<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/fall-2007/legacy-scholarship.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>A Legacy of Scholarship</title><excerpt>Thressa Kuipers and her late husband, Louis, grew up in Michigan and raised their four sons in Grand Rapids. Although he left a doctoral program at the University of Chicago to enter the business world, Lou always said he wanted to teach when he retired from his career with Keebler Foods Co. In 1964, he seized an opportunity to join the business faculty at Calvin College.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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