Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION FORMS SOUND BODIES. The physical education section covers a broad area of activities, involving the filling of a requirement of seventy-two clock hours of gym work for all fellows and coeds, and additional sports activities for the many who participate. john Schouten, who is Jack to faculty and stu- dents alike, has been here on full time since 1920, although he coached and trained Hope men before that. jack spent summers in study at Illinois, Wis- ,consin, Michigan, and Notre Dame, and has partici- pated in all sports since the year one, and that includes jockeying! Jack's hobbies are music, sports, young people, and especially the latter. For he finds work with them fascinating, self-satisfying. He likes to train them and keep them physically fit, to help prepare their attitudes for a happier life. That's why he likes to try to relate his experiences to those of his students, as he often does. Kindly, genial Jack has a big following of friends. Mrs. Schouten assists when it comes to chaperoning joint meetings and parties. Besides tending to students' aches and sprains, Jack does work for the clientele of local doctors. Besides taking charge of the boys' gym classes, coaching them in football, basketball, baseball, track, bowling, riding, swimming, softball and tennis, and teaching the girls' classes basketball, softball, volley- ball, tennis, archery, riding, bowling, swimming, calithenics and apparatus work, Jack has taken on two new courses in gym methods for those upper- class fellows and coeds who wish to be qualified as physical education teachers and coaches after gradu- ation. The school and students owe a debt to Jack which can only be measured in terms of life. 21

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LANGUAGES ARE CULTURAL AND PRACTICAL. Languages hold an important place in the curricu- lar life of the college, not only because two years' study of a language is a requirement, but because languages constitute an important study-field here for prospective teachers. Heading the French department is Elizabeth E. Lichty, A.B. Lake Forest, Ph.D. University of Wis- consin, who is also Dean of Women. On campus she sponsors the French Club and is the faculty adviser to the Women's Activities League board. Off campus she is a member of the Century Club, Wom- an's Literary Club, and the A. A. U. W. Teaching beginning and second year French is a concert enthusiast, the lively Mrs. Peter N. Prins, A.B. Hope, A.M. University of Wisconsin. She spent one summer in study at the University of Besancon, France. She is co-adviser to the French Club. 20 The German division is headed by Laura A. Boyd, A.B. Tarkio College, A.M. Missouri State University. She spent summers in study at Colorado, Wisconsin, and 'Jena-Weimar, Germany. The positions of campus social chairman and adviser to the Deutsche Verein make her life a busy one. Assisting her is Edward Wolters, A.B. Hope, A.M. University of Michigan, an outdoor man, being a hunting, fishing, and gardening enthusiast. The Rodman Memorial Professor of Latin is Albert H. Timmer, A.B. Hope, A.M. University of Michigan, and candidate for a Ph.D. at Northwest- ern. He is head of the cooperative study at Hope, a golf addict outside of school. Thomas E. Welmers is Voorhees professor of Greek and professor of Dutch. His degrees are A.B. Hope, B.D. Princeton Theological Seminary, and he studied at Berlin University in 1907-1908.

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT JAIVIES H. WARNER CLARENCE DE GRAAF ELIZABETH OGGEI. Ph.D.. Professor of English A.M., Instructor in English A.M., Instructor in English Chairman of Department XVILLIAINI SCHRIER MARGARET GIBBS ELIZABETH E. CONNOR A.M.. Professor of Speech B.S., Librarian A.M.. ASSiSl21nt Librarian EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 1 A EGBERT WINTER GARRETT VANDER BORGH CAROLINE HAWES A.M., Professor of Education AIM., Directm. of practice A.B., Instructor in Education Teaching 22