Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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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

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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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Dr. Van Zoeren presenting the keys to librarian John May. In his quiet way, Dr. Van Zoeren has shared with us his keen sense of fulfillment in this gift. We see him growing visibly younger, stronger, more serene. We see in this fulfilled couple the joy of giving. With us, they share the good things in Hope and in us, and the purposes to which we all are committed. They encourage the positive forces at work here. We, the students of Hope College, salute you. Dr. and Mrs. Van Zoeren, and gratefully dedi- cate this MILESTONE to you. The library gift is itself a milestone in the saga of Hope. Your spirit and influence cannot be measured. Van Zoeren Library built primarily through the gift of Dr. G. John Van Zoeren.