Eastern Academy - Echoes Yearbook (Paterson, NJ)

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—=— EASTERN ‘ACADEMY === 1936 1936 Alumni Notes Tid-bits: Say fella’s! Gert Dykstra has the trickiest hat. Bill Bush evidently likes playing taxi driver for lovely females. to be a habit. We haven’t heard much about Henry E. Van Reken and the blondes lately. Smatter pop, slipping? I guess our four nurses-to-be are working their way upward. Here’s hop- ing they get there before the “right person” comes along. (In case you’ve for- gotten, they are: Olga and Miel, the twins; and Marj and Marie, pals.) Of course we don’t want to hint or anything, but don’t you think George Vermeulen sings beautifully? It has a peak on it. It’s getting Signed—Student Body. Just who is the little lad who claims to be a soldier? Oh!—Ted. So the Alumni Music Club has accomplished something. Good work. Here’s hoping they keep it up. Does Cook Van Genderen really like to sew and cook, or does she think practice makes perfect? I wonder. If girls were only born with hair hke Dow Drukker’s. Jeanette Greydanus sure did effect one of the mail-men who rides on the 40 with us. He always speaks about ‘that pretty girl from Fairlawn.” I wish Mink De Jonge would let us know where he works. A delegation just about turned Quackenbush’s up side down looking for him. VITAL STATISTICS Name Nick-Name Pastime Ambition Henry E. Van Reken Hen Blondes Sally Minerd De Jong Mink Tooting Traveling salesman Garret Jeffer Garr Loafing First class loiterer William Bush Bill Girls Taxi Driver Henry Bruining Hank Family driver ?????? Theodore Trouwborst Ted Visit girls L. General George Vermeulen George Vocalizing To Sing Martin Kooistra Mart Preaching John Feikens Johnny Studying law To milk cows Wilham Zuidema Bill Working Work Albert Smith Smitty College Sisco Samuel Rietveld Red Blushing Professional blusher William De Rose Bill iia VOLT PS William Heerema Bill Driving Sak Grate John De Leeuw Leuddy Loafing Anything twenty-two

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1936 —— EASTERN ACADEMY === 1936 Bakker has been favorably impressed by E.A. When I asked for his “ver- dict”, he told me that E.A. has more school spirit, better teachers, and more co-operation than other schools. Why many students are so reticent when giving their opinion of the op- posite sex is beyond my understanding. However, just at present it is rather simple to give Adrian’s ideas on this subject. He is interested in a b lond type with plenty of curves. Adrian likes basketball, swimming, and sailboating. I understand he builds -his own boats. He enjoys reading sea stories. His inten- tions after leaving school are not certain. Perhaps we will meet him on the bridge of one of Uncle Sam’s destroyers. March 21, 1919 marked the advent of Ruth Verblaauw into the records of the flourishing city of Paterson. After a time she was launched with many cther frail crafts into the great sea of education, represented by North Fourth Street Christian School. By the time this article appears in print she will be an alumna of E.A. In the field of literature Ruth prefers material by extinct authors whose tombstones have been weathered by age. As she has read and likes Caroll’s As The Earth Turns, a modern book, it seems possible that she cares for a few less ancient books. Although interested in other sports Ruth finds a strange fascination in ice-skating. Her stability upon these dangerous implements is nothing short of marvelous. Miss Verblaauw has Paderewskian tendencies—to be exact she is a pianist. If time spent in practise is an indication, I fear we have a great musician in our midst. These are often hard to control. When interviewed she made the statement ‘Boys are terrible’. She added that this was a conclusion drawn from experience. If this opinion is sincere, it seems strange that she is not averse to securing more of this type of experience. Possibly a business college will be Ruth’s next “port” after leaving E.A. Let us hope that the memory of her Alma Mater recalls many happy associations. MR. S. BROLSMA Custodian twenty-one

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1936———— EASTERN ACADEMY ==———1936 Athletics Since this is the first (and last) issue of the “Envoy” that has appeared this semester, there is an abundance, even an oversupply of news concerning the accomplishments of E. A.’s teams. Because your correspondent sympathizes with you, the readers, he will not give you a play by play description of each game, but rather endeavor to present a resumé of the doings of the Boys’ and Girls’ Varsity teams. At first glance this season might appear to have been rather unsuccessful for the Boys’ Varsity. However, if the conditions of each game could be under- stood, 1t would be seen that although we were not overwhelmingly successful, we were not at all disgraced. Even though we were swamped by Lodi, a school six or seven times as large as E. A., we did beat St. Mary’s, the winner of the city Parochial League, and lost to St. John’s and St. Joseph’s by a margin of one point. And then the Alumni beat us by only a very few points in both games. To say the least, it is not encouraging for any team to have the “breaks’”’ continually against them. Yet our E. A. team was always ready to get in there and fight, no matter what the odds were. This certainly takes more spirit than it does when the team always wins. Therefore I feel perfectly safe in saying that our 1935-36 Basket Ball Season was morally successful. The total results: Eastern Academy 20 St. John 30 2 ie 20 Lodi 65 “ HB 18 St. Mary 55 a He 22 Alumni 26 a} a 1 St. Joseph 13 4 e 23 St. John 24 3 22 St. Mary 20 Y 9 St. Bonaventure 15 He y 31 Alumni 36 ‘ is 12 Montclair 30 A 14 St. Bonaventure 34 a ce 12 Montclair 36 2 ye 12 Lodi 60 Total points 227 444 Won 1 Lost 12 The E. A. girls not only had a morally successful season, but a materially successful one as well. Our girls went into the majority of their games with that extra something that makes the difference between a team and a winning team and saved the day for E. A. (Partly, I think, to “show us boys a thing or two’’). The girls with a late and heavy season saw what the boys were doing with their early season and resolved not to follow suit. They certainly lived up to their resolutions. Starting with a spectacular win over the St. John’s sextette, cur girls took all comers, and at the end of the season could say with Caesar, “Venimus; Vidimus; Vicimus.” (We came; we saw; we conquered.) If the girls can handle domestic problems as well as they can a basket- ball, there will be a number of contented husbands sometime in the dim(?) future. twenty-three