2009 President's Report

2009 President’s Report

Dordt College is an institution of higher education committed to the Reformed Christian perspective. Its mission is to equip students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward Christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary life

A Word From the President The poet John Donne told us, “No man is an island.” Journalist Thomas L. Friedman instructed us that, in our century, “The World is Flat.”

But it took a computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, to create the World Wide Web, bringing together all of those islands that dot our newly flattened world.

We hope it is clear from the pages of this report that Dordt College is increasingly taking aggressive and creative steps to be a vital part of the world wide web of education as we energetically develop our own “node” as a leader within the Reformed, Christian portion of that network.

Our campus is located squarely in the heartland of the United States and connected not only across the continent but literally around the world. When, as president of the college, in one week I can appear on television in Sioux City, Iowa, signing a new agreement for our innovative nursing collaboration with St. Luke’s College and the following Monday be recorded by the Zambian National Broadcasting Company in Ndola, Zambia, because of our cooperative relationship with Northrise University—then it’s evident that while some may have once thought that Dordt College was in the middle of nowhere, today by God’s grace it’s clearly in the middle of everywhere.

So, whether students are doing research with NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), filming in the slums of Manila, or singing in a concert in Dordrecht; whether faculty are working with grants from the Leopold Center; whether the Andreas Center is supporting academic and service connections around the world; whether I am chairing a tax policy committee for 1,000 of America’s independent colleges in Washington, D.C. or convening an International Forum of Christian Higher Education for 185 Christian Colleges and Universities in Atlanta, Dordt College is right in the heart of a global educational effort.

Our challenge is to be distinctively Christian and Reformed in the way we exercise our place in this network, both for the benefit of our students and for the welfare of Christ’s kingdom. I hope this report makes clear the degree to which we have been blessed by doing so and will serve as an encouragement to be even more faithful to our mission in the years to come.

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Andreas Center extends Dordt’s mission As a Christian institution of higher learning, Dordt College has long advanced reformational thought and service in God’s kingdom. In 2008-2009 the Andreas Center became a means for more effectively carrying that mission beyond campus.

Dr. Hubert Krygsman Associate Provost for Curricular Programs/Director of the Andreas Center

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The Andreas Center for Reformed Scholarship and Service, with Dr. Hubert Krygsman as director, is making possible a wide range of projects that extend the geographic and generational impact of Dordt College.

The Andreas Center is funded by financial gifts received from Lowell Andreas, a longtime supporter of Dordt College. Andreas helped build one of this country’s first soybean processing plants to extract oil with a solvent.

He helped start the National City Bank of Minneapolis and later became the president and a major investor in Archer Daniels Midland Company. Andreas was a devoted Christian and generous benefactor of the arts and education, giving of his time and resources to Presbyterian and Reformed institutions, including Westminster Seminary, Covenant College, and Dordt College. He passed away on April 4, 2009, but his gifts to the Andreas Center continue in perpetuity.

Although the Andreas Center has only been in operation for slightly more than a year, it is providing funding, opportunities, and support to Dordt students, faculty, and staff who are willing to engage their culture through scholarship and service.

A wide variety of projects are currently underway. They

range from supporting the arts to supporting Zambian agriculture.

• Agriculture professor Ron Vos is serving as a consultant at Northrise University in Zambia, Africa, as it develops its Christian agriculture program. A collaboration and faculty exchange between the two institutions has been approved, and, in June, Vos taught the first “Introduction to Agriculture” course at Northrise.

• Digital media professor Mark Volkers and ten students shot video of a slum in the Philippines. They are creating a documentary and promotional DVDs for two agencies that serve the poor in Manila. Volkers will market the film to national and international media outlets.

• Mathematics professor Calvin Jongsma is developing a middle school textbook for teachers that incorporates a historical perspective into the teaching of mathematics so that students develop a better understanding of how mathematics works in their world.

• Foreign language professor Socorro Woodbury, in collaboration with REEDUCA (Network of Christian Education in the Americas), will offer workshops on Christian education in Haiti and Guatemala in 2009-2010.

Woodbury is an advisor for World Mission/CSI meetings

for Christian educators in Latin America.

• History professor Keith Sewell presented papers at major academic conferences in Geneva and Toronto to mark the 500th birthday of John Calvin, and he gave lectures in England on the Reformation tradition. He expects to publish the papers and develop them into a book.

• Theology professor Jay Shim made presentations to new faculty in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea for IAPCHE (International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education). He has received invitations to do similar presentations elsewhere.

• The psychology department has conducted an initial feasibility study for a Center for Psychological Restoration, which would provide psychological and family counseling to local underserved populations.

• A conference on “Calvinism for the 21st Century” will be held at Dordt College next spring. A call is out for papers on the meaning of a Calvinistic worldview for today’s world.

• Theology professor Tom Wolthuis traveled to Northrise University this past summer to teach theology. He also explored cultural exchange possibilities, including a Dordt College study abroad program.

• Plans are underway for Dordt’s president, Dr. Carl E. Zylstra, to host a Reformed Higher Education Global Summit in Oxford, England, in June of 2010.

• The education department and the Center for Educational Services has developed a mentoring program for new teachers in elementary and high schools.

• The Andreas Center is collaborating with the Center for Public Justice and the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education to establish an on-campus archive that preserves our reformational heritage.

• In an event co-sponsored by Dordt’s “Artist-in-Residence” program, the Andreas Center helped host a performance titled “The Symphony of Psalms” by the acclaimed Boston Camerata. Members of the Boston Camerata also offered a performance class for students. The following day the Andreas Center hosted a Calvin and Worship Workshop for members of the community.

• Education professors Tim Van Soelen and Pat Kornelis are exploring new opportunities for professional development and educational leadership for students in Dordt’s education and graduate education programs. They also visited the Gereformeerde Hogeschool Zwolle in the Netherlands to discuss collaborating on student practicum opportunities.

The Andreas Center will support additional programs and projects that help faculty work collaboratively with fellow scholars; that create long-term self-sustaining programs, new publications, academic partnerships and networks for the college; and that provide opportunities for students to learn and serve through global projects and organizations.

Students film in a slum in the Phillippines while several children look on.

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Dordt professor, students work to protect natural resources Across the U.S., countless communities draw drinking water from shallow wells surrounded by farmland. Land management practices in the watershed areas around wells less than fifty feet deep can have an impact on water quality.

At Dordt College, agro-ecology classes taught by environmental studies professor Robb De Haan have been monitoring the water quality in local shallow wells for several years, particularly tracking nitrate and phosphate levels. Local water quality was most recently addressed in student research conducted by 2008 alumna Kerri (Ewald) Posthuma.

In response to Ewald’s report, a community Source Water Protection planning team was formed. The team included Dordt professors, Sioux Center’s water plant operator, the city utilities engineer, Sioux County NRCS (Natural Resource Conservation Service) officials, and local landowners/operators, who met with Iowa’s DNR Source Water Protection Program staff to develop a plan of action.

Dr. De Haan wrote and submitted a grant application to obtain funding for the initiative, and this spring a $50,000 grant was awarded to De Haan by Iowa State University’s Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.

The grant money is being used to fund research comparing field crop systems around Sioux Center’s municipal wells in order to find the best way to keep nitrates out of the wells and maintain the best possible financial return for landowners. The information gleaned will be provided to local residents, farmers, city officials, the

NRCS, the Iowa DNR, and other scientists.

The strategy for the effort is to farm test plots surrounding shallow wells in a variety of ways, and then measure nitrate levels in the water. Stepping forward to implement the project is Matt Schuiteman, with AJS Farms.

The Schuiteman family has been farming the tracts of land involved in this study for more than thirty years, and Matt says, “It is our hope that this research will lead us to better understand how we can produce crops in sensitive areas while maintaining underground water quality.”

Schuiteman is responsible for laying out the plots and for coordinating and managing all activities in the plots. He records field operations and inputs, as well as the yearly forage and grain yields for each plot, using crop records to do an annual economic analysis. He is also testing soil samples and will assist with a field day at the conclusion of the program.

Dordt ag-ecology students are also involved, doing soil sampling, data entry, and analysis. It’s a win/win situation for the college and the community: students gain valuable practical experience and farmers across the nation get help developing agricultural practices that protect natural resources.

Dr. Robb De Haan (left) with local farmer Matt Schuiteman

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Teach a teacher and change the world A broad, liberal arts education helps students develop a strong world and life view, says Dr. Douglas Ribbens. “It’s the best preparation a student leaving college can have.”

Dr. Ribbens and Henrietta (Miedema) Ribbens have decided to stand behind that strongly-held belief by setting up a $100,000 scholarship fund to be awarded as thirty elementary education scholarships over the next five years.

Ribbens Elementary Teacher Education Scholarships will be awarded to three juniors and three seniors at Dordt College annually, based primarily on financial need. Juniors receiving Ribbens Scholarships will be eligible to apply for a second year of funding.

The Ribbens hope that recipients of the scholarships will be curious and creative people for whom teaching is an art

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and a joy. They believe that is what’s needed for teachers to have an impact on their students and their world.

They should know.

Douglas was Dordt’s first professor of education when the college opened its doors in 1955. Before coming to Dordt College, he was an elementary school principal. His master’s and doctoral degree are in elementary education.

During his thirty-seven years at the college, Douglas moved from his role as education professor into the position of registrar, academic dean, director of the library, and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Henrietta began working for the college in the spring of 1958. She helped hundreds of elementary education students with teacher placement and teacher certification during her thirty-four years here, serving in roles ranging from Dordt’s first secretary to assistant registrar.

Between the two, they gave seventy-one years to Dordt College, shaping and running the institution as it moved from a junior college with less than a hundred students to a thriving four-year college of more than 1,200 students.

They retired in 1992, but continue to support the cause of Christian education.

“Henrietta has been talking about this for some time, and now seemed to be the right time,” says Douglas. “We believe everyone should do what they’re capable of.”

Dordt’s Education Program

In Dordt College’s first fifty years, 3,162 teachers were trained for the classroom.

Currently Dordt annually enrolls approximately 150 elementary education majors, 100 secondary education majors, and fifty master of education students. It is the largest department on campus, supported by a twelvemember teaching staff. But the education department reaches far beyond campus and has become an ongoing resource for Christian teachers around the globe through organizations like the Heartland Christian Educators Convention, attended by 500-600 teachers from Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota; IAPCHE, a network of Christian colleges and universities around the globe; the Center for Educational Services, which provides leadership for Christian schools both nationally and internationally; and The B.J. Haan Education Conference, an annual event attended by teachers from twelve states and provinces.

An alumna of the program, Beth Bleeker (Class of ’07) summarizes it best:

“The Education Department at Dordt College allows its students not only the opportunity to learn how to become effective teachers, giving us valuable tools and theories for today’s classroom, but more so in guiding us along the path of becoming the effective teachers God has called us to be.” The Sioux Center Christian kindergarten teacher continues, “In this way, the cycle of Christian education continues—we learn from the best, we apply that knowledge and develop our own strengths, and then begin teaching and spread our knowledge to future generations, hopefully inspiring someone to carry on the blessing of Christian teaching.”

Vander Zee, Vander Berg represented Dordt well Two Dordt faculty members with very different career interests retired from the college in 2009. What they had in common, however, was the outstanding manner in which they represented the college both on and off campus during their years here at Dordt College.

Professor of Biology Delmar Vander Zee served Dordt College for forty years, from 1969-2009.

His leadership in the biological sciences was felt in the biology, environmental science, and nursing departments.

His passion for local flora, native prairies, and creation care were evident as he maintained a natural prairie on Dordt’s campus. Most recently he worked toward the restoration of twenty acres of tall grass prairie along the bike trail on the south end of Dordt’s campus.

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Vander Zee has received several grants through out his career and, in addition to teaching at Dordt College, taught and served as administrator at Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies.

Vander Zee taught microbiology, cell biology, botany, plant physiology, plant taxonomy, and conservation biology.

He initiated an annual field trip with students to the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory at Lake Okoboji, where Dordt students have now collected thirty-six years worth of data.

In a fitting tribute to Vander Zee’s support of student research, the Delmar Vander Zee Research Fellowship in the Sciences has been established to fund research by a Dordt student majoring in biology. The fellowship was established as a lasting legacy through funding provided by Dordt College alumni and supporters.

Athletic Director Rick Vander Berg served Dordt College in a variety of positions within the athletic and physical education departments for thirty-two years, from 1977-2009.

His contributions to Dordt College have included teaching, coaching men’s basketball, assisting women’s basketball, and serving as athletic director since 1980.

Under Vander Berg’s leadership, Dordt’s athletic

department gained a strong reputation for educational quality, excellence of play, and the character of participants and coaches alike. Vander Berg was named the Great Plains Athletic Conference Athletic Director of the Year in 2003-2004 and served as chair of several committees within the GPAC. He was also named NAIA District 15 men’s basketball coach of the year in 1981 and 1988.

Vander Berg’s career at Dordt College started with the 1977-1978 school year when he was named head men’s basketball coach. Vander Berg guided seventeen men’s basketball teams at Dordt College and left the bench at the conclusion of the 1994-1995 season with a 239-224 record.

Vander Berg coached the Defenders to their first ever appearance in the NAIA National Basketball Tournament in 1988, where the upstart team advanced to the round of eight before being eliminated.

Vander Berg said things have changed since he began his work at Dordt College, but the basics remain the same.

“We make clear to our students that they are students first of all. That’s what they’re here for. And they all know that our focus, like that in every department at Dordt, is to glorify God in everything that we do.”

Molecular biology lab enhances biotechnology program Her plan was to go to medical school: then Brittany De Ruyter met Dordt’s molecular biology laboratory. The senior biology major from Sioux Center says a summer molecular science internship helped her discover her passion, and she now intends to pursue a career in research, a booming career path stemming from rapidly emerging technology.

This year Dordt College was able to equip a molecular biology lab with the latest and best, thanks in part to a grant of over $60,000 from the LI-COR® Genomics Education Enhanced Matching Funds Program. The award helped the college purchase a Sequencing, Microsatellite, and AFLP Package for hands-on undergraduate education in genomics.

The new equipment allows upperclass students to do DNA sequencing, DNA fingerprinting, microsatellite genotyping, and polymorphism genotyping of organisms. Dordt College students can do the same things they see on CSI, says Dr. Tony Jelsma, although not as quickly and easily as it appears on television.

Students with such hands-on experience have an advantage when they seek jobs and admission to post-graduate programs.

A fall remodeling project combined four small underutilized rooms into one larger laboratory, capable of accommodating twelve students.

Additional equipment in the renovated laboratory includes cell culture incubators, a laminar flow hood for mammalian cell cultures, thermal cyclers, electrophoresis equipment, and a high-speed refrigerated centrifuge.

The biotechnology program is interdisciplinary, offering an emphasis in biotechnology in several majors. Dordt students can pursue 10

biotechnology emphases in agriculture, biology, business, and computer science. An engineering biomedical emphasis option is also offered through the engineering department.

Internships at a biotechnology firm or a molecular biology laboratory are also available to a limited number of students.

De Ruyter’s summer research focused on the ongoing native prairie project at Dordt College. De Ruyter used the LI-COR® equipment to compare the genetics of a local species of orange butterfly milkweed with genetics in other native prairies. According to Dr. Jelsma, a new trend in prairie restoration is to keep genetics local, thereby preventing hybrids from overtaking native plants. Research is necessary to detect and prevent in-breeding, which can cause defects in these prairie plants.

“I really appreciated the opportunity to learn to use this equipment with Dr. Jelsma,” said De Ruyter. She’s currently using the apparatus for her senior research project. In addition, as part of her workstudy job, she is producing data for the department and developing protocols for the DNA sequencer that will help others learn to use the equipment.

The research that De Ruyter and Dr. Jelsma are doing could be useful to the Iowa Living Roadway project and other organizations involved in prairie conservation and restoration.

Choir members say Netherlands tour was opportunity of a lifetime Dordt classrooms are silent during the summer, but for some students the lessons and adventures don’t end.

That was particularly true for students in the Concert Choir this past year: on the first day of summer vacation they presented a pre-European tour concert. Then it was off to the Netherlands from May 13-24 for a whirlwind of concerts, tours, and experiencing life in another country.

Adam Van Der Molen, a junior from DeMotte, Indiana, says the trip was an opportunity of a lifetime. “Not only was I able to experience life and culture in a different country, but it was also a great privilege to be able to walk the same ground as our ancestors and great historical figures.” For Van Der Molen, the opportunity to sing in beautiful churches was a highlight, as was learning the history of each place they visited. He appreciated the opportunity to get to know Dutch families, converse with them, and learn from their perspective.

Dr. Ben Kornelis directed the choir and selected the program presented at St. Janskerk in Gouda, Grotekerk in Dordrecht, de Fonteinkerk in Katwijk aan Zee, de Fonteinkerk in Dokkum, Gereformeerde Kerk Vrijgemaakt De Voorhof in Franeker, Hobbe van Baerdt Kerk in Joure, Plantagekerk in Zwolle, Nieuwekerk in Kampen, St. Nicolaaskerk in Ellecom, and Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk in Kappelle.

“It was a thrill to sing in these spaces,” said Kornelis, adding that the wonderful old structures had great acoustics.

“It was fun to watch the kids’ faces light up when they heard themselves in these venues.” Holland has church choirs, but

educational systems don’t have organized singing groups. “Audiences told us again and again how much they appreciated our performances,” said Kornelis. He felt the tour was a strong motivator for the choir, giving students something to shoot for, tightening up their work, and giving them positive feedback. The program included selections that told the salvation story, songs from the European tradition, and music of America and from around the world.

The choir stayed in the homes of host families, whom Kornelis described as warm and wonderful.

“I don’t think there is any better way to experience another culture so directly than to sleep in the homes of the very people you are seeking to bless with your gift of music,” says Emily Huston, a sophomore from Winterset, Iowa.

Troy Ellens, a junior from Alberta, was surprised by the appreciation that many of the more elderly people in the Netherlands still expressed towards troops that liberated them near the end of WW II. “They have definitely not forgotten the ultimate sacrifices made during the war,” said Ellens. He adds, “Knowing that the foundations of our faith were laid here instills in me a deep sense of the providence of God. He continues to keep his promises to his people, protecting and preserving his saints as he works throughout history and today.”

The Dordt College Concert Choir performed at the Grotekerk in Dordrecht, the Netherlands.

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Dordt influence extends to national associations Dr. Carl E. Zylstra not only leads Dordt College as its president, he also holds leadership roles in two national organizations for the advancement of independent colleges and universities. As he does so, he broadens the influence of Dordt College and its vision.

Dr. Zylstra is currently serving a two-year term as chairman of the CCCU (Council for Christian Colleges and Universities) board of directors and a one-year term as the chair of the tax policy committee of the NAICU (National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities) board.

“In a very real sense, we sink or swim together,” says Zylstra of the value of these national organizations, adding that working together is particularly important during times of economic turmoil. “It’s a privilege to work with peers to advance the cause of Christian higher education,” he says.

The CCCU is an association of 185 Christ-centered institutions located throughout the world. Dordt College is among the 111 North American colleges who adhere to the CCCU’s mission “To advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help our institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth.”

NAICU is a national association that represents nearly 1,000 independent colleges and universities, serving as

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their unified voice. NAICU member institutions enroll 90 percent of the students attending private colleges or universities in the United States.

“Dr. Carl E. Zylstra was selected by his peers because of his expertise in the field, proven leadership, and commitment to America’s college students,” said NAICU President David L. Warren in announcing his position on the board. “He assumes his responsibilities at a time of great challenge and transformation for American higher education. The federal budget deficit, growing student financial need, an increasingly competitive global economy, and today’s culture of accountability are among the dynamics affecting higher education.”

As chair of NAICU’s tax policy committee, Dr. Zylstra is focusing on the development and advocacy of tax policy related to independent higher education. The group has been actively promoting the right of private college students to equal access to federal grants and loans to fund their college education. They are also advocating for increased Pell grant funding, tax credits for tuition paid,

and reinvestment in federal student aid programs so that hard-working, academically-qualified students can afford to attend the institution that best meets their needs.

As CCCU chair, Dr. Zylstra is preparing for the organization’s international forum held every fourth year.

The 2010 forum will be held in Atlanta in February. The goal is for representatives from institutions from across the world to gather in one place to celebrate, learn, network, and be inspired for the work they do in Christian higher education.

Much of what CCCU accomplishes may not be immediately evident to the general public, Zylstra says, but its internship programs are. These programs, based in five different countries, are available to students in all member institutions. They help participants understand global and cross-cultural issues from a biblical perspective and, in the process, expand students’ view of the world.

CCCU also provides important opportunities for faculty and presidents to come together to exchange ideas and shape a national policy that advances the cause of Christian colleges.

Research at Dordt leads to NOAA and NCUR opportunities Like many Dordt students, Justin Krosschell just needed a summer job.

Little did he know that a summer internship at Dordt would pave his way to being awarded the prestigious National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hollings Scholarship, which provides up to $16,000 in tuition and up to $6,500 in pay for a summer internship position at a NOAA facility.

This past summer Krosschell was treated to an allexpenses paid week at NOAA’s central offices in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he met with NOAA officials and was introduced to the student internship opportunities available to Hollings Scholars. He will spend next summer at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado, working on the forecasting of solar events. Solar events, such as solar flares, can have destructive implications for satellites orbiting the earth, communications systems (such as cell phones), and power grids. Kroschell will study how energetic particles from the sun move through and around the earth’s atmosphere. NOAA hopes their research will help predict what regions and levels of the earth’s atmosphere will be affected by solar events.

Krosschell, a junior majoring in physics and electrical engineering with a minor in the Kuyper Scholars Program, got his big break after his freshman year, when physics professor, Dr. Doug Allen, was awarded a grant from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The grant funded research on jet streams in the polar vortices and how gases respond to the movement of air. The study has implications for ozone depletion.

Krosschell was offered the opportunity to work with Dr. Allen, and drew on his combined engineering and physics majors to write software that can read and filter satellite data on the movement of air in the stratosphere. The experience helped him begin to develop the technical skills needed to use satellite data to study the atmosphere.

“I am so thankful for the research opportunity Dr. Allen provided me, which was very intriguing to the scholarship committee,” said Krosschell. He added that he would not have been able to complete the applications without the experiences his professors gave him in writing scientific reports.

Justin noted that it was Dr. John Zwart who brought the NOAA scholarship to his attention. Though it’s usually awarded to Ivy League colleges, his professors encouraged him to apply.

“Three professors put in extra time and wrote references for me: that shows the personal connection here, where professors know and care about you as a student.”

Krosschell was also among six Dordt students whose abstracts were accepted to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). They presented their work at the University of Wisconsin last April. Krosschell’s presentation was based on his summer’s NASA internship, “Solar Occultation and Limb Sounding Satellite Data Analysis of Trace Gases in the Stratosphere during the Arctic Winter (D. Allen).”

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Defender Capital Management offers real world experience to students Real world experience — it’s something that every college tries to give its students. Dordt College provides internships, off-campus programs, practicums, and service-learning opportunities that allow students to apply what they’re learning and to think critically about how they’ll make a difference for the kingdom of God when they graduate. But in addition to these opportunities, nearly twenty Dordt College students have had the opportunity to do just that without ever leaving campus, thanks to some visionary alumni, dedicated faculty, and passionate students.

The Defender Capital Management (DCM) Club was first proposed by Chris Huisken, a 1991 Dordt College business graduate currently working for a capital management firm in California. Several years ago, he contacted Dr. John Visser about starting an investment portfolio management group on campus. He wanted this group to be different from many others: to make the student experience authentic and practical, it needed real money. Many college business department programs have investment groups that pretend to buy stocks and follow them to see how they would have done, but as Chris says, “that takes the risk versus reward aspect away.

By using real money, the decisions about what to buy and when—and the stewardship involved with that—become very real.”

It also was to be student run. Huisken points out, “This is all about the students. We want them to do the work and learn from their successes as well as their mistakes.”

Shayne Vander Esch, a 1999 Dordt College business graduate, now an attorney in Des Moines, echoes that sentiment. “A key feature of DCM is that it is studentdriven,” he says. Therefore, while an advisory group provides administrative and policy advice, all investment decisions are made by a group of four senior analysts that are elected by the entire DCM team.

“It’s rewarding to see our alumni making commitments like this for the good of the college,” notes Visser, who is the faculty advisor for DCM. “This opportunity has been a blessing for the college. It’s been good to see alumni and students working together, and it has enhanced the quality of our education.” He hopes to identify interested students early in the college careers and work the DCM experience into the business curriculum, enhancing the connection between the

management of the fund and classroom learning.

DCM’s first student president was Chris Kuiper, a senior from Luverne, Minnesota. “It’s really incredible for students to be running a fund like this. It’s a great responsibility and an even greater experience,” says Kuiper who helped draft policies and procedures for the group, including a checklist for investment guidance, valuation spreadsheets, and a communication stream for group members.

In order to provide this real world, real money opportunity for students, several alumni worked with the Dordt College development office and the business department to secure leadership gifts for DCM to manage and invest. Over $100,000 has been given or pledged to date. “I would have loved something like this as a student. Now, as an alumnus, it’s a privilege to be involved and help other students,” says Vander Esch.

Because of their desire to use the gifts wisely, the DCM group has also spent a lot of time discussing how to be stewardly with their investment choices and what it means to invest from a Christian perspective. While the ideas are many, one that stands out is a commitment to using the earnings to advance the mission of Dordt College. The DCM group hopes that someday the portfolio’s long-term earnings will be able to fund student scholarships.

In the meantime, Defender Capital Management is proving to be a wonderful example of alumni, faculty, and students working together to enhance the student experience and provide opportunities to advance the work of God’s kingdom in the world of investments.

The Defender Capital Management Club holds its regular meetings in the Vermeer Business Center.

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From the Office of College Advancement Recently I attended, with a professional consultant, a series of meetings on campus. We met with students, faculty, staff, coaches, and alumni.

The consultant was asking: What are the distinctive qualities that make up the Dordt College experience? What makes that experience enduring to Dordt graduates and attractive to prospective students?

The answers he received shouldn’t have surprised me.

With remarkable consistency the same themes came up: a close, caring, Christian community; thoughtful and intentional integration of a Christ-centered worldview throughout the academic program, residence life, and co-curricular activities; professors who take genuine personal interest in the lives of their students; an experience that changes and shapes students’ hearts and minds to follow God’s call in all areas of their lives.

If the founders of Dordt College were to hear these remarks, I think they’d be pleased and grateful—surprised too, but not shocked. Could they have imagined what Dordt would look like today? Probably not. Did they have faith that God could bless their efforts in ways greater than they could imagine? Absolutely.

I’m thankful to hear that what we profess and promote is what the faculty strives to deliver and what students and alumni affirm they have received. Our supporters can take joy and appropriate pride in the impact that Dordt College is making on the lives of young people and ultimately in God’s kingdom. And I’ve seen evidence that you know how

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powerfully God is blessing your support for this place.

Few of us could have envisioned the worldwide economic turmoil experienced in the past year. Many of our friends have felt its impact in life-altering ways. Yet despite the collapse of equities markets and home values, increasing unemployment or underemployment and other financial shocks throughout our communities, Dordt received record gift income for the fifth consecutive year.

We know students on campus whose parents saw a reduction in their income, who found themselves wondering how they would pay for another year of college. But new gifts for scholarship support met students’ needs in extraordinary ways.

God is truly blessing Dordt College, and we give thanks for the outpouring of generous support that Dordt continues to receive. We are humbled when we think of the many people who have given of themselves, despite personal hardship, to provide new opportunities for students.

As we look forward, we pray that Dordt College will grow and serve even more vigorously in a manner that glorifies God. In the coming year, we invite you to join with us and to recommit yourself to this special place as we seek to transform the world one student at a time.

John Baas Vice President for College Advancement

2007-08

2008-09

Educational Support Fund Gifts

Educational Support Fund Gifts

Church Ministry Shares and Offerings Dordt College Fund Annually Funded Scholarships Other Operating Gifts Total

$805,370 977,349 178,160 608,914 $2,569,793

Capital Fund Gifts Spring Debt Reduction Drive Capital Projects Total

$173,717 1,036,035 $1,209,752

All Gift Support

Spring Debt Reduction Drive Capital Projects Total

$146,491 1,025,486 $1,171,977

Endowment Fund Gifts $10,000 14,475 180,149 479,868 $684,492

Other Gifts Donated Property Foundation Grants Miscellaneous Total

$795,027 866,499 260,328 491,901 $2,413,755

Capital Fund Gifts

Endowment Fund Gifts Facilities Endowment Special Subscriber Fund Bequest and Memorials Endowed Scholarships Total

Church Ministry Shares and Offerings Dordt College Fund Annually Funded Scholarships Other Operating Gifts Total

Facilities Endowment Special Subscriber Fund Bequest and Memorials Endowed Scholarships Total

$0 12,989 643,788 515,941 $1,172,718

Other Gifts $1,000 91,945 181,701 $274,646

$4,738,683

Donated Property Foundation Grants Miscellaneous Total

All Gift Support

$19,080 45,600 304,507 $369,187

$5,127,637

Financial Report We’re thankful that Dordt College has weathered the economic and financial turbulence of 2008-09. Increased student enrollment and excellent donor support allowed us to end the year with a $112,000 operating balance.

Despite this positive balance, the college did not completely escape the economic downturn of the past year.

Our endowment lost approximately $4.4 million for the year ending June 30, 2009.

While the eighteen percent loss was significant, the diversified investment strategy used by Dordt College lessened the impact from what it could have been. The year-end value of the Dordt College Endowment Fund was $20.3 million.

2008-09 Income:

We’re happy to report that renovations on the classroom building are now complete. This facility, along with the new residence hall currently under construction, will help us continue offering a quality Christ-centered education for our students. We pray that it will also give us opportunities to have an even greater impact in God’s world.

Arlan Nederhoff Vice President for Business Affairs

2008-09 Expenditures: 1.9% 5.5%

64.1%

13.3%

30.9% 23.2% .3%

9.3% 1.3% 1.8%

$17,476,368.00 $2,531,739.00 $357,655.00 $493,029.00 $81,051.00 $6,324,814.00 20

Net Tuition and Fees Contribution Revenue Grants and Contracts Sales & Services - Educational Investment and Other Income Sales & Services - Auxiliary

16.8% 10.2% 15.4% $8,390,335.00 $517,149.00 $1,502,332.00 $3,608,532.00 $4,553,495.00 $1,630,134.00 $4,174,874.00 $2,775,929.00

6% Instruction Public Service Academic Support Student Services Institutional Support Maintenance Auxiliary Services Transfers

Special Subscriber Fund The Special Subscriber Fund was established in 1960 to “give greater financial stability to the college in its operational and particularly in its development programs in order to strengthen the academic quality and prestige of the institution.� Since its inception, thanks to gifts and investment income, the fund has grown to over $4 million.

Statement of Changes in Fund Balance: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009 June 30, 2008

June 30, 2009

Beginning Fund Balance

$3,996,502

$4,339,407

Additions for the Period: Investment Income Membership Dues

$328,430 $14,475

($58,405) $12,988

Total Additions:

$342,905

($45,417)

$4,339,407

$4,293,990

Ending Fund Balance

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Heritage Society Members of the Dordt College Heritage Society are those who have made or will make deferred gifts to Dordt College.

Currently, the Heritage Society has over 530 members. Membership is attained in one of the following ways: • Placing a bequest for Dordt College in a will.

• Establishing a gift annuity with Dordt College.

• Establishing a charitable remainder trust with Dordt College.

• Naming Dordt College as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy.

United States

Lucinda Hoeksema Ted and Harriet Hoekstra Gerrit and Jean Hofstee Frank and Adrianna Leyendekker Kuno and Marion Maliepaard Gertrude Oosterman John and Marge Prins Kenneth and Margaret Roos J. Gregory and Cheryl Steensma Anita Termaat Bernard and Becky teVelde Kelly and Jayne Tien Gerry and Mary Vander Byl Irene Vander Pol William and Willy Vander Woude Robert and Sheryl Van Groningen Marie Van Hofwegen Arnold and Theresa Veldkamp Will and Ruth Verhoef Charles and Gertrude Viss Donald and Gertrude Vos

Alaska

Colorado

Thomas and Sandra Plooy

Charles and Betty Bosman William and Clara Buikema Roland Buteyn Scott and Beverly Herrema John and Leanne Hogan Carol Kats Marian Vander Ark Alice Vander Brug James and Marsha Van Milligan Daniel and Debbie Weitzel

Canada Alberta Dennis Hop Della Van Gaalen

British Columbia Case and Aly Boot Arnold and Valerie Sikkema

Ontario John and Jean Hellinga Jan and Andrea Struyk

Arizona Mary Addink Merl and Rose Alons Irene Bonnema Henry and Dorothy Diekman Robert Frieling Harvey and Gail Jansen Wayne and Barbara Ribbens Ruth Rus

California Anthony and Dicky Bons Edward and Edna Brower Edward and Jennifer Brower Jim and Anne Den Ouden Dick and Gertie Dykstra Carol Ede Ruth Griffioen Ben and Charry Gritters

Florida Marvin and Joan Cooper Martin and Ruthanne Dykstra Robert and Judy Hagey Marilyn Schryvers Mildred Van Til Wilbert and Berendina Wichers

Idaho Chuck and Janice De Groot Suszan Kats Cliff and Diane Quarles

Illinois Darrin and Dianne Hoekstra Richard and Kathy Kooyenga Joyce Mulder Gene and Harriet Potoka Eldon Ringler David and Dawn Van Groningen Jim and Joanne Woudstra

Indiana Mark and Thriesa Hubers Raymond and Carol Ooms Rudy and Stacey Tolkamp Jim and Kathy Van Zyl

Iowa Willis and Joanne Alberda Dallas and Gladys Apol Lewis and Jean Arkema Hattie Bakker Eileen Beninga Edith Blankespoor Gordon and Gert Blom Donna Blythe Abraham and Helen Bos Joe and Mary Bosma John and Jean Butler Alice Bylsma Rodney and Barbara De Boer Sally De Groot Cora De Jong Karen De Mol Harold and Wilma Den Besten Darryl and Shelly De Ruiter Leonard and Ella De Stigter Helen De Weerd Bernard and Katherine De Wit Don and Lou De Wit Harold and Theresa De Wit

Verlyn and Judene De Wit Albert and Minnie De Yager Marvin De Young Eldon and Elna Dieken Norman and Janice Dieleman John and Deb Doornenbal Julia Dykstra Dennis and Margene Eekhoff Harold and Ordie Eekhoff Paul and Jen Eekhoff Zelda Engbers Timothy and Kathy Franje Ellen Geels Gregory and Starla Geels Lyle and Muriel Gritters Joyce Groeneweg Ivan and Alice Groothuis Fred and Cheryl Haan Katie Haan Howard and Vicki Hall Steve and Kim Haveman Dick S. and Pauline Hofman Anna Hol John and Louise Hulst Jeanne Jennings Helen Kalsbeek William and Marie Kamstra S. John and Sandra Kanis Carl and Ellen Klompien Raymond Klyn James and Sally Koldenhoven Elmer and Karen Kooi Pete and Nella Kooi John and Della Kreykes Edwin and Sandy Kreykes Stan and Marci Kroese Caroline Kuiper Hazel Kuiper Arie and Johanna Lanser Nick and Sherri Lantinga Russell and Jean Maatman John and Margaret Meendering Tillie Mersbergen Alice Moerman Kenneth and Dorothy Monsma Paul and Kathy Moos Annette Mulder

Carl and Millie Mulder Leo and Joann Nikkel Nelson and Norma Nikkel Vernon and Carol Noteboom Carl and Lorna Nunnikhoven Esther Olivier Johanna Pals Dan and Belinda Pluim Junior and Janice Poppema Robert and Mavis Poppema Josephine Postma David Pruin Douglas and Henrietta Ribbens Herb and Johanna Roos Eugene and Adri Ruisch Joan Runia John and Cynthia Smit Tena Steensma Don and Sheryl Ten Napel Charles and Kathryn Vaandrager Agnes Van Beek Betty Vande Griend Doug Vanden Berg Lawrence and Marj Vander Esch John and Ruth Vander Haag Richard and Arlene Vander Laan Vincent and Brenda Vander Pol Elizabeth Vander Weerdt Dave and Rebecca Vander Werf William and Jo Vander Werf Stephena Vander Werff Nolan and Dorenda Van Gaalen Randall Van Gelder Sherwin and Deloris Van Kekerix Marlo and Carol Van Klompenburg Bradley and Lori Van Kooten Dennis and Audrey Van Maanen Nolan and Julie Van Otterloo Marion and Jan Van Soelen Robert and Marilyn Van Soelen Joe and Judy Van Tol Dennis and Arla Van Zanten Steve and Tiffany Van Zee Charles and Marlene Veenstra Bernice Vermeer Pat Ver Meer Dennis and Karen Visser

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Gertrude Visser Johanna Vos Lois Vos Dale and Rosi Voss Dennis and Donna Walstra Frieda Wierda Kevin and Bonnie Wolterstorff Kirk and Samona Joy Yentes Carl and Gloria Zylstra

Kansas Daryl Kats

Maryland Ken and Evelyn Bussema

Michigan Duane and Kathy Addink Kenneth and Laurel Beukelman George and Rozanne Bruins John and Sylvia De Winter Raymond and Johanna Graves Jack and Mary Ann Heinen Justin and Sandra Kromminga Thomas and Joan Le Mahieu Kenneth and Ruth Lobbes Richard and Annie Meyer Norman and Lucille Poel Joan Ringerwole Lula Ringerwole Kevin and Sharon Schonewill Hazel Tibbe Daniel and Nancy Vander Meer Jay and Laura Van Groningen Daryl and Susan Vogel Jerry and Carol Wilson

Minnesota Durky Baar Roland and Sandra Beckering Albert Boersma Lester and Eva Brouwer Irene Feikema

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Steve and Karen Groen Elmer and Sharlene Jelgerhuis Thomas and Janette Kamp Gladys Kempema Alvin and Alvina Kooiman Randy and Rachel Kroll Lewis and Grace Ledeboer John and Mildred Meyer Mike and Bev Mulder Larry Myren Margaret Negen Hilda Nieuwbeerta Elton Osenga Tim and Linda Ribbens Scott and Faye Ross Lyle and Beth Ten Haken Edith Walhof Muriel Walhof Jennie Mae Wubben Steven and Angela Zwart

Mississippi C. Stockmeier & G. Rajkowska

Missouri Gilbert and Janice Kamps

Montana Leroy and Wilma Logterman Walter and Myrna Moss Henry Uiterdyk

Nebraska LoRayne and Janice Ulmer

New Jersey Elsie Palmer

New Mexico Richard Kruis and Mary Poel

North Carolina Philip Hughes-Donna Van Engen Tom and Jayne Sittema

Ohio Willie and Elaine Brooks Donn and Ruth Rubingh Keith and Lynda Vanderburg

Oklahoma Terry and Twyla Kok Anna Kamlade Douglas and Carla Vande Griend

South Dakota Cleo and Kathryn Bultsma Adrian and Irene Ekdom Wilma Haan Rena Kroon Nellie Mast Leigh and Becky Roelofs John and Marjorie Runia Ivan and Lois Van Dusseldorp Muriel Van Vuren

Texas Tom and Sherri Alger

Virginia Steve and Lydia Foley

Washington Harold and Lou Apol Audrey Appel Fred and Shirley Boonstra Richard and Katie Bouwman Ben and Elizabeth Boxum

Martin and Mare Bron Marlo and Carol De Young James and Sandra Elenbaas Jerry and Rosie Haak Martha Helder Marlin and Linda Hendricks Herman and Margaret Heusinkveld Nicolaas and Roberta Honcoop Eugene and Sharon Koorn Arlo Korevaar Herbert and Bernace Korthuis Arthur and Helena Kuiper Stan and Wilma Pilon James and Judy Rip Andrew and Karen Schilperoort Thelma Schrotenboer Albert and Betty Smeenk Dick and Maryke Top Howard Vande Kieft Henry and Anna Vander Pol Jay and Marlys Vander Pol Freda Visser Harry Visser Edwin and Mary Werkhoven Walter and Linda Wierenga Don and Ada Wiersma Ed and Theresa Wolters

Wisconsin Owen and Karen Bouma Norman and Joyce Haan Darrell and Judith Hoffmann Leslie and Marlene Kuiper Ralph and Susan Slaber William and Jane Sybesma Daniel and Marian Ten Pas Dann and Judy Ver Velde

Germany Everett and Cathleen Hoekstra

Alumni Gift Support According to U.S. News and World Report, Dordt College alumni continue to lead the rankings in alumni giving participation. U.S. News believes that alumni giving is a good indicator that alumni feel they received a good education.

I have been encouraged by and am grateful for the support Dordt College alumni give to their alma mater. Again this past year, we have received gifts for the annual fund, scholarships, endowment, and capital projects.

The alumni association awarded more scholarship dollars this year than ever before. Fifteen incoming freshmen from different areas of North America and three juniors received scholarships from the alumni association.

Last year 3,551 alumni made gifts to the college totaling $954,057—thirty-six percent of our alumni.

Your generosity has enabled us to maintain top-quality programs and help renovate the classroom building which

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has been renamed the Douglas and Henrietta (Miedema) Ribbens Academic Complex.

Dordt College has offered a quality education to over 15,000 alumni for more than fifty years. Those alumni are living, working, and praising God all over the world. We depend on the prayers and financial support of our alumni.

Through your support, you participate in Dordt’s mission to train young people to make an impact for Christ, whatever their vocation. Thank you again for your support!

Sincerely,

Wesley D. Fopma Class of 1982 Director of Alumni and Church Relations

Church Giving I recently spent some time researching the denominations in which our alumni participate. These 15,000-plus alumni live and work in God’s kingdom in many different congregations and communities. Fifty-six percent of Dordt College alumni are members of a Christian Reformed church.

Five percent are members of a United Reformed congregation, and another five percent are members of the Reformed Church of America. Other denominations represented

by Dordt College alumni include: Orthodox Presbyterian, Evangelical Free, Protestant Reformed, Netherlands Reformed, Presbyterian Church of America, Baptist, Reformed Church of the United States, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Methodist.

Dordt College’s founding core of Midwestern CRC congregations has expanded to include supporting churches throughout North America from a growing family of Reformed, Presbyterian, and other evangelical denominations.

This support is significant. Their financial support, students, advice, and prayers are a blessing to us at the college. Dordt College is committed both to maintaining and strengthening its relationship with the CRC and expanding its supporting church constituency. We have much to offer each other, and we are truly grateful for the demonstrations of care and interest from each of our supporting churches.

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Christian Reformed Church Alberta South/ Saskatchewan Burdett Lethbridge Maranatha Medicine Hat Nobleford Taber First

Arizona Scottsdale Palm Lane

Atlantic Northwest East Palmyra Waltham Champlain Valley

British Columbia Northwest Burnaby Nelson Ave Community Duncan Houston New Westminster First Port Alberni First Prince George Smithers Telkwa Terrace Vancouver First Victoria

British Columbia Southwest Abbotsford Hillside Abbotsford New Life Abbotsford Trinity Kelowna

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Central California

Columbia

Escalon Fresno Hanford First Modesto Oakdale Community Ripon Almond Valley Ripon First Ripon Immanuel Sacramento Living Stones

Quincy Sunnyside Zillah Faith Community

Central Plains

Grandville Trinity Hudsonville First Hudsonville Georgetown Jenison Baldwin Street Jenison Fairway Jenison First Jenison Twelfth Avenue

Cedar Cedar Rapids Peace West Des Moines Crossroads Leighton Newton North Liberty Chinese Oskaloosa Bethel Oskaloosa First Pella Calvary Pella Faith Pella First Pella Grace Fellowship Pella Second Peoria Prairie City Stephenville Sully Tracy

Chatham Aylmer Dresden Wyoming

Chicago South Oak Forest Hope Oak Lawn Calvin Oak Lawn First Orland Park Palos Heights Tinley Park Faith

Eastern Canada Charlottetown Fredericton

Georgetown

Le Mars Calvin Ocheyedan Omaha Prairie Lane Orange City Calvary Orange City First Orange City Immanuel Sanborn Sheldon First Sheldon Immanuel Sibley

Illiana

Holland

Kalamazoo

Holland Bethany Holland Faith Holland Pillar Noordeloos

Battle Creek River Walk Community Kalamazoo Grace Portage Prairie Edge

Hudson

Grand Rapids South

Sussex

Cutlerville Providence Grand Rapids Alger Park

Iakota

Grandville South Grandville

Greater Los Angeles Artesia First Bellflower Bethany Bellflower First

Hackensack Norfolk Ocean View Silver Spring Terra Ceia

Heartland Hawarden Hospers First Hull First Hull Hope Ireton

Corsica Harrison Inwood Menno Peace New Holland Platte Rapid City Hope Rock Rapids Rock Valley Calvin Rock Valley First Rock Valley Trinity Sioux Center Bethel Sioux Center Bridge of Hope

Ministries Sioux Center Covenant Sioux Center Faith Sioux Center First Sioux Center Lebanon Sioux Falls First Sioux Falls Heartland Community Sioux Falls Shalom Valentine Lakeview

De Motte Bethel De Motte First Lansing Bethel Lansing New Hope Roselawn Community Sauk Village Emmanuel South Holland Cottage Grove South Holland First

Lake Superior Baldwin Bunde Emo Hancock Minneapolis Calvary New Brighton Faith Pease Raymond Renville Emden Thunder Bay First Willmar Winnipeg Covenant Winnipeg Transcona

Minnkota Chandler Colton Faith Community Edgerton Bethel Edgerton First Holland Leota Ebenezer Lodgepole Holland Center Luverne Pipestone Prinsburg First Worthington

Muskegon

Rocky Mountain

Zeeland

New Era

Denver First Denver Third Dispatch Grand Junction New Life Houston Peace Community Luctor

Borculo Coopersville Zeeland Bethel Zeeland North Sreet

Niagara Dunnville Bethel

Northcentral Iowa Ames Trinity Austinville Britt At The Crossroads Grundy Center Lincoln Center Hollandale Kanawha Wright Mason City Rolling Acres Parkersburg Rochester Living Stone Wellsburg First

Northern Illinois Elmhurst Fulton Bethel Fulton First German Valley Morrison

Northern Michigan Falmouth Aetna

Pacific Northwest Bellevue Everson Faith Christian Fellowship Lynden Bethel Lynden First Lynden Mountain View Lynden Third Marysville Cascade Seattle First Silverdale Anchor of Hope Sumas

Red Mesa Rehoboth

Southeast U.S. Bradenton

Thornapple Valley Kentwood East Paris

Wisconsin Alto Appleton Covenant Brookfield Delavan Fox Lake Living Hope Community Horicon Marsh View Ministries Kenosha Madison Crossroads Madison Geneva Campus Oostburg First Racine Randolph First Randolph Second Sheboygan Calvin Sheboygan First Sheboygan Hmong Waupun Bethel Waupun First Wisconsin Rapids New Hope

Community

Yellowstone Bethel Bozeman Gallatin Gateway

Community Manhattan Salt Lake City Mountain Springs

Other Denominations Baptist Brooklyn Park Edinbrook Forest City First Ludlow Grace Bible Oxford First Parksville Fellowship Rock Rapids Faith Washington Faith

Evangelical Free Gordon Church of God Sioux Center Christ Community

Lutheran Mora Calvary

Mennonite Kalona Lower Deer Creek

Orthodox Presbyterian Bancroft Murdock Memorial Cedar Grove Calvary Oostburg Bethel Orland Park Covenant

Presbyterian Church in America Hospers First Lethbridge Westminster Chapel Overland Park Redeemer Pollock Memorial Walker Bible

Reformed Church in America Carmel George Hope Lansing First Rock Rapids First Sioux Center First Sioux Center New Life

Reformed Church in the United States Aberdeen First Anderson Faith Ashley Salem Bakersfield Grace Bentonville Grace Chapel Colorado Springs Trinity Garner Peace Golden Valley Redeemer Greeley Grace Kansas City Northland Lincoln St John’s Manitowoc Salem Ebenezer Menno Zion Mitchell Grace Modesto Trinity Pierre Hope Rapid City Grace Sacramento Covenant San Diego Covenant Shafter Ebenezer Sioux Falls Trinity Stockton Calvary Sutton Hope Vermillion Providence Watertown Covenant

United Reformed Chino First Dyer Redeemer Lynden Lynwood New Haven Orange City Redeemer Pella Covenant Phoenix Ripon Zion Rock Valley Sioux Center Thunder Bay Visalia Trinity Wayne Preakness Valley

Other Arvada Faith Bible Arvada Grace Church Kent New Heights Kunkle United Brethren Pine River Riverview Rapid City First Christian

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Leadership Support Program Leadership gifts are a vital part of the Dordt College Fund. Contributions to this fund keep student tuition costs down by helping fund day-to-day operations of the college, capital projects, and the establishment of new academic programs.

With thanks for all of the gifts we receive, the Leadership Support Program acknowledges our alumni and friends who make contributions of $1000 or more in a fiscal year to the Dordt College Fund. The program recognizes six giving levels. In 2008-09, 429 donors participated in the Leadership Support Program by making gifts at one of these levels.

Program Opportunities Participation in the Leadership Support Program is based on: • Gifts of cash or donated property that total $1,000 or

more per year; • Irrevocable deferred gifts* such as trusts and annuities that total $10,000 or more. *Deferred gifts are generally credited at 1/10th of their face value for this program because of the deferred nature of the gifts.

Leadership Support Groups • Partners Support Group: $1,000 to $2,499 annually • Cornerstone Support Group: $2,500 to $4,999 annually • President’s Forum: $5,000 to $9,999 annually • Cabinet Support Group: $10,000 to $24,999 annually • Founders Support Group: $25,000 to $49,999 annually • B.J. Haan Society: $50,000 or more annually

2009 Leadership Support Program Membership • Partners Support Group: 252 • Cornerstone Support Group: 66 • President’s Forum: 54 • Cabinet Support Group: 35 • Founders Support Group: 10 • B.J. Haan Society: 12

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Dordt Development Foundations For decades, Dordt College has been blessed by the financial support of businesses and professionals in the region. The Dordt Development Foundation is made up of organizations who faithfully support improvements in life and learning at Dordt College.

This year, 128 business leaders provided support to Dordt College in excess of $235,000.

These contributions secure and strengthen the future of the college. The business community understands that Dordt students, graduates, staff, and faculty are important assets in their community. The faithful support and spirit of partnership between these organizations and the college has allowed students to grow and develop into productive kingdom citizens.

Dale Zevenbergen Dordt Development Foundation Director

The faithful support and spirit of partnership between these organizations and the college has allowed students to grow and develop into productive kingdom citizens.

A & K Electric, Inc. Alpha Omega Publications American State Bank B & B Plumbing, Inc. Bamboo Garden Cafe Bodnar Studio Boer & Sons, Inc. Bomgaars Bouma & Co., Inc. Brommer Sanitation Burke Engineering Sales Company C and H Body Repair, Inc. Carrie Foods Ltd. Center Sports, Inc. Central Tire Shop, Inc. Central Veterinary Clinic PLC Chesterman Company Connections Employee Assistance Program Cooperative Gas & Oil Company De Roon Construction, Inc. Demco Charitable Foundation Digital Plus Direct Digital Control LLC Dr. Paul Beaver Driesen Eye Center Optometrists Echo Electric Supply & Lighting Design Gallery Econo Lodge Motel EDA, Inc. Edward Jones Investments Elmer and Karen Kooi Family Table Restaurant Farmer’s Co-op Society Farmers Mutual Insurance Association First National Bank

Furniture Mart Ltd GCC Alliance Concrete, Inc. German Farmers Mutual Insurance Glass Doctor Northwest Iowa Greenway & Associates Groschopp Ground Effects Flowers, Landscaping, and

Garden Center Hills Electronics Hilt Real Estate, Inc. Hi-Way Chevrolet Buick LLC Holiday Inn Express Hotel Hy-Vee Hubers Plumbing Heating and AC, Inc Interstates Companies Interstates Control Systems Iowa State Bank Jim’s Digging Service Kooima & Kaemingk Commodities, Inc. Kraai Furniture Kragt Chiropractic Clinic Kredit Electric Kroese and Kroese Link Manufacturing Ltd. M & H True Value Hardware M.J.’s Sinclair Med-Tec, Inc. Mid-States Audio Missouri River Energy Services Mouw Motor Co., Inc. Mrs. A.H. Te Paske MTC Foundation Neumann Monson Wictor Architects Northside Body Shop Ltd.

Northwestern Bank Noteboom Electric, Inc. Oostra Bierma & Van Engen PLC P & H Wholesale, Inc. Pat’s Jewelry Centre Pella Corporation Peoples Bank & Trust Pepsi Cola of Siouxland Pluim Publishing, Inc. Premier Bank-Rock Valley Primebank Prins Insurance ProActive Physical Therapy and Sports Rehab Realty Associates Reichert Tax & Bookkeeping Renae’s Salon & Spa Rens Concrete, Inc. Rice Insurance Agency Rock Industries, Inc. Roelofs Store Royal Tan, Inc. Security National Bank Sharon’s Embroidery and Screenprinting, Inc. Sioux Body Shop, Inc. Sioux Center Publishing, Inc. Sioux Feed Company Sioux Preme Packing Co. Siouxland Propane Company, Inc. Sioux-Per Center Snieder Insurance & Financial Group Soo Valley Vending, Inc. State Farm Insurance Subway Taco Johns

Te Slaa Trucking Team Realty Services, Inc. Ten Kredit Electric, Inc. The Travel Advantage The Wood Shop Town and Country Implement Co. True Vine, Ltd. Van Bruggen & Vande Vegte PC Van Den Hul Asset Management Van Engelenhoven Agency, Inc. Van Holland Lawn Service Ltd. Van Kley Tool & Die Vande Berg Scales Vander Berg Furniture Vander Haag’s Inc. Van’s Insurance Van’t Hof Concrete, Inc. Ver Hoef Automotive, Inc. Visser Brothers Plumbing & Htg. Visser Elevator, Inc. Vogel Charities Vogel Paint & Glass, Inc. Vos Motor Sales Vreugdenhil Construction, Inc. Walstra Plumbing & Heating, Inc. Wells Hearing Aid Service Zeutenhorst Financial, Inc.

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From the Board of Trustees Dear Alumni and Friends of Dordt College,

While I was recently talking to a friend who leads a major international not-for-profit organization, he mused that his organization can get much more accomplished today than it could a few years ago because of its propensity to partner and collaborate.

The same is true for Dordt College. Partnerships and collaborations are common themes running through the articles in this publication. The stories describe relationships involving organizations, students, alumni, employees, former employees, and public institutions.

Our world continues to get smaller and smaller, thanks largely to our capacity to instantly communicate with each other around the globe. Dordt College continues to establish partnerships and collaborations with all kinds of places in

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God’s world. Underpinning all of these is a relationship and a belief that Jesus Christ is Lord of it all.

You have received this publication because you already have a relationship with Dordt College. I hope you continue to partner and collaborate with us. Helping a current student, encouraging a prospective student, giving us your good ideas, contributing financially—these are “gifts” that help our students engage as God’s kingdom builders.

Thank you for all the ways you have blessed Dordt College.

In kingdom service,

Randy Kroll Chair, Board of Trustees New Brighton, Minnesota

Board of Trustees Debra Broek, Zurich, Switzerland Henry Contant, Abbotsford, British Columbia Patricia Dykstra, Denver, Colorado Henry Eekhoff, Manhattan, Montana Joyce Eggebeen, Oostburg, Wisconsin Randy Feenstra, Hull, Iowa Myra Heibult, Albuquerque, New Mexico Rev. Andrew Woja Henry, Worthington, Minnesota Rev. John Hilbelink, Rockford, Illinois Rev. Samuel Kim, Brea, California Rev. Henry Kranenburg, Hamilton, Ontario Jay Kroese, Plymouth, Minnesota Randy Kroll, New Brighton, Minnesota Norma Nikkel, Pella, Iowa Arlie Olsen, Blooming Prairie, Minnesota Rev. Timothy Ouwinga, Pipestone, Minnesota Pamela Schmidt, Plymouth, Minnesota Beth Te Grotenhuis, Sioux Center, Iowa Evan Vanden Bosch, Rock Valley, Iowa Lloyd Vander Kwaak, Johnston, Iowa Rev. John Van Schepen, Lynden, Washington Arnold Veldkamp, Escondido, California Ruth Verhoef, Redlands, California Robert Vermeer, Pella, Iowa Kevin Wolterstorff, Sioux Center, Iowa

Advancement Development Staff John Baas

Barb Mellema

Dave Vander Werf

Vice President for College Advancement

Director of Annual Giving

Director of Planned Giving

John oversees the overall advancement program of the college. He is actively involved in fund raising, donor relations, alumni relations, church support and relations, college publications, grant writing, media relations, and general public relations.

Lyle Huisman Special Gifts Officer Lyle helps build relationships and secure gift support for Dordt College through personal visits with existing and prospective donors. Lyle cultivates and manages these relationships in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and much of the Northeastern United States.

Nancy Krygsman Administrative Assistant for Advancement Nancy assists the development staff with clerical duties, data entry, and gift receipting in the areas of planned giving, capital campaigns, and annual drives.

Barb plans, organizes, and supervises phonathons and other fund-raising programs for the college. She is also responsible for various donor cultivation activities for the Advancement Office.

Les Netjes Executive Assistant to the Vice President for College Advancement Les supports the Vice President for College Advancement and is responsible for building relationships and communicating the investment opportunities of Dordt College to people in Alberta, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Minnesota, and selected communities in Iowa.

Pat Pollema Executive Secretary Pat is the senior administrative support person for the Advancement Office.

She is the secretary to the Vice President for College Advancement and performs a variety of data entry and record-keeping tasks.

Dave coordinates the college’s deferred giving program. He works with constituents in doing estate planning and creating deferred gifts such as bequests, annuities, and trusts. He is also responsible for fund raising and donor relations in the Eastern United States and Canada, North Dakota, South Dakota, and some areas of Iowa.

Dale Zevenbergen Instructor of Business Administration and Special Gifts Officer Dale teaches marketing and operations courses in the business department and leads Advancement Office efforts in the Dordt Development Foundation. He is also responsible for donor relations and fund raising in the region stretching from Des Moines and Pella to Chicago.

Part-Time Development Representatives Harold De Wit, Lyle Gritters, and Bernie De Wit, assist our full-time development staff in various fund-raising and donor relations activities throughout the United States and Canada.

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Administrative Cabinet John Baas .................................Vice President for College Advancement.................712-722-6020 Erik Hoekstra...........................Provost.........................................................................712-722-6333 Arlan Nederhoff ......................Vice President for Business Affairs...........................712-722-6010 Bethany Schuttinga . ...............Associate Provost for Co-Curricular Programs.......712-722-6076 Quentin Van Essen .................Executive Director of Admissions............................712-722-6080 Carl E. Zylstra ..........................College President........................................................712-722-6002

Graphic design and layout by Sarah (Versluis) De Young (’05)

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