Rienk Kuiper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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President of Calvin College
Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1886
Place of Birth: Groningen, Netherlands, Netherlands
Date of Death: 22-Apr-1966
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Rienk Kuiper
- Rienk Bouke Kuiper (January 31, 1886 – April 22, 1966) was born in Garrelsweer, in the municipality of Loppersum, in the Netherlands.
- His family moved to Grand Haven, Michigan in 1891 when his father accepted a call to be minister of the Christian Reformed congregation there.
- Kuiper graduated from the University of Chicago (A.B., 1907); Indiana University (A.M., 1908); Calvin Theological Seminary (diploma, 1911); and Princeton Seminary (B.D., 1912).
- He served as the pastor of several congregations in West Michigan, including one in the Reformed Church in America. In 1928 he accepted a one-year appointment to Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, as Professor of Systematic Theology, and later served there as a professor for the largest part of his teaching ministry.
- The Synod of the Christian Reformed Church had persuaded Kuiper to accept the presidency of Calvin College in 1930.
- During his tenure the economic impacts of the Great Depression began to be keenly felt.
- Although enrollment did not decline, partly because a lack of jobs meant young people pursued education, the downturn forced the college to cut costs and expenses.
- Faculty voluntarily took pay cuts, as high as 40 percent.
- Kuiper also found it difficult to mediate the growing differences of opinion among faculty and between faculty and the Board of Trustees over the school's direction.
- In 1933 he took up the position of Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Seminary.
- Retiring in 1952, he returned to Grand Rapids and then accepted the presidency of Calvin Theological Seminary for four years. Kuiper married Marie Janssen in 1911.
- They had three children: Marietta Rolena Heerema, Dr.
- Klaudius Kuiper and Kathryn Junia Kuiper, who died at age two. Kuiper's books include: As to Being Reformed, Not of the World, For Whom Did Christ Die?, God Centered Evangelism and The Glorious Body of Christ.
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