COLL/555 Guide to the Harold Dekker Collection Dekker, Harold Collection

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Guide to the Harold Dekker Collection 1945/1984 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Harold Dekker Collection 1945-1984 COLL/555 Dekker, Harold, 1918-2006 0.50 1 Boxes Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Professor, dean of students, chair of mission, and academic dean at Calvin College. Pastor of Engelwood, New Jersey and radio preacher for the Back to God Hour. This collection includes papers; reports; booklets; programs; correspondence; lectures; newspapers.
Biographical Information:

Harold Dekker was born in Wichert, Illinois and grew up in Roseland, on the Southside of Chicago. He attended Chicago Christian High School and then studied at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary. He served in the U.S Navy as a chaplain. After his service, he became faculty at Calvin College in 1946. From 1947 to 1950 he was the pastor at Christian Reformed Church of Engelwood, New Jersey. In 1950, along with Rev. Peter Eldersveld joined the Back to God Hour as a radio preacher. In 1954, he returned to Calvin College and became their dean of students. Eventually he was appointed as chair of missions and academic dean. Among his various commitments to the CRC and Calvin College, he also a member of the Grand Rapids City Commission (Third Ward) during the 1970s and 1980s. Also a founding member of the Area Agency on Aging and Human Relations Commission of Michigan. He retired in 1987.

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Detailed List of Contents id47459 [General Materials] id47460 1 id47461 1 1 "The Relation of Church and College in the Spiritual Care of Students" 1955, 1958 id47462 1 2 Misc. correspondence 1945, 1955 id47463 1 3 Paper re: "The Future Academic Program of Calvin Seminary" [undated] id47464 1 4 Lecture re: Christian Reformed Ministers' Institute 1957 id47465 1 5 Student paper re: "The Small Church," by Michael S. Hoag 1984 id47466 1 6 Reports re: Home Missions 1955, 1961, 1964 id47467 1 7 Booklets id47468 1 7 The Motive and Aim of Missions, by Rev. John M. L. Young, D. D. 1964 id47469 1 7 "Medical Missionary Compendium" 1958 id47470 1 7 misc. material for missions [undated] id47471 1 8 Misc. programs, pamphlets, and articles [various dates] id47472 1 9 Booklets id47473 1 9 "The Christian and Literature, A Symposium" [undated] id47474 1 9 Youth Speaks…on Christianity and Civilization, by various authors [undated] id47475 1 10 Booklets id47476 1 10 "What's Right with The Orthodox Presbyterian Church?" By Rev. R. B. Kuiper 1946 id47477 1 10 Our Guilty Silence: The Church, the Gospel, and the World, by John R. W. Stott 1967 id47478 1 10 "John Calvin on God and Political Duty" 1950 id47479 1 11 "The Anti-Revolutionary Principle," by Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer 1860 id47480 1 12 Correspondence re: Robert Schuller at Calvin 1979