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Swell socks

Thank you for featuring “” in the last issue of the 17c������� Spark. I promptly visited the website and ordered a pair of the fun socks for my dad in honor of Father’s Day!

Jessica Johnson Derosier ’03
West Palm Beach, Fla.

OK memories

Though it was a rare and wonderful treat to open the summer 2014 Spark and see a picture of my grandfather OK Bouwsma grinning over his boerenjongens, I wanted to let you know that some of the information written about him in the article was incorrect. He was never, to any of his family’s knowledge, called “Oscar,” though he did have a cousin who had that first name. Oets actually took his mother’s maiden name, Kolk, as his middle name when he was a teenager so that he could be called “OK.” Thank you for the memories.

Elizabeth Bouwsma Oppewal Berends ’74
Grand Rapids, Mich.