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There was some discussion about Huizenga Hall at Calvin College, named for medical missionary, Dr. Lee S. Huizenga. He was my maternal grandmother's cousin, so I know a lot about him.
He was born in the Netherlands in 1881, and immigrated with his family in 1883. He graduated from Calvin in 1906, from Calvin Seminary in 1909, and a while later from medical school. In 1920 he went to China with his wife and four daughters, where he established a leprosy hospital and became a world authority on that disease.
In April, 1943, Dr. Lee S. and Mrs. Matilda Huizenga were placed in a Japanese concentration camp in Shanghai, with daughters Eunice (22) and Faith (14), and adopted Eurasian son, Philip (4). Daughter Myrtle (27), with her missionary husband, Oscar, daughter, Matilda Shannon (3 months), were already there. Dr. Huizenga died in July, 1945.
Dr. Matilda Shannon Lucid, Dr. Huizenga's granddaughter, is an American astronaut. She was the narrator and an active participant in the Imax movie, Mission to Mir.
[Shannon's mother, Myrtle, was a student of my father in 1928-29, when he taught mathematics and science at Oakdale Christian School in Grand Rapids for a year before going on to medical school.]
[Another residence hall at Calvin, Van Dellen Hall, was named for Rev. Idzerd Van Dellen. We have no common ancestor since his ancestor and mine each took the surname Van Dellen.]
Ken Van Dellen
There was some discussion about Huizenga Hall at Calvin College, named for medical missionary, Dr. Lee S. Huizenga. He was my maternal grandmother's cousin, so I know a lot about him.
He was born in the Netherlands in 1881, and immigrated with his family in 1883. He graduated from Calvin in 1906, from Calvin Seminary in 1909, and a while later from medical school. In 1920 he went to China with his wife and four daughters, where he established a leprosy hospital and became a world authority on that disease.
In April, 1943, Dr. Lee S. and Mrs. Matilda Huizenga were placed in a Japanese concentration camp in Shanghai, with daughters Eunice (22) and Faith (14), and adopted Eurasian son, Philip (4). Daughter Myrtle (27), with her missionary husband, Oscar, daughter, Matilda Shannon (3 months), were already there. Dr. Huizenga died in July, 1945.
Dr. Matilda Shannon Lucid, Dr. Huizenga's granddaughter, is an American astronaut. She was the narrator and an active participant in the Imax movie, Mission to Mir.
[Shannon's mother, Myrtle, was a student of my father in 1928-29, when he taught mathematics and science at Oakdale Christian School in Grand Rapids for a year before going on to medical school.]
[Another residence hall at Calvin, Van Dellen Hall, was named for Rev. Idzerd Van Dellen. We have no common ancestor since his ancestor and mine each took the surname Van Dellen.]
Ken Van Dellen