Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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Trustees The private college employs quite a different form of ex- ternal government than does the large state supported insti- tution. The Reformed Church in America is the chief sup- porting body of Hope College, and governs its program through the Board of Trustees, consisting in its entirety of forty-two members including the president of the college. The board members, headed by President John Dykstra and an Executive Board, are selected from the ranks of clergy- men and laymen in the Reformet! Church, and are the regu- larly constituted corporation under which the college acts. I)r. John A. Dykstra has served as President of the Board of Trustees since 1939. Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees: Front row, left to right: Titus W. Hager, John A. Dykstra, Mrs. George Pclgrim, Irwin J. Lubbers: Back row: Henry Steffens. Randall C. Bosch. George Peelen. Theodore Schaap. 8

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• • • President’s Preface HOPE — the name of our college is descriptive of aspiration. Its symbol — the ANCHOR — is a reminder that this aspiration is grounded in conviction and faith. This is a Christian college which recognizes that no college can be Christian if it is not a good college. Pious pretenses are not a cover for poor performance. We desire that more be said of us than St. Paul said to the Athenians, “I perceive that in every way you are very religious”. Christian education is the education of Christian students by Chris- tian teachers. The presuppositions which underlie our fellowship as faculty and students arc Christian. We seek earnestly in our labor and in our leisure, in our disciplines and in our diversions, to face frankly all new frontiers, to challenge fearlessly all false philosophies, to per- form faithfully all designated tasks. Our primary goal is to provide that environment in the classroom and laboratory, on the playing field and in social relationships, which will promote the growth of mind and heart and unfolding personality into the finest flower of a liberal education — the CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR. We lay no claim to having achieved but only seek in all our ways to acknowledge God that He may direct our paths. In placing all things in subjection to Christ we seek the release of individual talents and powers for high achievement in all our varied undertakings. We trust that the reader will find on the pages of this book a pleas- ant portrayal of the activities of eager, ambitious and diligent youth with a zest for life tempered by their serious concern for ultimate realities. To the extent that this volume portrays this spirit it becomes a MILESTONE on the illustrious pilgrimage of men and women of HOPE. Irwin J. Lubbers President

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The new modernistic music building provides attractive facilities for all musical activities. Completion of Kollen Mali, with room for 300 students, has alleviated the college's shortage of housing for men. Hope’s New Look Within the past decade, Hope's campus has become a scene of almost constant physical change. Since the comple- tion of Durfcc Hall, junior and senior women's dormitory, in 1950, planning for and the actual construction of new buildings has played a dominant role in the Hope scene. Completion this fall of a new Musit Building and Kollen Hall, a men's dormitory, is physical evidence of Hope’s ad- justment under the guidance of the Board of Trustees to a tremendous growth in student population. 9 ■ rS