Heather Ozinga ’97 Roozeboom
Heather Ozinga ’97 Roozeboom is the alumni relations and online marketing coordinator for Chicago Christian High School. She spent the last five years at home with her son. Continue Reading →
Class Year: 1990
Kristin Eden ’98 Hall
Kristin Eden ’98 Hall and Brian Hall announce the birth of Robert Dale on Nov. 14, 2018, and their marriage on June 6, 2019 Continue Reading →
Benjamin Lappenga ’99
Benjamin Lappenga ’99 has published The Faithfulness of the Risen Christ: Pistis and the Exalted Lord in the Pauline Letters through Baylor University Press. Continue Reading →
Christopher Michels ’97
Christopher Brian Michels, 44, of Dowagiac, Michigan, passed away on Friday, June 21, 2019, at Indiana University Hospital in Indianapolis surrounded by his loving family. Christopher was born June 27, 1974, in Dowagiac, to Terry and Barbara (Langley) Michels, He graduated from Dowagiac High School in 1993; he then went on to earn a degree… Continue Reading →
John Matuska ’91
John Matuska ’91 is a certified Design-Build Professional through the Design-Build Institute of America. He has more than 25 years of experience in the industry, with a special focus in a leadership role for projects utilizing the design-build delivery method. He has been with Ruby+Associates Inc. since 1993. Continue Reading →
Kirsten Sullivan ’93 Billeter
Kirsten Sullivan ’93 Billeter was named Educator of the Week through the Michigan Lottery’s Excellence in Education program. The program recognizes 34 teachers per year from pool of more than 500 nominees. The award includes a personal cash prize, a cash prize for the winner’s school and segment on news channels through the state. In… Continue Reading →
Meridith Hudson ’95
Meridith Hudson ’95 was married on her 45th birthday, June 23, 2018, to Nels Eric Olson. She reports that they have beautiful blended family that includes his son, Zach, and her two kids, Ryan and Ashley. They honeymooned in Negril, Jamaica. In 2016, she started her own business, doing what she is passionate about: dogs.… Continue Reading →
Scott Crawford ’95
Scott Crawford ’95 is assistant dean for dual-degree recruitment and advising at McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he has been employed for 20 years. Continue Reading →
Kuria Van Wieren ’98
Kuria Van Wieren ’98 is living in Bonita Springs, Florida, and is working as a registered nurse in Naples, Florida Continue Reading →
Amy-Lynn Halverson ’98
Amy-Lynn Halverson ’98 is a high school special education teacher at South Haven Public Schools in South Haven, Michigan. Continue Reading →
Jared Vickers ’98
Jared Vickers ’98 was named the 2019 Administrator of the Year by the Michigan Association of School Counselors. He is the principal of Western High School in Parma, Michigan. Continue Reading →
Amy Bos ’99
Amy Bos ’99 is the new federal technology policy representative at the National Association of Realtors. She is responsible for providing strategic vision, regulatory and legislative analysis of issues related to data privacy, cybersecurity and copyright/patent reform. She previously spent the past nine years as legislative director for Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (WI-05). Continue Reading →
Ellen Tanis ’90 Awad
From Mentor and Student At Hope, Ellen Tanis ’90 Awad and Nancy Benda ’17 were mentor and student. Three years later, they have each completed graduate studies at the University of Georgia as friends and peers. Both pursued advanced degrees in student affairs at the Mary Frances Early College of Education of the University of… Continue Reading →
Jim Breyfogle ’90
Jim Breyfogle ’90 had his sixth short story about the “Adventures of Kat and Mangos” published in the Spring 2020 issue of Cirsova Magazine. The sixth adventure is called The Golden Pearl. Continue Reading →
Tim Ritsema ’90
Tim Ritsema ’90 was selected for the George Lovich State Award of Merit from the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. He is the athletic director at Jenison High School. Continue Reading →
Bob Anderle ’91
Bob Anderle ’91 returned to pastoral ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 2015 in upstate New York, and in 2018 began his current call as pastor of the Union Church of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. He resides with his wife, Jacqui, and two children, Braden (7) and Lydia (5), in the Bay Ridge… Continue Reading →
Jonathan Liepe ’91
Hope Appoints New Alumni Board Members and Officers During its May meeting, the Hope College Alumni Association Board of Directors appointed four new members and elected two new officers. The board’s new members are: Toni Gordon ’09 of Perrysburg, Ohio; Mary Lammers ’60 Kempker of Zeeland, Michigan; Dr. Kiersten Krause ’97 of Holland, Michigan; and… Continue Reading →
Dan Combs ’93
Dan Combs ’93 and Shelli Rottschafer ’96 released a chapbook which includes his photography, her narrative and student poetry called Nuestros antepasados y la nueva generación en SW Michigan: Querencia in the Latinx Midwest: Photography and Ethno-poetics. Shelli teaches Latinx Literature, film and gender studies at Aquinas College. Daniel is a photographer and sommelier. Continue Reading →
Yalonda Carter ’93 Dixon
Yalonda Carter ’93 Dixon reports that she has enjoyed teaching over the past 27 years, which have included private and public schools, as well as home-educating her four children for seven of those years, with her first child, Emmanuel, graduating from college this past year from the University of Maryland. Her teaching experiences have spanned… Continue Reading →
Shelli Rottschafer ’96
Dan Combs ’93 and Shelli Rottschafer ’96 released a chapbook which includes his photography, her narrative and student poetry called Nuestros antepasados y la nueva generación en SW Michigan: Querencia in the Latinx Midwest: Photography and Ethno-poetics. Shelli teaches Latinx Literature, film and gender studies at Aquinas College. Daniel is a photographer and sommelier. Continue Reading →