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

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BERTI-IA WORST Life demands action. Girls' Com'l '36, '37, B.A.C., Sec'y '35, Vice-Pres. '36, Girls' Glee Club '36, A Cappella Choir '37, O.l.C. '37. LEONA VERWYS A face with gladness overspread! Soft smiles, by human kindness bred! -Wordsworth Girls' Glee Club '35, Girls' Com'l Club '35, '36, Girls' Chr. Ethics '35, '36, Girls' Ping-Pong '36, '37, O.I.C. '37. HENRY BAIEMA Where iudgment has wit to ex- press it. --Penn S.P,C. '36, Emblem Staff. SENIOR WITHOUT PICTURE PETER VANDEN ENGEL And even his failings leaned to virtue's side. -Goldsmith A Capgella Choir '35, '36, Boys' Glee lub '36. 21 GRETTA WYCHERS She is constant as the star that never vary. -Proctor Girls' Com'1 Club '36, '37, O.l.C. '37, Memoir Staff, Ass't Lit. Editor '37. U E impossible is not in tionary Napoleon ' - Glee Cgubl'35, 37- Tennis NELLIE WESTVEER Thy modesty's a candle to thy virtue. -Fielding. ,fgliiarmcxhn Club '36, '37, O.I.C. -A 1 MARGARET VAN HEUSDEN Nothing endures but personal qualities. -Whitman' Girls' Com'1 '35, '36, Girls' Chr. Ethics '35, '36, Girls' Glee Club Girls' Ping-Pong '37, O.I.C.

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BERNARD SCHAAFSMA He ceased, but leit so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear. -Homer Olympian '34, Sergeant-at-Arms '35, Vice-Sec'y-Treas. '36, Boys Ping-Pong '34, '35, Pres. '36, Stamp Club, Sec'y '34, Goll '34, '35, Basketball, 2nd Team '34, lst Team '35, '36, Class Vice- Pres. '35, Tennis, '37. ' IANET SMITS And when a lady's in the case You know all other things give place. ' '-Gay Girls' Com'l '35, '36, Girls' Chr. Ethics '35, '36, O.I.C. '37. 69 V 41. TOM THOMASMA His limbs were cast in manly mould For hardy sports or contest bold. -Scott ' 3 Basketball, 2nd Team '35, lst Team '36, '37, Ca t. '37, Olym- ian '36, Treas. '37, Boys' Ping- Pong '36, '37. MARIE TEITSMA lt's nice to be natural, When you are naturally n Girls' Com'l '35, Trea. BAC '36- OIC '3- irl u Ping-Pong 37. A ' I IOHN VANDER PLOEG Who deserves well, needs not another's praise. HELEN VAN EERDEN ,',TSoitly speak and sweetly smile. -Addison Chr. Ethics '35, Girls' Com'l .'35, M.C.C, '36, '37, Charmahn, Sec'y '36, '37, S.O.S. '37. IAMES VAN BEEK , Coolness and absence oi heat ' and haste indicate fine quali- ties. -Emerson jlgennis '35, '36, Orchestra '35, KATHRYN POPPEN Happy and ilippant, with a touch of daring. S.O.S., Treas. and Gen. Adj. '37, B.A.C. '37, Girls' Glee Club, Librarian '37, A Cappella Choir '37, Charmahn Club '37. HERMAN VAN WESEP Give every man thine ear, but few thine voice. -Shakespeare Basketball, 2nd Team '35, '36, lst Team '37. ANNE TIMMER She rushed like a star before them The moon on her glorying shone. -Noyer Cglgiarmahn, Pres. '36, '37, S.O.S. MIRIAM STEVENS Possessed an air and grace by no means common! -Byron M,C.C. '36, '37. RUTH VAN DOORNE Who is it can read a woman? -Shakespeare Girls' Chr. Ethics '35, '36, Girls' Com'l '35, Girls' Glee Club '35, A Cappella Choir '36, '37, O.l.C. '36, Sec'y '37, BERNARD VELZEN There is no wisdom like frank- ness. -Disraeli Chess Club, Sec'y '35, '36, Bas- ketball, Znd Team '35, '36, Stamp Club '35, S,P.C. '35, '37, Debate Squad '35, '36, Inter- national Relations '36, Olym- pian '36, Pres. '37, Boys' Ping- Pong '36, '37, Athletic Student Manager '37. 4 GERTRUDE VANDER LUGT Blithe and winsome, with wide eyes that mirror heaven's blue. --Star Girls' Com'l, Sec'y '35, '36, Girls' Chr. Ethics '35, O.I.C. '37, A Cappella Choir '37, Chess Club '37, Girls' Ping-Pong '37.

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PETER HOOLSEMA He is a leader of men, and a wise leader. Debate Squad '36, '37, Pre- Pierian, Seed? '36, '37, S,P.C. Vice-Pres. '3, Emblem Staff, Dept. Editor '37, Memoir Staff, Editor-in-Chief '37. DONALD RITZEMA Thy spirit, independence, let me share. ' '-Smolett Memoir Staff, Bus. Manager. A 7 77fd CHARLES DEKKER He is a gentleman, because his nature Is kind and atiable to every creature. -Barniield Tennis '36, '37, Pre-Pierian '36, '37, Emblem Staff '36, '37, Ass't Editor, S.O.S., Pres. '37, S.P.C. '37, Stamp Club, Treas. '37i Memoir Staff, Humor Ed. '37. ELEANOR HOOGSTEEN And her dark eyes-how elo- iuentl sk what they would, 'twas granted. -Rogers M.C.C. '34, Vice-Pres. '35, '36, Ping-Pong, Pres., Treas. '34, '35, Pres. '36, S.P.C. '34, Sec'y '36, Ir. Red Cross '35, Vice-Pres. oi Kent Co. I.R.C. Chap. '36, Glee Club '34, A Ca pella Choir '36- Class Sec'y '35 Memoir Statt, Photo Editor '37. MEMOIR STAFF O GLADYS MULDER And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens lite. M.C.C. '36, '37, Girls' Ping- Pong, Sec'y-Treas. '37, Pre- Pierian '37, Girls' Glee Club Memoir Stafi, Lit. Editor CHARLES BULT W0fil'1. courage, honor, these in- deed Your sustenance and birthright are. -Stedman Basketball, Znd Team '35, lst Team '35, '36, Capt. '37, Olym- pian '35, Vice-Sec'y-Treas. '36, '37, Class Pres. '35, Tennis Team '35, '36, '37, Boys' Ping-Pong '36, '37, Emblem Staff, Humor Ed. '36, Bus. Manager '37, For- ensic Manager '37, Memoir 29:1 Bus. Manager '37, S.P.C. JOHN VANDER TUIN He that spareth his words hath knowledge. -Bible Chess '35, '36, Stamp Club '35, Art. Ed. of Memoir '37. VVS MR. I. DE HARN, Sponsor The Staff sincerely thanks all who assisted it in preparing the MEMOIR for publication. E221