BELLFLOWER
BEGAN as a DUTCH-AMERICAN SETTLEMENT,
w/
LOTS OF DAIRY FARMS OWNED BY
IMMIGRANTS from
the NETHERLANDS but you won't find any farms or windmills or large tulip patches here today



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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

RE GRANDPA GARETH KOK (FOUNDER OF CERRITOS VALLEY CHRISTIAN) , SPARK ONLINE 2002


CLASS NOTES:

"Gareth Kok '27 has established a $1,000 scholarship given annually to a graduate of Valley Christian High School (Cerritos, Calif.) who will attend Calvin. The Rev. and Mrs. Gareth Kok Calvin Scholarship is also named in honor of his second wife, Ada Van Zee Kok '32, who passed away last February. Nine of Gareth's ten children attended Calvin. The scholarship's first recipient was Melanie Flietstra, now a freshman studying education.


https://www.calvin.edu/publications/spark/spring02/heritage.htm


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