Coopersville High School - Zenith Yearbook (Coopersville, MI)

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Cl ass Prophecy Time: 1941. As 1 was gazing up at the Great Pyramid in Egypt some one quietly came up to me and took me by the arm and exclaimed, “Why, hello there. 1 didn’t hardly expect I’d see you here.” 1 in- stantly turned and who should be standing at my side but my old pal, Esther Meindertsma. “Well, 1 guess 1 wasn’t planning on meeting you here either,” 1 replied. After our first excitement was over I asked if Florence wasn’t with her and she said that Flor- ence was somewhere around. Esther: “And you can't guess what we’re doing. Florence sings and I accompany her on the piano. We’ve been in 47 of the 48 states and now we’re going all over Europe and maybe around the world.” Antoinette: “Well, I declare. Let’s find Florence and talk awhile.” F: “Alright. We’ve seen a lot of the kids of our class in our travels thru the States.” A: “Tell me all about it! And what do you think of this! llellen Louise French is the chaperon of our little party.” F: “And while we were in New York we went to the Zieg- field follies and whom should we see as chorus girls but Beulah Smith and Kitty Atkins. A: “You know, I always thought they’d be great actresses.’’ E: “And while we were in Utah we ran across John YanMul- ligan and Lynn Bigler. They are Senators from the 74th Congres- sional District of that state. In Montana we met Julia TenBrink, who said she had gone West because she was broken-hearted from one of her love affairs.” A: “And who do you suppose I met in Vienna? It was I-Jow Lee and he was gaining lots of fame with his great tenor voice but for a pastime he poses for the Pepsodent Tooth Paste ads.” E: “Well, well. And we met James Luther in Chicago. Af- ter leaving C. 11. S. he took up penmanship and is now a great penman. The latest we heard was that he is now teaching baby- chicks hen-scratching. A: “I’ve just been over in China and there 1 read all about Bob Bliss. The papers say he has quieted all the disorder down there.” F: “Well, 1 always thought he’d do something great like that and that reminds me. I read in the Allendale Airings the other day that Cliff Scott and Harrv Nibbelink struck an oil well right Page Twenty-eight

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I, Kenneth Shook, bequeath my ability as a basket ball player to Wayne McPhee. 1 I, Marion Hubbell, bequeath my sweet smiles to Alice Sessions. I, Hattie 1 atterson, bequeath my shyness to Frances Spinner. We, Irene Bond and Richard W itham, bequeath to anyone who have honest occasion, the right of being tardy three times a week. I. Joe Cox, bequeath mv wavy hair to Isaac Ginsberg. I. Harry Xibbelink; bequeath the privilege of taking Public Speaking to Jay Gunneman. It’s hard work but it can be done Jay- 1, Kdward Lee, bequeath my place on the football team to “Bill Kennedy, providing he shows as much enthusiasm as I have shown. We, I ranees Houck and Marion Riemersma, bequeath to any- one in possession of a search warrant, the right of answering tele- phone calls. I. Clarence Bushnell, bequeath mv dark hair and complexion to Mae Hillman. I, l.oranee Tennant, bequeath my artistic talent to George Getty. ' s I, Dorr White, bequeath my love for women to Howard Hint . I, Julia Ten Brink, bequeath my dignity to anv one of the Freshmen. I, I-uceal Braxmaier, bequeath the right of entertaining Gladys Young during the seventh hour, to anyone who likes com- pany. I, Hellen Louise French, bequeath mv ability in writing essays to June VVitcop. I, Luceal VVildev, bequeath my Ford to rny sister, Bernice, that she may complete her High School course. I, John Yan.Mulligan, bequeath my ability to receive A’s in Physics to any future student who may need such. We, Marion and Evelyn Gillespie, bequeath to Mildred and Geraldine YanOfHen the privilege of plowing out the snow banks between Coopersville and Conklin next winter. I, Frances Evans, bequeath my seat in the back row in the as- sembly to anyone w ho w ill conduct himself properly. I, Raymond Porter, bequeath mv “Razor” to anyone who might have use for it. 1, Albert Peck, bequeath the privilege of entertaining Elene during the seventh hour to “Jim” Tuma. Signed and certified by us, on this fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-nine. Irene Bonil I'apje Twenty-seven

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at the intersection of the two main streets of Allendale and so the road had to be moved. They are making lots of money and enjoy- ing it too, of course.” We then found Florence and she joined our chatting. A: “I received a long letter from Eleanor the other day and she said that she was chosen as ‘Miss America’ and she was now starring in the film ‘Short and Sweet’ with Kenny Shook as her leading man and that Bea and Mutt had settled down in Allendale and Mutt was head manager of the men’s department of that fam- ous Wolbrink s .Store and Bea was manager of the women’s de- partment.” E: “Oh, I say, you remember Vivian VanLaan. Well, she was elected Justice of the Peace in Reno and is so busv making matches and marrying them that she can’t find time to find one for herself.” A: “Pretty good. My folks sent me the Observer the other day and it reported the marriage of Frances Evans to some doctor from Kentucky, Not so surprising, is it?” F: “You know Frances Douck settled down in Lamont soon after graduating and darns socks for a living.” E: “And Happy Witham runs a meat market in Nunica and his wife, no other than Luceal Braxmaier, clerks in the shop so that they can send their children through college.” A: Oh! And in the Observer it said that Lorance Tennant had been cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune but he didn’t like the fast life there and so now he sketches for the ‘Pinnery Pebbles.’ ” F: “We saw Joe and Ann the other day. It seems that Joe finally convinced Ann that he was good enough for her and now they are enjoying the Alps Mountains together.” A: “I saw a famous portrait painting by Dorr White the other day. It was none other than of his life partner Esther Wohl- ford. And I read the best book too, ‘Avoirdupois, and howto keep it’ by Marion Hubbell and Irene Bond.” F: “Hattie Patterson and her hubby own a large sand-burr farm north of Coopersville and sell them at 2capiece, making hugh profits.” E: “Somebody told me, Oh yes, it was Raymond Porter, while I was in the Sperry ‘Razor’ Shop, that Elsa Vannatter had married a millionaire and was collecting cats as a hobby and Margaret Schillinger was her private maid.” A: “Good for Elsie, and I read that Albert Peck has invented a broadcaster for weak-voiced quarterbacks to give their signals.” E: “What do you say to going to the theatre together to- night?” We did, and on the curtain we saw the following ads.: Page Twenty-nine