Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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DEDICATICDN Tack' the Friend' lack, the Coach. Sooner or later during the term of study on Hope's campus, all students enter the warm sphere of comradeship created by a man whose sincere friendliness and genial nature has long endeared him to students and faculty alike. For lack Schouten is, and has been at the same time, father, brother, and friend to all. lt was in the early nineteen twenties that lack first came to be recognized as the father of Hope College athletics. He has held that distinction through the years until Hope College athletics and lack Schouten have become synonymous. When athletics was in its infancy at Hope, lack generously volunteered his services to assist in fulfilling the increasing demand for a full time athletic program. lt was lack as a trainer, who in those first years of athletic competition became known as the healer of all ailments, physical and otherwise. His responsive nature, ready smile, and hearty greeting combined to make him loved and revered. From trainer to coach was a mere transferring of titles, for he had long evinced great interest in coaching. Our first official coach, lack took over duties in football, basketball, baseball and track. It was Iack who instigated physical training programs for girls and made good sports- manship and clean living by-words. A firm believer in both, lack has long advocated the theory that a good athlete will make a good citizen. A former athlete himself, lack knows the value of living right, not only in athletics, but in all things, and daily he strives to be a living example of this. Today, with one of the largest enrollments in Hopes history, and a greatly expanded athletic program, Iack still finds time for making the life of a student on Hopes campus a fuller one. As Director of Physical Education, trainer, and coach of the baseball squad, lack finds ample opportunity to make friends and influence the lives of all with whom he comes in contact. Emerson once wrote, ln order to have a friend, you must first be one. For over thirty years, lack Schouten has lived and practiced this creed. lt is with a feeling of A affection and pride, that this Milestone for the year 1949 is dedicated to him. lack, the Helper, lack, the Trainer. 11