Dr. Lantinga was appointed in July 2002.

Nicholas S. Lantinga, Executive Director

Dr. Nicholas S. Lantinga is a 1990 graduate of Calvin College, an institutional member of IAPCHE. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago, with a dissertation titled "The Miracle that Saves the World:" Augustine and Hannah Arendt's Politics of Redemption. Dr. Lantinga is an adjunct member of the Dordt College faculty. He and his wife Sherri, a member of the psychology faculty at Dordt College, have three children.

The selection committee and the board of IAPCHE were impressed with Dr. Lantinga's insightfulness, enthusiasm, knowledge of and commitment to Christian education, especially Christian higher education.

E-mail: nick@dordt.edu

Mrs. Maatman was appointed in October 2001.

Dr. Hulst was IAPCHE's Executive Secretary
1996 - 2002; and he served as Senior Advisor 2002-2004.

John B. Hulst, Executive Secretary Emeritus

Dr. John B. Hulst retired as Executive secretary in June 2002 and served as Senior Advisor to the Secretariat for two years after his retirement. He is the past chairman of the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education, and became the Executive Secretary of IAPCHE in September 1996, after retirement from the presidency of Dordt College.

E-mail: jlhulst@mtcnet.net

Marlene began working as

Office Assistant in July 2003.

Marlene Veenstra, Office Assistant

Marlene has extensive office work experience. Previously she worked as a church secretary and in sales support for a travel agency. We are pleased to have Marlene working at the IAPCHE office on Dordt’s campus.

Dordt College is very important in the lives of the Veenstras. Both Marlene and her husband, Charles, came to Dordt College as students and returned to Sioux Center for Charles to teach at the college. Charles is in his 30th year as professor of Communications. All four of their children have graduated from Dordt.

E-mail: iapche@dordt.edu