Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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Vice President Serving as Vice-President, Dr. John W. Hollenbach is responsible to the President for the total academic pro- gram of the college, both curricular and co-curricular. In addition to pro- viding administrative guidance, he helps to co-ordinate the Office of Admissions, Records Office, Library, Placement Office, and the evening and summer schools. Financially responsible for the col- lege under the Articles of Corporation is the group of individuals known as the Board of Trustees. It is the duty of this organization to establish the broad, basic policies of the college. The Board is elected by various parts of the Reformed Church in America. John W. Hollenbach. Vice-President Board of Trustees FRONT ROW: Willard Wichers, Irwin J. Lubbers. John A. Dykstra. Mrs. George Pelgrim. BACK ROW: Ekdal Buys, Rein Visscher, Randall C. Bosch. John VerMeulen, Henry Steffens, Nickolas Rozeboom. 27

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the President Back in the year 1917, a young man graduated from Hope College with a major in Classics, completely unaware that some day he would be president of the same college. While at Hope College, then with an enrollment of three hundred-fifty students, Irwin Lubbers played on the base- ball team and was very much interested in debating. He is the only student ever to have won two state oratorical con- tests. After several years in the Flying Service, he returned to Hope as a teacher, spending most of his spare time draw- ing plans for a house. These plans he sold and consequently drew more plans. He worked a number of years for a firm as a house architect. The evi- dences of his work can be seen about the city of Holland. Concerning the future of Hope College, Dr. Lubbers states, “There is no possibility of resting on our oars. The college is now filled to capa- city, but must continue to grow.” Expressing his sentiments concerning Hope, the President remarks, “I am convinced that Hope College is the best Chris- tian college in the country. Dr. Irwin J. Lubbers 26 an

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William Vander Lust Builders of Character The academic welfare of Hope College is in the capable hands of Dr. William Vander- lugt, working with the Educational Policies Committee. Through these hands pass all the curriculum changes for examination and ap- proval. The men of Hope may turn to Dean of Men, William Ililmert, for counseling and ad- vice. Dean Hilmert is in charge of and genu- inely interested in the welfare and conduct of the men as college students. From Gilmore Cottage, which houses the offices of the Dean of Women, Miss Emma Reeverts oversees the well-being of Hope’s women students. She is assisted by Mrs. Della Steininger. William J. Hilmert 28