Dimnent Chapel: A Building Full of History (Jacob Spry)

(Pictured: Hope College Dimnent Chapel. The photo is taken from the stage. Rows of wooden benches are pictured with an aisle splitting them down the middle. Colorful stain glass windows line each wall and a large circular stain glass window sits on the back wall of the chapel.)

The Hope College Memorial Chapel, located on the campus of Hope College in Holland Michigan, was built in 1929. It is the 3^rd oldest building on campus and stands high above all else. In 1959 the chapel was renamed Dimnent Chapel after Hope College’s fifth president, Dr. Edward D. Dimnent. Today, Dimnent Chapel is filled to the brim weekly for chapel services, and serves as a space for community events.

Rain Man: How Not to Care for the Disabled (Jacob Spry)

Pictured: Raymond Babbitt (played by Dustin Hoffman) and Charlie Babbitt (played by Tom Cruise) walk together down a path looking serious. Charlie is wearing sun glasses and the words, Rain Man, are drawn across the middle of the picture.

Summary

Rain Man is a classic American movie that was directed by Barry Levinson and released in 1988. The movie follows the life of Charlie Babbitt; a young business man whose company is struggling and needs money. Charlie learns that his rich father, who he hasn’t spoken to in years, has died and he only received his father’s car and rose bushes, and nothing else from his father’s three million dollars of wealth. Confused and angry, he sets out to find who the three million dollars has gone to. In the search, he discovers he has a brother, Raymond, that was hidden from him for 20 years. Raymond has autism and lives at a special home for the mentally handicapped. Out of rage and anger, Charlie steals his brother from the home and demands his part of the three million dollars in exchange for Raymond back. The rest of the movie is Charlie’s struggle to understand his brother’s brilliant yet complex mind, while wrestling with his own issues along the way.