Category: Summer 2020

With the nation and world facing some of the largest challenges of the past several decades, it would be easy to hunker down and despair. One of the most important things to know about President Matthew A. Scogin ’02, who has just completed his first year leading Hope and is eagerly anticipating his second, is … Continue reading “Leading Hope with Hope”

Editor’s Note: The nationwide calls for racial justice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans have reached Holland and Hope as well. Local events have included a peaceful march and demonstration in the city attended by more than 2,000 people. At Hope, the summer has seen even more faculty, … Continue reading “Seeking a Better Way”

A community is hard to keep together when it’s not.

Hope’s dedicated faculty shifted 900 courses to remote learning in 10 days this spring, their commitment to their students helping the college itself learn valuable lessons for the future.

Last November, when Dr. Stephen I. Hemenway was honored for 48 years of creativity as an English professor at Hope by being named the first recipient of the college’s Betty Roelofs ’53 Miller Endowed Professorship, he delivered a five-minute acceptance speech. In rhymed couplets. “Arriving at Hope, I was labeled weird: Single, Irish Catholic, donning … Continue reading “Where There’s a Will There’s a Hemenway”

After a six-hour bus ride to the west of Kathmandu and three days walk more from the bus stop into the Nepalese village where he would conduct an ethnographic study for his thesis in anthropology, Daniel Vermeer ’88 had traveled one uncommon road in what had already been and what would continue be a career full of uncommon roads.