Grand Rapids Christian High School - Memoir Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Class Honors 0 1932-1933 Officers 1933-1934 Raymond Meyering President Alfred Strikwerda Lois Boer Vice-President lay Baker Ioan Stevens Secretary Helen Mae Hoogsteen Peter Rickers Vice Sec'y-Treas. Ioan Stevens Committees Motto: Annette Streelman, Carolyn Smits, Henry Bosch Text: George Kuipers, Nellie Van Zwoll, Lawrence Hoekman Colors: Rose Groendal, Magdalene Cook, Stella Van Doorne Flower: Vivian Thomasma, Donald Boes, Etta Hoekstra Program: William Huizingh, Ioan Stevens, lean Rodenhouse Outing: Ernest Feenstra, Stella Dykstra, Hudson Holtvluwer Memorial: Andrew Hoekema, Theresa Boersma, Andrew DeVries sl- 'k it al' ir Class Text: Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it. -Proverbs 16:22 Class Motto: Try, Trust, and Triumph. Class Colors: Baby Blue and White. Class Flower: Gardenia 'lr Awards: Bert Vanden Berg, Commercial Scholarship Medal Calvin College Freshman Scholarship All-round Girls' M. C. C. Cup All-round Boys' Alumni Cup on n

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Class History It was in the same year that F. D. Roosevelt was elected President that Christian High School was enriched by the arrival of an imposing array of innocent new students. After we had developed such a degree of intelligence as to be able to distinguish teachers from students and to find our way about funder the condescending guidance of awe-inspiring upperclassmenl -we began to organize. After the September group of freshmen had arrived and inherited all of our greenness, we met under the genial guidance of our sponsor, Mr. Driesens, and elected officers. At Christmas that year, we proved that even freshmen could be used for a good purpose, by participating in the distribution of Christmas baskets for the poor. Our first class president, Ray Meyering, funder whose friendly leadership we prospered welll has since been taken away by death. We remember him with sorrow. After our first summer vacation from high school we came back in Septem- ber, l933, with all kinds of after-vacation health and enthusiasm. With Alfred Strikwerda as skipper, we Iuniors began to sail along right merrily. After our friendships had been renewed, and we had been initiated into the various organizations at school again, we undertook to welcome the Freshies at Gar- field Park with hot dogs, punch, games, and a real ripsnortin' good time. fMr. Post: No hazingl -Alas! lj Then a problem which lasted throughout that year began to annoy us - we had no money! But we resourceful Iuniors managed to scrape through somehow by resorting to innumerable money- raising schemes, such as sponsoring a husky magazine collecting committee, I. O. U.'s, promissory notes, rummage sales, pie sales, programs, dues-collect- ing committees, and what have you. The last of our activities that year was a farewell send-off to the Seniors by means of a Iunior-Senior Party - after which many blushing Iunior boys took certain equally blushing lunior girls home for the first time in their livesl Next September H9345 we woke up and found ourselves Seniors. What a grand and glorious feeling! This last year has been our busiest but most en- joyable year at Christian I-ligh as a class. Our election of Iulia Borgman Cand can she keep orderll as president was the first step in a general feminist move- ment in Christian High-which included girls as Senior class president, as editor of the Emblem, and editor-in-chief of the Memoir A little later we began our varied Senior activities in earnest. What with complicated Memoir supervision, class rings and pins, class flower, motto, text, and memorial com- mitteesha class song, Senior pictures, and much more red-tape - we managed to keep fairly busy. Then we began preparations for a Senior program. This also turned out very successfully. Toward the end of the semester the Iuniors extended their farewell to the Seniors at a very pleasant and entertaining party. In the midst of all this activity, however, we were saddened by tidings of two deaths. First, we received the news that one of our classmates, Ryven Ezinga, had lost his mother. lust a few weeks later Hay Meyering, after a very sudden and severe illness, passed away. We offer our sincere sympathy to their loved ones and trust that God has sanctified these experiences to their hearts and to ours. And now as to our feelings at graduation! Well, we can't conscientiously admit that we are tearful at the prospect of leaving school for awhile, but- sincerely - we certainly enjoyed many wholesome and happy experiences at Christian I-ligh. For the friendly and sympathetic atmosphere, for the loyalty and understanding of the faculty, and for all the practical as well as textbook lessons that we have learned here we are very grateful. Thus we bid adieul A. H. u no

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