While she loved all four years at Dordt, Du Mez says that her best memories are from the carrel community. Dordt, she knew, would be a place where she could delve into them more deeply. The daughter of a theology professor, she grew up with words like “reformational” floating around the home, but she had never quite fully understood them. Du Mez always knew she would be a Dordt student-and that prospect excited her. Wayne Kobes (’69), taught at Dordt for many years. She and Jack would meet again five years later, at a friend’s New Years’ Eve party at the turn of the millennium. I later brought my sister in to confront him, but he didn’t back down,” she says with a laugh. “One day, he came by my carrel and insulted the sculpture I had on my shelf-a dog made by my sister, who was in grade school. But the people who spent their evenings in the library were the nerdier sort-perhaps ‘intellectual’ is a better word? We found each other and created that intellectual community.”ĭu Mez recalls some of her friends from the carrel community: Dawn Berkelaar (’96), Paul Verhoef (’97), Daniel Rueck (’98), Carol Christians (’96), Kirk Vander Pol (’95), Rebecca Thomas (’96), Keith Hendricks (’97), Rick Dykstra (’95).
“The librarians probably have a less-rosy recollection of us. “Sometimes things got a bit rowdy,” says Kristin Kobes (’97) Du Mez. Among these students was a young woman named Kristin Kobes. This was the “carrel community,” self-designated by those who virtually lived there, especially during end-of-semester crunch time. The students share their thoughts, wrestle through difficult questions, and push one another and themselves to seek answers. Excited plans for PLIA trips to Philadelphia spring up.
Conversations on a host of topics waft through the air, one quickly leading to another: social justice, race, urban issues, poverty, environmentalism. A group of students from a variety of majors are tucked into desks, bent over their books, sipping coffee from Dordt-issued recyclable mugs. Off to the side, near the journal shelves, are the carrels.
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