Berrien Springs High School - Canoe Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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Page 3 COMMERCIAL AWARD TO ALICE GRIME i. Alice' Grime will receive the Berrren Springs State Bank award for he best work during the four years of work offered in the Commercial Department Alice has an average of 90.5%. Lucille Sill was a close second with an average of 83.7%. Miss Edna Jesswein will present the award to Alice Com- mencement night. Plans for awarding scholastic honors will be different hereafter. Up to and including this year the Valedictorian has been chosen from the entire Senior Class. Hereafter that honor will be awarded to the one who is enrolled in the College Preparatory Course. The State Bank award will go to the one with the highest average in the Commercial Course. The Future Farmers are planning to present a similar award to the Senior with the highest average in the Smith-Hughes Course. JUNIOR-SENIOR PLAY The Junior-Senior Play which was given May 14-15 was quite a success from the standpoint of both audience and backers. The cast which consisted of 8 juniors and 8 seniors was as follows: Anne Watkins—Marian Evans; Ted Lewis— Frank Miller; Mamie Rose--Alice Grime; Alex Smart—Richard Christl; Rastus--Donald Hoak; Sheriff—Bob Burke; Abigail Jones--Ida Jones; Absalom Hawkes—George Smith; Hiram Hawke s--Gordon Hinkley; Iliggenbot-tom--Tom Walton; Jonas—Karl Kaiser; Matilda--Elizabeth Shearer; Billy—Lucy Hanson; Claudia—Vilet-ta Hoadley; Flo—Geraldine Wetzel; Pest--Evelyn Shafts. The cast spent much time in practice aided by their capable director, Miss Alice Mann. The play was a three act mystery farce entitled The Ghost Parade . The classes worked hard getting properties and advertising for the play. FRANCES SCHADEL AND DONNA RICH. IDSON WIN CLASS HONORS Frances Schadel wins the title of Valedictorian of the Class of '31 with the high average of 95.4% for the four years. This is an unusual record, because Frances has attended school only 9 fcears. Frances will have 34 credits at the end of this semester. She is 16 years old and attended the Burke school through the eighth grade. She is enrolled in the college Preparatory Course and expects to go to college next year. She has taken part in many of the activities of the Music Department of the school and is a member of the Drift staff. Donna Richardson is Salutat-orian witn an average of 93.8%. She has 34.5 credits, is enrolled in a general course, and is 17 years of age. Donna has attended B. S. H. S. since the 7th grade when she came here from Niles. She has participated in Glee Club work, Public Speaking, Basket Ball andsJournalism. Donna expects to attend the County Normal at Bridgman next year. Both the girls entered a typing contest last year at Niles and the county contest at Coloma this year May 2. GLEE CLUBS The Boys' and Girls' Glee Club under the able direction of Miss Wieder have been one of the headliners of most of the musical programs staged in and about the schoo this year. The vocal festival at Niles, Dec. 12, 1930, in which students from the county glee clubs participated, saw the climax of the f:rs' semester’s work and practice drawn to a very successful close.

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Page 2 BACCALAUREATE SERVICE Baccalaureate services were held at the Methodist Church Sunday-evening, May 24. re Seniors were escorted by the Junior class. The services were as follows7 Class March Doris Valentine Invocation Rev. Andrew E. Wright Evening Prayer Girls' Glee Club Randigger 4nthem— Heavenly Father, Ever Lead Us Girls’ Glee Club Sicilian Air Scripture Rev. A. E. Wright Hymn: No. 408—Lead On 0 King Eternal Audience Message: Toward A New World Rev. R. D. Wearne Solo-- I Come to Thee Ruth Standish Cora Roma Now the Day is Over Girls' Glee Club r Barnby Benediction Rev. A. E. Wright

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Page 4 SENIOR CLASS POEM Hurrah 1 we're away on the big sea rf life! Away on a journey so great; We are ready to join in the din and the strife, To answer the calls of fate. We're sailing out with ideals that are high, With thoughts ever noble and fine; As we meet with struggles and fears, we will sigh, But those aims—how we want them to shine! We'll think oftentimes of our dear school days, Such pictures memory will paint; They will gleam through the shadows in many ways, Scenes that are both bright and faint. We’ve planted a tree in these years so dear; The roots are deeply set; We've labored and toiled, and amid joy and fear Have planted, never to forget. It shall be our guide through the sands of time, A guide that is faithful and true; We wish it to grow and to bear fruits sublime, All storm and ill winds to subdue. It stands for a record in our high school career, Of trials, pleasures,—all; It beckons us on to life pure and sincere, It is ready to stand, ne'er to fall! Now the difficult task that awaits is ours, We must build with a courage firm; Yfe must grow the tree, give it strength and power, life must press on through the years, to learn. So as we start out to live and to serve, To give of our very best; May the banners of old Berrien High always wave Till through victory, they stand the test! •By Frances M. Schadel. J