Grand Haven Senior High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Grand Haven, MI)

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1, L L USC .lake Fase, bequeath to Leo Mahan my daily nap in Miss Bell's second hour History class. .lohn Hutchison, will my dry humor to the prohibition agents. Kenneth Janssen, unselfishly will my infinite gum supply to A11drew Van Hoef. Persistent of same will help to develop that manly contour of the lower jaw which is so greatly admired by the fair sex. ' i I, Leonard Kammeraad, bequeath to Owen Davis, my unsuccessful attempts to convince Miss Bell that I study. I, Claude Kuiper, bequeath to Jeannette Fisher my Dutch pronunciation of French. I. Gerald Lawton, bequeath my ability to raise the dickens in Mr, Cookls class-only to have someone else receive the blame-to Babe Sherwood. I. C. VV. Phillips, grant my oflice as President of the Senior Class to any Junior who can adequately accomplish the fulfillment of the obligations therein included. l, Charles Reid, bequeath to Myron Elliott, the pleasant absence of girls in my life. l, James Van Zylen, bequeath my privilege of being Hhigh-pointl' man on the boys' basketball team to Richard Boyink. U L Harriet Neitring, bequeath my loquaciousness to Boyd McCarthy. I, Russell Roberts, grant to Janet Lowe my sarcastic tongue, If you use it as effectively as I, your life will be in constant danger. . L L .L Phyllis McDonald, will my position Cas what'?l to anyone applying for it. Alice Swart, donate a wealth of good fortune to the faculty. Herman Robinson, will my saxophone and 6'.Iazzmania zest to Nellie De Bruyn. We. Hannah Van Doorne and Cora Vanden Berg, impart our knowledge in Household Arts to Dorothea Worsfold and Helen Pertner. . , 4- 1 ' F 1 ti i' 1, I . ' f , ' 1, 7 . .. A 7, I I l L other I. them L them Cook. L I, L L L L Dorothy Shinn bestow upon Oscar Ehrmann my Parisienne fiippancy. 1-'anny Witllerell leave my standin with Miss Nisbett to Dorman Post, Esquire. lennie Wagller leave my quiet and retiring ways to Miriam Day. Florence Raak yield Steve to the highest bidder. Esther Vanden Berg, will my amateur walking record to my brother John. I possess several symptoms of brotherly love. Eugenia Scott, will my charming personality and sunny disposition to anyone who can use 0 advantage, regardless of age, sex, color, or shape of ears. Arna Richter, do hereby confer upon Cornelius Dykema my sunny smiles. May you use onstantly c . I, Howard Vanderwal, bequeath my knowledge of electricity and radio mania to Mr. Claire Lucille Schwonteck, will my interest in the Witt Drug Store to Winifred Cornell. Margaret Jones, do hereby bequeath twenty-live pounds avoirdupois to the 1926 full-back. Elizabeth McCracken, will my nonchalant attitude to Eleanor Bosch. Abel Poel, will everything I have to the Junior Class. Enid Rice, leave six bows and an unlimited supply of arrows to any other man-hunting girl. Frank Smith, who have just finished a book, '6How to Make Love, leave an autographed manuscript to Ruth Bradway. L .lames Wllitcomb. condescendingly leave the rights of Spring Lake, the metropolis north of Grand Haven, to Marinus Van der Swaag. I, Mildred Taylor, confer upon Ula Eskew my goodnature-it's a rare quality. I, Marian DeVries, will my pensive ways and maidenly attributes to Kirby Sanders. I, Arnold Braak, will my position as Governor of Spring Lake to some other Spring Lake gentleman. I, Waltel' Nilson, bequeath with reverence my Fits to Bud Burr. I, Kenneth Campbell, bequeath my unusual skill at handing compliments to .lane Vevang. Lastly, I, Helen Donker, will this trying and unappreciated work to any Junior who is foolish enough to accept it next year. May he rest in peace. Sworn to and attested by the Class of Nineteen Twenty-Six. Signed. sealed, and delivered on this fifteenth day of June, A. D. nineteen hundred and nw l 4 l l .- Page Twenty-six twenty-six, in the presence of U. R. NUTTYI M. T. DOME 5 Rotaries of the Republic.

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1 Ni' E IT KNOWN to those whom these presents may concern or interest, that we. the Senior Class of nineteen hundred and twenty-six of the High School of Grand Haven, County of Ottawa, State of Michigan. do hereby make, publish, and announce this to be our last will and testament, hereby making null and void all former wills and testaments sworn to and attested by us. As a group we bequeath: First. to the struggling swarm of Freshmen a bit of the profuse information communicated to and acquired by us in our high school career. Second, to the promising Sophomores some of our worthy and honorable characteristics as is ell as a portion of our supremacy in the school activities. Then, to thc surprisingly ascending Juniors that which we cherish most dearly4the right to elevate themselves to the station of worthy and dignihed Seniors. Our individual possessions we distribute as follows: I, Lewis Addison. do hereby bequeath to that amtbixtious young Junior, who possesses the required exceptional ability, my duties as editor of the Annual. I, Martin Allen, bequeath my knowledge of Physics to Carlisle Rexford. I, Harold Bavry, will my instructions on How to Write Poetry to Edgar Guest. I, Hobart Bell, bequeath my modest blush-not bashfttlness-to i'Butter Ehrmann. I, Bertha Welch, bequeath my mean vamping ability to Marjorie O'Beck. Watch out, Walter! I, Hannah NVorsf0ld, do hereby grant my innumerable virtues'--including my petite giggle-to any of my worthy successors. , I, Bertha Zimmerman, bequeath my virtue of silence to Nei Ver Duin. I, Lois Benjamin, will my annoying inquiries to anyone who is able to think of as many questions as I. I, Harold Bethke. bequeath my dashing and amorous ways to Warrl Nessen. I, Laura Bierman, will my two perfect dimples to Esther Mulder. I. Mildred Billings. will my perfect coiffure to Dick Spiess. - I, Albert Bloomquist, give my oratorical power to Adriana Van Coevering. Adriana, you are young, but with patience and perseverance, I am certain you can develop this bequest. I, Lizzie Bolthouse. bequeath my amiability to Howard Fant. I, Cornelia Ann Bolt, will my incessant power of speech to Alna McClellan. I, Elizabeth Voss, will my velocity on the typewriter to Kenneth Vyn. I, Margaret Borck, bequeath my task of collecting snaps for the Annual to any .Iunior with a camera. I, Icla Bottema, bequeath a little of my height to Marie YValsh. I. Emelien Brinkert, will my position of guard on the girls' basketball team to Evelyn Luhrs- providing you promise to play an honest game, Evelyn. I, Gordon Darbee, will my ability of skipping school successfully to Len Byl. d 'I I, Dorothy Deremo, bequeath to .Iay Van Oordt the privilege of straightening Miss Bell's chairs ai . II, Annette Dirkse, will my virtue of always being prepared to Fern Gylleck. I, Walter Draeger, bequeath to some prominent and daring .Iunior my capability of getting all of the teachers' goats. I, Olive Duffield, will my bewitciing smile and laughing eyes to my dear friend, Wardie Nessen. With this and the former grant you should be a huge success, Ward. I, Cathryn Ernst, bequeath my drag with Miss Vander Wert' to Jacqueline Potter-may she get by as easily in French as I did. Page Twenty-fue

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t ll Y A' X , gAege9 ' N I I ' ' f ' O QJPHEQY it ne w f- J vi f ,L-E . 1' l ly C. Q NI.. Y, IX . 1 si s X ffl! li W i g! X, X gif t' Z ' 3 s f ex X ty -Rixxx XX X ga ffl X F ,,.-...s 1036 Washington Avenue, Grand Haven, Michigan, June 16, 1944. My dear Olive: It surely doesn't seem eighteen years ago this very day that we graduated from our dear old Grand Haven High, does it? Time certainly does fly. In your last letter you confided in me that you had at last married into the English nobility! Just think of changing the name, Olive Dufiield, to Countess Buckingham! It was an absolute surprise to me. But don't get excited ,cause you aren't the only one in the Class of 1926 that is married. You remember Arnold Braak, don't you? Well, he has recently married Ida Bottema, the famous screen star. And what's more, tl1is is either his fourth or fifth venture into the field of matrimonyl That's all I know about the marriage affairs of our classmates, but since you requested me to locate all of the members of the Class of '26, l ani sending you the results of my efforts. I know you don't expect such a complete answer, but I found the work so intensely interesting that I just couldn't leave out a single one of our dear classmates. Wllen walking down Main street the other day I saw Margaret Borck, head nurse at Elizabeth Hatton Memorialtliospital. She told me that Martin Allen, the human fly, is under her care. It seems that he broke his neck while climbing the Smith Emporium in Peoria. Do you know that Gordon Darbee has turned out to he a second Edison? He has just invented a mouse trap in which you catch the invader without having him eat the cheese. Howard Vander- wal and Harold Bethke, local cheese, butter, and egg merchants, have filed a complaint against Mr. Darbee because of the decrease in the demand for their products. They say the case is very complicated. Leonard Kammeraad is the lawyer for the defense, while Russel Roberts. a strug- gling young attorney, is pleading the case for the plaintiff. Mildred Billings, Jennie Wagner, and Cora Vanden Berg have opened up a beauty shop in the seventy-ninth story of the newly constructed Van Zylen skyscraper. They put such a keen marcel in John Hutchison's hair that he now receives a proposal every year instead of merely one every leap year. Marian DeVries and Fanny Witlterell have made quite a name for themselves doing settlement work in Harlem, the 'iblack belt of New York. They have succeeded in persuading the girls not to 1158 Orange I'Ol1g6. And then there's Bertha Welclu who will represent our fair city as Miss Grand Haven at the World's Fair in Paris this coming summer. Bert always was a knockout in her high school days and is still as alluring as ever. Really, you should visit Grand Haven! I'm sure you'd he surprised at the immense growth of the city. Because of the influx of tourists and the growing population, it was deemed necessary by City Manager Charles Phillips that a traffic cop be placed at the corner of 101st and 68th Streets. He has shown exceedingly good judgment 'by appointing James Whitcomb, whose red hair warns the motorist against danger, to fill this position. Charles, evidently, believes in economy. The biggest hit south of 54- 40' is Herman Rohinson's sensational song hit, Melancholy If you are unable to procure a copy in England, I would be more than delighted to send you one. It sure is hot! Page Twenty seven