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Westra Dewey D.

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1899-1979

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Dewey D. Westra Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-327
Scope and Contents Dewey Westra was a teacher and administrator in Christian Day Schools for forty-five years in Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin. (See his biography elsewhere in this collection). He is probably better known, however, for his avocational pursuits as an amateur poet, translator of Friesian and Dutch poems, and versifier of all 150 of the Psalms. His works appear in both the 1934 and the Centennial Christian Reformed Church Psalter Hymnals. He also did extensive work in a hymnal for the Canadian...
Dates: created: 1551-1981; Other: Majority of material found in 1919-1978; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1980