side of the world, and the whole crew and getting the
mission done in Africa or Turkey or Iceland or wherever it
is––going to Japan or something––that was what intrigued
me,” he said.
Eventually promoted to instructor pilot, he applied to
join the Blue Angels because the unit’s work appealed to
him. He spent months traveling to air shows while the
other team members got to know him––a process he
describes as “almost like rushing a fraternity,” with
personality being a major consideration since everyone in
the squadron works so closely together.
Michael’s commitment to the squadron is for three
years. Afterward, he’ll be rotated into a different
assignment in the Marine Corps.
While the Blue Angels, founded in 1946 and based in
Pensacola, Fla., are a Navy unit, the C–130 crew is
comprised entirely of Marines. The aircraft is dubbed “Fat
Albert,” named for the cartoon character voiced by Bill
Cosby.
The squadron performs from March through
November, traveling around the country. The final weeks
of the calendar year are a transition time, as departing
squadron personnel leave and the new people arrive.
Following time off for the holidays, the squadron starts
training again for the next year.
While the Hornet pilots participate in every show,
Michael, who is one of three officers who pilot the C–130,
is off for six or seven each year. When he’s not performing,
though, he is busy with logistics––arranging, for example,
for in–flight refueling as the jets travel to each site. As the
squadron’s single support plane, the C–130 is also on–call
to ferry supplies as needed.
As a member of the squadron, Michael is also an
ambassador and a role model. He notes that he
particularly enjoys working with kids.
“Today, we just worked with a group of kids through
the Make–A–Wish Foundation,” he said on the eve of the
Traverse City shows. “We brought them out to the
airplanes and showed them around, and signed
autographs and took pictures with them and things. And
that’s really neat, to see the smiles on their faces.”
The work even puts him back in the classroom, where
he hopes he can help motivate young people.
“We go to talk to kids in high schools a lot and try to
communicate to them that we didn’t get here because we
had some type of super–gifted intellect or everything went
right in our lives,” he said. “We make mistakes, and we do
things wrong. But you can overcome those things.”
“Be diligent and go for it and you’d be surprised what
you can achieve,” he said. “I never thought I’d be in the
military, number one. Flying aircraft in the military,
number two. And then being on the Blue Angels, number
three.”
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