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Higher Horizons Receives OEO Grant of $11,190

COLLEGE

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Grant Is One Of Four in Area;

OLLAND, MICHIGAN

Begins Next Fall The Hope College Higher Horizons Program has received an $11,190 grant from the U. S. Office of Economic Opportunity. This grant, which represents one of the four distributed to the State of Michigan, provides for a full time director, the employment of professional consultants and an activities fund to be used by program participants during the 1966-67 college year. The grant required 90 per cent of Higher Horizons participants to be from poverty backgrounds. Poverty conditions are defined as a $3,000 yearly income per three dependents and an additional $500 allotted per additional dependent. This grant may extend the Higher Horizons Program to include all of Ottawa County and cooperation from Grand Valley State College. Current expenses for the 1965-66 year were aided by a $1,300 grant from the Greater Holland Community Foundation. A contribution is given yearly by Hope College including in this donation the use of office facilities and consultation services. The value of this contribution is estimated at $1900. The Higher Horizons Program of Hope College is intended to aid children who are not able to take maximum advantage of the normal classroom approach to learning. A one-to-one relationship between a college student and a school child the basic means used for this end. Activities may include cultural enrichment activities; tutoring; study aids; development of skills, hobbies and talents; imparting of values and ideals. The children involved in the program are to be recommended by the schools on the basis of economic deprivation, cultural deprivation and emotional needs, said Higher Horizons director. Mrs. Robert Cecil. Previous statistics have indicated that children most in need of individual attention have not become involved in communitv youth activities nresentlv available and that a full-time director of the oroeram could aid in such communication.

78th ANNIVERSARY -

Hope College, Holland, Michigan

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Development

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Body Hoped

Campus Church to Continue Services Started as a four-week experiment in preparation for Lent, the Sunday morning worship services aimed expressly at Hope students will be continued, announced Chaplain William Hillegonds. Faculty members and chosen guests will conduct weekly services in Dimnent Memorial Chapel for the remainder of the semester. The Religious Life Committee, however, hopes to develop the program into a permanent institution at Hope. Chaplain Hillegonds is currently drawing up a plan, to be presented to the Board of Trustees for approval in June, which would establish a church run almost entirely by students. According to Chaplain Hillegonds. the church would be governed by a student "consistory" and Board of Christian Education, and would be supported by its own independent budget, which would be distributed in the same way a normal church budget is. P a r t would be used to cover the operating expenses of the church, which include the procuring of guest speakers, and part would be contributed as benevolences to worthwhile enterprises. A

student choir formed expressly for these services is also being planned. The purpose of the church, which hopefully will begin operation this September, is to give students another opportunity to worship and study. It is also to be a learning experience, according to Hillegonds, giving the student body a chance to become really involved in the life of the Church. It is also hoped that the church will take the lead in setting the religious tone of the campus. The Religious Life Committee hopes to make the student church as much like a normal church as possible. There will be a chance for associate membership in its fellowship, so that, with dispensation from the Reformed Church in America, the elders on the faculty may serve the Sacrament of Holy Communion from time to time. The Committee will also try to give as much power in the church as possible to the students. Chaplain Hillegonds now anticipates three faculty advisors in the government, but in an advisory capacity only. Although Chaplain Hillegonds emphasized that these plans have not

Scholarships Awarded to Two Hope Students to Attend Yugoslav Seminar Neal Sobania and Keith Taylor, two Hope sophomores, have been selected to participate in a seminar in Yugoslavia this summer. Both received full scholarships to cover all expenses, including travel to and from Yugoslavia. In addition. Bob Donia, a junior at Hope, will act as administrative assistant to the seminar staff. Donia attended a similar seminar last summer, and then remained in Yugoslavia to study for one semester. Dr. Paul Fried, professor of history at Hope, is the program's administrator.

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The seminar takes place by arrangements between the Great Lakes College Association and the Unicersity of Ljubljana. Yugoslavia, and the support of the United States Department of State. A total of eighteen American students from twelve colleges in the association and an equal number of Yugoslav students will participate. The faculty incdudes both American and Yugoslav professors. Dr. Irwin Abr a m s of Antioch College will direct the program. The program, a pioneer project

in relationships between American students and students from behind the Iron Curtain, is designed to give the American participants a view of modern socialist society and its people, and to acquaint him with particular problems in the academic discipline of his Yugoslav colleague. There will be discussion of the differences and similarities in the systems of Yugoslavia and the United States, both on a general level and within the subject areas of economics, sociology and history-political science. The American participants will take a study tour through Yugoslavia by bus for one week, concluding at Ljubljana University, where the actual seminar is to take place. The second week will be spent acquiring general background information about Yugoslavia. Following this, the Americans and Yugoslavs, divided into groups according to interest areas, will spend two weeks in intensive comparative discussions. The American students will return to the United States on September 19, and will reconvene in October for final evaluation.

YUGOSLAV SEMINAR—President Calvin VanderWerf awards (left to right) Keith Taylor and Neal Sobania their scholarships for this summer's Yugoslav seminar. Robert Donia (far right) will also attend the seminar from Hope.

The exchange program includes a plan to bring eight Yugoslav students to the United States for summer study and travel, including a month in attendance at Hope's summer session.

been finalized and have been officially approved by no one, he also said that the chances for approval are good. The fine responses to the first four services will certainly have a favorable effect on the Board of Trustees, which has already shown signs of agreement with the plan, he said. Approximately 500

people have attended the services in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The program was also unanimously endorsed by the Holland Classis. The Chaplain reiterated that students are under no obligation to join the new church if it is formed, and should feel free to worship at any of the local churches.

Dr. Olert to Preach Sunday In New Campus Church Service Dr. Frederick H. Olert, pastor of the Central Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, will be the guest preacher at the service in Dimnent Memorial Chapel this Sunday morning. The title of Dr. Olert's sermon will be "The Burning Heart." Dr. Olert, a graduate of Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, earned his Th. M. degree at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. He also did graduate work at the University of Chicago in 1928 and at the University of Edinburgh in 1936. Alma College conferred an honorary D.D. degree on him in 1940, and Hope similarly honored him in 1963. He also served as church organist and choir director, and has preached on a weekly television program. He has been included in "Who's Who" since 1940.

DR. FREDERICK H. OLERT

Sue Dampman Wins Miss Holland Pageant Susan Marjorie Dampman, a 20year old junior from Teaneck, N.J., won the fifth annual Miss Holland Pageant March 26 along with the Miss Congeniality and talent trophies. This was the first time in the history of the local contest that a contestant captured all three awards.

swimsuit and talent competition and on their response to a frivolous and serious question

First and second runners up were Ann Slaughter and Linda Nelson, both freshmen at Hope. Miss Dampman performed a novelty song presentation "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" in which she used an original painting of a London street scene. She also made the gown she wore for the competition. Miss Slaughter, who competed in the Miss Michigan pageant last summer as Miss Charlotte, presented a character soliloquy f r o m "St. Joan" and Miss Nelson did a routine with 4 'Let Me Entertain You" and "Standing on the Corner Watching All the Boys Go By." The contestants were judged on their performance in evening gown,

SUE DAMPMAN MISS HOLLAND 1966


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