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Nursing’s best advisor
Mary Scheerhorn,
assistant professor of
nursing, has received the
statewide “Faculty
Advisor Award” from the
Michigan Nursing
Student Association
(MNSA).
The award was presented during an
awards banquet on Saturday, Feb. 7, during
the MNSA’s 2004 convention, held at the
Amway Grand in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The award is presented to a faculty
advisor who has shown distinguished
support and service to nursing students.
Criteria include providing motivation and
generating enthusiasm for nursing student
association involvement, exhibiting and
teaching nursing professionalism, and
encouraging students to continue their
education and professional involvement
after graduation.
Professor Scheerhorn was nominated by
the Hope Student Nurses’ Association
(HSNA).
“She really deserved it,” said senior
nursing major Jozette M. Dunlap of West
Olive, Mich., who drafted the nomination.
“She’s been a great advocate for us as students.”
Professor Scheerhorn has been a
member of the college’s faculty since 1999.
Nursing began at Hope in 1982 as a joint
program with Calvin College that ran
through 2003, and with the joint program
phasing out Hope began its current, independent, program in 2001. The Hope
program adds 36 sophomores each year,
and will graduate its first class this spring.
In addition to her teaching and work
with the student organization, Professor
Scheerhorn is the 2003 faculty counselor for
the college’s chapter of the Sigma Theta
“Quote, unquote”
Quote, unquote is an
eclectic sampling of things
said at and about Hope
College.
As every year, Hope marked the national
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with a variety of
events, including a commemorative service and
keynote address. This year’s theme was “A
Dream Deferred,” and the featured speaker was
the Rev. Dr. Glen C. Missick, who is executive
director of the African American Council of the
Reformed Church in America.
He opened his Jan. 19 talk with examples of
ways in which racial injustice persists decades
after the Civil Rights movement. The following
excerpts center on his call for Christians to reject
complacency for action.
“There are too many Christians who are
living a God–fearing life in terms of personal
behavior but they have no impact on changing the evils of society. Many of our
churches are no more than sleeping giants.
“It is always amazing to observe how
history continues to repeat itself. Listen to
Dr. Martin Luther King many years ago. In
his Letter from a Birmingham Jail he says, and I
quote, ‘I have traveled the length and
breadth of Alabama, Mississippi and all the
other southern states.
On sweltering
summer days and crisp autumn mornings I
have looked at the South’s beautiful churches with their lofty spires pointing
heavenward. I have beheld the impressive
outlines of her massive religious–education
buildings. Over and over I have found
myself asking, “What kind of people
worship here? Who is their God? Where
were their voices when the lips of Governor
Barnett dripped with the words of interposition and nullification? Where were they
when Governor Wallace gave a clarion call
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for defiance and hatred? Where were their
voices of support when bruised and weary
Negro men and women decided to rise from
the dark dungeons of complacency to the
bright hills of creative protest?”’
“I ask the same question in this millennium: Where are the people of God when
injustice, poverty, discrimination and other
evils continue to run rampant in our country
and our world? Where are God’s 21st
century prophets? Are they hiding like
Elijah, when threatened by the prophets of
Baal? Where are those who are to dream
dreams and see visions? Where are the
people whom Jesus called ‘the light of the
world and the salt of the earth’?
“Someone once asked a question: if we
are the light, then why is the world so dark?
“And the question I ask this evening: If
not us, then who? If not now, when?...
“I believe, my friends, that what we need
today is a new reformation. If we are serious
about letting justice roll down, as Amos puts
it, like a river, righteousness like a
never–failing stream, we need people who
have been born anew and anointed by the
power of the Holy Spirit to fight the evils of
our day.
“Theology must not only be talked about
in the ivory towers, but acted upon and lived
out on the streets of our nation.
“God is waiting. And the world is
waiting for people who are willing to dream
dreams and to see visions––visions of a
world where people live in love and
harmony: red and yellow, black and white,
we are all still precious in God’s sight...
“Now despite this despairing report on
the dream that has been deferred, my friends
I still have a dream, that we can rise up and
live out the true meaning of our faith. I still
have a dream that Blacks and Whites,
Hispanics and Asians, Native Americans
and others can work together to break down
the walls of racial and ethnic strife.”
Tau International nursing honorary society.
In 2000, she received a Hope College
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty
Development Grant to develop a new
nursing leadership/management course.
Her community involvement includes
serving as a sexual assault nurse examiner
for Ottawa County and as an Emergency
Department RN with Holland Community
Hospital, where she was on the staff for
more than two decades before joining the
Hope faculty. She spoke about emergency
nursing during one of the MNSA convention’s breakout sessions.
Among other activities, she is on the
Board of Directors for Hospice of Holland,
and a volunteer with the Victim Services
Unit of Holland and the Lakeshore SAFE
Kids Coalition.
Professor Scheerhorn completed a
diploma at Bronson Methodist School of
Nursing in 1972, a BSN at Grand Valley
State University in 1986 and an MSN at
Andrews University in 1993.
Exceptional work with students earned
Mary Scheerhorn of the nursing faculty the
statewide “Faculty Advisor Award” from
the Michigan Nursing Student Association.
news from
HOPE COLLEGE
Volume 35, No. 5
April 2004
On the cover
The Van Wylen Library was recently named the best among all college–level libraries in
the United States. David Jensen, director of libraries at Hope, described the honor as the
academic library’s equivalent to the Academy Award, and hence our headline.
At top center is a moment from this year’s student–organized Dance Marathon
fund–raiser. In five years, Hope students have raised more than a quarter million dollars
for DeVos Children’s Hospital through the event.
At top right, senior Jason Mejeur looks to sink two points during Hope’s league-winning
season in men’s basketball.
Volume 35, No. 5
April 2004
Published for Alumni, Friends and
Parents of Hope College by the Office of
Public and Community Relations.
Should you receive more than one copy,
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Editor: Gregory S. Olgers ’87
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of Greenville, Mich.
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Kristi Creswell ’04,
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Notice of Nondiscrimination
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equal rights, equal opportunities and equal
protection under the law. Hope College admits
students of any race, color, national and ethnic
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Campus Notes
ONLINE EDITION: Excerpts from the
latest news from Hope College have been
posted on the college’s Web site for several
years. Now, the entire issue is there.
The issue can be viewed as a pdf file
through the college’s Web site, located at
www.hope.edu. It is identical to the
printed version.
Those who can’t or don’t visit Web
sites needn’t worry: the new online availability doesn’t replace the printed copy
that is mailed to alumni, families and
friends of Hope. The electronic version
will, however, precede its hard–copy
counterpart, since the online edition goes
“live” within a day or so of publication
but experience has shown that the mailed
copies can take several days to reach their
destinations.
GROUNDBREAKING EVENTS:
Groundbreaking ceremonies have been
scheduled for two major campus buildings.
A ceremony will be held on Friday,
April 23, at 1:30 p.m. for the DeVos
Fieldhouse, and on Thursday, April 29, at 5
p.m. for the Martha Miller Center for
Global Education.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is being constructed on Fairbanks Avenue between
Eighth and Ninth streets. The Martha
Miller Center is being constructed on
Columbia Avenue between 10th and 11th
streets. They are both scheduled to be completed during the 2005–06 school year.
Both buildings are part of the Legacies: A
Vision of Hope campaign, and construction
is beginning even as fundraising continues.
More about the campaign may be found on
page five.
ACCREDITATION CONTINUES: The
college’s accreditation has been continued
by The Higher Learning Commission of the
North Central Association of Colleges and
Schools.
The commission moved in February to
continue Hope’s accreditation, following
its comprehensive evaluation of the college.
The North Central Association of
Colleges and Schools, founded in 1895, is a
voluntary membership organization of
elementary, secondary and postsecondary
institutions devoted to the improvement
of education through evaluation and
accreditation.
The North Central Association through
its commissions provides institutional
accreditation to educational institutions in
a 19–state region, including Michigan. The
Higher Learning Commission accredits
postsecondary institutions, and is located
at 30 North LaSalle St.; Suite 2400; Chicago,
IL 60602; phone 800–621–7440.
Hope first received accreditation
through the association in 1915, and has
held it continuously ever since. The college’s last comprehensive evaluation was
during 1993–94. Hope expects to be evaluated again in 2013–14.
Faculty Kudos:
Mihai Craioveanu, professor of music
and chair of the strings area in the department of music, will perform, by popular
demand, for a third consecutive season at
Carnegie Hall.
The concert will take place on Sunday,
NFHC April 2004
March Munificence
A
lthough the
basketball season had
ended, the Dow Center
had one more full–court
press to host.
And everyone finished a winner.
The
student–organized
Dance
Marathon finished its 24–hour, March
5–6 run having raised a record
$88,284.25 for the Children’s Miracle
Network, to benefit DeVos Children’s
Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich. Since
its debut in 2000, Dance Marathon has
raised $266,895.95, more than any other
Dance Marathon at a school of Hope’s
size.
More than 500 students––a sixth of
the student body––participated this
year, including not only dancers but
moralers and more than six dozen organizers. Multiple student groups are
involved, and the event is a major focus
for the college’s fraternities and sorori-
Working “For the Kids,” dedicated Hope students in five years have raised more
than a quarter million dollars for DeVos Children’s Hospital through Dance
Marathon––the highest total nationwide for a school of Hope’s size.
ties in particular. To emphasize the
event’s human impact, and in keeping
with its “For the Kids” theme, the organizations are paired throughout the year
with families that have been helped by
the hospital.
Fundraising began in the fall, with
efforts ranging from an art auction to a
student serenading in residence halls for
spare change. Highlights during the
event itself included activities ranging
from a Dutch Dance presentation, to a
performance by Kids Helping Kids
to––especially––the presence of the children and families.
“I truly feel that Dance Marathon is a
great example of how a small college in
a small town can do amazingly huge
things with a little faith, love and of
course, hope,” said senior Layne Shoaf
of Midland, Mich., who was executive
director of Dance Marathon this year.
May 2, in Carnegie Hall’s prestigious Weill
Recital Hall series.
“It is indeed an honor and a major artistic recognition,” said Dr. Craioveanu, who
noted that he is looking forward to being
back in New York City’s premiere concert
venue and one of the top venues in the
world.
The event will be the culminating point
of a concert tour that also includes appearances in the Detroit area, on the Troy Public
Library Concert Series on Sunday, April 25;
and in Washington, D.C., on the Corcoran
Gallery of Art Concert Series on Tuesday,
May 4.
The piano accompanist for the performances will be Irina Kats, who is an
international concert pianist and music
faculty member at Levine School of Music
in Washington, D.C.
The program will include Sonata in D
Major “Tamburin” by Leclair and Sonata
in C minor Op. 45 by Grieg, as well as
popular arias from the famous operas
Faust by Gounod, La Traviata by Verdi,
Carmen by Bizet, Porgy and Bess by
Gershwin, and Barber of Seville by Rossini
in arrangements for violin by legendary
violinist/composers.
Dr. Craioveanu will present a concert
preview for West Michigan on Friday,
April 23, at 8 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial
Chapel, located on College Avenue at 12th
Street. The public is invited to the Hope
concert, and admission is free.
Donald Cronkite of the biology faculty
has been appointed to a multidisciplinary
committee formed by the National
Council of Churches to lead the U.S. ecumenical community’s work over the next
two years on issues of human genetic
technology.
The
Human
Genetics
Policy
Development Committee and a complement
of seven “Senior Sages” has been charged
“But it is the miracle families that actually teach us the true meaning of hope.
The things they go through make the 24
hours seem easy. And they always keep
smiling.”
Shoaf has been involved with Dance
Marathon during all of her four years at
Hope, starting as a dancer as a freshman
and then holding a variety of leadership
roles in the years since. She couldn’t not
do it.
“Dance Marathon is an awesome way
to minister to the community and to
make a statement about how people
really can make a difference,” she said.
“Ever since my freshman year I have
been hooked––addicted to the smiles on
the kids’ faces, to the hugs from the families and to the looks on the faces of the
Hope students when they realize that
they have made life better for so many
children.”
with replacing the NCC’s 1986 policy,
“Genetic Science for Human Benefit,” with a
new policy that will guide the council’s educational outreach and public policy efforts in
light of new and emerging technologies.
The committee’s 16 members and the seven
“Senior Sages” represent a range of denominational, professional, and racial and ethnic
backgrounds.
A specialist in genetics, Dr. Cronkite has
long been active in considering the theological implications of the field. For several
years, he was moderator of the Christian
Action Commission of the Reformed
Church in America, the college’s parent
denomination, which considered multiple
issues including genetics. Locally, he has
been active speaking with church adult
education classes and other groups concerning various aspects of human genetic
technology.
(Please see “Campus Notes” on page 18.)
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Events
APR17
Academic Calendar
Alumni and Friends
Spring Semester
April 22, Thursday––Honors Convocation, Dimnent
Memorial Chapel, 7 p.m.
April 23, Friday––Spring Festival. Classes dismissed at 1
p.m.
April 26–30, Monday–Friday––Semester Examinations
April 30, Friday––Residence halls close for those not participating in Commencement, 5 p.m.
May 1, Saturday––Alumni Day
May 2, Sunday––Baccalaureate and Commencement
May 2, Sunday––Residence halls close for graduating
seniors, 7 p.m.
May Term––May 3–28
June Term––June 1–25
July Term––June 28–July 23
Summer Seminars––July 26–30
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.
Junior Day: Friday, April 16
Pre–Professional Day: Wednesday, May 21
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.
Dance
Student Dance Concert––Monday–Tuesday, April 19–20
Knickerbocker Theatre, 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
Aerial Dance Theatre––Friday–Saturday, May 21–22
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.
Cecchetti International Ballet School Concerts––Saturday,
July 24
Knickerbocker Theatre, 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Admission is free.
De Pree Gallery
Senior Show––Through Sunday, May 2
Work by graduating Hope seniors.
The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
A variety of science and sports camps for kids will be
available on campus during the summer.
Theatre
The Cherry Orchard –– Friday–Saturday, April 16–17;
Wednesday–Saturday, April 21–24
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. The ticket office is open Monday through
Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and may be called at (616)
395–7890.
Hope Summer Repertory Theatre
The 33rd season opens on Friday, June 18. The season is still
being finalized, and the rights are pending for all the shows
listed.
The four mainstage shows on the DeWitt Center main
theatre include:
Oliver!, by Lionel Bart
Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw
Art, by Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher
Hampton
G.I. Jive, a musical created by Fred Tessler and Meribeth
Kisner
Plus be sure to look for HSRT’s always popular Cabaret
Show at the Park Theatre and another play at the intimate
Snow Auditorium in Nykerk Hall of Music, as well as two
children’s shows.
The season runs through Saturday, Aug. 14. Tickets will range in
price from $8 to $26. For additional information, please call the
theatre ticket office at (616) 395–7890 on or after its Thursday,
May 27, opening date.
Visiting Writers Series
Music
Combined Choirs and Symphonette––Tuesday, April 20:
Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
Wind Symphony Concert––Wednesday, April 21: Dimnent
Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
Faculty Recital––Friday, April 23: Dr. Mihai Craioveanu,
violin, Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m. Admission is free.
(The concert will preview Dr. Craioveanu’s performance at
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in May. Please see the
“Faculty Kudos” story in the “Campus Notes” section on page
three for more.)
Senior Recital––Saturday, April 24: Sara Luneack of Alma,
Mich., soprano, Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of
Music, 4 p.m. Admission is free.
Tulip Time Organ Recitals––Wednesday–Saturday, May
5–8: a variety of organists, many of them alumni, Dimnent
Memorial Chapel, every 30 minutes starting at 10 a.m. with
the last recital concluding at 2 p.m. Admission is free,
although a freewill offering will be taken.
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Wednesday, April 21––Quan Barry and Beth Ann
Fennelly
The reading will be at the Knickerbocker Theatre beginning at 7
p.m., with live music by the Hope College Jazz Chamber
Ensemble preceding the reading beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Admission is free.
Traditional Events
Honors Convocation––Thursday, April 22, 7 p.m.
Baccalaureate and Commencement––Sunday, May 2
Opening Convocation––Sunday, Aug. 29, 2 p.m.
Instant Information
Updates on events, news and athletics at Hope may be
obtained 24 hours a day by calling (616) 395–7888.
Regional Events
Kalamazoo, Mich.--Tuesday, July 20
Grand Rapids, Mich.--Sunday, July 25
Detroit, Mich.—Tuesday, July 27
“Summer Send-Off” —Picnics with area Hope alumni,
parents, current students and friends to welcome incoming freshmen and their families. Locations and times TBA.
Chicago, Ill.--Saturday, July 31, 5:30 p.m.
A private showing of the exhibit “Splendors of China's
Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor
Qianlong” at the Field Museum.
Alumni Weekend––Friday–Sunday, April 30–May 2
Includes reunions for every fifth class, ‘39 through ‘79.
Alumni Travel––Wednesday, May 5–Monday, May 24, or
Saturday, May 15–Friday, June 4
Educational trips to northern Tanzania in East Africa, led
by biologist Dr. Harvey Blankespoor. The trips are at
capacity and registration is closed.
Bob DeYoung Hope Classic Golf Outing––Monday, June 21
At the Holland Country Club.
For more information concerning the above events, please call the
Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at (616) 395–7250 or the
Office of Public and Community Relations at (616) 395–7860.
Summer Camps
More information about all summer camps may be found
online at: www.hope.edu/camps
Science Camps
Stupendous Science (grades K–2)––June 14–18
Lego Robotics I (grades 3–5)––June 14–18
3rd Rock/4th Rock (grades 2–3)––June 14–18
Math Pentathlon II (grades 4–5)––June 14–18
Math Pentathlon I (grades 2–3)––June 21–25
Lego Robotics II (grades 6–8)––June 21–25
Crime Scene Investigations (grades 3–6)––June 21–25
Mini–Boot Camp (grades K–2)––June 21–25
Prehistoric Planet (grades K–2)––June 28–July 2
Crime Scene Investigations (grades 3–6)––June 28–July 2
Sssuper Dissection (grades 7–9)––June 28–July 2
Spine Tingling Science (grades 2–4)––July 12–16
XX–treme Science (grades 5–6)––July 12–16
Toxic Planet (grades 6–8)––July 12–16
Stupendous Science (grades K–2)––July 19–23
Space and Rocketry (grades 2–5)––July 19–23
ER (grades 6–9)––July 19–23
Mini–Boot Camp (grades K–2)––July 26–30
Space and Rocketry (grades 2–5)––July 26–30
Demented Dissection (grades 6–8)––July 26–30
For complete information, including session times, please check
the science camp Web site at www.hope.edu/academic/chemistry or call (616) 395–7628.
Soccer Camps
Day Camp––two camps: June 14–18, 21–25 (ages six–14)
Elite Camp––two camps: July 11–16, 18–23 (ages 11–18)
For more information, please call (616) 335–8103 or visit
www.hopesoccercamp.com.
Youth Football Camp
Lineman’s Camp, entering grades nine–12: July 25–27
Youth Camp, entering grades three–five: July 28–30
Youth Camp, entering grades six–eight: July 28–30
For more information, please call (616) 395–7690.
Boys Basketball Camps
Great Lakes Team Camp–two camps: June 20-23, 23-26
Entering grades four–six: June 28–July 1
Entering grades seven–nine: July 5–9
Varsity Team Camp: June 18–19
Junior Varsity Team Camp: July 5–7
For more information, please call (616) 395–7690.
Girls Basketball Camps
Entering grades six–eight: July 19–23
Entering grades nine–12: July 19–23
Body training, entering grades six–12: July 19–23
For more information, please call (616) 395–7690.
Volleyball
High school team camp: July 11-16
Entering grades nine-12: July 19-22
Entering grades six-eight: Aug. 4-7
Hitter/setter, entering grades nine-12: Aug. 4-7
For more information, please call (616) 395-7690.
Tennis Academy
Nine weekly sessions, beginning June 14 and continuing
through Aug. 13. Participants may also register for the
entire summer.
For more information, please call (616) 395-4965.
NFHC April 2004
Legacies: A Vision of Hope
Planning works wonders
To give to higher
education is to think
long–term.
Sometimes, that perspective marks not
only the reason for a gift to Hope, but the
form as well. Such support, typically
involving financial or estate planning, falls
under the heading of “planned giving,”
and it’s a way to help Hope that can also
yield direct returns for the giver.
Like all gifts to Hope, planned giving
matters. Without the continuing generosity of the Hope family, the college could
not function.
During the current Legacies: A Vision of
Hope fundraising campaign, the support is
enabling the college to pursue critically
needed building projects––like the new
science center and renovation of Peale,
and the Martha Miller Center for Global
Communication
and
the
DeVos
Fieldhouse––in addition to building the
endowment for ongoing operations and
funds like scholarships.
Running in tandem with such periodic
campaigns is the annual Hope Fund drive.
Every year, the Hope Fund underwrites
the college’s day–to–day activity, covering
everything from student research in the
labs, to musical performances, to athletic
team travel, to keeping chalk in the classrooms and the lights on.
In addition to the support provided to
the Hope Fund and campaigns like
Legacies are additional gifts to the endowment and other major projects.
Planned giving support fits in everywhere, since it can be applied to anything.
In some cases, planned gifts provide a
combination of tax benefits and regular
income for the donor. For example,
through charitable gift annuities, donors
transfer property––cash, stock, etc.––to the
college. Hope then manages the principal,
paying the donor a regular percentage for
the rest of his or her life. When the donor
dies, the property passes to the college.
Legacies: A Vision of Hope has four
primary initiatives: building the new
science center and renovating the Peale
Science Center; constructing the DeVos
Fieldhouse; increasing the endowment;
and general campus improvements,
including the construction of the Martha
Miller Center for communication,
modern and classical languages, international education and multicultural life.
While the Hope family has responded
generously in making gifts to the initiatives, the need for support continues. In
the case of the major building projects,
given the need for the new facilities the
college has moved and is moving ahead
with construction even while seeking to
complete funding for them.
The projected cost for the DeVos
Fieldhouse project is $22 million, of which
$19.4 million has been raised.
A
ground–breaking ceremony will be held on
NFHC April 2004
The benefits to the donor include an
income tax deduction with the initial
transfer, some tax–free income during the
payout, and no estate tax on the property
at the end. For Hope, there are two major
benefits: the opportunity to engage the
donor in a meaningful relationship, and
ultimate retention of the gift itself.
There are many such ways to give and
receive at the same time. Donors who
intend to leave the college their home, for
example, can transfer title while still alive.
The giver retains lifetime use of the property and immediately receives the income
tax deduction, which can even be carried
forward for five years.
Through a charitable lead trust, a donor
transfers property to the college, which
invests it and retains most of the income.
After a specified term of years, the principal and any earnings above the payout
percentage go to the donor’s family. It’s a
way to realize a tax deduction at the
beginning, provide Hope with income for
a period of years and still leave something
to one’s family in the end.
Dick Huff ’52 of Holland, Mich., has
pursued a variety of planned giving
options––gift annuities, deferred payment
gift annuities, pooled income funds. All
provide him with income, but his motivation is to also and ultimately benefit Hope
students.
“I’ve always felt that any contribution
to the college is an investment in young
people––and it returns dividends for a
long time,” he said. “To me, it’s one of the
best returns on my investments.”
Dr. Norman Rieck ’53 and Ellen
Lidston ’51 Rieck of Holland established a
charitable gift annuity in support of the
new science center through the Legacies
campaign. Dr. Rieck is a professor emeritus of biology, having taught at Hope from
1962 until retiring in 1986.
“We believe in what Hope is doing, certainly in the sciences and in other places in
the college,” Ellen said.
“It was a chance, we thought, to help
out with some of the massive amount of
Friday, April 23 at 1:30 p.m., in conjunction
with the annual Spring Festival student
event. The building is scheduled to be
ready for the 2005–06 basketball season.
Funding for the Martha Miller Center
totals $4.7 million of the $11.5 million
projected cost. A ground–breaking ceremony for the building will be held on
Thursday, April 29 at 5 p.m. The building is scheduled to open during 2005–06.
Thus far, support for the science
center totals $28.3 million. Total project
cost, including the new building and the
renovation of Peale, is $36 million. The
new building opened in August of 2003,
Like all support of Hope, planned giving makes a major difference in the lives of
students. Benefits through Legacies: A Vision of Hope range from the new science
center to the soon–forthcoming DeVos Fieldhouse.
funding that’s needed,” Norman said.
“Since it’s a charitable gift annuity, we
also get a little return on it a couple of
times a year.”
In the same way, Roger Borr ’58 and
Ruth VandenBerg ’58 Borr of Holland
have established a charitable remainder
unitrust as a Legacies gift on behalf of the
DeVos Fieldhouse. As loyal fans who
have attended many games at the aging
Civic Center, and parents of a daughter
who played volleyball and basketball at
Hope (Carin Borr ’89 VonIns), they appreciate the difference the new facility will
make. They’re also looking forward to the
new building not only as a showpiece but
a home–court showplace.
“We have such wonderful athletic
teams. And there isn’t anywhere to showcase their success. We can’t wait until the
new fieldhouse is open so all of the
winning banners and trophies can be put
and the Peale renovation will be completed for the start of the 2004–05 school
year.
Strong response from the Hope family
has yielded $48.7 million for endowment, exceeding the goal of $30 million.
At the same time, Hope’s endowment–
per–student remains extremely low
among peer institutions, and the difficult economic climate makes building
the endowment an even greater priority
than when the campaign’s goals were
established.
Support for other campus projects
(such as the renovation of Graves and
Lubbers halls) totals $3.2 million of the
$10.5 million goal.
For more information about Legacies:
A Vision of Hope, please visit the college
online at www.hope.edu/advancement/legacies/, call (616) 395–7775 or
e–mail advancement@hope.edu.
on display,” Ruth said.
Planned giving needn’t involve annuities and tax considerations or an eye on
retirement financing. Hundreds of alumni
have taken the step of placing Hope in
their wills.
As young parents, Becca Dykstra ’91
Weller and Chris Weller ’91 saw the
importance of crafting a will. Based on
their experience as students, including
Hope was a natural step.
“We just both knew that Hope would
be included in our estate plans,” Becca
said. “We just never considered it any
other way. Hope has been a great part of
our lives, and still is.”
To honor all who have made planned
giving a priority, Hope has established the
Dimnent Society, named for Hope’s fifth
president.
Hope does, however, have to know
about the planning for someone to become
a member. The director of planned giving
at Hope is John Norden ’71, who is one of
the college’s regional advancement directors. It will happen, he noted, that Hope
will receive bequests that are completely
unexpected, sometimes even from people
whose only connection was through a
friend or acquaintance.
He just wishes that the college could
know in advance.
“It’s wonderful that they thought of
Hope College like that. At the same time,
though, we never had a chance to say
’thanks,’” Norden said. “We never had a
chance to take that person out to lunch and
just spend a little time together and say,
’What you’re doing for Hope College is a
wonderful thing. We appreciate it. We
want you to really know that––I speak for
all of us at Hope––it means a lot to us.’”
Additional information about planned
giving is accessible through the college’s Web
site, www.hope.edu/advancement. Information
may also be obtained by calling Norden at
(616) 395–7779 or e–mailing him at
norden@hope.edu.
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Campus Notes
Graduation is May 2
The college’s 139th
Commencement will be
held on Sunday, May 2.
The Commencement speaker, chosen by
the graduating class, will the Rev. Dr.
Timothy L. Brown ’73 of Holland, Mich., who
is the Henry Bast Professor of Preaching at
Western Theological Seminary. The
Baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by the
Rev. Dr. Carolyn Holloway, who is senior
pastor of the DeWitt Reformed Church on the
Lower East Side of Manhattan, N.Y.
Commencement will be held on Sunday,
May 2, at 3 p.m. at Zeeland Stadium, relocated from the usual Holland Municipal
Stadium site because of construction on
Fairbanks Avenue. Baccalaureate will be
held on Sunday, May 2, at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30
a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. More than
600 seniors will be participating.
Dr. Brown has been a member of the seminary’s faculty since 1995. He is also a
General Synod Professor of Theology of the
Reformed Church in America.
He was the Hinga–Boersma Dean of the
Chapel at Hope during the 2001–02 and
2002–03 school years, and had served as
interim dean during the spring of 2001. He
was on the college’s Board of Trustees from
1998 until his appointment to the deanship,
and was reappointed to the board in 2003.
He delivered the college’s Baccalaureate
sermon in 1992.
From 1983 to 1995, Dr. Brown was
pastor of Christ Memorial Church in
Holland. He served the First Reformed
Church of South Holland, Ill., from 1980 to
1983, and Fellowship Reformed Church in
Hudsonville, Mich., from 1976 to 1980. He
has written several articles for The Church
Herald, The Reformed Review and
Perspectives magazine.
Dr. Brown holds an M.Div. and a D.Min.
from Western Theological Seminary.
He and his wife, Nancy Johnson ’71
Brown, have three children: Sarah E.B.
Lefebre, Jon ’99 and Rebekah Brown ’00 Hutt.
Dr. Holloway is in her ninth year at
DeWitt Reformed Church. She is the first
female and first African American woman
pastor in DeWitt's 124-year history.
Her appointments include serving as one
of the vice presidents of the New York City
Council of Churches and as an adjunct professor at New York Theological Seminary.
She was appointed a member of the Federal
Steering Committee for the African American
Burial Ground in New York City, and was a
clergy crisis responder for the Office of
Emergency Management of New York City
for 9/11 and the Flight 587 disaster.
Dr. Holloway is a past president of the
New York Classis of the Reformed Church in
America, and in 1999 became the first
Rev. Dr. Timothy L. Brown ’73
Rev. Dr. Carolyn Holloway
African American woman to preach during
the RCA's General Synod. She is currently a
committee member of the RCA's Ministerial
Formation Coordinating Agency, and was
recently nominated and installed as chairperson of the African American Council of
the RCA.
She had also served Mariners' Temple
Baptist Church in Chinatown in New York
for seven years, including as acting and
assistant pastor.
Dr. Holloway graduated from the College
of New Rochelle. She completed her M.Div.
at New York Theological Seminary, and a
Doctorate in Urban Ministry degree at New
Brunswick Theological Seminary. She is a
widowed mother of four.
Zeeland Stadium is located on Riley
Street at 100th Avenue. In the event of rain,
Commencement will be held at Zeeland
East High School, located at Riley Street
and 96th Avenue. Admission to
Baccalaureate, and to Commencement if
indoors, is by ticket only.
Hope to honor two
Hope will present two
honorary degrees during the
Commencement ceremony
on Sunday, May 2.
Hope will confer honorary degrees
upon J. Kermit Campbell, who recently
retired as chairperson of the college’s Board
of Trustees, and Danny R. Gaydou, who is
chairperson of the Board of the Michigan
Colleges Foundation and publisher of The
Grand Rapids Press.
Campbell will receive the Doctor of
Humane Letters (L.H.D.), and Gaydou will
receive the Doctor of Laws (L.L.D.).
Campbell, who lives in Traverse City, was
chairperson of the college’s Board of Trustees
from 1995 until retiring this past summer.
He had served on the board since 1983.
He chaired the college’s 1992–93
Holland/Zeeland Community Campaign.
He and his wife, Sallie, established the
“Evelyn Spallinger Campbell Scholarship
Fund” at Hope in memory of his mother.
Campbell was group vice president at
Dow Corning Corporation from 1987 to 1992,
responsible for all operations in the United
States. His career at Dow Corning began in
1960. He served as manager of new products
research; technical director for the European
area; vice president and general manager of
fluids, resins and process industries business;
and vice president for personnel, communications and governmental affairs. He holds
25 patents.
From Dow Corning he went on to
Herman Miller, where he served as chair-
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J. Kermit Campbell
Danny R. Gaydou
man and chief executive officer until 1995.
He is now retired and managing his own
investments.
Campbell has consistently been active in
his community and as a volunteer.
Interested in helping young people, he is
on the board of the Eagle Village residential
program for youth in Hersey, and was
founding board chair for Michigan
Communities in Schools. He was general
chairman of Midland Junior Achievement
and chaired the State Michigan Partners in
Education Task Force.
He has served on the boards or chaired
the boards of organizations including the
American Architecture Foundation, Midland
County United Way, Midland Symphony,
Grand Rapids Opera, the Henry Ford
Museum and the Interlochen State Theatre in
Traverse City. He was president of the
Midland County Growth Alliance, and
co–chaired Michigan First with former
Michigan Governor John Engler.
Active in his church, he is currently chairman of the consistory of Faith Reformed in
Traverse City.
He is a graduate of the University of
Kansas. He completed a master’s degree at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where he was a Sloan Fellow.
Campbell and his wife have two children:
Jim, who is a 1985 Hope graduate, and Sherri.
Gaydou has been a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Michigan Colleges
Foundation (MCF) since 1994, serving as
chair since 2001.
MCF solicits financial support from businesses and corporations on behalf of
independent higher education in Michigan.
Since its beginning in 1949, the foundation
has raised more than $62 million for its 14
member colleges, which are private,
four–year liberal arts institutions. In addition
to Hope, the members are: Adrian, Albion,
Alma, Andrews, Aquinas, Calvin, Hillsdale,
Kalamazoo, Madonna, Marygrove, Olivet,
Siena Heights and Spring Arbor.
Gaydou has been publisher of The Grand
Rapids Press since 1996. He was publisher of
The Flint Journal from 1987 through 1995.
Previously, he was assistant controller at The
Journal, controller at The Saginaw News and
vice president for Booth Newspapers (parent
corporation of The Press, Journal, News and
five other Michigan newspapers).
In addition to chairing the MCF board, he
is also chairman of the board of Right Place
Inc. and president of the Inland Press
Association. He also serves on boards or is a
trustee for organizations including Spectrum
Health, the DeVos Children’s Hospital
Foundation, Metropolitan YMCA and Meijer
Gardens.
He is past president of the Gerald R. Ford
Council of the Boy Scouts of America, was
general campaign chairperson of Heart of
West Michigan United Way in 2001, and
during 2000–01 was a cabinet member and
chairperson for the Millennium Park
Fundraising Committee of the Secchia
Millennium Commission.
Gaydou is a graduate of the University
of Michigan, Flint. He and his wife, Lou
Ann, have three children and three grandchildren.
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Campus Notes
Dean of the Chapel named
The Rev. Trygve D. Johnson has
been appointed the Hinga–Boersma
Dean of the Chapel.
Rev. Johnson, who is currently completing doctoral
studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland,
served most recently as chaplain at Northwestern College
in Orange City, Iowa. He will assume his duties at Hope
in January of 2005.
“Trygve possesses the full array of skills and gifts that
we were seeking,” said President James E. Bultman ’63.
“He is completing his doctorate in theology and homiletics, he has experience as a college chaplain, and he has
prepared himself for spiritual life leadership in the
academy.”
“We believe he possesses the mind of a scholar, the
heart of a pastor and the courage of a leader,” President
Bultman said. “We on the search committee are unanimous in our belief that we have sought and found the
person of God’s choosing, and that the record of history
will document that the Reverend Trygve Johnson was a
superb choice to lead the spiritual life of the college at this
important time in Hope’s history.”
The appointment marks a return to both Holland and
Hope for Rev. Johnson. He completed his master of divinity at Western Theological Seminary in 1999, serving as a
chaplain intern at Hope from 1996 to 1998 and as a pastoral
intern at Third Reformed Church during 1998–99.
He noted that he is looking forward to rejoining the
community and working with Hope’s students.
“College is a unique season of growth,” he said. “For
me there is nothing more satisfying than to walk shoulder–to–shoulder with students as they integrate their faith
convictions into a larger vision for life.”
“To be in a community of learning, where one of the
fundamental mandates is to explore the big
questions––what it means to be human, what is truth, what
The Rev. Trygve D. Johnson has been appointed the
Hinga–Boersma Dean of the Chapel. He will begin in
January.
is justice––is at the heart of Christian discipleship––where
faith seeks understanding,” Rev. Johnson said. “It is in this
action of discernment and integration where lives are put
on a trajectory for life. I love being a small part of that
process.”
“To be entrusted the honor to proclaim the gospel of
Jesus in this unique context and season is more significant
than anything else I can think of doing,” he said. “I can’t
wait to begin.”
As the dean of the chapel at Hope, Rev. Johnson will
lead the college’s spiritual life program. His responsibilities will include administering Hope’s thrice–weekly and
Sunday evening chapel program, preaching regularly in
chapel, speaking and writing, and nurturing relationships
with the college’s students, faculty and staff. In addition,
he will be supervising the campus ministries program’s
six–member professional ministry team.
The deanship was endowed in 1993 by Connie Hinga
’49 Boersma of Holland and her husband, the late Max
Boersma ’46. Connie Boersma is the daughter of the late
Milton L. “Bud” Hinga, who was at Hope for 29 years as a
professor, coach and dean. Max Boersma was a longtime
member of the college’s Board of Trustees.
Rev. Johnson served as chaplain at Northwestern
College, which like Hope is affiliated with the Reformed
Church in America (RCA), from 1999 to 2002. His responsibilities included organizing and facilitating a daily
chapel program; serving as resident preacher; co–supervising the campus ministry staff and programs; providing
pastoral care to students, faculty and staff; and serving as
a liaison to community pastors and the RCA.
He has been pursuing his doctorate in theology at St.
Andrews since 2002.
His professional activities have included membership in
the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA)
of St. Mary’s College at the University of St. Andrews, and
appointment in 2002 as a General Synod Chaplain by the
RCA. His honors have included a 2002 Calvin Worship
Institute Fellowship and a 2001 Henry Bast Preaching
Scholarship.
Rev. Johnson graduated summa cum laude from
Northwestern College in 1996 with a major in history. An
NAIA Baseball First Team Academic All–American as an
undergraduate, he was also an assistant baseball coach at
Hope in 1996 and at Northwestern from 2000 to 2002.
His wife, Kristen, is a graduate of the University of
Virginia who is also pursuing a doctorate in theology, with
a focus on political theory, at the University of St.
Andrews, and is also an ITIA member.
Service and lessons mix
A community project
gave Hope students a
chance to serve and learn
at the same time.
Some 22 Hope students, many of them
social work majors, fanned out in teams
through the Holland area to help the Ottawa
Area Housing Coalition count the hidden
homeless on Thursday, Jan. 29. The project
was part of a larger state–wide effort to
determine the number of homeless in
Michigan.
When she received the request for volunteers, Professor Melissa Villarreal ’90 quickly
passed the word to two organizations she
advises: the student social work organization (SWORG) and the Kappa Delta Chi
sorority. She wasn’t sure how many to anticipate, especially since the project was
scheduled to begin at an ultra–early 5 a.m.
The goal was to find homeless people
who were on the streets, meaning that they
weren’t receiving assistance through local
agencies. The early–morning beginning was
calculated to better locate them where they
were sleeping.
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The student response was nearly overwhelming. The Hope contingent comprised
more than half the total number of volunteers. And the Hope students also had a
suggestion, given that they didn’t locate that
many people: start even earlier next year.
“I’m proud of our students,” said
Villarreal, an assistant professor of social
work. “I’m proud to say I’m a Hope College
professor and took part in this.”
While the January count ultimately
yielded a small number of homeless people,
the problem isn’t small. In 2003, more than
1,600 people were identified as homeless in
Ottawa County.
Junior Shanna Van Zyl of Grand Island,
Neb., who is co–leader of SWORG, found
that the experience broadened her understanding of the nature of homelessness. Her
group found one woman, who was reluctant
to talk, sitting in her possessions–laden truck
in a parking lot. Later in the day, she spotted
the same vehicle in the city library’s lot, and
then driving around town. Another group
found a homeless person on his bike with his
possessions.
“It was such an eerie feeling, to know that
I may see homeless people all the time and
just never realize it,” Van Zyl said. “It is
“I think everyone should
be active in a volunteer
position of some sort
because it allows you a
great growing experience.
”
–– Nakisha Zwyghuizen, senior
very much a real thing that happens in our
society––whether we take notice or doanything about it.”
Senior Sarah Bolman of Holland participated not only as a social work major but
through her internship with Community
Action House.
“By searching for the ’hidden homeless’
we are educating ourselves as agencies in
ways that we can serve the population,” she
said.
The desire to serve is one reason she’s
chosen the profession. “We all deserve to
have a quality life because of God’s grace,
and through my profession as a social
worker I am able to help people make those
steps to obtain a life of meaning,” Bolman
said.
The same desire also motivated senior
Nakisha Zwyghuizen of Zeeland, Mich.,
whose activities also include an internship
helping low–income youth find work or train
for better employment. She sees a common
thread running through both populations.
“I can get pretty excited about the kids
that I works with and would love to see
more Hope students and Holland community members continue to get involved in the
lives of people in need,” she said. “Holland
has a large population of people who are
struggling physically, emotionally and
financially, and are just waiting for people to
reach out to them.”
Zwyghuizen feels her field work has been
an important complement to her classroom
education.
“Through my internship and other volunteer experiences I have been able to
practice things that I’ve been verbally told
how to do,” she said. “I’ve come into contact
with many unique people and continue to
build my knowledge of other cultures and
how they work.”
“I think everyone should be active in a
volunteer position of some sort because it
allows you a great growing experience,”
Zwyghuizen said.
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Faculty Profile
Giving psychology away
It started with the people.
As a young Ph.D. in 1969, psychologist
James Motiff had eight job offers and an
enviable challenge: choose. What he’d seen
at Hope made the decision for him.
“The now–colleagues that I have were
some of the nicest people and the friendliest,
most accepting people I saw on any of my
job interviews,” he said. “That really made
a big difference, and I think was the crucial
variable.”
As he now anticipates retirement, he
notes that through the past three–
and–a–half decades he has only found that
initial impression reinforced.
“I could not have asked, ever, for a
greater group of people,” Dr. Motiff said.
“And while some of the people that were
here when I started have of course retired,
there are senior members here who I have
known for, if not 34 years, certainly around
25 to 30 years. That’s a very, very rich experience to have had.”
He has been equally impressed by the
students.
“Students have always been a joy for
me,” he said. “I like Hope students. They’re
bright, they’re hard–working, they’re nice
people, they’re caring people.”
Dr. Motiff understands
well the difference that
a faculty mentor can
make in a student’s life.
He was prompted to
continue his interest in
psychology by a
professor during his
undergraduate days.
Dr. Motiff understands well the difference that a faculty mentor can make in a
student’s life. He was prompted to continue
his interest in psychology by a professor
during his undergraduate days at St.
Norbert College in West De Pere, Wis.
His mentor was interested in physiological psychology, and Dr. Motiff ultimately
pursued his doctorate in the same field at
the University of South Dakota, where he
also completed his master’s degree.
His choice of specialization, he feels, is
another decision that has stood the test of
time. He has never ceased to enjoy it.
“That field has been one of the hottest
advancing fields in psychology,” Dr. Motiff
said. “There have so many new discoveries,
new ways of looking at the brain and how it
works––all kinds of imaging techniques that
weren’t available when I first started.”
“When I look through some of the early
textbooks that I used and I look at some of
the ones that I’m using now, I’ll bet the
field has changed 75 percent in new information,” he said. “And that has kept me
absolutely intrigued with physiological
psychology.”
Dr. Motiff initiated the college’s program
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in physiological psychology, and has taught
at least one section every semester since.
For about a decade, his research program
included extra duties as a zookeeper.
Continuing investigations he started during
graduate school, he and Hope students conducted research with a cadre of monkeys,
the creatures housed for a time in Voorhees
Hall.
In 1972, he began teaching the college’s
long–running, off–campus May Term
course on “helping relationships,” which
provides an intensive introduction to counseling theory and techniques. Originally
held on Beaver Island, the course has more
recently been set at Camp Miniwanca. He
also developed a half–semester, school–year
version for students unable to enroll in the
summer.
During the 1970s, his interests within his
specialization began to shift, and he began to
focus on how health is related to both physical and mental well–being.
“The distinction between mind and body
is not real. They really are an integrated
whole, and health psych does a really good
job of helping people to see that,” Dr. Motiff
said. “How we think and how we feel plays
a huge role in both health and illness. That,
too, has been a major highlight of my time
here.”
He became one of the first people to practice biofeedback, and in 1985 served as
president of the Biofeedback Society of
Michigan. His professional involvements
have also included serving on the Board of
Directors of the Michigan Society for
Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback.
Dr. Motiff has given seminars on stress
reduction to numerous community groups
as well as nationwide, and written articles
on stress for scholarly journals and the
popular press alike.
Following one presentation, a clinician
from Grand Rapids who had been in the
audience approached him about considering the problem of chronic pain from a
psychological rather than strictly physical
perspective.
His subsequent research
included a sabbatical devoted to the topic,
and ultimately they established the state’s
first outpatient program for chronic–pain
sufferers.
When health psychology became recognized by the American Psychological
Association, Dr. Motiff developed a course
at Hope accordingly. He appreciates that
the course draws students from a variety
of disciplines––kinesiology, psychology,
pre–meds and others who plan to work in
health–related fields.
His service to the department also included two terms as chair, during which he and
his colleagues revamped the major program.
His honors include a 1983 Distinguished
Achievement Award in Social Service from
St. Norbert College, a 1978–79 Notable
Americans Award, and 1972 and 1973
recognition as an Outstanding Educator of
America.
With his enthusiasm for his colleagues,
his students and his discipline running high,
Dr. Motiff isn’t retiring because of a sense of
ennui. He had set his plans into motion
months before the beginning of the current
semester with a sense of expectation: he and
As he concludes 35 years on the psychology faculty, Dr. James Motiff anticipates
staying involved in his discipline by sharing insights from his field through seminars
and other activities. Enjoying his work with Hope students, he will also continue to
teach the college’s May Term on helping relationships.
wife Dr. Judy Motiff intended to travel and
pursue other interests together in a way that
the school–year schedule wouldn’t allow.
In that respect, however, life has taken a
painful turn. Judy, who had retired in 2000
after serving as a member of the college’s
French faculty since 1969, died on Sunday,
Dec. 21, 2003, at age 63.
They hadn’t yet met when they both
came to Hope to teach––it was coincidence
that they joined the faculty in the same year.
They married in 1981.
Even as he mourns Judy’s death, Dr.
Motiff focuses on what they had.
“You see how unpredictable life is, and
how everything that happens creates both
challenge and opportunity,” he said. “It’s
not that grieving and sadness are fun, but
out of grieving and sadness come good
things, too––greater insights, greater understanding, greater appreciation for what the
wonderful 22 years with Judy were.”
“I think about how fortunate I was to be
here to meet her––and to have a daughter
[Kate Vickers ‘93]. You couldn’t want a
nicer, more wonderful daughter or human
being,” Dr. Motiff said.
He noted that he remains ready to retire
and try some new directions as he adjusts to
Judy’s loss. He will continue to teach the
“helping relationships” May Term––a
favorite that he isn’t ready to give up––and
also to continue his two decades as a volunteer trainer with Hospice.
And he maintains a file into which he
places new ideas to mix with the plans that
the couple had made.
“For me, Judy’s spirit is still here, and it’s
still strong inside of me,” Dr. Motiff said.
“And I’m going to continue with many of
the plans that we had. We both were in
agreement on what we wanted to do. I still
want to do a lot of those things.”
“I also want to continue to give psychology away, which has been one of the themes
of my work as a psychologist,” he said. “I
like to do seminars, and I anticipate doing
some, perhaps even coupled with travel,
with groups of people. I will also continue
with my psychotherapy and consulting
practice.”
“And I want to do some other volunteer
work where I can use some of the talents
and knowledge that I have, and help and
give back to the community what I have so
richly benefitted from,” he said.
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Winter Sports Roundup
A cause to celebrate
Three conference titles
highlighted a successful winter
sports season at Hope College.
For the seventh time in school history, both swimming
and diving teams swept the championships of the Michigan
Intercollegiate Athletic Association, while the men’s basketball squad claimed a league–record 32nd league crown.
With seven conference championships already won this
school year, Hope maintained its lead in the Commissioner’s
Cup standings which is based on the best cumulative performance in the 18 MIAA–sponsored sports.
Through the winter season Hope also ranked high in a
national ranking compiled by the National Association of
Collegiate Directors of Athletics. Based on competition in
NCAA–sponsored post–season championship opportunities
and finishes, Hope ranked 31st among 246 NCAA Division
III colleges.
Hope’s amazing string of successes in men’s basketball
under longtime coach Glenn Van Wieren ’64 continued.
Posting a 21–5 record, the Flying Dutchmen won their 15th
MIAA crown in 27 seasons under Van Wieren. Two of the
victories were over rival Calvin.
Sophomore Andy Phillips of White Pigeon, Mich.,
became the 18th Hope player in school history to be voted
the MIAA’s most valuable player. One of his accomplishments during the season was scoring 45 points in a game, the
most–ever on the Holland Civic Center floor by a Hope
player. He was also voted to the Great Lakes all–region first
team. Receiving All–MIAA honors were juniors Kyle
Kleersnyder of Alto, Mich., and Travis Spaman of Allegan,
Mich.
With four All–America performances, the women’s
swimming team finished a top–10 team in NCAA Division
III for the 15th time in school history. The success on a
national level followed Hope winning its 21st conference
championship.
Junior Erika Steele of Portage, Mich., was crowned an
NCAA All–American twice, finishing fourth in the 50–yard
freestyle and sixth in the 100–yard freestyle at the national
meet. Hope also had two All–America relay performances,
claiming fifth in the 400–yard freestyle relay and seventh in
the 200–yard medley relay. Joining Steele on those teams
were sophomore Lisa Ekdom of Holland, Mich., senior
Haley Martin of Battle Creek, Mich., freshman Lisa Smith of
Dearborn, Mich., and junior Sarah Smith of Dearborn.
In the conference championships, senior Michelle Smith
of Olympia, Wash., capped her collegiate career as a
four–time MIAA champion in two events –– the 500 and
1,650 freestyle.
Michelle Smith and senior Audrey Arnold of Richmond,
NFHC April 2004
Sophomore Andy Phillips was voted the most valuable
player in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic
Association s the Flying Dutchmen captured the
league championship.
Ind., were each named to the All–MIAA team a fourth consecutive year. Joining them on the honor squad were
Ekdom, sophomore Meagan O’Neil of Troy, Mich., Lisa
Smith and Erika Steele.
In men’s swimming, the Flying Dutchmen snapped
Kalamazoo’s string of eight consecutive conference championships by winning their eighth in school history. In 24
seasons
under
coach
John
Patnott,
Hope’s
swimming/diving teams (men and women) have been
MIAA champions 27 times, ranking him third all–time
among MIAA coaches in all sports.
The Flying Dutchmen went on to finish 16th at the NCAA
Division III championships. The 400–yard freestyle relay
achieved All–America honors by finishing seventh with a
team of sophomore Kurt Blohm of Wilmington, Ohio, junior
Jeff Heydlauff of Chelsea, Mich., sophomore David Ornee of
Holland, Mich., and senior Chris Hamstra of Zeeland, Mich.
Six swimmers achieved All–MIAA honors –– Blohm,
senior Ross Geurink of Hudsonville, Mich., Hamstra,
Heydlauff, senior Ian Kobes of Holland, Mich., and junior
Matt Waterstone of Holland, Mich. Kobes was a four–time
conference champion in the 100–yard and 200–yard backstroke.
In the pre–season, many perceived this year’s Flying
Dutch basketball program as being in a rebuilding mode.
That turned out to be the farthest from the truth as the
Flying Dutch recorded their sixth consecutive 20–win
season behind a 23–4 record. At one point in the season,
the team had extended its regular season winning streak to
a school–record 40 consecutive games. In eight seasons,
Brian Morehouse ‘91 has guided the Flying Dutch to a
178–46 record to rank in the top 10 among NCAA Division
coaches.
All–MIAA recognitions gave evidence that Flying Dutch
are also viewed as a team for the future as four players –– all
underclassmen –– were honored. First team honorees
included sophomore Bria Ebels of Holland, Mich., and junior
Adelynn Vilmann of Houghton, Mich., while named to the
second team were sophomore Linda Ebels of Falmouth,
Mich., and junior Kelly Taylor of Farmington, Mich.
Ice hockey is a club sport at Hope College that continues
to make an impact on a national level. Playing in the national tournament of the American Collegiate Hockey
Association for a third consecutive year, the Flying
Dutchmen finished fifth in the 16–team Division III field.
MIAA rival Calvin won the national championship with the
Knights’ only loss the entire season coming to Hope.
Sophomore Kye Samuelson of Maplewood, Minn., was
named to the all–tournament team.
FOUR-TIME MIAA CHAMPIONS
Ian Kobes — Michelle Smith
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Campus Profile
Teaching, the hope way
The department of
education approaches its
work with a couple variations
on the Golden Rule:
Be the kind of teacher that you would want
to have. Prepare the kind of teacher that you
would want your children to have.
That’s the essence of a philosophy that in
October earned the program yet another successful multi–year reaccreditation. It’s also a
philosophy that yielded a multi–author book,
published last month, about the Hope experience that other programs can use in their own
work (please see the sidebar below).
Most important, though, is the way that the
approach plays itself out as the faculty work
with the Hope students who are preparing for
careers shaping other, younger lives.
All of the program’s faculty bring to their
teaching prior work in some aspect of K–12
education. Positive experiences there, Dr.
Jeanine Dell’Olio believes, led naturally to
helping others prepare to do the same.
“We all had such wonderful careers as classroom teachers,” said Dr. Dell’Olio, an associate
professor of education. “It’s a wonderful way
to live. It’s not just a profession, it’s a way of
life––I think all of us feel that we teach 24 hours
a day. Or maybe 16, depending on how many
hours we sleep.”
The lessons learned in the K–12 arena enrich
the professors’ teaching in a variety of ways.
Associate Professor John Yelding taught all age
levels, and was an elementary and high school
principal for several years before coming to
Hope. “Those things just give you an incredible base to draw from,” he said.
Currently, Professor Yelding remains
involved in public education locally as president of the West Ottawa School Board, adding
still another perspective to his work in the
department.
The faculty also push themselves to stay
active not only as teachers but as learners––a
quality they hope, through modeling, to
inspire in their students. A decade ago, for
example, Professor Susan Mooy ‘64 Cherup
spent a sabbatical leave considering how new
technologies could be used in the classroom.
Her colleagues embraced the idea, and now
instructional technology is used deliberately
and throughout the curriculum in a variety of
ways.
“Everybody has come on board and com-
“
The field placements start
immediately, right with the first
class, to give you an idea of
whether or not this is for you.
You’ll have a better idea of the
different forms of teaching that
you can explore. It’s also a very
affirming experience, providing
motivation to learn with your
classes and your major.
”
— Alicia Abood ’04
Lansing, Mich.
mitted themselves to modeling technology for
teaching and having students use it for completing assignments or whatever is expected of
them,” she said.
Students might be expected to develop a
PowerPoint presentation, or to create a Web
page. Some might put their teaching portfolio––complete
with
video
of
them
teaching––on CD–Rom for prospective
employers to review.
It’s done with good reason. Professor
Cherup noted that, in keeping with state and
national standards, secondary schools are
expected to produce graduates that are technologically literate. Accordingly, teachers need to
be prepared to meet the need––and so, therefore, do the programs preparing them.
“We have to remain current to help our stu-
Be the kind of teacher that you would want t
would want your children to have. Education
(above, with students in Hope’s “Instructiona
mission to train tomorrow’s educators. Hop
their lessons into practice through a variety
dents be current, to help them get jobs in the
field,” she said.
Hope’s leadership in the use of instructional technology has earned national recognition.
In 2001, the college was the only liberal arts
college in the country to receive one of six
awards from the International Society for
Technology Education (ISTE).
Book shares Hope program’s story
The department of
education is telling the
story of its journey to help
other programs with theirs.
Several members of the faculty and staff
have contributed to the book Finding Our
Way: Teacher Education in the Liberal Arts
Setting, being released this month by Peter
Lang Publishing Inc. of New York, as part of
the series “Questions about the Purpose(s) of
Colleges and Universities.” The book provides an overview of how the department
reshaped itself to better respond to contemporary needs in teacher education, not only to
meet the evolving expectations of governmental
and
accrediting
agencies
but––especially––to serve graduates well.
The book, according to lead editor and
author Dr. Richard Mezeske ‘69, offers
insights that Hope would have found
helpful––if only such a volume had existed.
“We like to think that other programs that are
struggling with reform can learn from our
story,” said Dr. Mezeske, who is an associate
professor of education.
“There’s almost nothing in print about
how a relatively small program at a liberal
10
arts college can go about reforming itself, and
what the results might be,” he said. “I cannot
find any evidence of an entire department
having written a volume like this.”
The project was born of two events that in
most contexts would be considered painful.
The first was the department’s loss of its
30–year accreditation in 1990, a result of
changes in the expectations of the National
Council for Accreditation of Teacher
Education (NCATE). The other was the way
that Dr. Mezeske began to write down the
outline for the book, which he had pondered
for months: he conked his head on a low
doorway in the middle of the night in a hotel
in England.
Unable to sleep and mind racing, he subsequently scribbled on a succession of
business cards, the only writing material at
hand, a general outline for sharing how the
department made the denial an opportunity
to strengthen the program––not just for successful re–accreditation two years later, but
with an emphasis on continual improvement.
The lesson for other programs, he said, is
not in Hope’s specific solutions, but in how
the college went about finding them.
Conversation, Dr. Mezeske said, is key.
“First of all, talk to each other, constantly,”
he said. “Learn your entire program––know
what’s there, what’s being taught. Whether
your discussions end up being serious or
feisty, you still have to have a collegial environment where you can share those ideas.”
Through such conversation, he said,
faculty can begin to work together to determine the approach that will work best for
their individual program.
“All reform is local,” he said. “There’s no
single response to reform––there are many
ways to reform and to meet the mandates.”
He cited the integration of technology as
an example.
“We chose to integrate technology into
every single course and to rachet up the
requirements and make them more sophisticated and more demanding as students went
through the program,” he said. “That may
not work for another program that’s smaller
or larger or different from us in some other
way. They have to find their own way.”
It is also crucial, he said, to realize that the
process is never done. “Reform and thinking
about programs is ongoing,” he said.
The book has 12 chapters, drawing on a
variety of areas of faculty interest and reflecting several significant components of the
college’s program and the reform. Topics
range from how the program developed its
framework, to the evolution of assessment, to
the integration of technology, to the effort to
attract minorities to teaching, to the importance of field placements.
Associate editor for the volume is Barbara
Skidmore ‘70 Mezeske, who is an associate
professor of English at Hope and Dr.
Mezeske’s wife.
In addition to Dr. Richard Mezeske, the
contributing Hope authors are: Dr. C. Baars
Bultman ‘71, associate professor of education;
Susan Mooy ‘64 Cherup, professor of education; Nancy L. Cook, associate professor of
education and director of student teaching;
Dr. Jeanine Dell’Olio, associate professor of
education; Dr. Tony Donk, associate professor of education; Dr. Yooyeun Hwang,
associate professor of education; Linda
Jordan, assistant professor of education;
Linda Linklater, formerly director of the Van
Wylen Library’s Instructional Media Center;
Dr. Leslie Wessman, who is the Arnold and
Esther Sonneveldt Professor of Education
and chair of the department; Dr. Ronald
Wolthuis, associate professor emeritus of
education; and John Yelding, associate professor of education.
Dr. Cheryl L. Rosaen, associate professor
of teacher education at Michigan State
University, wrote the book’s prologue. The
introduction and conclusions were con-
NFHC Ap
“
I was proud of the way the
Education Department at Hope
prepared me for teaching in a
new state and gave me the tools
necessary to understand the different changes in education that
vary from state to state. It is
good to know that no matter
where I end up teaching, Hope
has prepared me well.
”
—Teresa Janik ’02 Boyer
K–12 special education teacher
Goodhue Public Schools, Minnesota
to have. Prepare the kind of teacher that you
n faculty members like Professor Nancy Cook
al Design: L.D./E.I.” class) take seriously their
pe students get their own opportunity to put
of field placements (see other photos).
Students in the education program are ultimately working toward certification to teach at
the elementary or secondary level.
Requirements include a major and a minor in
an approved academic field in addition to completing the program itself.
Throughout its curriculum, the department
emphasizes the students’ development in six
professional abilities: effective communicator,
professional collaborator, curriculum developer, problem solver, decision maker and
scholarly educator. The intention, as Dr.
Dell’Olio put it, is to prompt the students to
learn to think like teachers, preparing them for
the lessons they will continue to learn after
graduation.
The department also stresses application.
Students are placed in local classrooms beginning with their first course, and it never stops.
“We have field placements in every single
course so that students are out in the real world
and seeing how the theory or the strategies
they are learning in their course work at Hope
comes alive out in the field,” said Dr. Leslie
Wessman, who is the Arnold and Esther
Sonneveldt Professor of Education and chair of
the department.
As a result, the students have had four or
five placements with as many different teachers and in a variety of settings well before the
traditional student–teaching semester.
Dr. Dell’Olio noted that she enjoys watching
the students mature in the discipline as they
progress through the program and link their
field experience to their classroom lessons
during discussions.
“The playing field becomes a little more
level. Instead of telling them things I have to
ask them things,” she said. “We interact as colleagues, and that’s a particular pleasure for
me.”
Hope’s department has emphasized field
placements for decades and has required them
for all courses since 1994. That used to make
“The Hope College Education
tributed by Dr. Mary Diez, a professor of education and graduate dean at Milwaukee’s
Alverno College, an early leader in the reform
of teacher education.
pril 2004
Department provided me with a
great base of knowledge in educational therapy as well as the
opportunity to practice this
theory in a ‘hands on’ classroom
setting. The professors in the
department have given me great
one–on–one mentorship both
while attending Hope College as
well as after graduation.
”
— Brian Field ’99
6th grade language arts teacher
West Ottawa Schools
Hope unusual, Dr. Wessman
noted but that’s likely to
change––the benefits are too
clear. “We are very unique, but
it’s becoming an expectation for
state and national accreditation,”
she said.
The field placements provide
a major opportunity for the
department in pursuing another
of its goals: increasing its graduates’ experience with diversity.
Every student’s placements
include a multicultural dimension. Students also have the
option of participating in programs like the department’s May Term at the
Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota,
or student teaching in urban settings including
Chicago and Philadelphia.
At the same time, the department––like the
college––seeks to diversify its enrollment as
well. Efforts range from the college–wide
Phelps Scholars Program, a residence
hall–based initiative that focuses on diversity
issues, to department–specific Project TEACH
(Teachers Entering a Career Through Hope),
which each year enrolls three minority students from the area who wish to become
teachers, having provided them with mentoring since they were underclassmen in high
school.
The need, Professor Yelding noted, isn’t
specific to Hope alone. “Locally, statewide,
nationally we are just so incredibly short in
producing diverse teachers––and the need has
never been greater,” he said.
The changes in demographics are apparent,
he said, even in the Holland area, where the
local districts’ minority enrollment ranges from
29 to 40 percent. “It’s so obvious as you look at
the schools, locally and nationally,” he said.
Minority teachers, Professor Yelding said,
are needed as models, and all teachers––all
graduates, for that matter––need to be prepared to serve and work in an increasingly
multicultural world.
Even as he hopes to see the department and
college bring even more emphasis to the effort,
he values that the institution and his colleagues
make it a priority.
“The beauty of it: we choose to do this.
Nobody makes us,” Professor Yelding said.
“We accept that as a responsibility in our work.
I think we recognize a higher calling on the
issue, and I do think we’re committed to it.”
The concept of higher calling is an integral
part of Hope’s identity as a Christian liberal
arts college––an identity that makes a difference in the department’s overall
approach.
“Teaching is a calling,” Dr.
Dell’Olio said. “We want our
students to understand that
teaching is a very spiritual activity, it’s a spiritual endeavor.”
“We address the concept of
stewardship––how do you make
the best use of what you’ve been
given?,” she said. “It’s a real
pleasure to be able to talk about
teaching in spiritual ways.”
And how students are shaped
by their Hope experience, Dr.
Dell’Olio noted, has an impact
on their teaching implicitly even
if it cannot explicitly. “I’d say most of our students get positions in public schools, but
they’re still going to be who they are,” she said.
For the past decade, coordinating the
department’s effort to seek reaccreditation
through the National Council for Accreditation
of Teacher Education (NCATE) has been a
primary responsibility for Marty Swank, who
is also director of the Program for the
Academically Talented at Hope (PATH) for
gifted middle school–age students.
NCATE accreditation isn’t required, but it
does demonstrate that a program meets nationally–accepted standards in its work with future
teachers. NCATE accredits more than 562
institutions, which produce two–thirds of the
nation’s new teacher graduates each year.
In addition to writing the education program’s institutional reports––documents
hundreds of pages long––Swank has been
responsible for ongoing related data collection
in between reaccreditation cycles, and then for
managing the every–five year site visits by
NCATE’s Board of Examiners.
The visit in March of 2003 provided a fitting
early retirement present for Swank (who is
concluding her 16–year career at Hope this
spring), with members of the team describing
the program, she noted, as “exemplary” and
“A+.”
The program passed on all of NCATE’s
standards, with the field placement and technology efforts receiving particular praise.
Another aspect of the program singled out
during the site visit reflected that as far as outcomes are concerned, the department is getting
it right.
“The reviewers loved our students,” she
said. “They felt that our students were very
articulate about what they had learned and
why they had learned it, and what they were
able to do in the classroom.”
“What can you say?,” Swank said.
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Alumni News
Association to honor alumni
The Hope College Alumni Association will present five graduates
with Distinguished Alumni Awards during the college’s Alumni Day
on Saturday, May 1.
Being honored this year are: Calvin Langejans ’58 of Holland, Mich.;
Dr. Samuel Ndimbo ’69 of Liuli, Tanzania; Dr. Norman Thompson ’53
of Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Eloise Hinkamp ’51 Van Heest and the Rev.
Gerard Van Heest ’49 of Holland.
The annual Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented by the
Alumni Association Board of Directors in recognition of the awardees’
contributions to society and service to Hope. The award, presented
during the college’s Alumni Banquet, is the highest honor that alumni
can receive from the college’s Alumni Association.
Calvin Langejans ’58 has provided a
lifetime of service in choral and instrumental
music
in
Holland, at Hope
and beyond West
Michigan.
From 1959 to
1989, he taught in
the West Ottawa
Public
Schools,
with
major
responsibility for
developing
the
district’s
music
department. He Calvin Langejans ’58
founded
the
Holland Chorale in 1960 and conducted the
group for the next 40 years. He produced
“Festival Musicale” and “Tulip Time
Salute” from 1969 to 2000, and was founder
as well as artistic director of Holland’s
March Festival from 1979 to 2000. The festival brought Pulitzer Prize–winning
composer–conductors as well as many
other artists to Holland from all over the
U.S.A. and England.
From 1965 to 1992, he taught at Hope
part–time as an instructor in music education and percussion.
Langejans has also been involved with
numerous other programs through the
years, and has been a guest conductor and
clinician at various choral and instrumental
events in the U.S. and Canada. He has
served as choir director at various churches
in the greater Holland area, and was director of music at Hope Church and minister
of music at Harderwyk Ministries.
Under his direction, the Holland
Chorale was invited to perform six times
for conventions of the prestigious
American Choral Directors Association and
Music Educators National Conference. His
most recent activities include the founding
of the Evergreen Chorale, an auditioned
choral ensemble of 100 voices based at
Holland’s “state of the art” senior center,
Evergreen Commons.
His several honors and awards include
Distinguished Service Awards from the
Holland Area Chamber of Commerce and
Rotary
Club
of
Holland,
the
Holland/Zeeland Community Arts Award
and the statewide Maynard Klein Award
presented by the American Choral
Directors Association. He was Honorary
Grand Marshall of the Saturday Day
Parade of Bands during Tulip Time in 1990.
Langejans holds a master’s degree from
the University of Michigan. He and his
wife, Yvonne, have five children: Tom ’79,
Bill ’81, Susan, Mary and Rob.
A member or honorary member of
numerous professional organizations in
the U.S. and abroad, he co–founded the
American and International Associations
of Endocrine Surgeons, serving both as
president.
The Danish Surgical Society awarded
him a Medal of Honor in 1983, and the
University of Linkoping in Sweden presented him with an honorary doctorate in
1995. He received honorary fellowships
from the Royal Australasian College of
Surgeons in 2000 and the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in
2001, and also in 2001 received a
Meritorious Achievement Award from the
American Association of Endocrine
Surgeons.
Dr. Thompson was a member of the
Hope College Board of Trustees from 1973
to 1988. Active in the life of the college, he
and his wife, Marcia Veldman ’56
Thompson, have also funded a teaching
laboratory in the new science center and
endowed a scholarship.
He and Marcia have four children:
Robert Thompson ’79, Karen ’83 Wilson,
Susan ’87 Neevel and Jennifer ’89
McGuffin.
Dr. Samuel Ndimbo ’69 has dedicated
his career to serving the needy of Tanzania,
in roles including physician and priest.
He was directed to Hope as a proper
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place for pre–medical studies by Dr.
Claude L. Pickens, an Episcopal missionary
who was married to Elizabeth Zwemer ’21.
He attended with support from the
Episcopal Church, determined to ultimately return to serve St. Anne’s Hospital in his
home community.
After completing medical school at the
University of Dar Es Salaam, he became the
hospital’s medical director in 1976. The
remote, 100–bed
hospital
serves
100,000 people.
Dr.
Ndimbo
retired in 1996 at
55––retirement age
in Tanzania––but
continued to serve
because the hospital’s rural location
and minimal pay
rate made it diffiDr. Samuel
cult to draw a
Ndimbo ’69
successor.
He was ordained as an Episcopal priest
in 1989, and in 1990 was made canon of the
Holy Cross Cathedral. His work on the
behalf of the church has included service as
vicar general from 1991 to 1997, and as a
member of the diocesan and provincial
synods. He was a member of the World
Council of Churches from 1997 to 1999.
Dr. Ndimbo has also been involved in
education locally, including as a member of
the board of St. Paul’s Secondary School for
several years (serving as chairman in 2002)
and as a member of the Puulu Primary
School Board.
He and his wife, Inviolatha, have five
sons: Alpha, Patrick, Omega, Paul and
Boniventura.
Dr.
Norman
Thompson ’53 has
spent more than
four decades training
future
surgeons.
From Hope, he
went on to the
University
of
Michigan Medical
School, first for his
own
education
Dr. Norman
and then as a
Thompson ’53
member of the
surgery faculty. He retired in 2002 as chief
of the Endocrine Surgical Division and the
Henry King Ransom Professor of Surgery
and then was made an emeritus professor.
In celebration of his career, the University
of Michigan established the Norman W.
Thompson Professorship of Surgery.
Dr. Thompson’s publications include
three books, hundreds of articles and book
chapters, and he has made presentations at
professional conferences around the world.
Eloise Hinkamp ’51 Van Heest and The
Rev. Gerard Van Heest ’49, both now
retired, have served the Reformed Church
in America (RCA)
and Christian education in a variety
of ways.
Eloise has coordinated programs
and publications
alike focused on
Christian education.
She wrote more
than 25 seminars
for Christian edu- Eloise Hinkamp ’51
cators and women,
Van Heest
co–designed and
led the programs “Women in Leadership”
and “Change,” and edited numerous manuscripts for publications for the RCA and
the Presbyterian Church.
She was
Christian education coordinator for the
RCA; project director and editor of the
RCA’s Identity series, “Heritage and
Hope”; and associate for administration
and Christian education at Hope Church in
Holland.
Eloise has been an officer at all levels of
Reformed Church Women, and chaired the
RCW 1986 Triennial, held at the Crystal
Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif. She was
on the RCA Board of North American
Missions, the RCA General Program
Council and the RCA Board of Theological
Education. For the past 23 years, she has
been on the Education and Discipleship
Team of the Synod of the Great Lakes, and
she also chairs the synod’s Senior Adult
Team. She is executive coordinator of
CERCA (Christian Educators, The
Reformed Church in America).
Active in the community, she has been
on the Board of Child Development
Services of Ottawa County for the last 20
years.
In 1992, she was the first woman––and
the first non–ordained person––to be
named “Educator of the Year” by CERCA.
She received a “Life Achievement Award”
from the Association of Presbyterian
Church Educators (APCE) in 1996.
Jerry completed his B.D. at Western
Theological Seminary after graduating
from Hope. He was subsequently pastor of
the Palmyra (N.Y.) Reformed Church;
founding pastor of
the
Lynnwood
Reformed Church
in Schenectady,
N.Y.; and senior
pastor of the
Delmar
(N.Y.)
Reformed Church.
He
was
appointed Hope’s
chaplain in 1979,
serving until retiring in 1994. In
Rev. Gerard Van
addition to coordiHeest ’49
nating the campus
worship program, counseling students
and working with student organizations,
he was involved in multiple service
efforts, including coordinating the spring
break mission trip program and starting
the college’s chapter of Habitat for
Humanity. He is also a past member of
the college’s Board of Trustees.
Jerry has served the RCA extensively at
the classis, synod and denominational
level, and is currently secretary and treasurer of the RCA Classical Board of
Benevolence.
His active community involvement has
ranged from serving as a member of the
board of Albany Family and Children’s
Services, to being a founding member of
the Board of Hospice of Holland. In retirement he and Eloise have summered in
Silver Bay, N.Y., where he teaches a
weekly Bible class sponsored by the
YMCA Association.
In April of 1993, Jerry received a “1992
Campus Compact/ Faculty/ Staff
Community Service Award” from the
Michigan Campus Compact (MCC). He
received a Distinguished Service Award
from the college in 1994. In 2002, he
received the Silver Bay Association
(YMCA) “Volunteer of the Year” award.
Eloise and Jerry have three children:
Timothy ’76, Gregory ’78 and Jocelyn
’81.
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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 Kathy
Miller.
The “classnotes” are consistently praised as
a reader favorite, but they’re only as comprehensive as the information received. As a
result, alumni are encouraged to provide
updates about themselves. We also appreciate
obituary information so that the news can be
shared with the Hope family as well.
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, March 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, May 4.
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1930s
Mary Jane Vaupell ’39 Vollink is currently a
resident at Freedom Village Inn nursing facility
in Holland, Mich.
40s
1940s
Cecil L. Hendrix ’44 of Winona Lake, Minn.,
reports that when he and his wife, Lucille, were
a young married couple, they brought their
little daughter to Holland to Hope; two sons
were born during his college years. He and his
wife have now been married 67 years.
Harvey T. Hoekstra ’45 of Escondido, Calif.,
has written From Knotted Strings to Talking
Bibles, published by William Carey Library.
The book, available online, is the account of a
pioneer missionary family’s years in Africa and
beyond.
Pauline Stegenga ’48 Breen and Peter J. Breen
’49 of Grandville, Mich., have 23 grandchildren,
one of whom is a student at Western
Theological Seminary.
Gwendolyn Lemmen ’48 Kraay and Russell J.
Kraay ’49 have just moved to the Shell Point
Retirement Community in Ft. Myers, Fla.
Laverne H. Boss ’49 of Hudsonville, Mich.,
reports that he is thankful to be alive.
Vergil H. Dykstra ’49 of Fairfax, Va., is listed in
Who’s Who in America.
Audrey Christy ’49 Heasty of Matthews, N.C.,
has just completed a book that should be pub-
lished in the next couple of months.
Herbert Schmalzriedt ’49 of Rochester, N.Y.,
and his wife will be in Holland, Mich., on a bus
tour May 4-8 for Tulip Time. He hopes to see
the campus then.
Bernice Nichols ’49 Stokes of Canastota, N.Y.,
and her husband celebrated their 53rd wedding
anniversary in June of 2003. They recently traveled to the West and South to visit old friends
and family.
Glenn Van Haitsma ’49 of Waukesha, Wis.,
taught a Learning in Retirement class on the
United Nations to a group of 100 in September
of 2003. He belongs to and sometimes teaches
an emeriti book discussion group of 20 Carroll
College retirees who meet once a month, and he
teaches Sunday School. He and his wife participate in an intergenerational book discussion
class with high school students at Waukesha
High School, and they take part in Elderhostel
programs.
Gerald Viening ’49 and Lois Hall ’51 Viening
of Crossville, Tenn., have five grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
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1950s
Lavina “Daisey” Hoogeveen ’52 of Grandville,
Mich., traveled to Zambia in mid-January to
teach in three prisons, two in Kabwe in
February and March, and one in Lusaka in
April. She has been teaching “Long Distance
Dads” in a maximum security prison where the
men will be released after five years or more.
The program is intended to encourage and
support inmates to re-establish and maintain
sound family and community ties as a way to
prepare them for successful re-entry into the
community. She has also been teaching in a
women’s prison, and teaching about
HIV/AIDS in public forums and the church.
She requests prayers for the safety and health of
all missionaries.
David Angus ’54 of Lansing, Mich., is working
with David Andrews, formerly an archivist
with the Joint Archives of Holland, to publish
selected China poems of his father, the late Dr.
William R. Angus, missionary to China and The
Philippines.
Helen Howard ’54 Hanson of Chadds Ford,
Pa., had a one-person show of her watercolors
at her church in June. During September she
had a one-person show at the Darlington Fine
Arts Center in Boothwyn, Pa.
Norman Menning ’54 of Rock Valley, Iowa,
retired from parish ministry on June 1, 1991. He
and his wife celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2002.
Robert J. Prins ’54 of Canon City, Colo., is on
the board of directors for Potomac Worldwide
Ltd. of Taipei, Taiwan; Nanjing, China; Jakarta,
Indonesia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Hong
Kong.
John H. Roundhouse ’54 of Schoolcraft, Mich.,
reports that the KIDS HOPE tutoring program
is something that he and his wife enjoy very
much because they are helping children who
really need it.
Donald A. Baker ’55 of Sioux Falls, S.D., has
recently had his autobiography, Refired, Not
Retired, published by Xulon Press. Information
may be found online.
David L. Boerigter ’59 of Sequim, Wash., has
continued to work for the Department of State
since retirement on a “recalled retiree” basis.
Stints have included assignments in Cairo,
Johannesburg, Milan, Port au Prince,
Casablanca, Lagos, Bucharest, and Tirana.
Albert Bursma Jr. ’59 of Sudbury, Mass.,
received the 2003 Association of American
Publishers (AAP) Lifetime Service Award.
Joan Heneveld ’59 of Detroit, Mich., retired
from teaching and administration in 2002. She
is doing volunteer work at St. Paul’s Episcopal
Cathedral.
Janice Miller ’59 Holcomb of Lansing, Mich.,
retired in August of 2003 after 44 years as a
teacher in the Lansing School District.
M. Jacob Kaufman ’59 of Munith, Mich., retired
from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 2002.
He continues in ministry as an intentional
interim pastor specializing in conflicted/traumatized congregations, currently in the United
Church of Christ. He has an active professional and personal involvement in singles
ministry.
John W. Kraai ’59 of Havana, Fla., reports that
he has eight granddaughters and one grandson.
Ronald D. Lokhorst ’59 of Columbus, Ohio,
retired from full-time active ministry and was
declared pastor emeritus of the Reformed
Church of Willow Grove (Penn.). He is currently serving part-time as pastor of visitation
at Mifflin Presbyterian Church in Gahanna,
Ohio.
Donald W. Scott ’59 of Essex Junction, Vt., is
serving on the chapter, vestry and finance committee of The Cathedral Church of St. Paul in
Burlington, Vt.
Bert Swanson ’59 of Chippewa Falls, Wis.,
retired in December after more than 12 years as
director of development for St. Joseph’s
Hospital in Chippewa Falls. He will continue
with the hospital in a part-time role as director
of development for its Libertas Treatment
Center in Green Bay, Wis.
Carol Brandt ’59 Yonkers of Newburgh, Ind.,
has retired after about 10 years as
secretary/financial secretary of First Church,
Bedford, Ind., to follow her husband to
Evansville, Ind.
Russell C. Yonkers ’59 of Newburgh, Ind., has
become pastor of Parke Memorial Presbyterian
Church in Evansville, Ind.
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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.
James Bursma ’87, Stow, Mass.
Chad Carlson ’03, Holland, Mich.
Nancy Dirkse ’81 DeWitt, Amherst, N.Y.
Eva Gaumond ’90, Wellington, Fla.
Leah Sunderlin ’79 Haugneland, Katy, Texas
Jan Luben ’71 Hoffman, Schenectady, N.Y.
Betsy Boersma ’77 Jasperse, Traverse City, Mich.
Karen Gonder ’81 Navis, Grandville, Mich.
Neil Petty ’57, Honeoye, N.Y.
Ben Sanders ’05, Evanston, Ill.
Todd Soderquist ’96, Superior Township, Mich.
Kristin Tichy ’92, Glenville, Ill.
Liz Tyndell ’04, Livonia, Mich.
Greg Van Heest ’78, Golden Valley, Minn.
Ray Vinstra ’58, Kalamazoo, Mich.
John Witte ’54, Vero Beach, Fla.
Liaison
Mary Boelkins ’96 Remenschneider, Director of Alumni Relations
Please accept our invitation to visit
the Alumni Office on the internet:
www.hope.edu/alumni
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Marjorie Wood ’60 of Pensacola, Fla., volunteered with ACMNP, A Christian Ministry in
the National Parks, in the winter of 2001-02 and
the summers of 2002 and 2003.
Neil R. Atkinson ’64 of Colorado Springs,
Colo., has recently authored his first book, The
Shrewd Christian.
It was published by
Waterbrook Press (Division of Random House)
and released on Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Carol Mogle ’64 Boerhave of Knoxville, Tenn.,
reports that her husband died suddenly, with
no prior illness, on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2003.
Sandra Holmen ’64 Harz of Grand Haven,
Mich., has been an administrative assistant at
Redstone Commercial Investments for two
years and at Boelkins & Associates for 28 years.
She has also been a volunteer with the Grand
Haven Coast Guard Festival as a member of the
board for five years, director of the queen’s
pageant for 10 years, and queen chaperone for
five years.
Arlene Beimers ’64 Haverdink and Gary
Haverdink ’64 of Port St. Lucie, Fla., returned
to Holland, Mich., this past year to more fully
enjoy their grandchildren. Previously, they had
spent five summers in Ludington, Mich.
David Hollenbach ’64 of Oakland, Calif., gave
a presentation titled “The Destruction of PlanetForming Disks Around Young Stars” on
Tuesday, Nov. 18, at the NASA Ames Research
Center in Moffett Field, Calif. During a ceremony that followed, he was presented with the
H. Julian Allen Award (2002), which is given for
best technical paper, and is the longest-standing
and one of the most prestigious awards given at
Ames.
Robert E. Jones ’64 of Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.,
retired in June of 2003 from Harman
International. He is now the president of
Human Capital Design Inc., and does consulting work for Harman and other major
corporations.
Mark A. Suwyn ’64 of Nashville, Tenn., recently moved his corporate headquarters from
Portland, Ore., to Nashville. He has also been
elected to the board of directors of Unocal
Corporation.
Donald H. Thompson ’64 of Clay, N.Y., reports
that as sales of his first book, The Golden Age of
Onondaga Lake Resorts, reach 3,000, he hopes to
publish an addendum for the next printing. He
plans to continue presentations about the
history of the resorts to local groups. He will
also continue historical interpretations of
explorers Henry Hudson and Samuel de
Champlain for area fourth grade classes, and
his interpretation of Henry Plant to schools in
Manatee County (Florida) during the winter
months.
Richard E. Smalley ’65 of Houston, Texas, has
been elected a 2003 Fellow in the chemistry
section of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), and was
honored in February during the AAAS annual
meeting in Seattle, Wash. He is the Gene and
Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry,
and a professor of physics and astronomy at
Rice University, as well as a 1996 Nobel Prize
winner in chemistry. Those named Fellows
included Dr. Sylvia T. Ceyer ’74 of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (also in
the chemistry section) and Dr. James Gentile of
the Hope faculty (in the biological sciences
section).
Edward Stielstra ’65 of Holland, Mich., successfully completed the Accredited Buyer
Representative (ABR) application and has been
awarded the designation. The announcement
was made by Greenridge Realty Inc.
Robert T. Joseph ’68 of New Hampton, N.H., is
a traveling agency registered nurse with
Advantage Care Professionals, Division of
Americare Health Services. He has served in
various careers, mostly in public service, first as
a firefighter-EMT working on mobile intensive
care units and on rescue units. He went into
nursing in 1990, and became an R.N. in 1993.
He retired from emergency medical services
after 25 years. He is currently involved in
nursing politics, and enjoys very part-time volunteer work on a local tourist railroad in the
summers, assisting with catering and with
medical emergencies that arise. He reports that
he remains single (not by choice), is a career
bachelor, and enjoys his home and hiking in
New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
Candace Marr ’69 Gabriel of Chicago, Ill.,
retired from her position as director of equal
opportunity for the U.S. Railroad Retirement
Board in March of 2003. She reports that she is
enjoying retirement.
Alan C. Jones ’69 of Burr Ridge, Ill., retired in
2002 from principalship to take a teaching position in graduate school at Saint Xavier
University, and reports that he loves it.
Beppy Albert ’69 Michel of Rancho Palos
Verdes, Calif., is a member of Mensa, California
Marriage and Family Therapy Association., and
Biofeedback Society of America. She holds a
master’s degree in marriage and family therapy
(please see “Advanced Degrees”).
Walter A. Reed III ’69 of Jackson, N.J., has a son
stationed in Iraq with the U.S. Army.
Jon Smoker ’69 of Elkhart, Ind., won the AAPF
Masters Powerlifting Championship (55-59,
181) with a 1273 total, which included an
13
American record squat, 518.
Susan Holmes ’69 Tell of Colorado Springs,
Colo., wrote Well-Versed Kids, published by
Navpress, a scripture memory program for elementary-aged children.
Barbara Timmer ’69 of Santa Monica, Calif., is
chief information officer (CIO) for the
California Department of Transportation.
Bruce Van Huis ’69 and Janet Cathcart ’70 Van
Huis of Fort Wayne, Ind., recently built a
planned retirement home on Gun Lake near
Wayland, Mich. Since leaving the Holland,
Mich., area in 1989, they have lived in the
Minneapolis, Minn., area from 1989 to 1993 and
in Fort Wayne since 1993.
Peter C. Walther ’69 of Oriskany, N.Y., reports
that he is engaged in a series of recitals with
Gene Marie Callahan ’73 Kern.
Diana Williams ’69 Weiss of New Hope, Penn.,
has been conducting the chorus in her 55-plus
community (Village of Buckingham Springs)
since January of 2001.
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1970s
Lynn Davis ’71 Austin of Orland Park, Ill., presented a reading from her work on Tuesday,
Feb. 3, at the college. She writes historical
fiction and is the author of 11 novels, two of
which have won the Christy Award for excellence in Christian inspirational fiction.
Betty Lou Tanis ’71 Cordray of Butler, Pa., has
been appointed aide and office manager for
Congressman Phil English (R-Pa., 3rd District).
She is responsible for constituent problems and
managing the day-to-day activities in the southern part of the district.
Terry Gardner ’71 of Hinesville, Ga., is the
author of the novel John Mark at Sharp’s Corner,
being published this month by Publish
America. The book centers on the title character’s visit to a small Texas town and his impact
on the lives and hearts of those who live there.
One reviewer noted, “It presents some simple
truths in story form in such a way that people
who read the story have the opportunity to ’get
it’—or not!” Terry is a “life adventurer” who
has training as a counselor, minister, life coach
and practitioner of holistic healing. He is the
creator of Thrive Alive, a new technology of
counseling, therapy and life transformation.
He uses Thrive Alive concepts and techniques
with the soldiers at Fort Stewart; he is active in
community affairs, and provides Internet and
personal life coaching and counseling services.
John Constant ’72 of Traverse City, Mich., the
head coach of boy’s basketball at Traverse City
Central High School, recently reached the milestone of 300 career wins with a 72 percent
winning mark. He has never had a losing
season and has taken two teams to the Class A
quarterfinals.
Dean Ann Barnett ’72 Fowler of Brookfield,
Conn., recently earned Board Certification in
Medical-Surgical Nursing from the American
Nurses Credentialing Center. She works at
Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. Prior to
earning a B.S.N. at Western Connecticut State
University, she graduated from Hope with a
B.A. in education, and she reports that teaching
is still one of the most satisfying parts of her job.
Sohnie Luckhardt ’73 was recently chosen as
the 2004 Briar Vista Elementary School Teacher
of the Year. Briar Vista is one of the first public
schools in Atlanta, Ga., to offer a Montessori
curriculum.
Stuart Ray ’73 of Grand Rapids, Mich., has
opened Re-Deux, a business in Grand Rapids
begun in April 2003 to sell high-quality discontinued, close-out, and returned furniture. He
has also partnered with several church-based
thrift shops that will take seconds and sell them
to support ministry programs. The business is
open to the public three days each month.
Denise Parker ’73 Wilbourn of Portsmouth,
Va., is a teacher in the Portsmouth Public
Schools.
Sylvia T. Ceyer ’74 of Cambridge, Mass., who is
the J.C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has
been elected chair of the chemistry section of
the National Academy of Sciences. She has also
been elected a 2003 Fellow in the chemistry
section of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), and was
honored in February during the AAAS annual
meeting in Seattle, Wash. Those named Fellows
included Dr. Richard Smalley ’65 of Rice
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University (also in the chemistry section) and
Dr. James Gentile of the Hope faculty (in the
biological sciences section).
Deborah Badeau ’74 Creswell of Grand
Rapids, Mich., is teaching second and third
grades at Huntington Woods Elementary
School, Wyoming (Mich.) Public Schools. She
previously taught elementary music for nine
years.
Sue Drenkhahn ’74 of Holland, Mich., reports
that she loves Hope’s Sunday evening worship
service, “The Gathering,” and attends as often
as possible.
Martha Blocksma ’74 Elliott of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is a resource social worker at
Metropolitan Hospital in Grand Rapids, and
she has been substitute teaching in psychology
and German.
Justine Emerson ’74 of Juneau, Alaska, has
become the Alaska Army National Guard
Medical Command Commander and State
Surgeon.
Barbara Basnett ’74 Inman of Holland, Mich.,
continues to teach seventh and eighth grade
physical education at Creekside Middle School
in Zeeland, Mich.
Scott R. Lenheiser ’74 of Farmington Hills,
Mich., reports that he is looking for assistance
in securing a professional post in a two- or fouryear college instructing in commercial law
subjects, and would welcome any referrals or
connections from classmates or other alumni.
Anthony McLean ’74 of Mission, Kan., has been
named the new marketing director of Nexo
S.A., one of the world’s largest loudspeaker
manufacturers. Based in Paris, France, he is
responsible for international marketing operations. He has more than 30 years of experience
as a media producer, audio system engineer
and performance audio mixer. His career as a
journalist includes working as the arts critic
(1984-1991) for the Evansville, Ind., Courier, a
Scripps-Howard newspaper, and serving as
editor-in-chief (1991-2003) of Live Sound!
International magazine.
Martin J. Stark ’74 of Westford, Mass., reports
that his daughter Laura is a freshman at Hope.
Mary Newhouse ’74 Van Son returned to her
former home in Alexandria, Va., this past
summer with her family after four years in
Vienna, Austria, where her husband was
assigned to the United Nations.
Lynn Quackenbush ’74 Zick of Jenison, Mich.,
reports that she recently completed a year of
treatment for breast cancer, and continued
prayers are appreciated.
Pete Hoekstra ’75, U.S. Congressman from
Holland, Mich., spoke at Hope on Friday, Feb.
20. The subjects of the student/faculty forum
were the Middle East and domestic policy. He
was also a featured speaker during the college’s
Model United Nations conference for high
school students on Friday, March 5.
Scott Field ’76 of Naperville, Ill., was featured
in an article in the Daily Herald (suburban
Chicago) on Friday, Jan. 17, about his ministry
and Wheatland Salem United Methodist
Church in Naperville. He has ministered there
with his wife since he was sent to close the
church 24 years ago, and the congregation has
grown from 52 to nearly 1,400.
Thomas Seel ’76 of Floyds Knobs, Ind., presented his book A Theology of Music for Worship
Derived from the Book of Revelation most recently
in January at a liturgical arts conference in
Kansas City, Mo. The conference, “Arts in the
Apocalypse,” was sponsored by Imago Dei.
His lecture places music for worship within the
Greek tragic drama form of the Book of
Revelation.
Geoffrey Stewart ’76 of Big Rapids, Mich., was
inducted into the Michigan High School
Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame
during ceremonies in Ann Arbor, Mich., on
Saturday, March 27. He has coached high
school football for 31 years, including 28 years
as head coach, in the Michigan communities of
Big Rapids, Reed City and Newaygo.
Debra Bruininks ’79 Davidson of Vero Beach,
Fla., has traveled extensively for the past four
summers with her husband and three boys
throughout Western and Eastern Europe.
Experiences have ranged from camping on the
fjords of Norway to watching Mt. Etna erupt in
Sicily.
Jeffrey A. De Vree ’79 of Grandville, Mich., has
been elected to the Council of the Section of
Taxation of the State Bar of Michigan. The
council is the governing body of the tax section.
Thomas J. Langejans ’79 of West Olive, Mich.,
continues to be active as a performing
drummer, working with the Holland Chorale,
Covenant Life Church, the Holland Symphony
Orchestra, and other local musicians. He has
also played drums for two recently released
CDs by local artist Dale Alan.
Freda Teslik ’79 Manzullo of Alexandria, Va.,
is a substitute teacher for Trinity Christian
School in Fairfax, Va.
Kim VanDuyne ’79 Skaff of Flint, Mich., is the
director of women’s ministries at First
Presbyterian Church of Flint.
John D. Stout ’79 of Los Angeles, Calif., recently purchased a 100-year-old colonial revival
house in Hollywood, Calif., for complete renovation.
John B. Voorhorst ’79 of Ann Arbor, Mich.,
recently participated in a manufacturing
summit hosted by Michigan Governor Jennifer
Granholm. The summit was designed to
provide input on public policy for support of
manufacturers in Michigan.
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1980s
Ron Buikema ’80 of Arlington, Va., has retired
after 22 years as an intelligence officer in the
U.S. Marine Corps. He is now senior vice president of Intellibridge Corporation in
Washington, D.C. The company provides tailored information solutions to government and
Fortune 500 clients. Ron reports that he has
enjoyed the move to the corporate sector, while
remaining engaged with senior U.S. government officials in his new role.
Daven J. Claerbout ’80 of Oostburg, Wis., has
been elected president of the Association of
Rotational Molders International. He is sales
director and co-owner of Dutchland Plastics
Corporation in Oostburg.
Roger P. Bakale ’81 of Shrewsbury, Mass., was
promoted to executive director, chemistry and
pharmaceutical sciences at Sepracor Inc.
Laurie Arnold ’82 of Greenwood Village, Colo.,
is a senior business systems analyst for
PeopleSoft, and has recently relocated to the
Denver area. She is a senior project manager on
employee systems conversion following the
acquisition of J.D. Edwards by PeopleSoft in
August of 2003.
Doug Braschler ’82 of Hamilton, Mich., will
become the principal of Hamilton High School
in the 2004-05 academic year. During his 21year career with the Hamilton Community
Schools, he has taught mathematics at the high
school, coached football and basketball, served
as athletic director, and served as high school
assistant principal.
Kim Logie ’83 of East Lansing, Mich., wrote an
article about the World Championship of the
Star Trek Customizable Card Game: Second
Edition, held in July of 2003 in Indianapolis,
Ind., that was published in Star Trek
Communicator Magazine.
Linda Bechtel ’84 and Stephen Schwander ’84
have recently moved to the St. Louis, Mo., area
where he is the manager of recruitment for
Reuters, a global news and financial information provider.
Lorna Nyenhuis ’84 Cook of Holland, Mich.,
has just published her first novel, Departures,
through St. Martin’s Press. A second novel will
be published in 2005.
Clay Ide ’85 of San Francisco, Calif., is senior
vice president, Pottery Barn Creative of Pottery
Barn/Williams-Sonoma Inc. He leads the creative services team, providing creative
leadership on catalog and Internet design,
layout, photography, and production for
Pottery Barn, PB Bed+Bath, Pottery Barn Kids,
and PB Teen.
Mary Kimbell ’86 of Phoenix, Ariz., is senior
business analyst for Value Options in Phoenix.
Robert Wuerfel ’88 of Holland, Mich., was
named by Business Direct Weekly as one of 42
“Business Leaders Under 40” who are influencing the course of the West Michigan region.
The group was honored on Wednesday, March
3, during an event at St. Cecilia Music Society in
downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. Robert is the
founder/president of Lighthouse Title Inc. of
Holland, which has grown from one location
and three employees to 10 locations and 51
employees in approximately three years.
Event must be booked by 06/30/2004.
Discount does not apply to Wedding receptions.
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Karen Betten ’89 of Eau Claire, Wis., left
Muskegon, Mich., last fall to practice family
medicine at Luther-Midelfort Clinic, part of the
Mayo Health System.
Amy Hartwig ’89 Buczkowski of Grand
Rapids, Mich., is an intake and marketing specialist for Pathfinder Resources in Grand
Rapids.
Elizabeth Bass ’89 Douville of Alpine, Wyo., is
controller for Sunrise Home Center Inc. in
Jackson, Wyo., and was married in 2002 (please
see “Marriages”).
Jack Haan ’89 of Palos Heights, Ill., was recently named a partner in the law firm of Shaheen,
Novoselsky in Chicago, Ill. He is a trial attorney, practicing primarily commercial litigation.
Jack and his wife recently had a son (please see
“New Arrivals”), who joins his sisters Elise (age
eight) and Abigail (age five).
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1990s
Thomas E. DeWitt ’90 of Holland, Mich., has
been
awarded
the
Qualified
401(k)
Administrator (QKA) designation from the
American Society of Pension Actuaries (ASPA).
Qualification is based on a series of examinations, peer recommendations, and experience in
the retirement services planning field. He is
assistant vice president of retirement services at
Macatawa Bank.
Mpine Qakisa ’90 Makoe moved to the United
Kingdom with her family to pursue her Ph.D.
studies. Previously, she was a communications,
journalism lecturer at the University of South
Africa..
Kara Buhl ’91 Mann of New York, N.Y., is a
freelance producer of commercials and music
videos. She and her husband also recently had
a daughter (please see “New Arrivals”).
Steven C. Pierce ’91 of Ann Arbor, Mich., has
begun an investment advisory practice, Pierce
Financial LLC, in Ann Arbor. He specializes in
financial planning and works with 401(k)
rollovers, investments, IRAs, annuities and life
insurance, with securities offered exclusively
through Raymond James Financial Services Inc.
Stephanie Smith ’92 DeChambeau of St. Louis,
Mo., continues to work for the St. Louis
Symphony Orchestra as the director of foundation and government grants. She and her
husband recently had a daughter (please see
“New Arrivals”).
Brian Gerhardstein ’92 of Hawthorne, N.J., is a
doctor at the JFK Neurological Institute in
Edison, N.J.
Rasa Hollender ’93 of Dallas, Texas, is a selfemployed performer.
Jonathan J. Siebers ’93 recently accepted a position as an associate with the law firm Brandt
Fisher Alward & Roy in Traverse City, Mich.
He specializes in business, banking, and real
estate law. He has been living in Traverse City
for three years and reports that he loves it.
Scott Venema ’93, who is a U.S. Army captain,
has been stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, since the
beginning of February, and will remain there
five-six months. He reports that he wears body
armor and a Kevlar helmet everywhere, and
has been shot at almost every day.
Julie Norman ’94 Dykstra of Kentwood, Mich.,
is corporate counsel for Alticor Inc. of Ada,
Mich.
Douglas Hulett ’94 of Coppell, Texas, is
enrolled in a graduate program through the
University of Phoenix, studying for a master of
business administration in technology management. He reports that he enjoys married life
(please see “Marriages”).
Sangeetha Nesiah ’94 of London, United
Kingdom, works for Learning for Life, a nongovernmental educational organization. She is
currently working on a project to improve educational facilities for children in Afghanistan.
John Nowak ’94 of Oro Valley, Ariz., an event
director for Perimeter Bicycling, recently took a
new direction in his career as a contributing
writer for Tail Winds Magazine. He still races his
bicycle competitively. He reports that it is nice
to compete at the races and then write about
them a few hours later and contribute to the
magazine, and that it is great to use his degree
in English and his knowledge of cycling.
Erin Koster ’94 Ortlund has moved to
Edinburgh, Scotland, where her husband is
studying, and she works part-time for the City
of Edinburgh social work department.
Jennifer Noorman ’94 Webb of Beverly Hills,
Mich., is a teacher/coach in the Birmingham
(Mich.) Public Schools.
Kris Evans ’95 of Jamaica Plain, Mass., is assistant to the director of the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies at Harvard University
Karen Poore ’95 of Centerville, Ohio, is a professional firefighter/paramedic for the Monroe
(Ohio) Fire Department. She also works parttime at the Harrison Fire Department on her
days off. She is a member of the Fraternal
Order of Leatherheads and the International
Association of Firefighters local in Monroe. She
reports that she plans to get involved with fire
safety and prevention in the schools and to help
with the training of new recruits at the
academy, and that working at the fire department is the best job in the world.
Susan Adkins-Schroeck ’96 of Whitmore Lake,
Mich., is a realtor for Keller Williams in
Brighton, Mich. She was married in 2001
(please see “Marriages”).
Sari Nienhuis ’96 Jones and her husband live
in Chicago, Ill., and recently had a daughter
(please see “New Arrivals”).
Kimberly Cook ’96 Kennedy lives in Kekaha,
Hawaii, with her husband and three children.
She is a general partner for a planning consulting group in Kauai, and she serves on the board
of directors for Ethica, a non-profit organization
dedicated to promoting ethical child adoption
practices.
Kevin G. Kooiker ’96 of Hudsonville, Mich.,
and his wife are dentists at Cherry Street Health
Services in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Katherine Vlasica ’96 of Astonia, N.Y., is a firstyear emergency medicine resident at St.
Barnabas Hospital in the South Bronx, New
York City. She traveled to Guatemala in
February as a part of DO Care International for
a four-week medical mission to start up health
care clinics and provide medical care in the
country’s impoverished regions.
Julie Grahmann ’97 Haack of Salem, Wis., is a
high school German teacher at Wilmot (Wis.)
Union High School. She and her husband
recently had their first child (please see “New
Arrivals”).
Zachary Hegg ’97 of Alpena, Mich., is an
account executive for Charter Media.
Sara Hewitt ’97 of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., is a
special populations team leader for Archways
Inc.
Josh Ruhrup ’97 of Kalamazoo, Mich., is a registered nurse in the surgical intensive care unit
of Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo.
Chad Schuitema ’97 of Lafayette, Ind., is pastor
of Community Reformed Church in Lafayette.
He and his wife have a son, Elijah.
Andrew Cove ’98 of Hastings, Mich., is an
investment representative for Edward Jones
Investments. He just opened his new office and
reports that he is recovering from a recent auto
accident. He and his wife have three sons
(please see “New Arrivals”).
Amy-Lynn Halverson ’98 of Douglas, Mich., is
the new volunteer and coalition services
manager for Lakeshore Habitat for Humanity
of Holland, Mich. The newly created position
includes managing volunteer recruitment,
training, and placement. She has worked for
the organization for two years as an AmeriCorp
volunteer.
Abby Nienhuis ’98 Huizenga and PJ Huizenga
’98 are living in the Lincoln Park area of
Chicago, Ill. PJ reports that he is working for
Huizenga Capital Management and attending
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of
Management for his MBA, and that Abby’s
second-grade teaching days are now over
(please see “New Arrivals”).
Wendy Kooiker ’98 of Hudsonville, Mich.,
teaches the learning disabled at Grandville
(Mich.) Middle School.
Kara McGillicuddy ’98 of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
reports that she started a fabulous job in
January working for MidAmerica Productions,
which produces classical music concerts at
Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Jennifer Lynn Peuler ’98 of Hudsonville, Mich.,
is a quality assurance associate for Pfizer Inc. in
Holland, Mich.
Andy Ponstein ’98 of Hudsonville, Mich., is
racing full-time this season in the NASCAR
Busch Grand National Series. He is racing the
No. 39 Ford Taurus sponsored by Yahoo!.
Andrew P. Wright ’98 of Downers Grove, Ill.,
completed a general practice residency
program at Meriter Hospital in Madison, Wis.,
in 2003. He will begin an endodontic specialty
M.S.D. program at Case Western Reserve
University in July of 2004. He has been active in
Christian medical/dental mission trips to
orphanages and villages in India, Haiti, and
Mozambique from 2001 to 2003.
Mark D. Hofstee ’99 of Plainwell, Mich., has
joined the law practice of Thomas R. Blaising.
His areas of practice include property, environmental, construction, and general civil law. The
practice has been renamed Blaising & Hofstee
PC.
Trystin Kleiman ’99 of Chicago, Ill., is pursuing
a doctorate in clinical psychology with a forensic concentration at The Chicago School of
Professional Psychology (please see “Advanced
Degrees”). She is currently completing a
therapy practicum at Chicago-Read Mental
Health Center (a state psychiatric hospital
serving the Chicago area). She recently accepted a doctoral internship position (beginning in
July) at Natividad Hospital in Salinas, Calif., a
community hospital serving all of Monterey
County.
Rebecca (Becky) Schmidt ’99 of Redlands,
Calif., has been named the new volleyball coach
at Hope. For the past three years she has been
the volleyball coach at the University of
Redlands (Calif.). She will assume her new role
as a faculty member and coach at Hope in the
2004-05 academic year.
Andrew Thompson ’99 has accepted a one-year
position as European technical manager for The
Viking Corporation. He will be stationed in
Luxembourg until October.
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Meredith Arwady ’00 of Philadelphia, Pa., was
named one of three winners in the Metropolitan
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held on Sunday, March 21, in New York City.
Michelle Balcerski ’00 recently moved to
Chicago, Ill., and is a second grade teacher for
the Chicago Public Schools.
Debra Burr ’00 of Grand Haven, Mich., is
student teaching at both Grand Haven High
School and Lakeshore Middle School while finishing up her master’s degree in education with
initial certification at Aquinas College.
Sarah Bussing ’00 of Ypsilanti, Mich., is an
adjunct English professor at Eastern Michigan
University.
Amy Champaigne ’00 of Lansing, Mich., is a
domestic violence transitional housing coordinator for SIREN/Eaton Shelter in Charlotte,
Mich.
David Fleming ’00 of Holland, Mich., is the JV
baseball coach at Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Christian High School.
Jonathan Kopchick ’00 of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
is a registered nurse at Spectrum HealthButterworth Campus.
Jessica McCombs ’00 McCarthy lives in
Holland, Mich., with her husband and 15month-old son, Waylin. She is a part-time
innkeeper-housekeeper at the Maplewood
Hotel in Saugatuck, Mich.
Lori Simmer ’00 McLaren of Zeeland, Mich., is
a buyer for Haworth Inc. of Holland, Mich.
Mathieu Nguyen ’00, of Holland, Mich., was
named by Business Direct Weekly as one of 42
“Business Leaders Under 40” who are influencing the course of the West Michigan region.
The group was honored on Wednesday, March
3, during an event at St. Cecilia Music Society in
downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. Mat is the
president of Worksighted, an information technology firm he founded in the fall of 2000 as he
was finishing at Hope. The business has since
grown to three offices in the area. He is also one
of two co-founders of Holland Young
Professionals (HYP), an organization founded
by Barry Rice ’03 to offer professionals between
the ages of 21 and 35 the opportunity to congregate and make business and social connections
with others from all over West Michigan.
John Shoemaker ’00 of Rochester, N.Y., is a
graduate student in the philosophy department
at the University of Rochester. He completed
his master’s degree last year (please see
“Advanced Degrees”).
Tanya Sobeck-Murdock ’00 of Celebration,
Fla., works in entertainment for the Walt
Disney Co. of Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Paul R. Stern ’00 of Ann Arbor, Mich., will
begin a post doctoral residency in advanced
education for general dentistry at Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.,
in July of 2004.
Kristin Kooiker ’00 VandenHeuvel of
Hudsonville, Mich., is an R.N. at Spectrum
Health-Blodgett in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Jody Farrey ’01 of Urbana, Ill., is a physician
assistant, family practice, at Provena United
Samaritans Medical Center in Danville, Ill.
Angela Lee ’01 Leete of South Lyon, Mich., is
working as a medical social worker II at St.
Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., for
three months. She reports that afterward, she
and her husband, Philip Leete ’00, plan to
move to Traverse City, Mich., to check out geriatric social work and dance opportunities in the
area.
Carrie Lowe ’01 is an instructor at the Mountain
Trail Outdoor School at the Kanuga Conference
Center in Hendersonville, N.C.
Adam Magers ’01 of Battle Creek, Mich., is a
firefighter for the City of Battle Creek.
Sara Oostendorp ’01 of Grand Rapids, Mich., is
a medical student at the College of Human
Medicine (Michigan State University) in Grand
Rapids.
Rachel Barone ’02 of Davie, Fla., is attending
Nova Southeastern University in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., pursuing a doctorate in psychology (Psy.D.) with a concentration in long
term mental illness.
Dawn Broekhuis ’02 of Holland, Mich., is a
psychometrist at Pine Rest Christian Mental
Health Services in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Jennifer Chalifoux ’02 of Chicago, Ill., is director
of antiquities for Harlan J. Berk Ltd. in Chicago.
Lindsay King ’02 of Chicago, Ill., is an HR
analyst at Andrew Corporation in Orland Park,
Ill.
John Milan ’02, a Coast Guard seaman, recently graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit
Training Center in Cape May, N.J.
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Katherine Paarlberg ’02 of Washington, D.C., is
an organizer in non-profit activism at
Sojourners in Washington, D.C.
Mari Titcombe ’02 is in her second year as a
Peace Corps volunteer in Njombe, Tanzania,
East Africa. She continues to teach advanced
level chemistry and mathematics at a government school and to work with health education
groups.
Douglas Turk ’02 of Brooklyn, N.Y., has completed his MSW and is working as a foster care
caseworker (please see “Advanced Degree.”).
Christopher Working ’02 of Zeeland, Mich.,
teaches fourth grade in the West Ottawa Public
Schools in Holland, Mich..
Kristi Cummings ’03 of Howard City, Mich., is
a first grade teacher with the Morley Stanwood
Community Schools, in Stanwood, Mich.
Susan DeLange ’03 of Oak Park, Ill., was selected as one of six student delegates to the
National Board of the Christian Medical
Association. Her two-year term entitles her to
attend the CMA National Conference twice a
year beginning this June in Texas. In July she
will spend three weeks in San Lucas,
Guatemala, as part of a medical team working
in several rural clinics. She attends Loyola
Medical School in Maywood, Ill.
Muhammad Karimuddin ’03 of Oak Park, Ill.,
is a staff accountant for East Lake Management
& Development Corporation in Chicago, Ill.
David Laughter ’03 of Holland, Mich., is a
fitness specialist with Shape Corporation in
Grand Haven, Mich.
Anne Patterson ’03 of Plymouth, Mich., is a
realtor for REMAX 100 in Novi, Mich.
Alyson Payne ’03 of Three Oaks, Mich., was
selected as an “Honored Poet” by the Poetry
Board of the Village of Three Oaks on
Thursday, Jan. 29.
Lindsay Pollard-Post ’03 of Holland, Mich., is a
legal assistant for the Law Office of John R.
Moritz P.C.
Barry Rice ’03 of Holland, Mich., is the founder
of Holland Young Professionals (HYP), an organization offering the opportunity for
professionals between the ages of 21 and 35 to
congregate and make business and social connections with others from all over West
Michigan. He works in business development
for Worksighted LLC, an information technology firm in Holland. Mat Nguyen ’00 is one of
two co-founders of HYP.
Amy Sato ’03 of Milwaukee, Wis., is a doctoral
student in clinical psychology at the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Myra J. Stern ’03 of Ann Arbor, Mich., is
working on her master’s degree in education.
She is completing coursework to become certified as a special needs teacher in elementary
education.
Marcus Voss ’03 of Jenison, Mich., is a sales
representative for Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
Marriages
Marriages
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though, that we don’t publish engagement
announcements—that’s what this “marriages”
section is for! Please write us after your
wedding takes place.
Elizabeth Bass ’89 and John Douville, Aug.
24, 2002, Alpine, Wyo.
Mark Bast ’92 and Kristi Surine, Aug. 2, 2003,
in Holland, Mich.
Douglas Hulett ’94 and Jennifer Gabel, Oct.
18, 2003, Cancun, Mexico.
Deborah Davis ’95 and John Busemeyer,
Sept. 27, 2003, Santa Fe, N.M.
Angela Fagerlin ’95 and Antonius Tsai, Sept.
20, 2003, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Susan Adkins ’96 and William Schroeck,
Nov, 10, 2001, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Kevin G. Kooiker ’96 and Nicole Hester,
May 4, 2001.
Nicole Rauzi ’97 and Tobias Sullivan, Oct. 4,
2003, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Michelle Rhoades ’97 and Trent Buist, Dec. 6,
2003, Zeeland, Mich.
Phung Q. Lam ’99 and Lynette Meyer, June
14, 2003, Hudsonville, Mich.
Krista Meden ’99 and Jason Schrotenboer,
Jan. 31, 2004, in Holland, Mich.
Brandon Bauschke ’00 and Michele
Daugherty, Oct. 11, 2003, South Bend, Ind.
Leigh Schmidt ’00 and Travis Ellett, Dec. 19,
2003, Denver, Colo.
Brian Kieft ’01 and Kimberly Van Der
Wende ’01, Sept. 27, 2003, Holland, Mich.
Angela Fritts ’02 and Gareth Beaty, Sept. 21,
2003, Grand Ledge, Mich.
Matthew Vanderhyde ’02 and Beth
Nienhuis, Oct. 25, 2003, Holland, Mich.
Rachel Boersma ’03 and Ross Dieleman ’04,
Aug. 15. 2003, Holland, Mich.
New Arrivals
New Arrivals
Tod Gugino ’85 and Brenda Gugino, Taryn
and Tyler, Feb. 20, 2004.
Mark L. DeWitt ’87 and Dawn DeYoung ’92
DeWitt, Seanna Lynn, Aug. 19, 2003.
Mark Kuyers ’87 and Rhonda Hesche ’89
Kuyers, Jackson David, Feb. 8, 2004.
Stephanie Strand ’88 and David Muyres,
Oliver Strand Fuji Muyers, Jan. 30, 2004.
Jennifer Bingham-Maas ’89 and Norman
Bingham-Maas ’89, Gerritt Lloyd, Feb. 15, 2003.
Gary Corell ’89 and Kathy Corell, Addison
Grace, Jan. 4, 2004.
David Gibson ’89 and Amy Docter ’97
Gibson, William Allen and Adam John, Nov.
24, 2003.
Jack Haan ’89 and Catherine Haan, Matthew
Louis, Sept. 24, 2003.
David Guth ’90 and Julia Guth, William
(Will) Christopher, March 2, 2004.
Karen Kooyman ’91 Abraham and Randall
Abraham ’91, Ari James, Jan. 29, 2004.
Joe Gerhardstein ’91 and Monica Naukam
Gerhardstein, Mari Katherine Lea, Jan. 7, 2004.
Robin Gorter ’91 Greene and David Greene,
Kristina Ann, July 15, 2003.
Kara Buhl ’91 Mann and Thomas Browning
Mann II, Madison Katherine, Nov. 5, 2003.
Mark A. Ritsema ’91 and Christina Ritsema,
Ella Marie, Jan. 21, 2004.
Stephanie Smith ’92 DeChambeau and Bruce
DeChambeau, Emily Renee, Dec. 3, 2003.
Michael Folkerts ’92 and Lydia Folkerts,
Nathanael Michael, Jan. 11, 2004.
Veronica Vroon ’92 Bosgraaf and Michael
Bosgraaf, Noah Michael, May 16, 2003.
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Amy Hilbelink ’93 Droster and David
Droster, Emma Grace, Feb. 2, 2004.
Bretton Folkert ’93 and Julie Bos ’93 Folkert,
Claudia Marie, Feb. 7, 2004.
Brian Walls ’93 and Amy Volkers ’95 Walls,
Nicholas Brian, Feb. 26, 2004.
Rennie Brissenden ’94 and Megan Holden
’95 Brissenden, Ethan Riley, Feb. 11, 2004.
Rachel Stauffer ’94 Conrad and Brian
Conrad, William (Will) Lawrence, Nov. 8, 2003.
Sangeetha Nesiah ’94 and Benoit
Pasquereau, Arundhathi Paula NeshiaPasquereau, Jan. 10, 2004.
Brigetta Royston ’95 Vlachos and Stephane
Vlachos, Laurie Marie Nadia, July 6, 2003.
Anna Pomp ’95 Wehrmeyer and Matt
Wehrmeyer, Anika Joy, Aug. 11, 2001, and
Brooke Marie, June 17, 2003.
Jason Cox ’96 and Rita Cox, Kylie, Dec. 29,
2003.
Micki Frens ’96 Anger and Shawn Anger,
Kinsey Elizabeth, Jan. 19, 2004.
December ’03
graduation honors
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Laura J. Hahnfeld; Midland, Mich.
Laura H. Pearson; Plainwell, Mich.
Benjamin J. Schoettle; Zeeland, Mich.
Steve M. VanBeek; Hudsonville, Mich.
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Emelie L. Apostle; Muskegon, Mich.
Katherine R. Boss; Newaygo, Mich.
Rachael E. Bottema; Spring Lake, Mich.
Chad R. Carlson; Holland, Mich.
Carla J. Carrozziere; Rochester, N.Y.
Mary J. Chambers; Holland, Mich.
John J. Collins III; Birmingham, Mich.
Christen N. Davids; Big Rapids, Mich.
Kathryn S. Delozier; Mount Vernon, Ohio
Nicholas A. Denis; St. Clair Shores, Mich.
Sally M. Fisher; Kalamazoo, Mich.
Valerie A. Hoogsteen; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Erin L. Hubbard; Belmont, Mich.
Brenton D. Jackson; Grand Haven, Mich.
Daniel J. James; Holland, Mich.
Patrick M. Kearney; Clinton Township, Mich.
Amanda J. Kinney; West Sand Lake, N.Y.
Laura J. Litteral; Jackson, Mich.
Deonnie G. Moodie; Naperville, Ill.
Amanda R. Olson; Oak Park, Ill.
Pamela J. Proos; Pickney, Mich.
Rachel R. Riemer; Ludington, Mich.
Joshua W. Russell; Sarasota, Fla.
Kendal Slack; Milford, Mich.
Timothy R. Stowe; Valparaiso, Ind.
Jaclyn F. Timmer; Jenison, Mich.
Nathan D. van Hofwegen; Spencer, Iowa
Lynette A. Wehmer; West Olive, Mich.
Ryan Joseph Wert; Ada, Mich.
CUM LAUDE
Elizabeth D. Bos; Holland, Mich.
Ashlea M.A. Call; Midland, Mich.
Leslie M. Canfield; Whitehall, Mich.
Kelly L. Cleland; Deckerville, Mich.
Carleen M. Cook; Walker, Mich.
Sarah L. Crisman; Downers Grove, Ill.
S. Kate DeBoest; Lemont, Ill.
Joshua J. Egedy; Midland Park, N.J.
Matthew T. Evearitt; Ada, Mich.
Adrienne R. Farrell; Novi, Mich.
Gregory A. Field Jr.; Naperville, Ill.
Benjamin L. Freeburn; Hartford, Mich.
Keith M. Lam; Portage, Mich.
Anne M. Mathias; Jackson, Mich.
Kristina A. Ridge; Williamsburg, Mich.
Erica A. Schneider; Bellaire, Mich.
Leslie J. Skaistis; Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Melinda J. Slusher; Grand Rapids, Mich.
Amy K. Sporer; Chelsea, Mich.
Daniel S. Vagle; Hillsdale, Mich.
Michael R. Van Hekken; Holland, Mich.
Christian W. VanSlooten; Zeeland, Mich.
Cally D. Wiest; Sawyer, Mich.
Matthew C. Zwier; Portage, Mich.
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Erik Eldred ’96 and Amanda Fry ’98 Eldred,
Evan James, Oct. 3, 2003.
Sari Nienhuis ’96 Jones and Kevin Jones,
Maria Elizabeth, Sept. 8, 2003.
Brenda Huff ’96 Sikkema and Robert
Sikkema ’96, Kaelyn Grace, Oct. 2, 2003.
Patrick Collins ’97 and Susan Looman ’97
Collins, Ally Mae, Jan. 19, 2004.
Amy Goorhouse ’97 Hicks and Rob Hicks,
Caleb Thomas, Aug. 20, 2003.
Sara Looman ’97 Gortsema and Thomas
Gortsema ’97, Peter Richard, Feb. 5, 2004.
Julie Grahmann ’97 Haack and Ryan Haack,
Samuel Douglas, Jan. 21, 2004.
Matthew Lappenga ’97 and Debra Nienhuis
Lappenga, Grace Elizabeth, Feb. 6, 2004.
Andrew Cove ’98 and Kristen Cove, Jack
Emerson, May 14, 2002.
Abby Nienhuis ’98 Huizenga and PJ
Huizenga ’98, Hally Anne, Jan. 3, 2004.
Jennifer Geerdink ’98 Kamper and Mark
Kamper, Megan JoAnna, Sept. 3, 2003.
Lesley Sheldon ’00 Hassenrik and Matthew
Hassenrik ’00, Grant Edward, Dec. 23, 2003.
Sarah Kelly ’01 Parker and Daniel J. Parker,
Isaac Daniel, April 16, 2003.
Advanced Degrees
Advanced Degrees
Beppy Albers ’69 Michel, M.S. in marriage
and family therapy, California State
University–Dominquez Hills, 2001.
Carol Anderson ’79 Fryer, STM (master of
sacred theology) in spiritual direction, The
General Seminary of the Episcopal Church,
2001.
Rhonda Hesche ’89 Kuyers, master’s degree
in elementary education, Grand Valley State
University, December, 2003.
Jennifer Noorman ’94 Webb, M.A., Horace
H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies,
University of Michigan, December, 2003.
Sarah Fine ’96, Ph.D. in Psychology,
University of Delaware, Jan. 10, 2004.
Kevin G. Kooiker ’96, D.D.S., University of
Michigan, May, 2000.
Robert Sikkema ’96, M.Ed., Grand Valley
State University.
Andrew P. Wright ’98, D.D.S., University of
Michigan, 2002.
Cory M. Curtis ’99, J.D., University of
Denver College of Law, May, 2003.
Trystin Kleiman ’99, master’s degree in clinical psychology, The Chicago School of
Professional Psychology, December, 2003.
John D. Shoemaker ’00, M.A. in philosophy,
Western Michigan University, summer, 2003.
Douglas Turk ’02, master’s degree in social
work, Columbia University, October, 2003.
Deaths
Deaths
Betty Bardwell ’52 Anderson of Rochester,
N.Y., died on Monday, Jan. 5, 2004. She was 79.
She had worked for many years as an R.N. at
Park Avenue Hospital in Rochester.
He husband, Gillette, preceded her in death.
Survivors include her children, Susan
(David Ortman) of Midland, Mich., Paul
(Patricia) of Rochester, Todd (Mary Jo) of
Rochester, and Peter of Springwater, N.Y.; four
grandchildren; one great–grandson; sister,
Doris (Merle) Pierce of Sunnyvale, Calif.,
brother, Stanley (Corine) Bardwell of
Charlottesville, Va.; sisters–in–law, Ann
Hoener of Rahway, N.J., and Judith Schuhmann
of Canandaigua, N.Y.; nieces; and nephews.
James R. Bennett ’67 of Hagerstown, Md.,
died on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2003. He was 57.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having
served in Korea and the Vietnam War.
He had been employed by Hiltner’s in
Frederick, Md. He was a member of the United
Presbyterian Church in Frederick and was a
volunteer at the Hagerstown Union Rescue
Mission. He also participated in Sessions by the
Sea in Ocean City, Md., and in Alcoholics
Anonymous.
He was preceded in death by his parents,
Frank and Helen Louise Johnson Bennett.
Survivors include his daughter, Rachel B.
Hayes of Chesapeake, Va.; two sons, Samuel E.
Bennett of Tulsa, Okla., and Joel H. Bennett of
New Jersey; his brother, John E. Bennett of
Mount Vernon, N.Y.; two grandchildren; and
one aunt.
Gerald C. Boerhave ’63 of Knoxville, Tenn.,
died suddenly on Friday, Aug. 30, 2003. He
was 62.
He was an automotive parts engineer for
several parts stamping plants, and was most
recently project manager for Eagle Bend
Manufacturing Company.
He was preceded in death by his parents,
George and Hattie Boerhave, and two brothers,
Edward and Henry.
Survivors include his wife of 38 years, Carol
Mogle ’64 Boerhave; daughters, Kathy (Dale)
VanSpronsen, Gretchen (Jack) Barr, and Becky
(Matt) Holmberg, all of Grand Rapids, Mich.;
six grandchildren; sister, Marie (Dale) Westra of
Sheldon, Iowa; brother, Wesley (Delores)
Boerhave of Tucson, Ariz.; brother–in–law, Jim
(Nancy Jo) Mogle of Great Falls, Va.; and
sister–in–law, Nancy Mogle of Grand Rapids.
John J. Buursma ’47 of St. Joseph, Mich.,
died on Friday, Feb. 27, 2004. He was 81.
He was a veteran who served in the U.S.
Army during World War II.
He was employed by the St. Joseph Public
Schools for 30 years and retired in 1980. During
his career, he taught English, history, and driver’s education, and coached ninth-grade
football and basketball at St. Joseph High
School.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 54
years, Evalyn, on Saturday, March 29, 2003; his
parents, John and Wilhemina (VerSchure)
Buursma; a brother; and a sister.
Survivors include two sons, Al (Kristi)
Buursma of Stevensville, Mich., and John
(Kathy) Buursma of St. Joseph; three daughters,
Kay Morrow of St. Joseph, Sue (John) Pickar of
Dowagiac, Mich., and Pat Burkett and her
fiance, Eric Morris, of South Bend, Ind.; 13
grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; a
brother, Leonard (Sue) Buursma of Holland,
Mich.; and a brother-in-law, Ade Van Patten of
Holland.
Peter G. Bylsma ’63 of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
died on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004. He was 62.
He was an attorney and worked at the
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Securities and Exchange Commission in
Washington, D.C., and at Emerson Electric in St.
Louis, Mo. He also obtained CPA certification.
In 1977 he and his family returned to Grand
Rapids, and he purchased the George P. Bylsma
Insurance Agency from his father.
He belonged to Central Reformed Church,
where he served as a deacon and was a member
of the Ushers Club. As an avid golfer, he was a
member of the former Greenridge Country
Club, Egypt Valley Country Club, and the
American Seniors Golf Association.
Survivors include his wife, Carol; his children, Ellen Marie of Grand Rapids and Daniel
Peter (Karen) of LaGrange, Ill.; his sister, Elena
(Dave) VanEenenaam of Watertown, N.Y.; his
mother-in-law, Edith Ploeg of Grand Rapids;
three nieces; and ten great nephews and nieces.
Joyce Baker ’50 Conklin of Sun City, Fla.,
died on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004. She was 75.
Survivors include her husband, Lloyd; children, Elizabeth (Bill) Barbre and Thomas (Luci)
Brieve; three grandchildren; sister, Jane Baker
’50 (Henry ’50) Visser of Portage, Mich.; brothers, William (Molly Buttles ’52) Baker of
Saugatuck, Mich., and Donald (Wanda) Baker
of Pentwater, Mich.
Mary VanLoo ’28 Davidson of Clearwater,
Fla., died on Tuesday, March 9, 2004. She was
97.
She retired from the Grand Rapids Public
Schools, where she had taught special education for 25 years, and later moved to Clearwater
in 1980.
She is survived by her husband of 20 years,
Robert A.; and sister, Naomi VanLoo ’32
Pennell of Lexington, Mass.
Pauline Hollebrands ’37 Dykstra of Grosse
Pointe, Mich., died on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004.
She was 87.
She was born in Waupun, Wis., to the Rev.
J.J. and Cornelia Hollebrands.
She was a teacher for many years, first in
Hudson, Mich., and then in the Detroit (Mich.)
Public Schools.
She was an active church leader in the First
Reformed Church of Detroit, and later a longtime member and elder at Grosse Pointe
Memorial Church. During the 1950s and 1960s,
she was deeply involved in a citywide ecumenical and interracial women’s fellowship,
United Church Women, of which she became
president.
She was preceded in death by her husband
of 39 years, Richard Dykstra, in 1983, and by
one son, Stuart.
Survivors include two sons, Craig (Betsy)
and Steven (Linda); seven grandchildren; and
three great-grandchildren.
Word has been received of the death of
Merle A. Eilers ’42 of Honolulu, Hawaii, who
died on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003. He was 84.
He was born in Holland, Mich., and graduated from Holland High School in 1937.
William E. Elzinga ’60 of Columbia, Md.,
died on Tuesday, April 2, 2002. He was 64.
He was born in Charlevoix, Mich., to Marvin
and Isabel Elzinga.
He earned a Ph.D. in physiology and was
employed as a health science administrator at the
National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
He was a member of Covenant Presbyterian
Church in Burtonsville, Md., and enjoyed
running in marathons, biathlons, and triathlons.
Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Sandi
Vander Berg ’63 Elzinga; children, Dianne (Brad)
Frazier of Cleveland, Tenn., Jennifer Lynn
Elzinga of Seattle, Wash., Tod (Wendy) Elzinga
of Grand Haven, Mich., and Shawn Elzinga of
Eastport, Mich.; his mother, Isabel Elzinga of
Traverse City, Mich.; brothers, Jim Elzinga of
Petosky, Mich., Steve (Nancy) Elzinga of
Lambertville, Mich., and Terry Elzinga of
Jamestown, N.Y.; and five grandchildren.
John E. Golds ’38 of Riverdale, Ill., died on
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003. He was 87.
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He was a veteran who served in the U.S.
Army for five years.
He worked for CNA in Chicago, Ill.,
throughout his career.
His son Warren preceded him in death.
Survivors include his wife, Marcella; daughter, Shirley (Ron) Hinz; sons, Dennis and Perry;
and two grandchildren.
Ruth Dame ’41 Hage of Spring Lake, Mich.,
died on Monday, Dec. 8, 2003. She was 84.
She had been co-owner of Hage’s Christian
Supplies for the past 45 years.
She was a charter member of Pine Grove
Reformed Church and a member of Unity
Reformed Church of Muskegon, Mich., for the
past 11 years. Her church involvement included women’s ministries, the church library, and
service as a Sunday school teacher.
Survivors include her husband of 62 years,
Russell; two daughters, Judith (George) Hage ’68
Fusko of Decatur, Mich., and Maryl (David ’72)
Hage ’72 Ritsema of Norton Shores, Mich.;
sisters, Gertrude Dame ’39 Schrier of
Montgomery, Ala., and Marian (Jack ’50) Dame
’47 Hoekstra of Kalamazoo, Mich.; brother, Paul
(Marie) Dame ’44 of Largo, Fla.; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and many other
relatives.
Marguerite Hadden ’42 Hakken of Holland,
Mich., died on Monday, Feb. 9, 2004. She was 83.
She retired from teaching after 21 years with
the Holland and West Ottawa Public Schools.
She was a member of Hope Reformed Church
and had been active in the Holland Junior
Welfare League, Woman’s Literary Club,
AAUW, Holland Garden Club, Hope Church
Circle, the Holland Hospital Children’s Guild,
and the West Ottawa and Michigan Education
Associations. She served on the board of directors for the Holland Camp Fire Girls, was a past
regent in the Daughters of the American
Revolution, and was a founding member of the
Holland Area Historical Advisory Council. She
was the first woman to serve in the Civilian Air
Patrol during World War II.
She was preceded in death by her parents,
Mayo A. and Marguerite Leenhouts Hadden,
and a brother, Rear Admiral Mayo A. Hadden Jr.
Survivors include her husband of 60 years,
William T. Hakken ’42; children, Margo Zeedyk
of Holland, Merry and Michael Spafford of
Loudon, Tenn., Rev. William and Dianne
Hakken of North Muskegon, Mich., Melissa Ann
Hakken of Reno, Nev., and Robert and Pat
Hakken of Hamilton, Mich.; sister, Merry
Hakken ’45 VanOmmen of Hilton Head Island,
S.C.; sister-in-law, Mary Jacobs ’41 Hakken of
Carlsbad, Calif.; eight grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
Frank Heemstra ’48 of Yankton, S.D., died on
Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2004. He was 80.
He worked for the Naval Research
Laboratory in Washington, D.C., spending a lot
of time at sea conducting underwater research
and instrument testing. He invented the magnetometer, the principle device used to locate the
nuclear submarine Thresher.
In October of 2003 he received the
Distinguished Alumni Award for his career
achievements from Northwestern College in
Orange City, Iowa.
Survivors include his wife, Marian; three
brothers, John of Yankton, Raymond of
Bartlesville, Okla., and Howard of Ames, Iowa;
four nieces; and two nephews.
Robert A. Hill ’50 of Manlius, N.Y., died on
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004. He was 75.
He joined Carrier Corporation in 1956 and
retired as corporate vice president of human
resources for UTC/Carrier in 1985.
He served on the board of directors of the
Syracuse Symphony, Cultural Resources
Council, Boys Club, Dunbar Center, Planned
Parenthood, and Visiting Nurses, and he volunteered at the Everson Museum of Art.
He was a member and past warden of St.
David’s Episcopal Church. He was also a
member of the Century Club of Syracuse and, as
an avid golfer, a member of the Onondaga Golf
and Country Club.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth
Cookman ’51 Hill; three sons, Robert of Muncie,
Ind., Steven of Burlington, N.C., and Todd of
Manlius; a brother, Craig Hill of N.J.; seven
grandchildren; a niece; and several nephews.
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Donald Hoek ’49 of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
died on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004. He was 80.
He was preceded in death by his sons Ronald
and Kevin.
He was a veteran who served in the Army Air
Corps during World War II.
He was an accomplished church organist,
and taught elementary music in the Grand
Rapids Public Schools for more than 30 years.
Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Hilda;
his children, Gloria (John) Rottenberg, Dennis
(Barbara) Hoek, Charlene Hoek, Joyce (Michael)
Markaity, Robert (Susan) Hoek, and Steven
(Doreen) Hoek; 19 grandchildren; seven greatgrandchildren; sister, Doris Robinson; brother,
Herman (Elaine) Hoek; and several nieces and
nephews
Edmund L. Hoener ’52 of Rahway, N.J., died
on Friday, Sept. 12, 2003. He was 72.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army who
worked as a cryptographer in the White House
Signal Corps.
He had a career in banking that included
working at the Chase Manhattan Bank, the
National State Bank of Elizabeth, N.J., and
finally Howard Savings Bank of New Jersey,
from which he retired in 1990 as vice president
in charge of commercial lending. He participated in the American Institute of Banking for many
years, as both an officer and an instructor.
His community service in Rahway included
the board of adjustment, the YMCA board, and
the board of education. He served his church as
a deacon, elder and trustee, and was treasurer
and chairman of the finance committee for many
years.
Survivors include his wife, Ann, three children, and three grandchildren.
Carol Yonker ’55 Jacobson of Whitehall,
Mich., died on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003. She was
70.
Survivors include her husband, Gerald L.
Jacobson ’54; brothers, Nicholas Yonker ’50 of
Corvallis, Ore., and Stanley Yonker ’70 of Spring
Lake, Mich.; and sister, Joyce Prince of
Muskegon, Mich.
Word has been received of the death of
Carole Fields ’67 Johnson of Indianapolis, Ind.,
who died on Sunday, March 28, 2004. More
information will appear in the next issue.
Donna Burggraaff ’63 Millard of Johnstown,
N.Y., died on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003. She was
62.
She served with her husband in the Fonda
Reformed Church in Fonda, N.Y., for 12-and-ahalf years, and had been serving with him in the
Johnstown Reformed Church for the last 27
years. She was very involved in the church choir
and the community in which her husband
served.
Survivors include her husband of 41-and-ahalf years, Rev. Jack H. Millard ’61; son, Alan
(Patti) of Mayfield, New York; father, Nicholas J.
Burggraaff ’31 of Bloomington, Minn.; brother,
Wayne (Linda) of Bloomington; and three
grandchildren.
Phyllis Andre ’48 Oegema of Grandville,
Mich., died on Monday, March 15, 2004. She
was 77.
Survivors include her husband of 55 years,
Cornelius (Casey) L. Oegema ’51; children, Ann
and Jim Leyndyke of Otsego, Mich., Gary ’78
and Debra Cleason ’78 Oegema of Lawton,
Mich., and Linda Oegema ’83 Milanowski and
Donald Milanowski of Holland, Mich.; eight
grandchildren, including Rebekah Oegema ’04;
sister, Betty Groendyke of Jenison, Mich.;
sisters–in–law, Arlene Andre of Jenison,
Gertrude VanDerWerf of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Emily Huizingh of Denver, Colo., and Geneva
Oegema of Muskegon, Mich.; nieces; and
nephews.
Eugene Osterhaven ’37 of Holland, Mich.,
died on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004. He was 88.
He was an ordained minister in the Reformed
Church in America and served as a pastor in
New Jersey. From 1945 to 1952, he was chaplain
and professor of Bible at Hope. He then taught
at Western Theological Seminary, where he was
the Albertus C. Van Raalte Chair of Systematic
Theology until retiring in 1986. He also taught
summers at Winona Lake School of Theology
and the Young Life Institute in Colorado. After
his retirement, he taught at the Presbyterian
seminaries in Dubuque, Iowa, and Melbourne,
Australia.
He headed an effort initiated by students at
Hope to assist the Sarospatak Reformed
Academy (Reformed Church of Hungary) following World War II. After the collapse of
communism, he served as chairman of an interdenominational committee to win the return of
the college and seminary at Sarospatak to the
church.
He received honorary degrees from Hope,
Northwestern College, Western Seminary, and
the University of Debrecen in Hungary. He was
twice named an honorary professor of the theological faculty at Sarospatak.
He was the author of several books and
numerous articles, and served as editor of
Western Seminary’s The Reformed Review. He
represented the RCA in the Roman
Catholic/Presbyterian Consultation after the
Second Vatican Council, and was also active in
the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.
He was actively involved in scouting for
more than 50 years, having become an Eagle
Scout at the age of 13. He later served on the
board of the Gerald R. Ford Council of the Boy
Scouts of America and led wilderness canoe
trips for the council.
Survivors include his wife of 61 years,
Margaret Nagy ’42 Osterhaven; his children,
David and Jean Osterhaven of Holland, Roy ’66
and Ellen Osterhaven ’67 Anker of Grand
Rapids, Mich., Calvin ’68 and Robin Osterhaven
of Grand Ledge, Mich., and Janice Osterhaven
’75 and Berci Benedek of Thousand Oaks, Calif.;
seven grandchildren, including Elizabeth Anker
’96; sisters, Esther and Arnold Sonnevelt of
Grand Rapids, and Wilma Osterhaven ’51
Tangenberg of Tucson, Ariz.; nieces; and
nephews.
Samuel G. Posthuma ’49 of Seal Beach, Calif.,
died on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004. He was 83.
He taught two years at Grand Rapids Christian
High School, 10 years at Bellflower (Calif.)
Christian High School, and 30 years for the
Norwalk–La Mirada High School District in
Norwalk, Calif.
He taught piano and organ to many young
people, and was an organist and organist/choir
director for 50 years at four churches in
California.
Survivors include his wife, Angela Ruth; children, Carole Posthuma of Denver, Colo., David
Posthuma of Lakewood, Calif., and Stephen
Posthuma of Riverside, Calif.; three sisters; and
two brothers.
Willard E. Ripley ’34 of Holland, Mich., died
on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004. He was 92.
He owned and operated a heating and
cooling business for many years.
He was a member of First United Methodist
Church and a lifetime member of the Masons.
Survivors include his wife, Ione; children,
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He began teaching genetics in 1972 at
the University of Redlands in California.
He has been at Hope, where he teaches
introductory biology and embryology,
since 1978. His publications include A
Problem–Based Guide to Basic Genetics, currently in its third edition.
The NCC’s policy development committee will address moral and ethical
implications of the whole range of applications of human genetic technology, along
with such related issues as equality of
access and regulation.
Del Michel, professor emeritus of art,
has an exhibition of artwork on display at
the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse
City, Mich.
The exhibition, “Nomadic Images—The
Patina of Time,” which features paintings
and assemblages, opened on Sunday,
March 21, and will continue through
Sunday, June 20.
“This series of works was inspired by my
fascination with imagery from past and
distant cultures as revealed in the fragments
of architecture and artifacts,” Professor
Michel noted. “Through travel to ancient
monuments and museums, I came to realize
that my experience with time–worn works
of art was actually heightened by their state
of disrepair––figurative sculpture with
limbs missing, architectural friezes fragmented by exposure to the elements, walls
of decorative tiles altered with age. A sense
of history in these images has become
central to my creative response.”
Professor Michel taught at Hope from
1964 until retiring in 2003, and has since
relocated to Suttons Bay near Traverse
City. His work has been exhibited in galleries and shows worldwide, and included
in many private, corporate, university and
art museum collections.
The Dennos Museum Center is
located at 1701 East Front Street, 1.5
miles east of downtown Traverse City at
the entrance of Northwestern Michigan
College. The museum is open Monday–
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., but is
closed on major holidays. Admission is
$4 for adults and $2 for children.
R. Richard Ray has been awarded an
“Outstanding Educator Award” from the
Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association
(GLATA).
The awards are presented to GLATA
members “who have significantly contributed to the education of GLATA
members through academic presentations,
published manuscripts or editorials, educational program development, or other
educational activities.” Dr. Ray was
honored on Friday, March 12, during the
association’s winter meeting, held in
Chicago, Ill.
Dr. Ray, who is a past president of
GLATA, has been a member of the Hope
faculty since 1982, and has been involved
in the profession of athletic training for
nearly a quarter century.
He is a professor of kinesiology, athletic trainer and chairperson of the
department at Hope. He coordinated the
college’s athletic training program
through the spring of 2001, at which point
he began coordinating the college’s effort
to seek re–accreditation through the
Higher Learning Commission of the North
Central Association. He became department chair this past fall.
Under Dr. Ray’s leadership, the college’s athletic training program grew into
a full major that requires its graduates to
complete 48 credit hours in a variety of
disciplines and at least 1,500 of clinical
work under the supervision of a certified
athletic trainer. Hope is the only private
liberal arts college, and became only the
fourth institution of any type, in the state
of Michigan to have its athletic training
program accredited by the Commission on
Accreditation of Allied Health Education
Programs (CAAHEP).
NFHC April 2004
Lee Ripley and Ellie Congdon of Sayre, Pa.,
Lynn Green and Ken Wintermute of Athens,
Pa., Stephen and Jacquelyn Ripley of
Rockledge, Fla., and John Ripley of Sayre;
stepson, Dick and Lori Wagner of West Olive,
Mich.; sister-in-law, Iola and Robert Donaldson
of Holland; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; nieces; and nephews.
Bernard W. Scott ’50 of Hudsonville, Mich.,
died on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004. He was 78.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army who
served during World War II.
He worked as a civil engineer in many locations until his retirement.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Lois
alumni
DeKleine ’49 Scott; children, Douglas (Mickey)
Scott ’73 of St. Paul, Minn., Mary Jo (Thomas ’74)
Scott ’75 Dekker of Menomonee Falls, Wis.,
Steven (Pamela) Scott ’79 of Newberry, Mich.,
and Kathy Scott ’82 of Hudsonville; eight grandchildren, including Nicole Dekker ’04 and
Katherine Dekker ’05; sisters-in-law, Fanny
DeKleine ’43 and Jeanella DeKleine ’47 TenHave,
both of Jamestown, Mich.; a nephew; and a niece.
Mervyn C. Shay ’51 of Fruitland, Idaho,
died on Monday, Feb. 2, 2004. He was 82.
He was a member of the Oregon-Idaho
Conference of the United Methodist Church,
and had served churches there for 30 years. He
retired to Fruitland in 1986.
parents
Survivors include his wife, Carol Buseman
’53 Shay; sons, Nathan and Jeremy; daughter,
Kathryn; and six grandchildren.
Robert W. Spaulding ’43 of Fresno, Calif.,
died on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003. He was 82.
He began his medical practice in Fresno, and
became a board certified urologist in 1957.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, with eight
years of service that included a tour of duty in
Korea during the Korean War.
He was a member of the Western Section of
the American Urological Association, the
American College of Surgeons, and the American
Society for Pediatric Urology. He was active on
committees at local hospitals, and he served as
friends...serving students
The Klunder Family and Friends
president of the Community Hospital Medical
Staff and the Medical Society.
Survivors include his wife, June Meese
Spaulding; children, Roderick (Cheryl) Spaulding,
Jan (Oscar) Kasparian, and Jill (Brian Sciaroni)
Spaulding, all of Fresno; sisters, Jean Zoerheide of
Baltimore, Md., and Betty Jane and Lowell ’49
DeWeerd of Tucson, Ariz.; nieces; and nephews.
Minnie H. TeRonde ’49 of Holland, Mich.,
died on Monday, Feb. 23, 2004. She was 81.
She had been employed as a social worker at
the Sinai Hospital of Greater Detroit and at
Lutheran Family Services agency.
Survivors include her brothers and sister,
William and Henrietta TeRonde of Wyoming,
Mich., Herman and Mildred TeRonde of
Lubbock, Texas, and Harriet and Donald Bont of
Wyoming; nieces; and nephews.
William Venhuizen ’46 of Holland, Mich.,
died on Monday, March 15, 2004. He was 79.
He was a veteran who served in the U.S. Army
Air Corps, having become a B–29 bomber pilot at
age 21.
He had been a car dealer in Holland since
1945, most recently at Crown Motors until the
time of his death.
He was a member of Christ Memorial Church,
and he was a past president of the Holland
Chamber of Commerce. He also served on
several local zoning boards and in the Optimist
Club.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Cleo;
daughter, Kristi (Tom) Van Howe; twin sons, Bill
and Bob (Marina); six grandchildren; seven
great–grandchildren; sister, Doris De Haan of
Hudsonville, Mich.; nieces; and nephews.
Allen R. Wolbrink ’54 of Atlanta, Ga., died
on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003. He was 71.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
He served churches in New Haven, Conn.,
and Atlanta as organist and choir master for
many years, before retiring in Atlanta.
He is survived by his brother, James F.
Wolbrink ’65 of Atlanta, and sister and brotherin-law, Lois Wolbrink ’66 Huisman and John D.
Huisman ’67 of Rapid City, S.D.
Sympathy To
Sympathy To
Top Row: Jodi Winkels ’06, Mary Davis ’74 Klunder, Maxine Klunder,
Jack Calvin Klunder ’05, Jack Klunder , Jack Douglas Klunder ’74
Bottom Row: Tanner Smith ’02, Kristin Klunder ’04, Bethany Klunder ’06,
and Jennifer Klunder ’98 Sweetser
“Hope College is an amazing institution which has not only shaped
each of us individually but has shaped us as a family. Our parents, Rev.
Jack and Mary Klunder ’74, had a dream that all four of us could be educated at Hope College. Thanks to the commitment of others who love
Hope and support the Hope Fund, that dream is coming true.
We were all able to attend Hope because of the financial support
that each of us received from various scholarships. We are thankful for
the strong sense of community which we have found at Hope. Each of us
has left or will leave
prepared for the world outside, carrying many
great memories. Thank you and may the Lord bless you as you continue
to bless others!”
Jennifer ’98, Kristin ’04, Jack ’05, and Bethany ’06
The Hope Fund is approximately $780,000 from making the 2003-2004 goal of
$3,100,000.
Please help us provide a more affordable education for our students by giving online at
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To the family of Francisca Castro of
Holland, Mich., who died on Monday, March
15, 2004. She was 74.
She was retired from Creative Dining
Service at the college, where she had worked
from 1987 to 1999.
She was a member of St. Francis de Sales
Catholic Church.
Survivors include her husband, Emiliano;
children, Janie Magallan of Holland, George
Castro of Holland, Maria Pataleon of Grand
Rapids, Mich., and Emiliano Jr. and Ester
Castro of Holland; nine grandchildren; four
great–grandchildren; sisters and brother,
Felicitas Ortega, Maria de Jesus Trevino, Juanita
and Paul Guerrero, and Mario Guadalupe
Araujo, all of Holland.
The family of Partricia A. Mendels of Grand
Rapids, Mich., who died on Tuesday, Nov. 18,
2003, after a battle with breast cancer. She was
59.
She was active in the Altar Guild at Grace
Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids.
Her son Kevin is senior technician in the college’s computing and information technology
department.
Survivors include her husband, Gary; children,
Christopher ’87 and Melinda Fischer ’85 Mendels
of Grand Haven, Mich., Kathryn Mendels ’89
Keegin and David Keegin of Holland, Mich.,
Kevin and Kimberly Steensma ’93 Mendels of
Holland, and Craig and Anne Mendels of Grand
Rapids; and eight grandchildren.
To the family of John Vander Burgh of
Zeeland, Mich., who died on Wednesday, March
31, 2004. He was 87.
A stained glass artist, he and his wife Swany
were long-time supporters of the arts at Hope.
Survivors include his children, Cynthia Vander
Burgh ’66 Miyamoto, Ruth Vander Burgh ’69 and
Rolf Vander Burgh ’75.
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Campus Profile
Library named nation’s best
The Van Wylen Library
has been named the
nation’s best.
Reflecting the quality of the academic
program, the library has been named the
national winner in the college category of
the 2004 “Excellence in Academic Libraries
Award” presented by the Association of
College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
The award, sponsored by ACRL and
Blackwell’s Book Services, recognizes staff
for programs that deliver exemplary services and resources to further the
educational mission of the institution.
Criteria include creativity in meeting the
needs of their academic community; leadership in creating exemplary programs that
other libraries can emulate; and strong relationships with classroom faculty and
students.
“Receiving an Excellence in Academic
Libraries Award is a national tribute to a
library and its staff for the outstanding services, programs and leadership they provide
to their students, administrators, faculty and
community,” said Mary Ellen K. Davis,
ACRL executive director.
The association honors only one college
library, one community college library and
one university library each year.
“In support of Hope College’s commitment to excellence in learning and teaching,
the Van Wylen Library is dedicated to being
a vibrant center of intellectual and cultural
life and playing a significant educational
role,” said Mary Reichel, chair of the 2004
Excellence in Academic Libraries Selection
Committee. “The library’s fulfillment of this
commitment is seen in the extensive and
innovative Library Instruction program,
excellent collaboration with classroom
faculty, and a staff dedicated to helping stu-
dents become life–long learners. Exemplary
programs include innovative uses of sabbaticals for librarians, a dynamic team–based
organization and thoughtful Web site
usability studies.”
The award includes a plaque and a $3,000
gift presented during a ceremony on the first
floor of the library on Thursday, March 4.
The award was presented by Tyrone
Cannon, who is both the ACRL president
and dean of university libraries at the
University of San Francisco.
“I have been so impressed in my short
time here with the great faculty that you
have, the obvious support of the college, the
president and the provost, and the fantastic
library staff that I’ve had a chance to meet
and interact with briefly today,” he said.
The college’s director of libraries, David
Jensen, praised his colleagues for the
day–to–day dedication and the college for
the ongoing support that he feels ultimately
earned the honor.
“It’s the staff who won this,” he said.
“We’ve been fortunate to have good people
who care about what they’re doing and are
interested in students and seeing that they
make the best possible use of the information resources that are available to them.”
“At the same time, the library doesn’t
do this by itself––it takes a whole institution,” he said. “Our whole program here
is built on relationships––relationships
with the faculty, and relationships with
the students.”
Given the college’s emphasis on teaching
and scholarship, Jensen said, the library
focuses on instruction. By working with the
college’s freshman–oriented First–Year
Seminar and English 113 programs, the staff
helps every new student learn more about
using library resources.
Work with
upper–level courses includes helping faculty
find ways to add technology and informa-
A ceremony on campus marked the official presentation of thelibrary’s national
award. Pictured are Hope College President James Bultman ’63; David Jensen,
director of libraries; and Drs. Margaret and President Emeritus Gordon Van Wylen,
in honor of whom the library is named.
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The Van Wylen Library’s exemplary work in furthering Hope’s educational mission
earned the national 2004 “Excellence in Academic Libraries Award” in the college
category. Above and below, Priscilla Atkins, librarian with the rank of associate
professor, helps students learn about using the Internet for research.
tion literacy instruction. The library also
houses the college’s technical learning
center, which provides hands–on instruction
available to all Hope students in the use of
various software packages.
Jensen noted that the staff also seeks to
stay responsive to campus needs and preferences. Based on a recent survey of students,
for example, the library has been revamping
its Web site to make it easier to use.
As director of the college’s English 113
program, Barbara Skidmore ’70 Mezeske
works closely with the library staff. She feels
the award is well–deserved.
“I think it’s just an absolutely wonderful
recognition of what a fine job our library
does,” said Mezeske, an associate professor
of English who also chairs the college’s
library committee. “It’s an integral part of
our writing program to have close and easy
access to our librarians. They provide it
willingly and helpfully.”
As a teacher and scholar, she is particularly pleased that Hope’s library is
outstanding. “I think the library and the
things that it represents––the quest for
knowledge––is at the very heart of the institution,” she said.
The Hope library has 21 full– and
part–time staff, who during the school year
are assisted by approximately 100 part–time
student employees. The five–story Van
Wylen Library building, which opened in
1988, is named for the college’s ninth president and his wife, Dr. Gordon J. and Dr.
Margaret D. Van Wylen. The main library
and a branch library in Nykerk Hall of
Music contain more than 345,000 volumes,
as well as materials in other formats, including microforms, videos, DVDs, CDs, and
electronic books and journals.
This is the fifth year that ACRL has presented the “Excellence in Academic
Libraries Award.” The other two winners
this year are Richland College Library in
the community college category, and the
University of Washington in the university category. The four schools that won
previously in the college category are:
Wellesley College (2000), Earlham College
(2001), Oberlin College (2002) and Baruch
College (2003).
ACRL is a division of the American
Library Association, representing 12,000
academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only
individual membership organization in
North America that develops programs,
products and services to meet the unique
needs of academic librarians. Its initiatives
enable the higher education community to
understand the role that academic libraries
play in the teaching, learning and research
environments.
NFHC April 2004