Lifetime Legacy Award

The Lifetime Legacy Award category was established to honor non-alumni of Hudsonville Public Schools who are deemed worthy of recognition for their contributions to the Hudsonville school district and education community.

2024 Inaugural Lifetime Legacy Award Recipients

Donald Van Doeselaar, EdS

Donald Van Doeselaar is a graduate of Unity Christian High School. He attended Davenport Institute (University) at night for three years to study accounting while he worked in a furniture factory in Zeeland, MI...
Marvin and June Patmos

Marvin Patmos was born in 1920 on the family’s farm in Jamestown Township, MI. The family of five children raised dairy cows, pigs, and chickens. They had a large produce farm and sold produce in Grand Rapids and Detroit...

District-Wide Impact

Students

6,800
Buildings

13
Dollars Granted

$100,000+

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Shauna Karel, Early Childhood Center
"Non and minimally-verbal students can now communicate with staff and peers on the playgrounds."
Jesse VanderBand, Hudsonville High School
"Pottery wheels allow students to experience new and exciting ways to make art."
Joe Szymanski, Hudsonville High School
"For the first time, every student had a calculator for the PSAT/SAT."