Holland High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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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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junior Notes The junior girls are basket shots, They throw where'er they look And so of course, 'twas easily done The f'Bunting they betook. Now foe and Teddy, 'forward stars Played steady all the time. And now you'll please excuse me I've got to make this rhyme. Mary and Hazel, played centers, Margaret and Hoffy at guards, Helen played too-and so did a few Wfho all have our sincere regards. To let those girls, full understand In our blinded eyes, how high They really were-we gave them eats Ice cream and apple pie. Cf course we gave the Seniors A rip-tale-roaring feed And would have given many more If they hadn't shown their greed. Our junior year is near a close, A happy time we'x'e had And when we leave it far behind Our hearts will soon be sad. 33