Hollenbach, 85, was a member of the Hope faculty
  from 1945 to 1978.  He retired as professor emeritus of
  English.
          He stayed active at Hope in the two decades
  following his retirement.  For example, he served as
  executive secretary of the presidential search committee
  that selected President John H. Jacobson, who became Hope's
  10th president in 1987.  He also played a leading role in
  the founding of the "Hope Academy of Senior Professionals"
  (HASP) in May of 1988, serving as the organization's first
  president.  Based at the college and designed to present
  intellectual, cultural and service opportunities for area
  retirees, HASP currently has approximately 380 members.
          "John Hollenbach was a professor and administrator
  of great distinction at Hope College," Jacobson said.  "Even
  after his retirement from the faculty, he remained active in
  the life of the college through his leadership in the Hope
  Academy of Senior Professionals.  He was much loved by
  generations of students, by colleagues and friends."
          Hope College presented him with an honorary
  degree, an L.H.D., on May 8, 1988.
          Hollenbach was born Feb. 10, 1913.  The second of
  four children, Hollenbach attended the Allentown, Pa.,
  public schools, graduating in 1930 as salutatorian of his
  high school class.  He earned a bachelor's degree from
  Muhlenberg College in Allentown in 1934, a master's degree
  from Columbia University in 1935 and a doctorate from the
  University of Wisconsin in 1941.
          He taught high school English in High Bridge,
  N.J., for two years after earning his master's degree.  He
  was an assistant instructor of English at the University of
  Wisconsin from 1937 to 1941, and an assistant professor of
  English at Northeastern State Teacher's College in
  Kirksville, Mo., from 1941 to 1945, immediately prior to
  coming to Hope.
          He married Winifred Lohman, who survives him, on
  Aug. 23, 1941.
          Hollenbach joined Hope's English faculty at the
  advent of the Post-War enrollment boom.  With World War II
  just ended, former members of the Armed Forces flooded the
  nation's colleges and universities on the GI Bill.  From 555
  during the 1941-42 school year, enrollment had declined to
  312 by 1944-45.  By 1946-47, enrollment had more than
  tripled to 1,300.
          He served as dean of the college from 1947 to
  1955, and vice president from 1957 to 1965.  In addition to
  his contributions in helping Hope manage its growth early in
  his service in administration, he was also active in
  curricular development at the college, playing a major role
  in a 1963 curriculum revision that yielded the college's
  current "Senior Seminar" program.  He chaired the department
  of English from 1967 to 1973.
          From 1955 to 1957, he was dean of the faculty of
  arts and sciences at the American University in Cairo,
  Egypt.  During 1965-66, he was a visiting professor at the
  American University of Beirut, and director of the Great
  Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) Junior Year in Beirut
  Program.  During the summer of 1968, he was director of a
  Yugoslav-American Seminar in Yugoslavia, under a grant of
  the U.S. Office of Education and the Department of State.
          Hollenbach had served as chair of the GLCA
  Advisory Committee on Middle East Programs, a member of the
  GLCA Advisory Committee on Eastern European Studies and a
  member of the GLCA Faculty Council.
          In 1974, he was named an honorary member of the
  North Central Association (NCA) of Colleges, in recognition
  of his 25-year relationship with the organization.  He had
  worked to enhance the NCA Commission on Research and
  Service, had coordinated the NCA Liberal Arts Study in the
  1950s and had chaired the NCA Committee on Liberal Arts
  Education in the early 1960s.
          In addition to Winifred, survivors include two
  sons, David, a 1964 Hope graduate living in Oakland, Calif.,
  and John, a 1968 Hope graduate living in Ada; and
  grandchildren.
          Funeral arrangements are being made by the Notier-
  Verlee-Langeland Funeral Chapel in Holland.  The funeral
  service will be Thursday, April 23, at Hope Church, 77 West
  11th Street, Holland.  Visitation will follow the funeral
  service.

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