Eastern Academy - Echoes Yearbook (Paterson, NJ)

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1937 ——— EASTERN ACADEMY 1937 Chustian School News MIDLAND PARK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL We’ve missed your “Envoy” so far this year and hope we may see it more often next year. Ours has been a busy school this past term and many changes have taken place. Our staff for next year will be somewhat different. Helen Ruiter will again be in Room One, Martha Voorman will be in Room Two, Jessica Mierop will continue in Room Three, Jeannette Tanis will take the place of Wilma Te Slaa in Room Four, and Walter D. De Kock will again be in Room Five. The training of our teachérs for next year ranges between three and five years—a record we feel quite proud of considering the size of the school. All but one of our teachers have attended our own Normal School at Calvin for at least one year. All the teachers have not completed their plans for the summer but Miss Mierop is planning on leaving for New Mexico June 21 and hopes to ;visit there for the summer. Miss Te Slaa is again teaching for six weeks at West Sayville and may also spend some of her vacation visiting with relatives in the West. Mr. De Kock and family hope to leave the morning after the Commencement Program for a two or three weeks vacation with relatives and friends in Michigan after which he hopes to complete his first year of Graduate study at Columbia University. This year we are having a double graduation as there are fifteen graduating from grade nine as well as fifteen from grade eight. We hope that all or at least most of the ninth grade graduates will continue their high school work at Eastern Academy in September. They have worked hard and, in most cases, well during the past year and we certainly would like them to continue in this same spirit in the future. They need your encouragement teachers and upper classmen. Our school ground has undergone a major change in that we have had a large steam shovel excavate and level it. We feel quite well satisfied with the change and hope to continue the improvements. I would like to tell you about our newly-organized baseball team but am a little timid just now, your players will tell you why, but you will hear more of them later. Why couldn’t each of our schools have a team and then play each other occasionally? We are having our Twenty-Fifth Annual School Day at Lindbergh Park in North Haledon on July 5. Every effort is being made to make this picnic bigger and better than ever before—we’re even having, ponies there for the “kiddies” to ride on—and we hope that the Patersonians, ete. will give us the same cooperation we always give them at Idlewild on Labor Day. An inter- esting day of entertainment has been planned. All friends who are interested are cordially invited to enjoy themselves with us. W. De Kock It NORTH FOURTH STREET CHRISTIAN SCHOOL The school year is drawing to its close and its many activities will belong to the past. In January several grades visited the Industrial Exhibition in the Y. M. C. A. In order to encourage Mr. A. Vandewende with his projeet and to stimulate the interest we sent different classes to see his miniature village. A composi- tion writing project was started and prizes were earned by some pupils of dif- ferent grades. sixteen

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1937; SS PAS TERNEACADEMY === 119 37 our unity in this cause, and each one contributing of his time, energies, interests and material blessings, we as Calvinists can accomplish much with our Christian School System. “For God and unto God” we have dedicated our schools, let us go forward to His praise. Although there was $517.50 more raised in this campaign than the year before, we still were short about $2,000. This deficiency the Board of Directors is making efforts to cover. The preliminaries for the Campaign for 1937-38 to be held next fall, October 18 to 29, are well under way. Special attention has been given to the necessity of advertising our Eastern Academy and bringing its needs and activities before the attention of our people. On October 10 we hope to distribute about 2,000 copies of a special Campaign Issue of the Envoy to our Christian Reformed people. The entire Eastern Academy student ‘body is eagerly looking forward to the rendering of a cantata on October 13; this chorus will comprise about 150 voices. Friday, October 15, a parent-teacher meeting will be held. The faculty hopes that all parents will avail themselves of the opportunities afforded at such.a meeting. The athletic association of the school is also expecting to participate in the activities by sponsoring special athletic events. God’s blessing upon our institution is indispensable, and this is recognized by its faculty, students, board of directors, and supporters. Because of this deep rooted conviction, the various consistories and pastors will be asked to devote a special service to this phase of kingdom work. Ceaseless prayer for the cause of Christian education, and constant reminders of our duties as follow- ers of the Christ also in the sphere of education, with God’s divine blessing, will make our Eastern Academy an ever greater blessing to our boys and girls, our community, state, nation, and God’s church. Let us always take a keen interest in those things that are really worth while, and express our interest by giving liberally. God blesses us for it. H. Brasser CoMPARATIVE REPORT OF EASTERN ACADEMY CAMPAIGN Total Total Increase Chr. Ref. Church 1935-36 1936-37 Decrease i dl BEN [Reet nr ache ee a tee ee eke $ 185.50 $ 269.50 $ 84.00 De UGS ONT terse. ie chee et) iat ie 468.00 480.00 12.00 (MRE Ce SOTM eke ea a ee L 413,75 421.35 7.60 TV COT SO tele es aes ees ey eel a sy 366.50 325.00 mateo ES CU iG lang ences har dG spiel 5 as 949.00 1,240.20 291.20 AW GYE Wt SS Las SE OR FR rete 158.50 155.40 ro LO IWPACISOURPA VCIIIIG mi neeen to. 0 wet NL ee 21.00 21.00 VEG aT one or kop ale es et 106.00 241.00 135.00 ISU T Te NRSC UO eR ie a Eel gare as 22° 169.00 2aa OU 64.30 J Eee FEW Ade ce pe EN Ses Sn Oa 10.00 34.00 24.00 Frog pectreb ark vik 2 i ewe sta ss 109.70 104.20 5.50 SUE SUleel et a eee tl Tg Oh 228.50 157.00 Bez bibl) $ 639.10 121.60 $3,164.45 $3,681.95 $ 517.50 fifteen

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I937- === EAS TERN: AGADEMY=—=—— 19.37 At the end of January we had our graduation exercises and we are busy now getting ready for the June closing and graduating program. In April we rendered an interesting program in School No. 12. The proceeds of this program will be used to good advantage. Several of our teachers, the principal included, took extension work in Montclair State Teachers’ College. The Graduating Class of January hired a bus and visited places of interest in New York. The June Class wants to do better and is making plans to visit places of historic interest in Philadelphia. I wonder whether the boys and girls are aware of the fact that all things cost money and whether father and mother are always able to foot the bills. Pins, rings, dresses, suits, presents, flowers, etc., etc. cost money, and money does not grow on trees. I wish some one would introduce a more simple procedure of graduation. Of course, the merchants would dislike such a plan, but many parents would, perhaps (?), welcome a change. In some states of our union no graduation exercises are held when pupils finish the eighth grade. Several shorter programs were given during the schoolyear. We had our Thanksgiving Program, Christmas Program, Washington’s and Lincoln’s Birth- day Programs, Rally Day’s Program, etc., etc. In the fall of the year we intend to have an art and hobby exhibit. Our exhibit of drawings in the Prospect Park Bank and North Main St. Bank was admired by many spectators. Our Board has been active and busy also. The Spring Drive is just about completed and plans are made for our Labor Day Program. If nothing interferes with our plans, a field day will be held before the end of June, and the Ladies’ Cirele of our school is going to hold a “Silver Tea” and Sale in the near future. More important than all these activities is the fact that all our children were instructed daily in the way they should go. We have tried to permeate our instruction with the eternal truths of God’s Word. We have shown our children that we are pilgrims, looking for a better country, but we have also tried to show them that we must be faithful citizens of our country while we live and show our influence as Christians in every sphere of life. We have sown the seeds but God has to give the increase. Let us work faithfully unto the end in the fear of our Lord, obeying his command to instruct the covenant youth according to his will. Of course, we fail miserably oft times, but at least we try. May the Lord bless the cause of Christian Education. Gerhardus Bos Tt PINE STREET CHRISTIAN SCHOOL The enrollment of the Pine Street School was somewhat better than last year. There was an increase of eight pupils. We hope and pray that our enrollment may continue to increase and that all Christian parents may realize what their covenant obligations are as well as their privileges. If said parents would only read prayerfully the promises which they have made before God and His congregation at the baptismal font there would be no doubt whatsoever, where their children should attend school. We had a very successful year in every respect. Not much sickness, the average attendance being over 95%. Our eighth grade contains 18 pupils which hope to graduate this month. The graduation exercises will be held June 23 in the Summer Street Christian Reformed Church. The main speaker for the seventeen