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 Commencement set for May 9 in the B.J. Haan Auditorium The class of 2008 commencement is on Friday, May 9, at 10 a.m. in the B.J. Haan Auditorium. This year's graduating class is made up of 273 students, with 250 Baccalaureate degrees, 20 Associate of Arts degrees, and four Master of Education degrees awarded. Associate of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Bachelor of Social Work, and Master of Education degrees will be awarded. Speaker for the ceremony is Jerelyn Schelhaas, theater and English instructor and a Dordt College alumna. Schelhaas has served the theater department 20 years, teaching, directing productions, and supervising student work. Schelhaas was recently awarded the Region 5 Gold Medallion Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), based on her contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre, and her contributions to the development of collegiate level theater at Dordt College. Schelhaas will speak on the topic, "What Will You Name It?"
Also in this issue . . . Senior Super Show is in the gallery
The exhibit is free and open for display daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the Dordt College Campus Center Art Gallery. Image above: Judgement, a charcoal drawing by Mason Welsh, Neligh, NE. Update on Professors
Dr. Charles Adams is dean of the natural sciences and a professor of engineering at Dordt College. Dr. Pam Adams is a professor of education. Their three sons and families (Chuck and Kimberly Adams, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; David Adams and Shari Adams, Lynden, Washington; and Michael and Kimberly Adams, Sioux Falls) appreciate your prayers and words of support on the Caring Bridge website.Dordt
Engineering Students Engineering students give their annual public presentations of senior design projects on Wednesday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Building Lecture Hall SB-101. The five projects demonstrated this year are:
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"It's great to be back on a college campus," remarked Donahoe, who said he's looking forward to meeting and providing oversight to workstudy and theater students at Dordt. Dordt Ag Department awarded An agricultural research project to be conducted by Dordt
College's Agriculture Department, Practical Farmers of Iowa, and
Marshalltown Community College has been awarded $138,000 in grant
funding from North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research
and Education "Bioenergy and Diversity from Sustainable Systems and Crops" was among 15 proposals awarded full funding by NCR-SARE, out of 127 projects initially submitted.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey made a guest appearance at Dordt College's annual Ag Day, held April 25, on a blustery day that moved most of the activities indoors. Hosted by the Dordt College Agriculture Department and Agriculture Club, only the machinery display remained out in the parking lot, with livestock moved to the dairy barn on the Sioux County Fairgrounds for judging by college and high school students. Eleven PLIA Teams Spend a During this year's spring break, 89 Dordt College students served on 11 PLIA (Putting Love Into Action) teams through the college's student-run mission outreach program. This year's sites included Atlanta, Georgia; Camden, New Jersey; Cary, Mississippi; Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; Grand Junction, Colorado; Jackson and Mendenhall, Mississippi; Neon, Kentucky; Shiprock, New Mexico; and Toronto, Canada. The PLIA trips took place March 13-22. The goal of PLIA is to share Christ's love with people in diverse communities; challenge participants to adopt a more service-oriented lifestyle; and to assist and encourage the growth of ministry centers with which they work.
Summer Graduate Education program School's out for the summer!! But that's not the case for between 50-60 students who participate in our summer graduate program. Each year during the month of July, the campus is bustling with teachers from many states and provinces. They come to participate in our Master of Education Program. The M.Ed program provides professional growth opportunities for teachers and principals who seek to learn more about what it means to teach in a distinctly Christian manner. This 10-course, 30-semester hour program provides a concentration in curriculum and instruction and provides practical, hands-on instruction for elementary and secondary teachers. Interested in knowing more? Check out our website at www.dordt.edu/masters. Lyle Gritters and his sons (reprinted with permission of the N'West Iowa REVIEW) Most people would have a hard enough time spelling Mount Kilimanjaro. Try climbing the 19,000-foot Tanzanian mountain. The challenge turned into the thrill of a lifetime for 68-year-old Lyle Gritters, the former Vice-President of Advancement of Dordt College who joined two of his sons in reaching the summit of Africa's tallest mountain in February. Lyle and sons, Lyndon, a 1984 graduate of Dordt College, and Lance, a 2001 graduate of Dordt College, have made a hobby of venturing to new outdoor places on foot. They have been to the Grand Canyon of Arizona, Zion National Park in Utah and the Boundary Waters along Minnesota's Canadian border among others. |
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Class of 1958 50th Anniversary Reunion The class of 1958 will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of their graduation on May 16 and 17, 2008, at Dordt College. Take me out to the ballgame! All Dordt alumni and friends are invited to the Seattle Mariners versus San Diego Padres baseball game on Saturday evening, June 28. Game time is 7:05 p.m., with a tailgate party prior to the game at 5:00 p.m. on the east side of parking lot B3. There's a special bonus, too. Because it is Adrian Gonzalez Replica Jersey Night, everyone gets a jersey upon entering the stadium.Tickets are $20 each and can be reserved by emailing the alumni office at alumni@dordt.edu or by calling 712-722-6028. What a great deal! Ballgame, tailgate, and free jersey all for $20 per person. Alumni Weekend moves to the fall Be sure to mark the dates of September 26 and 27, 2008, as the new time for alumni weekend. At its April meeting, the Alumni Council planned activities and set the schedule for Alumni Weekend. Highlights of the weekend include an Alumni Business Connections breakfast, a 5 or 10K run, an outdoor Kid's Carnival, a tailgate party prior to the second home varsity football game, halftime giveaways, a Battle of the Bands in the parking lot of the football stadium, and a Saturday night concert featuring the "Dueling Pianos" from Minneapolis, Minnesota. It will be great entertainment for the whole family and also give opportunity to be involved and enjoy the camaraderie.Sign Up Now for 2009 It's not too early to begin thinking about spring flowers in the Netherlands in 2009, on a tour being organized May 11-20 by Dordt College in cooperation with Witte Travel and Tours. The 10-day tour of the Netherlands includes a visit to the 70-acre Keukenhof National Flower Exhibition; a canal cruise through the city of Amsterdam; a tour of the dikes and sluices holding back the North Sea; a visit to De Porceleyne Fles Delftware factory; tours of the Corrie ten Boom and Anne Frank homes and a Jewish Historical Museum; and a concert at Dordrecht, featuring the Dordt College Choir performing in the Netherlands on a European tour. Hosts and guides for the spring tour of the Netherlands will be two Dordt College professors, Leendert van Beek and Hubert Krygsman.
Interested in a position at Dordt College? For information on faculty and administrative positions available at Dordt College check the website. New alumni council members are needed in southern California; Seattle or Central Washington; Central Minnesota; Sioux Falls; Ontario, Canada; the eastern United States; Michigan; and Florida. If you would be interested in serving contact Wes Fopma at wfopma@dordt.edu. 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! This is the place to connect and network with other Dordt College alumni. The directory is available only to Dordt College alumni. Alumni must register with the community to gain access. The directory contains contact information on Dordt alumni. Alumni can update their own profile and hide any information they do not want listed. The directory has a simple search function and an advanced search function to allow alumni 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 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 bottom of news items at www.dordt.edu and choose to automatically receive Dordt news stories as they are posted.Athletic updates For the most up to date Dordt College athletic information regarding schedules, scores and news, your number one resource is Dordt's athletics website, www.dordt.edu/athletics Photos of Dordt College events on and off campus are continually updated here. You can access this gallery by clicking on the top right photo image on any www.dordt.edu page. |
Live commencement webcast
Dordt
College graduating art majors are exhibiting their work May 3
through noon on May 9 in a final "Super Show" at the Campus Center
Art Gallery in Sioux Center. This show features the best work from
each graduate and represents a wide range of studio techniques and
media, including paintings, drawings, printmaking, photography,
sculpture and ceramics. 
Drs.
Charles and Pam Adams are making steady progress following the
injuries they suffered in an automobile accident on Sunday, February
17 on South Dakota Highway 11 south of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Please continue to join the rest of the Dordt College community in
prayer as they do the hard work that goes with brain injury
recoveries. 
Ryan
Donahoe has begun his work as technical director. He serves as
facility manager for the B.J. Haan Auditorium, coordinating the
lighting, audio, and sound for all events held there. Donahoe is
also part of the Dordt College Theatre Department, overseeing set
