Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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The Juniors Amcclc, Anna June De (iraaf, Nellie Baker, Harriet Zavera Baker, Peter Garret Brown, John Cecil Burggraaff, James J. Dalcnbcrg, John Russell Delong, Martina Mag- dalena I)e Witt. George Janies Heneveld, John Heemstra, Clarence Ray- mond Hietbrink, Bernard Dick Hospers, Rudolf Duik- er Kloote, Mamie Meyer, William Herman Mulder, Ksther Rozella Nykamp, Raymond Pennings, Cynthia Poppcn, Catherine Mar- garet Raap, Alice Kdith Reeverts, Clara Thomasma, Margaret Van Hazel, Willard Van Loo, Dora Mae Van Z an ten I rene I )orothy Vyn, Jeanette Florence Wicrsma, Douwc It was an eventful day for Hope College,—that seventeenth day of September, nineteen hundred and fifteen. During that whole autumnal morning one might have seen Freshmen, in number four-score and tour, from farm, village, and city, marching bravely, yet with cowed countenances, up the broad walk in front of M inants chapel and into the Admin- istration room, there to meet the stern and scholarly presence of our Registrar. After receiving our first baptism of knowledge, we proceeded to demonstrate to the upper class- men that there was such a thing as a Freshman Class, and to the Sophomores that the Freshmen were for prohibition—“no drink for us. W e lived up to our slogan, and not once did we humiliate ourselves to tread the muddy bed of Black River. F.ven the Invincible classes of Eighteen and Twenty, must admit that they have al- most invariably had to succumb to the prowess of the athletes of 1919. It is our firm con- viction that we arrived upon the scene in the nick of time, for no sooner were we here than we were called upon to furnish more than our share of men to uphold the honor of the Orange and Blue. One half of the All-Class football team, two members of the Var- sity basketball team, and practically the entire Reserve team, five baseball men, two-thirds of the tennis team, and the crack long-distance and short-distance runners of the college, were furnished by the Freshmen. Continuing the record in our Sophomore year, we had to our credit two-thirds of the baseball team, one-half of the track team, one-halt of the basketball team, and three-fourths of the reserves, and class championship in every game played on the campus. Our greatest claim to fame, however, was pep. If there were any lost Freshics, if the president of another class was tied up and brot out on the basket-ball Moor during a class game, if there were any smudges started in VanVlcck, if Instructor Tillema's pajamas were missing, or a terrific explosion disturbed the midnight slumber of the town, the whole trouble was immediately laid at the door of this notorious class. But, altho athletics and “spirit were our strongholds, history shows that we also held our own in every other branch of college activities,—forensic, musical, literary, and religious. And now, from a class of eighty-four, we have decreased to a mere handful. Altho some of our classmates were falling from our roll thru mental inaptitude, connubial pit- falls, and pecuniary aspirations, our greatest reduction in numbers was occasioned when, upon our country’s entrance into the war, our men were filled with the Spirit of ’17. The championships which formerly were ours have gone to other classes, but the greater honor is due to the class of 1919, because forty per cent of the stars on Hope’s Service Hag represents Junior men. Handicapped by the loss of some of our best material, we have showed that we have a spirit that never says. Die. By uniting our efforts we have continued to Carry On for Old Hope, and as a last achievement, have produced this Milestone to show that we are not all dead yet. OFFICERS Clarence R. Hekmstka Martina M. De Jong John R. Dai.hnbkrc, . President Vice-President Treasurer 2.S