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Student Government Election fif'5 3 5 5 5 5'iAY Twenty-first the oflicers of the student government for the year 4. rg 1915-16 were chosen. After a week of strenuous campaigning ff. ji Q the excitement of which was increased by the fact that there i ,ff were four candidates in the field for the office of mayor, the bal- j:'9 5 3 f 1 i'i lots were cast for the respective candidates. This year a Prose- jzij 4' cuting Attorney was elected for the first time. Besides the 'T' 'X' 2 if .fe ? +9 r ,-, - A ,z,,M,,M0MM:, each of the six wards were selected. Mayor and Attorney, a Clerk, Treasurer and two Aldermen from Before the polls were opened each candidate for Mayor de- livered a campaign speech. All the speeches embodied the same general idea: ,W7hy 1 have all the qualifications that a Mayor should possess, and what I am going to do towards making Holland High School a better school if 1 am elected? Wfith these arguments fresh in their minds the voters cast their ballots. Citizenship and t.he right to vote was denied to many because of poor scholarship. In all there were forty-live students who were ineligible from this cause. These had their vote challenged when they attempted to vote. Scarcely any detail of a municipal election was overlooked. After the polls had closed the whole school waited in breathless antici- pation for the results. Wfhen the returns came in it was found that, with the exception of the Mayor, there was a close run in every case. Sylvester Paulus was elected Mayor for the coming year by an overwhelming majority. The other candidates were practically snowed under. Gut of two hundred seventy votes cast Paulus received one hundred and eighty. The other successful office-seekers were: Clerk, Helen Bell, Treasurer, Wfilliam Kimptong Prose- cuting Attorney, Benjamin Rutgers, Alderman: First Wfard, Jud Huntley and John Vander Wfoudeg Second Wfard, Helene Dyke and Dyke Van Putteng Third Wfarcl, Cornelius- Scholten and Mary Geeghg Fourth TYard, Norman Simpson and Alice McAllister, Fifth VVard, Elsie Gowdy and Arthur Smith, Sixth TfVard, VVilbur Oudermeulen and Peter Van Domelen. The new Mayor has had a splendid record during the three years that he has been in High School. The past year besides carrying six subjects and doing excellent work in them, he has been Business Manager and Associate Editor of the Boomerang. During the three years that he has been in High School he has been active in all forms of athletics and in all the different branches of High School activities. Under his administration the year to come promises to be the best in the history of Holland High School. 31
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Senior Play 'i-he great peace Play H111 the Vanguard, by Katrina Trask was presented bv the Seniors on May 23th. The cast was as follows: First Giii -----,.,------.,4,-,,, ,,,4. H elen Klomparens Second Girl ...,.. -,,------- E V21 Kim11t011 Tiiiiii Girl iiwiiiiiiiiqi ,,,,,, E Ida Van Putten Minnie .........,......... A Younger Girl .....,.... Rector's Daughter ....... Elsa ,......... ..................,. 'Tack ,,,,.,...........,.., Philip Gordon .,..... Mr. Greart ......... Rector ........,., First Soldier ,.....,. Second Soldier ...... Third Soldier ........ The Girl ........,...... The Enemy ....... The General ......, Mrs. Gordon ,...... Mr. Gordon ,..... Assistants- .... Esther Mulder ,.......Agnes Kramer ,....Ruth McClellan ..........Olive Bertsch ,,,,.,,.,,..,...JOl'lll Post .......Gordon Gltmans ......George DeVVitt justin Kronemeyer ...........Dick Dieters ....VValter Knowles VVilson Diekema ........Aleda Cnossen ..Elmer Kruidenier ......George Delwitt ......Anna Lundberg ert Van Ark lrene Van Zanten, Frances Dyke and Arnold Hoffmeyer Street Boys- Marinus Hamelink, Maurice Visscher, George Ten Hoor, Dick Rottschafer, Henry Hidding and Ernest Post The play was given with costumes and scenery by special permission granted by the author who wishes to do all she can to teach the value of Peace. The opening scenes revealed the time honored idea that there can be no true hero except the military hero. A scene on the batteheld where a dying soldier saw thru the glamour of war and expressed his change of heart in his last words, convinced the hero, Philip Gordon, of the utter futility of war and the necessity of bringing peace to misguided humanity. The Central thot of the play was expressed by Mr. Greart. Peace is a positive-a great constructive, conclusive, abiding force-an altitude of the soul-the soul of a person or the soul of a nation. The class of l9l5 is the first to present a play and much credit is due them for attempting a work of real force and meaning and in succeeding so well in their endeavor. The acting of all the characters was good but Gordon Qltmans as the hero and Olive Bertsch as the heroine particularly won the plaudits of the audience. To Miss Anthony, who had the entire charge of the play, praise of the highest sort must be given. It was only the result of her painstaking ettorts in drilling the play that made it the success it was. H ere's hoping that the class of '16 will present as successful a play as thc class of 'l5 has done and that they will have as efficient an instructor as Miss Anthony has been. 30
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