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

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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

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