East Grand Rapids High School - Interlochen Yearbook (East Grand Rapids, MI)

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INTERLOCHEN -H-+P' Last Will and Testament We, the members of the Senior Class of 1928, being about to leave East High for various reasons, believing ourselves to be in full possession of all our faculties. do hereby solemnly decree that our room, session room 301, be rightfully considered the property of the Junior Class of ,28. We hope that they will fully appreciate the significance of such a bequest. Electricity is not free every place. We also will them the right to buy our worn-out text books and to call themselves by the coveted name. Seniors. Our sincere admiration and heartfelt sympathy we leave to the Faculty, because we firmly believe it will need them both in the coming year. To the Freshmen we leave our worthy dignity, great knowledge, and other unnecessary information. We hope that they will prove worthy of our trust and not disappoint us by squandering them needlessly. We also have various and sundry personal bequests to make. In good faith and with the best of intentions, we leave the following: To Theodore Seibel, Merrill Crogel's oratorical accomplishments. To Charles Murray. Webby Marris's proverbial smile. To Harold Hill, Howard Benjamin's insatiable wisdom. To Robert Cansser, some of Paul Shields's and Ed DeVries's ardent boisterousness. To Jerome Baer, Robert Tanis's innate spirit of mischief. To George Redman, Noris Neahr's scholarly dignity. To Jean Spencer, Evelyn Heuvelhorsfs well-scored Ask me Another book. To any Junior who desires flowing locks, Evelyn Daly's and Katherine Beaird's hair clips. To Greta Segar, Lucille Kelm's enviable position as Class Dietitian. To Russell Goossen, Lowell Tuer's electric wavers. To anyone fortunate enough to ascend to that position, Edith Chamberlain's reputation as Treasurer of the Senior Class. To the oncoming Seniors, any typewriting paper that Adah Heightman may have overlooked or left otherwise intact. To Velma Wagner, Mary Mack's soul of fiery poetic genius. To Eugene Whetzel, Jack Zant's taste for riotous color. To Virginia Anderson, Patty Clark's advantageous position in the front seat in room 301. To Bob Hutchinson, Dorothea Gillette's artistic ability, for which she will have no use after this year's annual goes to press. To anyone high enough in the esteem of the oncoming seniors to rank as Editor-in-Chief of the Interlochen, Martha Shively's unqualified success. To Julia Hurd, Howard Koster's trombone. To Janice Lauzon and Virginia Anderson, the ideal cousinly attitude, as expressed by Wilma and Howard Benjamin. ln accordance with the dying request of our predecessors, we also bequeath the Senior Class Silver Shovel to our successors. We devoutly hope that they will guard it as well and esteem it as highly as we have done. We hereby appoint Mr. Wesley B. Beadle our executor and administrator, in testimony whereof we duly proclaim ourselves. THE SENIOR CLASS Certifying this instrument to be the last Will and Testament of the Senior Class, we, the undersigned, do hereby aliix our names on this first day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight. Vmcinut CLARK MARY MCCARTHY Qi- --4 Q -- -9 f25l

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IN1-Enron:-ran Senior Class History FRESHMEN: On the second day of September, 1924, the present senior class entered East High as ignominious and unimportant Freshmen. Our freshman year, to a great extent, was spent in trying to impress upon the upper classmen our ability and possi- bilities. But, strange to say, we didn't make much headway. Nevertheless, by June we had completed a solid foundation and were prepared for the title of Sophomore. SOPHOMORES: A As Sophomores we made ourselves known through athletics, with six boys on the football team, Merrill Grogel on the first basketball team, and five of our boys on the second team. We made our debut in social activities by being included in the Senior, Junior, and Sophomore dance. JUNIORS: Although the first day of school is always distressing, being a Junior helped a good bit. This year our class conducted the popularity contest, and Edith Cham- berlain was victor. A Junior, Wilbur Marris, was captain of the football team, and in all activities the Juniors held responsible places. June found the Juniors enter- taining the Seniors at the annual Junior-Senior Reception, and to show to what summits we had risen, it is necessary to mention that Juniors ushered at Bacca- laureate. SENIORS: The following September-and we are Seniors. Both space and time are limited, so it is impossible to tell of all the Senior requirements, duties, pleasures, and honors. We can have but one Junior-Senior Reception, but one Baccalaureate, one Commencement, and all are invaluable experiences. Because the pleasures and honors were greater than the requirements and duties, the Senior year sped along, and now in June we have completed our high school years. 5 E --4 :R +-- --4 l24l

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INTERLOCHEN Probabilities and Possibilities The bell had rung, the classes had passed When I entered the Physics roomg Two pupils were leaving, and both of them looked As though they had witnessed their doom. I hastened them on, for I had agreed To browse through some books that we'd found In looking through the official files When no one had been around. Enter Miss Daly, my colleague now, A professor in physics, toog For pedagogical lines were ours, And nought but physics would do. Enter Prof. Daly with under her arm A book of gigantic size, The records of people who'd passed from our clutch, Of people who'd really been wise. When we poked through the lines written over with names, Listed all, year by year, We found our old class under twenty-eight And 'twas then that our thoughts settled there. We thought of the days we'd prophecied When each should take the place We'd planned for him in twenty-eight, . But we'd little reckoned Fate. 0f all the people in that class, Professor Daly and I Were the only ones to follow the lines Laid down for us to try. Mary's a disciple of Edgar Guest And often versifiesg While Noris flits from coast to coast In the Curtis plane he flies. To the Chicago Civic Opera House Our talented have flown, With Lowell and Martha singing there East High continues known. On the stage we'rt represented well With Kay in Luey's playsg And the movies now are advertising, Paul Shields in the Fairbanks Ways. To a graver group our name has pierced Where Adah teaches lawg And Afric Missionary Ed Braves danger of tooth and claw. Wilma has taken Al Karney's place, She's an organist for life, While Howard's an infant specialist now And wields a wicked knife. We've one real musician of radio fame As he plays on his slide trombone, That's Howard Koster, announced by rill, Who's running his station alone. Mer- In Physical Ed our teacher is Ede, While Webby is coach at old Yaleg But for real feats of strength it's Tanis see, Laying bricks on a real-estate deal. we'4l Henry Ford has a most able factory man In ,lack Zant, who's head mechanician. ln an architect's office on Fifth Avenue Dorothea's fulfilled her ambition. And last but not least, in a famed college town, Where the latest in fashion is placed. 'Neath a sign reading Haiti Ye Sweete Beauty Shoppe - Is no other than Evelyn H. We gazed from the book, but the room had grown dim, We'd forgotten the passage of hours And had been for the afternoon hack with our class In memory's loftiest tower. Recalled to our senses by tests to correct, We discarded the cause of our dreams: But we kindled the spirit inflamed in our hearts And are lit on our way by its beams. -VIRGINIA CLARK. l26l