Nick Hoffman’s rewarding journey at Hope College has culminated with the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s highest individual honor for a male student-athlete.
The Hope College Alumni Association has presented a Meritorious Service Award to Eva Dean Folkert, who retired earlier this spring as interim director of public affairs and marketing after serving in multiple capacities at Hope since 1985.
Hope College s first women s athletic director dies after battle with cancer
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and last updated 2021-04-09 13:09:19-04
HOLLAND, Mich. â Hope Collegeâs first director of womenâs athletics, Anne E. Irwin, has died at age 79 after a battle with cancer.
Irwin died April 3 at her home in Fennville.
It was her wish to be cremated and interred at the Fennville Cemetery without a memorial or funeral service, according to a news release Friday.
She arrived at Hope College in 1976, right when Title IX â the mandate that required equal treatment of men and women at federally funded educational institutions â had been passed in 1972.