Eastern Academy - Echoes Yearbook (Paterson, NJ)

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1937- == EASTERNGAGADEM Ye = eee Eusig M. Van Horr (Commercial) “In silence there is many a good morsel.” Athletic Ass’n 732-’37, Glee Club ’33-’34, Girls’ Fellowship Club ’36-’37, Chorus 733. DonaLp VAN REKEN (College Preparatory) “No man is happy who does not think himself so.” Stamp Club ’34-’36, Hi-Y 735-37, Hi-Y Treas. 387, Athletic Ass’n ’35-’37. HELEN VAN VLANDREN (Coilege Preparatory) “Sincerity has a charm of its own.” Athletic Ass’n 733-37, Glee Club ’34-’87, Girls’ Fellowship Club 736-37. NIcHOLAS V. KrRoEzE (General) “T wish with the swift spheres and glow im joy and when I will, I sleep.” ten

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1937. = FASTERNJACADEMY == 1937 JoHN A. RouKEMA (General) “For every why he has a wherefore.” Athletic Ass’n ’32-’37, Glee Club ’36-’37, Soccer 733-37, Hi-Y 736-737. JEANETTE A. SISCO (Commercial) “With tears and laughter for all time.” Athletic Ass’n ’33-’37, Chorus ’33-’34, Glee Club ’35-’37, Basketball ’35-’37, Girls’ Fel- lowship Club ’36-’37, Cheer Leader ’36-’37, Capt. Girls’ Basketball Team ’36-’87, Treasurer of Senior Class 7386-737. JAMES TENKATE (General) “Short and snappy, attractive and happy.” Athletic Ass’n 733-'387, Soccer 783-'34, Class Officer Treas. 734-35. JAMES VAN DYKE (General) “Good deeds concealed are most es- teemed.” Orchestra 732-’33, Athletic Ass’n 732-37, Basketball ’35-’36, Baseball 736. nine

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1937 == EAS BERNSACADEMY == — 1937 Envoy Staff EDItToR-IN-CHIEF = = = = - John BR. Bos ASSOCIATE Eprrors 2 cA = Lubbertus Bos Theresa Bushman Klazina Kuiken ACADEMY NEWSETTES - - - Dorothy Greydanus CHRISTIAN ScHooL News” - - - Wilma Soodsma ALUMNI NOTES - a = 2 . Ruth Luiken ATHLETICS - - - - - Charlotte Bruning John Lont HuMorR - - - - - Wilma Van Genderen Business MANAGER - = - - Peter De Vries ADVERTISING MANAGER- - - - - Douglas Bush CIRCULATION MANAGER - - - Adrian Bakker £ ie : To the Class of 1937 A few years back a graduating class chose the motto, “A thinking head and an industrious hand, are a great wealth.” If your training at Eastern Academy has stimulated and cultivated an appreciation of the value of a think- ing head and an industrious hand, then surely your education has not been in vain, and if you carry into life these two assets then indeed you possess a great wealth. Of all the benefits which one receives from a high school education— a store of knowledge, a widening of one’s intellectual horizon, an appreciation of the finer things,—none can compare with these two, a thinking head and an industrious hand. Both are essential to a ha ppy, fruitful life, to a life of ser- vice, and who can measure the worth of these two? Yet these two—a thinking mind and an industrious hand—are not enough. There is one thing lacking, and I trust you instinctively feel that one thing is missing. How many thinking minds and industrious hands are there not, which are directed in wrong channels, and thus defeat the very purpose for which man was created, namely, to think God’s thoughts after Him and to do His will— in brief, to live to the glory of God? Misdirected, a thinking head and an industrious hand are not a great wealth, a blessing,—but a curse, and they will lead to disappointment, disillusionment, and despair; directed and guided in the right path they are a blessing, and will bring joy, contentment, and satisfaction. The head and hand must be guided therefore and that by a consecrated heart, a heart dedicated to God. The one thing needful in addition to a thinking head and an industrious hand is a consecrated heart, and unless you have that, your training has been a failure, and Eastern Academy has not lived up to its high calling as a Christian school. For our system of Christian schools from the elementary school to the college is dedicated to the task of training and developing the whole man—not merely the head and the hand, but the heart as well. It is the aim of our Christian institutions, in distinction from the public schools, to influence the heart in order that our covenant youth may heed the injunction, “My son, give me thine heart.” Therefore, we prefer to say “A thinking head and an industrious hand are a great wealth” provided they are governed and directed by a consecrated heart. May the future reveal that you possess all three, for then indeed you have a treasure which neither moth nor rust can corrupt, nor thieves break through and steal, and it is with this hope that we send you forth from these halls. John R. Bos eleven