Coopersville High School - Zenith Yearbook (Coopersville, MI)

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HELEN SPENCER “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” Home Economics 2 (!lee Club 2, 3, 4 Operetta 1, 3 A. A. 2. 3, 4 MARY PIKE ‘‘Some love too little, some too long.” Home Economics 2 Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4 Operetta 3 A A. 1, 2, 3 GERTRUDE WALLINGA “To he efficient in a quiet way That is my wish thro’ out each clay.” Home Economics 2 Glee Club 3, 4 Operetta 3 VIRGIL WARREN ‘‘His best thoughts always come a little too late.” Football 2, 3, 4 Track 2, 3, 4 A. A. 1, 2, 4 Glee Club 2, 3 Junior Play RUTH WAY ‘‘A true friend is forever a friend.” Entered from Allendale 3 A. A. 3, 4 Glee Club 3, 4 Operetta 3, 4 Sec’y and Treas. Glee Club 3 Junior Play EDITH WESTOVER “An active, peppy, all around girl with many friends.” Camp Fire 1, 2. 4 Glee Club 1, 3, 4 Ass’t Camp Fire Guardian 3, 4 Pres, of Sophomore Class Home Economics 2 Librarian 2, 3 Pres. Home Economics 2 Operetta 3, 4 Vice-Pres. of Senior Class News Staff l, 2, 3 Vice Pres. A. A. 4 Joke Editor of Rodeo A. A. 1, 2, 3, 4 Page Seventeen

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MARVIN LUBEN “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Entered from Nunica 3 A. A. 3, 4 Glee Club 3, 4 Pres. A. A. 4 Pres. Glee Club 4 Operetta 3, 4 Asst. Advertising Manager of Rodeo MARIAN MARSHALL “1 have a heart with room for every joy.” Basketball 1 A. A. 1, 2, 3, 4 Vice-Pres. Sophomore Class Pres. Glee Club 4 Camp Eire 2 Picture Editor of Rodeo Junior Play Operetta 3, 4 Glee Club 3, 4 ROSE MERGENKR “A light heart lives long.” A. A. 1, 2, 3 Glee Club 2, 3, 1 Operetta 2, 3 IRENE MERRICK “An earnest student, always at her best.” Entered from Conklin 3 Operetta 3 Class Prophecy Orchestra 4 Sec’y-Treas. Senior Class A. A. 3, 4 Assistant Editor of Rodeo Glee Club IMOGENE MOSHER “Boyishly petite, she is the very spirit of vim, vigor and vitality.” A. A. 1, 2, 3 Basket Ball 1 Glee Club I, 3, 4 Operetta 3 ELI O’BRADOVITCH “A man of thought he was.” Entered from Nunica 3 Debating 3 Boys 4-H Club 4 HELEN PARISH “We are charmed with neatness of person.” Entered from Allendale 3 A. A. 3, 4 Glee Club 3, 4 Operetta 3, 4 Page Sixteen

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Valedictory IBRLIFVL that the common office of the Yaleditorian is to ex- press his regret and display his remorse at the immediate pros- pect of leaving the institution that lias played a large and vital part in his life during the preceding twelve years. In other words it is a “farewell” in the modern sense of the word. The word valedictory is derived from the Latin—rah, meaning farewell and the Latin infinitive dicera, meaning to say. Mine is the invalu- able privilege and honor “to say farewell in behalf of my esteemed classmates. However, mine is of the variety of farewell that does not entail regret, remorse, and relative compassions in any great degree. The farewell that I bid you our benefactors and you my classmates is one pertaining to vour welfare, and not an ordinary “Good Bye” in the modern leave-taking sense; although if this expression “Good Bve” were applied in its original meaning, the contraction of a sincere “God be with you, no expression could be coined that would better suit my purpose. Farewell, too, has forfeited its original portent to become an every day expression of a desire that one should fare well. Now people employ it without thought or intentions. It is merely a perfunctory verbal method of ridding one’s self of some one’s presence. My office tonight is to offer a farewell of the old order. May we fare well. Manx think of graduation as a termination of education for those who will not be afforded the enviable privilege of continuing their formal education in institutions of higher learning. Their attitude toward the graduation that is to usher the student from one school so that he may enter another is literally a metamoro- pliosis or graduation from one stage of learning to another. This group are right in their latter belief but it is my belief that their convictions concerning the former class of graduates is erroneous. Tlisv, too, are undergoing a metamorophosis, graduating from one stage of education to another. The difference is that the former group makes a larger step than the latter and in doing so, unfor- tunatelv they expend and waste energy that could have been con- served. Shakespeare, in that excellent pastoral comedy “As You Like It wrote “All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players.” If I may be granted the license to bor- row from this well known quotation from tin better known work of a still better known king of literary geniuses, the frame work on which that admirable statement is formed, allow me to state one phase of my philosophy of life. In niv estimation, although practically worthless because it is tempered bv so negligible quantity of years, “All the world is a school, and all the people merely students.” Some few are pre- cocious scholars, still more are students of the chart class and have been members of that initial class for decades But poor and rich, great and humble, all are enlisted on the roll of that school regard- Page Right Ml