Hope College will celebrate “Homecoming and Family Weekend: One Big Weekend” on Friday-Sunday, Oct. 19-21, with highlights including multiple events open to the public in addition to activities for alumni and the families of current students.

Hope College will honor 10 young alumni with its inaugural “10 Under 10 Awards” on Friday, Oct. 19, during the college’s “Homecoming and Family Weekend: One Big Weekend” celebration.

Hope College will host its 84th annual Nykerk Cup competition on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse.

ODD YEAR WINS! Even Year gave it their all, but Odd Year came out on top with 65’5” of rope.

Hope College celebrated its new Boerigter Center for Calling and Career with a ribbon cutting on Friday, Sept. 28.

The Vox Populi student organization of Hope College and the League of Women Voters of the Holland area will host a forum about the statewide proposals that will be on the November ballot on Tuesday, Oct. 2, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Maas Center auditorium.

Dr. Peter Jolivette, who retired as a professor emeritus of physics in 2001 after teaching at Hope for a quarter century, died of a gall bladder infection on Friday, Sept. 21, at age 77. He was a 20-year survivor of angiosarcoma cancer, and for the last five years was the longest-lived survivor in the United States.

The Hope College Pull tug-of-war, a 121-year tradition, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 3 p.m. on the banks of the Black River (near U.S. 31 and M-21).

Organizations seeking LEED certification for their construction projects have many ways to earn it, including by using regional materials. In developing the Jim and Martie Bultman Student Center, which recently received LEED Gold certification, Hope College integrated a meaningful resource from mere yards away: wood saved from venerable campus elms that were felled by a storm.

Families and students engaged in the college search will have the opportunity to connect with more than 70 colleges and universities during the Holland Area College Night, which will be hosted by Hope College on Thursday, Sept. 27.

Photo Gallery of the incoming class of 2022 arrived August 22, 2018, for the new school year.

Hope College will present the documentary film “What Happens to a Dream Deferred” on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 4 p.m. in the Schaap Auditorium of the Jim and Martie Bultman Student Center in conjunction with national Hispanic Heritage Month.