15“Have we got a boy for you!” Jane and Roger Koopermann announced gleefully, minutes it seemed after Yvonne entered the house for the first time after her California odyssey. Her brother, high school freshman Brian gave her a warm wordless hug before disappearing up the stairs of their spacious west shore home.
The boy of whom they spoke was seminary student Clyde Van Zandt, son of Pastor Milton and his wife Claudine. Clyde was in his second year at Western, an institution in the dead center of Hope College where Yvonne had transferred her enrollment. This potential match was convenient and impossible to wriggle free of, almost like an arranged marriage, which was exactly what the elder Koopermann’s had in mind. If they could ignite a fire between these two, their daughter was sure to st
