Inside This Issue
The shape
of things
to come
Building
community
through
diversity
Please see
page seven.
Please see
page 20.
Alumni Board President ................. 3
DeVos Fieldhouse Update ............. 5
Student Artists Honored ................ 9
Profs Receive Endowed Chairs ... 12
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August 2002
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Campus Notes
College purchases site for center
A well–known campus
neighbor has become
part of campus itself.
The college has purchased Lincoln
Elementary School from the Holland
Public Schools. The site will house the
new Martha Miller Center for the departments of communication and modern and
classical languages.
The school closed after the 2000–01
school year due to falling enrollment and
budget constraints, and the district subsequently leased space in the building to
local organizations. It was offered for sale
this spring, and Hope was the lone bidder
for the property.
The building will be named for the late
Martha Muller ‘24 Miller of Holland,
Mich., who made a $3 million gift on behalf
of the project through her estate in 1999.
Design and subsequent construction have
hinged on the college’s search for the most
suitable site for the structure. The school is
located between 10th and 11th streets on
Columbia Avenue, in the “Eastern
Gateway” region that will also include,
farther east, the new DeVos Fieldhouse.
Planning will proceed in the coming
months, with construction expected to
begin in the spring of 2003. Hope anticipates completing the building sometime
in 2004. The project is a part of the Legacies:
A Vision of Hope campaign.
The department of communication is
currently housed in Lubbers Hall, and the
department of modern and classical languages is headquartered in Graves Hall.
In addition to providing both departments with additional and enhanced
facilities, the new building will make
space available in Graves and Lubbers for
other programs.
“Quote, unquote”
Quote, unquote is an
eclectic sampling of
things said at and about
Hope College.
When the school year begins and life’s
intensity seems to increase exponentially, it is
all too easy for sleep to become a low priority.
Here, as 2002–03 beckons, are excerpts from
an April 16 address that focused on the need
for adequate rest––particularly, as noted in
this section, as a prerequisite for learning well.
The talk was delivered by Dr. James B.
Maas, who is nationally known as an authority on the topic. In addition to speaking around
the nation, including to corporate clients
ranging from Pepsi–Cola to MCI/Universal
Studios, he has made appearances on television
programs including Today, Good Morning
America, and Oprah. He is professor and
past chair of the department of psychology, and
the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at
Cornell University.
“I’m going to tell you the secret of life.
We have a deprivation in this country that
you can do something about starting
tonight.
“Forty–three percent of Americans are
moderately to severely sleep–deprived.
Not just a little tired, but so tired it ruins
the way you interact with your significant
others; the way you work; how well you
do at school; and, if you have children, the
way you raise those children. Sixty–three
percent of you have insomnia one night a
week or more. That means you can’t get
to sleep, or you can’t maintain sleep, or
you wake up prematurely.
“Every single high school and college
student that I have ever measured their
alertness in the sleep lab is a walking
zombie. You guys––I’m talking to the students now––need, at your age, to be fully
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alert and energetic all day long: nine and
a quarter hours of sleep every night. And
you average 6.1. That’s a three–and–a–
half–hour deficit every single night...
“I want you to remember primarily one
thing this morning: that sleep is a necessity, it is not a luxury. It affects your
mood. That’s the first thing to go: your
mood and your happiness. Even with
modest sleep deprivation, you’re
grumpy...
“It affects, as you’ll see, your alertness,
your energy, your thinking, your productivity, your safety, your health and how
long you’re going to live...
“But what I want to concentrate on this
morning is this: the sleeping brain replenishes neurotransmitters that stimulate and
organize neural networks in the brain
responsible for memory, learning,
problem–solving and creativity.
[In
showing how the brain needs to be able to
retain and use information, he cited as an
example the need to be able to recall and
apply the many components of a golf
swing naturally and seamlessly]. This has
to become part of you, just like memorizing things in organic chem or whatever
have to be part of you.
“In order to be part of you, there have
to be connections at the synapse between
neurons in our brain. The materials necessary to make those connections are
happening in one period during the
24–hour cycle: in REM, or rapid eye movement sleep, the period in which most
dreams take place.
“Now the longest, most significant
period of REM sleep, as you’ll see in a
minute, is between the seventh and the
eighth hour of the night. So you people
who are getting less than eight hours of
sleep are literally operating on half a
brain. It’s amazing that you have any
long–term behaviors at all.”
Construction should begin this spring on a new home for the departments of
communication and modern and classical languages. The college purchased the
former Lincoln School property on Columbia Avenue between 10th and 11th streets
this summer.
news from
HOPE COLLEGE
Volume 34, No. 1
August 2002
On the cover
Our main image shows work by Bruce McCombs of the art faculty, part of a series of
paintings of Hope architecture that will be display in the gallery of the De Pree Art Center
beginning Homecoming Weekend. Please see pages 10 and 11 for more information.
At top center, the chapel tower is framed by the steelwork for the new science center.
Many campus improvements will greet the start of the school year. Please see page seven.
At top right, Phelps Scholars Program participants Jacob Kain of Williamston, Mich.,
and Tiffany Labon of Memphis, Tenn., talk during an evening gathering. For more on
the program, please see page 20.
Volume 34, No. 1
August 2002
Published for Alumni, Friends and
Parents of Hope College by the Office of
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someone in your community. An overlap
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Campus Notes
INSTITUTE DIRECTOR: Dr. Jacob E.
Nyenhuis has been named director of the
A.C. Van Raalte Institute.
He succeeds Dr. Elton J. Bruins ’50, who
has stepped down after serving as director
since the institute was established in 1994.
Dr. Nyenhuis has
been with the institute as a senior
research fellow since
September of 2001.
He retired from the
Hope faculty in May
of 2001 after 26 years
at the college, the last
17 as provost and
Dr. Jacob E. Nyenhuis
professor of classics.
“We are very pleased that Jack
Nyenhuis will continue serving Hope
College and the A.C. Van Raalte Institute
in the coming years,” said Alfredo
Gonzales, associate provost at Hope. “A
proven administrator and an internationally renowned scholar, he is eminently
well–qualified to direct the institute.”
Gonzales also complimented Dr.
Bruins’s strong leadership in developing
the institute since its founding. “He took
the idea of establishing an institute and
has worked very hard to develop it in such
a way that it is fast becoming the premier
institute for the study of Dutch–American
history,” he said.
“It has been just an absolute pleasure for
me to work with Elton over the past
eight–and–a–half years in his capacity as
director,” Gonzales said. “He exhibits great
love for Hope College, for the church, and
for the place of Dutch–American history as
one of the pillars of our community. He’s
just a terrific gentleman.”
Dr. Bruins, who is the Evert J. and
Hattie E. Blekkink Professor Emeritus of
Religion at Hope, is remaining involved
with the institute as a senior research
fellow.
Since joining the institute, Dr.
Nyenhuis has completed a history of 14th
Street Christian Reformed Church, which
is celebrating its 100th anniversary this
year. He is planning to write a history of
Hope, with a special focus on the period
since 1968, when the last history was published.
QUERETARO EXHIBIT: Hope and
Queretaro, Mexico, have celebrated their
continuing relationship through an exhibition of work organized by the college.
The exhibition “Shared Sensibilities:
Works by Hope College Faculty of Art and
Their Students” has been running at the
Museo del Arte in Queretaro, from
Thursday, July 4, through Sunday, Aug. 11.
The exhibition, curated by Professor
Delbert Michel of the art faculty, features
work in a variety of media, and is intended to demonstrate how artist/teachers and
art students communicate with each other
through their works. The selection demonstrates that students do not become artistic
clones, but instead share in the aesthetic
sensibilities of their mentors as they find
their individual voices.
“In a way that’s the exciting thing about
teaching,” Professor Michel said. “You’re
sharing what the art process means to you,
and then they take that in whatever direction their life leads them.”
Professor Michel noted that the learning happens both ways. “Students are
influenced by faculty, certainly but faculty
are also influenced by students.”
Generations of experience
W
ith family ties going
back generations, Hope was
a natural choice for Jim Van
Eenenaam ’88 when it came
time to pick a college.
Based on his own experience, staying
involved with Hope since has also been a
natural choice. Active as a volunteer
through the years, he has just started a
two–year term as president of the Alumni
Association Board of Directors.
Both of Van Eenenaam’s parents (John
’51 and Marianne ’56), all four of his grandparents (all Class of ’24), and one
great–grandfather
attended
Hope.
Grandmother Isla Pruim ’24 Van Eenenaam
was dean of women at the college from 1963
to 1968, and family trips to Holland, Mich.,
where she has continued to make her home,
were common.
“I grew up, essentially, with Hope
College,” said Van Eenenaam, who was
raised in Grand Haven, Mich., and now
lives in Dana Point, Calif. “We would run
around the campus, we’d go to Hope
Summer Repertory Theatre and Hope football games growing up. It was always a
part of my life.”
All the family history could have
weighed heavily on a decision–making
high schooler, but Van Eenenaam notes that
he didn’t feel pressured. Instead, coming to
Hope was a “natural progression” that he
continues to appreciate.
His two sisters also attended Hope:
Susan is a member of the Class of ’81, and
Julie of the Class of ’92. The three siblings
didn’t overlap while at the college, but he
was on–campus at the same time as cousins
Dyck Van Koevering ’87, Dirk Ver Meulen
’86, David Ver Meulen ’89 and Kate Van
Eenenaam ’88 Wilson.
“I was very fortunate to be in school at
the same time as a lot of my relatives,” he
said. “It forged friendships that continue to
this day.”
He also considers himself fortunate in
his academic experience, but not uniquely
so. “Just as many Hope students participated in an off–campus program or had great
professors and friendships that really influenced where they headed in life, those
things bolstered the whole experience,” he
said.
Van Eenenaam majored in business
administration and minored in political
science. He spent a semester studying in
Philadelphia, Pa., and a May Term in
Washington, D.C. His co–curricular activities included the Fraternal Society, of which
he was president, Student Congress, and
the Lacrosse Club.
His course of study led to career specialization in international trade. He was with
the federal government for a decade, first as
an import specialist with the U.S.
Department of Commerce in Washington,
D.C., and then as an international trade specialist with the U.S. Customs Service in
Long Beach, Calif. He was subsequently in
the customs and international trade consulting practice with Ernst & Young LLP for
three years, and since May of 2001 has
worked in the world trade management
services practice of Pricewaterhouse
With three generations and a sister at Hope before him, new Alumni Board
president James Van Eenenaam ’88 grew up with the college in his life. Based
on his own experiences, he is glad to stay involved.
Coopers LLP.
He completed an MBA in management
at Pepperdine University, and has taught
international business courses at the
University of California, Irvine.
His busy professional life is complemented by a full and rewarding family life.
He and his wife, Sblenda, have four daughters: Olivia (nine), Sofie (seven), Claire
(four) and Elena (18 months).
Van Eenenaam notes that while he
appreciates the way his academic and
off–campus experiences fostered his career
path, he especially values the broader character lessons he learned at Hope: “the
importance of developing opinions, beliefs,
defending things you stand for, and living
those out through your life––as a parent,
husband, friend and an employee of a
company,” he said.
“I think people recognize when an individual has strong values and lives by those
values,” he said. “Through all the fun times
and challenges I experienced during my
college years, Hope definitely assisted me
in creating that foundation.”
He correspondingly welcomes the
opportunity to give back, and while his
career has taken him far from West
Michigan, he has stayed involved in the life
of the college in a variety of ways. Initially,
he was active in Hope events in California
and as a volunteer for the Admissions
Office. He has been with the Alumni Board
since 1998, serving as vice president since
2000.
Van Eenenaam hopes that the Alumni
Board can serve as a liaison, helping to link
alumni with one another as well as with the
college and, along the way, with their own
Hope past.
“The Alumni Board is in a unique position to see and hear first–hand what is
happening at Hope. We can then take the
information out and communicate it to the
alumni in our areas through local events,”
he said. “And in turn we can bring back to
the school perspective on what’s happening
with our alumni and what their concerns
are.”
“It’s good for the alumni. It’s also great
for the school,” Van Eenenaam said. “If
we’re able to enhance that communication,
people can re–discover the meaning that
Hope had in their lives, and perhaps introduce Hope to a whole new generation.”
(See “Campus Notes” on page 13.)
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Events
Academic Calendar
Fall Semester ’02
Aug. 23, Friday––Residence halls open for new students, 10
a.m.
Aug. 23–26, Friday–Monday––New Student Orientation
Aug. 25, Sunday––Residence halls open for returning students, noon; Opening Convocation, Dimnent Memorial
Chapel, 2 p.m.
Aug. 26, Monday––Late registration, Maas Center auditorium, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Aug. 27, Tuesday––Classes begin, 8 a.m.
Sept. 2, Monday––Labor Day; classes in session
Oct. 4, Friday––Fall Recess begins, 6 p.m.
Oct. 9, Wednesday––Fall Recess ends, 8 a.m.
Oct. 11–13, Friday–Sunday––Homecoming Weekend
Nov. 8–10, Friday–Sunday––Parents’ Weekend
Nov. 28, Thursday––Thanksgiving Recess begins, 8 a.m.
Dec. 2, Monday––Thanksgiving Recess ends, 8 a.m.
Dec. 6, Friday––Last day of classes
Dec. 9–13, Monday–Friday––Semester examinations
Dec. 13, Friday––Residence halls close, 5 p.m.
Spring Semester ’03
Jan. 5, Sunday––Residence halls open, noon
Jan. 6, Monday––Registration for new students, Maas Center
auditorium, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Jan. 7, Tuesday––Classes begin, 8 a.m.
Feb. 7, Friday––Winter Recess begins, 6 p.m.
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.
Friday, Oct. 11
Friday, Nov. 22
Friday, Feb. 14
Friday, Oct. 25
Monday, Jan. 20
Friday, Feb. 28
Friday, Nov. 8
Friday, Jan. 31
Youth Football Day: Saturday, Sept. 7
Junior Days: Friday, April 4; Friday, April 11
Pre–Professional Day: Wednesday, May 22, 2002;
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
For further information about any Admissions Office event, please
call (616) 395–7850, or toll free 1–800–968–7850; check on–line at
www.hope.edu/admissions; or write: Hope College Admissions
Office; 69 E. 10th St.; PO Box 9000; Holland, MI; 49422–9000.
Alumni and Friends
Regional Events
Chicago, Ill.––Saturday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m.
A concert featuring the Beach Boys at Ravinia in
Highland Park. Admission is $10 per person for lawn
tickets. More information may be obtained by calling
Alumni Board Representative Kristin Tichy ’92 at (847)
729–4377 or Jim Van Heest ’78, regional advancement
director, at (616) 395–7778.
Chicago, Ill.––Thursday, Sept. 19, 6–8 p.m.
An after–hours reception at Rivers, 30 South Wacker
Drive. More information may be obtained by calling
Alumni Board Representative Kristin Tichy ’92 at (847)
729–4377 or Dan Schairbaum ’93 at (847) 675–0379.
Chicago, Ill.––Saturday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m.
A performance by Blue Man Group at the Briar Street
Theatre, 3133 N. Halstead, with an optional after–show
reception. Tickets are $53 per person. More information
may be obtained by calling Dan Schairbaum ’93 at (847)
675–0379 or Jim Van Heest ’78, regional advancement
director, at (616) 395–7778.
Community Day––Saturday, Sept. 7
Featuring a picnic on campus and a home football game
with Wooster College.
Homecoming Weekend––Friday–Sunday, Oct. 11–13
Includes reunions for 1987, 1992 and 1997.
Winter Happening––Saturday, Jan. 25
Alumni Weekend––Friday–Sunday, May 2–4
Includes reunions for every fifth class from ’38 through ’83.
For more information concerning alumni events, please call the
Office of Public and Alumni Relations at (616)395–7860.
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DePree Gallery
“Nate Cassie: Installation Work”––Friday, Sept. 6–Sunday,
Sept. 29
Work by Nate Cassie ’92 of San Antonio, Texas.
“BMOC: Bruce McCombs on Campus”––Friday, Oct. 11–
Sunday, Nov. 17
Paintings by Bruce McCombs of the art faculty depicting
views and architectural details of campus. There will be
an opening reception on Friday, Oct. 11, from 5 p.m. to 7
p.m. Professor McCombs will discuss his work during the
reception.
Juried Student Art Show––Tuesday, Dec. 3–Friday, Dec. 13
Work by Hope students.
The gallery’s school–year hours are Monday through Saturday from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
Knickerbocker Theatre
Downtown Holland at 86 East Eighth Street
Down from the Mountain––Friday–Thursday, Aug. 9–15,
7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Beijing Bicycle––Friday–Thursday, Aug. 16–22, 7 p.m.
and 9 p.m.
The Importance of Being Earnest––Monday, Aug. 26–
Thursday, Sept. 5
Bread and Tulips––Friday–Friday, Sept. 6–13, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
The Knickerbocker is closed on Sundays. Tickets are $5 for regular
adult admission and $4 for senior citizens and students. For more
information, please call (616) 395–7403.
Theatre
Everyman––Thursday–Saturday, Oct. 3–5
DeWitt Center, main theatre, 8 p.m.
Carousel––Friday–Saturday, Nov. 15–16; Wednesday–
Saturday, Nov. 20–23
DeWitt Center, main theatre, 8 p.m.
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 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from noon to
5 p.m., and may be called at (616) 395–7890.
Music
Christian Artist Series––Friday, Aug. 30: Jennifer Knapp,
guitarist/singer, and band; Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 9:30
p.m. Tickets will cost $10 for Hope students and $15 for the
general public, and will be on sale at the theatre lobby ticket
office in the DeWitt Center. The sale dates for student tickets
will be Friday-Saturday, Aug. 23-24, and Monday-Friday,
Aug. 26-30, and for the general public will be TuesdayFriday, Aug. 27-30. The ticket office will be open from noon
to 5 p.m., and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
Symphonette––Friday, Sept. 27: Dimnent Memorial Chapel,
8 p.m. Admission is free.
Wind Symphony––Tuesday, Oct. 1: Dimnent Memorial
Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
“Collage” Concerts––Thursday, Oct. 10: Dimnent Memorial
Chapel, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Admission is free.
Visiting Artist––Friday, Oct. 11: Paul Vondiziano, classical
guitarist, Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music, 8
p.m. Ticket information to be announced.
Faculty Recital Series––Sunday, Oct. 13: the “Anchor Trio”
featuring violinist Mihai Craioveanu, pianist Mansoon Han
and cellist Richard Piippo, and a program including works by
Mozart and Smetana; Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of
Music, 3 p.m. Admission is free.
Dave Liebman––Wednesday, Oct. 23: jazz artist,
Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
Orchestra––Friday, Oct. 25: Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8
p.m. Admission is free.
Faculty Recital Series––Sunday, Oct. 27: Wichers Auditorium
of Nykerk Hall of Music, 3 p.m. Admission is free.
Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble I––Friday, Nov. 8:
Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 7 p.m. Admission is free.
Faculty Recital Series––Sunday, Nov. 10: Wichers Auditorium
of Nykerk Hall of Music, 3 p.m. Admission is free.
Christian Artist Series––Friday, Nov. 15: Sarah Masen, guitarist/singer; Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m. Ticket
information to be announced.
Jazz Combos––Monday, Nov. 18: Wichers Auditorium of
Nykerk Hall of Music, 7 p.m. Admission is free.
Anchor Band/Jazz Ensemble I––Thursday, Nov. 21:
Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
(See “Events” on page six.)
NFHC August 2002
Legacies: A Vision of Hope
Fieldhouse dream closer to reality
Multipurpose facility being designed with community in mind
Hope’s effort to build a
multipurpose spectator
facility has entered a new
phase with the college
seeking local support for
the project, which is
being planned with
community use in mind.
Hope announced the community phase
of fund–raising for the DeVos Fieldhouse on
Tuesday, July 9, during a press conference
held at the former Western Foundry site at
Fairbanks Avenue and 8th Street.
Demolition of the vacated factory, which the
college purchased in late June, has already
started in conjunction with the project.
“We are very pleased to be sufficiently far
along with our fund–raising to announce that
this is a project that is going to happen,” said
President James Bultman ’63. “There is a
considerable ways to go yet on the
fund–raising part of it and also with the
acquisition of some properties, but we will
continue to work diligently on addressing
both of these matters.”
A total of $13.5 million has already been
raised or pledged for the anticipated $20
million project, which is part of the Legacies:
A Vision of Hope capital campaign. The
college hopes to raise $1.5 million from the
community as it seeks the final $6.5 million
for the facility.
“At the present time, we want very much
to give people in the community an opportunity to participate as they are able and as
they desire in this project,” President
Bultman said. “At first blush it may seem
since Hope is going to own and operate the
facility that this is a building just for Hope
College, but that’s never the way that we
envisioned it. The intention from the beginning has been to share this building with the
Holland community.”
“There is little doubt this facility will be
great for Hope––but I honestly believe it will
be even better for the Holland community,”
he said. “The setting and the facility will
totally transform the eastern gateway to the
campus and the community. Importantly
for the people and businesses in Holland,
this project will come with no tax or
bonding implications as would have been
necessary with the defeated Area Center
project and as is the case in virtually all community facilities.”
The fund–raising effort is being led by Jim
Jurries ’63 of Holland, who had also chaired
the fund–raising efforts for the Area Center
project that had been proposed in the latter
1990s. Jurries noted that he believes the fieldhouse will help meet a critical need for the
community.
“When President Bultman asked me to
volunteer to be the chairperson for this
fund–raising effort, I couldn’t refuse. The
need for a larger and newer spectator facility
remains,” he said. “Hope College now has
the wonderful opportunity to partner with
the city of Holland to develop on this site a
new entrance to our community.”
“I’m excited about what such a facility
will add to both Hope College and the
Holland community,” Jurries said. “With a
team of community volunteers, we hope to
raise sufficient funds to make the dream a
reality.”
The facility is being designed to help
enhance downtown’s “Eastern Gateway,”
and according to President Bultman the site
plan will emphasize green space and attractive landscaping in an open, park–like
setting. The building, designed to seat up to
3,500, is being named in recognition of a $7.5
million anchor gift from the Richard and
Helen DeVos Foundation.
Hope plans to begin construction in the
fall of 2003, with completion planned for late
in the fall of 2004.
Holland Mayor Al McGeehan ’66 noted
The new fieldhouse will be built on the former Western Foundry site property purchased by the college in late June. The factory stands just across Fairbanks Avenue
(foreground) where Ninth Street curves into Eighth. The main campus is out of view
at top left.
NFHC August 2002
Participants in one of the summer’s Hope basketball camps joined in the announcement of the community fund–raising phase for the DeVos Fieldhouse project. Uses
envisioned for the multi–purpose spectator facility include Hope and area high
school athletic contests, graduations, concerts, Tulip Time activities and other
community events.
that he has been pleased since the project was
proposed last spring by the emphasis the
college has placed on the community in its
planning.
“From the first time I heard of this
announcement, I heard ’This is for Hope, this
is for Holland Christian, and it’s for the
greater Holland community,’” he said. “We
need to remember that. We need to celebrate
that as we stand here together.”
“I know, whether we are alumni of Hope
or other schools, whether we’ve lived in
Holland all of our lives or just moved here
fairly recently, this facility will become a
showplace and a showcase of how Hope and
Holland build together––for the future, just
as we have built in the past,” McGeehan said.
The college is currently developing
program statements that will consider college
needs and community use. Potential uses
include intercollegiate athletic events, sports
events for local high schools, graduations,
concerts, Tulip Time events and other community events. President Bultman noted, for
example, that he intends for the building to
host Holland Christian’s basketball games,
particularly as future renovation activity will
make the Civic Center unavailable.
Hope teams expected to call the building
home include men’s basketball, volleyball
and women’s basketball.
The fieldhouse will provide the first
on–campus home court for the men’s basketball team in more than 70 years. Hope
has played its men’s basketball games at the
Holland Civic Center since the 1954–55
season. The team has not played its home
games in an on–campus facility since the
1929–30 season, when it moved from the
Carnegie Schouten gymnasium to the
Holland (National Guard) Armory, where
games were played until the Civic Center
was built.
The Dow Health and Physical Education
Center, opened on the Hope campus in 1978,
was designed as an activity–oriented facility,
and has served to a limited degree as a spectator facility for sports including swimming,
volleyball and women’s basketball.
McGeehan celebrated the importance of
the athletic venues that have preceded the
fieldhouse, and also celebrated the foundry
itself, and the role that it and its employees
played in the community. The business
operated for most of the 20th century. It
began as the Superior Foundry Company in
1916, and was purchased by Western
Foundry Company of Chicago, Ill., in 1920. It
closed in the fall of 2001.
“We don’t forget the old memories, but
it’s time that we start to build some new
memories for a new generation of young
men and women who are going to have the
joy of recreating in a much–needed new facility,” he said.
The college announced the spectator facility project and the leadership gift from the
Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, the
largest gift ever given to Hope for a capital
project, in March of 2001.
Legacies: A Vision of Hope is a
$105 million fund–raising effort that
has four primary components: renovating and expanding the science
center, constructing the DeVos
Fieldhouse, increasing the endowment, and addressing short–term and
long–term facility and space needs.
Thus far, the campaign has raised
$89 million.
For more information about the
campaign, please visit the college
on–line at www.hope.edu or call
(616) 395–7783.
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Fall Sports Schedules
2002 Cross Country Schedule
2002 Women’s Soccer Schedule
Saturday, Aug. 31.............................................BILL VANDERBILT
INVITATIONAL, 11 a.m.
Friday, Sept. 6 .................................at Aquinas Invitational, 5 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 13 ......................at UW Oshkosh Invitational, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 28.........MIAA Jamboree at Saint Mary’s, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Oct. 5.................at Ohio Northern Invitational, 11 a.m.
at Lansing CC Invitational, noon
Saturday, Oct. 19.............at Rochester, N.Y., Invitational, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Nov. 2............MIAA Championships at Alma, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Nov. 16...NCAA Regionals at Ohio Northern, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Nov. 23 ...NCAA Nationals at St. Olaf, Minn., 11 a.m.
Monday, Sept. 2 ..........................................at Siena Heights, 4 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 6 .........................................GROVE CITY, PA., 2 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 7.....................................................AQUINAS, noon
Wednesday, Sept. 11.................................SPRING ARBOR, 4 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 13 ............................................at Capital, Ohio, 1 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 14......................................at Otterbein, Ohio, noon
Wednesday, Sept. 18..............................................*CALVIN, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 21 ............................................*at Kalamazoo, noon
Tuesday, Sept. 24...................................................*at Adrian, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 28.....................................................*ALBION, noon
Wednesday, Oct. 2.....................................................*ALMA, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 5 .........................................................*at Olivet, noon
Tuesday, Oct. 8 ............................................*at Saint Mary’s, 5 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 12 ......................................................*at Calvin, noon
Wednesday, Oct. 16 ...................................*KALAMAZOO, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 19 .....................................................*ADRIAN, noon
Tuesday, Oct. 22.....................................................*at Albion, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 26 ........................................................*at Alma, noon
Wednesday, Oct. 30 ................................................*OLIVET, 3 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 2 .........................................*SAINT MARY’S, noon
Nov. 13–Dec. 1.............................................NCAA Championships
Home meets at Van Raalte Farm, east 16th St.
2002 Men’s Soccer Schedule
Fri.–Sat., Aug. 30–31 ......................at Anderson, Ind. Tournament
Friday, Sept. 6 ..............................................+CONCORDIA, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 7......................................+WIS.-OSHKOSH, 2 p.m.
Fri.–Sat., Sept. 13–14 ......................at Ohio Northern Tournament
Wednesday, Sept. 18..............................................*at Calvin, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 21..................................*KALAMAZOO, 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 24...................................................*ADRIAN, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 28 ....................................................*at Albion, noon
Wednesday, Oct. 2 ...................................................*at Alma, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 5 ..................................................*OLIVET, 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 9 ...............................................at Aquinas, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 12 ...............................................*CALVIN, 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 16.......................................*at Kalamazoo, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 19 ..............................................*at Adrian, 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 22 .....................................................*ALBION, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 26...................................................*ALMA, 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 30................................................*at Olivet, 3 p.m.
Nov. 13–Dec. 1.............................................NCAA Championships
*MIAA Game
+Cal Bergsma Memorial Tournament
Home games played at Buys Athletic Fields, 11th St. & Fairbanks Ave.
2002 Men’s Golf Schedule
Fri.–Sat., Sept. 6–7 ..................at Olivet Comet Classic, 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 10 ...................................................*at Albion, 1 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 14................at Tri–State, Ind., Invitational, 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 18 ..............................................*at Olivet, 1 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 21.....................................................*at Alma, 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 25 .....................................*at Kalamazoo, 1 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 28 ........at John Carroll, Ohio, Invitational, 8 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 1 .............................................at Spring Arbor, 8 a.m.
Friday, Oct. 4 .......................................................at Aquinas, 10 a.m.
Saturday, Oct. 5 .....................................................*at Adrian, 1 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 7 .......................................................*at Calvin, 1 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 10........................................................*HOPE, 1 p.m.
*MIAA Tournament
Home tournament played at Wuskowhan Players Club, 16111 Blair St.
2002 Women’s Golf Schedule
Mon.–Tues., Sept. 2–3 ............Lady Lake Classic at Grand Valley
Saturday, Sept. 7.......................................................*at Alma, 1 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 13 ..............................................at Knox, Ill., Inv., TBA
Saturday, Sept. 14..........................at Monmouth, Ill., Inv., 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 17..................................at Albion Invitational, TBA
Saturday, Sept. 21...................................................*at Calvin, 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 25......................................at Aquinas Inv., noon
Saturday, Sept. 28 .......................................................*HOPE, 1 p.m.
Fri.–Sat., Oct. 4–5.......................MIAA Championships hosted by
Kalamazoo at Tri–State, Ind.
*MIAA Tournament
Home tournament played at Winding Creek Golf Course, 4514
Ottogan (east 32nd) St.
2002 Football Schedule
Saturday, Sept. 7....................+WOOSTER, OHIO, 1:30 p.m. EDT
Saturday, Sept. 14 ........................at DePauw, Ind., 1:30 p.m. CDT
Saturday, Sept. 21...........................at UW–Platteville, 2 p.m. CDT
Saturday, Sept. 28 ...........................WHEATON, ILL., 1 p.m. EDT
Saturday, Oct. 5...............................................*at Alma, 1 p.m. EDT
Saturday, Oct. 12..........................++*KALAMAZOO, 2 p.m. EDT
Saturday, Oct. 19..........................................*at Adrian, 2 p.m. EDT
Saturday, Nov. 2 .............................*at Wis.–Lutheran, 1 p.m. CST
Saturday, Nov. 9 ......................................+++*OLIVET, 1 p.m. EST
Saturday, Nov. 16 ..........................................*ALBION, 1 p.m. EST
Nov. 23–Dec. 21...........................................NCAA Championships
*MIAA Game
+Community Day
++Homecoming
+++Parents Day
Home games played at Holland Municipal Stadium, 13th St. and
Fairbanks Ave.
Hear Hope football on WHTC–AM (1450) & WFUR–FM (102.9)
*MIAA Game
Home games played at Buys Athletic Fields, 11th St. & Fairbanks Ave.
2002 Volleyball Schedule
Saturday, Aug. 31....................................TRI–STATE, IND., 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 4 ...........................................*at Olivet, 6:30 p.m.
Fri.–Sat., Sept. 6–7...........................at Ohio Northern Tournament
Tuesday, Sept. 10 ..................................................*ALMA, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 12 ...........................................*at Adrian, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 14......................................at DePauw, Ind., 10 a.m.
Mac Murray, Ill., at DePauw, noon
Saturday, Sept. 18..................................*KALAMAZOO, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 20.....................................*SAINT MARY’S, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 25........................................*at Albion, 6:30 p.m.
Fri.–Sat., Sept. 27–28..................at Wittenberg, Ohio Tournament
Wednesday, Oct. 2............................................*at Calvin, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 9 .............................................*OLIVET, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 11......................................................*at Alma, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 16 .........................................*ADRIAN, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 19 ..........................................*at Kalamazoo, 11 a.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 23 ....................................*at Saint Mary’s, 7 p.m.
Fri.–Sat., Oct. 25–26......................Midwest Tournament at Calvin
Wednesday, Oct. 30 ..........................................*ALBION, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 2.....................................................*CALVIN, 1 p.m.
Tues.–Sat., Nov. 5–9...........................................MIAA Tournament
Nov. 13–Dec. 1.............................................NCAA Championships
*MIAA Match
Home matches played at Dow Center, 13th St. & Columbia Ave.
Events
(Continued from page four.)
Visiting Writers Series
Thursday, Sept. 26––Elizabeth Berg
Monday, Oct. 21––Richard Russo
Thursday, Nov. 14––Mark Doty and Elizabeth Rosner
Tuesday, Jan. 28––Peter Ho Davies
Thursday, Feb. 27––Glenis Redmond
Thursday, March 27––Robert Olen Butler and Elizabeth
Dewberry
Tuesday, April 22––Lucy Grealy and Mong Lan
All of this year’s readings will be at the Knickerbocker Theatre
beginning at 7 p.m. Live music by the Hope College Jazz Chamber
Ensemble will precede the readings 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.
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Dance
Aerial Dance Theatre––Friday–Saturday, Oct. 18–19
Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m.
Tickets are $7 for regular adult admission and $5 for senior citizens and students, and will be available at the door.
Student–Choreographed Dance Concert––Monday–Tuesday,
Nov. 25–26
Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
Steven Iannacone and Avi Kaiser Dance––Friday–Saturday,
Dec. 6–7
Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m.
Tickets are $7 for regular adult admission and $5 for senior citizens and students, and will be available at the door.
Traditional Events
Opening Convocation––Sunday, Aug. 25, 2 p.m.
Pull Tug–of–War––Saturday, Sept. 28, 4 p.m.
Nykerk Cup Competition––Saturday, Nov. 9
Christmas Vespers––Saturday–Sunday, Dec. 7–8
Honors Convocation––Thursday, April 24, 7 p.m.
Baccalaureate and Commencement––Sunday, May 4
Instant Information
Updates on events, news and athletics at Hope may be
obtained 24 hours a day by calling (616) 395–7888.
NFHC August 2002
Campus Notes
Active summer anticipates fall
Sometimes the
changes to campus
during the summer are
subtle.
And then sometimes it’s like this year.
A variety of highly visible improvements will greet students when they arrive
later this month.
Most noticeably, the new science center
has progressed from being a hole in the
ground to sporting girderwork that provides a sense of the building’s final shape.
Construction will continue throughout the
coming year.
As a part of the science center project, a
home on 12th Street has been moved to
14th Street between College and Columbia
avenues. The relocated home, named for
its former owner, retired music professor
Dr. Anthony Kooiker, will house seven
male students beginning this fall.
The project is
also prompting the
relocation of psychology’s
offices
from Peale to an
office building that
the
college
has
acquired on the north
side of 10th Street
east
of
Central
Avenue.
Dean Overman ’65
In other work, the
three northwestern racquetball courts in the
Dow Center have been converted for use as
weight and fitness rooms, each 2,400 square
feet. The weight room will have new equipment, and the fitness room will contain a mix
of old and new. The former weight room is
being made into a dance studio, and the
wrestling room next door, also a dance
studio, is having its floor refinished. All four
rooms will be air conditioned.
The theatre lobby patio of the DeWitt
Center has been replaced. The look east of
DeWitt has also changed, with the college
and city having replaced neighboring
street lights with lamp posts that offer a
period feel.
The college is adding two parking lots.
Already–extant is the former bank lot on
10th Street between Central and College
avenues. The college will complete a lot on
13th Street east of the railroad tracks this fall.
Two major property acquisitions will
facilitate future campus development.
Hope has purchased the Western Foundry
property on Fairbanks Avenue south of
Eighth Street, part of the site acquisition for
the DeVos Fieldhouse. The community
portion of the effort to raise funds for the
fieldhouse was announced at the site on
Tuesday, July 9 (see story on page five).
Hope has also purchased Lincoln
School, located on Columbia Avenue
between 10th and 11th Streets, with the site
destined to house the Martha Miller Center
for the departments of communication and
modern and classical languages. The
college hopes to start construction on the
center in the spring.
In addition to the work at Hope, neighboring Western Theological Seminary is
engaged in a major construction project of
its own. The seminary broke ground this
summer on a new wing being added to the
north side of its main building, near
Dimnent Chapel.
The opening convocation for the coming
school year, the college’s 141st academic
year, will be held on Sunday, Aug. 25, at 2
p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited, and admission is
free. MacTV will carry the convocation live
on local cable.
The convocation address will be delivered by author and attorney Dean L.
Overman ’65 of Washington, D.C., who will
present “Spera in Deo” (the college’s motto,
“Hope in God”).
Overman is a senior partner at Winston
& Strawn, an 840–attorney national law
firm that represents banks and
multi–national corporations. He was
partner–in–charge
of
the
firm’s
Washington, D.C., office from 1978 to
1986, and worked with his partner in the
Three racquetball courts in the Dow Center are being transformed into a two–story
fitness and weight center.
NFHC August 2002
The new science center has taken shape this summer, with the steelwork showing
the building’s form.
firm, former Vice President Walter
Mondale, on a variety of domestic and
international matters.
Prior to joining Winston & Strawn, he
served in the Ford White House, first as a
White House Fellow for Vice President
Nelson Rockefeller, and then as associate
director for policy review. The White House
Fellows program provides a year-long
opportunity to participate in government at
the highest levels; 11-19 men and women
each year work full-time as a special assistant to a cabinet member or senior
presidential advisor. He was previously a
partner in the law firm of D’Ancona,
Pflaum, Wyatt & Riskind.
Overman’s publications reflect his range
of interests, and include A Case Against
Accident and Self–Organization, an interdisciplinary book on logic, molecular biology
and particle astrophysics which argues that
scientific reasoning supports belief that
intelligence lies behind creation of the universe. He is author of a book on effective
writing style for business and the profession, and co–author of a book on financial
valuation of an acquisition candidate.
He is author of a theological/physics
article on Stephen Hawking’s no boundary
proposal, published by Princeton Theological
Review. He is also author or co–author of
chapters in five law books and six law
review articles on banking, commercial, corporate, tax and securities law, one selected
by Corporate Counsel’s Annual and Corporate
Practice Commentator as one of the 10 best
corporate law reviews.
Overman’s additional professional activities include speaking on authentic religious
pluralism at the conference “The World
After September 11: The Political,
Economic,
Military
and
Spiritual
Challenge,” held at Windsor Castle in
England earlier this year. During 1999–2000,
he was a Templeton Scholar at Oxford
University. He has also been a visiting
scholar and officer of Harvard University,
an adjunct fellow with the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, and an
adjunct professor at the University of
Virginia Law School. He co–authored the
plan that led to creation of the nationwide
“Communities in Schools Inc.,” which now
serves more than 2,500,000 students from
lower socio–economic backgrounds.
He graduated from Hope with a psychology major, with additional emphasis in
literature and philosophy. He was class
president, co–founded Young Life
Leadership at the college, co–captained the
men’s varsity basketball team and was a
member of the golf team. He completed his
law degree at the Boalt Hall School of Law
at the University of California, Berkeley,
and also attended Princeton Theological
Seminary and the University of California
and University of Chicago Graduate
Schools of Business.
Residence halls for Hope’s new students will open on Friday, Aug. 23, at 10
a.m. Orientation events will begin that
evening and will continue through
Monday, Aug. 26.
Returning students are not to arrive on
campus before noon on Sunday, Aug. 25.
Classes will begin on Tuesday, Aug. 27, at
8 a.m.
The Kooiker House moves from the
science center site to its new location
on east 14th Street. It will serve as
student housing beginning this fall.
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Timeless through the decades
Homecoming ’02
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
10:30 a.m. Chapel Service, Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
1–5 p.m. “Jumpstart Your Future: Career Conversations
with Hope Alumni,” Haworth Inn and Conference
Center. A seminar sponsored by the Office of Career
Services and academic departments including communication, economics/management, history, modern and
classical languages, and political science.
3 p.m. Biology Seminar, Peale Science Center, room B50.
“Linking animal behavior, movement and distribution in
a Colorado Mountain Stream,” by Aaron Hoffman ’96,
Ph.D. candidate at Colorado State University.
4 p.m. Chemistry Seminar, Peale Science Center, room
B50. Dr. Kyria Boundy–Mills ’87, assistant curator of the
Herman J. Phaff Yeast Culture Collection at the California
Institute of Food and Agricultural Research (CIFAR), a
program in the College of Agricultural Sciences at the
University of California, Davis.
5–7 p.m. Art Exhibition: “BMOC: Bruce McCombs on
Campus,” De Pree Art Center, gallery. Paintings depicting views and architectural details of campus; opening
reception featuring a talk by Professor McCombs.
8 p.m. Paul Vondiziano, classical guitarist, Wichers
Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music. Admission information to be determined.
8 p.m. Social Activities Committee (SAC) is holding its
eighth annual Hoedown at Teusink’s Pony Farm, 1468 W.
32nd St. Activities will include hayrides, country line
dancing, food and other fun. Admission is free and
alumni are invited.
Class of 1987 –– 15–Year Class Reunion Party. Advanced
registration required.
Class of 1992 –– 10–Year Class Reunion Party. Advanced
registration required.
Class of 1997 –– 5–Year Class Reunion Party. Advanced
registration required.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
Morning 25th Annual Run–Bike–Swim–Walk. The event
will include a physical enhancement program fair in the
Dow Health and Physical Education Center gymnasium
from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; a two–mile prediction walk;
a 5K run; 3/4–, 3.5– and five–mile criterium bicycling
events; and quarter–mile and half–mile swims. Starting
times vary for the competitive events. Please call the Dow
Center at (616) 395–7690 for more information.
8:30–9:30 a.m. Registration for Reunion Brunches,
Haworth Inn and Conference Center, lobby.
9 a.m. Alumnae Softball Game, Buys Athletic Fields. All
alumnae softball players are invited to participate in the
game against the current team. Former players should
contact Coach Karla Hoesch ’73 Wolters for more information at wolters@hope.edu or (616) 395–7701.
9:30 a.m. Class of 1987 reunion photo. Location
announced at registration.
9:45 a.m. Class of 1987 reunion brunch. Advanced registration required. Location announced at registration.
9:45 a.m. Class of 1992 reunion photo. Location
announced at registration.
10 a.m. Class of 1992 reunion brunch. Advanced registration required. Location announced at registration.
10 a.m.–5 p.m. Art Exhibition: “BMOC: Bruce McCombs
on Campus,” De Pree Art Center, gallery. Paintings
depicting views and architectural details of campus.
10 a.m. Class of 1997 reunion photo. Location announced
at registration.
10:15 a.m. Class of 1997 reunion brunch. Advanced registration required. Location announced at registration.
11 a.m. Alumni Men’s Soccer Game. Buys Athletic Fields.
Former players should contact Coach Steven Smith at
sdsmith@hope.edu or (616) 395-7569.
11 a.m. H–Club Registration and Reception, Haworth Inn
and Conference Center.
11:30 a.m. H–Club Luncheon, Haworth Inn and
Conference Center. Coach Karla Hoesch ’73 Wolters will
be recognized for her years of coaching (former players
will receive more information through a mailing soon), and
Robert “Gabby” Van Dis ’47 will receive this year’s “Hope
for Humanity” Award. Advanced registration required.
1 p.m. Homecoming Parade heads north on College
Avenue from 13th Street enroute to Holland Municipal
Stadium. Theme: “Hope...Timeless Through the
Decades.”
1:30 p.m. Men’s Soccer hosts Calvin College, Buys
Athletic Fields.
1:30 p.m. Pre–game show featuring the Battle Creek
Central High School marching band, Holland Municipal
Stadium.
2 p.m. Football hosts Kalamazoo College, Holland
Municipal Stadium. Halftime activities will include
music by the Battle Creek Central High School marching
band, introduction of the Homecoming Court, and
crowning of the king and queen.
5–6:30 p.m. Residence Life Alumni Gathering, Cook Hall,
lounge. A reception (time approximate––beginning
immediately after the game) for all former RAs/residence
life staff.
8:30 p.m.–1 a.m. Homecoming Ball, Haworth Inn and
Conference Center. Ticket information is available
through the Office of Student Development, (616)
395–7800.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13
10 a.m. Alumni Chapel Choir rehearsal, Dimnent
Memorial Chapel.
11 a.m. Homecoming Worship Service, Dimnent
Memorial Chapel. Featuring the Chapel Choir and
Alumni Chapel Choir, with the Rev. Dr. Timothy Brown
’73, the Hinga–Boersma Dean of the Chapel at Hope and
the Henry Bast Professor of Preaching at Western
Theological Seminary.
1–5 p.m. Art Exhibition: “BMOC: Bruce McCombs on
Campus,” De Pree Art Center, gallery. Paintings depicting views and architectural details of campus.
3 p.m. Faculty Recital, Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk
Hall of Music. The “Anchor Trio” featuring violinist
Mihai Craioveanu, pianist Mansoon Han and cellist
Richard Piippo, and a program including works by
Mozart and Smetana.
8 p.m. The Gathering, Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
Additional information concerning Homecoming activities may
be obtained by calling the Office of Public and Alumni Relations
at (616) 395–7860.
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NFHC August 2002
Campus Notes
Students craft masks for benefit
L ast time one student
artist participated; this
time it’s two.
Senior art majors Arianna Baker of
Wheaton, Ill., and Daniel Berhanemeskel of
Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia, each finished
pieces for “The Mask Project 2,” a statewide
fund–raiser coordinated by Hospice of
Michigan. The benefit will feature an exhibition and auction of more than 250 clay masks
painted by community organizations, and
local and national celebrities.
Baker was commissioned to create the
mirror–surfaced mask
submitted by the West
Michigan
Nursing
Advisory Council, rendering
a
design
envisioned by the
group. Berhanemeskel
created the mask
donated to the project by Hope.
The nursing council saw participating as
an opportunity to help build awareness of
the impending national nursing shortage.
One estimate projects the shortage at more
than 400,000 by 2020.
“We were concerned that many people
outside of health care do not realize the
seriousness of the nursing shortage,” said
council member Marsha Harrison, administrator of Rose Garden Senior Assisted
Living Homes in Grandville, Mich. “When I
read about the Hospice of Michigan Mask 2
Contest, it suddenly occurred to me that we
could enter a mask proposal that had a
mirror–like surface, symbolically reflecting
anyone who looked at our mask as a potential nurse.”
Harrison’s Awareness Work Group of the
council, which includes Dr. Deb Sietsema of
the Hope nursing faculty, liked the idea.
Once the entry proposal was selected to be a
finalist in the contest, Dr. Sietsema contacted
Baker, who is working in the De Pree Art
Center this summer.
It wasn’t Baker’s first Hope–connected
commission. Last year, she designed the
poster for the Oct. 2–3 Critical Issues
Symposium, “Earth Matters: Daily
Decisions, Environmental Echoes.”
“I feel honored to be asked to do things
like this,” she said.
This was the second time that
Berhanemeskel created a mask for one of the
Hospice events. He also created Hope’s
entry for Hospice’s previous mask fund–
raiser, in 2000.
Berhanemeskel was featured in the
April, 2002, issue of news from Hope College
for his role, with Dr. Neal Sobania ’68 of the
Hope faculty, in helping develop the exhibition “From Monastery to Marketplace:
Tradition Inspires Modern Ethiopian
Two Hope seniors have crafted masks being featured in a statewide Hospice of
Michigan benefit. Above is Arianna Baker with the mask she created for the West
Michigan Nursing Advisory Council; at left is the mask Daniel Berhanemeskel
(featured in April) created for Hope.
Painting,” which is on display in the African
Voices Focus Gallery of the National
Museum of Natural History for the next
year. Descended from a family of Ethiopian
artists, he worked with the Smithsonian
again this summer in helping develop two
forthcoming exhibitions.
This year’s masks will be displayed in an
exhibit that will run at Woodland Shopping
Center in Grand Rapids, Mich., from Friday,
Sept. 13, through Thursday, Oct. 24. Hospice
of Michigan is featuring photos of the masks
on its Web site, www.hom.org. Through the
auction, Hospice hopes to raise nearly
$500,000 to support patients and families
served by the organization.
New Trustees named
There have been three
appointments and five
reappointments to the Hope
College Board of Trustees.
Newly chosen to serve on the board are:
Theodore S. Etheridge III ’72 of West Olive,
Mich.; Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis of
Holland, Mich.; and the Rev. Dr. Charles E.
Van Engen ’70 of Glendora, Calif. All have
been elected to four–year terms.
Those re–elected to four–year terms are:
Max D. Boersma ’46 of Holland, Mich.; Dr.
David E. Cole of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Lynne R.
Walchenbach ’73 Hendricks of Grandville,
Mich.; Peter H. Huizenga ’60 of Oak Brook,
Ill.; and Nancy Lane of Columbus, Ohio.
Retiring from the board are the Rev. Dr.
Gregg A. Mast ’74 of Albany, N.Y., and Dr.
Caroline Simon of Holland.
J. Kermit Campbell of Traverse City,
Mich., continues to chair the board. Joel G.
Bouwens ’74 of Zeeland, Mich., was elected
to a second, two–year term as vice chair, and
Hendricks continues to serve as secretary.
Etheridge is president and chief executive
officer of the SVH Group in Holland, Mich.
A fourth–generation printer, Etheridge
joined his family printing business in 1972
and was appointed president/CEO in 1979.
When the company joined Wace Group in
1989, he was named head of the Wace US
Print Division. Etheridge and his business
partner purchased the SVH Group, a
high–end manufacturer of commercial printing and packaging, in 1999.
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Etheridge’s involvement in the life of the
college has included chairing the
Holland/Zeeland Business and Industry
Campaign in 2001, and serving as vice–chair
of the Hope in the Future capital campaign for
the Grand Rapids, Mich., region during the
1990s.
In addition to donating printing services
to many local organizations, his volunteer
activities have included serving on the Pine
Rest Foundation Board, Operation Smile
Board, Grand Rapids Christian School
Foundation Board and LaGrave Avenue
CRC Council. He also served as president
and program chair for the Grand Rapids Ad
Club. The Advertising Federation of Grand
Rapids presented him with its Silver Medal
in 1994 for his outstanding professional and
community contributions.
Etheridge and his wife, Barbara Bonzelaar
’73 Etheridge, have two daughters, Allison
Etheridge ’97 Houlihan and Lindsay
Etheridge ’00.
Dr. Hernandez Jarvis is an associate professor of psychology at Hope, where she has
been a member of the faculty since 1993.
In January she received the college’s
“Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement
Award,” which recognizes a member of the
Hope faculty who is a superior teacher and
has also contributed significantly in some
other area of professional life. Recognized
for her advocacy of multi–cultural awareness, she was a member of the task force that
developed the college’s cultural diversity
general education requirement, and was one
of the first faculty to teach the college’s
“Encounter with Cultures” course. Her
Theodore S. Etheridge III ’72
Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis
numerous activities outside the classroom
have included initiating the college’s Latina
film series.
Dr. Hernandez Jarvis, whose primary field
is cognitive psychology, holds her bachelor’s
degree from the University of Akron, and her
master’s and doctorate from Kent State
University. She completed her graduate
work immediately before coming to Hope.
She and her husband, Bruce, have two
children, Victor and Corinne.
Dr. Van Engen is the Arthur F. Glasser
Professor of Biblical Theology of Mission in
the School of World Mission at Fuller
Theological Seminary, where he has been on
the faculty since 1988. He was president of
the General Synod of the Reformed Church
in America during 1997–98.
From 1985 to 1988, he served as the
Assistant Professor of Missiology at Western
Theological Seminary. He was previously a
Rev. Dr. Charles E. Van Engen ’70
missionary for the RCA for 12 years,
working with his wife, Jean Taylor ’70 Van
Engen, in Chiapas, Mexico.
Dr. Van Engen is the author or editor of
more than 20 books. He has preached,
taught and spoken extensively on mission in
Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America,
Asia and the United States. He and Jean are
the founders of Latin American Christian
Ministries Inc., to provide leadership development opportunities within the Latin
American continent.
Dr. Van Engen holds a master of divinity
from Fuller, and Doctorandus and Ph.D.
degrees from the Free University of
Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Hope presented him with a Distinguished
Alumni Award in 1998. He also delivered
the college’s 1998 Baccalaureate sermon.
The Van Engens have three children:
Amelia Van Engen Spivey, Anita Van Engen
’98 Bateman and Andrew ’03.
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Faculty Profile
Bruce McCombs On Campus
A 36–painting series by
Bruce McCombs of the art
faculty explores qualities
of Hope architecture both
familiar and lesser–known.
Project “took o
Bruce McCombs didn’t
start out planning to fill the
gallery of the De Pree Art
Center with three dozen
paintings of campus.
It just happened that way.
“It just kind of took on a life of its
own––I wasn’t really sure where I was
going to go with it,” he said. “I never
intended to paint 36 paintings.”
Professor McCombs, whose work is
included in the permanent collections of
more than 20 major U.S. museums, has
conducted in–depth studies of specific
area sites before. In the fall of 2001, the
Grand Rapids Art Museum exhibited his
series of paintings of the Frank Lloyd
Wright–designed Meyer May House of
Grand Rapids. Some 26 watercolors he
painted of Marigold Lodge were featured
in an exhibition in the De Pree gallery in
January of 1994.
Marigold Lodge in particular made a
natural subject––he lives only a few blocks
away from the site, located on the north
side of Lake Macatawa. His daily presence
on campus made it even easier to paint
Hope.
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fessor of art who has be
Hope faculty since 1969
is interesting because it
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and in the angled ceilin
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Six views of campus, running clockwise from the bottom left: DeWitt Center at night; Van Zoeren Hall; Hope arch and Graves Hall; Haworth
Center entrance; Chapel interior; the library stairwell ceiling.
on a life of its own”
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Faculty member Bruce McCombs in his studio at home. Once he started creating
campus paintings, he became intrigued by his subject and couldn’t stop.
There will be an opening reception on
Friday, Oct. 11, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The gallery’s regular hours are Monday
through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is free.
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Faculty Kudos
Profs named to chairs
Maxine DeBruyn appointed to dance chair
Dance department
pioneer Maxine DeBruyn
has been appointed to
the college’s Dorothy
Wiley DeLong
Professorship in Dance.
Her appointment becomes effective
with the beginning of the forthcoming
2002–03 school year, and will continue
until she chooses to retire from the faculty.
The chair was established by Mr. and
Mrs. William P. DeLong; their children,
Dr. and Mrs. Jack DeLong, and Mr. and
Mrs. Ted DeLong; and friends and associates of Dorothy DeLong, who pioneered
efforts to establish dance instruction
within the Holland community. Dorothy
DeLong, who died in 1982, taught dance in
Muskegon until moving to Holland in
1948. As dance became accepted in
Holland, she first taught ballroom dancing
to high school students as an after–school
activity, and subsequently opened a
studio. She also worked with Holland’s
Dutch Dancers.
DeLong was a supporter of the college’s
Maxine DeBruyn
dance program since its fledgling days
under Professor DeBruyn’s guidance in
the mid–1960s. Hope presented her with a
Distinguished Service Award during
Dance V in 1979 in recognition of her role
in the development of the program and the
community’s cultural life.
Funded since 1985, the DeLong chair
has helped the department of dance retain
instructors for specialized courses and
guest artists for Hope dance concerts. The
college will continue to support such activities,
with
Professor
DeBruyn’s
appointment to the chair recognizing her
own central role in the department’s creation and development.
Professor DeBruyn, who is chair of the
department, joined the Hope faculty in
1965, and pioneered dance at Hope with a
single course. In the years since, she has
helped build the program to a full major.
Professional companies affiliated with the
college and Hope students present a
number of dance concerts during each
school year.
In addition to playing a leadership role
in developing the college’s dance program,
she has been active in professional associations and dance education locally to
nationally. Her professional activities
through the years have ranged from
serving as a U.S. representative to the
International Board of Dance and the
Child International, a member of the
Counseil International de la Danse,
UNESCO, Paris; to serving as vice chair of
the Michigan Council for the Arts and
Cultural Affairs; to serving as director of
the National Association of Schools of
Dance. She has held a number of leadership roles with the American Alliance for
Health, Physical Education, Recreation
and Dance (AAHPERD), and is a past
president of AAHPERD’s Midwest
District.
Among other recognition, she received
the “Honor Award” from Michigan
Association of Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance in 2000 and from the
Midwest District of AAHPERD in 1999;
the Midwest District’s Meritorious Service
Award in both 1996 and 1998; a recognition award from the Midwest District for
service and leadership in 1988; and a
service and leadership award from
AAHPERD in 1987. She received a
Presidential Citation from the National
Dance Association for dance assessment in
1992. In 1989, her work in the arts was
cited in the U.S. Congressional Record and
in a Joint Concurrent Resolution from the
State of Michigan Legislature.
Hope presented her with the Ruth and
John Reed Faculty Achievement Award in
2001. The college’s Alumni H–Club, comprised of former student athletes, honored
her in both 1985 and 1996.
Michael Silver named to science chair
Dr. Michael Silver of
the chemistry faculty has
been appointed to the
college’s Frederich
Garrett and Helen Floor
Dekker Endowed
Professorship.
Dr. Silver was recognized during an
investiture dinner held at the college in
May. His appointment to the chair is for
10 years.
The professorship was established
through the estate of Dr. Fred H. Decker
and Marie V. Buranek Decker to provide
financial support for a faculty member
who has an established record of excellence in biophysics, biomedicine or
biology. Dr. Decker was a 1921 Hope
graduate.
The chair was established in the 1980s.
Its first recipient, Dr. Harvey Blankespoor,
was appointed in January of 1988 and
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retired at the end of the 2001–02 academic
year.
Dr. Silver has been a member of the
Hope faculty since 1983. He has received
both campus and national recognition for
excellence as a teacher and scholar.
In 1997, he received the college’s
Provost’s Award for Excellence in
Teaching, cited not only for his work with
students but also for his role as a mentor
to other faculty members. In 1988, the
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
of New York City presented him with one
of only 10 Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar
Awards nationwide for demonstrated
promise and ability in teaching and performing imaginative research. In 1992,
the foundation named him one of only
eight recipients nationwide of an award
through its Scholar/Fellow Program for
Undergraduate Institutions, selecting him
to mentor a post–doctoral fellow.
Dr. Silver’s research emphasis is inorganic/physical chemistry, and he has also
mentored more than 60 Hope students in
collaborative research.
Michael Silver
Through the years he has received
more than $1 million in support of his
research from external agencies, including
Research Corporation, the American
Chemical Society Petroleum Research
Fund, the National Science Foundation
and Dow Corning Corporation. He has
had more than 20 publications in a variety
of scholarly journals, and is co–author of a
textbook, “Introductory Chemistry,”
which is currently in its second edition.
Dr. Silver co–founded the college’s
Teaching Enhancement Workshop for
new members of the Hope faculty in 1987.
He has also served as advisor of the college’s Chemistry Club.
He was the 1998 president of the West
Michigan Section of the American
Chemical Society (ACS). In 2001, he was
technical program director of the 33rd
Joint Regional ACS Meeting.
Dr. Silver graduated from Fairleigh
Dickinson University with a bachelor of
science degree in chemistry in 1975, and
completed his master’s and doctorate at
Cornell University in 1979 and 1982
respectively. He was a post–doctoral
fellow at Northwestern University during
1982–83.
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Campus Notes
(Continued from page three.)
Current and visiting members of the
Hope faculty with works in the exhibition
include: Michel Conroy, mixed media;
Daryn Lowman, ceramics; Billy Mayer,
ceramics; Bruce McCombs, watercolor and
prints; Delbert Michel, painting; and Steve
Nelson, photographs.
Current and former students with works
in the exhibition are: Arianna Baker, photography; Daniel Berhanemeskel, painting; Dan
Brewer, woodcut; Jeff Brown, etching; Nate
Cassie, drawing; Steve Haulenbeek, pencil
drawing; Nathan Klay, painting; Brian
Leicht, ceramics; Kristin McMillen, photography; Amy Reckley, drawing and painting;
John Saurer, sculpture; and Dana Steuhower,
pencil drawing.
ACCOUNTING EXCELLENCE: Two
years ago, Hope began offering two options
for their accounting majors: a 126–hour
program and a 150–hour optional program
for those wishing to become certified public
accountants.
Many students are choosing the second
option with impressive results. While the
passage rate for first–time candidates to pass
the entire exam (four separate parts) is only
15 percent nationally, the passage rate for the
Class of 2001 at Hope was 30 percent.
Additionally, the passage rate for parts
passed to parts taken was an impressive 45
percent, also well above the national average.
When the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants (AICPA) increased the
requirements for taking the exam and for
licensing as a CPA from 120 to 150 hours of
academic credit, most state licensing boards
followed suit. While students at most colleges and universities are entering graduate
school to fulfill the new expanded requirements and are therefore forced to delay
graduation and defer entering the workforce
by one year, Hope is offering a 150–hour
alternative which can be completed in four
years rather than five, translating into a significant cost savings.
Among the new CPAs from the 2001 class
are Betsy VandenBerg, Dan Besselsen and
Hope Baker Scholar Robin Oppenhuizen.
There have been other notable achievements by the most recent graduating class.
Brian Bredeway was recently honored as
an “Outstanding Accounting Student” by
the IMA (Institute of Management
Accountants); Kurt Lemmen received a
scholarship from Becker Convisor to
attend their CPA review classes; both
Stacey Mellema and Kristin Reinhard
were selected by the accounting faculty to
receive the Alfred S. Andrews Award for
Outstanding Accounting Student at Hope;
and Stacey Wabeke was honored in May
by the Financial Executive’s Institute (FEI),
receiving a $1,000 competitive scholarship.
FACULTY KUDOS:
Christopher Barney of the biology faculty
received the Distinguished Alumni Award
from the Wright State University Alumni
Association on Friday, May 17.
The award, the association’s most prestigious, is annually granted to a Wright
State University (WSU) graduate who has
attained a significant level of achievement
in his or her chosen field and has demonstrated a positive impact on a local, state
and/or international level. A 1973 WSU
honors graduate with a major in biology,
Barney will be honored during an evening
awards ceremony and reception at the
university.
Dr. Barney is the T. Elliott Weier Professor
of Biology at Hope, where he has been a
member of the faculty since 1980. He was
appointed to his endowed chair in 2001.
Jackie Bartley of the English faculty is the
author of Bloodroot, a book of poetry published in April by the Edwin Mellen Press.
The poems in Bloodroot are divided into
three general thematic sections. The first
section focuses on Professor Bartley’s mother
and childhood; the second reflects on work
in science, particularly medical science; the
third explores societal issues and culture,
ranging from racism and teen school shootings to travel in Bolivia.
Professor Bartley wrote some of the
poems in Bloodroot during residencies at the
Ragdale Foundation and the Mary Anderson
Center for the Arts, as well as through
support from the Arts Foundation of
Michigan in partnership with the Michigan
Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. She
has held an additional residency from the
Ragdale Foundation this summer.
Van Raalte’s title as founder... is history with a spin
Editor’s Note: Through his research on the
Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte, Dr. Elton Bruins
’50 of the A.C. Van Raalte Institute has
concluded that Hope’s first president, the Rev.
Philip Phelps Jr., deserves recognition as Hope’s
founder because he developed the college itself
(with Rev. Van Raalte retaining credit for
founding the Pioneer School and Academy from
which Hope grew). The Grand Rapids Press
published the following column (reprinted with
permission) by Lakeshore bureau chief Ben
Beversluis on Sunday, May 5, during Tulip
Time in Holland. However the concept of
“founder” is interpreted and applied, in any case
it is clear that both men played key roles in
getting Hope started.
among insiders.”
After Phelps and his family left town
around 1884, the Van Raalte family stayed
and continued to wield considerable power.
Bruins found a clue to what seems to have
happened when he noticed the cornerstone
of Van Raalte Hall. The historian’s light bulb
went off when he saw the stone from 1902
listed three Van Raalte family members
among the 17 faculty at Hope.
Those included Gerrit Kollen, president
and son–in–law of Albertus; John
Kleinheksel, vice–president and son–in–law
of Albertus, and Christina Gilmore, dean of
women and daughter of Albertus.
Clearly, the family members were in a
position to, uh, shall we say, put some spin
on dear old Dad––who had created more
than just a few enemies around town in his
later years.
No icon in Holland
history looms larger than
the Rev. Albertus C. Van
Raalte.
Consider his statue––all 9 feet of it on the
edge of Centennial Park, depicting a man
who barely stood 5 foot 3 as he led
immigrants to settle in Holland.
But now it seems that old Al is getting
more credit than he might be due.
This past week, just as tourists headed for
Tulip Time and parents gathered to harvest
their Hope College graduates, came word
that Van Raalte, that granddaddy of all
things Dutch in Holland, really isn’t the
founder of Hope College.
Midwife, maybe, in that Van Raalte
helped bring about its birth, but not the
founder.
No, now we’re hearing that honor should
go to the Rev. Philip Phelps Jr.
It’s news that cuts deep into Holland’s
folk history and self–image.
And just as surprising, perhaps, is the
source of this revelation: Elton J. Bruins,
Hope College professor emeritus, director of
the Van Raalte Institute and the man who
wrote the plaque on that statue dedicating it
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Rev. A.C. Van Raalte
Rev. Philip Phelps Jr.
in honor of “the founder of the City of
Holland and Hope College.”
preceded the college. But Phelps was the
man who pushed for college–level courses
and who laid his career on the line to create
a college.
“I’m affirming that Phelps did all the
work, so he deserves the credit,” Bruins said.
Until now, Phelps merely got credit as
Hope’s first president.
So just how was the Van Raalte myth
enhanced while Phelps was lost in his
shadow? It seems a bit of historical spin
doctoring went on back in the early 1900s.
Early on, Hope struggled financially.
Debt and an overreaching vision of Hope as
a university led to faculty in–fighting and
Phelps’ dismissal, somewhat in disgrace,
Bruins pointed out. In fact, Phelps for six
years refused to vacate the president’s
quarters, maintaining he had been
improperly dismissed and was owed several
thousand dollars.
“He became an embarrassment by
hanging around Holland,” Bruins noted,
“which further tarnished his reputation
’Say it ain’t so!’
We can almost hear the cry rising from
Hope’s stately halls: “Say it ain’t so!”
But it does appear so.
Bruins has written a footnote–packed
scholarly paper detailing letters between
Van Raalte and Phelps. He persuasively
argues that the vision, the hard work and the
personal sacrifice of Phelps earn him the title
of founder of Hope College.
“As I’ve gotten into that, it surprised me
because I slowly came to the conclusion that
we have given too much credit to Van
Raalte,” said the man who has spent much of
his career defending Van Raalte. He wrote
the plaque inscription based on the accepted
histories of city and college that credit Van
Raalte as founder of both.
Undoubtedly, Bruins said, Van Raalte
had a huge impact, founding the community
and the Pioneer School, the high school that
Credit was shifted
Bruins cites early histories of Hope which
recognize Phelps as founder, and he points
out that later histories shift that credit to Van
Raalte.
There’s a saying that history becomes
legend becomes myth.
In this case, Bruins said, “The myth was
concluded when the Van Raalte family was
so prominent in Hope College in the start of
the 20th century.”
Asked if there was any irony in the
director of the Van Raalte Institution
debunking the myth, Bruins chuckled.
“I’m not trying to put down Van Raalte. I
spent much of my career the past 30 years
defending him, gathering his papers,” says
the man with 1,729 files on Van Raalte,
gathered from across this country and the
Netherlands.
“But I like to use what the Apostle Paul
said, ’Speak the truth in love.’”
And what about criticism, some heat from
the community at large. Any fears?
No, he says with a soft laugh. “I think
there’s more interest in whether the tulips
will bloom on time.”
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Alumni News
Class Notes
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, July 9, 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, Sept. 24.
A number of the entries in this issue have been
gleaned from the May and July, 2002, issues of the college’s athletic training newsletter. news from Hope
College periodically borrows from such departmental
newsletters so that the information can be enjoyed by
as broad an audience as possible.
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1930s
Titus Van Haitsma ’32 of Holland, Mich., has been
honored for demonstrating exceptional interest in and
support of Hope College by the college’s Second
Century Club. A retired dentist and long involved in
the college in a variety of ways, he received the club’s
“Presidents’ Award” during a dinner at the college on
Tuesday, June 18.
Ethel Leestma ’33 Swets of Palm Coast, Fla., celebrated
her 90th birthday on June 10. Her children and extended family honored her in Holland, Mich., during the
week of July 4.
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1950s
P.J. Booi ’50 of Holland, Mich., is serving a two–year
term as president general of the National Society
Colonial Dames XVII Century. The society has 13,000
members in 47 states, with its headquarters off DuPont
Circle in Washington, D.C. Her staff includes a genealogist to help prospective members trace their ancestry
to the 17th century in America. She notes that numerous Society scholarships afford opportunity to Native
Americans and other deserving young people. The
position requires extensive travel, which she is thankful her good health permits.
Elton Bruins ’50 of Holland, Mich., has retired after
serving as director of the A.C. Van Raalte Institute at
Hope College since 1994, but will remain involved with
the institute as a senior research fellow. He is the Evert
J. and Hattie E. Blekkink Professor Emeritus of Religion
at Hope, and was a member of the college’s religion
faculty from 1966 until retiring in 1992.
William Jellema ’50 and Lois England ’51 Jellema in
July enjoyed a Caribbean cruise in celebration of their
50th anniversary (Aug. 8). They were joined by their
sons (William Jellema, Calvin Jellema ’79 and Jonathan
Jellema ’81) and families.
Phyllis Vander Schaaf ’53 Good of Butler, N.J., was in
Israel at Christmastime in 2000, when the choir she
belongs to sang at various sites when they were invited
to sing there. The choir of the Community Church of
Smoke Rise, N.J., also sang a half–hour concert at the
Notre Dame Cathedral during the two days they were
in Paris, France, while changing planes. She notes that
along with the singing experience, the day tours of
Israel were most memorable.
John VerBeek ’56 of South Haven, Mich., is chairman
of the South Haven Community Hospital Board of
Trustees.
Arthur Martin ’57 of Hilo, Hawaii, belongs to the
Hawaii Island Retired Teachers Association and
AARP, and is a radio disc jockey on KCIF Christian
radio.
Ethel Peelen ’57 VanIstendal has retired from teaching
ESL in Louisville, Ky. She moved to Holland, Mich.,
and is helping to homeschool her daughter’s six children. She notes that her breast cancer is gone, treated
alternatively.
Robert Winter ’57 of Berea, Ohio, is president of the
Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio.
The parish he serves (St. Thomas, Berea) just installed
and dedicated a new mechanical–action pipe organ
built by Karl Wilhelm Inc. of Mont St.–Hilaire, Quebec.
Ev Nienhouse ’58 of Ellsworth, Mich., wrote the article
“The History of the Navajo Code Talkers,” published
in The Grand Rapids Press on Sunday, June 30, an effort
to make readers aware of the history that inspired the
recent John Woo film Wind Talkers. The article was a
rewritten version of a research–intensive piece he had
done for the quarterly newsletter he produced during
one of his four–month stints at Rehoboth Christian
School, which serves the Navajo nation.
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Alumni Board appointments
During its May meeting,
the Alumni Association
Board of Directors chose
its officers for 2002–03 and
appointed one new
member.
The board also made four reappointments.
James Van Eenenaam ’88 of Dana
Point, Calif., formerly vice president, has
been elected president, succeeding Bruce
Brumels ’59 of Lake City, Mich. Beth
Snyder ’94 of Arlington, Va., has been
elected vice president, succeeding Van
Eenenaam. Marion Hoekstra ’65 of
Laurel, Md., who was among those
appointed to an additional term on the
board, will continue to serve as secretary.
The board’s new member is junior Liz
Tyndell of Livonia, Mich., who will serve
as Junior Class Representative.
Chad Carlson ’03 of Holland, Mich, formerly Junior Class Representative, was
appointed Senior Class Representative.
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1960s
Win Burggraaff ’61 of Columbia, Mo., retired in
December of 2001 as a professor of Latin American
history at the University of Minnesota, but continues to
teach a reduced load.
Carol Sikkema ’62 Kamper of Rochester, Minn., is
retiring at the end of the year from both elected office
and college teaching. She has served in local government for 31 years, first on the Rochester City Council
and for the last 25 as a member of the Olmsted County
Board. She is also a political science professor at
Rochester Community and Technical College.
Charles Becher ’63 of Woodlawn, Tenn., retired from
United Methodist Ministry on July 1, 2001. He served
as interim campus minister at the Wesley Foundation
at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn.,
from September of 2001 through May of 2002.
Margaret “Peg” Wasserman ’63 Becher of Woodlawn,
Tenn., retired from nursing in September of 2001.
Karen Daniels ’64 Bables of Holland, Mich., is a senior
programs manager with the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society in Grand Rapids, Mich. She has two
children, Ryan McFall (a professor at Hope) and Kelly
McFall.
Earl Johnson Jr. ’64 of Johnstown, N.Y., has been busy
writing over the past few months. In 2000, Geneva
Press published his book Selected to Serve, A Guide for
Church Officers. It went into a second printing in the
spring of 2002. In addition, two other books will be
published soon, also by Geneva Press: The Presbyterian
Deacon: An Essential Guide (September, 2002) and
Witness Without Parallel: Biblical Texts That Make Us
Presbyterians (January, 2003). The latter examines eight
critical biblical texts in Presbyterian and Reformed tradition, demonstrates their centrality, engages in a
current exegetical study, shows how they have been
used (or abused) in the Reformed tradition, evaluates
the way in which the Presbyterian church has used or
repudiated the tradition and makes suggestions for the
future. Johnson also published four exegetical articles
in the July, 2002, issue of Lectionary Homiletics.
Robert Mackay ’64 of Stevensville, Mich., has been
elected to a two–year term as chairman of the Michigan
Credit Union League Board of Directors. He has
served on the board since 1996, and has been chief executive officer of the Berrien Teachers Credit Union since
1982.
Ted Oegema Jr. ’67 became chair of the Department of
Biochemistry at Rush University in Chicago, Ill., on
Monday, July 1. He holds a joint appointment in orthopedic surgery and biochemistry. He will continue his
research in osteoarthritis as well.
Peter Schaible ’68 is executive director of the
Subscription Website Publishers Association and
Andrea Korstange ’02 of Grand Rapids,
Mich.,
formerly
Senior
Class
Representative, was appointed Most
Recent Graduating Class Representative.
In addition to Hoekstra, who represents the Mid–Atlantic Region, those
reappointed to the board were: Nancy
Dirkse ’81 DeWitt
of Waukesha, Wis.
(Central Region);
Greg Van Heest ’78
of
Minneapolis,
Minn.
(North
Central Region);
and Ray Vinstra
’58 of Kalamazoo,
Mich. (Southwest
Liz Tyndell ’04
Michigan Region).
Garett Childs ’01 of Grand Rapids,
Mich., concluded his service on the
board as Most Recent Graduating Class
Representative.
Tyndell is majoring in biology and
psychology. Her long–range goal is a
career in medicine.
Next year will be her third year on the
college’s Student Congress. She served
editor of its Web site. He and his wife moved to
Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod from Mendham, N.J.,
following his retirement as manager of corporate communications for the National Exchange Carrier
Association. For more than 20 years, he was president
of SunDance New Media (nee Sirkin Schaible Design),
a marketing communications consulting firm.
Previously he was director of communications for the
United States Golf Association.
70s
1970s
David Dethmers ’70 has been appointed mutual
mission coordinator of the Reformed Church in
America. He is developing, coordinating and supervising mutual mission opportunities, including
classis–to–classis partnerships, exchanges between
RCA leaders and mission partners, and volunteer
opportunities. He and his wife have recently relocated
to Grand Rapids, Mich.
Eileen Verduin ’70 Raphael of Holland, Mich., is
manager, dealer and Web communications, with
Steelcase Inc.
Sanderson Palmer ’71 of Grand Haven, Mich., is proud
to announce that he has had a mediocre professional
first as a representative for Dykstra Hall
and then represented Kollen Hall, and
next year will serve as Junior Class
Representative.
She is a member of the Delta Phi
Sorority. She will be resident assistant in
the Delphi House next year, and will also
serve on the sorority’s executive committee for work projects.
Tyndell served as a moraler for the
2004 Pull team as both a freshman and a
sophomore, and has also participated in
her class’s song section in the Nykerk
Cup Competition.
She will serve as co–publicity chair for
the Social Activities Committee (SAC)
during 2002–03, and is among the students organizing a Pom Pon club that
will begin with the new school year. Her
activities at Hope have also included the
Dance Marathon fund–raiser for DeVos
Children’s Hospital and New Student
Orientation.
Tyndell is the daughter of Allan and
Diane Tyndell of Livonia. She is a 2000
graduate of Livonia Stevenson High
School.
life. On the other hand, he notes that he married a wonderful woman; got a master’s degree that was only
good for his ego; has an outstanding daughter, Sarah,
who is a civil engineer; and is slowly fulfilling his quest
to bicycle across all 50 states. “It is a satisfying life,” he
writes.
Kay Oae ’72 Ikawa of Hillsdale, Mich., moved to
Continental Airlines 3.5 years ago after 16 years at
Northwest Airlines to start their new routes to Japan
and Hong Kong and their new Asia Pacific
Department.
Roger Buffum ’73 of Grand Rapids, Mich., for the past
12 years has been regional sales manager for Panelfold
Inc., a Miami–based manufacturer of operable walls
and accordion folding partitions. His 18–state territory
includes the Midwest and Northeast.
Dan Dykstra ’74 retired in November of 2001 as a
colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He and his wife and
their three children, Andrew, Chris and Erika, now live
in Woodbridge, Va. Since leaving active duty he has
been involved in life cycle management and integrated
logistics support concept development for the
Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle.
Donald Troast ’74 is with the United States Navy, and
recently completed a seven–month deployment as
Command Element Chaplain with the 15th Marine
Alumni Board of Directors
Officers
James VanEenenaam ’88, President, Dana Point, Calif.
Beth Snyder ’94, Vice President, Arlington, Va.
Marion Hoekstra ’65, Secretary, Laurel, Md.
Board Members
Holly Chapman ’80 Borgman, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Bruce Brumels ’59, Lake City, Mich.
James Bursma ’87, Stow, Mass.
Chad Carlson ’03, Holland, Mich.
Nancy Dirkse ’81 DeWitt, Waukesha, Wis.
Eva Gaumond ’90, Bridgewater, N.J.
Leah Sunderlin ’79 Haugneland, Katy, Texas
John Hensler ’85, Royal Oak, Mich.
Andrea Korstange ’02, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Neil Petty ’57, Honeoye, N.Y.
Karen Gralow ’75 Rion, Schenectady, N.Y.
Kristin Tichy ’92, Glenville, Ill.
Liz Tyndell ’04, Livonia, Mich.
Mary Browning ’69 Vanden Berg, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Greg Van Heest ’78, Minneapolis, Minn.
Ray Vinstra ’58, Kalamazoo, Mich.
John Witte ’54, Vero Beach, Fla.
Liaison
Lynne Powe ’86, Alumni Director
Please accept our invitation to visit
the Alumni Office on the internet:
www.hope.edu/alumni
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Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable),
which established the first main operating bases in
Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring
Freedom. He is now with Marine Air Control Group 38
at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, Calif.,
and was recently selected for the rank of commander.
Arlene Dekker ’75 Akker of Muskegon, Mich., is the
team leader for the Red and White Academy Team for
ninth grade at Muskegon High School, where she
teaches English and social sciences.
Michael VandenBerg ’76 is the educational consultant
for the Regional Synod of Canada and pastor of an
RCA congregation, Christ Community Church in St.
Albert, Alberta, Canada. In the spring, he conducted
funeral services for one of four Canadian soldiers killed
by American friendly fire in Afghanistan. He is currently assisting the Regional Synod of Canada in its
restructuring process, and serves on the Classis of the
Canadian Prairies Executive Committee. He is in the
process of establishing his fourth LOVE Inc. church services network in North America, and is on the advisory
board of Words of Hope.
Mark Bombara ’77 of Hudsonville, Mich., is the clinical
manager for the outpatient clinics with Holland
Community Hospital’s Behavioral Health Services. He
also provides psychotherapy services, and marital and
pre–marital counseling.
Dan Kiel ’77 of Zeeland, Mich., is a second grade
teacher with the Fennville Public Schools.
Vicki Hedlund ’77 Reeves is general master of the 13th
Judicial Court of Florida, assigned to the Probate and
Guardianship division in Tampa.
Dave Smith ’77 is traveling to Canberra, Australia, for
a six–month assignment as a staff exchange software
engineering officer with the Australian Defence
Material Organization, the Australian equivalent of the
U.S. Department of Defense. He hopes to vacation in
Australia and New Zealand following the work assignment, and then return to Colorado.
Michael Drahos ’78 has accepted the position of secondary principal for the Madison Central School
District in Central New York. Mike will be responsible
for the 7–12 program for the rural school district, which
serves a student population of around 500.
Amy Lusky ’78 Wright of Chamblee, Ga., is a senior
scientist for CIBA Vision Corporation in Atlanta, Ga.
She is working with human corneal epithelial tissue
culture systems and toxicity studies for lens care products and contact lens biomaterials.
Calvin Jellema ’79 and Jonathan Jellema ’81, on behalf
of their entire family, give thanks to God on the occasion of their parents’ (William Jellema ’50 and Lois
England ’51 Jellema) 50th wedding anniversary, for
(among other things) their parents’ faithfulness to one
another, to their children (including their
daughters–in–law), to their grandchildren and to succeeding generations.
Cynthia McOwen ’79 Poole is living in Birmingham,
Mich., and reports that she is retraining on how to be an
American after living in Singapore, Japan and England
the past seven years. She and her husband have two
children, Scott (19) and Kimberly (17).
80s
1980s
Luanne Ramaccia ’80 Little lives in Omaha, Neb., with
her husband and two kids, Jonathan (12) and Anna
(five). She notes that she “will never get used to the
tornado sirens!”
John Weiss ’81 of Grand Rapids, Mich., earlier this year
became president and CEO of Design Plus Inc. He has
been an executive with the firm for the past two years.
Pamela Matheson ’82 of Dumont, N.J., is associate
dean of planning and assessment with the University
of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey.
Charles Winter ’82 of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is a professor and associate chair of chemistry in Wayne State
University’s College of Science. He recently received
funding from DaimlerChrysler Corporation for a
project titled “Exploration of New Hydrogen Storage
Materials for Automotive Use.” As the automotive
industry moves toward hydrogen–powered vehicles,
goals include finding hydrogen–containing chemical
compounds that are non–toxic, low–cost and low in
environmental impact.
Jeff Gaikema ’83 has relocated to Houston, Texas, with
his wife and three boys, Matthew (seven), Grant (five)
and Andrew (two). Jeff is the marketing director for
the southern U.S. and Mexico with BP’s Gas and Power
Stream.
Timothy Sale ’83 of Holland, Mich., is an insurance
agent with Wolbrink Lievense Insurance Services.
Ross Helmus ’84 is an audio video systems designer at
Premovation Audio in Holland, Mich.
Michael Spitters ’84 of Ada, Mich., has been serving on
the pastoral staff at Cascade Christian Church in Grand
Rapids, Mich., since September of 2000.
James Behrenwald ’85 of Clarksville, Mich., is president of AIS Construction Equipment and co–owner of
Behrenwald Farms, and has also been a football coach
for Lakewood High School for 16 years. He was recently elected to the board of directors of Union Bank.
Marion Belzer ’86 of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is
an editor, tours and travel, with airtours international
GmbH.
Dwight Beal ’87 of Holland, Mich., received the first
“Good Neighbor of the Year” award from the city of
Holland’s neighborhood preservation program on
Thursday, May 16, 2002. He was recognized for his
commitment to his neighborhood and its residents.
Chuck Zwemer ’87 is an associate professor of biology
with Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.
Christina Eisenmann ’88 Boerigter of Roseville, Minn.,
recently returned to the work force after enjoying some
extended time off with sons Peter (four–and–a–half)
and Stevie (16 months). Christina now works as an
account manager for Arden Architectural Specialties, a
commercial building products company in St. Paul,
Minn.
Dan Boerigter ’88 of Roseville, Minn., continues to
practice corporate law and estate planning with the law
firm of Yost & Baill LLP in Minneapolis, Minn.
Lara Daverman ’88 Helmus works at Jubilee
Ministries, a Christian Community Development
Organization in Holland, Mich.
David Kuiper ’88 of Zeeland, Mich., who is senior vice
president and mortgage loan officer at Republic Bank
in Holland, Mich., has been recognized as one of the
top producing mortgage loan officers in the country for
the fourth year in a row, according to Mortgage
Originator Magazine. In 2001, David closed more than
725 mortgage loans totaling in excess of $97 million.
David offers a wide variety of mortgage loans to his
customers, including construction, jumbo, conventional, government, bridge and lot loans. He is active with
the West Michigan Lakeshore Association of Realtors
and the Holland Area Home Builders Association, and
has been lending along the Lakeshore for more than 12
years.
Amy Martin ’89 Hodson of Lawton, Okla., is an
employee resources consultant with International
Paper Company of Memphis, Tenn.
Kathy Mendels ’89 Keegin of Holland, Mich., is
job–sharing in a first grade classroom in the West
Ottawa Public Schools and enjoying time with sons
Curtis and Peter.
Erik Nimz ’89 of Killingworth, Conn., is a senior
research investigator with Pfizer Inc. Veterinary
Medicine Research & Development in Groton, Conn.
Don Timlowski ’89 of Holland, Mich., is vice president
and sales manager for the Holland/Muskegon area
with National City, and was been named a Circle of
Distinction Gold Award winner for 2001. He helped
580 mortgage customers obtain $56 million last year,
and was named to Mortgage Originator Magazine’s Top
Alumni Symphonette Tour
The Symphonette will mark
its 50th with a first: an alumni
tour abroad.
The Hope College Symphonette will
celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2003. It
was in 1953 that Dr. Morrette Rider, then
conductor of the orchestra at Hope,
decided to form a chamber orchestra
that would tour as a counterpart to the
Chapel Choir. In the decades since, the
Symphonette has traveled to almost
every state in the union and Canada,
and has taken six foreign tours.
To celebrate the milestone anniversary, the Alumni Symphonette Tour
Committee has planned a concert tour to
Spain and Portugal for Monday, June 23,
to Sunday, July 6, 2003. The tour will be
preceded by rehearsals in Holland
(Mich.) on Friday–Sunday, June 20–22.
The
tour
will
cost
$2,900.
Symphonette alumni interested in participating, or additional information,
should call Dr. Robert Ritsema ’57, professor emeritus of music, at (269)
857–2353 or e–mail ritsema@hope.edu.
The registration deadline is Sunday,
Sept. 15.
An interactive look at
NFHC August 2002
HOPE
200 Nationwide Production list.
Frances Schrock ’89 Traisman of Seattle, Wash., has
been promoted to director, ticket sales administration,
for the Seattle Mariners Baseball Club.
90s
1990s
Mary Rust ’90 Armeli of Eastchester, N.Y., is teaching
psychology part–time at Pace University on the New
York City and Pleasantville, N.Y., campuses.
Jennifer Haveman ’90 Bertram of Holt, Mich., is
finance director with the Michigan Republican State
Committee in Lansing, Mich.
Thomas DeWitt ’90 of Holland, Mich., is assistant vice
president of employee benefits at Grand Bank in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
David Lovett ’90 of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a Level 3
application programmer with University of Michigan
Health Systems.
Paul McKimmy ’90 is director of outreach and technology for the University of Hawaii–Manoa College of
Education. He is developing distance education
teacher certification programs for the state’s neighbor
islands.
Peter Schultz ’90 of Loudon, Tenn., participated in the
RAGBRAI bicycle tour across Iowa in late July.
David Chapple ’91 of Grand Blanc, Mich., was the
poster artist for the May 31–June 2 2002 Concours of the
Classic Car Club of America Museum. He was also
among the artists featured in the Invitational
Automotive Art Exhibition that was part of the event.
Grace Vera ’91 Favier and Barry Favier ’94 live in
Holland, Mich. Grace has been a stay–at–home mom
for four–and–a–half years to sons Carter (age
four–and–a–half) and Aaron (age two). Barry is a
financial analyst II for Herman Miller Inc. “Family life
is great and we have God to thank!,” they write.
Elizabeth Blom ’91 Harper was honored as “Teacher of
the Year” in the Fairfield (Mont.) Public Schools.
Ethan Henderson ’91 of New York City in the fall will
begin pursuing an M.Div. at Drew University.
Karen Looman ’91 of Portsmouth, Va., has started a
medical residency in pathology, aiming her training
toward forensic pathology. She is training at Eastern
Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va., after separat-
ing from the U.S. Navy.
Todd Abbott ’92, his wife and their nine–month–old
daughter moved from Germany to Virginia earlier this
summer. He has completed service with the U.S. Air
Force, and has entered a pathology residency at the
University of Virginia.
Jacqueline Bost ’92 Hussey and her husband recently
won the Classic Division II 2–step at the Fresno (Calif.)
Country Classic. They will be competing in Division I
for the remainder of the year, leading up to UCWDC
Worlds Competition in Nashville, Tenn., in January of
2003.
Anne Bryson ’92 O’Brien and her husband are living
in Caen, France, with their three children, Caroline
Elizabeth, John Christopher and Cavan Alexander.
Marty Williams ’92 is executive assistant to the mayor
of Southfield, Mich., Brenda L. Lawrence.
Laura Bachelder ’93 is executive director of the Tinker
Swiss Cottage Museum in Rockford, Ill. She has been
with the museum since 1997, the first two years as
curator.
Heidi Buttrey ’93 has joined Hanon McKendry as art
director to its creative team. She was previously an art
director for The Image Group in Holland, Mich.
Anna Rangel ’93 Clawson is a school social worker
with the Holland (Mich.) Public Schools.
Regina Swiatalski ’93 of Sturgis, Mich., has been
named assistant vice president of Sturgis Bank & Trust
Co.
Bob Toth ’93 of Salt Lake City, Utah, authored a review
of “Lower Extremity Injury Evaluation: An Interactive
Approach” in the April issue of the NATA News.
Adam Warber ’93 this month is beginning a
tenure–track position as an assistant professor of political science at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Jonathan Book ’94 of Holland, Mich., is in his third
year serving Faith United Church of God in Grand
Rapids, Mich., as an associate (youth) pastor. He and
his wife have three children, Kelsey, Austin and
Braden.
Anna–Lisa Cox ’94 of Chicago, Ill., met her husband
(please see “Marriages”) at Fourth Presbyterian Church
in the spring of 2000. He had moved from California
and she was recently returned from England, but it
turned out that they grew up only 40 miles apart and
that he was also a GLCA college graduate (Kalamazoo
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College). She recently completed her doctorate on race
relations in the Midwest (please see “Advanced
Degrees”) and is currently revising the thesis for publication. She is a reader in residence at the Newberry
Library, and also director of the library’s Rural History
Seminar program. On Thursday, Nov. 5, she will be
presenting a talk on race, community and equality in
19th–century Michigan at the Woman’s Literary Club
in Holland.
Rob Farrell ’94 of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and two colleagues presented a paper during the National
Association of EMS Physicians Annual Conference in
Arizona in January.
Dai Wessman ’94 graduated from medical school in
June (please see “Advanced Degrees”), and was
inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical
Society on April 16, 2002, and received the Louis H.
Mendelsen award in cardiology. He began his residency in internal medicine at Naval Medical Center in
San Diego, Calif., on June 17, 2002.
Rachel Moore ’95 Arnold has left MultiState
Associates after more than six years to pursue an
opportunity as the state policy manager of the National
Apartment Association (NAA). NAA represents apartment owners and managers, and is located in
Alexandria, Va.
Eric K. Foster ’95 has moved to Dallas, Texas, for five
months, working as political director for the United
States Senate campaign of Ron Kirk, former mayor of
Dallas. Expected to be the deputy campaign manager
for the re–election campaign of his former boss and
mentor, Anthony A. Williams (mayor of Washington,
D.C.), Eric decided to help Kirk in what is currently a
“neck and neck” race since Williams has no major
opponents for his re–election bid. Before working for
Williams, Eric was communications director and chief
of staff for U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice
Johnson, who currently represents part of Dallas. Eric
plans to return to Washington after the Nov. 5 election.
Stephanie Haag ’95 Greenwood of Hudsonville,
Mich., is academic coordinator with Davenport
University, assisting in the management of academic activities for the university’s on–line courses and
programs.
Carl Haan ’95 of Lansing, Ill., recently returned from
the national tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat. He was playing second keyboard in the pit
orchestra on tour after playing for the six–month run of
the same production in Chicago, first at the Royal
George Theater and then at the Chicago Center for the
Performing Arts. He was also just nominated for a
Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding Musical
Director for his work on NINE: The Musical last fall at
Circle Theatre. This fall he will be the musical director
for the Chicago premiere of The Wild Party, by Michael
John LaChiusa, going up at Circle Theatre.
Peter Hicks ’95 is director of operations with
Rural/Metro Ambulance in Bastrop, Texas.
Jeanne Kuhajek ’95 is a post–doctoral fellow with
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research in Lincoln,
New Zealand.
Laura Weier ’95 Schewe and Steve Schewe ’95 have
relocated to Bradenton, Fla. Laura “retired” from
teaching elementary education in the Kalamazoo
(Mich.) Christian School system and is enjoying the
endless rewards of being a full–time mom. Steve has
been employed with Stryker Instruments since graduation, and is currently a sales representative. They
have two sons, Andrew Jared “A.J.” (age two) and
Nathan Christian (four months).
Corie Britton ’95 Visscher of Zeeland, Mich., is in
her seventh year at Rosewood Reformed Church
in Jenison, Mich., where she is the associate youth
director.
Michael Weiss ’95 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is logistics
coordinator with Transcorr National Logistics in
Wyoming, Mich.
Amy White ’95 this month is beginning graduate
studies in the master’s program of applied social
research at West Virginia University in Morgantown.
Robert G. (George) Wiesenthal ’95 of Wheaton, Ill.,
notes that he is involved in the Democratic Party,
peace, pacifism, animal rights, environmentalism,
yoga, equal rights and liberal causes.
Patricia Dyer ’96 Bruininks and her family are moving
to Conway, Ark., where she will begin teaching as an
assistant professor of psychology at Hendrix College in
the fall.
Meg Abfall ’96 Frens is rejoining the athletic training
faculty at Hope College.
Matthew Garvelink ’96 graduated from U.S. Air Force
Officer Training School at Maxwell AFB in
Montgomery, Ala., on Friday, June 28, and has been
commissioned as a second lieutenant. He is now
serving with the 56th Security Forces Squadron at Luke
Air Force Base in Phoenix, Ariz.
Chris Heaton ’96 is completing his residency at Christ
Hospital in Chicago, Ill.
Wendy Hughes ’96 of Waterford, Mich., is serving as
an examiner for the National Athletic Trainers’
Association Board of Certification.
Christopher Marting ’96 and Alicia Fortino ’97
Marting moved to Berkley, Mich., in June. Christopher
started an emergency medicine residency at Botsford
Hospital in July. Alicia is the director of public relations at United Way of Genesee County. Their son
Brandon is now two and, they write, “loves to stir up
trouble and always has an opinion... wonder where he
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got that from?”
Amy Otis ’96 is returning to the Office of International
of Education at Hope College after a year–long leave of
absence studying at the Torchbearer Bible School in
Holsbybrunn, Sweden. Previously office manager and
coordinator of special programs, she has been promoted to assistant director.
Cara Weckwert ’96 of Kalamazoo, Mich., is a registration specialist/graduate RN with Bronson Methodist
Hospital.
Thomas Akland ’97 started his residency in pediatric
medicine at Sparrow Hospital and Michigan State
University in Lansing this summer.
Brooke Budde ’97 has started a residency in pediatrics
at Bi–County Community Hospital in Warren, Mich.,
and The Children’s Hospital in Detroit, Mich.
John DuPeron ’97 and Jeff Oegema ’97 are joint CEO’s
of Scionics, a computer software company based in
Germany that provides database design, software creation, Web interface design, hardware integration and
consulting services to the scientific researc community.
Jonathan Fly ’97 of New York City is the assistant to
the director of programming at the Joyce Theater. He
is also in a professional training program for dance
administrators at Pentacle Dance Works, where he is
managing the ChameckiLerner Dance Company.
Kelly Gilroy ’97 of Grand Rapids, Mich., works in
pharmaceutical sales for Pfizer.
Matthew Lappenga ’97 and his wife have moved to
LaCrosse, Wis., where he has started a three–year podiatric surgical residency.
Peter Liechty ’97 has started a neurosurgery residency
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Doug Roberts Jr. ’97 of East Lansing, Mich., has joined
the Michigan Chamber of Commerce’s Business
Advocacy Team as director of environmental and regulatory affairs.
Marka Cross ’97 Steensma of Byron Center, Mich., has
transferred to Michigan State University College of
Human Medicine to complete her final two years of
medical school at the medical campus in Kalamazoo,
Mich.
Matthew Steensma ’97 of Byron Center, Mich., started
his residency in orthopaedic surgery at Spectrum
Health in Grand Rapids, Mich., in July.
Daniel Styf ’97 of Vienna, Va., is director of quality
programs with the Alliance of Community Health
Plans in Washington, D.C.
Bradley Andresen ’98 of Gaithersburg, Md., is doing
post–doctoral work with the National Institutes of
Health/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research in Bethesda, Md.
Anthony Auriemma ’98 will be finishing his Juris
Doctor degree at John Marshall in Chicago, Ill., during
the next year.
Daniel Capps ’98 and Krista Brewer ’98 Capps are
leaving for Honduras for two years and three months.
They will be serving as Peace Corps volunteers.
Jonathan Charnin ’98 in 2003 will start his anesthesia
residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital
in Boston.
Brandon Graham ’98 and Jane Roeters ’98 Graham
recently moved to Hudsonville, Mich. Graham has
been working for the past three years as the assistant
athletic director at Jenison Junior High School, where
he also taught physical education and coached junior
varsity football. This coming fall he will be taking on
the role of assistant principal at the junior high school
as well as returning to Hope to coach football with
Coach Dean Kreps. Jane has earned tenure at
Hamilton Middle School, but will take a year’s leave of
absence from teaching sixth grade to stay home with
May 2002 graduation honors
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Jessica L. Abbott; Mayetta, Kan.
Carrie R. Arnold; West Bloomfield, Mich.
Katherine F. Bode–Lang; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Kari J. Boss; Charlevoix, Mich.
Teresa Boyer; Rochester, Minn.
Brian J. Bredeway; Holland, Mich.
Amy M. Brower; Hamilton, Mich.
Lori A. Brown; Cass City, Mich.
Meredith E. Care; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Camy C. Clift; Bellevue, Mich.
Kristopher G. De Young; Belle Mead, N.J.
Sarah M. Dieter; Colorado Springs, Colo.
Rebecca A. Dignum; Cedar Springs, Mich.
Emilie A. Dirkse; Holland, Mich.
Jessica A. Droste; Ionia, Mich.
Julie A. Green; Interlochen, Mich.
Whitney E. Hadanek; Charlotte, Mich.
Karen E. Hahn; Midland, Mich.
Elizabeth A. Helder; Holland, Mich.
Wendy J. Huizenga; Zeeland, Mich.
Adrienne J. Hull; St. Joseph, Mich.
James R. Hull; Grand Ledge, Mich.
Elizabeth R. Husa; Hudsonville, Mich.
Elizabeth A. Kauffman; Lakeview, Mich.
Patrick R. Kinne; Syracuse, N.Y.
Shari A. Lewis; Brighton, Mich.
Stacey L. Mellema; Muskegon, Mich.
Christopher L. Meyer; Holland, Mich.
Andrea R. Mulder; Midland, Mich.
Lori L. Mulder; Holland, Mich.
Heidi J. Osmundson; Adams, Minn.
Briony E. Peters; Menominee, Mich.
Kristin L. Pott; Holland, Mich.
Rachael S. Pridgeon; Montgomery, Mich.
Dana L. Ranschaert; Holland, Mich.
Jennifer A. Raupp; Marysville, Mich.
Kristin A. Reinhard; Rochester, N.Y.
Stephanie D. Schaap; Holland, Mich.
Elizabeth A. Schofield; Niles, Mich.
Piper R. Spratt; Kalamazoo, Mich.
Leanne M. VanDuinen; New Era, Mich.
Andrew D. Vanover; Ada, Mich.
Jennifer R. Walvoord; Holland, Mich.
Leland H. Webb; Phoenix, Ariz.
Heather M. Wicklund; North St. Paul, Minn.
Megan J. Zeneberg; Roscommon, Mich.
Jessica L. Zimbelman; Stanton, Mich.
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Jenna E. Anderson; Cincinnati, Ohio
Rebecca L. Austin; Hopkins, Mich.
Amy E. Avery; Macomb, Mich.
Elizabeth A. Barton; Troy, Mich.
Hannah E. Bira; Flushing, Mich.
Jodi L. Boom; Coopersville, Mich.
Breanne M. Borin; Midland, Mich.
Kristen E. Borst; Jenison, Mich.
Tracy L. Branderhorst; Hudsonville, Mich.
Audra L. Bredeweg; Jenison, Mich.
Michael A. Brevet; Metuchen, N.J.
Robin C. Brintnall; Hudsonville, Mich.
Marta C. Bultman; Fremont, Mich.
Sarah L. Burgess; Niles, Mich.
Laura M. Burns; Ann Arbor, Mich.
Kathleen J. Bush; Holland, Mich.
Elizabeth R. Carter; Troy, Mich.
Jessica L. Case; Portage, Mich.
Diana M. Castanon; Holland, Mich.
Laura B. Collins; Mount Pleasant, Mich.
Elizabeth A. Corrigan; Hinsdale, Ill.
Cristin R. Cramer; Chesaning, Mich.
Davalyn P. DeSimone; Troy, Mich.
Christen J. DeVries; Holland, Mich.
Lisa K. DeVries; Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.
Tara R. Dunham; Traverse City, Mich.
Josiah A. Dykstra; Sioux City, Iowa
Jason L. Firek; Howell, Mich.
Jani L. Fisher; Fruitport, Mich.
Mark J. Foreman; Plainwell, Mich.
Bradley D. Garling; Buffalo Grove, Ill.
Lori A. Geuder; Zeeland, Mich.
Meredith K. Gipson; Beulah, Mich.
Candace M. Groenhof; Holland, Mich.
Jessica M. Hanba; Reed City, Mich.
Michael H. Hanley; Traverse City, Mich.
Amber D. Hastings, Mason, Mich.
Katherine A. Hefferan; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Lauren A. Hermes; Arlington Heights, Ill.
Sarah M. Hokenson; Kalamazoo, Mich.
Sarah E. Hooker–Shannon; Haslett, Mich.
Erin E. Hoopes; Chestertown, Md.
Jennifer M. Huber; Farmington Hills, Mich.
Peter K. Hunsberger; Holland, Mich.
Nathan D. Joos; Okemos, Mich.
Elizabeth E. Jorndt; Park Ridge, Ill.
Sarah E. Josuns; Portage, Mich.
Matthew C. Kalajainen; Dewitt, Mich.
Alicia M. Kaneshiro; Kaneohe, Hawaii
Laurie A. Karsten; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Marie L. Keuning; Grandville, Mich.
Rachael L. Kieft; Spring Lake, Mich.
Elizabeth C. Kilgore; Byron Center, Mich.
Anna R. King; Downers Grove, Ill.
Lyndsay A. Klepper; Traverse City, Mich.
Samuel J. Klooster; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Sara J. Koetje; Grandville, Mich.
Andrea C. Korstange; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Charles M. Kroll; Caledonia, Mich.
Kammy J. Larr; Hopkins, Mich.
Tracy M. Leman; Elmhurst, Ill.
Kurt M. Lemmen; Williamston, Mich.
David J. Lichtenberger; Lasing, Mich.
Morgan H. Llewellyn; Fremont, Mich.
Jeffrey W. Lubbers; Kentwood, Mich.
Jeremy M. Lydic; Eldridge, Iowa
Tracy M. Maddock; Oxford, Mich.
Samuel D. Martin; Alma, Mich.
Nancy L. Mayo; Clarksville, Tenn.
Curtis S. Mejeur; Kalamazoo, Mich.
Andrew M. Mezeske; Holland, Mich.
Steven M. Miles; Mount Pleasant, Mich.
Carol K. Miller; Hickory Corners, Mich.
Misha M. Molter; Holland, Mich.
Jennifer M. Mudra; Glenview, Ill.
Andrew M. Oosterheert; Grandville, Mich.
Jennifer L. Peeks; Holland, Mich.
Erin S. Peet; Traverse City, Mich.
Aranh Pen; Holland, Mich.
Andrea L. Philipps; Kentwood, Mich.
Ross D. Poll; Hudsonville, Mich.
William M. Powers; South Haven, Mich.
Melissa S. Praamsma; Holland, Mich.
Andrea L. Preston; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Lisa R. Purcell; North St. Paul, Minn.
Amy M. Quillo; Cadillac, Mich.
Sarah E. Rahmel; Naperville, Ill.
Kari A. Rakosky; Hart, Mich.
Garth B. Rotman; Zeeland, Mich.
Kara L. Schaberg; Saline, Mich.
Joel D. Schick; Tecumseh, Mich.
Kristin L. Schneider; Naperville, Ill.
Sarah L. Schripsema; Kalamazoo, Mich.
Sarah E. Schultz; St. Joseph, Mich.
Matthew A. Scogin; Portage, Mich.
Yoko Sezai; Tochigi, Japan
Michelle E. Shreve; Whitehall, Mich.
Larissa A. Smith; Lake Zurich, Ill.
Laura E. Smith; Dearborn, Mich.
Richard D. Smith; Athens, N.Y.
Sarah J. Smith; Brighton, Mich.
Tanner L. Smith; Grinnell, Iowa
Dane R. Splinter; Libertyville, Ill.
Katie R. Steele; Battle Creek, Mich.
Matthew J. Stehle; Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dana N. Stehouwer; Cadillac, Mich.
Kelly R. Stouten; Holland, Mich.
Kimiko D. Sugimoto; Nyankunde,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Brian D. Sutter; Midland, Mich.
Betty Tang; Holland, Mich.
Jay R. Thwaites; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Jessica L. Tischendorf; Libertyville, Ill.
Mari E. Titcombe; Minnetonka, Minn.
Katie R. Torgerson; Weidman, Mich.
Gregory D. Town; Pittsford, Mich.
Sara A. Troyer; Howell, Mich.
Shannon L. Tucker; Marshall, Mich.
Jared T. Van Haitsma; Scottville, Mich.
Rachel A. Van Wieren; Grant, Mich.
Paula R. VanBoxel; Muskegon, Mich.
Lora J. VanUffelen; Holland, Mich.
Stephanie K. Venard; Holland, Mich.
Brooke L. Vivian; Mc Bain, Mich.
Catherine C. Wemette; North St. Paul, Minn.
R. Rodney Westrate; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Abby L. Williams; Grand Haven, Mich.
Emily M. Wineland; Chelsea, Mich.
Christopher B. Winkler; Boyne City, Mich.
Erica L. Winn; Northville, Mich.
Chad E. Wisser; Lansing, Mich.
Kevin M. Wolthuis; Holland, Mich.
Jennifer A. Yoh; Wooster, Ohio
CUM LAUDE
Nathan C. Alkire; St. Ignace, Mich.
Dawn A. Allers; St. Anne, Ill.
Daniel A. Atallah; Larnaca, Cyprus
Derek N. Augsburger; Libertyville, Ill.
Amanda V. Ausen; Flint, Mich.
Sarah E. Ayres; Plainwell, Mich.
Heather M. Bachelor; Prior Lake, Minn.
Benjamin B. Bacon; Portage, Mich.
Rachel A. Barone; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Julie A. Barton; Morton Grove, Ill.
Katie L. Baumann; Zeeland, Mich.
Kellie P. Bleecker; Shepherd, Mich.
Anna C. Bongiorno; Oxford, Mich.
Anne M. Bradley; Shaker Heights, Ohio
Diana S. Bray; Muskegon, Mich.
Dawn M. Broekhuis; Holland, Mich.
Bethany M. Buege; Evart, Mich.
Anne M. Busse; Niles, Mich.
Mary A. Byrn; West Lafayette, Ind.
Heather C. Carr; St. Joseph, Mich.
Errin L. Clapp; Kalamazoo, Mich.
Colleen R. Cleary; Ottawa, Ill.
Blaine M. Cook; Niles, Mich.
Keith L. Cravotta; Vernon, N.J.
Zachary T. Deater; Utica, Mich.
Jodi M. DeHaan; Mason, Mich.
Katie L. DeHaan; Kalamazoo, Mich.
Jennifer A. DeVree; Zeeland, Mich.
Nicholas D. Dieleman; Kentwood, Mich.
Tavia P. DiSalvio; Homer, Mich.
Drew D. Doty; Lansing, Mich.
Kimberly R. Droscha; Mason, Mich.
Heather A. Dustin; Bellaire, Texas
Karen A. Fischer; Northville, Mich.
Jennifer D. Folkert; Hamilton, Mich.
Laurie J. Formsma; Zeeland, Mich.
Elizabeth R. Fothergill; Toledo, Ohio
Angela L. Fritts; Lansing, Mich.
Aaron T. Gerds; Melvin, Mich.
Tiffany L. Ghent; Hudsonville, Mich.
Kristin M. Graham; Hudsonville, Mich.
Tamala J. Habers; Holland, Mich.
Heather L. Haveman; Holland, Mich.
Maren A. Heiberg; Edina, Minn.
Sarita J. Hoekzema; Charlotte, Mich.
Deborah S. Hoffman; Berne, N.Y.
Jeannette M. Holloway; Plainwell, Mich.
Sarah D. Howard; Traverse City, Mich.
Alicia L. Irvine; Rochester, N.Y.
Bradley A. Jerdon; Niles, Mich.
Sara E. Johnson; Muskegon, Mich.
Sarah E. Johnson; Bloomington, Ill.
Stephanie P. Johnson; Whittier, Calif.
Kelly K. Kasper; South Bend, Ind.
Christina L. Kelly; Ann Arbor, Mich.
Shannon M. King; Gaylord, Mich.
Kelly L. Komray; Spring Lake, Mich.
Lauren L. Kruse; Holland, Mich.
Christopher K. Lee; Huntington Woods, Mich.
John E. Leffel; Escanaba, Mich.
Elizabeth A. Lomasney; Lockport, Ill.
Tomas E. Lugo; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Marcos E. Machado; Hudsonville, Mich.
Lindsay A. Maharg; Cass City, Mich.
Sara L. Maile; Galesburg, Mich.
Rebecca A. Mancini; Hawthorn Woods, Ill.
Courtney E. Munz; Mount Prospect, Ill.
Janey M. Murfey; Troy, Mich.
Betsy J. Nagy; Ogden Dunes, Ind.
Laurie B. Nederveld; Jenison, Mich.
Ronn J. Nelson; Whitehall, Mich.
Emily S. Niewendorp; East Jordan, Mich.
Jill A. Nyquist; South Holland, Ill.
Karen J. Olson; Hoffman Estates, Ill.
Anne C. Otterness; Rochester, N.Y.
Carrie J. Ouzts; Lawrence, Mich.
Elizabeth A. Paarlberg; Caledonia, Mich.
Seth C. Palmer; Marshall, Mich.
Maureen E. Peters; Jackson, Mich.
Brooke N. Petersen; Traverse City, Mich.
Ammie E. Pries; Byron Center, Mich.
Nathan A. Pyle; Zeeland, Mich.
Kayla B. Rademaker; Holland, Mich.
Carmen L. Randel; Hudsonville, Mich.
Andrew L. Riker; Kalamazoo, Mich.
Derek B. Root; Holland, Mich.
Jacqueline M. Ryczek; Lansing, Mich.
Samantha A. Sandro; Greenville, Mich.
Nicholas J. Schneider; Wyoming, Mich.
Jessica L. Schulte; Clarkston, Mich.
Kara L. Schwieterman; Battle Creek, Mich.
Emily K. Semer; Suttons Bay, Mich.
Lisa S. Silverthorn; Ithaca, Mich.
Benjamin J. Sportel; Caledonia, Mich.
Cody L. Statema; Zeeland, Mich.
Beth K. Stygstra; Holland, Mich.
Jennifer S. Traxler; Easton, Pa.
Kristy L. Truax; Wilmington, Del.
Jacob P. Van Pernis; Ashland, Wis.
Jessica L. VanDam; Wyoming, Mich.
Natalia A. Vander Hoek; Pease, Minn.
Erin S. VanDyken; Grandville, Mich.
Jared H. VanNoord; Sparta, Mich.
Sarah E. Vincent; Midland, Mich.
Nicole L. Vriesman; Twin Falls, Idaho.
Trevor J. Weston; Port Huron, Mich.
Rebecca M. Wiechman; Whitmore Lake, Mich.
Nicole L. Wilde; Detroit, Mich.
Megan L. Wood; Holland, Mich.
Amy L. Woolard; Muncie, Ind.
Emily L. Ziegler; Carmel, Ind.
Note: This list includes those who completed their graduation requirements in May. Summer honors graduates will be listed in a fall issue.
NFHC August 2002
the couple’s new baby, Jonah (please see “Births”). The
family also has two dogs, Reuben and Roy.
Brian Grant ’98 of Pittsburgh, Pa., has started a special
projects management company for artists, galleries,
museums and restoration architects.
Jennifer Grieme ’98 is moving from Cincinnati, Ohio,
to Salt Lake City, Utah, this month to complete her final
year of doctoral work in clinical psychology.
Amy Hall ’98 of Nashville, Tenn., relocated to Music
City U.S.A. from Holland, Mich., in late March. She is
currently employed at Swift Music Group.
Angela de Forest ’98 Houchin of Lexington, Ky., and
her husband (please see “Marriages”) met at medical
school.
They recently graduated (please see
“Advanced Degrees”), and she is now in a residency in
pediatrics at the University of Kentucky.
Lisa Jutte ’98 of Clayton, Ohio, presented three papers
during the annual clinical symposia of the National
Athletic Trainers’ Association, held in Dallas, Texas, in
June. She also recently ran in the Indy Lifestyle Half
Marathon.
Melissa Krolik ’98 has finished her first year of teaching in the United States. She teaches first and second
grade in San Diego, Calif.
Nicole McClain ’98 Liechty has moved to
Birmingham, Ala., and is working at the law firm of
Starnes & Atchison as a trial lawyer.
Rob Malda ’98 of Holland, Mich., was featured in
MIT’s Technology Review in June as one of 100 innovators under 35 who “will have a deep impact on how we
live, work and think in the century to come.” He is the
founder of Slashdot, which the magazine describes as
“a Web site cum online community cum Internet
Zeitgeist–meter visited by more than 250,000 surfers
daily.”
Victoria Cade ’98 McMahon is teaching second grade
in Warren, Mich.
Amy Mickey ’98 and Julie Mickey ’98 both live in
Nashville, Tenn. The twin sisters have released their
first compact disc, Finding Our Way, which blends
old–time country with rock and Irish and Spanish
influences. They perform at Nashville clubs at night,
and write songs and rehearse in their spare time. In
their “day jobs,” Amy manages a mortgage company
and Julie a karate club.
Jessica Owens ’98 is spending the summer studying
for the New York Bar Exam, after which she will travel
to Peru. After Peru, she will move to New York City
and begin her career as an attorney with the
Immigration and Naturalization Service, where she
will be assistant district counsel to the New York Office.
She obtained the position through the United States
Department of Justice Attorney General’s Honor
Program, and notes that she is looking forward to life in
New York.
Brian Petroelje ’98 of Iowa City, Iowa, has started his
residency in internal medicine at the University of
Iowa.
Nicole Rauzi ’98 has moved to Annapolis, Md., and is
an intern architect at Hammond Wilson Architects.
David Schrier ’98 has been commissioned as a captain
in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and is starting his
internship at Tripler Army Medical Center in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Kari Vandrese ’98 will be starting the orchestra programs at Durham and Downing Middle Schools in
Lewisville, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas.
Laurie Ellison ’98 Verry started a new job in June as
foster care case manager with Woodlawn Children’s
Home in Danville, Ky.
Jeffrey Zylstra ’98 of Grandville, Mich., is an investment banker, public finance, with Fifth Third Securities
Inc. in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Beth Couvreur ’99 of Mishawaka, Ind., ran in the Indy
Lifestyle Half Marathon.
Kevin DeYoung ’99 and his wife are moving to Orange
City, Iowa, where he will be the associate pastor at First
Reformed Church.
Nicole Dennis ’99 is a second–year medical student at
Indiana University School of Medicine.
Erin Gookin ’99 is a seminary student in Columbus,
Ohio.
Joy Green ’99 will be teaching high school Spanish and
coaching boys’ and girls’ tennis at Neuqua Valley High
School in Naperville, Ill.
Sara Hoolsema ’99 this fall will begin pursuing an
MBA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School
of Business.
Julie Meyers ’99 has completed a master’s in French
(please see “Advanced Degrees”), and will pursue a
doctorate after refining her language skills in France
this summer.
Andrea Schmidt ’99 has been promoted to assistant
project manager for Brookdale Home for the Aging in
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Kelly Yager ’99 of Owings Mills, Md., graduated in
April of 2002 from the University of Michigan’s Second
Career nursing program, and is a registered nurse in
the bone marrow transplant unit at Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore, Md.
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Dana Andrews ’00 is a platoon commander with the
U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
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Meredith Arwady ’00 was accepted into this summer’s
11–week Merola Program at the San Francisco Opera,
which gathered 23 singers from around the world for
coaching, master classes and performances. She is pursuing her master’s at the Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia, Pa.
Nicholas Belill ’00 is entering a third year of professional school at the Michigan College of Optometry at
Ferris State University.
Brian Boersma ’00 of Holland, Mich., has completed
his first year at Western Theological Seminary.
Melissa Nienhuis ’00 Boersma of Holland, Mich., is a
home health nurse with Holland Community Hospital.
Ellen Colenbrander ’00 of Wyoming, Mich., has been
working for the Michigan Department of Treasury as a
tax auditor for the past year.
Melissa Feenstra ’00 of Gurnee, Ill., is an associate
chemist with Abbott Laboratories.
Seth Gardner ’00 is director of choral activities at Battle
Creek (Mich.) Central High School.
Kelly Joos ’00 has accepted a teaching position with
Kalamazoo (Mich.) Christian High School.
Tony Petkus ’00 of Holland, Mich., is community
recreation and athletic director for Fennville (Mich.)
Public Schools.
Kylee Van Haitsma ’00 Tuls of Tampa, Fla., is completing a master’s in rehabilitation and mental health
counseling at University of South Florida.
Jennifer Abraham ’01 will teach at East Kentwood
(Mich.) Middle School.
Jonathan Bandstra ’01 in the fall will attend the information science program at the University of
Illinois–Champaign.
Julie Barton ’01 is a registered nurse at Northwestern
Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ill.
Jennifer Linton ’01 Brugger of Grand Haven, Mich., is
an admistrative assistant to care and church connection
with Spring Lake Wesleyan Church.
Dan Caldwell ’01 of Canton, N.Y., teaches at
Governeur (N.Y.) Middle School.
Ed Gall ’01 will be teaching at Saline (Mich.) Middle
School this year. Last year, he taught at St. Mary’s
Elementary School in Lansing, Mich., and served as
assistant baseball coach at DeWitt High School.
Ettienne Jackson ’01 is an associate director of
Christian Challenge, a ministry organization for college
students at the University of Michigan and Eastern
Michigan University in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area.
Jill Spalding ’01 Jubar teaches eighth grade English
with Pathfinder Schools in Pinckney, Mich.
Laura Roelofs ’01 of Jenison, Mich., teaches English at
Thornapple Kellogg High School in Middleville, Mich.
Brandy Schenck ’01 is an analytical chemist with Pfizer
in Holland, Mich.
Heather Bachelor ’02 will be teaching in a first–grade/
second–grade multi–age classroom in Chicago, Ill.
Teresa Janik ’02 Boyer has a teaching position (K–12
learning–disabled) in Goodhue, Minn.
Anne Bradley ’02 will attend the graduate program in
athletic training at the University of Oregon. She will
have a graduate assistantship working with the
school’s cross–country and track programs.
Jacob Cain ’02 of Battle Creek, Mich., is an environmental health specialist for Kalamazoo County in
Nazareth, Mich.
Kelly Clarkson ’02 will study dentistry at the
University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Jodi DeHaan ’02 will be a special education teacher
with the West Ottawa Public Schools in Holland, Mich.
Aaron DeVos ’02 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is a financial
advisor with Waddell and Reed Financial Services.
Lisa DeVries ’02 is pursuing a master of social work
degree at the University of Chicago.
Karen Fischer ’02 is spending the summer as a counselor and wilderness expedition leader at Camp
Fowler, a Reformed Church in America summer camp
in the Adirondack Mountains.
Lori Geuder ’02 will teach in the Zeeland (Mich.)
Public Schools.
Abigail Glass ’02 has a ninth grade special education
teaching position with the Hudsonville (Mich.) Public
Schools.
Patrick Kinne ’02 of Bourbonnais, Ill., teaches English
at St. Anne Community High School.
Candace Kool ’02 will be student teaching at Plainwell
(Mich.) Middle School this fall.
Jennifer Mudra ’02 has a teaching position with
Discovery Charter School in Fennville, Mich.
Carmen Randel ’02 Poll teaches at Zeeland (Mich.)
High School.
Emily Small ’02 has a management position at Barnes
& Noble in Holland, Mich.
Paula (Kukulka) VanBoxel ’02 is a social worker at
University Park Mercy Living Center in Muskegon,
Mich.
Pat Warren ’02 is establishing his own business as a
personal trainer and fitness consultant in the Holland,
Mich., area.
Katie Whiting ’02 is a regional sales representative for
Cyman Therapy Products. Her sales territory includes
western and northern Michigan.
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Nicole Wilde ’02 is a special education–learning–disabled teacher, with fourth to sixth grade, at Winchell
Elementary School in Kalamazoo, Mich.
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.
Roger Buffum ’73 and Dawn M. Burns, Feb. 16,
2002, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mary Wickert ’79 and Michael Deppe, June 1, 2002,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Pamela Matheson ’82 and Marian Pagano, Oct. 11,
2000, Kailua, Hawaii.
Amy Martin ’89 and Graeme Hodson, April 13,
2002, Memphis, Tenn.
Erik Nimz ’89 and Katherine, Feb. 14, 2002, Las
Vegas, Nev.
Mary Rust ’90 and Stephen Armeli, May 24, 2002,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Jeannine Chandler ’91 and John Ferguson ’91, May
11, 2002, Holland, Mich.
Renee Porter ’91 and Thomas Russo, April 6,
2002.
Julie Artinian ’93 and Kevin Elmore, May 25,
2002.
Anna–Lisa Cox ’94 and Michael Buss, May 19, 2001,
Saugatuck, Mich.
Dylan (Dai) Wessman ’94 and Jennifer T. Manion,
May 10, 2002, Columbus, Ohio.
Michael J. Weiss ’95 and Nicol Zakem, April 27,
2002, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Kathryn Guy ’96 and Casey Birch, June 8, 2002,
Austin, Texas.
Mayumi Ueda ’97 and Daniel Lake, March 31, 2001,
Elk Rapids, Mich.
Krista Brewer ’98 and Daniel Capps ’98, July 15,
2000, Downers Grove, Ill.
Victoria Cade ’98 and Tim McMahon, June 22, 2002.
Angela Dee de Forest ’98 and Timothy Marshall
Houchin, Dec. 29, 2002, Gray Hawk, Ky.
Julie Ann Hoving ’98 and Byron Bewley, May 4,
2002, Oak Brook, Ill.
Michael Van Wieren ’98 and Heidi Van Langevelde
’99, June 1, 2002, Holland, Mich.
Kevin DeYoung ’99 and Trisha Bebee, Jan. 5, 2002,
Annapolis, Md.
Erin Andrew Gookin ’99 and Katie, March 25, 2000.
Kristin Koenigsknecht ’01 and Nathan Alkire ’02,
July 20, 2002.
Emily A. Mezeske ’99 and Manuel D. Domagtoy,
June 22, 2002, Holland, Mich.
Dana F. Andrews ’00 and Gretchen O. Koss, May
18, 2002, Petoskey, Mich.
Seth David Bruggers ’00 and Rebecca Kay Potts ’00,
May 25, 2002, Holland, Mich.
Aaron Jubar ’00 and Jill Spalding ’01, June 22, 2002,
Brighton, Mich.
Douglas Sweetser ’00 and Brenda Brouwer ’01, Dec.
28, 2001, Palos Heights, Ill.
Kylee Van Haitsma ’00 and Mark Tuls, Feb. 3, 2001,
Holland, Mich.
Daniel Besselsen ’01 and Sandra VanderWal ’01.
Rebecca Lynn LaRoy ’01 and Gregory David Town
’02, June 29, 2002, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Rob Bradford ’02 and Sharon Konopka ’02, June 1,
2002.
Karen Hahn ’02 and Adam Wiseman, June 8, 2002.
Teresa Janik ’02 and Josh Boyer, June 14, 2002,
Cadillac, Mich.
Patrick Kinne ’02 and Sarah Huizenga, Aug. 3, 2002,
Speculator, N.Y.
Stephanie Vanard ’02 and Dan VanTil, July 5, 2002,
Holland, Mich.
New Arrivals
Births/New Arrivals
Jonathan Jellema ’81 and Gail Jellema, Mark Calvin,
Feb. 23, 2002.
Pamela Matheson ’82 and Marian Pagano, Caroline
Elizabeth, Dec. 11, 2001.
Susan Latham ’84 and David Meschter, Jacob
Latham Meschter, Feb. 28, 2002.
Carl Bornhorst ’85 and Rosa Bornhorst, Dirk
Gabriel, Oct. 18, 1999; Carl Rolf, Sept. 27, 2001.
Melinda Campbell ’85 Hollands and Ian Hollands,
Ashley Lee, April 19, 2002.
Mark DeWitt ’87 and Dawn DeYoung ’92 DeWitt,
Skylar Lauren, Feb. 6, 2002.
Betsy Huttar ’87 Naka and David Naka, Naomi
Catharine, April 18, 2002.
Kevin Cole ’88 and Lynn Kingma ’90 Cole, Marissa
Joy, Nov. 1, 2001.
Robert Olson ’89 and Laura McCool ’90 Olson,
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Emily Anne, Feb. 4, 2002.
Frances Schrock ’89 Traisman and Clifford
Traisman, Leo Vincent Traisman, May 8, 2001.
Wendy Braje ’90 and J. Stephen Mansfield, Gareth
Alan Mansfield, June 21, 2002.
Chris
Carpenter
’90
and
Panechanh
Choummanivong ’93 Carpenter, Kayla, Dec. 29, 2001.
Claudine Wagenaar ’90 Duncan and Ted Duncan,
Fritz Tippett, May 30, 2002.
Deborah DeFrancesco ’91 Lone and Scott Lone ’92,
Nathan Michael, April 9, 2002.
Elizabeth Meyers ’91 Schanhals and Michael
Schanhals ’92, Paul Thomas, Aug. 11, 2001.
Timothy Grotenhuis ’92 and Leslie Bechtel ’94
Grotenhuis, Hazel Gayle, June 25, 2002.
Marc Monday ’92 and Leslie Schoon ’93 Monday,
John VanHousen, April 14, 2002.
Anna Rangel ’93 Clawson and Eric Clawson, Maya
Elyce, March 14, 2002.
Robert Lesser ’93 and Kate Lesser, Sequoia Rain,
Sept. 6, 2001.
Lisa Von Gunten ’93 Spence and Chris Spence,
Jacob Christopher, May 18, 2002.
Brian Walls ’93 and Amy Volkers ’95 Walls, Jackson
Robert, May 1, 2002.
Brent Dacre ’94 and Olivia Welch ’97 Dacre,
Madeline Elizabeth, April 29, 2002.
Jeff Clark ’94 and Kim Benninger ’94 Clark, Carter
Jeffrey, Feb. 2, 2002.
Kathryn Frost ’94 Knapp and Eric Knapp, Eli Frost
Knapp, Nov. 11, 2001.
Jennifer Syler ’94 Taylor and Kent Taylor ’95,
Weston Kurt, March 17, 2002.
Stacy Werkman ’95 Buzako and Joseph Buzako,
Payton Elizabeth, April 30, 2002.
Becky Van Vleck ’95 De Vito and John De Vito,
Jaron Michael, Feb. 4, 2002.
Rebecca Schuham ’95 Johnson and Jeff Johnson,
Mackenzie Lee, Jan. 31, 2002.
Kirk Krahn ’95 and Sarah Birch ’95 Krahn, Cameron
Allen, Aug. 15, 2001.
Amy Zoppa ’95 McCoy and Mike McCoy, Caleb
Timothy, Jan. 22, 2002.
Laura Weier ’95 Schewe and Steve Schewe ’95,
Nathan Christian, April 8, 2002.
Heather Myers ’95 Worthington and Bob
Worthington, Connor Johnathan, Aug. 1, 2001.
Wayne Barrett ’96 and Jennifer Richardson ’99
Barrett, Anastasia Hope, April 28, 2001.
David LaHuis ’96 and Michelle Kavanaugh ’96
LaHuis, Calvin William, April 15, 2002.
Amy Schutter ’96 Lunn and Rob Lunn ’96, Andrew
Schutter Lunn, July 5, 2002.
Patrick Collins ’97 and Susan Looman ’97 Collins,
Drew Charles, June 7, 2002.
Heather Jensen ’97 Nelson and Eric Nelson, Rachel,
2002.
Shawna Hendrickson ’98 Baum and Jeremy Baum,
Zachary AJ, May 13, 2002.
Cindy Canavera ’98 Crannell and Patrick Crannell,
Kathleen Ann, March 8, 2001.
Brandon Graham ’98 and Jane Roeters ’98 Graham,
Jonah David, May 12, 2002.
Jeffrey Zylstra ’98 and Trisha Zylstra, Lilia Claire,
March 2, 2002.
Darcy Smith ’99 Carmichael and Chad Carmichael,
Eva Lyn Ruth, April 24, 2002.
Heather Huizing ’99 Kirkpatrick and Earl
Kirkpatrick, Caleb Francis, April 22, 2002.
Advanced Degrees
Advanced Degrees
Amy Lusky ’78 Wright, doctorate, pharmaceutics,
Mercer University, School of Southern Pharmacy, May
4, 2002.
Jill Weerstra ’80 O’Connor, master’s, education,
Grand Valley State University, December, 2001.
Susan Latham ’84, master of science, Columbia
University School of Social Work, May, 2000.
Michael Spitters ’84, doctor of ministry, preaching,
Association of Chicago Theological Schools, Chicago
Theological Seminary, June 1, 2002; thesis, “Can
Boomer–types Preach Effectively to Millennials?”
Peter Schultz ’90, doctorate, foreign language education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,
June 14, 2002.
Kirsten Sullivan ’93 Billeter, master of arts in
English language and literature, Central Michigan
University, May, 2002.
Kevin Mackey ’93, doctorate, geological sciences,
Michigan State University Graduate School, December,
1999.
Anna–Lisa Cox ’94, doctorate, history, University of
Illinois, Urbana, May 12, 2002.
Jennifer Syler ’94 Taylor, master’s, education, specialty in reading, Western Michigan University, April,
2001.
Dai Wessman ’94, The Ohio State University
College of Medicine, cum laude, June 14, 2002.
Patricia Dyer ’96 Bruininks, doctorate, psychology,
University of Oregon, June, 2002.
David LaHuis ’96, doctorate, industrial/organizational psychology, the University of Connecticut.
John S. Lawler ’96, doctorate, civil and environmental engineering (“Hybrid Fiber–Reinforcement in
Mortar and Concrete”), June 21, 2002, Northwestern
18
Former chairman Hugh De Pree dies
Hugh De Pree ’38 of
Naples, Fla., former chairman
of the college’s Board of
Trustees, died on Monday,
July 8, 2002. He was 87.
He was chairman of the college’s Board
of Trustees from 1966 to 1978. He was a
member of the board from 1963 until 1981,
when he became an honorary trustee.
The college’s De Pree Art Center and
Gallery, a former Sligh Furniture Factory
building, was dedicated and named in his
honor in October of 1982.
At the time of the dedication,
then–chairman Victor W. Eimicke noted
that Hope was recognizing De Pree not
only for his service and accomplishments,
but also for his personal character and
lifestyle. “Your courage, integrity, compassion, self–discipline, your ability to
speak the truth with love, your faith and
your commitment to Christ––all of these
were abundantly clear in your associations
at Hope College,” Eimicke said.
Hope presented De Pree with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D.) in
1978. He was the keynote speaker during
the college’s fall convocation in 1977.
Campus development flourished and
the college was put on a sound financial
base during De Pree’s 12 years as chairman. Major campus buildings completed
or started during his tenure included the
DeWitt Student and Cultural Center, the
Peale Science Center and the Dow Health
and Physical Education Center. Current
University.
Christopher Marting ’96, Midwestern University’s
Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Glendale,
Ariz., May, 2002.
Joseph Stam ’96, master of science, electrical engineering, Michigan State University.
Thomas Akland ’97, Chicago College of
Osteopathic Medicine, June 1, 2002.
Brooke Budde ’97, doctor of osteopathic medicine,
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic
Medicine, May 2, 2002.
Matthew Lappenga ’97, doctor of podiatric medicine, summa cum laude (class valedictorian), Scholl
College of Podiatric Medicine, Chicago, Ill., May 17,
2002.
Peter Liechty ’97, Chicago Medical School, 2002.
Matthew Steensma ’97, Wayne State University
School of Medicine, June 6, 2002.
Bradley Andresen ’98, doctorate, molecular pharmacology, June, 2002.
Anthony Auriemma ’98, medical degree, Loyola
University Stritch School of Medicine, 2002.
Daniel Capps ’98, master of science, geology, and
master of science, education, Indiana University, May,
2002.
Krista Brewer ’98 Capps, master of science, environmental science, Indiana University, May, 2002.
Jonathan Charnin ’98, M.D., University of Michigan
Medical School, June 7, 2002.
Elizabeth Freeman ’98, master’s, applied communication, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
Brian Grant ’98, master of fine arts, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2002.
Angela de Forest ’98 Houchin, M.D., University of
Kentucky medical school, May 18, 2002.
Nicole McClain ’98 Liechty, J.D., Loyola University
Chicago School of Law, 2002.
Jessica Owens ’98, J.D., May, 2002.
Brian Petroelje ’98, Wayne State University School
of Medicine, June 6, 2002.
Nicole Rauzi ’98, master’s, architecture, Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio, May 5, 2002.
David Schrier ’98, M.D., Case Western Reserve
University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, May
19, 2002.
Kari Vandrese ’98, master of music, music theory,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
Kevin DeYoung ’99, M.Div., Gordon Conwell
Theological Seminary, May, 2002.
Joy Green ’99, master’s, education, DePaul
University.
Jessica Luecht ’99, J.D., concentrations in environmental law and entertainment/intellectual property
Hugh De Pree ’38
programs established during the same
period included the department of theatre,
Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, the
department of dance and the department
of computer science.
He majored in business administration
at Hope. His activities included track, in
which he lettered for three years and in
1936 won the MIAA championship in the
half–mile run.
He was a veteran of World War II,
serving in the U.S. Army.
He was retired as president and chief
executive officer of Zeeland, Mich.–based
Herman Miller Inc., which had been
founded by his father, D.J. De Pree, and a
group of local businessmen. He began
with the company in 1935, holding posilitigation, Valparaiso University School of Law, May
19, 2002.
Julie Meyers ’99, master of arts, French, University
of Chicago, 2002.
Kathryn Nichols ’99, master’s, sport psychology,
University of Minnesota.
Sarah Bussing ’00, master’s, literature, Eastern
Michigan University.
Kate MacDoniels ’00 Caldwell, master of science,
student affairs administration, Indiana University,
Bloomington, May, 2002.
Melissa Feenstra ’00, master of science, organic
chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, June,
2002.
deaths
Deaths
Lloyd A. Arnoldink ’55 of Montague, Mich., died
on Wednesday, May 15, 2002. He was 68.
He was a retired pastor, ordained in the Reformed
Church in America.
Survivors include his wife, Janet; three daughters,
Mary Muller of Grand Rapids, Carol and Tim
McCarthy of Fond du Lac, Wis., and Linda and
Dominic Santoro of Bartlett, Ill.; a son, Timothy and
Beth Arnold of Aztec, N.M.; nine grandchildren,
Bradley and Gregory Muller, Kelsey and Molly
McCarthy, Nicolas, Daniel and Megan Santoro, and
Frank and Sara Arnold; and a brother and
sister–in–law, Martin Budd and Marian Verburg of
Grand Rapids.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Al
Arnoldink.
Robert Cornelius Bartleson ’59 of Meade Island on
Drummond Island, Mich., died on Saturday, Nov. 3,
2001. He was 64.
He worked in the typesetting field for more than 40
years, and founded The Composing Room of
Michigan.
Survivors include his wife, Wanda; his children,
Ted Bartleson, Connie and Rob Johnson, Betsy
Bartleson, Heidi and Gene Boon, Scott and Kelly
Bartleson, Robert and Jennifer Bartleson, Jonathan and
Tina Bartleson, Mimi Bartleson and Jon VanderVelde,
by his children’s mother Laura Ruth; his sisters, Judy
Hall and Laura Wolters; and 19 grandchildren.
Alberta Kingma ’31 Benes of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
died on Tuesday, May 28, 2002. She was 93.
She and her late husband, the Rev. Louis Benes,
tions including purchasing agent, plant
manager, general manager and executive
vice president prior to serving as president
and chief executive officer from 1962 until
Jan. 1, 1980.
Under his tutelage, the company grew
from sales of less than $2 million to more
than $150 million and a work force of some
2,900 employees in the U.S., Canada and
Europe. Based on his time with the
company, he wrote the book Business as
Unusual: The People and Principles at Herman
Miller.
In addition to his service to Hope, his
community involvements included having
served on the Zeeland school board, as a
board member of the Naples Philharmonic
and as a volunteer for the Naples Chapter
of Habitat for Humanity.
He was preceded in death by his first
wife, Ruth Van Popering ’40 De Pree, on
Feb. 6, 1990.
Survivors include his wife, Pat; children, Greg ’66 and Joanne De Pree of
Naples, Doug and Karen De Pree of St.
John, U.S. Virgin Islands, David ’78 and
Cheri De Pree of Fort Myers, Fla., and Scott
Wyman of Arlington Heights, Ill.; sisters,
Merle De Pree ’38 Schaap and Glenn
Schaap of Lansing, Mich., and Betty and
Vern VanKley of Zeeland; brother, Max ’48
and Esther De Pree of Holland, Mich.;
in–laws, Walter Van Popering of
Bedminster, N.J., and Pat De Pree of
Carmel, Calif.; nine grandchildren; and six
great–grandchildren.
In his honor, Hope scheduled a memorial service for Sunday, Aug. 11, at 2 p.m.
in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
had served churches in New York, Michigan and
California.
Survivors include two daughters and two sons,
Ruth and John Roundhouse of Schoolcraft, Mich., the
Rev. Louis H. and JoAnn Benes of Holland, Mich., the
Rev. Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Weiss of Orange City,
Iowa, and the Rev. Paul and Marilyn Benes of High
Falls, N.Y.; 17 grandchildren; 37 great–grandchildren;
and many nieces and nephews.
Word has been received of the death of William C.
Bennett ’49 of Holland, Mich., who died on Saturday,
July 20, 2002. More information will appear in the next
issue.
William Rolan Birdwell ’51 of Los Angeles, Calif.,
died on Thursday, March 7, 2002. He was 81.
He had been vice president for planning and development at the University of Santa Barbara. He served
on doctoral committees and was a university faculty
member since 1975.
Survivors include a brother, J. Frank Birdwell of
Knoxville, Tenn.; and nine nieces and nephews.
Word has been received of the death of Elida
DenHerder ’29 De Vries of Sioux Center, Iowa, who
died on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2001. More information
will appear in the next issue.
Jeanne Rae Commins ’77 Emery of Elkton, Md.,
died on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2001. She was 46.
She was a homemaker and a home–school teacher.
Survivors include her husband of 17 years, Brian
Emery, of Elkton; two sons, Matthew K. Emery and
Isaac A. Emery, both at home; parents, Raymond and
June Commins of Romeo, Mich.; and siblings, Nancy
Lollar of Toledo, Ohio, Jacqueline Commins of Glen
Burnie, Md., Raymond Commins Jr. of Syracuse, Utah,
Timothy Commins of Romeo, Andrew Commins of
Romeo, Roy Commins of Romeo, Dan Commins of
Jenison, Mich., Sandra Petty of Harriman, Tenn., and
Steve Commins of Pontiac, Mich.
Nancy Hall Heyns (’88–’90) of Holland, Mich., died
on Monday, May 13, 2002. She was 50.
She moved to Holland in 1976. She taught seventh
grade in the South Haven, Mich., public school system
for eight years.
Survivors include her husband, John; children,
Allison and Joel Davelaar ’01 of Holland, and Adam
Heyns ’05 of Holland; mother, Jean Hall of Holland;
mother–in–law, Esther Heyns of Holland (her
father–in–law was Roger Heyns ’40); in–laws, Dan and
NFHC August 2002
Anna Heyns of Jackson, Mich., and Mike Heyns of
Sioux City, Iowa; and nieces, nephews and cousins.
Janice VanKoevering ’36 Hildebrand of Lansing,
Mich., died on Saturday, March 23, 2002. She was 90.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Stuart.
Survivors include two daughters, Sally and Eric
McAttee of Milwaukee, Wis., and Jane and David
Zynda of East Lansing, Mich.; four grandchildren,
Tarra, Leigh and Alex Zynda, and Chris McAttee; one
sister, Marjorie Pat VanKoevering ’36 Prins of Holland,
Mich.; one sister–in–law, Grace Kainakian of
Richmond, Va.; and nieces and nephews.
Judith Holkeboer ’64 of Grand Rapids, Mich., died
on Thursday, May 16, 2002. She was 61.
She taught at Seymour Christian School for 35 years.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Connie
Holkeboer.
Survivors include her aunts and uncles, Christine
Homkes, Hero and Edith Bratt, Dorothy and Dr. Lauren
Nehr, Verna Loy and Evelyn Van Otterloo; and several
cousins.
Paul E. Holkeboer ’51 of Holland, Mich., died on
Sunday, May 26, 2002. He was 74.
He was retired from Western Michigan University
in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he served for 35 years as a
chemistry professor; coordinator of academic advising
and science education; and admissions counselor.
Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Alma
Holkeboer; children, Dirk and Pam Holkeboer of
Holland, Van E. Holkeboer and Linda Bachelder of
River Forest, Ill., Marianne and Joshua Mintz of
Chicago, Ill., and Amy Holkeboer of Kalamazoo; seven
grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Peter (Alice) Vander Plaats
of Holland; and brothers and sisters–in–law, George
and Eleanor Vanderhill of Holland, and Mrs. Gilbert
(LaVella) Holkeboer of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wade Hampton Moore ’50 of Tulsa, Okla., died on
Monday, May 13, 2002. He was 74.
He and his wife, Patricia Kinney ’50 Moore, who
survives him, met at Hope during their freshman year.
He was retired as superintendent of assembly operations with Ford Motor Co. in Cleveland, Ohio.
In addition to his wife, survivors include six sons,
William, Robert, James, Jonathan, David and Daniel;
and 20 grandchildren.
Evelyn Reus ’45 Keizer of Caledonia, Mich., died
on Thursday, July 11, 2002. She was 78.
She was a retired nurse.
Survivors include her children, Mary and Jack
Kalmink of Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., Carol and Robert
Brown of Port Angeles, Wash., David and Luann Keizer
of Spring Lake, Mich., Gary Keizer and Kathy Knowles
of Seattle, Wash., and Kevin and Jackie Keizer of
Caledonia; 13 grandchildren; two great–grandchildren;
a brother, Dr. William F. and Josephine Reus of Grand
Rapids, Mich.; and a sister, Marian Jacobson and James
Bennett of Grand Junction, Colo.
Gilbert J. Plasman ’36 of Grand Rapids, Mich., died
on Wednesday, June 19, 2002. He was 87.
He practiced dentistry in Grand Rapids for 40 years,
focusing on mouth reconstruction. He was a charter
member of the L.D. Pankey Study Group.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, June Van
Peursem Plasman, and his second wife, Elizabeth
Simpson Plasman.
Survivors include his children, Susan P. Alderman
of Boulder, Colo., Thomas J. (Margie) Plasman of
Grand Rapids, Christian G. (Debrah) Plasman of
Grand Rapids and Jane E. (Edward Noroian) Plasman
of New York City; three grandchildren; and two
great–grandchildren.
Marian Mulder ’37 Mac Dermott of Palm Harbor,
Fla., died on Tuesday, May 21, 2002. She was 86.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
Richard, in 1966.
Survivors include two sisters, Evelyn DeWeerd of
Holland, Mich., and Lillian Dalman of Douglas, Mich.;
and nieces and a nephew.
Robert J. Prins ’49 of Holland, Mich., died on
Saturday, May 25, 2002. He was 76.
He taught at Ithaca College and later retired from
the University of Massachusetts at Boston as a music
professor. He was a former conductor of the Wellesley
To recognize and thank donors for their generous contributions and support of Hope College, the Hope Fund has
several gift clubs. Membership is renewable each year and corporate matching gifts count toward membership. Members
are recognized by name in the President’s Report Honor Roll of Donors.
First Decade Club
The First Decade Club recognizes Hope’s recent
graduates who know the importance of the Hope
Fund and their participation in it. Members have
graduated within the past ten years and have
established a giving record of $100 or more each
year.
Anchor Club
The Anchor Club members give tangible
expression of their commitment to and
support of Hope College by contributing
$1,000-$2,499 each year to the Hope Fund to
underwrite programs of academic excellence so that Hope can continue to
train leaders who will make a positive impact on the world.
Orange and Blue Club
Van Raalte Society
Members of the Orange and Blue Club are
alumni, parents and friends who consistently
share their enthusiasm for Hope College by
making an annual gift to the Hope Fund of $250
to $499 in the current fiscal year.
It took faith and vision to start Hope College.
It takes faith and vision to sustain Hope
College. Members of the Van Raalte
Society possess this faith and vision and
distinguish themselves by contributing
$2,500 - $4,999 each year.
Pacesetters
Pacesetters understand the important role of
assisting the college in providing an outstanding
educational experience for our students.
Pacesetters contribute $500 - $749 in unrestricted
gifts to the Hope Fund each year.
Presidents Circle
The Presidents Circle consists of a dedicated,
solid core of alumni and friends whose annual
leadership gifts to the Hope Fund total $5,000 to
$9,999.
Founders Society
Trustees Circle
The Founders Society consists of individuals
dedicated to the vision of Hope’s Founder, Albertus
C. Van Raalte. They believe Hope College is an
“anchor of Hope for the future.” Founders Society
members contribute $750 - $999 in unrestricted
gifts each year to the Hope Fund.
The Trustees Circle honors alumni, parents and friends
whose annual gifts total $10,000 or more to the Hope
Fund. The message continually reinforced to
members of this group is “Of all the contributors,
your exceptional level of support does not go
unnoticed—and the lasting impact of such generous
support is most appreciated.”
Your continued annual contributions to the Hope Fund provide flexible,
unrestricted dollars to support and enhance the academic mission of Hope College.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
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SOCIETY
Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra.
Survivors include his wife, Terri Hertel Prins; children, Robert Jr. and Donna Prins of Bradford, Mass.,
Peter and Somany Prins of Stoneham, Mass., Mike and
Judy Prins of Rio Poncho, N.M., and Betty Jo Prins of
Needham, Mass.; stepchildren, Nancy Hertel of Chicago,
Ill., Maryanne and Kevin Counihanof of Wellesley,
Mass., and Robert and Lori Hertel of Fennville, Mich.;
three grandchildren; three step–grandchildren; a sister,
Marguerite and John De Haan of Holland; an aunt; and
many cousins, nieces and nephews.
Word has been received of the death of Willard J.
Rens ’37 of Tucson, Ariz., who died on Tuesday, July 9,
2002. More information will appear in the next issue.
Word has been received of the death of Julius F.
Schipper ’28 of Akron, Ohio, who died on
Wednesday, July 31, 2002. More information will
appear in the next issue.
Lillian Van Dyke ’22 of Holland, Mich., died on
Monday, July 1, 2002. She was 105.
She was a long–time teacher, and had taken her first
teaching job in 1917, in a two–room schoolhouse in
Holland. She spent most of her career teaching English
at Holland High School, retiring in 1962.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs. John R. (Mabel Van
Dyke ’24) Kempers of Holland, Mich.; and several
nieces and nephews.
Harvey Van Farowe ’57 of Hamilton, Mich., died on
Thursday, June 27, 2002. He was 67.
He was a pastor in the Reformed Church in
America, and had served churches in Clinton, Wis.;
Chatham, Ontario, Canada; Guelph, Ontario, Canada;
and Westfield, N.D.
Survivors include his wife of 37 years, June; children, Valerie Van Farowe of Holland, Mich., Ned and
Mary Van Farowe of Holland, Nathan and Alice Van
Farowe of New Orleans, La., Vonda Van Farowe of
Portland, Ore., David Van Farowe of Holland and the
Rev. Dean Van Farowe of Cleveland, Ohio; two grandsons; two sisters, Mrs. Robert (Cornelia) Formsma of
Beaverdam, Mich., and Helen and the Rev. Don
Vandenberg of Holland; in–laws, Ervin and Lydia Brink
of Minneapolis, Minn., Mrs. Jack (Ann) Kraal of
Holland, Herb and Mary Brink of Drenthe, Mich.,
Willard and Thelma Brink of East Saugatuck, Mich.,
Jerry and Gladys Brink of East Saugatuck, Nathan and
Marilyn Brink of East Saugatuck, Jack and Marjorie
Vannette of Holland, Ed and Berdella Cooper of Clifton,
N.J., Rich and Carolyn Van Ess of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Andy and Reatha Brink of Drenthe, Curt and Gloria
Huyser of Beaverdam, and Stan and Pearl Vos of
Branson, Mo.
Margaret Van Vyven ’30 of Holland, Mich., died on
Sunday, July 7, 2002. She was 94.
She taught in Coopersville, Mich., and later at the
elementary level with the Holland Public Schools as a
teacher, music supervisor and coordinator.
Word has been received of the death of John David
Warren ’55 of Sioux Center, Iowa, who died on
Saturday, June 15, 2002. More information will appear
in the next issue.
Nancy Hollwedel ’68 Weis of Kendall Park, N.J.,
died on Thursday, April 25, 2002. She was 55.
She was the chaplain of the Kendall Park First Aid
and Rescue Squad.
Survivors include her husband, Raymond Weis of
Kendall Park; her mother, Charlotte Hollwedel of
Whiting, N.J.; two sons, Scott Richard Weis and Daniel
Raymond Weis, both of Kendall Park; and two brothers,
Frederick Hollwedel of Tucson, Ariz., and Arthur
Hollwedel of Stuart, Fla.
She was preceded in death by her father.
Evelyn Huizinga ’33 Westervelt of Wallingford,
Conn., died on Wednesday, May 22, 2002. She was 90.
She was a founder and co–president of the
Farmington, Conn., Women’s Club.
Survivors include two sons, Robert Dean Westervelt
’66 and his wife Lorraine of Fairfield, Conn., and
Thomas John Westervelt ’76 of Ayer, Mass.; two grandchildren, Katelyn Stephanie Westervelt and
Christopher Robert Westervelt; three nieces, Joan
DePree ’69, Jean Brace and Judi Bradshaw; and two
nephews, George Huizinga and William Casbarra.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John H.
Westervelt; a brother, Rutherford “Cub” G. Huizinga
’27, and a sister, Gladys Marie Huizinga ’30 DePree.
Sympathy To
Sympathy To
The family of Tariho Fukuda, who died on Sunday,
June 16, 2002, at age 77.
He had been a vice president for international
affairs at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, with
which Hope has long maintained an exchange relationship, and was retired as a professor emeritus at the
university. Hope presented him with an honorary
degree, an L.H.D., during the college’s
Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 5, 1985.
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Campus Spotlight
Students explore diversity together
One called it “family.”
Focused on diversity, the residence hall–based Phelps
Scholars Program creates a togetherness that makes learning
natural.
That’s the kind of success that has organizers, and participants, pleased with the way that things have gone in the
effort’s first three years.
“It’s one of the best programs that they have here to get to
know people,” said sophomore Michael Cortez of Cadillac,
Mich., who began in the program last year. “It’s really good
for that, and you can get a lot of learning done. It opens up
your eyes to a lot of new people and a lot of new cultures.”
Senior Kimberly Turner of Grand Blanc, Mich., who
joined during the program’s inaugural year, also appreciated
the beyond–the–classroom lessons. “So much learning takes
place outside of the classroom, and the Phelps Scholars
Program was an opportunity to live in a community with
people who were from varying backgrounds and learn from
each other about life and environments, and cultural traditions, perspectives, treatment––all that good stuff,” she said.
That, according to program director Dr. Charles Green, is
exactly how it’s supposed to work.
“So much of what the students do is about getting to
know each other and learning from each other,” said Dr.
Green, who is also a professor of psychology. “The structure
that we have was designed to try to facilitate and foster a
strong informal network of social relationships. The students just do that so well that they make the rest of the job
really easy.”
Based in Scott Hall, the freshman–oriented Phelps
Scholars Program is designed for students who want to experience racial and cultural diversity and learn more about
related issues. They all enroll in “First–Year Seminars” and
“Encounter with Cultures” courses that explore diversity.
They meet twice monthly for presentations on a variety of
topics––for example, Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis of the psychology faculty has discussed raising children to be
bilingual; and Professor Dereck Chavis and Dr. George Kraft
of kinesiology, and Dr. Roger Nemeth of sociology, have
examined racism in sports. Field trips to Chicago, Detroit
and Indianapolis have provided opportunities to experience
cultural opportunities and diversity in those cities as well.
The real heart of the program, though, is the living
arrangement. The students connect in the quiet and
not–so–quiet moments of day–to–day being: making
popcorn in the lounge, stopping to chat at an open door, or
watching films together.
The students connect in the
quiet and not–so–quiet
moments of day–to–day being:
making popcorn in the lounge,
stopping to chat at an open
door, or watching films
together.
“I think what makes it so effective is that it is residential,”
said Yoli DeLeon ’88 Vega, entering her second year as the
program’s resident director. “If there’s a great aroma
coming out of the basement kitchen, that usually brings
people down to see what’s there––and that leads to time
together and conversation.”
“The existence of the program is a personal dream come
true,” said Vega, who has stayed at Hope since graduation,
including in admissions, multi–cultural life and Upward
Bound. “I think back to my own Hope experience, seeing
how it would have benefited my growth as a Hope student.
I received a wonderful education, but I think just having the
Phelps Scholars Program can enrich that even more.”
Turner had already chosen to attend Hope prior to learning about the program, but appreciated both what it showed
and how it could help.
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By linking academic work and residence hall–based programs and interaction, the Phelps Scholars Program
provides students with multiple opportunities to explore diversity issues. The resulting sense of community
plays a key role in enhancing understanding. Pictured from left to right are Divya Ganta of Ruwi, Oman, Jonathan
Potter of Mount Prospect, Ill., and Emily Robinson of Grant, Mich.
“It was a nice benefit,” she said. “It showed the school
had a commitment to the issue of diversity.”
“[And] it gave me a little bit of comfort to know that there
would be other students of color living in a residence hall
where I would be,” Turner said.
The racial and cultural mix is greater in the program
than in the campus at large. About half of last year’s 50
Phelps Scholars were U.S. students of color and international students.
Junior Rich Van Voorst had valued the diversity he had
encountered while growing up in Williamsport, Pa., and
appreciated the opportunity to add an important component
to his Hope education.
“You have to grow as friends, living together with the
understanding that this is a good thing, learning about each
other,” he said. “When you get out there, you’re going to
have to deal with many different kinds of people.”
The students’ spirit is encouraging to Dr. Green, who
noted that no one can afford to ignore issues related to diversity. With the world so interconnected and the nation’s
minorities projected to become the collective majority in the
coming decades, the ability to interact with others from different backgrounds will be essential as the students live their
post–Hope lives.
Turner believes that most of her peers outside of the
Phelps Scholars Program have the same perception.
“I think the rest of the campus wants that kind of
setting––to learn from people,” she said. “Everyone wants to
learn, everyone wants to be more aware, better prepared for
the world outside of Hope College. I think they long for
it––it’s just not there yet.”
The interest manifests itself in a variety of ways.
Non–Phelps Scholars Program students, particularly others
living in Scott Hall, join in the group’s activities. In another
venue, a large number of Caucasian students have helped
swell the Gospel Choir, originally an extension of the Black
Student Union, to well above 100 voices.
Hope is seeking on multiple levels to address the need for
more. The Phelps Scholars Program is one element of a
30–part comprehensive plan to improve minority participation. Priorities include minority student recruitment and
retention, increasing the presence of minority faculty and
staff, and emphasizing cultural understanding.
While the effort is on–going, Hope has made steady gains
in the hiring of faculty and staff of color across the past several
years. The college sponsors a variety of activities to explore
racial and cultural issues, ranging from multiple events
during national Black History Month and Hispanic Heritage
Month, to an Asian Film Series and “Images: A Reflection of
Cultures,” a presentation by international students. The Black
Student Union, Hope’s Asian Perspective Association and
Hispanic Student Organization are all active student groups.
While minority student enrollment has not yet increased,
Dr. Green noted that the Phelps Scholars Program has had a
positive effect on minority student retention. Glinda Rawls,
director of multicultural life at Hope, agreed.
“I think that the Phelps Scholars Program is really critical,
and has done an important service at Hope College in
meeting the needs of first–year students,” said Rawls, who
was the program’s resident director for its first two years. “It
has played a good role in helping them get adjusted their
first year, helping them get connected.”
Previously assistant director, Rawls was named director
of multicultural life earlier this summer. Her promotion
accompanied an administrative shift from student development to the provost’s office, and with it increased authority
to enhance diversity–related efforts campus–wide.
With initiatives like the Phelps Scholars Program up and
running, and her belief that the institution is making a priority of doing more, she is optimistic that the college is on the
right track in addressing an issue of national scope.
“I see an emphasis on making learning and diversity
awareness a central part of the college, and the comprehensive plan will help to get us to where we should be as a
campus community,” she said. “I think that Hope is no
longer at the point of knowing that we should be doing
’something.’ We now know what it is that we should be
doing, and we are doing it.”
NFHC August 2002