Two nice articles came out this week -- check them out!

Riding the rapid: Hope soccer player signs with Colorado Under-23 team (from the Holland Sentinel)

Hope senior Dan Tresslar gets picked up by a minor league club in Colorado.

Packer backer for a good cause (from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Hope grad Jim Schuman, a huge Chicago Bears fan, runs the Boston Marathon in all-Packers apparel at the request of two Hope roommates. Both donated $1,000 to his cause: "Homes for Our Troops."

Today is the last day of classes at Hope for the academic year. Each year SAC (Social Activities Committee) sponsors "Spring Fling", an afternoon of fun in the Pine Grove. At 70 degrees and sunny, we have the perfect day for it!

A reminder to all of you who have been accepted to and plan to enroll at Hope College for this fall: your $300 enrollment deposit must be received by the Admissions Office on or before May 1, 2008.

The address for Hope College Admissions is:

69 East 10th Street
PO Box 9000
Holland, MI 49422-9000

Please contact your admissions representative with any questions you might have.

We haven't posted in a while, so here's a round up of the recent student news:

Student's Study Abroad Photo Wins Contest

Hope senior Tarin Coulas has won first place in this year's annual Alumni Photo Contest sponsored by the AustraLearn study-abroad program. The contest received more than 350 submissions from students throughout the United States and Canada who had studied in Australia, New Zealand or the South Pacific through AustraLearn. Coulas won for her photograph "Sheep Traffic Jam," which shows a lone car surrounded by a throng of sheep crossing the road. She spent the spring of 2007 studying at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She photographed the road-crossing scene in February of that year on South Island, New Zealand, on a highway between Milford Sound and Te Anau. (more)

Student's Film Places Second in National Contest

A film by Hope junior Tyler Depke of Grayslake, Ill., has placed second nationally in the first annual "Preserve Our Planet" College Film and PSA Contest held by National Geographic Channel (NGC). (more)

Three Hope Students Receive Goldwater Scholarships

Three Hope juniors have received prestigious Goldwater Scholarships for the 2008-09 academic year out of only 321 awarded nationwide. The recipients, all of whom are chemistry majors are Kristin Dittenhafer of Midland; Jonathan Moerdyk of Paris; and Amy Speelman of Darien, Ill. (more)

Seniors Named to Phi Beta Kappa

Sixty-eight graduating seniors and recent graduates have been elected to the Zeta of Michigan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest scholastic honorary society. (more)

courtesy, Hope College Office of Public Relations