Coopersville High School - Zenith Yearbook (Coopersville, MI)

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1 9 4 0 President James Ellis Vice-President Frank Wassenaar Treasurer Jerry Mosher Secretary Norma Hillman We have just completed a very successful year and can now look forward to a still better one—the Senior year. This year we have made some excellent records in both girl’s and boy’s athletics and scholastics. We have also had many good times together, ending with the high spot of the vear—the Junior-Senior banquet. JAMES ELLIS First Row—A. Spir.ner, M, Robinson, V. Anderson, J. Mosher, N. Hillman, B. Plant, M, Waldie, K. Bartholomew, A. Meindertsma, M. Schmidt, D. Timmerman. Second Row — J. Wassenaar, G. Tikkanen, A. Streeting, D. Dennis, D, Posthumus, D. Dyer, E. VanAllsburg, A. Parish, E. Arnold, E. Roman, Mrs. C. Kern. Third Row—M. Laug, C. Lieflfers, A. Warner, D. Klempke, J. Ellis, L. Reister, R. O’Bradovitch, M. Irish, K. Knoper, M. Nichols, J. Brouwer, V. Bush. Fourth Row- H. Klatt, M. Creager. R. Bush, F. Gearhart, M. Kloosterhouse, R. Holt, C Vannatter, W. White, H. Fromholz, N. Vickery, K. Lachman. Fifth Row —D. Lemmen, T. Lindberg, G. Adema, F. Was- senaar. H. Bush, V. VanAllsburg, G. Heyboer, F. Rosenweig, G. Beach, J. Lemieux, J. Ellis, K. Hansen. I I I L L L I I I t I

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t when they Hew to the World's Fair in their Autogiro, which came down very unexpectedly. I hey told me that Ray Dejonge was Michigan's Huey l ong, and that Marie Westrate was earning a tidy sum warbling over the radio. Joe Brown is understudying Joe E. Brm n, fam- ous comedian, and is married to the former Clara Esther. Hazel and Emily are now leaving to get new ideas on food. I he Billy Robbins Taxi-Cab Company is carrying a load of people to the Information Bureau now. 1 am surprised to learn that they are Betty Aurich, a nurse, Katherine Busman, a secretary and June Denhof, out of a position at present. They want to know what picture is showing at the Century 'I heatre. It’s “Cowhands From Small Town”, starring Earl Eaug and Rosalyn (dace. '1 he ushers in the theatre are Frances Roth and Ethel Werlev. I will now turn the Information Bureau over to my trusted secretary, Nellie Van Win- gerden, while I wander around town. First of all, I want a date, so I'll go over to the Kelly Bros. Date Bureau and make my reservation. On my way to the Bureau 1 met Mary Meindertsma and Eena |ane Stroven, each with a baby buggy and several small children. They have an orphanage in the suburbs of Grand Rap- ids. I stopped a moment to talk with them and one of the cutest children was the youngest daughter of the former Madeline Hastings, now married to a successful Grand Haven account- ant. They left their youngest child with Lena Jane and Mary, and took the other six to Eur- ope with them. On their wav to Europe they were stopping off in England to visit Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ahrens. Mrs. Ahrens is the former Mary Jane Arnold. Mary told me that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irwin were missionaries in China. Mrs. Irwin you will remember as Treone Kregel. I went from there to the telephone office to make a special call to Betty Dinkel, happily married, for a tea at her tearoom, and who should I meet but Leona Hecksel as a telephone operator. She tells me that Buck croons in Fred Witcop's swing band. They played at the Ice Exhibition last night and Jay Porter and Anita Fairchild was the famous skating team which was the main feature of the show. I bought a newspaper from a little boy whose name on his cap was Albert Gregel, Jr. I guessed who his father was but asked him what his mother's name was. He promptly replied that it was Lorraine Parish. 1 turned to the sport page first, and there was a picture of a box- ing knockout in which Luke Turner, flyweight, defeated Ben Venema. In the comic section, 1 heo. Putman’s “Skeeter, the Skunk” was receiving a great deal of praise from the light-headed aristocrats. Finally I reached the Date Bureau. Grand Rapids’playboy, Bob Conley, was booked by Doris Sellon, Kelly’s capable and adorable little stenographer, to Eloise I.aarma'n for every night of the next three weeks. I managed to get a date with the dashing voung Romeo, Laurence Wisneske. Ace Kelly, the young proprietor, tells me that Henry Kloosterhouse was for the second time married to a widow with six children. The widow was none other than our High School Days’ Harriet Scott. Henry had five children of his own from his former marriage. Jim Bouwkamp and Delia Stehouwer, after romancing for eight years, were married by the Reverend Russell Lillie, D. D. Norma Bartholomew's Greenhouse furnished the flowers for the affair. As I was walking back to my Information Bureau who should 1 see at the booth but a handsome young farmer. It was Bill Fairchild. I gathered from his conversation that he was happily married to Lillian Pylman. Bill wanted to know where the Shrine Circus was. He said the wife anil kids wanted to see Mary Jean Creager swinging from the trapeze. I oday I have been very fortunate in encountering acquaintances made at Coopersville High School. .And now 1 leave you with the expectation of meeting again. ARLENE DINKEL

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Ll ' 1 1 1 1 ] 1 ' I I ’ ’ I ’ President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Virginia Albrecht Gorden VanHuizen Cleo Reynolds Dorothy Scott 9 4 I he Sophomore Class has a memdership of sixty-two. I his year the class has been fairly busy. On November 4 we held a very successful class party in the High School gym and on February 6 we ordered our class pins. Besides this a large number of the class have been engaged in I athletics, band, orchestra, glee club and the school paper. VIRGINIA ALBRECHT First Row —B. Sullivan, H. VanderLaan, R. Veeneman, H. Schiedel, F. Bartholomew, D. Scott, G. Roon, L. Carrell, H. Sabo. E. Root, M Perrin. Second Row-R. Pilversack. A Lieffers, R. Egan, M. Egan, H. Wilson, M. Meindertsma, E. Wiltenburg. H. Bouw- kamp, Miss Prolo. Third Row-R. Wenger, E. Andrews, B. Peppier, E. Nibbelink, J. Witcop, V. Howard, C. Reynolds. R. Englert. V. Albrecht. D. Wiltenburg. D. Lietz, L Kettle. Fourth Row-P Metten, E. Gavin, E. Butts, R. Roth, F. Veeneman. M. Roth! D. Hovingh, F. Danenburg. D. Dodd, H. Nichols, D. Kloosterhouse, J. Randall. Fifth Row - W. Walt, S. Benson, V. Gates, G. VanHuizen. B. Mengel, G. Bruggers, J. Din- gle. C. Short, R. Wilcox. B. Harmsen. D. Waite, D. Lawrence.