Coopersville High School - Zenith Yearbook (Coopersville, MI)

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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG-H.S.IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII RODEO|||||Mllllim|1932|||||||||||||||| Valedictory TONIGHT, classmates, let us forget for a time that we are about to pass the first crossroad of our life’s caieer. Let us picture our- selves as we shall be ten years from now. We shall not be fol- lowing the same trail of our high school days. Our trail will be one which we shall have to follow ourselves, unguided. We shall have formed new friendships and associates. The only tie that shall bind us, the Class of ’32, together shall be that of our high school days, the memories of when we worked and played together, trying to help each cither find the trail that is best suited for him. Classmates, try to think of the things that have helped us most, the guide-posts on the trail we chose. Perhaps many of us shall have chosen the rougher trail, the one that calls for many sacrifices and much courage. Where did we secure the courage never to give up, but to push onward, upward, trying to make the high grade ahead of us? Hour after hour, day after day, during our school life, we tried to gain that essential thing that helps to produce courage, self-confidence. Self-confidence is developed in the high school. It was during our four years of labor, trying to accomplish all that is possible, that we learned what self-confidence means. When we were left with certain duties, when things were a little cloudy and we felt that we could not go through with our agreements, it is then we remembered our self- confidence. We had to go through with it! Our friendships and our honor demanded it. High school affords many tasks where this ideal must be displayed. 'I'he long, long trail branches into many by-paths. Some of us have taken one trail, others a different way. But no matter which way we have gone, we have found competitors. The distance we covered on our particular path depended on us. Are we one of those that advanced or did we lag behind? Our high school career was the basis for our life, but did we stop at that? Did we forget the ideals taught us by our guides? Our guides along our trail have been our ever-patient teachers. They tried to post the signs, telling us what direction to take if we would succeed in life. They tried to have us avoid those detour signs which represent failures. As in a road when a part becomes impassable the detour sign is erected, so will it be if we are led astray. Perhaps many of us could not avoid those signs and were forced to accept them. Nevertheless we pushed on and suc- ceeded in getting back on the main trail in spite of obstacles. In this case we should always remember the direction of our trail, taught us bv our teachers. They guide us only through our association with them and after that it is our responsibility to remember the direction which leads to success at the end of our trail. Other guides that we had are our parents. They worked and sac- rificed that we might have the advantage of an education. They tried to show us the way that may avoid those signs that they were forced to accept. We should have profited by their experience. Was it not our duty, therefore, in some way to show our appreciation of this, and Page Seventeen

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George Harmsen “He’s a Rood little boy.” Entered from Lamont. Football 4. Cora Westrate “Bright dancing hair ard a winning smile.” Home Economics 1. Glee Club 1. 2. 3. 4. Operetta 1, 2. 3. Junior Play. Senior Play. Assistant Snap Editor. Kenneth Scouten “The presidential seat neeo men like Washington. Lin- coln, and me.” Entered from Muskegon. Orchestra 4. Grace Smith “A tender heart, a will in- flexible.” Home Economics 2. Journalism 3, 4. Bible Study 4. Elsie Crouse “She says not much, but thinks the more. Entered from Nunica. Journalism 3, 4. Ass’t. Editor of Journalism. Leona Schipper “As merry as the day is long.” Glea Club 1. 2. 3. Track 2. Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4. Snap Shot Editor 4. Basketball 3. 4. Student Manager 3. Bible Study 4. Junior Play. Campfire 1, 2. Senior Play. Girl Scouts 4. A. A. I, 2, 3. Operetta 1, 2. Vice Pres. 2. Sec’y-Treas. 1. Floyd Brown “Men of few words are the good men.” Scouting 1. 2, 3. Track 2. 3. 4. Football 3, 4. Mary Cook “Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful ot others.” Home Economics 1, 2. Glee Club 3. Journalism 4. Oratory 3, 4. Se.»ior Play. Vernon Pryer “Wise and slow, they stum- ble that go fast.” Entered from Nunica. Journalism 3. Bible Study 4. Page Sixteen

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Iimillllllllllic.H.S.IIHIIIIIIIIIIIII RODEOlllllillllllllllll932|||||||nm||||| what better way could it be done than by making the most of our op- portunities? y It would be a very lonely trail if it were not for our cherished friendships that came along the way. A true friend can help us when troubles come, cheering us on to victory. Friends are one of the guides that follow us throughout our life’s career. Do we value our friendships as we should? Now the time has come when we must say “farewell.” This is the last time during our four years that we shall be assembled to- gether. And as we bid each other farewell tonight, let us keep in mind these frienbly words: “Life is sweet just because of the friends we have made and the things which in common we share. We want to live on, not because of ourselves, but because of the people who care. It’s giving and doing for somebody else—on that all lifes’ splendor bepends, And the joy of this world, when you’ve summed it all up, is found in the making of friends.” K. M. L. Page Eighteen