In the News...
No break here
Wayne State students forgo getaway to help brighten up city
Friday, March 14, 2008 – Marisa Schultz / The Detroit News
DETROIT – One week of living in Detroit and volunteering in some of its neediest neighborhoods was all it took to convince Brittany Betham that she has a stake in the city’s future and the power to make some positive changes.
A native of suburban Livonia with little exposure to Detroit beyond the theater district, Betham’s choice to spend her freshman-year spring break in the city was such an eye-opening adventure that she’s returned three times. [Full story]
Dr. Huw Lewis
Hope Music Students Honor Professor Lewis
Saturday, November 3, 2007 – Hope College Press Release
 HOLLAND – The students of the Hope College chapter of the national Delta Omicron music honorary society have honored Dr. Huw Lewis of the music faculty with induction as a Chapter Patron.
Lewis, who is a professor of music and college organist, received the honor on Friday, Nov. 2, as a surprise during a ceremony held in conjunction with an organ and orchestra concert in which he was performing in Dimnent Memorial Chapel at Hope.
The college’s Alpha Chi chapter of Delta Omicron nominated Lewis for the award for the way that he represents the national organization’s mission of supporting excellence in music and musicianship. [Full story]
Worship on Woodward
Congregants from all over the region flock to avenue’s churches
Monday, June 18, 2007 – Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News
The road the righteous travel is like the sunrise, the Old Testament says: “Brighter and brighter until the daylight has come.”
Churches on Woodward have led the faithful of Metro Detroit along the road to enlightenment for 200 years. [Full story]
Susan De Kam
St. Luke’s new Associate Director of Music to Arrive Mid-June
Volume 8 No. 6, June 2007 – The Evangeline
A Publication of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Dallas, TX
Susan De Kam is originally from Caledonia, Michigan (near Grand Rapids). She completed her undergraduate studies in 2002 with a major in piano, studying under Joan Conway, at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. It was in her freshman year there that she began studying organ as a secondary instrument with Huw Lewis, but it soon became her principal interest. [Full story]
Letters to the Editor
Sermons from Michigan Reach Across the Pond
June 2007 – The Record/Episcopal Life
Dear Editor:
I am an American Ph.D. student of Medieval English at the University of Birmingham in the UK and have been listening to the podcasts from St. John’s, Detroit, for the last few weeks. I came upon them while
looking for hymns on the iTunes Website for my upcoming wedding. [Full story (scrolling down may be necessary)]*
* This is an edited-for-reprinting version of an e-mail originally received by Fr. Kelly
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