Fall 2002 - Northwestern College
Fall 2002 - Northwestern College
Fall 2002 - Northwestern College
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C a m p u sn e w s<br />
N o r t h w e s t e r n C l a s s i c<br />
Summer Institute<br />
s e rves dozen<br />
Twelve students from around the world made NWC their<br />
home during the Summer Institute for International Students<br />
in July and August. The students hailed from Japan, Ta i w a n ,<br />
Nigeria and India.<br />
Summer Institute, in its 18th year, featured daily classes<br />
in English as a second language, taught by Dr. Ron Ta k a l o ,<br />
associate professor of Spanish, and American cultural studies,<br />
taught by Michael Av e ry, assistant professor of business and<br />
economics. The program was directed by Piet Koene, chairperson<br />
of the department of modern foreign languages.<br />
The students took a number of field trips, including a<br />
G reat Plains camping trip to the Black Hills. They also spent<br />
time with area host families.<br />
L i b r a ry receives enhancements<br />
Faculty and students are finding that the services of<br />
Ramaker Library are more thorough and easy to use because<br />
of some improvements made this summer.<br />
T h rough its involvement in the Iowa Private Academic<br />
Libraries consortium, Ramaker has subscribed to the<br />
EBSCOhost family of databases. This comprehensive serv i c e<br />
p rovides access to about 6,000 scholarly journals, many of<br />
which are in full text, at a very appealing price for the college.<br />
In addition, the library now features a wireless computer<br />
network with six laptops that can be checked out at the desk<br />
and used anywhere in the building. The new system is<br />
expected to enable students to concentrate better, and make<br />
studying and re s e a rching more convenient.<br />
A u d i t o r i u m<br />
time capsule<br />
o p e n e d<br />
The time capsule included a number of<br />
Atime capsule<br />
college publications and news clippings as<br />
placed in the<br />
well as greetings from the Board of Tr u s t e e s ;<br />
cornerstone of<br />
the A u d i t o r i u m the student body; and several alumni re p resentatives,<br />
including the Rev. John Va n<br />
on May 24, 1957,<br />
was recovered Peursem from the Class of 1897 and<br />
this spring by Gertrude de Bey from the Class of 1887.<br />
c o n s t r u c t i o n<br />
In his greetings on behalf of the faculty,<br />
crews working<br />
Dean J.L. De Vries expressed their desire<br />
on the adapta -<br />
that the Auditorium be used in ways symbolized<br />
by the three motifs in the upper<br />
tion of the build -<br />
ing into the new<br />
theatre arts cen - portion of the main entrance: “That in all<br />
t e r. The memo - our activities and in all our future pro g re s s<br />
rabilia are now we may be conscious of the open Bible and<br />
stored in the<br />
have God truly as the Alpha and the Omega<br />
A r c h i v e s .<br />
of our every deed, that it may be influential<br />
in developing our mental capacity as symbolized<br />
by the lamp of knowledge, and that<br />
it will be a means of developing students<br />
physically as symbolized by the Olympic torc h .”<br />
“Considering the pro g ress made during the first 57 years<br />
of the 20th century, a comparative projection into the 21st<br />
c e n t u ry would challenge the most capricious of visionaries,”<br />
w rote Arie Vander Stoep, Orange City’s mayor. “Strong foundations<br />
have been laid for mutual growth and development<br />
(of <strong>Northwestern</strong> and Orange City), and the realization that<br />
each greatly depends upon the other for continued expansion<br />
is deeply ingrained in the hearts and minds of all.”<br />
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