Calvin College - Prism Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Judy Mullins, Dean of Women 22 ,, M Z - S Lester Ippel, Controller, and Henry De Wit, Vice President for Business and Finance Donald Boender, Dean of Men .. ss., S A J ! N I

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Donald Distelberg, Director of Annual Giving Donald Lautenbach, Director of Admissions -V dxf., i X-5, . , 92 4520,-WW Q ':wf2?f:.'ri4i 9 i,.L, l Peter M. Harkema, Admissions Development Director James Hoekenga, Executive Director of Alumni Relations 'EX

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Yet. even though the administration is very responsive to the internal needs of the college. one wonders what exter- nal leadership it provides. After all. Calvin College must ultimately look outward, not inward. Calvin College is a Christian institution which exists in the world so that it can witness to that world. Surely, this witness is more than simply sending out academically trained graduates Why have so many other Christians never even heard of Calvin College? Why does the newly instituted Five Year Plan proposed by President Diekema, which delineates Calvin policy for the next five years. seem concerned mostly with drawing students to Calvin? How has Calvin College, as an institution, come to grips with its task to witness to politics, to farming, to economic policy? God works not only through individ- uals but also through groups and insti- tutions. Calvin College, like other Christian institutions, must struggle to see that its witness is carried out through the institution as well as through the individual. The adminis- trators who more than anyone else are aware of Calvin's status as an institu- tion are best suited to see that Calvin fulfills this mandate. i HK- 'rx 'QW Larry Teitsma, Director and Counselor in the Broene Center