Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Milton I.. Hing.1, A.M. Instructor in History History and social studies became more intensely interesting to Hope students this year and they enjoyed courses in ancient, European, American history, cultural history, and constitutional history, govern- ment, political parties and politics, anil international relationships. Head of the department. Dr. Bruce M. Raymond, was appointed defense co- ordinator for the campus, and was kept busy with the Civilian Pilot Training course which was rechristened the War Training Service. Instruction in cultural history is given by Metta J. Ross who takes an enthusiastic interest in current events and in Pan-American relations. Coach Milton L. Hinga teaches history and directs athletics on the campus. This spring he took over the class in air- craft identification at the W. T. S. school. IS

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DEPARTMENT OE LANGUAGE Amo, amas, amat . . . hasta lucgo . . . Du bist wie cine Bliimc . . . tres bien, n'est ce pas? . . . the Greeks had a word for it, too . . . but a rose in any other language would probably be a different gender. . . . The classical languages flourish at Hope. Prof. Timmer guides Latin students through the mazes of the fifth declension, Cicero’s oratory, and Caesar’s politics. Greek classes are populated for the most part by pre-seminarians, who burn much midnight oil working out translations that will earn the good word from the doughty Thossy” Welmers. Mrs. Prins breezes through the first two years of French with rapidity, leaving her students on Miss Lichty’s doorstep, where in the deep water of drama, novelists, phonetics and conversation, they discover they have learned something after all. Patient Prof. Wolters initiates students into der, die, das”, and the confusing German script. Miss Boyd finishes up with 'Herman and Dorothea”, the subjunctive, scien- tific German, and German literature. Youngest course in the language department is Spanish, also taught by the irrepressible Mrs. Prins. Spanish is a language with a future. But it's those perfect tenses that make trouble! Laura A. Boyd, A.M. Professor of German Albert H. Timmer, A.M. Professor of Latin Mrs. Peter X. Prins, A.M. Instructor in French Iidward Wolters. A.M. Instructor in German 20