Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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ALMA MATER HYMN Hail to our Alma Mater! Hail to our Varsity! Steadfast as the anchor ever in our loyalty; Hail to the Orange and Blue! Firm may our motto be! Spera in Deo. Hope! our Varsity. Robert W. Cavanaugh Vandcr Werfs develop techniques in movement. The Dutch said, Let there be Holland, and there was HOPE.

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Phelps: Your move. Hope: Checkmate! Pine trees razed; Nykerk raised. by Phelps Hall, Gilmore Hall, the fraternity houses, Nykerk Hall of Music, the Physics- Math Building, and Van Zoeren Library. Bringing his productive administration to a close in 1963, President Lubbers relin- quished his post to Dr. Calvin Vander Werf. As the eighth president of the college, Dr. Vander Werf is devoting his time and energy to fostering the continued excellence of Hope College. In doing so, he unites the essence of our future and our heritage. Our seal has not yet lost its meaning, and still we say, as we look at it— Spera tu in Deo.” For our ideals arc not yet fully attained. Our horizon expands as we proceed on our way, and is never reached. All true education is an endless process and looks ever forward. Meanwhile, Hope's sons and daughters have honored her fair name, as they encircle the globe in the most diversified spheres of life. They arc children of whom the Alma Mater may well be proud; men and women of unquestionable strength of purpose, of unflinching devotion to duty, of commend- able Christian character. Yes, of Christian character, for, above all things, this is the greatest honor of Hope College—that it is a moulder of character. May it ever so be! Different in intensity, different in degree, but always plainly recognizable, with a few unfortunate exceptions, her children reflect the character of the Pilgrims,” who laid its foundation in prayer and faith. Hope’s day of small beginnings is over; before her now lie the days of serious intellectual endeavor and of quiet extensive and intensive growth.

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Dedication For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” To Dr. G. John Van Zoercn, a man who is a living, radiant, and serene manifestation of this Proverb, we, the students of Hope College, proudly dedicate this 1966 Mile- stone. And with good reason— When he retired from an active and bril- liantly successful business and scientific career as founder and president of Chemical Specialties. Inc., now part of Miles Chemical Company, Dr. Van Zoercn saw retirement as an opportunity’. Alumnus, neighbor, and friend of Hope College, he felt the pulse of the college and found it strong, vibrant, dura- ble. More than fifteen hundred students and a hundred faculty members in a college al- most a century old, committed to the high purposes in which Dr. Van Zoeren believes, fired his imagination. Dr. Van Zoeren gave Hope College a new library. A more timely and useful gift and building could not have been conceived. The Van Zoeren Library is now the nerve center of a vital campus. So busy is the library that during evening hours, if one of us gets up to sharpen a pencil, he is likely to lose his chair. In this generous gift, Hope is twice blest with the gift and the giver! Dr. Van Zoeren and his charming wife have become per- manent members of the Hope family; and out of this sustaining new relationship, the students and faculty have come to know a great man and his lovely lady. The good that the Van Zocrens have done will live after them, magnified by our lives and the lives of others who will come after us. Dr. G. John Van Zoeren