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

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NELLIE VAN I-IERP 'One, who, calm and true, Life's highest purpose understood. Ensemble '34, '35: Girls' Glee Club '34, '35, '36, Chorus '34, '35, '36, S.P.C. '35, '36, Secy. '36, S.O.S. '35, '36, Secy. '36, I.R.C. Pres. '36, Class Secy. '36, Edi- tor-in-Chief of Memoir. JUNETTE IDSINGA 'I know thy worth Will bloom to profit anywhere. Band '34, Girls' Com'l Club '34, '35, '36, Treas. '35, Vice- Pres. '36, Girls' Chr. Ethics, '34, '35, '36, Secy. '36, Girls' Glee Club '35, '36, Girls' Ping-Pong '35, '36, Secy. '36, B.A.C. '35, '36, Secy. '36, Class Secy. '35C Chorus '36, S.P.C. '36, Vice- Pres. Memoir Staff, Photo Edi- tor. HARRY LOUIS PIERSMA 'I know that this was life-the track Whereon with equal feet we fared. L.L.C. '34, '35, Ping-Pong '34, '35, '36, Mgr. '36, Forensic '34: International Relations Club '35, '36, Gen. Adj.-Treas. '36, Olympi- an '35, '36, Memoir Staff, Humor Ed. HENRY VAN BAALEN 'He is truly great that is little in himself and that maketh no account of any height of honor. Ping-Pong '34, '35, '36,0lympian '35, '36, Treas. '36, S.O.S. '34, '35, '36, Pres. '35, Gen. Adj. '36, Glee Club '35, '36, A Capella Choir '35, '36, Forensics, Bus, Mgr. '35, Stamp Club, Secy. '35: Inter-High Red Cross Council '35, '36, Pres. '36, Emblem Staff '35, '36, Asst. Adv. Mgr. '35, Adv. Mgr. '36, Memoir Staff, Bus. Mgr. Memoir Staff CAROL DE KRUYTER Then on! then on! where duty leads, ' My course be onward still. Girls' Chr. Ethics '34, '35, Girls' Glee Club '34, '35, Forensic Club '34, Chorus '35, K.K,K. '35, '36, Vice-Pres. '36, L.L.C. '35, Em- blem Statf, Lit. Asso. '35, Lit. Ed. and Close-Ups Ed. '36S 0ra'ory '35, S.O.S. '36, Pres. '36, Pre- Pierian '36, Pres. '36, Memoir Stai'I',' Literary Ed.: Class Vice- Pres. '36. LAWRENCE HENDRICKSON An athlete, strong to break or bind, The sort of man you'd like to be. Basketball '34, '35, '36, Capt. '362 Olympian '34, '35, '36, Vice-Secy.- Treas. '35, Vice-Pres. '36, Ping- Pong '34, '35, '36, Mgr. '34, Secy. '35, Glee Club '34, '35, '363 Chorus '34, '35, '36, Tennis '34, '35, '36, S.P.C. '34, Class Treas. '34, Emblem Staff '35, '36, Bus. Mgr. '35, '36, Memoir Staff, Bus. Mgr. THERESA VISSER Her pencil drew whate'er her soul designed. Girls' Glee Club '35, B.A.C. '35, '36. Vice-Secy.-Treas. '35, Treas. '36, Chorus '35, '36, Girls' Com'l Club '35, '36, Memoir Staff, Art Ed. MR. J. DE HAAN, Sponsor The Staff sincerely and gratefully acknowledges the helpful guidance and cooperation of the faculty members who have assisted us in editing this Memoir i201

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HELEN VAN EERDEN Untwisting all the chains that tie the hidden soul of harmony. Girls' Chr. Ethics '34, '35, Ping- Pong' '34, '35, '36, '35, '36, General Adj. '36, Chess '35, Shufileboard '35, S.O.S. '36, Treas. '36, Girls' Glee Club '36: Music, class song. LOUISE IBERSHOF Sensitive, swift to resent, but as swift in atoning for error. Girls' Chr. Ethics '34, '35, Girls' Glee Club '35, K.K.K. '35, '36, Vice-Secy.-Treas. '35, S.O.S. '36. DOROTHY SCHOLTEN She has smiles in her e'es Which are deep as the seas. Girls' Glee Club '34, '35, Girls' Chr. Ethics '35, Ping-Pong '35, '36, Treas. '36, K.K.K. '35, '36, Secy. '36, S.O.S. '36. BETTY ESTHER BRUGGEMA Age cannot wither her or customs touch A Her infinite variety. S.O.S. '36, Girls' Glee Club '36. SENA MAE SCHULTZ Your words have virtue such as draws a faithful answer. Girls' Chr. Ethics '36,Com'l Club '36, Shuifleboard '36. MARIAN LAUTENBACH Let each day pass, well ordered in its usefulness. Girls' Com'l Club '34, Girls' Chr. Ethics '35, '36, Vice-Pres. '36, K.K.K. '35, '36. CLARE KUIPER The man in jest is key to the man in earnest. 519 GERTRUDE VELTMAN True as the needle to the pole Or as the dial to the sun. Girls' Chr. Ethics '34, '35, Girls' Glee Club '35, A Capella Choir '36, K.K.K. '35, '36. JEAN WAALKES I-Ier voice is soft and low - a wonderful thing in woman. M.C.C. '36. ANTOINETTE DE JONGE The pith o' sense and the pride's worth. Girls' Glee Club '36, K.K.K. '36. HILDA ROETERS My soul shall sing through all its days. Girls' Chr, Ethics '34, Girls' Glee Club '36. ALBERDEEN KOSTER Who never takes one step aside, nor halts, though hope be dim. Girls' Chr. Ethics '34, Girls' Com'l Club '35, WILMA BURGGRAAF True worth is in being, not seem- ing. Girls' Com'l Club, '35, '36, Girls' Chr. Ethics Club '35, '36. SENIOR WITHOUT PICTURE JOI-IN SWART A scorn for Hattery and a zeal for truth.

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Commencement Address Tonight we, the Class of 1936, are assembled for the last time as an organ- ized body. Tonight We receive the reward that is ours after three, and for some of us three and a half, years of diligent plodding along that stony yet pleasant road that is called High School Life. ' High school is considered to be the period in which our lives are molded and shaped according to the peculiar standards of the institution that we at- tend. How fortunate, then we are, that the institution from which we are about to be graduated is a Christian one and that we have therefore been molded according to Christian standards and principles. And let us sincerely hope that our newly-molded figure bears indelibly the impression of the Master. A Greek legend tells of a certain hero possessing two heads, one looking forward, the other backward. We high-school graduates can well be likened to this Grecian hero. As we stand on the threshold we at one time look for- ward and backward. We look back on our high-school career and while thus reminiscing make a two-fold resolution. First, we resolve to continue in past successes and to make our Christian education bear fruits. Secondly, we resolve to eradicate all bad habits and attempt to turn past failures into successes. We, as high-school graduates, also look forward. We have reached a turning point in our career. For some, graduation will mean the end of further systematic education. These will go out into the mad, whirling business world seeking positions hardly to be found. For others, graduation will mean a pro- motion from high-school training to a college education. So, tonight our paths divide. As we rapidly near the end of the road it is but natural that we look back with appreciative hearts for all those who have done so much for us during our stay at Christian High. First of all, we wish to express our deep apprecia- tion to those who have sacrificed so much to make our Christian education possible-our parents. Especially during the seven lean years has it been hard for them to provide so that their children could be educated the way they desired to have them trained. We would also express our hearty thanks to the faculty, who have constantly been not only our able instructors but also our friends and helpers. Undoubtedly we have been unappreciative of all that the teachers have done for us in molding our lives and steering us over the difficulties in our high-school career. But there will be a time when we will value their inestimable advice and friendship. Especially do we ap- preciate the friendly admonitions and leadership of Mr. Post, our genial prin- cipal, and Mr. Fridsma, our class sponsor, who have cooperated in every way for our good. We also wish to extend our thanks to the School Board for mak- ing possible a full school year even in the depths of the depression, and to the Ladies' Circle for its ever-willingness to work for the benefit of the school. Above all, however, our thanks are raised to God on high for giving us Chris- tian parents who will send us to a Christian school to be trained by staunch Christian teachers. . Now the curtain falls on our high-school days and it is with heavy hearts that we take leave of the many friends we have known among faculty and student body. But ahead of us lies a new road and each will travel his own course on that highway of life. Though we leave Christian High tonight as an organized class our hearts are ever with the school that molded our figure according to the standards of the greatest Teacher of all. DONALD BOUMA r 21 1