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'Every Human* will' be welcome at the Black Experience Weekend which will be highlighted by a visit from Hope graduate ^ e v - Floyd Brady, today, tomorrow and Sunday. Brady is now associate chaplain at Dartmouth College and regional director of the A Better Chance 'program at t h e school. He was graduated in 1968 and studied in Princeton Theological Seminary and later enrolled in a joint Masters of Divinity and Masters of Social Work Program offered by Princeton and Rutgers Universities. At Princeton, Brady helped form the coalition which created the Martin Luther King Memorial Lecture Series. A film series with the movies,

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Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423

Hope Band performs winter concert Wed.

November 15, 1974

Serves poor of Holland

On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. the Hope Band will show its more serious side when it performs its winter concert, according to Band Director Dr. Robert Cecil, associate professor of music. "The program promises to be an interesting one from several standpoints," Cecil stated. WITH THE help and advice of Manager of Theater Facilities Michael Grindstaff and Dr. Jam^s Toevs, associate professor of physics, Cecil and his musicians will be attempting to brighten the acoustics in the main theater of the DeWitt Cultural t e n t e r with the use of newly-constructed reflective panels to be suspended over the band. Cecil explained that the auditorium, built primarily for theater, needs some way of containing and reflecting the sound of music groups and it is hoped that this experiment will be the beginning of an improvement in the acoustics for concerts. FEATURED will be a performance by Charles Aschbrenner, associate professor of music.

Jouppi heads Legal Aid 'f

The townsperson or student in Holland who can't afford an attorney's fee formerly had no program to turn to for help. But the establishment of a new countyfunded Bureau of Legal Aid has changed this, according to John Jouppi, newly hired Legal Aid Director for Ottawa County. THE PURPOSE of the program, which is the first full-time county-supported one in Holland's history, is to. provide assistance for persons who are experiencing legal difficulties but cannot afford legal counsel. A former Bureau of Legal Aid supported by the Department of Social Services operated from March 1972 to July of last year but was dissolved after administrative conflicts and a breakdown of communication in the Department. People in Holland saw the need for a Legal Aid program to fill the vacuum created by the discontinuation of the previous one, Jouppi said.

HE SAID that area attorneys and decision makers in the county looked upon legal aid as a good thing and felt strongly enough about it to organize a program. They found that a legal aid program was within the financial realm of the county and went to work to develop one. According to Jouppi, a major part of his job as director of legal aid involves judging the eligibility qualifications of people applying for aid. ECONOMIC resources and the "type and merits" of applicants' requests are the criteria used to determine who may or may not receive aid. "An applicant must show an identifiable legal problem rather than simply a personal vendetta against someone," Jouppi said. Clients come from all classes and ethnic groups. The majority of clients are women and many people who apply for aid are young people involved in debtor-

Jewell Chorale sings in Chapel tonight The Kenneth Jewell Chorale, a 40-voice virtuoso ensemble, will be featured in concert tonight at 8:15 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel as part of the Great Performance Series sponsored by the Holland Concert Association and the Hope College Cultural Affairs committee. The chorale is under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Jewell, personnel director at the Interlochen Arts Academy. Jewell has estab-

Hope grad to ecture Hope graduate Steve Wykstra will be on campus next week to present a series of lectures on "Descartes, Newton and the Scientific Revolution." On Wednesday, Wykstra's topic will be "Toward a Critique of Experimentalism." The lecture will follow a dinner at 6 p.m. in Phelps Conference room. At 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Wykstra will speak on "The Cartesian Revolution." Two subsequent lectures, one at 9 a.m. entitled "The Newtonian Heresy" and another at 4 p.m., "The Nature and Warrants of Programmatic Commitments" will be held Thursday in the PhysicsMath Building.

lished a national reputation as adjudicator-clinician-conductor of choral festivals. He holds a B.S. from Eastern Michigan University and an M.M. from the University of Michigan. From 1949 to 1964 he was Conductor of Choirs at the National Music Camp at Interlochen and for 14 years he was the associate director of the Rackham Symphony Choir. He has taught music in the public schools of Michigan for 30 years. The chorale has appeared with the Detroit Symphony under Sixten Ehrling, the Toledo Symphony under Serge Foumier, the Interlochen Academy Orchestra under Thor Johnson and in numerous a capella concerts and the annual Bach Festival at Cranbrook under the direction of JeweU.

anchor editor resigns post In a memo t o Student Communications and Media Committee chairman Dr. James Seeser, Robert Eckert has announced his resignation from the post of editor of the anchor, effective at the end of the current semester. Persons interested in assuming the position during second semester should contact Seeser as soon as possible.

creditor problems, he added. APPROXIMATELY ten to 15 college students have used the services of the Legal Aid Office so far this year. "Some students who have 'been arrested on drug charges come in thinking they can get aid here. But we send them to the public defender. We deal only in civil cases not criminal ones," Jouppi explained. "Some people think that legal aid is a form of free legal advice for persons too lazy to get jobs. However when I came to Holland, I quickly realized that there are a large number of people here who are overworked." He gave the example of elderly people on a fixed income who have served the community and now must look back to it for financial help with legal problems. WORKING WITH low income persons in need of legal advice is nothing new for Jouppi, a recent graduate of University of Detroit Law School. In Detroit, he organized his own law clinic associated with the school of law plus several others including a landlord-tenant clinic and a criminal clinic in conjunction with the state police department. "These were oriented to the practical approach to law. It was a very fortunate experience." Although Jouppi terms Holland as a "big switch" from Detroit, "the clients are not that much differe n t - p o o r people have the same problems wherever you go."

Sounder and Wattstax, will begin today's events, followed by entertainment performed by black students at 7 p.m. in the DeWitt Cultural Center Ballroom and ending with a dance at 10 p.m. in the ballroom. A Soul Dinner is planned for Saturday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., in Phelps Hall, and Brady will preach on Sunday at 11 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. There will also be a fashion show in the DWCC main theater that day at 2 p.m. Two exhibits. Black Journey . . . the Michigan Story and Sub-Saharan African art, are running continuously during the Weekend in the Kletz and in the DWCC art gaUery, respectively.

Aschbrenner will be playing a patriotic battle piece for piano and band by Louis Gottschalk. The piece, which is built on patriotic tunes, was performed for President Abraham Lincoln with the composer as pianist. Greg Wortley will perform Gordon Jacob's Fantasia for Euphoni-' um and Band. There will also be a performance of Transitions, written by Henk Badings, one of the foremost Dutch composers. AN ADDED feature will be a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives, one of America's most original and innovative composers. According to Cecil, not as widely known is the fact that Ives was a very successful insurance agent. The band will play Ives' "Country Band" March, a parody of a performance by a country band. In recognition of Ives' success in the world of insurance. Dale Van Lente, a local insurance agent and part-time instructor in the business department, will conduct another Ives march, March Intercollegiate.

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Foundation grant cited

Development fund rises Despite the lagging economy's effect on the pocketbooks of alumni, total giving for the first four months of this year increased by 34 percent according to Director of Development Kurt Van Genderen. THE INCREASE was largely the result of one grant of $160,000 from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, who invited Hope to submit a request for funding and selected the college from among all other GLCA colleges to receive the grant. Despite the overall increase, funds for operating costs dropped 24 percent from last year. The tlrop-off is due mainly to the tight economy. Van Genderen said, coupled with the fact that letters soliciting funds were mailed out later this year and many contribu-

tors have not yet responded THE CAPITAL Fund division of the development office showed a 40 percent increase in contributions from last year but Van Genderen also attributed this rise to the grant. "Without the grant the percentage would have been much lower. The economy is affecting everyone, especially lai^e foundations," Van Genderen said. The only other marked increase in donations was in the area of planned giving which includes wills, bequests and annuities. "Gifts for the first f o u r months of this year already equal those of all of last year," Van Genderen said. "We've been doing a lot of work in this area, especially with large foundations." FUNDING WILL be channeled into four m^jor projects: the $3.2

million physical education facility, the completion of Lubbers Hall, the renovation of Voorhees Hall and the Hope Heritage Fund which provides funds for all college scholarships. According to Van Genderen, of the $3.2 million needed for completion of the physical education center, $500,000 has been raised with $2.7 million expected to come from alumni and outside organizations. STUDENT CONGRESS has set up a task force t o solicit funds from students for the Build Hope Fund, t h e college's capital development program. A fund raising campaign, similar to the one four years ago, will be kicked off second semester, Van Genderen said.


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