Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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ff jf . Dr. Hawkinson once remarked that she had lived as she believed. Her record spoke for itself, and she had no apologies. ln paying tribute to her memory we can, then, try to set down what she believed, the record may be allowed to speak for itself, As a teacher, Dr. Hawkinson believed that the student should be curious about the why of things. She wished to provide him with the tools for seeing the historical process at work. Not a textbook teacher by nature, not a lecturer by choice, she asked questions. Probing the origin of the contempo- rary in the ancient, she suggested readings on conflicting ideas. She was less concerned with stocking the mind than with awakening thought. As Head of the Department of History and Political Science, Dr. Hawkinson believed that the members of the Department should evolve together in conference the whole cycle of history offerings. She was especially concerned with the evaluation of and planning for the freshman program. Fresh- men interested her most, for with them, she believed, the foundation for critical and creative thinking is laid. As a counselor, Dr. Hawkinson believed that the faculty member is ethically obligated to advise the student to take the highest and most self-respecting view of his own welfare he can conceive. That view was Christianity to her. To help the student adhere to his best picture of himself, she gave her time freely, not only in office hours at the College, but also during evenings and weekends at her home. As a citizen, Dr. Hawkinson believed in common sense and humor and honesty and steadfastness. These qualities made for mutual understanding and tolerance between individuals and between nations. That these qualities might survive and one day, perhaps, prevail, she took her students, American and foreign, to United Nations meetings, she conducted workshops in international relations with them, she promoted the student ambassadorship to a foreign country, she spoke widely as President of the Michigan UNESCO. As a scholar, Dr. Hawkinson believed in educational vision. She was never enmeshed by details, she saw a dream whole. Her international lectureship to Trondheim and Oslo was an attempt to share her vision with other teachers, as were the summer workshops she conducted at the University of Kansas, the Oregon College of Education, the University of Saskatchewan, the School for Cerebral Palsied Children in California, the University of Rochester, the Southern Oregon College of Education, and the University of Minnesota. Liberal, humanist, educator of magnificent vision, Dr. Hawkinson lived as she believed. She was simple and kind and strong. - Lotus Snow

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Hope - Science: the words at times are synonymous. Why? The professors? Part- ly. The undergraduate program? Partly. The students? Partly. All three? Undoubt- edly. By allowing students to work experi- mentally in their fields of concentration under the tutorage of capable and inspir- ing professors, Hope College has gained an enviable reputation in the realm of undergraduate scientific education. This year biology maiors are making slide se- ries on chick embryos, blood, and frog tissues, chemistry maiors are researching in the synthesis of thiophene compounds, and physics maiors are experimenting with transistors and electronic circuits. One other proiect of all three departments is the construction of a cyclotron, which was begun this year' with a five hundred dollar research grant from CIBA. The professors of the Department of Biology have been doing individual re- search with the intent of publishing papers on their subiects. The Chemistry Depart- ment received many honors this year among which was the accrediting of the department by the American Chemical So- ciety. 1 l vinuli-f' A ' -t .:... -Q ,.VAV,, E . .. .. ', 1' ' J Q 9,-.ggmg-3',, tg ' ,,,'.' L Tl-IE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Q00 A twenty-five hundred dollar grant from the Research Corporation was grate- fully accepted. This yearly grant has al- lowed the Chemistry Department to pub- lish ten papers since the inception of the grant in l948. Also received were a twenty-five hundred dollar grant from E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, and a one thousand dollar scholarship from the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Dr. Van Zyl has also been honored in being chosen as a lecturer for the American Chemical 5ociety's Division of Chemical Education and Nation Science Foundation conference to be held at the University of Wyoming this summer. The Physics De- partment is expanding to give the students a larger experimental background. Mr. Kleis has been elected a member of the Ford Foundation's Educational Study Com- mittee and Mr. Frissel will receive his doc- tor's degree in nuclear physics this summer. One brief look over the graduates of these departments will show the results of Hope's science program. Who is the grad- uate? He is the best medical student, the most renowned doctor, the creative chem- istry student, the director of a chemical re- search firm, the reflective nucleonics stu- dent, the researcher into the forces of the atom. This is why the name Hope and the word science are often synonymous.