Chicago Christian High School - Violet and Maize Yearbook (Palos Heights, IL)

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4'-H --4? mmf., - 1 '--4 FOREWORD The student body, by means of this Annual, makes an effort to portray the activities of the Chicago Christian High School during the school year I923 to I924. We publish this Annual to do our share for arousing interest in that cause which is very dear to us all, Christian Education. u EDITOR. CONTENTS DEDICATION STAFF FACULTY I GRADUATES JUNIORS SOP!-IOMORES FRESHMEN CLUBS ALUMNI A - ATHLETICS LITERATURE WIT AND HUMOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The staff wishes to thank our faithful artists, Henry Van Hattem and John Moll. To the faculty the staff is indebted for the advice which has made this Annual what it is. The student body has made this Annual possible by having given it an un- precedented circulation. 3 .

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E E IN MEMORIAM On March 27, IQ24, the cause of Christian education in our country, and es- pecially the cause of the Chicago Christian High School, lost a strong supporter in the death of Mr. james De Boer. Yes, Mr. De Boer was a faithful supporter of the high school. But he was more than that: he was her leader, her captain. Being first in laboring for the cause of Christian secondary education in these parts, he has been first in the organization which has supported the school these past six years. And no cause had a stronger advocate, no organization, a more able president. Mr. De Boer was a man of indomitable courage in difficultyw, a man who had a habit of facing life with breast forward . He was a plain man, one who performed his task without display, one who served our institution without Elt- tracting attention to himself. VVC as a school owe much to hir. De Boer. But though we cannot pay the debt we owe, we can with the help of God be true to the principles which motivated the self-sacrificing services which he rendered in behalf of our institution. As a school we would make the following statements of Mr. De Boer our own: The prayer: 'Not my will but THINE, be donel' or 'VVhat wilt thou have me to do'?' must be the foundation-stone upon which all of our life is built. The conviction must be deeply rooted in our soul that our work has been not to please our- selves-rather to deny ourselves-but to please our King, whose we are, whom we serve. So that the question for us is not: 'How much pleasure is in it for me?' but 'Am I faithful?' 'Do l perform my duty?m And graduates of the Chicago Christian High School, we would pledge to live out an affirmative answer to the following questions penned by Mr. De Boer himself: L'Shall we, his soldiers, fight? Shall we fight for His dominion also in our educational institutions? Shall we fight for that, re- gardless of obstacles, and are we willing ourselves to perish in that fight? For the dominion of the King? N.B.-The above quotation has been taken from an address which was written by NIr.James De Boer and read at a meeting shortly before his death 4 E JE