ope college
olland, michigan APRIL 29,1982
VOLUME 94-ISSUE 24
Hope Honors Students
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it was up, up and away Saturday, at least for a lucky few. The balloon ascension highlighted a picnic held in honor of the American Eight sculpture exhibition, (photo by John DeNeef)
The 117th Hope College graduating class will be honored the weekend of May 8-9 as the College community celebrates Alumni Day, Baccalaureate and Commencement. Approximately 445 seniors are eligible to receive the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Science degrees. ^ Commencement will be held at the Holland Civic Center on Sunday, May 9, at 3 p.m. Baccalaureate will be held earlier Sunday, beginning at 11 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The Board of Trustees will confer an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree upon Dr. Barbara Reynolds, a distinguished Italianist, and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary S. Coleman, who will deliver the commencement address. Dr. Reynolds was a lecturer at Cambridge University, England, for 22 years. She is best known for her Cambridge Italian Dictionary, an enterprise which was 14 years in the making and published in 1962. She has translated works on Dante and Ariosto, authored numerous scholarly articles and co-authored a book on painting with her late husband, Professor Lewis Thorpe. She currently is writing a book on her close friend and godmother, the late Dorothy Sayers, and is managing editor of a new AngloAmerican journal. Seven. Dr. Reynolds is serving as a visiting professor at Hope. Chief Justice Coleman became the first woman elected to Michigan's Supreme Court in 1972. Seven years later she became the first woman in the U.S. to be elected by her peers to the chief justice post and is now serving her second twoyear term as the leader, spokesperson
and chief administrative officer of the state court system. Prior to her Supreme Court appointment she was probate and juvenile judge for Calhoun County. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she earned her law degree from George Washington University. She holds honorary degrees from nine colleges and universities. Recent awards include the Michigan American Association of University Women's Distinguished Service Award (1979), the Detroit News' Top 10 Michiganians of the Year Award (1980), The Michigan Juvenile Detention Association's Distinguished Service Award (1980) and the American Judges Association of Merit (1980). Dr. James I. Cook, vice president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America and professor of New Testament at Western Theological Seminary, will preach the Baccalaureate sermon. A 1948 Hope alumnus, Cook is a g r a d u a t e of Western Theological Seminary and received his master's degree from Michigan State University and the doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary. A frequent lecturer and author on various subjects. Cook published in December a book on Amertcan New Testament scholar Edgar Johnson Goodspeed as part of a series sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature. Eight aKimni classes and members of the 50-Year^Circle will participate in the annual Alumni Day activities on Saturday, May 8. Classes scheduled to hold reunions include 1932, 1937,*1942, 1947, 1952, 1957, 1962 and 1967. The Fifty Year Circle is comprised of alumni who graduated from (continued on p. 5)
Election Results Announced Sophomore Rick Deraberger squeaked by Junior Kevin Toren in last week's student Congress elections, winning the presidency by a mere 3 percent of the vote. In the other two races, Dave VanDyke narrowly defeated runner-up Dave Randall for 1st Vice-President and freshman James Shields cruised to a surprise victory over Junior Paul Hemeren. Voting was up this year, with 917 students exercising their rights of suffrage. In the presidential race, Deraberger took 41 percent of the vote, Toren 38 percent, and also-ran Kevin Bedwell took a respectable 20 percent. In the race for First Vice-President, VanDyke led an even field with 34 percent, Randall copped 30 percent, and Dave Bopf came in a close third with 25 percent. In the final race, Shield scored 49 percent, while Hemeren could only tally 37 percent of the vote. Election officials noted that many people voted for president, but failed to vote for one or either of the other offices. Deraberger, in an anchor interview on Mondav, stressed that he was serious in
his campaign pledge to open the lines of communication, he cited three major areas of communication that needed specific attention: communication between the Student Congress and the student body; communication between the Student Congress and the administration; and communication between members within Student Congress. Ideas that he hopes to implement to alleviate the current communications problems include: rotating the time and place of Student Congress meetings to allow easier access to students and to promote more visibility among students; encouraging more administrators to attend and become involved in Student Congress meetings; holding Student Congress sponsored community hours with administration members present to answer questions on such relevant topics as tuition increases or the campus drinking policy. In addition, Dernberger hopes to foster a more harmonious relationship among student Congress members, feeling that members who are comfortable with each other will be more
willing to be open and to speak out. Another facet of Dernberger's increased emphasis on communication would entail working much closer with campus media. In addition to having the minutes of the weekly Student Congress meetings published in the anchor, Dernberger suggested the possibility of highlighting different reperesentatives weekly, explaining in the anchor exactly how Student Congress works, and getting Student Congress members to write weekly accounts of issues of importance confronting the Student Congress. Dernberger also said that he hoped to see representatives hold meetings with their constituents and that he would like to meet periodically with small groups of representatives to get their input on issues affecting Hope College. Said Dernberger, "When people are upset, I want them to be able to turn to Student Congress and expect them to do something about it." VanDyke said that his major responsibilities for the coming year will be
Rick Deraberger chairing the Publicity and Elections Committees. "We want people to know what we're doing," said VanDyke, "what the issues before Student Congress are." He said that he felt that this year's Student (continued on d. 2)