In 1937, marching band director Hugh McMillen (’42) and English Professor Jack Ogilvy (’25) co-wrote our alma mater. That year, the marching band performed the song publicly for the first time during ...

Dale Grotenhuis, a 1953 Calvin grad and longtime professor of music at Dordt College, first composed the music for the “Calvin College Alma Mater” as a march for the college’s band. When in 1951, in ...