Author: Kate Ralston

We Flipped for these 10 Under 10

Taking their liberal arts education to new heights and impacting the world in big ways. With nearly 35,000 Hope alumni around the world, the challenge is not finding someone to honor for excellence and impact, but choosing who to honor. The new “10 Under 10 Awards,” which succeed the Young Alumni Award program of 2007-17,… Continue Reading →

10 Under 10

Ten Who Are Making a Difference Travel the Internet with the terms “millennial” and “stereotype” as your guide, and the message becomes pretty clear: The cohort born between 1980 and 2003 is perceived as entitled, lazy and high maintenance. To get to know the Hope grads celebrated through the “10 Under 10 Awards” program is… Continue Reading →

10 Under 10

Four years ago, when the idea to convert the Young Alumni Awards, which honored two recent Hope graduates, into the 10 Under 10 Awards, increasing the number of yearly recipients considerably, one of the concerns brought forth was the rate at which we would deplete the nomination pool. Despite the risk, we decided to have… Continue Reading →

10 Under 10

Uncommonly significant impact is a common quality of the lives led by Hope alumni, as is aptly reflected by this year’s recipients of the Alumni Association’s annual 10 Under 10 Awards, presented during One Big Weekend: Homecoming and Family Weekend in October. On the pages that follow, they reflect in turn on the impact that… Continue Reading →

10 Under 10

Every year, the Holland Bowl Mill creates beautiful wooden bowls that are used as the physical awards for the college’s “10 Under 10” award recipients. Below the recipient’s name and graduation year, the bowl states that each is “an agent of Hope living faithfully into their vocation.” While this year’s recipients’ vocations range from social… Continue Reading →

10 Under Ten

Before the “Hope in the [Real] World Panel”, an engaging conversation about life after Hope for current students, I always ask the recipients of the 10 Under 10 Awards, who serve as the featured panelists, to gather inside Graves Hall. This year, as I welcomed designers, doctors and researchers into the space, I noticed a… Continue Reading →