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Dewey Westra
1899 - 1979 Versifier of "Sing, Sing a New Song to the LORD God" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Dewey D. Westra (b. Holland, MI, 1899; d. Wyoming, MI, 1979) was a dedicated educator, writer, and musician who faithfully served the Christian Reformed Church. He attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Wayne State University in Detroit. In the 1920s and 30s he was a Christian school Principal in Byron Center and Detroit, Michigan. During the 1940s he was involved in various ventures, including becoming a diesel instructor for the Ford Motor Company. After 1947 he became a principal again, serving at Christian schools in Sioux Center, Iowa; Randolph, Wisconsin; and Walker, Michigan. Westra wrote poetry in English, Dutch, and Frisian, and translated poetry into English from Dutch and Frisian. He arranged many songs and composed songs for children's choirs. He also versified all one hundred and fifty psalms and the Lord's Prayer, as well as the songs of Mary, Zechariah, and Simeon, in meters that fit the corresponding Genevan psalm tunes. His manuscripts are housed in the library of Calvin College. Seventeen of his psalm versifications and his paraphrases of the Lucan canticles were included in the 1934 and in the 1959 editions of the Psalter Hymnal. Much of the credit for keeping the Genevan psalms alive in the Christian Reformed Church goes to Westra.
Bert Polman
Dewey Westra
E. T. Westrup
Composer of "[¡Lo he de ver! ¿Cuando? no sé]" in El Nuevo Himnario Popular (Edicion Revisada y Corregida)
E. T. Westrup
Thomas M. Westrup
1837 - 1909 Person Name: T. M. Westrup Translator of "Temerosos o cansados" Thomas Martin Westrup moved with his family from London to Mexico when he was fifteen years old. He translated hundreds of hymns and, along with his son, Enrique, published a three-volume hymnal Incienso Christiano.
Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992
Thomas M. Westrup
Horace Westwood
1884 - 1956 Person Name: Horace Westwood, 1884- Author of "Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power" in Hymnal of the Church of God Westwood, Rev. Horace, D.D. (Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, August 17, 1884--December 24, 1956, Clearwater, Florida). Emigrating to the United States, he served in the Methodist ministry for several years, and after 1910 served as minister in Unitarian churches in Youngstown, Ohio; Winnipeg, Canada; Toledo, Ohio; and extensively as a mission preacher. His hymn in one stanza, "Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power" (1922) was included in Hymns of the Spirit (1937), and he privately printed a small collection, Some Hymns and Verses (n.d.), a few of which appeared in periodicals, but have not had wider use.
--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives
Horace Westwood
Mrs. Oscar Wetherholt
Person Name: O. Wetherholt Author of "Great is thy love, O God"
Mrs. Oscar Wetherholt
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