![]() He was past president of the University of Michigan Press Club and on the board of directors of the Michigan Associated Press. Vande Water served on the Trinity Reformed Church consistory and represented Christ Memorial Reformed Church for six years on the Holland Reformed Church Classis. He was a member of the Holland Film Group in 2017 that produced the motion picture “Wilderness to World Class,’’ an 80-minute documentary illustrating Holland’s 170-year history. In 2009 Vande Water was honored by Resthaven Care Community which established Encore!, a biennial event to honor seven individuals, or couples, over age 70 who contribute to the betterment of the community in their retirement years. In 2015 he co-authored with his wife Mary, HOLLAND, an illustrated book of the community’s last half century. He authored a four-volume series of Holland Happenings, Heroes and Hot Shots, Millennium Memories, Holland the Tulip Town, Zeeland, A Walk Through Time, 100 Years of Hope College Basketball, A Century of Heinz Holland, Holland Furnace Co. Since 1992 when he wrote the first volume of On the Way to Today, he has written 15 books on Holland area history.ĭuring those years Vande Water gave numerous illustrated lectures to civic, church and college groups on various subjects relating to the area’s history. Spending four decades at The Sentinel, Vande Water was sports editor, city editor, editorial page editor and managing editor. He rejoined The Sentinel as sports editor in 1954 and daily WHTC Sentinel news. In 1948 he started announcing The Holland Evening Sentinel local news on WHTC, continuing through his college years. He edited the Fort Bliss, TX News from 1952-1954 during the Korean conflict and announced the Fourth Army Boxing Tournament on the Armed Forces Radio Network. ![]() He did graduate work at the University of Michigan and UCLA. He graduated from Holland High School in 1948.Ī 1952 Hope College alumnus, Vande Water was a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1986. and Kathryn (Kitty Van Ry) Vande Water, Randy and his family moved to Holland in 1937. Vande Water, age 88, of Holland, passed away Friday, June 22, 2018.īorn Main Zeeland, MI to William H. ![]()
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