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Hope College at 150

Winner of the 2019 Historical Society of Michigan State History Award

From the Preface

This book began as an architectural history of the buildings on the Hope College campus throughout the history of the college. That project grew out of an assignment鈥� to complete a survey for the Council of Independent Colleges documenting historic buildings on the campuses of its members. [It was then requested] to enlarge the project and to convert it into a sesquicentennial history of the college in anticipation of that event鈥� in 2016.

The Reformed Church鈥檚 plans for a Midwestern college to prepare students to go to New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey were hatched more than a decade before Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte arrived in West Michigan in 1847. Just four years after he arrived here with a small band of immigrants, Van Raalte founded Pioneer School, which soon evolved into Holland Academy, where collegiate classes were begun in 1862. 鈥淰an Raalte envisioned a means of saving these Dutch folk from obscurity,鈥� declared Queen Beatrix of the Kingdom of the Netherlands 120 years later.

In the opening chapter, James C. Kennedy offers a perspective on the history of the college as revealed through the anniversary celebrations held every fifty years.

Jacob Nyenhuis recounts the story of the academic program, beginning with the development of a mission statement for the college and continuing with the growth of the faculty over the past 150 years into a community of outstanding teacher/scholars and artists.

Dennis Voskuil traces the relationship of Hope College and the Reformed Church in America from the inception of the college to the present day.

Every building in the history of the college is included in a comprehensive history of the architecture of Hope by Jacob Nyenhuis.

Robert Swierenga demonstrates that the story of Hope is rooted in Christian philanthropy.

Alfredo Gonzales and Jacob Nyenhuis trace the history of the college鈥檚 engagement with diversity 鈥� particularly ethnic and racial diversity 鈥� from the welcoming of Japanese students in the college鈥檚 first decade to embracing diversity more broadly and intentionally in the past fifty years.

John H. Jobson and Michael J. Douma tell the story of student life, which they contend was ignored by previous writers of the history of the college.

Thomas L. Renner uses photographs and his distinctive journalistic prose to recount the history of sports during the college鈥檚 first 150 years.

Scott Travis traces the history of the Hope College Alumni Association, from its earliest beginnings in 1867 to the twenty-first century.

Hope College at 150: Anchored in Faith, Educating for Leadership and Service in a Global Society is a two-volume, 1,410-page history of Hope College published by Van Raalte Press as part of the Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America. The editor and primary author is Jacob E. Nyenhuis, a professor and provost emeritus of Hope and former director of the college鈥檚 A.C. Van Raalte Institute.