Coopersville High School - Zenith Yearbook (Coopersville, MI)

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well as city boys can do this if they will by attending high school and going farther on after they have finished high school. How has all the progress and advancement in past years been accomplished? We all know that we, the people of the United States, are said by other people to be one hundred years ahead of time. Why have they said this? It is just because people have had ambitions and have had the determination to accomplish them that has wrought so many great changes. Do we wish this advancement to stop or be accelerated? All of us wish to promote and better conditions as much as possible. Education is necessary for this. The rural school children should attend the high schools and attain their ambitions. They may say that it is too hard to attend high school because of the distance and weather conditions, but it is well worth the effort put forth to attend. One thing we must remember is that America today stands out clearly as the light and saving grace of the entire world. God has ordained America to lead and save the world morally. We are all units in the great body politic that makes up the greatest nation on earth. The duties that all efficient citizens have to perform are new and peculiar to the time. How, then, will the boys and girls be able to do their part as useful citizens except by efficient preparation? Leaving the personal element out of the question, young people today should take seriously the idea of a broad general education that they may take their part in the great work to be accomplished, that at the final reward they may hear the Master’s voice say, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” Hester Busman, '22. Boy Scouts of America Troop One Coopersville, Michigan During the school year a Boy Scout Troop was organized. We now have thirty members and hope to get more recruits in the near future. The Troop has enjoyed several hikes, one of the best of which was an over night hike to Grand River, where the Scouts practiced Tracking, Semaphore Signalling and also the art of Cooking. The officers are as follows: Scoutmaster.............................Howard McKinnon Assistant Scoutmaster...................Grant Treloar Senior Patrol Leader....................Frank Young G. T., '22. Page Twenty-one

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WHY ATTEND HIGH SCHOOL? WHAT are the advantages of attending Higli School? What good may be derived? These are two questions very often asked when the subject of “high School” is introduced. Years ago, when this bind of ours was young, Abraham Lincoln, an industrious country lad, was very eager for education. He did his best to get books and to learn all he could from them. But why did he not go to school? Merely because there were none near the place where he lived. When he grew older, lie attended school and became a lawyer. Everyone knows how he. although only a poor farmer boy, became president of this great land of ours. Many of the presidents of the United States as well as many other great men in history were brought up on the farm. Today the lads of the country have the same opportunity to become great men as they had in former years. An education, however, is necessary for one if he has this or any other worthy ambition in view. No one can name any worth while position in life where an education is not essential. Years ago men thought that an education was wasted if a well learned man just lived in the country and pursued farming as his occupation. Today, they know better. Men, by experiment, have produced through scientific application the best plants and the ways of cultivating these. They have invented machines and have improved them. Farming is now done more on a business-like basis. Education brought this about, helping to make farming more of a pleasure and an enjoyable occupation. If a person wishes to work and spend his life merely for the purposes of money, he may argue that one can earn just as much without an education. A man may work in a shop and earn a great deal; but is his life as pleasant as that of a man who has had the advantage of an education? Is it really worth while to spend one’s life just for the sake of money? A man who is well educated is also a far more efficient citizen. A woman may say that an education is not necessary if she just intends to spend her life in domestic affairs. Has there not been advancement in the realms of housekeeping? Has not education and wider knowledge helped to bring about this advancement? A woman, who is educated, has a great influence on her family. She will help to educate her children and to broaden their minds. Are girls and boys who wish to teach school and help other children improve their educational conditions, able to do this without being well educated them- selves? If boys are interested in medicine, engineering, electricity or some other calling, would it not be well and profitable to extend their knowledge along these lines, making their life work in whatever interests them most? Country boys as Page Twenty

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Top Row, I .eft to Right Robert Russell, Barnerd Luben, Clyde Pryor, Merlin Pryor, Willard Slater, William l.ieft'ers. Second Row—-Frank Young, Alice Seekman, Dorothy Albrecht, Stewart Lillie, Herbert Sehil- linger, Ennna Lake, Anna Marie Mohrhardt, Francis Garter, Henry Gangland. Third Row—Lester Lihbey, Stanley C x, Alice Van Allsburg, Marie Welling, Lillie Frost, Beatrice Preston, Martha Maebius, Erma Warren, Kenneth Bartholomew, Curtis Taylor, Elmer Lee. Fourth Row—Gertrude Whitman, Alverna Baker, Hester Busman, Alden Sawyer, Harold Stephens, Jeannette Fynewever, Celia Ginsburg, Delia Fynewever, Florence Hoban, Grant Treloar. Bottom Row—Kenneth Garter, John Harmsen. Junior Class The class officers are as follows: President............................... Robert Russell Vice President .............................Willard Slater Secretary............................... Grant Treloar Treasurer.......................... Harold Stephens Class Adviser...............................Miss Sima Another step up tile ladder of learning has been climbed. How fast the year has passed ! We made a good showing in basket ball, claiming several of the best players, holding the laurels for jumping centers on both teams; and for an all round good time we are a bunch hard to beat. We started our Junior year losing two of the original members and gaining nine new ones. Several of our members have contributed to the orchestra. The class has enjoyed several social events, one of the best of which was a social given at the beginning of the school year. Page Twenty-two