Alumni Board Past Presidents

Name (Class Year) Term

John A. Otte (1883) 1894-1895

William G. Baas (1880) 1895-1896

Jacob P. DeJong (1880) 1896-1897

John Lamar (1888) 1897-1898

Henry E. Dosker (1876) 1898-1899

Dirk J. DeBey (1879) 1899-1900

Jacob Poppen (1882) 1900-1902

Evert J. Blekkink (1883) 1902-1903

George E. Kollen (1892) 1903-1904

William H. Bruins (1890) 1904-1905

Gelmer Kuiper (1889) 1905-1908

Henry Geerlings (1888) 1908-1910

Bernard J. DeVries (1880) 1910-1911

George E. Kollen (1892) 1911-1912

J.J. Mersen (1895) 1912-1913

W. Van Kersen (1894) 1913-1915

J.J. Mersen (1895) 1915-1916

Henry J. Veldman (1892) 1916-1917

Wynand Wichers (1909) 1917-1919

Evert J. Blekkink (1883) 1919-1920

Clarence P. Dame (1913) 1920-1921

C.H. Spaan (1899) 1921-1922

Jacob G. Brouwer (1904) 1922-1923

Abram Klerk (1898) 1923-1924

Henry Schipper (1899) 1924-1925

James Wayer (1901) 1925-1926

Harry J. Hager (1920) 1926-1927

John Dykstra (1911) 1927-1928

Siebe C. Nettinga (1900) 1928-1930

Cornelius Vander Meulen (1900) 1930-1931

John A. Dykstra (1909) 1931-1932

Richard J. Vandenberg (1913) 1932-1933

Randall Bosch (1926) 1934-1935

George H. Damson (1926) 1935-1936

Vernon Ten Cate (1927) 1936-1937

Henry Geerlings (1888) 1937-1938

George A. Pelgrim (1916) 1938-1939

Charles Stoppels (1915) 1939-1940

Raymond Smith (1928) 1940-1941

Lester J. Kuyper (1928) 1941-1942

Clarence J. Becker (1931) 1942-1943

Willard C. Wichers (1932) 1943-1944

William O. Rottschaefer (1923) 1944-1945

Harold E. Veldman (1921) 1945-1946

Frederick E. Olert (1926) 1946-1947

John Heneveld (1919) 1947-1948

Howard R. Sluyter (1928) 1948-1949

Wynand Wichers (1909) 1949-1950

Clinton S. Cole (1928) 1953-1955

Harold Dykhuizen (1930) 1955-1957

Max Boersma (1946) 1957-1959

Paul Dame (1944) 1959-1961

Donald Ihrman (1949) 1961-1963

Lamont Dirkse (1950) 1963-1965

Floyd J. Folkert (1939) 1965-1967

Robert J. Prins (1954) 1967-1969

Frederick Vandenberg (1953) 1969-1971

John Schrier (1955) 1971-1973

Harold Hakken (1941) 1973-1975

Jack Hascup (1953) 1975-1977

Elsie Parsons (1946) Lamb 1977-1978

Warren Kane (1957) 1978-1980

John H. VerSteeg (1965) 1980-1982

Marjorie Lucking (1948) French 1982-1984

Phyllis Brink (1958) Bursma 1984-1986

Steve Norden (1974) 1986-1988

Sue Bruggink (1973) Edema 1988-1990

Jeffrey Cordes (1980) 1990-1992

John Abe (1979) 1992-1994

Janet Lawrence (1980) 1994-1996

Jennifer Liggett (1980) 1996-1998

Claire VanderMeulen (1975) Gibbs 1998-2000

Bruce Brumels (1959) 2000-2002

James Van Eenenaam (1988) 2002-2004

Beth Snyder (1994) 2004-2006

Karen Gonder (1981) Navis 2006-2008

Mark Van Genderen (1990) 2008-2010

Robert Bieri (1983) 2010-2011

Lisa Bos (1997) 2011-

Note: The college has no information concerning the identities and terms of service of the presidents prior to 1894, and is also missing information for 1933-34. Any help that members of the Hope community could provide the Alumni Office would be greatly appreciated; updating this list is an on-going process.