Thank You!
There is an aphorism to the effect that trees are planted for the next generation.
To teach is much the same — although the results are often more immediate and observable. Both are acts of giving and faith, a commitment to a future hoped for and unseen.
The eight faculty retiring this year have devoted a combined 249 years helping Hope students grow, together building a forest one precious life at a time.
NOTE: As with Hope’s faculty retirees of the past several years, our stories about each are online, where they will remain, a lasting tribute available around the world. Just like the thousands of current students and alumni whose lives they helped shape.
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Dr. Rhoda Burton
DuMez Associate Professor of English
23 years
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Dr. Peter Gonthier
Professor of Physics
40 years
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Dr. Stephen Hemenway
Betty Roelofs ’53 Miller Professor of English
51 years
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Dr. Vicki Isola
Assistant Professor of Biology Instruction
22 years
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Kelly Jacobsma
Genevra Thome Begg Dean of Libraries
35 years
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Nancy Scholten ’82 Kamstra
Associate Professor of Kinesiology Instruction
13 years
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Dr. John Lunn
The Robert W. Haack Professor of Economics
31 years
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Todd Swanson
Associate Professor of Mathematics
34 years