Hope College News
2025 Oct
Author Group Seeks Remembrances for Upcoming Hope College Summer Repertory Theater Book
For more than 50 years, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre (HSRT, now referred to as Hope Repertory Theatre) has been a West Michigan premier professional theatre company.
New Book Explores Faith and Family During War
On the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Dr. James Boelkins’ mother presented him with a set of letters his father had written to her during his service as a mobile field surgeon during World War II, letters Boelkins never knew existed.
2025 Apr
Former Mayor Phil Tanis to Direct the Van Raalte Institute of Hope College
Phil Tanis, former mayor of Holland, Michigan, has been designated as the next director of the Van Raalte Institute (VRI) of Hope College. His term will begin July 1. In the interim, Tanis is serving as a senior research fellow at the institute. Tanis will replace current director Donald A. Luidens who will continue as the editor-in-chief of the Van Raalte Press and as a senior research fellow.
Book Chronicles Untold History of Dutch American Midwives
The latest book published by the Van Raalte Press of the A. C. Van Raalte Institute at Hope College, “Present, but Not Counted: Dutch-Immigrant and Second Generation Midwives Working in Dutch Colonies in the United States, 1840-1940,” spotlights a group of women that author Janet Sjaarda Sheeres discovered were rendered all but invisible by their times even as they played an invaluable role during them.