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Hope in the News
ACADEMIC YEAR 2009 - 2010
August, 2009
September, 2009
September 15, 2009
Adaptive restoration
spares historic Hope landmark
The renovation of Hope College's Graves Hall combines the
character of yesteryear with all the new amenities and technology
expected of a contemporary campus facility.
In a restorative renovation or adaptive reuse, Graves Hall,
one of the college's oldest buildings and a campus centerpiece,
is now ready for students this fall.
The building was originally dedicated in 1894 and renovated
several times in the 1960s and 1970s. Originally built as a
library and chapel, the stone building morphed into classrooms
and then an office building and is now back to housing classrooms,
according to Phil Davis, VP at Fishbeck Thompson Carr & Huber
Inc. who served as project manager in the renovation.
MiBiz story /
Photo
Gallery Highlighting Graves Hall renovation
September 15, 2009
Hope College announces
second-highest enrollment ever
Enrollment at Hope College is holding steady despite a sickly
national economy, the rising cost of private education and
an oversized group of seniors graduating last year.
The college announced Tuesday its second-highest enrollment
ever this fall — 3,230 students — just eight fewer
than last year’s record.
“We certainly feel blessed that many families have
sacrificed to make Hope a possibility for their children, and
great base of alumni and donors who contributed to make it
a possibility,” said Hope College Vice President for
Admissions Bill Vanderbilt.
Holland
Sentinel story
September 12, 2009
Holland, Hope come together
College students, staff and residents
mingle during Community
Day festivities
Windmill Island buzzed with activity Saturday as Hope College
students, staff and faculty mingled with residents of the Holland
area for Community Day.
The Holland American Legion Band played music while people
enjoyed a picnic-style lunch.
Erin Carmody, a sophomore at Hope, came to her first Community
Day.
Carmody hoped that by attending the event she’d get a
chance to meet people from the area. She thinks that the college
has a great relationship with the community.
Holland
Sentinel story
Video Segment Highlighting 2009 Community
Day
September 7, 2009
Hope snags $416k science
grant for spectrometer
A top-of-the line instrument will boost the science program
at Hope College.
The college recently received $416,767 grant from the National
Science Foundation to buy a nuclear magnetic resonance, or
NMR, spectrometer. The instrument is used in chemistry and
biology experiments to analyze samples’ molecular structure
and record changes in structure over a period of time.
 “We anticipate that we get well over 150 to 200 student
users in a year,” said Jeff Johnson, an assistant chemistry
professor who co-wrote the grant application with Hope College
Dean of Natural Sciences Moses Lee.
Holland
Sentinel story
More than 400 Hope students
participated in service projects in 36 different
locations
throughout the Holland area through the college's "Time
to Serve" program.
September 6, 2009
Hope students flood community in service
Courtney Dernberger found herself digging out ferns and
replanting hostas at Third Reformed Church Saturday morning
as part of a Hope College volunteer project.
The college sophomore volunteered for the “Time to
Serve” project for a second year, this time as a leader
of a group of students who worked to beautify the area around
the church.
Dernberger enjoyed the work, meeting new people and helping
the community through the program.
Holland
Sentinel story / Time
to Serve Gallery
September 5, 2009
Dutchmen mark century - Hope College celebrates 100 years
of football
Hope College football coach Dean Kreps has a hard time pinpointing
exactly where 100 years of team tradition manifests itself.
He said it shows up in odd places, like how the scout team has always
been called “the reds” even though they play in blue
and orange.
Kreps thinks at one point they possibly wore red. A century of jerseys
can be hard to remember, or even know.
Holland
Sentinel story / 100 Years of Hope Football website
August 29, 2009
808 freshmen land at Hope College
"Welcome to Hope!"
Alexis Nickols estimates she said those words "hundreds and hundreds of
times" during her day-long stint as a Hope College orientation assistant.
She and nearly 250 other volunteers wore bright orange shirts and pants while
greeting freshmen - most accompanied by parents - moving into campus dorms,
Friday, Aug. 28.
Among the college's overall fall enrollment of 3,100 are 808 new students,
according to Hope College spokesman Greg Olgers.
A swarm of volunteers helped unpack each car, hauling student's belongings
to the correct room.
Holland
Sentinel story
Hope is making a difference in its hometown
of Holland as researchers at the
college contribute to understanding
of the Lake Macatawa watershed. From left to right
are seniors Alex
Behm and Morgan Willming, and area high school teachers
Jennifer
Soukhome and Carl Van Faasen ’91, who visited the
Outdoor Discovery
Center to
collect mud samples from a pond for testing.
August 23, 2009
Local waters inspire science textbook
based on Lake Mac watershed
A series of summers studying the Lake Macatawa watershed has led
two local high school teachers and a Hope College professor to develop
an ecology textbook.
 “Watershed
Investigations: 12 Labs for High School Science” is primarily
authored by Zeeland West High School teacher Jennifer Soukhome, based
on work she did with Holland High School Teacher Carl Van Faasen and
Hope college student William Statema, under the leadership of Hope
College chemistry professor Graham Peaslee.
The book was picked up for publication by the National Science Teacher’s
Association.
Holland
Sentinel story
As executive director of the Outdoor Discovery Center, Travis Williams
'98
livesout daily his childhood interest in the natural world
and his Hope training in
biology and environmental science. In
addition to serving as an educational
resource for the community,
the center is a haven for injured birds
such as the great horned
owl pictured above.
August 22, 2009
Macatawa Greenway, Discovery Center merge - Hope College
among other partnerships being formed
Eco-advocacy nonprofits Macatawa Greenway Partnership and Outdoor
Discovery Center quietly merged this month.
Now, more partnerships are on the way.
In a deal made official this week, Hope College will invest in a home
on the Outdoor Discovery Center property to turn it into a field
station. With lab tables and other tools to help students learn in
the field, the house will make the Outdoor Discovery a part of the
college’s network of classrooms.
Holland
Sentinel story
August 20, 2009
Hope, Holland park land
swap nearly done deal
In a deal initiated more than a year ago and finalized this week,
Hope College will get more land, but the city of Holland will get
more money.
The college will receive three properties, including two city parks
that date back to the beginning of the city.
The city will get one property — at the northeast corner of
16th Street and Fairbanks Avenue — and $250,000. The city’s
property was appraised at $178,000 more than the Hope property.
“You can look at all the acreage that we’re giving up,
which is quite substantial, but the value is quite low,” Councilman
Craig Rich said. “The city council will look out for what’s
best for the city of Holland, and a lot of times the two things are
linked; the good of the college and the good of the city are inexorably
linked.”
Holland
Sentinel story
August 17, 2009
NSF bets on Hope
Leah Chase knows that oxidants pose threats to cells in our bodies.
And when our bodies produce more oxidants, our cells produce more
anti-oxidants to protect themselves.
Chase and her students at Hope College have even discovered that
cells have proteins that serve as transporting mechanisms, sort of
like miniature pumps, that help cells attract the anti-oxidants they
need to fend off oxidant threats.
Now, thanks to a $466,724 grant from the National Science Foundation,
Chase hopes to discover how the proteins know when to turn themselves
on and pump anti-oxidants into a cell. The answer to that question,
Chase said, might eventually help her and other scientists better
understand how to protect cells from damage from oxidants.
The grant from the National Science Foundation, which will be spread
over three years, will allow Hope College undergraduates to work
during the school year and the summer months on the research project,
which kicked off in June.
MiBiz
story
August 18, 2009
Prime Time Poet: CBS, ESPN calling
as Ridl debuts ‘Losing
Season’
 The
threatening tone of the barber’s voice still remains vivid
in the mind of Jack Ridl more than half a century later.
“I was sitting in the barber’s chair, and the guy (was)
brandishing his scissors,” said Ridl, 65, a nationally-recognized
poet and professor emeritus of English at Hope College. “And
he says real snarly, ‘How come your old man didn’t play
Doran last night? They would have won.’”
It’s a sound he hopes will resonate with readers of his latest
collection of poems “Losing Season,” which follows a
fictional small-town high school basketball team and its community.
Holland
Sentinel story
August 6, 2009
Grand Dame Graves - $5 million restoration brings Belle
Epoque beauty to former glory
When Graves Hall was built in 1892, it cost $50,000 to construct,
but was still a richly-built structure for then-young and poor Hope
College.
The college recently spent $5 million to restore the hall to its
former glory — complete with oak paneling, stained glass
windows and sandstone exterior.
But part of the price tag went toward making the building a place
that students will use daily; the building will contain five classrooms
instead of administrative offices.
Holland
Sentinel story
Photo
Gallery Highlighting Graves Hall renovation
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