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Graduates Challenged to be Builders"May tomorrow's gleam in your eye be

more than just the sun reflected in yourbifocals," the Rev. William C. Hillegonds

told graduates Sunday, May 13, during HopeCollege's 114th annual commencement exer-cises in the Civic Center.

Hillegonds was Hope chaplain'from 1965-August 1978. Presently pastor of SecondReformed Church of Pella, Iowa, he returnedto Hope to deliver the commencement ad-dress, "Beginning and Ending Well."

Hillegonds challenged Hope's 424 gradua-

ting seniors to spend the rest of their lives

building on the good beginning they had al-

ready received from family, friends and HopeCollege.

"Refuse to give up your idealism," he said,

cautioning that idealism is neither sentimen-

tality nor irrationality.

Good beginnings are further kept, Hille-gonds contended, by guarding against spiri-

tual complacency.

Hope Hosts

General SynodHope College will host the annual meeting

of the General Synod of the Reformed Churchin America (RCA) from June 10-15.

The Synod will open Sunday, June 10 withan evening outdoor community worship ser-vice in the new City of Holland MunicipalStadium. The service is open to all membersof the RCA. -

General sessions of the Synod will be heldin the gymnasium of the College's new DowHealth and Physical Education Center.

The Rev. Harvey Hoekstra, a 1945 Hopegraduate, is President of General Synod.

It marks the ninth time in the 351 yearhistory of the Reformed Church in Americathat General Synod has been held in Holland.The last time was 1970.

Events of significance to Hope College haveoccurred at previous General Synod meetingsin Holland: In 1929 delegates participated in

the dedication service of -Dimnent MemorialChapel. The 1966 General Synod coincidedwith the centennial celebration of the College.

The Reformed Church Women of the Hol-land and Zeeland Classes will host a visitors'

day June 14. An estimated 1,000 ReformedChurch women are expected to attend the daywhich has a theme, "A Woman's Worth . . ."

"The temptation is to want to arrest time,forgetting that to become satisfied is to beginto sleep. . . . Remember that no beautifulmoment has it all, just as no ugly momentis the last word on life. What you know nowis what a foundation is to a building. . . .

Life is too short to be little, so resolve nowto make it big."

Finally, Hillegonds urged that the gift of

wonder never be allowed to erode. He toldgraduates to remember as they grew olderthat "nothing can be completely wonderfulas long as it remains too sensible."

Reminding that the grandeur of life lies ina fine finish, Hillegonds said:

"Listen to as much as you can. See as muchas you can. Touch as much as you can. Taketime to smell the roses — and take a lot ofpictures."

Also during commencement exercisesWillard C. Wichers '32, longtime communityambassador, was presented an honorary Doc-tor of Humane Letters degree, (see pictureon page 5)

Dr. Victor W. Eimicke, chairman of theHope College Board of Trustees, presentedWichers as a man whose life is "an excepttional record of service in promoting thewelfare of his community, his church, hiscollege, his native and ancestral countries —the United States of America and the Nether-lands — and the world of historical scholarshipand preservation."

Wichers, presently Netherlands Counselfor Press and Cultural Affairs, has beenemployed by the Ministry of Foreign Af-fairs of the government of the Netherlandssince 1942. he has served on the College's

Board of Trustees since 1949 and held the

post of Board secretary since 1968. He hasbeen Active on Holland's Tulip Time festivalcommittee, the Historical Cultural Commis-sion, the Council of the Arts, the HollandHarbor Lighthouse Commission, the Boardof Appeals and the Planning Commission.The Rev. Glen Charles Knecht, minister

of Wallace Memorial United PresbyterianChurch in Hyattsville, Md., preached themorning baccalaureate sermon, "Truth forthe Test."

Knecht challenged the graduating seniors

to adopt as their watchword, "RememberJesus Christ."

"Jesus Christ is the hub and center of alltruth. Remembrance of him restores a person

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NSF Honors DistinctiveHope Science ProgramsHope's distinctive science program has

earned national recognition by receiving three

National Science Foundation grants under the

1979 Undergraduate Research Participationprogram.Hope is the only college or university in the

country to receive three separate awards.

Eght institutions received two grants and 107institutions were awarded a single grant.Hope received half of the six grants awarded

. all Michigan colleges and universities."The Hope science departments are com-

mitted to excellence in undergraduate educa-

tion which is built upon a foundation of effec-

tive and innovative classroom instruction

Four Alumni Honored for ServiceThe presentation of Distinguished

Alumnus/Alumna Awards highlighted theannual Hope College Alumni Day dinner onMay 12. Owen J. Koeppe '49, Ph.D., of Col-umbia, Mo., Harvey '43 and Mary LouHemmes '46 Koop of Hamilton, Mich, andthe late Rev. Howard G. Teusink '36 receivedthe Alumni Association's highest honor.

Koeppe, provost for academic affairs at

University of Missouri-Columbia, was hon-ored for his significant contributions to higher

education as a teacher and biochemical re-

search scientist.

Dr. Koeppe joined the faculty of University

of Missouri-Columbia in 1955. In 1968 hewas named chairman of the department ofbiochemistry and in 1973 was promoted to hispresent post.

He is a three-time winner of the Univer-sity's student-selected Medical School Out-standing Basic Science Teacher Award and in1972 was chosen for the Faculty-AlumniAward. He has held numerous Universitycommittee posts and served on several re-search granting agency boards, including

those of the National Science Foundation andthe National Institute of Health.

During the past two years he representedthe University on trips to Iraq, the Peoples

Republic of China, Korea and Japan for the

purpose of establishing exchange programsfor students and faculty. During his career hehas served as speaker or moderator at interna-

tional symposiums in Tokyo, Moscow andBerlin.

His research interest is the biosynthesis of

proteins and peptides and he has published

numerous articles on these subjects in scien-tific journals.

Koeppe has directed thesis research for 10Ph.D. and seven M.S. degrees.He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in

biochemistry from the University of Illinoisand continued post doctoral study as a fellow

at the universities of Illinois and Minnesota.Koeppe has been active in Trinity Presbyte-

rian Church as a member of the Session for 12years and as a representative at Presbytery

and Synod meetings. In 1970 and 1974 herepresented Missouri Presbytery at the Gen-eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church inthe U.S. and in 1974 he chaired the GeneralAssembly Committee on Justice and Human

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along with significant laboratory research ex-

periences," said Dr. F. Sheldon Wettack,

Dean for the Natural and Social Sciences."Student participation in research is the

cornerstone of our program. Our faculty arecommitted to professional involvements withstudents as an essential component in the edu-cation process."

Wettack noted that the opportunities pro-

vided for students by the NSF grants will bean important facet of the college's science pro-

gram this summer."The fact that the peer review process used

by NSF has resulted in Hope being the onlyinstitution in the country to receive three

grants is something of which we are ex-tremely proud."The grants are allowing students to work

directly with faculty members and industrialscientists over a 10 to 12 week period thissummer. Each student receives a stipend of upto $1,000. The remaining funds provide thenecessary supplies and expenses associated

with the projeas.

The biology department grant ($19,000)involves 10 students. In collaboration with

biology faculty, students are working in avariety of areas, some of which are theparisitology of swimmer's itch, mutagenic ef-fects of chemicals on agricultural crops,

ecological studies of the Lake Macatawawatershed, and genetic analysis of membranefunction in Paramecium. The biology pro-gram is under the direction of Dr. Eldon Greij ,

associate professor of biology.

The chemistry department grant ($12,000)

supports the work of six undergraduates. Par-

ticipants in the chemistry program are work-

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Development.He is married to the former Jo' Anne

‘Moessner '49. They have three children : John'75, Robei^ and Barbara, who will be a Hopesenior next fall.

Mr. and Mrs. Koop were honored for theirfaithful support of Hope College and theircontributions to church and community.Mr. Koop is a Christmas tree and dahlia

grower. He was once the world's largestdahlia grower and his farm was featured oncereal boxes of the Kellogg Co. In recent years

he has had unusual success growing bluespruce trees on a mass scale and his farm has

been visited by agricultural scientists fromMichigan State University.The Koops are founding members of

Hamilton's Haven Reformed Church wherethey have been youth club sponsors and Har-vey has served as elder.

Mrs. Koop has held leadership positions inReformed Church Women on the local.Synodical and national levels. She is im-mediate past president of National Women'sLeague for Hope College, and has worked onevery Village Square sponsored by the Leagueduring the past 22 years. She will serve as

1980 Village Square chairwoman.The Koops have donated their time and

energy to many church and civic ventures,including hosting foreign students and work-ing in the local hospital.

Mr. Koop serves as a director of OttawaSavings and Loan Association and Victory

Mission.

He is a former Class Representative and one

OWEN J. KOEPPE HARVEY KOOP MARY LOU KOOP HOWARD TEUSINK

year sent a blue spruce to each of his

classmates who participated in the Hope An-nual Fund.

The Koops have been supporters of a va-riety of Hope activities and all four of theirchildren are Hope graduates: Mary LynnKoop '69 Arwady, Brian Koop '71, BarbaraKoop '74 Folkert and Jan Koop '75 Brondyke.

The late Rev. Howard G. Teusink '36 washonored for service to the Christian churchand intetested support of Hope College. Hewas selected to receive the award a short time

Graduates Challenged HoPe Summer Theatre

before his death on Oct. 24, 1978. J. Paul

Teusink '64 received the posthumous awardon behalf of his father at the Alumni Daydinner.

At the time of his death Teusink wasserving in his 10th year as an associate minis-

ter of New York City's Marble CollegiateChurch.

He was a. graduate of Western TheologicalSeminary and during the early years of hiscareer he served churches in West Olive andKalamazoo, Mich, and Sheldon, Iowa.He had extensive training in youth work

and in 1953 was named director of YoungPeople's Work for the RCA. In 1956 he took

For 12 years Teusink held a position withGreat Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.He was married since 1940 to the former

Anna May Engelsman '30. The couple hadtwo sons, John Paul Teusink '64, M.D., a staff

psychiatrist at Menninger Clinic in Topeka,Kan. and Kenneth Glenn Teusink '67, vicepresident of Houston's Bank of the South-west.0 ^ on the post of executive secretary of the RCA

To RpCOmP Rl lilHprQ V-'JpcllSJ Lilgillll 3C«SOn Stewardship Council and held the position forIU UCGUine DUUUPIb - the following 12 years. During this time he

NSF Grant TributeTo Science Programs

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to the center of the universe in his thinking,'

he said, and then outlined four tests whichlife would eventually present: the test ofdoubt ("Sooner or later, you will come towonder about the moral government of theworld"), the test of dignity ("Culture will

say to you that you are insignificant"), thetest of duty ("You will come to the momentwhen you will say, 'It isn't worth it; it'stoo hard to do' ") and the test of destiny

("Suddenly your heart will say, T wonderwhere this all is leading?' ").

In response to these tests, Knecht said that

remembrance of Jesus shows: that God has

The Hope Summer Repertory Theatre willpresent two musicals, a drama and a comedyfrom July 6 to Sept. 1.

The musical, A Funny Thing Happened inthe Way to the Forum, will open the seasonJuly 6, directed by John Tammi of the Hopetheatre faculty. John Vreeke returns for hissecond season to direct the romantic drama,The Rainmaker, which opens July 13. Vreekeis currently with the Alley Theatre in Hous-ton, Tx.

A new musical. Starting Here, StartingNow, will open July 27 and will be direrted byArno Selco, of Case Western Reserve Univer-sity in Cleveland, Ohio. The final opening of

the season, August 3, is Shakespeare's_ / xugujl U , JIldKcjptdrC 5the hnal triumph in history; that God intended romantic comedy, Twelfth Night, directed byhuman life to be marked with glory, achieve- Krikor Satamian.

authored numerous articles on stewardshipfor various denominational publications andwas editor of S.A.L.T., a bimonthly steward-

ship informational and news leaflet. He com-pleted study programs at Church ExecutiveDevelopment School and the Academy ofFund Raising Sciences and also served on thebenevolence division of the National Council

of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.Teusink served as a board member of Cen-

tral and Northwestern Colleges and the RCABoard of Domestic Missions. He Was presi-dent of the Synod of New York during 1975-76 and was a member of the organizing com-mittee and the first president of Temple Time,the RCA broadcast arm.

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ing in such areas as neurochemistry, organic

synthesis, laser spearoscopy, toxicology, andenvironmental chemistry. The director of the

chemistry project is Dr. Rodney Boyer, as-sociate professor of chemistry.

The physics department grant ($9,793)supports the work of five students. Thephysics projeas are centered around Hope's2.5 MeV Van de Graaf Accelerator labora-tory, and will include studies of basic nuclear

structure and properties, including the nuclei

of elements thought to be important in outer

space. The Hope physicists will also initiatedevelopment of a technique for using the ac-celerator to analyze the chemical composition

of environmental samples. The director of the

physics project is Dr. James Toevs, associate

professor of physics.

ment, beauty and power; that duty carriedthrough to the final end results in fruit-

fulness; and that it is human destiny to bemorally raised as a prelude to eternal resur-

rection.

"This truth, this person of Jesus Christ

stands up to every practical test you willface. . . . We are called to embrace JesusChrist as our own so that he becomes thedominant person of our being, so that allelse fades in our commitment to him."

The result of commitment to Christ, Knechtconcluded, is an amazing power in which the

"scattered beads of life" are gathered up andheld together on a common thread.

As in the past, the Hope company consistsof young professionals from all over the coun-try.

The Children's Performance Troupe willpresent two shows for private performancesand touring, The Great Electric Story Box andSnow White and the Three Dwarfs. OpeningJuly 8 in the DeWitt Cultural Center will bejack and the Beanstalk.

Season coupons offer a considerable sav-

ings. A single coupon will allow four admis-sions, two to musicals and two to non-musicals. The cost of coupons will be $16 for

adults and $14 for students and senior citi-

zens. See page 16 for information.

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Vol, lO/No. 2 June, 1979Published for Alumni, Friends and Parents of Hope College, Should you receive more than onecopy, please pass it on to someone in your community. An overlap of Hope College constituen-cies makes duplication sometimes unavoidable.

Editor: Tom RennerEditorial Assistant: Eileen Verduin BeyerStudent Assistant: Debra Hall

Student Photo Staff: George Baumgartner, Douglas Congdon, Paul Hartje, Due N. Nguyen

Official Publication : news from Hope College is published four times a year by Hope College,85 East 12th Street, Holland, Michigan, 49423

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Hope students during the past school ye,ar enjoyed crossing 12th street from the dormitory complex without dodging oncomingvehicular traffic. However, the future of the crossed road was in doubt as summer approached. Street was closed on temporary basisduring 78-79 school year to allow city officials time to evaluate impact on traffic patterns. In April the Holland city council voted 5-4 topermanently close the road, but city attorney ruled that six affirmative votes were needed to comply with city charter stipulations forclosing a street. Issue was still unsettled at press time. Photo shows May Day celebration on closed 12th Street which included launchingof a hot air balloon, band concert and picnic.

Dykstra Outstanding

Hope EducatorD. Ivan Dykstra, professor of philosophy at

Hope for over three decades, has been namedthe Hope College Outstanding Professor-Educator for 1979.

Dr. Dykstra was chosen by a vote of mem-bers of the graduating class. The recipient ofthe H.O.P.E. is determined by his/herabilities to inspire a thirst for learning amongstudents and for the degree to which he/shepersonifies the personal and professional

characteristics of the Hope educator.Dr. Dykstra has become synonymous with

the liberal arts education process as he has

Requiem for Philosophy 113_ page 8

taught literally thousands of Hope studentsthe College's basic philosophy course. TheIntroduction to Liberal Studies 113. He hastaught the course from his own textbook,"The Human Enterprise."

He joined the Hope faculty in 1947, servingfirst as professor of Greek. He was appointedprofessor of philosophy in 1950, serving as

chairman of the philosophy department until1977.

A 1935 Hope graduate. Dr. Dykstra washonored by his fellow alumni in 1970 by re-

ceiving one of the first Distinguished Alum-nus awards.

Dr. Dykstra and his wife Kathryn have twosons, Brian of Wooster, Ohio and Darrell ofMacomb, 111. Brian teaches music at the Col-lege of Wooster and Darrell teaches history at

Western Illinois University.

ten Hoor Reflects on 3 3 Years as TeacherBy Kathy Keefer ,

a sophomore from Dexter, Mich.

Upon first meeting this fascinating andfriendly silver-haired man, it is immediatelyevident how he has established the reputationof being easily one of the most popular En-glish profs on campus. If you have not metthis' man, you're missing something — andHenry ten Hoor, professor of English, at age65 is retiring this year. After 33 years at

Hope, he is one of four professors who joinedthe faculty in 1946. And for 33 years studentshave really enjoyed him (if not the subjectmatter).

His historical ties with Hope have earlyorigins: a native Hollander, his first experi-

ence here was, as a young boy, seeing aShakespeare play in Carnegie gymnasium,wherein Julius Ceaser was costumed (eco-nomically enough) in a choir robe.

After ten Hoor received his B. A. from Cal-vin College, hisM.A. and Ed.D. in English atthe University of Michigan, and taught Latin

(his minor) at a Tennessee military school,

DeGraaf, professor emeritus, invited him toteach at Hope. DeGraaf had been ten Hoor'sown jr. hign school teacher and principal.

His first semester here was the worst ex-

perience of his career. Remembering with achuckle (and not without a wince), he de-

scribed his initiation: five freshman composi-

tion classes in a row, each with at least 25 or 30students . . . and fondly referred to it as the

"Baptism of Fire!"

He hastened to emphasize that the majority

of his work here has been pleasurable: "Therearen't many jobs in which you can spend yourworking hours doing the things you'd mostlike to do in your off hours." His favorite

classes are World Lit. and Shakespeare.The best part about teaching at Hope in

particular, according to ten Hoor; "I can teach

with lots of people who have the same philos-ophy of life and religious convictions as I do.

I've had relative academic freedom as a

teacher — no one ever said 'You have to teachthis and this and that. ' Also, the general qual-

ity of the student body is such that the great

majority are serious about their studies —they're a teachable bunch."When asked about his most rewarding ex-

perience, ten Hoor grew a little quiet, andshowed the first signs of sentimentality aboutretiring. "The most moving thing was when 1had a heart attack a few years ago, and many

students wrote and sent messages and came to

stand beside my bed with a tear in their eye —remarkable, the land of warmth and concernthey showed."Most Hope students are good, genuine

people." The smiling eyes twinkled mis-chieviously as he revealed, sotto voice, "I'mperfectly willing to turn the world over to

them."

, Ten Hoor also believes that students havechanged over the years. "In the '40's, the

school was filled with veterans on the G.I.bill — most kids had pretty firm notions aboutwhy they were here and what to do after theywere out. They were older, serious andwanted to get on with it. As these studentsgraduated, a more normal atmosphere re-turned, as emphasis on playtime, fraternities

and sororities, etc., arose.

Later; in the '60's, there was a great deal of

turmoil as students had to cope with the Viet

.Nam war, minority rights. It was an un-healthy time ; no reason was mixed in with all

the passion."

The general characteristic exemplified bystudents of the '70's is "They're muchsmarter — they're listening to people whoknow a little about what education can do andsome good ways to achieve it. They know youdon't get far with all that upheaval."

Ten Hoor's words of wisdom to future pro-fessors and education majors: "You won'tmake much money. You might not even get ajob — so if you've got your heart setpn gettingrich, do something else!" Professing to al-ways maintaining an old-fashioned philoso-phy of teaching,.he held this ideal purpose of a

teacher: "I think he is a living example of howthe culture of the past can influence the cul-

ture of the present, and even that of the

future — he should carry the message in alively, interesting way."

With the inevitable question — Are youlooking forward to your retirement? — hebeamed a definite YES, and with not a second'shesitation reached into a desk drawer for a list

of intended projects: translating some thingsabout the Dutch colonies, woodcarving (a fa-

vorite hobby at which he is extremely tal-ented), and travel plans for Oregon, New En-gland, and Europe.

"We old people like to talk about the past,"he smiled. Well, thisisoneold person with aninteresting history to recall, and a beautiful

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'Local' Internships Offer Career DirectionAt Hope College, as at colleges and univer-

sities across the country, students have beenleaving campus to learn. The terminternship — once used exclusively by themedical profession — is undergoing generali-zation. On today's campuses, internships aredefined as practical learning experiences in the

workaday world of almost any professionwhich result in earning academic credit.Most of the domestic off-campus semester

programs Available to Hope students are builtaround an internship experience. For thosestudents who desire to remain on campus,however, a less intensive experience is ar-ranged through local internship programs.Typically, local interns spend 6-10 hours per

week on the job and earn three hours ofacademic credit. Local internships are coordi-

nated by a faculty member within the de-partment of one's major. Actual supervision

and grading is done by an on-site profes-

sional.

Although occasionally a student has beenplaced in an internship which involves littlemore than errand-rurining and busy work,these instances have become rare. Better

Sheryl Radikecannot think of one negative thingabout it.

The senior business/communication major from

Lansing, Mich, planned her academic schedule toinclude a local internship. She now spends 20 hoursa week at Herman Miller Inc. of Zeeland."You learn," Sheryl said, "You learn so much.

You can't get experience like this in a summer job. "Sheryl is a Marketing Programs Group Intern.

Her responsibilities are "not just junk jobs."Rather, she does research for proposed marketingprograms.

According to Sheryl, interns are self-directed.The supervisors give instructions and the interns,take responsibility for getting the work done.Sometimes Sheryl won't see her supervisor for days

at a time. But the people in the office go out of their

way to make the internship a beneficial experience.

"They are really helpful," she said, "They wantyou to learn."

Sheryl has found that one of the things her in-ternship has taught her is how to act in a profes-sional setting.

"There are ground rules that are never stated,"she explained. Doing research, Sheryl spends a lotof time on the phone. She's learned how to getaround red tape to talk to the necessary people.

According to Sheryl, a local internship gives her

"the best of two worlds." She is in a professionalatmosphere but still has contact with the campus

and friends. Sheryl opted for a local program be-cause she didn't want to leave her friends and be-cause she could also take jnore classes.

For Sheryl; there is a constant comparison be-tween the real world and the college campus.

"I just drop the professional stuff at 5:00 p.m.and turn into a student again."With a local internship, she has the opportunity

to take more classes, which gives her a better idea ofwhat she wants to do when she graduates. Herclasses, generally, teach the theory but not the

practical.

"It's fun to work out there," she said. "The moreI work, the more involved I become. I get a betteridea of what's going on and learn to take a littlemore responsibility."

communication between College and business several times in permanent job offers for ourregarding expectations has resulted in clearly students or strong letters of recommendationdefined job descriptions and, in some cases, for their files."written contracts. Most student interns ac- Dershem says that although students docomplish independent projects or work with pick up new knowledge from internships,regular personnel on substantive tasks. (See their biggest value is that they give oppor-adjoining stories on two Hope interns' job . tunities to apply what has already beenassignments.) learned. There's a difference between

The growth of internships seems to tie inwith a heightened sense of career direction _ v

among students and a complementary aware- * . : '\-xW <-

Doniels. "He or she has to be there longenough to see the system."

Local internships in humanities or art-

related fields are not as prevalent as they are

in the sciences and social sciences. Jacob E.

Nyenhuis, dean for the humanities and arts,says that while internships are endorsed as

valuable experiences for arts and humanities

students, there is simply a scarcity of local

placement possibilities. Students in these

fields are better served by off-campus pro-grams in New York or. Chicago. However,Nyenhuis says that certain campusexperiences — such as working with a profes-sor on research or membership in a perfor-mance group— ̂ can rightfully be considered

substitutes for a local internship. Further,

student apprentice teachers in Hope's French

program gain valuable practical experiences,as do the many humanities students who areengaged in student teaching through the de-

partment of education.

Other humanities-oriented internshipshave recently been arranged with GrandRapids publishers and area newspapers.

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ness of the need for some preprofessional ex-perience at the undergraduate level.

"So many recent college graduates fed theworld of employment has slammed the doorin their faces," says Dar Topp, director of

career planning and development. "This diffi-

culty is easily expressed as a Catch-22: youcan't get a job without relevant experience andyou can't get relevant experience without a

job."

Topp describes internships as "a lot like the

best of real jobs" in that they enable students

to chalk up experience while gaining knowl-edge about a profession which isn't alwaysavailable in the classroom.

Hope College Provost David Marker saysinternships are "immensely valuable," al-though he acknowledges that the .notion ofpreprofessional experience is "quite foreign"

to the classical definition of liberal arts educa-

tion.

"However, at Hope College liberal arts hasnever been defined strictly in the pu re, classi-

cal sense of providing broad knowledge andcultivating skills of reasoning and expres-

sion," says Marker."Throughout Hope's history, there has

been some focus on the preparation of youngmen and women for work, particularly workin the service vocations — teaching, the minis-try, research and medicine. That thread has

always coexisted with our liberal arts thread. "

If further justification for internships is

needed. Marker notes that "they allow stu-dents to learn by doing — and that has provento be the most successful pedagogical device in

history."

At Hope local internships within the sci-ences generally occur on campus in the formof student-faculty research. Recently intro-

duced programs in environmental health sci-ences and engineering include plans to incor-

porate local industrial internships into their

formats.

The computer science department has a par-

ticularly strong commitment to the value ofinternships, and they are the only departmentto require an internship of their majors.

"Internships are a very vital part of ourprogram," says Dr. Herbert Dershem, com-puter science department chairman. "We feelinternships help a student gain self-

confidence. Second, internships have resulted

classroom theory and actual business opera-

tion, Dershem says. For some students, in-ternships have the additional value of bring-

ing into focus knowledge gaps, enabling bet-ter selection of future courses.

Local internships are particularly abundantat Hope in the social sciences, perhaps becausethis division contains the primordial internship

source — the department of education. Stu-dent teaching has long been accepted as a

necessary component in the would-beteacher's education and recent years havewitnessed the addition of "mini-teaching"

experiences during the sophomore or junioryear.

In terms of numbers, the department ofbusiness administration and economics has

the largest local internship program, placing

approximately 25 students each semester _through its management internship program.Internships are also popular among sociologyand psychology students who find many op-portunities within Holland and OttawaCounty "helping" agencies."The need for practical experience is some-

thing you can't get away from in this day andage," says Dr. James Zoetewey, chairman ofthe department of political science. Zoeteweyacknowledges that the strength of the de-partment's Washington, D.C. Honors Pro-grams probably diminishes student interest in

local inteVnships. However, the departmentdoesn't want to see this option completelyswallowed up by the Washington semester.Recently, political science students have

interned in the Holland City Manager's office

and with a local attorney. Several are pres-

ently seeking summer internships in Lansing.Joe MacDoniels, chairman of the depart-

ment of communication, points out the needfor intern orientation. Before beginning aninternship, a student should learn the back-

grounds of the business and also have someinstruction on possible pitfalls. Students, he

says, must be made aware of "little elements"and come to realize that "they bear the re-sponsibility for being alert."

The communication department in recentyears has moved away from May and JuneTerm internships to full-semester assign-ments.

"An intern needs to have significant blocksof time in the organization," says Mac-

Jennifer Nielsen, a junior communication majorfrom Elkhart, Ind., wanted to take a class thatwasn't offered this semester. She needed the classbefore she left for an internship in Chicago next fall.

So she and her advisor. Prof. Ted Nielsen (norelation), set up a mini-intemship at WHTC, aHolland radio station.

Jennifer works Tuesdays arid Thursdays from10:30 a.m. to 12:00. She writes and produces fea-

ture stories for the "News Magazine" segmentsbroadcasted daily. She also compiles news from thewire "Service and decides what stories will be broad-cast on the 15-minute noon news show. Jenniferearns three credit hours in communication for her

radio work and keeps a file of everything she writes

for her supervisor's evaluation. As an intern, she is

required to keep a journal recording experiences andimpressions of her work."My first four minute, four second production

took me one hour and 45 minutes to do. I feltdumb," said Jennifer. "I knew how to do the

stuff.but it just wasn't working."The last production took me a half hour. By

improving my time, 1 began to think — hey —maybe I can do this!"

Jennifer explained that by doing a local intern-ship she's preparing herself for an off-campusbroadcast internship in the fall. She won't be facing

a Chicago semester cold because her local internship

has given her a grasp on real live professional situa-

tions. One positive factor in the on-campus pro-gram, she says, is that you can leave the internshipand become a student again.

"You're still taking classes and in touch with the

campus," she explained. "You're not suddenlythrown into the real world where they say, cope orelse."

Another advantage for Jennifer is that a localinternship still provides all the conveniences of

campus living — a roommate, cleaning ladies,dorms, and food service — with a taste of profes-sional life.

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"An on-campus program gives me something toretreat back to," Jennifer said. "It's not as scary as

an off-campus situation because you're really notoff on your own.

"It's a good transition from the unreal fantasyworld of Hope College, to the real world — with real

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DR. ANTHONY KOOIKER,professor of music, is giving lectures andpiano'recitals on American music at severaluniversities and conservatories in Yugoslavia

during May and June.Arrangements for a tour were developed

through the Embassy in Balgrade and theU.S. Information Service.

Dr. Kooiker is lecturing on various phases

of music education and musical life jn

America. His programs include works byAmerican composers, both for piano solo andworks with violin. He is joined by Yugoslavviolinist Feruk Sijaric who appeared in duo-recital with Dr. Kooiker in the U.S. last sum-mer.

STEVEN KUBACKI, a Hope Col-lege student reported missing and feared

drowned in Lake Michigan since Feb. 20, 1978returned safely to his home in South Deer-field, Mass, on May 5, 1979, according topolice officials.

A senior German major who was withinnine hours of graduating, Kubacki disap-

peared during Winter Recess (Feb. 17-19,1978). His cross country skis and a backpack

were found along the Lake Michiganshoreline south of Holland. Faint footprints

leading from the shore onto mountains of ice

-led authorities to believe that Kubacki mighthave fallen into the lake and drowned.

He was the subject of an intensive search bypolice, the Coast Guard and a private detective

hired by his family.

The circumstances surrounding Kubacld'sreturn remained a puzzle as News from Hopewent to press. He is reported by police offi-cials and his family to have suffered a memorylapse during the nearly 15 months he wasmissing. a

Hope College during the 1978 Com-mencement exercise awarded the Kubackifamily a Bachelor of Arts degree in abstentia.

RUSS DEVETTE, professor of physi-cal education, has been named chairman ofthe NCAA Division III Basketball Commit-tee.

DeVette, who served on the committeesince its inception in 1974, will direct the 1980Division III national championship. Last year

299 Division III colleges across the countrywere eligible for the tournament.

DR. SANG H. LEE, associate profes-sor of religion, was one of the 16 college anduniversity professors from all parts of thecountry invited to participate in the African

Humanities Institute at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, from April 2 to June

8.

The Institute's aim is to provide the meansfor extending present knowledge of the Afri-

can humanities into the undergraduate sys-

tem by preparing teachers for new approaches

to unfamiliar geographic regions.

Dr. Lee, whose specialization is in Chris-tian theology, also teaches Asian religions at

Hope, and will do special reading and research

in African religions while on the UCLA cam-pus.

GORDON BREWER, director ofmen's athletics, is serving on two committeesof the National Collegiate Athletic Associa-

tion (NCAA).Brewer was appointed to a seven-member

awarded honorable mention in the sophomorewomen's division of the National Associationof Teachers' of Singing spring adjudications.

She is a student of Professor Joyce

Morrison.

Over 100 singers from the studios of 30Michigan university and college teachers par-

ticipated in the competition.

CAROL L. JUTH-GAVASSO,assistant professor of library science was re-

cently presented an award from the MichiganDepartment of Corrections recognizing hercontributions to the prison library at the

BRUCE HIMEBAUGH, director offinancial aid, has been elected to the midwest-em region governance committee of the Col-lege Scholarship Service division of the Col-

lege Board.

The College Board is a non-profit education

association serving students, schools and col-

leges through programs designed to expandeducational opportunity. The midwestem re-gion consists of 13 states.

SPANCOM, a computer-assisted instruc-tional program in Spanish developed by Pro-

fessor HUBERT P. WELLER, has

ANTHONY KOOIKERTours Yugoslavia

RUSS DEVETTERuns National Tourney

CAROL JUTH-GAVASSOHonored by Prison

HUBERT WELLERTeaching Technique Recognized

committee which determines recipients of the

NCAA's prestigious postgraduate scholarshipawards.

He was also re-appointed to a third term onthe Division III steering committee. This

eight-member committee receives NCAAgovernance proposals from Division IIImember schools and presents them during theorganization's annual convention.

A book by professor EARL CURRYentitled, "Hoover's Dominican Diplomacyand the Origins of the Good Neighbor Policy,"has been published by Garland Press.

Curry's book is one of 20 distinguished

scholarly monographs that Garland Press ispresenting in its Modem American HistorySeries. All the works in this series have beenchosen for their quality and significance byProf. Frank Friedel of Harvard University, a

.leading authority on the presidencies of Her-bert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Prof. Curry is a specialist in both recentAmerican history and Latin American his-tory. He is the author of an article on theRepublican Convention of 1860.He is currently working on a book dealing

with the decline of liberalism in the late twen-tieth century.

TERRI WHITNEY, a vocal perfor-mance major from Grand Rapids, Mich., was

President Van Wylen (right) congratulates Willard C. Wichers (center) upon presentation^of an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during Commencement exercise May 14.Wichers was honored for his 30 years service to Hope College as a member of the Boardof Trustees and for nearly four decades service as the leading spokesman of Holland,Mich, to the world. A 1932 Hope graduate, Wichers is Netherlands Consul for Press andCultural Affairs.

Michigan Dunes Correctional Facility inSaugatuck, Mich.

Eugene Thomas, one of the residents work-ing in the Dunes library, praised Ms. Juth-Gavasso's efforts to build the collection andtrain residents to manage the library. In re-ceiving the award, Ms. Juth-Gavasso statedthat the award actually should be presented to

the community as a whole, because the li-brary is only a reflection of donations of time,

money and materials from the Holland com-munity.

DIANE E. MURRAY, technical ser-

vices librarian at Hope College, will partici-pate in the American Library Association re-sources and technical services division pre-

conference in Dallas, Tx. during June.

The conference witll deal with the im-plementation of new cataloging rules, which •

will affect libraries throughout the country.

Ms. Murray was one of three librariansnominated statewide by the Michigan Library

Consortium for participation in the confer-ence. She will especially represent indepen-

dent college libraries.

Upon completion of the conference, Ms.Murray, with the other Michigan partici-pants, will serve as a resource person in the

planning and conducting of similar conferences

to be held throughout Michigan.

DOROTHY WILEY DELONGwas presented a Distinguished ServiceAward during Dance V, this year's Hope danceconcert. The concert was dedicated to Mrs.DeLong, in recognition of her pioneer effortsto establish dance instruction within the Hol-

land, Mich, community.

In the late 1940s Mrs. DeLong accepted aninvitation to introduce ballroom dancing to

Holland area youngsters in conjunction with

after-school activity programs. Despite initial

protest from some segments of the commu-nity, Mrs. DeLong persevered and soonsuc-ceeded in drawing appreciative audiences to

the programs and recitals of her students. Shelater operated a private dance studio while

continuing her involvement with the publicschools. Fora number of years, Mrs. DeLongalso had a part in coordinating Holland's Tulip

Time Dutch Dancers.Throughout her career, Mrs. DeLong

found her chief reward in watching youngpeople discover and develop in dance. Shefirmly believes that dance is a form of humancreativity which can — and should — be en-joyed by many. Although she retired fromteaching in 1968, Mrs. DeLong maintains alively interest in dance and has given her sup-

port to area programs of dance instruction,including that of Hope College.

been accepted for national distribution byCONDUIT, a source of quality computer-related instructional materials for higher edu-

cation.

SPANCOM addresses problems experi-enced by the vast majority of beginning stu-

dents of Spanish — problems linked to the verband object grammar. The program is a seriesof 26 interactive drills in writing Spanishverbs and single object pronouns in any of 12tense-moods.

A distinct advantage of SPANCOM is that

its drills go beyond The right-or-wrong ap-

proach and respond to the actual problems a

student is experiencing. If a student makes anerror in a drill, the program proceeds to anordered series of segmental or morphological

scans and checks to determine the position or

nature of the error. If a student is still unsure;

he or she may request a hint. In most of thedrills, for each cue there are approximately 40possible comments and hints.SPANCOM was developed with partial

support from the Great Lakes Colleges As-sociation Lilly Faculty Development programand the Hope College Mellon Summer Grantprogram. SPANCOM has been used in Hopeclasses for the past three years.

JEANNE MOORE, a junior fromLincoln Park, N.J. is delighted at being

crowned Hope's 1979 May Day Queen. Sheaccepts crown from 1978 queen Kathy Button.

Other members of the court, all juniors, wereSally Berger of Naperville, 111., Stacy Burris

of Marshal], Mich., Edna Cuellar of Weslaco,

Tx., Janet Lawrence of Schenectady, N.Y.,Jenni Liggett of Kalamazoo, Mich., and LoriWolf of Cleveland, Ohio. The Arcadian frater-

nity (3.123) and Kappa Chi sorority (3.183)were declared winners of the annual scholastic

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the arts

Dance VDance V, the fifth annual Hope student dance concert, this year featured

two guest artists from the Jeffrey Ballet School in New York City.Dance prof essionals Patricia Brown and Luis M. Perez joined Hope stu-

dents on stage to present jazz, tap, modern and contemporary pieces.Choreographers were Profs. Maxine DeBruyn, Rich Rahn and Ed Riffel.

Nearly three-dozen Hope students this year auditioned for the 12-member company. The dance concert drew near-capacity crowds during thethree nights of performance.

More Than A Stuffed Phone BoothEditor's note: The following features con-

clude our series on campus life.

If your concept of student life at Hope in-cludes stuffing people into Volkswagons andphone booths, it could use some updating.Today student life at Hope ranges from the

structured and tradition-soaked Pull tug-of-

war to the spontaneous toss of a Frisbee in the

Pine Grove on a spring day. It includesdinner in the Phelps Hall conference roomwith a visiting scholar and a women's con-sciousness raising session in a dorm lounge.But student life at Hope is best perceived as aphilosophy rather than a list of activities, says

Dave Vanderwel, associate dean of studentsand director of the Campus Activities Office."When people talk about 'The College Ex-

perience,' they're usually talking about the

total life experience that occurs on a campus.Hope takes very seriously the notion thatwe're not only developing academic creatures,

we're also responsible for developing people.

That process includes building relationships

with others as well as sometimes just getting

in better tune with one's self.

"I see student life as consisting of all those

things which help facilitate personal de-velopment, and the College's obligation as not

simply to provide things to do but to help

students in that total development process."Learning to do things, Vanderwel con-

tends, is a significant part of personal

development — whether it be finding out whatit takes to plan a party for 1000 on May Day,or learning how to responsibly and equitablydistribute the $65,000 annual Student Activi-

ties Fee budget. It's important for students to.

accept responsibility and have a large degree

of independence as regards student life. At the

same time, too much independence can becounterproductive, Vanderwel contends.

"If we're serious about the importance of

outside-the-classroom activities, we can't just

leave them alone. If the experience is going to

be positive and developmental for students, it

needs some interaction with staff or faculty."People learn from mistakes, that's true.

But they also learn in other ways. And wehave to give guidance. We must allow formistakes, but these mistakes should occur at

various levels, rather than over and over again

in a square #1 position."The anchor-, Hope's student newspaper, is a

good example of VanderweTs point. While

the paper has always prided itself on indepen-

dence, complaints from students and faculty

about the quality of the paper had been on the

increase in recent years and there was a grow-ing unwillingness to accept responsibility for

the editorship of the anchor. Last fall a faculty

member. Dr. Charles Huttar, volunteered togive the staff some guidance by way of train-ing sessions and general availability for con-

sultation throughout the year. This year'seditor, Janet Shimmin, filled the post for theentire year, rather than a single semester as

has been the recent pattern. Moreover, thisspring there were three candidates for next

year's editorship.

The interests and needs of college students

vary with the times, as they are generally

eager to pick up on new trends. Vanderwelsays it's important for the College to be re-

sponsive to the flux.

For example,' recent years have witnessed

the emergence of career-centered interestsamong students. Today's students seem tochoose activities which offer direct boosts to

their ability to get a job or gain acceptance to

graduate schools after leaving Hope. Thecareer-oriented speakers brought in by vari-

ous academic departments seem to generallyhave a greater attraction than speakers

brought in to address the campus-at-large onmore general topics relating to the state oftoday's world. There seems to be a slightlydiminishing interest in the offerings of the

Great Performance Series and other culturefare, although Vanderwel notes that a hewfreshman course "Encounter with the Arts,"

which incorporates attendance at concerts, re-

citals, plays, art shows, etc. into its format,

"seems to be having a good effect on atten-dance at cultural events and may have long-range impact on campus life."Sometimes subtle influences may change

directions of student life. For example, a

growth in night classes has had unexpectedimplications for campus-wide evening activi-ties. More students with cars and an increasein the number of Western Michigan Hopestudents has resulted in greater mobility and a

decrease in "overwhelming demands" foron-campus activities. At the same time, how-ever, Vanderwel says his staff is working har-der to plan events and activities which willkeep Hope at a distance from the "suitcasecollege syndrome."

The opening of the Dow Health and Physi-cal Education Center last fall is resulting in a

notable shift in student activities. Althoughthe only hard data available as yet is a drastic

drop in DeWitt Center Gameroom frequen-ters, Vanderwel says that from all appear-ances Dow is emerging as a popular campusactivity and recreation center.

Without question, the biggest force affect-

ing student life is simply changes in student

preference. Four years ago, ̂ he on-campusweekend movies sponsored by the Social Ac-tivities Committee were money-makingevents. While the movies continue to beshown, attendance numbers have been cut inhalf. But for every activity that diminishes in

popularity or completely fades away, another

springs up to take its place. This fall, forexample, student Jim Greiner approachedVanderwel about the possibility of establish-ing Ultimate Frisbee at Hope. Vanderwel

1 helped arrange and publicize a meeting for

those interested, and aided the group in ob-

taining funds from the Student Appropriation

Committee's contingency fund. The ideacaught on and now Ultimate Frisbee is anofficial College organization.

Vanderwel foresees a greater emphasis incoming years on providing diversity throughactivities and events, allowing students moreopportunities to pick and choose their

outside-the-classroom experiences .

"Today because of greater academic pres-sures and demands, students tend to be moreconscious of allocating their time. There's less

of an attitude of 'I ought to go do this' andmore T choose to go to this.' "

The continued growth of departmental ac-tivities will likely also be evidenced in comingypars. Vanderwel sees this growth in de-partmental cohesiveness as due to the growthof career consciousness among students aswell as a certain amount of competition be-tween departments to attract good students."But I think the main reason for this in-

crease in departmental events is that depart-

ments are getting more sophisticated — theysimply know better how to arrange and pub-licize an event."

Self-Governance Works WellGovernment for the people and by the

people works on a national and college level,

for community government at Hope Collegeis an "us" government, according to DaveVanderwel, associate dean for student affairs,

the community government structure, de-signed in the late 1960s by now-retired En-glish Professor John Hollenb'ach, joins stu-

dents, faculty and administration together ondecision-making boards.

College community government is brokendown into the Campus Life Boards (CLB: fourstudents, four faculty, three administrators) ;

the Academic Affairs Board (AAB: four stu-dents, eight faculty, one administrator) andthe Administrative Affairs Board (AdAB : twostudents, four faculty, five administrators).

College government is also Student Con-gress (S.C.), a governing body run and staffed

by students, for students. S.C. members holdpositions on the boards and their sub-committees. Membership on the boards in-cludes one S.C. officer, plus president-

appointed and congress-elected students.

Faculty board members are nominated andelected by faculty. They serve a two-yearterm. Half of the faculty board members aresubject to re-election every spring.

Administrators are appointed according to

the function of the Board.

The concept of community government asstated in the faculty handbook is to "embody asense of participating community by insuringcommunication and cooperation among all

areas of the community in the ordering of its

internal affairs."

According to Vanderwel, Hope was innova-

tive in giving students an equal voice in deci-

sions affecting College policies.

"The institution benefits because morepeople contribute ideas," said Vanderwel."There is more validity in decisions that aremade by a greater part of the communityrather than by an isolated group."

Vanderwel stressed that the impact of stu-dent presence on boards depends on the will of

students to speak their mind.

AdAb member and English departmentchairman Dirk Jellema agreed: "Students'importance? I think they're good to have, at

least on some committees, and that the ex-perience is good for them — if only as training

in the virtue of long-suffering.

"The trouble with having them ondecision-making committees is that they tend

to be cowed by the administrators, thus stu-dents and administrators carry votes against

faculty, and we all know that the faculty arethe repositories of wisdom," he continued.

"On the whole, I like having students oncommittees, and I can name four or five ofthem who've been so good at their committeework that they outshone everyone, faculty or

administration."

"Student opinions are valuable," said Jon

Schmidt, S.C. vice president of the AAB."Everyone's view is involved."

Last year the AAB approved the new corecurriculum and is presently discussing

whether or not to initiate a special education

program. The CLB is presently discussing

pledging regulations and fraternity housingquotas. In the past, CLB has dealt withparietal hours, making dorms co-ed and de-veloping social regulations.

From, an administrative standpoint, it is

crucial that the perspective of the student is

known. According to Hope president GordonVan Wylen, the College needs to know whatfacilities and equipment are needed to bestserve the students. The boards provide mean-ingful ways for administrators to interact,with students.

"We're here to serve students," said VanWylen, "to know what students are thinking,to know where they are."

Van Wylen explained that the administra-tion has always had an open door'policy, buthe recognizes that students won't always go to

an administrator and that students do have a

voice through the S.C.

Student Congress is a governing body sepa-

rate from the community governmentboards. The student body elects executive of-

ficers, a president and two vice presidents each

spring. Elected officers run elections for con-

gress members the following fall. StudentCongress members represent dorm, cottageand off-campus students.

Leenhouts believes the function of the S.C.

is to serve as a liaison between the studentsand the administration. Concerns of the stu-

dent body are determined through the efforts

of the S.C. task forces. In many cases theexecutive officers take concerns and proposed

solutions to the administration.

"The administration is surprisinglyopen — if we can show a major student con-cern," explained Leenhouts. "They are will-ing to meet and listen to us. But we go in withour plan and they have their plan. We boththink we're right, so we usually com-promise."

S.C. is kept up-to-date on progress madeduring the community government boardmeetings. Student board representatives pre-

sent a report to the congress. In turn the

congress discusses problems that should be

given to a specific sub committee or board. In

this way the boards, S.C. and the administra-

tion work together.

S.C. is trying to get more student input

into the status committee, the committee that

determines which faculty members will gettenure. S.C. members are discussing the pro-posal with the status committee and the fa-culty Professional Interests Committee.

"Who better knows which professors aregood than the students?" is Leenhouts' ar-

gument for this new involvement.

The people involved in community gov-ernment are involved in the campus beyondjust going to classes.

"They are an eager kind of people," saidVanderwel. "They are anxious to be involvedand want to do something where they cancontribute." 7

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Requiem for PhilosopOne of the specific changes wrought by the

1978-79 revision of Hope's core curriculumwas the disappearance of Philosophy 113 (in

recent years. Interdisciplinary Studies 113)

and the introduction of philosophy courses

within the required cultural heritage segmentof the core. Throughout its 15 year history.Philosophy 113 has been taught by longtime

Hope Professor of Philosphy D. Ivan Dykstra.Recently Dr. Dykstra authored what he titles

"a requiem" for 113. The account provides afascinating look at 113's gestation period as

well as an overview of curriculum revision at

Hope College during the past quarter-century. Excerpts of Dr. Dykstra's account

are printed below. Complete copies of the his-

tory are available. Requests should be directed

to the Office of College Relations.

Dr. Dykstra's account begins with the

1950s when, under then-new Dean John Hol-

lenbach's direction, the faculty engaged in adefinite move to revise the core. The project,Dykstra writes, resulted in sufficient divi-

siveness so that after several years President

Lubbers, "judging it to be too disruptive of

the school's progress, without forewarning,

at a monthly faculty meeting announced thetermination of the study and of the commit-tee."

We pick up with Dr. Dykstra's accountafter several more years have passed:

. . . lam not surejust when the issueof corerevision began brewing again, or how. It hadto be sometime after President Lubbers leftoffice to assume his responsibilities with thenewly created Iowa Colleges Foundation;such was his standing among the faculty thatno one would have had the temerity to resur-rect an issue which he had declared off limits.

Still, in the rebirth of the issue there was ,

nothing, I think, of the spirit of "Lubbers is

gone now and we can now go back to ourearlier mischiefs." Maybe there were just toomany important issues of many kinds, allmore or less directly Wrapped up in the corecurriculum study, to permit that study to be

forever suppressed.

But, as I recall, that is not the way it gotback into the picture. The real story was very,

very different. With President Lubbers' re-tirement, we, of course, faced the prospect of

a "new" President. This was in a way anexciting event to contemplate, if for no other

reason than that it was a novel experience, andwe had to adjust from a mentality for whichPresident Lubbers was so synonymous withthe office that it had seemed he would have to

endure forever. But how does one go aboutgiving expression to the excitement of a newPresident?

Somewhere along the way (and I think Iremember just from whom it came) there wasa suggestion that the faculty should "dosomething" for the new President (VanderWerf), prepare "a gift" in honor of his com-ing. That got a mixed reception, obviously.Everyone was in favor of a "gift," but thatcreated some anxieties about how much wemight have to shell out of our meager pocket-

books to pay for it. Into that climate, how-ever, there quickly came the clarification: itwas not a "money-gift" that the proposer hadin mind, but something "far more importantthan anything money could buy." In the sud-den relief at knowing that our wallets weresafe, we, of course, would have gone alongwith any proposal, no matter how large. Onething led to another, and what finallyemerged was the proposal that our "gift" tothe neW President should consist in a displayof faculty esprit ie corps, of unity. But since

there was only one thinkable thing on whichthe faculty lacked unity, there was only oneway in which a demonstration of unity couldoccur: approving the "new" core curriculum.So it was dusted off, brought to a vote andpassed without debate or dissent. After all,

who could vote against a "gift to the newPresident," especially as long as it did not

mean money out of one's pocket?So, suddenly, what we had seemingly end-

lessly haggled about became a reality.

But the euphoria accompanying that greatevent barely lasted through the night. Wediscovered that it is one thing to construct the

skeleton of a curriculum, it is another to trans-

late that into the realities of an educational

process. The latter was rendered even moredifficult because in part the skeleton bore

some labels which stood for some profoundobscurities and unsettled options. But armedwith the fact that, after all, we had voted forthe new curriculum, it was possible to sneakpast the dangling issues and read them as ifthey stood for firm and transparent commit-ments, so we did get on with the business.

But while the now-approved curriculumhad presumably been gathering dust, somemysterious alchemy had taken place and whatwe confronted the morning after voting wasnot quite what had been dumped a couple ofyears earlier. That specifically had a bearing

on "113." There had been talk earlier thatthere probably could be some connection be-tween the English 113 and the Philosophy113. But now that emerged as having to be aspecifically inter-disciplinary freshman -pro-

gram. Not only that but somehow "FreshmanSpeech" was embroiled, too.

I must admit that I could associate fabulous

educational images with that. Who could failto be deeply moved by the sublime thoughtthat the speech classrooms which had churnedout endless reports on "How I Spent My Vac-ation" should not ring with the profundities

of philosophical expositions? The idyllic fan-tasy, however, was not long for this world.The English people quickly cooled to the idea,

taking their cues chiefly from Ed Savage's

iSfexpressions of deeply wounded professionalpride ("all my life I work hard to become ateacher of literature and what do I get? Theymake me teach philosophy"). The speechpeople may have tumbled out of the pictureeven more quickly, inspired mainly by BillSchrier's protestations of humility, real or

theatrical: "The teaching of philosophy I, atleast, must leave to better men than I").

That, however, did not daunt our doughtydean. And, even I, for whom there was noth-

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ing in my temperament or experience to in-cline me to the kind of interdisciplinary teach-ing that would be involved, wanted to give his

concept every chance, not merely to be sup-

portive of him but because I was sure the idea

had merit.

With the best will in the world, however,the problems involved proved to be pretty

intractable, even apart from the problem ofdrumming up enthusiasm from those whowould have to make it work. In the meantime,the calendar was moving along, and there wasat least an understanding that the curriculum

which had been voted in would be operational

in the fall of 1964. At some point it was de-cided that there was no way of proceedingother than for Philosophy and English to usetha

down what each would put into the projeaedjoint course by having each develop its half of

the course separately. . . . (the merger never

occurred — Editor's note).

I must admit that in its formative earlyyears, 113 was shaped largely by a bundle of

instincts, not all of which I was aware of at the

time. As time went on and I had leisure toreflect on "how 113 got this way" the in-stincts acquired articulation. But for a long

time I was thinking about 113 from the

perspective of its being a philosophy course,

which I was able to fit into a particular niche in

a larger coherence called "Liberal Arts." Onlywithin the past couple of years or so do I sense

that my own thinking about 113 tended tostart more clearly from the notion of LiberalArts, and by way of articulating that arrivedat the picture of 113.

No educator needs to be told that the notion

of "Liberal Arts" education is one of the mostelusive of all notions in which educationalphilosophy becomes involved. We all assumethat Liberal Arts is what is not, by directintention at least, calculated to achieve a spe-

cific vocational or disciplinary competence.

But, granted that, what goes into the core,and what determines what goes into thecore?

For possibly the most, at least the longest-

lasting, part of our experience with Liberal

Arts, we have been able to ride along on thetraditions that came into being a long time ago

when the sole concern of the university wasthe education (the induction into the "life of

culture") of those whom the fortunes of lifehad liberated from having to work for a living.

But what happens once you become uneasyabout letting that be settled simply on the

basis of a long but unexamined tradition?A couple of answers are natural and so have

been, unwittingly or otherwise, appealed to.

The core will always have to have relevance to

dimensions of the human process that are"common" to persons regardless of their dis-ciplinary or professional self-definitions. Ob-viously that would mean that the core shouldfoster the basic common competences — atleast the three R's. This was the overt com-mitment of "the general education" move-ment in the fifties, though this allowed itselfto become -an impoverished image by its em-phasis on attaining the "minimum neces-sary" skills rather than the "maximum possi-ble" ones. But in that way, general education

was a philosophy of education particularly

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[iphy 113philosophers to philosophers. What will theother-than-the-basic-skills part of Liberal

Arts look like if it takes as its cue that it mustbe a corrective to that?

That context yields one inviting but deadly

image of what Interdisciplinary Studiesshould aim at: the erasure of boundaries,among the sciences or arts, or between theintellectual pursuits of philosophy and the

value pursuits of the arts, or between philoso-

phy and religion, and maybe between "valuesciences and "fact sciences" or between even

art and science. There can be no gain in a

process which ends in confusing everythingwith everything else.

"113," as a contribution to specifically

"liberal arts," was intelligible as beginning

with the same cue: the deadly introversion of

the disciplines. But instead of aiming at curing

that by, in a much exaggerated way of sayingit, making a land-locked physicist intelligibleto an equally land-locked chemist or

economist or psychologist or artist, it aimed at

rendering all the special preserves of the disci-

plines transparent to ordinary common sense,and thus to render all our identifiable in-

tellectualizable pursuits intelligible to

everyone, rather than having to find somebody of knowledge outside the disciplines toserve as our common cultural coin. I cannotpresume to know very much about what goeson in specific academic programs around thecountry . But if one were to look for the reason

for being of something like "113" in thatrespect in which it could claim to be a novel

attack on a very complex problem in philoso-

opportunity to the general population.

But what if liberal arts education does not

settle for the acquisition of skills, minimum°j kut wants to acquire "knowl-edge, too? That suggests that a core be con-

stituted of that body of knowledge whicheveryone should have. But just what is to beincluded in that is the question on which core

curriculum proposals keep foundering.

But there is yet another way of getting att e formulation of what a core should con-

tribute (besides basic intellectual compe-

te« bV asking what, if anything, wewould find wrong with purely professionaleducation in its present forms. There is moreman one answer. For some, narrowly profes-

^n^l education fails because the issues of the

| ay do not divide themselves up into the same1 V comparments into which our specially

cultivate^ disciplines do. Many disciplinesmust contribute, therefore, to the unraveling

8'ven complex issue. But the other, andcreasmgly apparent and increasingly pain-

, 'fue ot Professional education is that, be-on a certain level of sophistication, any

i >niIP-ue , omes so technical that it is in-c igi [e only to the expert in it. A certain

^^”'^®rtoccurs, and physicists can talk

phy of education, this is where we must lookfor it.

All that I have written here would be mis-leading were I not to conclude with an expres-

sion of honest enthusiasm for the new corecurriculum which displaces 113. Its rationale

is, though very different, excitingly viable.The relevant judgment here can pertain onlyto that part identified as "the cultural heri-

tage." Where that fits, I think, into outgen-eral patterns of thought about philosophy of

Liberal Arts education is at the point of want-ing that to include a "common body of knowl-edge." What we at least have in common,regardless of our special professional inter-

ests, is a cultural heritage. The nice part about

talking about "heritage" however, is that ithas a way of insistently breaking through ourefforts to compress that into a "body ofknowledge." Heritages move, and confronta-tion with heritages always forces us to con-

front the rhythms or the spirals or the straightlines or the tumults or the "forces, " the alive-

ness of their movement.So, certainly without complaint or regret, .

and without sadness save as I now turn fromsomething that I have lived with intensivelyforalongtime, I say adieu to 113. Itwasalpt

Core Curriculum Recognizes

Students' Academic Needs"Those courses will be taught which are

usually taught in colleges of this kind."

In 1896 the Hope College curricular pro-gram was simply stated and had built-in flexi-

bility, although it lacked a bit in clarity.

The decades since the turn of the centuryhave witnessed considerable expansion of this

single sentence core statement. The 1978-79catalog devotes more than five pages to thecore statement. A maximum of 61 academichours is now required to complete the core inthe case of students whose high school prepa-ration has been weak.

Yet, despite the length of its statement,

most students express general satisfaction

with Hope's core and an understanding of thewhats and why of itsnine major compo-nents.

In the faculty

sector there is

a greater

awarenessthat a newcore wentin effect

with the

current

academic

year.

Time hasnot yet al-

lowed for

the distilla-

tion of majorfaculty objec-

tives. More-over, the core

objectives estab-

lished repeatedly

in the past by fac-

ulty formed the basisof the work of the cur-

riculum review task

force appointed in the

spring of 1976. Thus, the

new core, for a time at least, has success-fully absorbed most old grievances.

The move to review the core was broughtabout largely because of widely-accepted rec-

ognition of the need to revise the Cultural

Heritage element.

"Administration of the Cultural Heritage

component of the core had become intracta-ble," says Marker. "The objectives werestated in such broad terms that technically

almost any course offered at the College could

fulfill the requirement. The Academic Affairs

Board decided to declare a moratorium onadding any new course to the list of thosewhich would satisfy it and instituted a reviewof the entire core, with special attention being

given to the Cultural Heritage block."

The task force' set three objectives for itswork in the months ahead: to ensure that thecore would meet the needs of students whowould be living and working in the decadesahead, to ensure that each element could be

simply stated and easily understood by both

faculty advisors and students, and to ensure

that each element could be justified as a

legitimate and necessary component of a lib-eral arts education.

The task force set about its work by address-

ing itself to a host of questions regarding the

philosophy of education, the objectives of the

curriculum, the course pattern of the core, as

well as more specific issues. Study/workgroups were subsequently formed in-the four

academic divisions. These groups included fa-

culty and students. The proposed revisionswhich emerged were incorporated into a newcore statement, which was subsequently

adopted by the Academic Affairs Board forimplementation last fall.

The pattern of the revised curriculum, ac-

cording to Marker, doesn't differ greatly fromthe previous core. The statement of the newcore is somewhat simpler, a considerablymore liberal waiver policy has been estab-lished, and each component is set forth with adescription and justification.

"We believe that at Hope College, for ourstudents, this curriculum represents the best

included in the formal beginning of liberal

arts education," says Marker. "The new core,

like the old, is built on commonexperiences — courses which all studentstake — and distributed requirements whichprovide flexibility in meeting the objectives."

In terms of specifics, the new core is distin-

guished from its predecessor in the disappear-

ance of the Interdisciplinary Studies 113

course (see adjoining story), a doubling of the

Fine Arts requirement (with studio courses

now filling part of the requirement), the sub-stitution of the Hope-Kellogg HealthDynamics Program for the general PhysicalEducation requirement, and a complete re-

vamping of the Cultural Heritage component.

The resulting newCultural History

component,although madeup of the samenumber ofhours, is

intended to

meet moreprecisely

stated

objectives.

"In ouropinion, the

revised Cul-

tural History

requirement

prepares stu-

dents to live in

the future bygiving themclearer in-

sights into

those thoughts,

words, and actions

of the past whichhave brought us

to the present," notes

Marker.

A philosophy component is now part of theCultural History requirement, and the phi-

losophy, literature and history componentshave been organized along similar chronolog-

ical lines.

Although the new core represents a slightincrease in an already substantial number ofrequired core hours ("There aren't a large

number of Colleges with such a large core,"notes Marker), the waiver policy was also

expanded. Automatic waivers in English,mathematics and social science and natural

science occur through sufficiently high ACTscores, and waivers are available in other areas

on the basis of interview and/or examination.

Only the Physical Education and SeniorSeminar requirements are exempt fromwaiver.

"The new core more readily adapts to rec-ognizing a student's earlier academic accom-plishments. A student should not have to re-

peat work in an area in which he or she hasalready gained sufficient proficiency, to fulfill

the corresponding objectives in the core,"

Marker says, adding that the new waiver pol-icy probably needs to be more clearly com-municated to students than it has been during

this first year of its implementation.

Although much thought, many hours and afair sprinkling of heated discussions went into

the shaping of the new curriculum. Markersays it cannot be viewed as final. Revision is

an ongoing process; as times change, stu-

dents' needs change. The curriculum mustadapt to meet these needs while continuing to

reflea Hope's strong commitment to the lib-eral arts.

Thus, it is likely that less than 100 years

hence, Hope's curriculum statement will dif-

fer in form as radically as today's does fromthat of 1896. And yet, perhaps the changeshave not been as sweeping as they might ap-

pear: today, as in 1896, Hope offers "thosecourses which are usually taught in colleges of

this land."

For today, at least, the major differences

among liberal am curricula seem to arise in

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Changing International Education Trendsby Paul G. Fried

Within the last year or two academic in-stitutions and the government have shown anincreased awareness that American studentsneed to be given greater opportunities gaining

international perspectives as part of their

undergraduate education. This renewedinterest in international education led to the

establishment of a Presidential Commissionon Foreign Language and InternationalStudies which is currently conducting hear-ings in Washington and elsewhere. The draftresponse prepared in March of this year by theGreat Lakes College Association, which alsoacts as spokesman for Hope College, containsthe following statement:

"The significant challenge for our col-leges and for American education gener-ally is to provide an international educa-

tional perspective for students who do nothave an opportunity themselves to goabroad. The distinction between what used

to be either a national or an international

question is increasingly blurred. This

change cannot help but change the mean-ing of the words "international" and"domestic" as they have been used to de-

scribe educational experiences. We mustmove toward education for all studentswhich includes a global perspective. Thismeans educational programs which willenlarge the student's view and enhance an

understanding of the interdependent qual-

ity of the world today and tomorrow."1

The problem is put less diplomatically andmore bluntly in an article which appeared inChange in October 1978:

"One of the tragedies for Americanschooling — and thus for the nation — is theabominable lack of student preparation for

a world in which an adequate global under-

standing by all citizens may be the onlyroad toward saving the world as we nowknow it."

At Hope College, concern about giving stu-dents an international education certainly is

nothing new. Speaking at the inauguration of

Dr. Philip Phelps as first president of HopeCollege in 1866, Dr. Isaac Wyckhoff spelledout one of the challenges facing the younginstitution: "First, Hope College must teachthe languages of the world. This is a shrinking

world, and we must learn to be at home in it."Like other colleges, Hope initially tried tomeet this challenge mainly by offeringcourses in foreign languages and cultures andby adding a few courses on international af-

fairs, ‘diplomatic history or on selected areas

of the world.

Even in the earliest years of Hope Collegethere were a few students who were fortunateenough to learn about the larger world bydirect encounters overseas or through contact

with students from abroad. Young Gerrit Kol-len, who was to become president of his almamater some 30 years later, records in his diary

that he spent an educational and enjoyable

summer in Europe in 1865. And in 1869 thefirst student from Japan arrived in Holland,

helping those who stayed at home to catchsome glimpses of the mysterious Orient.From those first beginnings grew the relation-

ship between Hope College and Meiji GakuinUniversity which is still growing more thanone hundred years later.

Generally, however, it was not until after

the end of the Second World War that, both atHope College and at other institutions, theterm "International Education" began to beused more in reference to student exchanges

Paul G. Fried is pro-fessor of history

and director of inter-

national education,

having joined the

Hope faculty in 1953.He is a graduate ofHope College andholds the M.A. fromHarvard Universityand the Ph.D. fromUniversity of Erlan-

gen, Germany.

than to curricular offerings on campus. True,

the millions of returning GTs who had foughtin Europe and Asia and who flooded back tothe American campus between 1945 and 1949demanded more courses dealing with worldaffairs,, foreign cultures and far away places.But they also wanted to go abroad again, asstudents this time rather than as soldiers.

With the help of the GI Bill and Fulbrightgrants, study abroad now became a live optionfor more and more American students.

By the early 1 950's former troup transports

had been turned into student. ships taking an

stria were enrolled at Hope during that sameperiod.

During the last few years the decliningvalue of the dollar and increasing prosperity

abroad have begun to show a trend whichholds promise for the development of bi-lateral and reciprocal arrangements betweencountries and institutions. Hope College, forexample, has hosted a summer study programfor students from Japan for the past fourteen

years and played a key role in pioneering the

joint U.S. -Yugoslav Seminars begun by theGLCA with State Department support in

Stained glass window signifying 100 year relationship between Hope College and MeijiGakuin University was presented by President Van Wylen during Centennial celebration ofJapanese university in 1977. Window was created by John Van Der Burgh of Zeeland,Mich.

ever increasing number of young Americansto Europe for a variety of more or less serious •

academic and non-academic programs. Morein response to the realities created than byserious or long range academic design,

American colleges and universities suddenlyfound that they had to allow their students the

option of spending a year, a semester, or at

least a short period abroad in programs whichwere academically respectable. American af-fluence and the comparatively low cost of

food, housing and instruction available in

Europe added to the attraction of the study

abroad movement, both for the student andfor many of the American sponsoring institu- .

tions. What had once been regarded as a lux-ury to be afforded only by a few, soon becamea mass movement.

At the same time the high cost of living in

the U.S., increasing educational costs and the

favorable dollar exchange rates meant thatvery few foreign students could come to thiscountry, unless they received massive finan-

cial support from private or public sources. Asa result, International Education for the

American campus was, until very recently,mainly a one way street rather than a com-mitment to develop true international ex-change arrangements. Since 1956 the HopeCollege Vienna Summer School has, forexample, helped to give close to one thousandyoung Americans at least an introduction toEurope. Only about ten students from Au-

1965. In 1975 and 1976 Hope also conductedexperimental summer programs for highschool students from Germany which at-tracted over 100 young Germans to the Hol-land campus. Other institutions, no doubt,have made similar efforts in recent years.

For the present, however, despite risingcosts, the stream of American students goingabroad continues unabated. There are, in fact,

more American overseas programs today thanever before. The 1979 edition of U.S. College

Sponsored Programs Abroad, published bythe Institute of International Education (HE),

lists more than 800 semester or year programsfor which credit is given by American institu-tions of higher learning. A separate HE publi-

cation describes more than 900 programslisted in the 1979 edition of Summer StifdyAbroad. Not mentioned in either booklet areshort term courses like our off-campus Mayterm programs, or the month long wintersessions abroad offered by the many schoolswhich, like Calvin College, have adopted the

4-1-4 academic schedule.Unfortunately the proliferation of Ameri-

can foreign study programs designed to meetthe specific demands of various interestgroups does not necessarily mean that ourcolleges are meeting the challenge of "provid-

ing international educational perspective"

even for those who do go abroad. Programswhich are narrowly professional in design,which do not require knowledge of the

language spoken in the host culture andwhich depend on American professors to dothe teaching may be just as parochial,when offered in London or Paris, as theycould be on the student's home campus.

In a recent address before the MichiganAssociation of Foreign Student Affairs, DeanRichard Sullivan of Michigan State Univer-sity pointed out that whdt is needed are notmore study abroad programs, but an increase

in the degree to which our students are sen-

sitized to

"the dangerous implications of a local or

regional or national approach in a worldwhere food, energy, disease, water re-sources, poverty, injustice, etc., are issues

involving new and terrible imperatives ofglobal interdependence.".

Relating his comments to the problems ofhigher education as a whole, Dean Sullivan

went on to say:

I have a gnawing fear that institutionsare losing ground in this critical area. In-stead of fostering global consciousness,

their collective efforts are generating a

dangerous intellectual and emotional pa-

rochialism that threatens to produce bar-

barians in an age that cries for civilized

cosmopolitans."

Certainly a fair number of those studentswho go abroad return to us as "civilized cos-mopolitans." But their impact on the verylarge number of students who have not hadthe opportunity to study abroad — or have notchosen to take advantage of it — is not verysignificant. All too frequently returnees find

that very few of their professors or fellow

students are interested in finding out whatinsights they may have gained abroad andthat there is little chance for them to applywhat they learned off-campus once they areback on the home campus.

It is clear that the present study abroad

programs are net, by themselves, adequate to

the challenges inherent in the changing condi-

tions facing American education as it tries tohelp students understand the world of today

and to prepare them for the world tomorrow.What then can we at Hope do to prepare stu-dents for the shrinking world to which Dr.Wyckhoff made reference when the Collegewas established? There is no single and nosimple answer. It seems to me, however, that

several avenues which we have, in fact, beenexploring recently, may point us in the right

direction.

1) Individual departments need to offer

more courses which are international in focus

or include materials in courses currently

given which give added emphasis to interna-

tional issues. The recent recommendation forthe establishment of a composite major in

International Studies clearly represents a

move in that direction,2) Knowledge of the languages of the world

is more important today than it was in 1866.But students and faculty have come to rejectthe old approach of treating language as a

mere skill. Hopefully, the integrated "Lan-guage and Culture" approach, scheduled to

begin at Hope this fall as a pilot project withthe support of the National Endowment forthe Humanities; will provide a challenging

model for similar innovations in this area.3) We need more cooperative, rather than

unilateral foreign study programs. At the urg-

ing of, and in full cooperation with Meiji Ga-kuin University, Hope is working out details-for a joint Japanese- American seminar fo-cused on comparing current economic and so-

cial issues. The seminar will bring togethersome 15 Japanese and a similar number ofAmericans for a month long course at HopeCollege this September, followed by a M{iyTerm program at Meiji Gakuin Universitywhich will take 15 Hope students to Japan in

the Spring of 1980.4) We have always known that the presence

of well prepared students from abroad can

provide valuable enrichment to the interna-

tional climate of the Hope College campus.The realities of greater affluence in countries

like Germany and Japan, coupled with theshortage of university places abroad, provide a

continued on page 15

Hope Runnerup in All-Sports RaceHope finished second in the seven-team

MIAA all-sports race during the 1978-79j school year.

Albion College won the all-sports honorfor the second straight year with 78 points,

followed by Hope with 65, Kalamazoo 61,Alma 58, Calvin 54, Olivet 53 and Adrian 33.

r The Flying Dutchmen won championships* in football and cross country.

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BASEBALL

The Flying Dutchmen just missed a winningseason (13-14) while finishing in a tie for third

^ place in the MIAA.! Junior outfielders Gary Hutchins of Flint,

Mich, and Rick Zoulek of Shelby, Mich, paced

the Hope batters. Hutchins topped the teamin hitting with a .316 average including four

homeruns while Zoulek batted .296 behind aam team-high 20 RBIs and five homers. Zoulek™ led the MIAA in RBIs (12) while teammate

John VandeGuchte, a senior from Fond duLac, Wise., was runnerup with 11.Junior righthander Kevin Watson of St.

Louis, Mo\ had a perfect 5-0 pitching recordwhile sophomore Tom VanderStel of Grand

{ Rapids, Mich, had a nifty 1.31 earned runaverage against MIAA opponents.

SOFTBALL

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The inaugural MIAA softball season wasgood to Hope as the Flying Dutch finishedrunnerup with an excellent 8-2 record. •The team went on to finish third in the '

Michigan small college AIAW tournamentbehind an overall 10-6 record.

Three Hope players were named to theMichigan small college all-state softballteam — junior pitcher Monica Bodzick of Har-bor Springs, Mich., freshman catcher FayeBerens of Hamilton, Mich., and sophomorethird baseman Nancy Kropf of Detroit, Mich .

Bodzick was a stellar performer on the

mound, completing each of the nine gamesshe started while posting a 7-3 record.

Freshman first baseman Deb Fild of GrandRapids, Mich, finished fourth in the MIAAin batting (.391) while teammate Ann Hart-ney, a freshman outfielder from East GrandRapids, Mich., was sixth at .385.

Fild was an outstanding defensive player

committing only one error in handling 83chances at first base.

MEN'S TRACKRelying on its best team depth in several

years, the men's track squad finished thirdin the MIAA standings.

Three alltime Hope records were establishedduring the season. Sophomore Scot Van DerMeulen of Holland, Mich, broke the six-year-old shotput record of Bruce Broendyk '74with a throw of 48' 73A".

The other two marks were improvementsof performances recorded by the same ath-.letes in 1977. Senior Jeff Cordes of Oregon,111. improved his own discus record with athrow of 139' 3" while senior Steve Hulstof Holland, Mich, clipped one-tenth pf a

second off his own 880-yard (half mile) re-cord at 1:55.0.

Hulst and freshman Dave Visscher of Dear-

born, Mich, were gold medal winners at

WOMEN'S TRACKHope finished third in the MIAA women's

track race, losing only to champion Calvinin dual meet competition.

Freshman Sue Williams of Ann Arbor wasthe team's only gold medal winner at MIAA

' Health Dynamics Endures 'Shake Down'The three previous issues of News from HopeCollege have contained portions of the daily

j journal of a freshman enrolled in Hope's newh Health Dynamics Program. In this issue Dr.

Richard Peterson, director of the new pro-gram, offers his perspective on the past year:

i; The Health Dynamics Program was in-‘r itiated as a povel approach to physical and

health education for all incoming freshmanstudents. It included a classroom componentfor learning and discussing health and fitness

issues and factors, a laboratory evaluation

unit to determine current levels of fitness and• health, a personal interview tp explain the* meaning and significance of the laboratorymeasures, and an activity component in orderto experience exercise as well as to learn newskills as a basis for becoming involved in aphysically active lifestyle. In a nutshell, we

4 were intending to increase awareness about« how exercise and other lifestyle factors such

as diet and stress can affect how healthy weare and may expect to be in the future.

The soundness of this idea was generally

well accepted by the students. Of course they

find it a bit difficult to really apply these ideas

to themselves because they are so young andare enjoying the absolute peak of their ownhealth. They may break all the rules of goodhealth and do not notice an effect. A verypersonal experience for them, however, came

j in these last couple of weeks of the schoolf year. We retested all the students for fitnessand health status. Some, who had been dili-gently coming to the Dow Center for regularexercise, noticed an improvement in theircardiovascular fitness. On the other hand,

. those who had been visiting the ice cream^ machine after lunch noticed a slightly in-» creased percentage of fat when they are

ally mean the most from this experience maybe just around the corner. The laboratorymeasures speak for themselves.

It has become obvious that the existence ofthe Health Dynamics Program has had animpact on the campus. Some have been verypositively influenced and have become in-volved in their own health and fitness in ways

m

that they never expected. Some have beendisappointed that their expectations of the

program were either not addressed or weredone differently than was anticipated. Most of

the students, however, are probably neitherdisappointed or "turned-on." But they do ac-

knowledge the importance of the program andinclude discussion of it in conversations with

other students. Such visibility by itself is im-portant because it insures that the concepts

will be remembered later in life when youthno longer assures good health and fitness.Lighthearted comments now may lead to seri-ous questions later. Good-natured bantermay only be youth's way of hanging ontosomething recognized as important but whichis not part of the "college life" image.

Of course the year has also had an impact .

on us who administer the program. We ex-pected to encounter some problems which arejust not foreseen on the drawing board. That's

why ships have shake-down cruises. In a veryreal sense, this year turned out to be a

"shake-down" cruise for the program. Wewill be altering much of the academicclassroom sessions by providing a tighter

structure with more comprehendable knoivl-'edge and concepts. We will personalize all ourefforts more so that each student feels he orshe is important to the program. Staff will be

better prepared with regard to what to expect

as well as what is expected of them. So manyof these variables were unknown at the outsetof this year.

The final test of the impact of the programis yet to come. When these students settleinto residential community life, will they livedifferently because they experienced some-thing called "Health Dynamics" while theywere at Hope College? This is what we arereally shooting for in the program. It is ourdesire that all our efforts help fulfill that long

Field Day, winning the discus with a throwof 99'. Earlier in the season Williams set a

school record in the discus.

Freshmen sprinters Deb Bussema of Parch-ment, Mich, and Nancy Highlander of Kala-mazoo, Mich, set new school records in thedashes. Bussema and Highlander are co-holders of the 100-yard dash mark whileBussema set a school mark in the 220-yarddash.

Another school record was established inthe 440-yard relay by Bussema, Highlander,senior Barbara Ingham of Galien, Oh. andfreshman Karen Constan of Midland.

MIAA Field Day. Hulst set his school recordin the 880 while Visscher was champion in themile run (4:18.1).

Hulst and freshman Mark Northuis ofGrand Haven, Mich, were elected to theall-MIAA track team.Hope was host to the 88th annual MIAA

Field Day. During opening ceremonies anaward was presented to Dr. Walter DeVelder'29 on the occasion of his 50th class reunion.

Dr. DeVelder held the Hope College javelinrecord from 1929 to 1967 and was a memberof Hope's first MIAA champion mile relayteam in 1929. He was presented a commemo-rative plaque by Gordon Brewer, director ofmen's athletics.

MEN'S TENNIS

Freshman Tom DeWeert of Zeeland, Mich,became the first Hope tennis player in a dec-ade to be invited to the NCAA Division IIInational tournament.DeWeert posted an excellent 15-3 singles

record in the second flight as Hope enjoyedits 16th winning campaign in 20 years underveteran coach Lawrence (Doc) Green.Hope had an overall 9-7 record, including

five wins in seven matches against Southerntrip opponents.

The team's two MIAA dual meet victoriesgave Green a milestone 75th win againstleague competition during his coaching career.

WOMEN'S TENNIS

The .1979 women's tennis season will gointo the annals as one of the most uniquein Hope sports history.

For the record, the team posted a fine 8-4

overall dual meet record including an excellent

5-1 mark against league opponents.The team was considered a contender for

the MIAA championship, but prior to thestart of the season-ending toumey, in a dis-pute over how Hope players would be seeded,the squad voted not to participate. The dispute

could not be settled before the tournamentbegan, causing the entire team to default.

The team was also unique in that a leading

player was a 40-year-old mother of five. PatLaFontaine, playing tennis competitively for

the first time, posted an 8-4 singles record

in the fifth flight and teamed-up with dou-bles partners to win seven of nine matches.

ARCHERY

Hope finished third in the MIAA archeryrace while setting a league record for the

highest team school in a dual meet.The Flying Dutch were 5-3 in MIAA dual

meets as senior Robin Mitsos of Merriville,Ind. finished second in the season-ending

league tournament.Hope handed champion Alma itS only dual

meet loss of the year with a league recordColumbia round score of 1,608.

Cheer the MIAA Champion FlyingDutchmen at Holland's New

Municipal Stadium

HOMESept. 15 - Wabash, Ind.

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Now for the bad newsDonor participation in the current Alumni Annual Fund is behind last year. With two

months left in the campaign we are 13 donors behind last year’s pace and 803 behind

the goal of 5,200 for 78—79.

Hope alumni have gained a national reputation for outstanding support of their alma mater.

Last year 40 percent of all alumni contributed to the annual fund.

It’s not too late.

The current campaign will close its books June 30. Write your check now and send it

to Alumni Annual Fund, Hope College, Holland MI 49423.

Your gift will help keep the

good news coming.

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Hope alumnus Paul Pettys (left) and Father Clifford Horvath view Pettys' supergraphic in theparish hall of a church in Biscayne Park, Fla. (Photo by The Miami Herald, j

Supergraphic by '78 Grad

Adorns Fldrida ChurchWhen Paul Pettys 78 parked his camper in

Biscayne Park, Fla. he didn't plan on staying

long or leaving anything behind.

However, his mark remains in the un-forgettable form of a bold, 42-feet long by20-feet high supergraphic in brilliant colors

depicting the resurrection of Christ. ’

The Miami area was Pettys' first stop onwhat he calls his "extended orientation to

life," a trip throughout the U.S. One Sundayin March he attended services at the EpiscopalChurch of the Resurrection in BiscaynePark — and stayed for a second service. After-wards he met Father Clifford Horvath andsaid he'd like to "do something" to the parishhall wall, five sections in a semicircular con-

figuration.

Father Horvath says his reaction was one of

nervousness but interest as well. He gave the

go-ahead. It turned out to be a good decision.

"He has imparted a bold message thatspeaks more than words," said Horvath inevaluating Pettys' final product.

A devout Episcopalian, Pettys charged the

church only the cost of paint. He worked onthe graphic for 10 hours a day during a four-

day stretch.

The first panel depicts the crucifixion of“Christ, portrayed as an orange sun, with the

surrounding clouds signifying the gloom ofday. The next section depicts the death ofChrist with a fallen sun and a dark, cloudlesssky.

The third section is solid puiple to signify

mourning and Christ's three days in thetomb. The fourth depicts the resurrection. Anorange background is a symbol of Christ'spresence in the world and a white sun repre-

sents his purity. A rainbow extends across the

fourth and fifth panels to reveal Christ's

promise of life to humanity. The final whitesection represents Christ's victory over theworld.

A self-employed artist, Pettys made newsat Hope last spring when'he organized a showof his graphics which employed a truckingtheme. He has since created supergraphics forracquetball clubs, manufacturers, bars andprivate homes in Michigan and Illinois. Hisbusiness, Pip Graphic Design and Painting, is

based in Ludington, Mich.

Alumni Happeningsby Mary Kempker

SPRING!! It finally arrived. Another Com-mencement, Alumni Day, Class Reunions,are all part of Hope's past. Four-hundred-twenty- four bright expectant graduates havejoined the ranks of the more than 14,000member Hope Alumni Association.

guests many college functions are held in thedownstairs rooms such as scholarship lunch-eons. These are times when the recipients andthe donors of scholarships have a chance to

spend some time together. Departments en-tertain their distinguished guests in the

house. We invite you to stop and look around.

The new graduates were welcomed into theAlumni Association at the annual AlumniDinner on May 12 by Steve Prediger, seniorclass representative on the Alumni Board.

If you are returning to Holland this summerand will need overnight lodging there is a

limited amount of space in our dormitories.Please contact the Alumni Office if you haveneed of this service.

The Alumni House facelift is continuing. Theliving room furniture is being redone. We aregrateful for a gift of two antique chests fromthe Victor Blekkink estate. The AlumniHouse is the scene of much activity during the

With the approach of summer — a beautifultime in Holland — we at Hope wish' you ahappy, relaxed time. We hope you will havetime to enjoy ! ! If your vacation will be spent

in Western Michigan, stop and see us. Hope's

Agnes Tysse's publisher describes her re-tirement project as "a whopper" and "a mar-velous piece of work ."A spokesman from theU.S. Department of State's education and cu 1-

tural affairs bureau predicts it will be "amongthe most valuable books we have in our li-brary."

In 1970, the year she retired as head of the

Graduate Library Reference Department ofthe University of Michigan, Agnes Tysse '28took on the project of a lifetime: compiling a’

three-volume, comprehensive bibliographyon U.S. /international educational exchange.

International Education: The AmericanExperience deals with headings on the intro-

duction of western education into Asia andAfrica by American missionaries, the PeaceCorps, American students and teachersabroad, college and university programs ofeducational assistance, the training of foreign

nationals through technical assistance pro-

grams, exchanges in the field of medical edu-

cation, American schools established in for-eign countries, and other subjects under the

broad heading of international education. Thebibliography is published by Scarecrow Press

Inc. of Metuchen, N.J.

Tysse says the compiling of such a bibliog-

raphy became a topic for consideration at theU. of M. library in the 1950s. Budget and stafflimitations combined with a rapidly increas-ing pool of pertinent publications and made the

project-unfeasible at that time.

"Over the years, however, I retained aninterest in making such a compilation," saysTysse. "I thought it an area that had not been

adequately covered, or the sources available

sufficiently explored. I thought it would makea good retirement project which could make areal contribution."

The project, carried out from an assignedcarrell in the U. of M. library, has developed

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Lambertus Hekhuis '13 was honored posthu-mously last April when an auditorium in the newFairmount College of Liberal Arts and SciencesBuilding at Wichita State University was dedicated

to his memory. Lambertus went to Wichita in 1926and headed the department of religion and philoso-phy for 33 years. He served as dean of the college

from 1929-1955. His widow, Jennie Immink '13Hekhuis was present at the dedication ceremony.

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Marie W. Danhof '20 is convalescing at GrandValley Nursing Center after surgery performed inDecember.

Clarence R. Lubbers '24 is part of a third genera-

tion Hope family. The entrance of granddaughter» i i _ -- -- .«• ̂ ®Kim Lubbers in the fall of 1979 will mark the begin-ning of the fourth generation.

Joshua Hogenboom '25 was recently admitted toLeesburg Hospital for hean problems.

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an even larger scope than originally intended.

"An enormous amount has been publishedin these areas and a 'definitive' bibliography is

an elusive goal whose realization is quite outof the question," Tysse notes.

Nonetheless, her bibliography covers a lot

of ground. Volume I, published \n 1974, dealswith doctoral dissenations and some master'stheses and has approximately 5500 entries.Volume II, just off the press this spring, is intwo parts and has references to periodical arti-

cles in over 700 journals. Many of the itemshave annotations. Volume III, when com-pleted, will include monographicpublications — books, essays in collections,and government documents. The latter cate-gory, Tysse contends, contains a wealth of

largely ignored information.

She holds a master's degree in library sci-

ence from the University of Michigan and wasa joint compiler of a bibliography on Russianscience and technology, published in 1959.

Lois Marsilje '32 underwent surgery at Butter-worth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich, to replaceher hip. Lois is a retired RCA missionary whoserved in India.

Howard C. Schade'32 inspired author Tom Dowl-ing with stories of his early days in the ministry told

over 20 years ago. Dowling retold one of thesestories in the December 1978 issue of These Times

magazine. Howard suffered two heart attacks and isshowing signs of improvement in Morton PlantHospital, Clearwater, Fla. •

John Henderson '36 sold his 17th play, "My Sonthe Mayor," for high school and amateur fields. Itwill be published by the Eldridge Publishing Co. of

Franklin, Ohio in September.

Leonard J. VanHoven '39 was honored at anawards banquet for 26 years of service to education

and community in Kingsford, Mich. Hope Collegestudent Charles Bell entertained with a solo.

Leonard was the former superintendent of theBreitung Township school district.

Hope Community Reformed Church of LosAngeles, Calif.

Leonard V anden Bosch '42 was named senior vicepresident of the First Michigan Bank and TrustCompany, Zeeland, Mich.

Harvey Hoekstra '45 and his wife attended theservice of intercession and communion at NationalPresbyterian Church of Washington D.C. The ser-vice marked the convening of the 96th United StatesCongress. Harvey recently authored a book enti-tled, The World Council of Churches and the De-mise of Evangelism. He is president of the RCAGeneral Synod and a former missionary toEthiopia.

Harold De Roo '46 was invited by Dr. RobertSchuller '47 to appear as pulpit guest on the "Hourof Power" service broadcasted in early March.Harold is pastor of Rolling Hills Church inZellwood, Fla.

Robert J. Danhof '47 has been nominated for ajudgeship in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in

Cincinnati. The appointment is being considered byPresident Carter.

Randall Dekker '47 presented a review of the lifeof Thomas Paine at the Zeeland (Mich.) Public Li-brary in March. The presentation included adramatization of the trial of Thomas Paine withRandy as his defense attorney. Randy has practicedlaw in Zeeland and is presently president of FirstMichigan Bank and Trust Co.Bob Van Dis '47 was featured in a Kalamazoo,Mich, newspaper sports column. Bob reminisedabout his high school’s basketball tournament in

March, 1940 and his college basketball career as amember of the Hope College Blitz Kids, along withRuss DeVette '47 and Don Mulder '48.

John E. Tirrell '49 was honored at the dedica-tion ceremony of John E-. Tirrell Hall of Oakland

Community College in Farmington Hills, Mich.John was Oakland's first president (1964 to 1968).He now lives in Washington D.C. and is vice presi-dent for government affairs at the Washington-based American Association of Community andJunior Colleges.

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The Rev. Dr. Jlerome De Jong '41 accepted a callto Bethany Reformed Church of Grand Rapids,Mich.

50's

Ruth De Young '41 Potts has retired from teach-ing to take up full-time fiaion writing. Ruth's first

novel. The Lost Kachina will be published in Juneby Manor Books, Inc. She is now working on asecond novel.

The Rev. Harvey Calsbeek '50 accepted a call toFirst Reformed Church of Omaha Indians, Macy,Neb.

The Rev. Leon Dykstra '50 accepted his call to bepastor of evangelism at Forest Grove ReformedChurch of Hudsonville, Mich. ASam Noordhoff '50 is director of Chang

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birthsAl and Abla Antar '63 Bahret, Ariana Alissa, Dec.

28, 1977John and Mary Esther '67 Baxter, Joel Thomas,May 22, 1978James and Christine Huber '74 Carter, James Fran-

cis, Jan. 29, 1979Victor and Joyce Keas '63 Derenthal, Jacob Ben,Jan. 1977, Ann Arbor, Mich.Garrett E. '72 and Michelle Jewell '70 DeGraff,Adrew Jewell, Aug, 27, 1978Edward '58 and Mary E. Dejong, Rebecca Lynn,June 17, 1978, Tucson, Ariz.Thomas W. and Mary Hoksbergen '61 DeVries,Thomas Brent, July 20, 1978Lee '71 and Sher Vanden Heuvel '72 DeYoung,Kristen Lynn, Dec. 5, 1978, South Holland, 111.Tony and Pat Russell '76 Dignum, Aron Edward,Dec. 12, 1978, Grand Haven, Mich.Tom '70 and Debbie Denton '71 Dykstra, adoptedBrian Thomas, Oct. 5, 1978Jack '71 and Mary Ann Doorlag, Lisa Renee, Aug.

6, 1978Ken '69 and Barbara Eriks, Adam Joseph, July 23,1978, Zeeland, Mich.Bill '52 and Judy Workman '69 Estell, Ruth Marie,Dec. 3, 1978Jim and Gayle Spangler '74 Flanigan, Molly Col-leen, Feb. 1, 1979, Stowe, Vt.Gary '66 and Betty Gilmore, Todd Andrew, Aug. 7 ,1975, and Merrily Jean, Jan. 18, 1978Scott T. '72 and Susuan Maxwell '71 Graham,Stephenie Jayne, Aug. 10, 1977John and Jane Kasmersky '70 Greller, KatherineElizabeth, Sept. 16, 1978, Spring Lake, Mich.Rich '74 and, Julie Miller '74-Hakken, ElizabethAnn, Oct. 24, 1978, Grand Rapids, Mich.David '73 and Denise Schuiling '73 Harmelink,Julie Lynn, Aug. 3, 1978, Mt. Holly, N.].Emil and Janice Kemink '68 Hornack, JuliaKatherine, Sept. 8, 1979, Strongsville, OhioRussell S. '76 and Charity Priest 77 Johnson,Melinda Louise, Sept. 11, 1978, Trenton, Mich.Warren and Barbara Hayes '68 Johnson, ToddMichael, Feb. 16, 1978Jim 77 and Wendy Smith 76 Lampert, MatthewCraig, Jan. 22, 1979, Columbus, OhioGeorge '55 and Joyce Tyson '61 Magee, adopted

6-year-old, KoichiMike and Barb Small 75 McFadden, Brian Michael,Nov. 26, 1978, Holland, Mich.Andrew 70 and Lois McAlister 71 Mulder, ColinAlister, Oct. 31, 1979, Holland, Mich.Douglas and Debbie Northrop 72 Mepham, twindaughters, Rebecca Elizabeth and Sarah Christine,

Jan. 24, 1979Craig 71 and Joan Neckers, Joel Steven, Nov. 13,1978, Grand Rapids, Mich.Jon '65 and Gloria Langstraat '67 Norton, DanielGeorge, Feb. 9, 1978Ron and Gloria Renkes '68 Pessman, Eric Todd,

Aug., 1977, Fulton, 111.

J. Robert '68 and Sharon Staats 71 Quist, RobertPeter, Sept. 24, 1978Jeffrey and Kathleen Gaylord 72 Reynolds, SarahElizabeth, Dec. 29, 1978, Schenectady, N.Y.David J . 72 and Mary 1 J . Hage 72 Ritsema, LoraleeAnne, 1978, Muskegon, Mich.Maurice and Diane Dotter 71 Robbins, AmyElizabeth, Feb. 16, 1979, Schenectady, N.Y.Jim 71 and Ann Hallisey Rubins, Kathleen Hal-lisey, Oct. 14, 1978Matt 75 and Vicki Wiegerink 75 Rumpsa, ScottMatthew, Jan. 13, 1979, Grand Rapids, Mich.Alyn '60 and Catherine Rynbrandt, Robert Marc,Feb. 15, 1978, Okemos, Mich.Dan 72 and Tena Saul, Patricia Ann, Dec. 10, 1978,Holland, Mich.Rusty and Ria Jens '69 Schommer, Scott Michael,July 17, 1978, Vista, Calif.

Larry and Joyce Medema 70 Stancill, MatthewAlan, May 31, 1978James A. '65 and Louise Garter '64 Staple, a son,

June 3, 1978Richard Detrich and Nicola Steele 70, NoelleLeigh, Nov. 8, 1976, Rebecca Nicole, June 27,1978, Wauwatosa, Wis.Ronald and Jance Spencer 73 Stegenga, RobertJohn, Oct. 29, 1978Dennis 75 and Debbie Weiss 75 Sturtevant,Joshua Aaron, Dec. 16, 1978James '67 and Linda Hamming '67 Fillema, SaraElizabeth, April 14, 1978, Tucson, Ariz.Leslie and Sherri Hook '69 Thatcher, Todd Richard,Oct. 16, 1978, Lansing, III.Thomas and Sharon Schaap '63 Vaalburg, RandallThomas, March 15, 1972, Wendy Joy, Dec. 19,1978, Amanda Dawn, Nov. 15, 1978Rick L. 73 and Debbi Doom 75 Vander Lind,Elizabeth Meylia, Aug. 31, 1978John W. '65 and Judie A. Van Raalte '64 VanderRoest, Darla Sue, July 30, 1978Fred 74 and Kimberly Evans Van Duhm, JenniferAnne, Nov. 24, 1978William 70 and Jane Van Faasen, John Wallace,June 14, 1978, Crosse Point Park, Mich.Paul L. '67 and Carole Roden '68 Van't Hof,Jonathan Paul, Feb. 23, 1978, Grand Rapids, Mich.Frank and Lois Walvoord 74 Watson, Mark Fran-cis, Sept. 15, 1978, Marion, N.Y.Jerry and Mary Richards '69 Watson, David An-thony, March 24, 1978, Philadelphia, Pa.Stephen '67 and Anne Cobb '67 Wessling,Stephanie Lida, Aug. 22, 1978Carl and Phyllis Thompson 70 Westrate, Peter Jay,Comstock Park, Mich.William 71 and Barbara Seal 74 Weltry, EmilyElizabeth, June 9, 1978Robert '66 and Charlotte Miller Werge, ThomasEilif Miller Nov. 28, 1978, Lima, PeruWilliam and Patricia Lang '69 Young, LaurenceEdward, Jan. 6, 1977Kenneth '67 and Sally Cook '69 Zuithoff, JeffreyKenneth, Nov. 2, 1978

doss notesCornelia Voogd '50 Wendt is the organist andchoir director at Yoder Memorial CommunityChurch in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. She also is arepresentative for Sterling Investors Insurance

Company.LaVeme '51 and Lorraine Vanfarowe '50 Sik-kema work with Mission Aviation Fellowship inSudan, a program which services hard-to-reachareas with medical and sustenance needs and evan-

gelical outreach.

Robert M. Stoppels '51 is an uncontested candi-date seeking election to his third term as first wardcommissioner of East Grand Rapids (Mich.) City

Commission.Bill Estell '52 wrote a play relating the Christian

faith to current problems. He was inspired by hisstudents at YuShan Theological Seminary, Taiwan.Bill is also arranging a winter tour and recording

session for two tribal choral groups.L. James Harvey '52 was promoted to senior vicepresident of Mr. Manis Associates Inc., a manage-

ment and research consulting firm based inWashington D.C. He is responsible for marketing,staff development, and research and consulting ineducation. He has been with the firm for seven

Arie is the General Secretary of the RCA.Vernon D. Hoffman '56 spoke at the Februaryforum meeting of Church Women United of GrandRapids, Mich. Vernon is executive director of theGrand Rapids area Center for Ecumenism.John Walchenbach '57 recently returned from avisit to RCA mission projects in the Middle East.Richard J. Kelly '58 was appointed group lifesupervisor of Charlton School, a residential school

for troubled adolescents.

Phil Toppen '58, recovering after brain surgery,was honored by his son's basketball team whichdedicated their district tourney game to him. Phil isassociate director of admissions at Hope College.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1979OPEN at 9:30 a.m.BOOTHS close at 5;00 p.m.AUCTION at 5:00 and 6:30 p.m.CHICKEN BARBECUE 4:30-7:00 p.m.

The Rev. Frederick R. Kruithof '61 has accepted

a call to pastor Hope Reformed Church of SouthHaven, Mich. Fritz is resigning as pastor of theReformed Church Growth Fund congregation of

Carrollton, Tex.

The Rev. Harold E. Brown '62 will be leaving hisstaff position on the General Program Council ofthe RCA to begin a new RCA Church Growth con-gregation near Seattle, Wash.The Rev. Gordon Dragt '62 and family were thesubject of a story in the Rockland County (N.Y.)

years.

Norman W. Thompson '53 was appointed to thenewly established Henry King Ransom Professor-shipof Surgery at the University of Michigan Med-ical School. Norman is the first recipient of this'professorship and will hold it for the duration of his

career at the University of Michigan.Stanley Vander Aarde '53 is acting director of theArogyavaram Medical Center near Madanapalle,India, while continuing his work at Mary Lott Lyles

Hospital.

Arie Brouwer '56 was chosen Alumnus of the Y ear

by Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa.

marriagesn

Danny E. Crumley and Karen Jean Noggle 75,March 2, 1979, Kalamazoo, Mich.Tom Ganer 75 and Denise Tornga, Oct. 20, 1978Glenn Pfeiffer 75 and Susan Schlotterbeck, Nov.19, 1978, Ithaca, N.Y.Don L. Davis 76 and Gail Veronica Mims, March 3,

1979, Augusta, Ga.Mark Boyce 78 and Mary Ann Reed 76, March 17 ,

1979, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Opus Deodline

ExtendedThe deadline of the Alumni Opus arts

contest has been extended to Aug. 1, 1979,announced Eileen Beyer, contest coordina-'

tor. Previous deadline was June 1.Alumni Opus, announced last fall, is a

contest in creative writing and art. The first-time venture is under the sponsorship of the

Hope Alumni Association.“We have been encouraged by a recent

pickup in the number of entries received,”said Beyer. “The deadline has been extendedwith the hope that alumni will make use ofsummer’s more leisurely pace to prepare andsend off their entries.” Selected entries anda list of winners will be printed in the Winter,

1980, issue of The Hope College Magazine,as scheduled with the original deadline.“Alumni Opus is built on the premise that

there are Hope alumni doing significant workin the fields of poetry, fiction, photography,and two-dimensional art,” said Beyer.“Recognition in these fields is generally re-

stricted, and excellent work may never findan audience. This experience can be frustra-

ting. The Alumni Association, through AlumniOpus, seeks to give recognition to alumniartists while giving our general alumni reader-

ship all those rewards that come throughexposure to good art.” *

Woodcut by Don Steele, ’72

Rules:1 ) This contest is open to all women and men whohave been enrolled in Hope College. CurrentHope students are ineligible. Entries should bework done after leaving Hope College.2) The judges will accept entries in the following

categories:

a) poetryb) short stories (fiction only)

c) photographyd) two-dimensional art

3) A contestant may submit as many entries asdesired. Each entry should be mailed separately.

4) Short stories and poetry must be typed, double-spaced, on one side of white, 8V2 X 11 inch paper.A length of under 10 pages is suggested. The nameand address of the author should appear at the topof the right-hand comer of the first page. All sub-sequent pages must be numbered at the top right-

hand comer, along with the author’s last name.5) Photography may be color or black and white;prints should not exceed 8V2 X 11 inches. Drymounting is strongly suggested to ensure protec-tion of photos. Photography and art should be

adequately protected for mailing. The artist's nameand address plus the title of the work should appear

on the upfrer left-hand comer of the back of the

entry.

6) Winners will be selected by a panel of judgescomprised of Hqpe Cqllege faculty alumni, a rep-

resentative from the Office of College Relationsand Western Michigan artists. The decision of thejudges will be final. Announcement of winners willappear in the Winter, 1980 issue of The HopeCollege Magazine. Winners will be notified by mail

before publication.

7) First and second prizes will be awarded in each

category.

8) Only unpublished poetry and fiction may besubmitted.

9) The Office of College Relations retains the rightto publish or photograph for publishing in theWinter, 1980, issue oiThe Hope College Magazine

any story, poem, photograph or two-dimensional

art entered in the contest that is deemed publisha-ble. Hope College will retain no publication rightsafter March 1, 1980.10) Poems, short stories and photographs not ac-

companied with a self-addressed, stamped en-velope will not be returned. Large two-dimensionalart will be returned by the College but thealumnus/alumna will be billed for the shippingcosts. In any case, Hope College will not be respon-sible for the receipt, the return, or the condition of

the entries. The sender assumes all risks.

11) All entries must be received by Aug. 1, 1979.Send your submission to: Alumni Opus, Office ofCollege Relations, Hope College, Holland, Michi-qan 49423 . r- 0- -

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News entitled "New Life Suffuses an Old Manse."The family lives in the 1726 manse of Tappen Re-formed Church where Gordon is pastor.Frank Villerius '63 suffered three heart attackssince Jan. 28 and is at the Somerset Hospital, Some-rville, N.J. Frank is pastor of South Branch Re-‘formed Church.

Dr. Nancy A. Nieboer '64 is an education pro-gram specialist for post-secondary programs at theheadquarters of U.S.'Army Recruiting Command,

, Fort Sheridan, III.

E Audrey Prins '64 Rasmussen is associated with; Guggenheim Productions Inc., a Washington

D.C. -based film making company. In 1977-78,Audrey worked on a study on intra-governmentalmedia use, and in 1976 she was a television coor-dinator for the '76 Presidential debates. Prior to

that, she did television production for PBS andNBC.Rebecca Allen '65 Hintze is a senior chemist forShaklee Corp. in California.

Christian Buys '66 has been appointed vice chan-cellor for academic affairs at University of Houston

Victoria Campus. Chris is associate professor ofpsychology and has been special assistant to thechancellor for the past seven months.

Don McClow '66 was promoted to chief of adver-tising and sales promotion for the Nashville, Tenn.Army District Recruiting Command. Don de-velops, distributes and coordinates Army recruitingand advertising throughout Virginia, Georgia, andpart of Tennessee and Kentucky.Michael M. Vogas '67 joined John Poort Jr.Agency of Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceCo. in Muskegon, Mich.

Daniel J. Egy '68 will be assistant professor ofeconomics at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs,N.Y. in the fall.

Roger Rozeboom '68 was selected Citizen of theYear by the Columbine, Colo. Jaycees. Roger wasalso chosen by the Columbine newspaper. The In-

dependent, as one of six outstanding citizens in the

south suburban Denver area. He is minister at FaithCommunity Center, a church he established in ashopping center in Columbine.

The Rev. Dale D. Matthews '69 received the-1979 Community Distinguished Service Award. Heis pastor of Church of the Living Christ in Fremont,Mich.

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World/Witness of the Word) ambassador in a1978-79 program associated with The Way Interna-tional.

Thomas E. Donia '73 of the National Trust forHistoric Preservation in Washington, D.C. re-cently visited Hope College under the Alumni-in-Residence program as a guest of the history de-partment.

Chris Lohman '73 has accepted a position as abudget analyst at the University of SouthernCalifornia. Chris is presently assistant business

manager at Hope College.

Garry P. Kempker '74 accepted a position as direc-tor of marketing for Michigan National Banks,Grand Rapids, Mich.

Mike Zylstra '74 was named to the board of direc-tors of First Michigan Bank and Trust Company ofZeeland, Mich.

David DeKok '75, a reporter for the ShamokinNews-Item, won a first place in the news seriescategory of the 1979 Keystone Press Awards. Dave,a fonner editor of the anchor, will receive an en-

graved plaque at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Pub-lishers Association convention in May. He will alsoreceive a certificate for the honorable mention hewon in March in the photo competition of thePennsylvania Press Photographer's Association.Barbel Thoens '75 Masghati is a student andgraduate assistant at Ohio State University.Laurie Shiflett '75 McNamara was promoted toassistant manager of a K and B Drug store in Ab-beville, La.

Deborah Boraski '76 Browning will spend thenext two years in the Figi Islands with the Peace

Corps. Her work will involve small scale gardeningand child care.

Beverly Kerlikowske '76 Daane played a leadingrole in the Grand Rapids, Mich. Civic Theater'sproduction of "Relatively Speaking." Beverly plans

tocontinue doing local theater while seeking a posi-

tion in the field of advertising.

Linda Mitchell '76 has opened and is operating aSuzuki Violin Institute in Jackson, Midi.Chuck Stagg '76 is a field supervisor for KeckConsulting Services Inc., a hydrogeological firm.

Lynn Thomas '77 is teaching 9th grade English atNorthridge High School in Middlebury, Ind.JeffBoes'78 is completing his M.S. degree in com-puter sdence at the University of Pittsburgh.

Paula Houghton '78 Boes is a research associatefor Biodedsion Labs in Pittsburgh.

Mark Boyce '78 is in the careers training programat Steelcase, Inc. of Grand Rapids, Mich.

Janet L. Cross '78 accepted a job with World WideAdvertising in Philadelphia. She is responsible forwriting advertisements and promotional events for

various companies.Sally Jo Meador '78 will begin her third year ofmedical school in July at the University of Ken-tucky.

Daniel Smith '78 is a student at Louisiana StateUniversity and an industrial hygienist at UniroyalChemical Co.

John K. Vander Kolk '78 is assistant manager ofMr. Steak Restaurant in Jackson, Mich.Wayne A. Van Dyke '78 is a math and physicaleducation teacher at Hillman High School in Allen-dale, Mich. Wayne also coaches the varsity basket-ball team and is an assistant varsity football coach.

deathsThe Reverend Edwin Boonstra '27 died in Car-son Gty, Mich, on Dec. 21, 1978.

He attended Ferris State College and the Univer-sity of Michigan Dental School where he receivedhis doctorate in Dental Surgery and his master's in

Public Health.

He practiced dentistry in Detroit and CarsonCity.

Survivors include his wife, Aphra, and a son,Thomas.

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Barbara Reed '44 Fullerton died on March 2, 1979of cancer in Woodsville, New Hampshire.Among her survivors is a son, David.

. The Rev. Mark Nieuwsma '70 accepted a call to be the minister of lay development at Unity Re-R formed Church in Muskegon, Mich.

Bill Van Auken '70 teaches 4th and 5th grade forWest Ottawa, Mich, school district.F. Barry Schreiber '71 worked with Center forAdvanced Police Studies in the Netherlands in

. March. Barry is assistant professor in the criminol-I ogy program at the University of Minnesota,} Duluth..

Janice Thompson '71 Van Auken teaches privatepiano in Holland, Mich.

Margaret Louise Beretz '72 was ordained and in-stalled as pastor of Faith United Church of Christ in

, Hammond, Ind. April 8, 1979.I Richard Hine '72 is in the officers training pro-( gram of the U.S. Marines.

Ellen J. Morgan '72 is a W . O . W. (Word over the

degreesDaniel J. Egy '68, Ph.D. Economics, State Univer-sity of New York at Albany, spring, 1979Laurie Shiflett '75 McNamara, M.A. Marine Sci-ence, Louisiana State University, May, 1977Laurence P. Peterson '73, Ph.D. Biology, Mar-quette University, Dec. 22, 1978

Mary Wiersema '61 Vermeulen, M.Ed. Counsel-ing, The College of William and Mary, May, 1979Lois Hall '51 Viening, M.A. Education, WayneState University, Dec., 1978Nancy Wallendal '72, M.A. Mathematics,Montclair State College, Jan. 31, 1979

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natural opportunity to increase the percent-

age of foreign students whom we try to attractto Hope College. To do this we may have toconsider offering special programs designed to

meet their particular educational needs.5) An increase in the foreign student popu-

lation of the college would probably requirethat we give additional emphasis to develop-ing a more comprehensive program of teach-ing "English as a Second Language." Thiswould, at the same time, strengthen our re-sources for training Hope students to meet thegrowing demand for graduates wh‘o can serveabroad as teachers of English.

6) Since the challenges discussed really con-

cern not only education but the nation — thatis to say the whole community — meetingthem should not be regarded the task of thecollege acting alone. Rather, we need to coop-

erate with business and industry, public andprivate organizations and individuals of all

walks of life. Business executives, alumnifrom various professions, members of minor-ity groups and a wide range of people indis-

criminately lumped together as "senior citi-zens" have talents and experiences whichcould add significantly to the kind of interna-

tional exposure and global understanding

which we ought to provide for our students.Undoubtedly many other recommendations

could be added to the few sketched

out here if we are serious about address-ing these issues. As Dr. Lubbers used to say:

"At Hope College we don't have problems, wehave opportunities." I am certain that thechanging trends in International Education dorepresent both challenges and opportunities.

How well we will be able to deal with themwill ultimately depend on whether we acceptas imperative the need to provide a global

perspective for our students and if we arewilling to consider either adjusting or reorder-

ing our other individual and institutional

priorities accordingly.

Preston J. Maring '33 died on March 2, 1979 inCalifornia of a heart attack. A memorial service washeld in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Until his retirement Mr. Maring had been as-sociated with Parke, Davis & Co. He received a B.S.

degree in 1935 from the University of Illinois. Hewas a past president of the Hope Alumni Associa-

tion. He was active in many volunteer organiza-tions, including the American Red Cross andUnited Ministries in Higher Education.

He is survived by his wife, Lucille ; a son, PrestonJ. '67, and two daughters, Sandra Smith and Bar-bara Quinn.

Elmer Nienhuis '35 died in Holland, Mich, on

March 20, 1979 following a short illness.

Mr. Nienhuis worked as a Defense Departmentquality control representative until his retirement

in 1971.

Surviving are his wife, Marie ; a son, Conrad '66 ;

and a daughter, Leslie Nienhuis '69 Herbig.

James L. Poppen '26, renowned neurosurgeon,died in Dec., 1978 in Boston, Mass.

Dr. Poppen received his M.D. degree from RushMedical School. He took his residency in Surgery atIllinois Research and Educational Hospital. He was

Chief of Neurosurgery at the Lahey Clinic. In 1970

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he became the head of New England Baptist Hospi-tal Neurosurgical Section, and contributed greatly

to the Hospital's worldwide reputation forneurosurgery.

Dr. Poppen was responsible for devising manymodem neurosurgical techniques and heauthored abook as well as many articles and papers during his

Dr. Poppen was called in when President John F.Kennedy was shot in Dallas and again when SenatorRoben Kennedy was shot. He also treated promi-nent patients in Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay,Venezuela, and Brazil. Dr. Poppen held many na-tional and international honors.

Dr. Poppen is survived by his wife, Nancy; adaughter, Elizabeth; and a son, John.

Umekichi Tsuda '32 died on Sept. 21, 1978. Hehad suffered a stroke in the spring of 1978.

Among his survivors are four children.

The Rev. Gerrit Van Peursem 07 died on March16, 1979 in Spring Valley, N.Y.

Dr. Van Peursem was the first non-medical mis-sionary to enter the interior of Saudi Arabia. After

returning from active missionary service the VanPeursems served North Branch (N.J.) ReformedChurch.

Dr. Van Peursem was preceded in death by his

wife in 1976. Among his survivors are his daughtersMrs. Norman Lane and Gertrude Van Peursem'35 Bell.

Donald J. Weener, the son of the Reverend Jay '49

and Jean Wiersma '49 Weener, was killed in amotorcycle accident in Holland, Mich, on March18, 1979.

The Weeners have established the DonaldWeener Memorial Fund in his memory to providepiano scholarships to deserving Hope students. Thisaward will be given each year through the Music1£

alumni news

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the 1979hope summer theatre

presentsan exciting adventure in 'repertory

with

A FuMY Thing HappenedOn The Way ToTke Forum

a musical byStephen Sondheim. Burl Shevelove

and Larry Gellbarl

A madcap romp lull of hilariousillogicalities and zany nonsense

OPENS IN THE REPERTORY JULY 6

THERAINMAKER

a romantic comedy byN Richard Nash

American drama at its finest— a warmlook into the human heartOPENS IN THE REPERTORY JULY 13

mmc HGRe.swnnG nowa new musical review by

Richard Mallby. Jr and David Shire

This marvelous review sings toeveryone who is m love, about to be inlove or wishes they were in love

OPENS IN THE REPERTORY JULY 27

GIwelf(hJMigF^a comedy by William Shakespeare

The most popular of Shakespeare sromantic comedies, full of wit poetryand memorable characters

OPENS IN THE REPERTORY AUGUST 3

The repertory format allows you to attend the

^ four plays of this summer seasonal your con-venience See the calendar to choose your

performance dates

hopeAjmmer

reperborybheabre

opening July 6FnHn<;pi1 is S for

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Information available on group ratesand theatre/party reservations.

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