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In this issue . . . Long-time Employees Plan to Retire Upcoming Music Department Events Sign up Now for Netherlands Tour
"Time Out," a show featuring the work of Dordt’s newest art professor, Matt Drissell, is currently on display at the Dordt College Campus Center Art Gallery through Nov. 30. Drissell’s work includes graphite and ink drawings. The Campus Center Art Gallery is free and open to the public from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Read more about Matt and his statement for this show here. Van Den Bosch wins 400th Dordt College volleyball coach Tom Van Den Bosch earned his 400th win at Dordt College recently in a 3-0 win over the Sioux Falls Cougars. Van Den Bosch is 400-87 in eleven-plus seasons at Dordt and has an overall coaching record of 1109-158. Dordt College enjoyed a three-year, undefeated run in the GPAC from 2003-2005 under Van Den Bosch. The Defenders are currently 29-5 and ranked #16 in the country. Click here for the latest news on Defender volleyball. Vander Berg and Vander Zee announce retirement plans Long-time Dordt College Athletic Director Rick Vander Berg and even longer-time Professor of Biology Del Vander Zee have announced that they plan to retire at the conclusion of the 2008-2009 school year. Vander Berg has been at Dordt College since 1977. Vander Zee came to Dordt in 1969, giving forty years to Dordt College students.
Read more about Vander Berg's retirement here.
Read more abut Vander Zee's retirement here.
Purchase Dordt choir CDs for yourself or holiday giving
Do yourself and the members of the Dordt Concert Choir a favor. Purchase a CD of excellent choral music and help choir members raise money for their European tour next summer. The choir will travel to the Netherlands, singing in several large churches, including the historic Grote Kerk in Dordrecht.
For more information or to place an order, click here.
Defenders earn first football victory The Dordt College Defender football team is in its first year as a varsity sport. After winning its first game, the sixth of the season that included a rain delay, Sioux City Journal reporter Tim Gallagher had some nice things to say about the team and its coaches. In fact, it took him two articles to say it all. Read his columns here and here.
Dordt College music events If you're in the Sioux Center area over the next several weeks be sure to take in these events:
Canadian biologist to lecture at Dordt The 2008 ARIHE (Association of
Seats are filling up for Netherlands tour Learning vacation includes Concert Choir at Dordrecht
There’s still room for you to be part of Dordt College’s new learning vacation to the Netherlands on May 11-20, 2009. Travel with Dordt Professors Leendert van Beek and Dr. Hubert Krygsman, who will share their expertise on Dutch culture and history. A trip highlight will be meeting up with the touring Dordt College Concert Choir for their concert in Dordrecht. This ten-day motor coach tour includes medieval castles, the homes of Anne Frank and Corrie Ten Boom, and the Rijksmuseum. You’ll visit tulip gardens, cheese farms, and Delft shops. Cost includes airfare, motel accommodations and many meals. For more information, contact Dianne De Wit at ddewit@dordt.edu or 712-722-6029 or see full details at www.dordt.edu/events/netherlands
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Alumni and
friends events
Defender basketball in Des Moines and Oshkosh
Come see the Dordt College Defender women's and men's basketball teams play at Grandview College in Des Moines on Wednesday, November 12. The women's game begins at 5:30 p.m., and the men's game starts at 7:30 p.m. Between the games, we'll host a reception with pizza and soda for all alumni and friends. Plan to join us in the lobby at approximately 7 p.m. Please RSVP for pizza and soda by e-mailing the alumni office or by calling 712-722-6028.
In addition, the Defender men will play on Friday and Saturday, November 28 and 29, at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. They will play UW Eau Claire at 5 p.m. on Friday and UW Oshkosh on Saturday at 3 p.m. After the Saturday game all alumni and friends are invited to a pizza and soda reception for the team at Player's Restaurant. Hope to see you there!
Agriculture presentation in Edgerton
The Dordt College agriculture department
invites all alumni and friends to a presentation about Dordt’s
agriculture program, its faculty, and students. Join us to talk
about how we continue to serve our faithful God as we face the
radical changes happening in agriculture today.
A Dordt College Readers Theater performance about farming in rural America will be presented on Saturday, November 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Dordt's Classroom Building lecture hall, C160. "Farmscape: Documenting the Changing Rural Environment," was created last fall by Professor Mary Swander at Iowa State University, using interviews her students conducted with real people involved in growing food in the changing American farmscape. This performance is free and open to the public.
Alumni Notes
Many of you are doing a wonderful job of
notifying the alumni office
and Voice when you have birth announcements and marriage
information to share with other alumni. We'd sure like to receive
career news updates as well.
Many alums would like to hear what
you’ve been up to! Claim your credential fileMany alumni created credential files with the Placement Office when they were students at Dordt. These credential files contain letters of recommendation from professors and businesses. For education majors, the files also contain student teaching evaluations. Because it is no longer vital for this office to keep the files, we would like alumni to take possession of their files as soon as possible. We have already begun to shred some older files, but most are still available at this point. (These files should not be confused with academic records, which will never be destroyed.)
If you graduated with a general major any time from 1990 to the present, you may immediately claim your credential file. Education majors who graduated between 1960 and 2003 should also claim their files. (We have to keep education files for five years after your graduation date, at which time they may be claimed.) There is no fee charged for this service. Files left unclaimed will ultimately be shredded.
To claim a file, send an e-mail to Ellen Mouw. Include your name, maiden name (if applicable), graduation year, and major or call 712-722-6078.
This is the place
to connect and network with other Dordt College alumni. The
directory is available only to Dordt College alumni, who must
register to gain access to contact information on Dordt alumni.
Alumni who register can update their own profiles and hide any
information they do not want listed. The directory has a simple
search function and an advanced search function, allowing you to
search for other alumni based on various criteria. For more
information contact the alumni office at 712-722-6022 or email:
alumni@dordt.edu. Dordt College RSS news feed Interested in receiving news about Dordt College when it happens? We have set up an RSS news feed option for every category of news that we offer (general news on the front page, athletics, academics, etc.) You can access it by hitting the XML button at the bottom of news items at www.dordt.edu and choose to automatically receive Dordt news stories as they are posted.
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Vander
Berg has held a variety of positions within the Dordt College
athletic and physical education departments which included teaching,
coaching men’s basketball, assisting women’s basketball and acting
as athletic director from 1980 to present. 
Vander
Zee teaches microbiology, cell biology, botany, plant physiology,
plant taxonomy, and conservation biology. His research and special
interests have included chloroplast development, seed germination,
microbial antibiosis, prairie restoration, environmental and
bio-ethics. He has also taught and served as administrator at Au
Sable Environmental Studies, for which he serves on the Academic
Advisory Council and is also its campus representative. 
Reformed Institutions of Higher Education) lecturer is Dr. John R.
Wood. He will speak on Thursday, November 6, in the Science Building
lecture hall, S101. His topic at 3:30 p.m. is "My Climate, Your
Climate, Our Watery Change." His topic at 7:30 p.m. is "Shalom and a
Sense of Place." Dr. Wood is a professor of biology and
environmental studies at The King's University College in Edmonton,
Alberta, and the academic dean for the Au Sable Institute for
Environmental Studies. The public is welcome to attend.
