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Collection Overview
Abstract
Professor of psychology at Calvin College. The collection includes: bibliography of publications, an interview, articles, a book review, an address, a chapel talk, and copies of lectures given by Christian psychologist Prof. Jan Waterman of the Free University of Amsterdam at Calvin College in 1955. (see also Campus Titles Database)
Biographical Note
During the last years of WW II he worked at the B24 Bomber School in Willow Run, Michigan. In 1945 he joined the faculty of Calvin College, teaching philosophy and freshman English, and added teaching psychology in 1946. He became chair of the psychology department, 1957-1967, and again 1970-1973. He retired from teaching in 1974. He lectured and wrote articles primarily on General and child psychology, particularly in the Banner and the Reformed Journal.
Daling and Effie Bronkema (1907-1953) married in 1937. They had five children: Harm (1939-1996), Krystene K. (Antvelink) (1940- ), Janna M. (Bigelow) (1944- ), Gretjen F. (Wubben) (1945- ), and John T. Jr (1949-2013). In 1957 he married Lucille A. Hoffius (nee Oppenhuizen) (1905- 1968). In 1970 he married Dorothy A. Warners (nee Peterson) (1915-2006).
Administrative Information
Repository:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Alternate Extent Statement:
1 Boxes
Acquisition Source:
Krystene Antvelink
Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 1: [General Materials]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Interview
- Folder 2: "A Look at the Dutch" --- 1957
- Folder 3: Observations on Effective Evangelism [HERH BV3795.S56] --- 1958
- Folder 4: "Growing Up Religiously" --- 1959
- Folder 5: Book review --- 1973
- Folder 6: Integration of Christianity with Psychology --- 1974
- Folder 7: Bibliography --- 1977
- Folder 8
- Item 1: Article, "The Way It Was" --- 1985
- Item 2: Jan Waterman Lectures --- 1954
- Folder 9
- Item 1: John T. Holwerda's notes --- 1954-1955
- Item 2: Luncheon talk --- 20 May 1954
- Folder 10: Lectureship information --- 1954
- Folder 11: Waterman, Jan data --- 1954
- Folder 12
- Item 1: College and Seminary Faculty Seminar --- 1954
- Item 2: "The Christian Conception of Culture"
- Item 3: "Facts, Principles, and Antithesis in Science"
- Item 4: "Basic Concepts in Christian Psychology, Lectures, 1-38"
- Folder 13
- Item 1: Seminary Lectures --- 1954
- Item 2: "Glory Day (MIAA Championship, 22 Feb 1954)"
- Item 3: "Industrial Psychology"
- Item 4: "Current (or Pernnias) Problems in Christian Education with Special Emphasis on Child Training in the Home and in the Schools"
- Item 5: "Man in Western Europe since 1900"
- Folder 14
- Item 1: Ministerial Conference Lectures --- 1954
- Item 2: "The Pastor and his Personal Soul Life"
- Item 3: "The Pastor and his Human Relations"
- Item 4: "The Problem of Anxieties"
- Item 5: "The Problem of Suicide"
- Folder 15
- Item 1: Pedagogical Institute Lectures --- 1954
- Item 2: "Personality and Character Formation in Christian Education"
- Item 3: "Cultural Formation in Christian Education"
- Item 4: "Religious Education"
- Folder 16
- Item 1: Notes --- 1954
- Item 2: Untitled partial lecture --- 1954
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