Holland Christian High School - Footprints Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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lr-, ARNOLD VAN F YIUITOIU AN FAASEN A merry heart doeth good like medicinef' Girls' Glee Club 1. Class Secretary and Treasurer lClass AJ 1. Athletic Sisters 4. Girls' Basketball 2. LAURANCE VELTKAMP High, aims form high. characterg great objects form. ll great mind. Mixed Chorus 2, 3, 4, QPresident 4-fl. Boys' Glee Club 4, lPresidentl. Oratory 3. Student Council 3, 4, lVice-President 3 Class President 2, tClass AJ, 3. 4. Editor-in-Chief of Footprints 4. Athletic Association 3, lPresidentl. ADA VER SCHURE MQ? Friendly toward all, malice toward none. J. xx Mixed Chorus 2, 3, 4, QVice-President 41. Girls' Glee Club 3, 4, tPresident 41. Athletic Editor of Footprints 4. Athletic Association 3. Girls' Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4, lCaplain 35. Jos PH WA KE M m tics Club 4. batiii, Club 3, 4, lPresident 3, 43. ebat am 4. Class Se retary 3. Class Vi .e-President 4. Studen Council 3, 4. 0 no such. word as T DONALD WESTING U N111 blows the wind that profits nobon'y. Mathematics Club 4. Orchestra 3. Pug: Tm' n fy-I href' .KR m fi., I I X! I 7,1 X1 jf 1 ZZ ,uuum n W4 I f .Q-1'! if X f ff f f r' X y A , . X 'Q , ' 1 ' ' C ' 'I r ,. 7 M Q ':'k K H V A V: .IVV 1 P 55:32- J l . ' 'I' - ' .i. , 57' ' - if-75 - A

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1 S , rw , . A , , ,I --5 ' Af' rt . . 4 47 fc' asv 4 , ' f l l ' - f I .f-' II, A, 1' 'li viii! I .M J' s a lr L X as- ss-1 e '- i' -fff' f -..r ..:.-:L - -If-a mar ' sbs- N' 1, ... Q ln 'a ' H Q '-' -- Class Prophecy WARNET-I-A AL01.-5 l Leipzig University, Lincoln Apartments, Leipzig, Germany. Q . ' . 'i . ' 1 W ... . 11 422: s y. .W . A52 - .,.... F New York City. MADAME ALoFs: 3 ' ' I was very much pleased to receive your letter requesting me to tell you how your classmates are faring in life. I am glad that I can fulfill your request and I'will do so immediately. However, allow me first to congratulate you on your recent success. ,f I was most profoundly astonished when I read that you had achieved your ambition in the field of music, and that now you are a Prima Donna with the Metropolitan Opera Company. Undoubtedly your success was due to the tutorship that you received . X from Mr. Baas in his Voice Culture class at Holland Christian High years ago. But I now I must tell you about the others. I have received letters from nearly all of them y gf and through the epistles of the others I have found out what each is doing and how . I L, they have succeeded. Gerald Appledorn is now a concert violinist with the Philadelphia Symphony f -:--v1lII'fs1 Orchestra. He studied for three years in Italy under the great masters. Russel F red- 1, ricks has also continued with music. He studied for live years in Paris and then went fl l to Germany and took Berlin by storm. He is at present living in Leipzig, right l' ' near me. ' I Fred Assink is, of course, teaching mathematics in Overeisel. He lives there with , ,- his wife and three children. And Peter Beckman, because of his fondness for baking, ' if .- is now working in a large rusk factory in Chicago. He is foreman there now. up if . , f '!-. And whom do you think I met? Harry Boer. He was visiting the university where 4- in A I am teaching. He studied for twelve years and now is a scientist of high repute. He i I J- ' - has returned to America and they say that almost every day one can see 'him 'in the country with a net trying to catch bugs. At present he is writing a book entitled: gg' Bugs and Men. 'PZ 5- Elfie Arends also realized her ambition. She is teaching in South Holland and is ' -.gil also the principal, while Phyllis Klomparens has moved to the farm and teaches the Kindergarten at the same school. ' Of course, you remember Ray Bontekoe. He, too, has stuck to music. After study- ing at a few Conservatories, he is now a jazz artist over the radio. He is usually assisted by William Ditmar, who croons love songs over the air. They call him the VVhispering Baritone. He is quite a contrast to you. While you sing the classical numbers, he croons those moonlight mush songs. Pagr Twnxry-inc