Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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to you, Mr. Kruizenga, we Iune graduates say a fond farewell. To us you have proved to be a true friend with an understanding mind and an untiring devotion to the task of guiding and di- recting the educational welfare of all students in our school. We realize that your job is a hard one. Often a principal must make decisions which lie probably would be happy if he could avoid, yet he must make them. We feel that you, Mr. Kruizenga, have always been interested in build- ing honorable men and women. We believe that in the years to come, our community will reflect the influence you have had upon us all. lt may be interesting for some of the younger students to know a little more about you than they do. Born in Spring Lake, Michigan, Mr. Kruizenga received his elementary education in the schools of Ottawa County. He was graduated by Grand Haven High School, received his bach- elor of art's degree from Hope College and his masters degree from the University of Michigan. He taught three years in the 'lhill country of PRINCIPAL H. A. KRUIZENGA lackson County, Kentucky, before coming here about 20 years ago. Since arriving here he has been athletic ticket manager, coach of the tennis team, and coach of the second team in basket- ball. He was recognized as an excellent teacher cf Latin. ln l953, when ill health caused the retirement of our beloved former principal, Mr. C. F. Bolt, Mr. Kruizenga was appointed to the position. Al- though he is one of the younger principals in the state, Mr. Kruizenga already has established a reputation with students, faculty, and towns- people as a man of highest moral and ethical principles, as well as a man of energy and effi- ciency on the job. Like Mr. Bolt, he gets things done , and yet he is determined and uncompro- mising when it comes to a question of what is right and what is wrong. To you, Mr. Kruizenga, we also extend a word of thanks along with the good-byes . We ap- preciate all you have done. We hope we can meet you again in the years ahead. We hope you will be proud of us, as we are of you.

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We of the Class of 1955 of Muskegon Heights High School salute you, Superintendent W. R. Booker! As we stand ready to go out from these halls to take our places in the world, we pause a moment to reflect upon a few things which often escaped our notice as we went along our busy way from class to class, year after year. Now that we are nearly finished with our twelve years of schooling, we are impressed, as we look back, with the fact that our education was a much bigger enterprise than we thought, We are able to see that much more clearly now than when we were in the midst of it. We realize now, if we did not always realize it before, that behind those twelve years were hours of planning, worry, and work on the part of many people. We know that someone in a position of leadership was responsible for the operation of all the details. To you, Mr. Booker, should go much of the credit for our many ad- vantages, for our various opportunities. You have been our Superintendent of Schools here since W. R. BOOKER UPERI TENDE T 1928, a fine record in itself. During those years Muskegon Heights schools have improved and grown, not only physically but in an educational way. If we were to take the time, we might point out to incoming sophomores, and to others, the many ways in which Muskegon Heights schools have proved themselves superior. Heights grad- uates hold positions of responsibility and lead- ership everywhere we go. All of the various de- partments of activity at Heights High have proved themselves outstanding for many years. Above all, Heights High is known as a friendly school, a high school where democracy really works, a school where students and faculty and admin- istrators are friends. To the Gentleman From lndiana , who re- ceived his master's degree from the University of Indiana, taught at Kalamazoo College, was Superintendent of Schools in Greenville before coming here, we say, Thanks again. We shall always be proud of attending Muskegon Heights Schools while you were Superintendent.

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