The Dutch American Identity: Staging Memory and Ethnicity in Comm ...

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I want to thank my adviser, Thomas Postlewait, for his encouragement, support, feedback, and enthusiasm for this project, as well as for his unflagging confidence in my ability to bring this project to fruition.

I want to thank Dorry Noyes for being particularly helpful in offering feedback, insight, and encouragement during the research and writing process.

Special thanks are also due to Alan Woods, Jill Lane, Joe Roach, and Harry Vredeveld for supporting this project in a myriad of ways.

I owe particular debts of gratitude to Janet Sjaarda Sheeres, Robert Swierenga, Ellen Van’t Hof, Sue Ten Hoeve, Janie Van Dyke, Eric Walhof, Don and Nelva Schreur, Marlys Hop, Phyllis Zylstra, Lisa Jaarsma Zylstra, Margaret De Jager, and Carol Van Klompenburg, all of whom graciously supplied me with advice and documents I otherwise would not have been able to obtain.

I would like to thank all of the archivists who assisted me at the Holland Museum, the Joint Archives of Holland, the Pella Historical Society, Central College, and Northwestern College; special thanks in this regard go to Deborah Postema-George, Bill Sause, and Dan Daily.