Class Year: 2010

Emilie DeFrain ’15

Emilie DeFrain ’15 joined the Grand Rapids Downtown Market as the market events coordinator in 2017. She and Adam Gleason were married on June 3, 2017, in Oxford, Michigan. Continue Reading →

Samuel Horsch ’15

Samuel Horsch ’15 is pursuing a M.Div. degree at Boston University School of Theology. He is the supervisor at the School of Theology Library and operations manager for the Boston University Marsh Chapel. The choir with which Sam performs recently released a new album Kallembach: Most Sacred Body. Continue Reading →

Courtney Kayne ’15

Courtney Kayne ’15 reports that after job searching for quite some time as a long-term substitute last spring, and leaving East Aurora School District 131, she started this school year as an eighth-grade Spanish teacher in Huntley School District 158. She is very happy as a colleague of two other middle school Spanish teachers, in… Continue Reading →

Holly Thompson ’15

Holly Thompson ’15 was selected for the 2017-18 Douglass Fellowship Inaugural Class by Human Trafficking Institute. She is supporting the institute’s efforts and will coordinate an event at Vanderbilt Law School. Continue Reading →

Robert Henry ’17 and Jessica Vlisides ’17

Robert Henry ’17 and Jessica Vlisides ’17 were married and are living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Robert is attending the University of Utah as a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology and Jessica is pursuing a Master of Science in athletic training at Weber State University Continue Reading →

Nancy Ramirez ’17

Nancy Ramirez ’17 of Dallas, Texas, died on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. She was 22. Survivors include her parents, Martin (Leticia) Ramirez; sisters, Veronica, Sirah and Irina Ramirez; brother, Martin Joshua Ramirez; and grandparents, Jesus Gonzalez and Teresa Rodriguez. Continue Reading →

Lindsay Allward-Theimer ’11

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: Chandler Alberda, a junior from Austin, Texas; Lindsay Allward-Theimer ’11 of Atlanta, Georgia; Suzanne Marceny ’82 Caltrider of Mason, Michigan; and Phillip Torrence ’96 of Portage, Michigan. Newly elected as vice president… Continue Reading →

Amanda Goodyke ’11 Damon

Amanda Goodyke ’11 Damon has started as a pediatric nurse practitioner at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is working in the hematology and oncology department focusing on pediatric anticoagulation. She spent four years working as a nurse practitioner in primary care at Streeterville Pediatrics in Chicago, Illinois, before making the… Continue Reading →