HOLLAND - Scott Wolterink of the Hope College staff has been promoted to vice president for college advancement.

Wolterink, who previously served as associate vice president for college advancement, assumed his new duties on Tuesday, March 1. He succeeds William K. Anderson, who will be retiring from the Hope staff at the end of June as senior vice president for finance and advancement.

"Bill Anderson has provided an exceptional service to Hope College by assuming additional responsibilities in college advancement for these past three years. His overall contributions to the life of the college will be greatly missed," said Dr. James E. Bultman, president of Hope College. "We now look forward to the next phase of college advancement at Hope under the leadership of Scott Wolterink. He possesses demonstrated skills that will serve him and the college well in his new role."

Wolterink joined the Hope staff in 1996 as a regional advancement director. In 2001 he was appointed director of the "Hope Fund," which solicits ongoing, unrestricted financial support from alumni, corporations, churches, parents and friends for operations and programs at the college. He was promoted to associate vice president for college advancement in 2003, with additional supervisory responsibility for Hope's programs in alumni and parent relations.

A certified fund raising executive (CFRE), he is a member of the National Committee on Planned Giving and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. He is past president of both the West Michigan Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and of the West Michigan Planned Giving Group, and also serves on the Board of Directors of both organizations.

He serves on the board of Good Samaritan Ministries of Holland and of the Christian Missionary Scholarship Foundation of Keego Harbor, and is a member of Third Reformed Church, where he served as a deacon. He is a 2002 graduate of Leadership Holland and a past member of the board of Ladder Inc.

Immediately prior to joining the Hope advancement staff, Wolterink was director of the Career Development Center at Lake Forest College in Illinois. He was previously a graduate assistant in the Department of Residential Life at the University of Vermont in Burlington, where he completed a Master of Education degree.

He graduated from Hope in 1988, and from 1988 through June of 1990 served as an admissions counselor at the college. He completed a Master of Education degree at the University of Vermont in 1992, and has conducted additional professional studies through the National Planned Giving Institute at the College of William and Mary and the Owen Graduate School of Management Executive Management Institute of Vanderbilt University.

Wolterink and his wife Heather, who is a Hope classmate, have three children.

Anderson joined the Hope staff in 1966 as director of accounting, and was appointed controller in 1968, chief fiscal officer in 1972 and vice president for business and finance in 1973. He was chosen to lead the college's fundraising arm in February of 2001, succeeding Bob DeYoung, who had retired in June of 2000.

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