CALVIN ALERT: Mark Veenstra To Receive Knight of Distinction Award

Mark Veenstra to Receive Knight of Distinction Award;
CALVIN C CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT
The Calvin C Club is pleased to announce that its second annual Knight of Distinction award will go to Dr. Mark Veenstra '77, an orthopedic surgeon from Kalamazoo, Mich.
Veenstra will receive the award Thursday night at the annual C Club Awards presentation. The C Club Awards will take place at 6:30 p.m. and will be video live streamed at: http://livestream.com/calvin-college/events/4014957
Veenstra was a four-year starter for the men's basketball team from 1974-77. After his Calvin graduation, he played professional basketball in Germany and then obtained a medical degree from Wayne State School of Medicine. Veenstra has been an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine in Kalamazoo for 26 years.
In addition, he has been active in the work of the Luke Society, a medical missions organization. Veenstra has held a number of positions on the board of directors and led many medical mission trips to Gracias, Honduras. While in Gracias he has not only conducted successful operations; he has also taught Honduran orthopedic surgeons the art and techniques of arthroscopic surgery. Upon his recent retirement from his orthopedic group in Kalamazoo, Veenstra continues to make frequent trips to Gracias and played a leadership role in building a surgery center and a home for patients and visiting medical staff there.
Veenstra has also served his church, Westwood Christian Reformed, as a..."

  http://www.ustfccca.org/assets/rankings/div3/2015-otf/DIII_2015_outWk7_TF_RegionalIndexTop10.pdf