Northwestern College - De Klompen Yearbook (Orange City, IA)

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WELL, HERE IT IS JUST ABOUT AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AND ANOTHER ANNUAL TOO. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS T0 BE REMEMBERED THIS YEAR. FIRST WE HAD BETTER MENTION THE SNIARB IBRAINS SPELLED BACKWARDI- DICK ANDERSON AND SQUEAK DYKSTRA HAD BEAUTIFUL ONES AND STAN VANDE AARDEIS WASN'T BAD EITHER. REMEMBER DAVE VAN CITTER AND JIM KEMPEMA ALWAYS FOREVER LOOKING FOR THEIR BOOKS. JAMES AEILTS, HOWARD RODUNZ, MYRNA BELTMAN ALWAYS WITH A READY SMILE. HARRIS VAN OORT AND DAVE DUISTEMEYERS NEVER DID LEARN WHAT THE SIGN THAT WAS SPELLED L-A-D-I-E-S L-O-U-N-G-E MEANT. HAROLD KORVER ALWAYS LAUGHING-LAUGHING-LAUGHING AROUND THE HALLS. RINEY AND DEWIT MATCHING SKILLS AND WITS AT THE PING PONG TABLE. GRACE ROZENBOOMIS RED HAIR RIVALLING JOHN HUMMEIS UNTIL SHE QUIT AT THE SEMESTER. BERNIE HEITBRINK AND DAVE THE UNDISPUTED OWNERS OF BUTCH HAIR-CUTS. I DONIT THINK WE SHALL FORGET FENITA HARMELINKIS AND BETTY TESKEIS PIANO PLAYING. DUANE BUTTENOB JUST HATES TO HAVE MICE RUN ACROSS HIS FACE. HE IS STILL LOOKING FOR A GOOD GRAVY RECIPE TOO. RUDY VAN DRIE KNOWN AS NWHIZH IN GERMAN CLASS. HE TOOK HIS LITTLE FRIEND TO CLASS WITH HIM ONE DAY TOO T0 MEET MRS. STEGEMAN. BY THE BY, A STATEMENT IN LAST YEAR'S ANNUAL STILL SEEMS TO EXPRESS THE SENTIMENT OF THE STUDENTS. HTHERE WERE ALWAYS TWO KINDS OF DAYS HERE AT NJC--DAYS THERE WAS NO GERMAN CLASS AND DAYS THERE WAS GERMAN CLASSH. REMEMBER RUDYIS ORANGE AND BLUE CAR? NEVER HAD ANY GAS, ALWAYS WENT SOMEPLACE ELSE WHEN HE LEFT IT PARKED, AND SOMETIMES CRACKED ITS' BLOCK. PAUL VANDER WOUDE, FRUSTRATED SINGER AND ACTOR, FINALLY EXPRESSED HIS TRUE PERSONALITY BY BUYING A RED AND WHITE POLKA-DOTTED MODEL-T. IT WORKED TOO, DIDNIT HAVE A WINDOW SHIELD-WIPER LIKE DAVEIS HBLUE GOOSEH OR A BURRO-METER LIKE HOWARD BRINKHAUSIS PONTIAC THOUGH. BOB SPAAN CONTINUED TO EXPRESS HIMSELF BY LOOKING AND ACTING LIKE A MONKEY. HE WAS BETTER KNOWN AS NMIGHTY JOE YOUNGH. NO ONE WILL FORGET BOMBO IHIS TECHNICAL NAME WAS ALVIN DYKSTRA, AND HIS FOOTBALL KNEES DURING FOOTBALL SEASON. BEVERLY HEUSINKVELD, MAXINE VANDER WAA AND RACHEL REINDERS WERE so BECOMING THIS YEAR IN THEIR DIAMONDS EVEN IF THEY WERE ONLY PART OWNERS. POOR ANONA RENSINK WAS THE ONLY SOPHOMORE IN THE DORM--wITH ALL THOSE FRESHMEN--SHE NEVER LET IT GET HER DOWN THOUGH. ONE OF HARV VAN ROOYENIS BETTER TRICKS WAS TO BRING THE TEACHER A CUP OF COFFEE TO CLASS SO THAT THEY WOULDNIT HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY TO THE HSTORCHIEH OR TO TOWN. SEEMED T0 HELP, TOO ITHE TEACHER THAT ISI. CORNIE KEUNEN WAS KNOWN FOR HIS UNCONTROLABLE URGES TO TELL A JOKE. IT GOT so BAD THAT HE HAD TO GO OUT OF THE ROOM INTO THE HALL FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN RETURN AS SOON AS IT WAS OUT OF HIS SYSTEM. SIGHI SIGHI I JUST HAPPENED TO THINK OF JIM FONG AND HIS SHIRTS! THEY ARE so--SO--SO EXPRES- SIVE. RINEY AND TED AND EDDIE HAD SOME PRETTY ONES TOO, BUT SOMEHOW THEY DIDN'T'HAVE THAT ADULT AIR OF DISTINCTION. IYETI THELMA INTVELD AND ARNIE MENNING MADE SUCH A CUTE COUPLE AND ALL YEAR TOO. THEY WERE NOTED THE NICEST COUPLE ON THE CAMPUS IN ONE ISSUE OF THE BEACON. DOUGLAS OSTLUND AND NORMAN BASTEMEYER WERE TWO PEOPLE WHO COULD REALLY TALK AND DID TOO. MARTIN DEKKENGA HAD THE BEST LOOKING BICYCLE IN SCHOOL TILL PROF. LYONS HAD TO'G0 AND GET HIS PAINTED A FIRE-ENGINE RED AND PUT A SEAT ON. LAVONNE KADOUS AND MILLY MOSS INSEPRABLE FRIENDS OF INSEPRABLE FRIENDS. HERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL COMBINATION--JOE MUYSKENS, JEAN HARMELINK, AND A LITTLE GRAY FORD. MARGUERITE LEMS, RUTH RIEMERSMA, SALLY BONTHUIS, AND MARY FRANCES DE HAAN AMONG THOSE WHO SLAVED IN CHEMISTRY CLASS. OUR OWN ARLUE DE VRIES ALWAYS FULL OF LAUGHTER AND SO GOOD AT READING POETRY IN SPEECH CLASS, IN CONTESTS TOO. WE ALL MISSED THE VANDER PLATTS GIRLS, MARILYN DYKSTRA AND MARGERY STELLINGA WHEN THEY DIDNIT RETURN THE LAST SEMESTER. OF COURSE, WE WERE MORE THAN REWARDED BY THE RETURN OF HSMILEYU. HE JUST COULDNIT STAY AWAY FROM DEAR OLD NJC. CHIS REAL NAME WAS JIM BRINKHUISI. HE DROVE J0 ANNE VONK TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY, ALL THE WAY FROM CARMEL, BUT THAT WAS ALRIGHT WITH WALLY THOUGH, LOOKED LIKE KEN MIEDEMA, ALMOST NOT QUITE QUICK DO SOMETHING T0 LIFE FINALLY GOT FOR CLEM JUST HAPPENED TO LIVE NEAR CARMEL TOO. IT WAS TRULY AMAZING HOW MUCH MURIAL RAAK RAAK, BUT THEN OF COURSE THEY WERE BROTHER AND SISTER. ONE DAY OUR ACE DETECTIVE, ANDREW GOT A LOOK INTO THE ERIEFCASE THAT JACK SOLSMA CARRIED WITH HIM AT ALL TIMES, EUT HE WAS ENOUGH. LEON MEIER WAS OUR NLITTLE MAN WITH THE BIG VOICEH. OHI THAT VOICE, DIDNIT IT JUST THE GIRLS, THOUGH. DOROTHY TEERINK AND CHAROLLENE VANDER POLA WERE HCHICKENSH. THE DORM THEM AND THEY MOVED OUT. EMMETT WALKER WAS WILLING TO SKETCH A PICTURE OF SOMEONE, BUT SEEMS LIKE HE ALWAYS PUT JUST A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH CHARACTER OR NOT ENOUGH CHARACTER INTO IT. IT DEPENDED IF YOU WERE TALKING TO THE PERSON SKETCHED OR NOT. THELMA AND JEAN WERE OUR CHAMPION PING PONG PLAYERS, BUT THEY HAD PRETTY GOOD COACHES AND PRACTICE. JO ANN VAN MAANEN ALWAYS AND FOREVER STANDING IN THE HALLS LOOKING FOR HER BROTHER. BROW IDELBERT VAN MANNENI WHO DROVE THAT LITTLE CREAM COLORED FORD WITH THE RED TRIMMING. IT HAD CRACKS IN THE DOORS TOO. OUR PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT SENATE, STANLY SPRIK ALWAYS READY WITH A SPEECH ON ANY AND ALL OCCASIONS. HIS INFORMAL ONES IN THE HALLS AND THE BACK ROW OF THE CLASS ROOMS WERE THE BEST, THOUGH. ALBERT MOSS WAS ALWAYS BUSY WITH HIS DUTIES AS PRESIDENT OF THE CSC OR HIS GREEK. HE WORKED AT THE COUNCIL TOO. LILA DEAN DONE, YOU COULD BE SURE WORK AROUND THE SCHOOL STOP AND TALK WITH YOU WAGON ALL THE TIME. BUT THEN MAXINE WANDE WAA STARTED TO DRIVE AND SHE JUST LOVES TO STOP 71 AND LAVONNE KADOUS WERE SPARK PLUGS. ANY TIME SOMETHING HAD To BE DONE OR WAS BEING THEY HAD A HAND IN IT SOMEWHERE. JIM HIBMA AND SQUEAK ALWAYS IN ON ALL THE ELECTRICAL AND JIM FILLED THE CANDY BAR MACHINES, TOO. REMEMBER HOW CORNIE KORVER WOULD ALWAYS . SEEMS THAT SMILEY DIDNIT HAVE JUST EXACTLY THE RIGHT TOUCH FOR RUNNING THE STATION FOR STOP SIGNS .

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CUHSECHHTIUH IUEEH The week of November 14th, through the 18th, was set aside for our Consecration week services. Reverend Chester Meengs, the pastor ofa large Reformed church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was our guest speaker. Each morning during the chapel period which were lengthened to 45 minutes, he spoke on topics concerning the student's christian life. Prayer meetings were held on Monday and Thursday evening which were conducted by Rev. Meengs. Also, he met with the Y cabinets, Christian Service club and with the various classes. He also was available, to anyone, for a private conference. Every student gained some profit by hearing Rev. Meengs and were brought into a closer walk with God. 70

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HARE YOU READYH HRED AND WHITEH, YESSIR THAT WAS EDDIE MATSUI. HALF A PEOPLE HIGH BUT TWO PEOPLE NICE. SHIRLEY RAMAKER--OH HELLO HAROLD. THOSE UNLUCKY SPECIAL STUDENTS MARY LOU MULDER AND AUDREY BRINK HAVING TO MISS CHAPEL EVERY MORNING. CLARINE KOOIKER ONE OF THOSE RARE CREATURES--A BLOND-EYED BLOND. KAND PRETTY TOO1. MARVELLA HUISMAN FINALLY BROKE DOWN AND HAD HER HAIR CUT INTO BANG5. TURNED OUT FOR THE BETTER TOO. MINERVA HULSTEIN SET A RECORD AND AN EXAMPLE. SHE HAD TO WALK TO SCHOOL ABOUT AS FAR AS ANYONE, BUT SHE ALWAYS MADE IT AND ON TIME TOO. IT MADE IT A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO USE THAT EXCUSE. ROGER PETERSON--A BRAIN BUT STILL A NICE PERSON AND ALWAYS WILLING T0 HELP WITH AN IDEA AND MOSTLY GOOD ONES. I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE KNEW THAT BETTY ABERSON AND BETTY MARIE ABERSON WERE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE AND I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE FINALLY FOUND OUT WHICH WAS WHICH. BEN BODEWITZ WAS ALWAYS DUSTING, DUSTING, DUSTING. HE SEEMED TO ENJOY IT. HERMINA BUYERT WAS ONE OF THOSE LUCKY GIRLS WHO GOT TO RIDE TO SCHOOL WITH SMILEY. THE THREE MUSKETEERS- CRAIG CALHOUN, NELSON CLAY, AND SOMEONE ELSE, WHO EVER HAPPENED T0 BE WITH THEM. BARBARA JO FABER--ASSISTANT T0 THE DEAN, INMATE OF THE DORM, GENERAL CONFIDOR, AND A REALLY NICE GIRL IN SPITE OF IT ALL. ARLENE FRANKEN AND HER NEW NICKNAME--FRANKENST--OH, I JUST CAN'T SAY IT. DEFINITION OF BUDDIES--DUANE HEEREN AND WILBUR MOLENDORP. REMEMBER THE THREE AND ONLY THREE SECOND TENORS IN THE CHOIR--PAUL VANDER WOUDE, JIM KEMPEMA AND CLIFF VAN BERKUM. POOR MARTHANN ACCUSED OF HBREETHENESSH INSTEAD OF HBR-ETH-I-NESSH IN SPEECH CLASS. FLORENCE VAN'T HOF SEEMED TO HAVE A PARTIALLITY FOR BICYCLES, SHE SOMETIMES RODE ONE HOME FROM SCHOOL, THAT IS IF SHE COULD GET SOMEONE ELSE TO PUSH THE PEDAKS. ELLA MAE FLIEGER DECLARING, UDUTCH DRILLI I WAS IN IT ONE YEAR. LOST TEN POUNDS AND NEVER DID GET THEM BACK.n DUTCH DRILL WAS VERY POPULAR, FOR AWHILE ANYWAY. LUCILLE WESSELINK REALLY SHOULD GET OVER THE HABIT OF STICKING PAPER DOWN THE NECK OF THE PERSON IN FRONT OF HER. OF COURSE THAT IS ONE WAY OF GETTING THE TEACHER TO CHANGE YOUR SEAT AND T0 ONE BY THE WINDOW Too. HAND ME THAT PAPER. I DON'T THINK ANYONE WILL EVER FORGET WILMA NHONEYN WESTERGARDIS BEAUTIFUL RED AND PINK AND BLUE AND PURPLE AND GREEN AND YELLOW EYE. DON BLOM ALWAYS WORE SUCH PRETTY TIES, WELL HE WORE TIES ANYWAY. MARLENE BRINK WAS THE TEACHER WHO DREW THE TEACHER WHO CAUSED A STUDENT TEACHER THE MOST WORK. SHE COULD HANDLE IT THOUGH. JANE ANN DE JONG WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT JUST LOVED TO CARRY THINGS T0 SCHOOL, THINGS THAT SHE FOUND ALONG THE SIDEWALK. THEN SHE WOULD LEAVE THEM TO CLUTTER UP THE LOUNGE. BERT DEN HERDER REALLY TOOK HIS SCHOOL WORK SERIOUSLY. HE STUDIED. IT REALLY WASNICE OFGEORGE DYKSTRA TO BUY A NEW CAR. IT WAS GETTING SO THAT EVERYONE WOULD RUN TO THE WINDOW EVERY TIME HE CAME TO SCHOOL JUST TO SEE IF THE OLD BLACK ONE WOULD GET AROUND THE HORSE-SHOE ONCE MORE. HE AND WILL WOLFSWINKEL COULDNIT PLAY HBATTLESHIPN ANY MORE EITHER. WILL HAD MORE IMPORTANT THINGS T0 ATTEND TO ANYWAY. HERE WE GO AGAIN. I WAS SUPPOSED TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT JOYCE HICKMAN, BUT I DON'T KNOW HER VERY WELL SO I ASKED SOME OF THE PEOPLE PASSING BY AND THEY TOLD ME T0 ASK ROGER BUT I COULDN7T FIND HIM AND I COULDN'T FIND JOYCE EITHER SO I GUESS I CAN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HER EXCEPT THAT SHE IS TALL, AND I HAD DINNER WITH HER WHEN WE WENT TO THE TOURNAMENT AT WEBSTER CITY- HENRY CHRISTIANS HAD AN ACCORDIAN HE PLAYED IN CHAPEL IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. WHY DIDN'T WE HEAR MORE OF IT? LOIS DE BEER WAS OUR GIRL WHEN SHE WON A SCHOLARSHIP FOR HER ESSAY ON HWHY I WANT T0 BE A TEACHERU. MARY ANN DE BLAW GOT HER HAIR CUT AND DON EKDOM BLOSSOMED OUT IN NEW GLASSES AND THEY REALLY DID MAKE A NICE COUPLE BUT NOT BECAUSE OF THE GLASSES AND HAIRDO. HENRIETTA JACOBS IS ALWAYS ABLE TO EXPLAIN HERSELF SO WELL IN CLASS OR OUT--SHE WAS EDDIE-GYING. CAROLYN VERMEER WILL NEVER FORGET THAT FEELING SHE GOT WHEN SHE SAW HER BROTHERIS CAR IN THE DITCH ON THE WAY BACK FROM THE TOURNAMENT. WE'LL NEVER FORGET THE LOOK ON HER FACE EITHER. AND THEN THERE WAS CLEO EGGLESTON, EDITOR OF THE BEACON, WHO WAS NEVER ABLE TO GET HER REPORTERS TO GET THEIR NEWS IN ON TIME. IT NEARLY GAVE HER GRAY HAIR BY THE TIME THE SCHOOL YEAR ENDED. GERALD EKDOM THOUGHT THAT BROKEN ARMS WERE NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL. THEY WERE A LITTLE INCONVENIENT, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH MURDER AND HE DID TOO, AND NOT JUST WHEN HE HAD A BROKEN ARM EITHER. JUDITH KORSELMAN KNEW EVERY BEND AND CURVE IN THE ROAD FROM HERE TO SANBORN. AND REMEMBER ESTHER MEYER AND HER SOUTHERN ACCENT. HEDY JACOBS HAD ONE TOO AT TIMES. THOSE BENCHES IN THE BOY'S LOUNGE ALWAYS LOOKED SO COMFORTABLE ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SAW ONE OF THE BOYS TRYING TO SLEEP ON THEM. I WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY A BUNCH OF PROMISING STUDENTS FIXED UP A HFIXEDH PING PONG BALL WITH MERCURY IN IT AND JIM FONG COULDN'T SEEM TO HIT IT STRAIGHT. SOMEHOW THE MICE ALWAYS DID SEEM To GET INTO THE GIRLS' LOUNGE. POOR JASPER PAID WITH HIS LIFE FOR IT TOO. PAUL AND SQUEAK AND ROGER AND CO. DEVEL- OPED A FAD FDR CHESS. EVERYONE ALWAYS STOPPED AND LOOKED IN WHENEVER THE DOOR TO THE BEACON ROOM WAS OPEN AND TRIED TO READ AS MUCH NEWS AS THEY COULD POSSIBLE SEE. EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE SOMEONE WOULD PIN UP A VERY FITTING CARTOON SOMEWHERE IN THE SCHOOL. THOSE SIMPLE HOTFOOTS IN THE LOUNGE WERE BAD ENOUGH, BUT WHEN THEY STARTED TO BECOME CHAIN REACTIONS IT REALLY GOT-BAD. AND THEN WE HAD AN EPIDEMIC OF WATER PISTOLS. EVERYONE HAD A DIFFERENT STORY T0 TELL AFTER THE BIG SNOW STORM AND WIND ON MARCH 7.ALMOST EVERYONE WAS MARROONED SOMEWHERE. PLAY PRACTICE NEVER SEEMED T0 END. NEITHER DID CHORUS PRACTICE, BUT WASNIT IT FUN? REMEMBER THE BIG BONFIRE AND THE CREMATION ON THE NIGHT BEFORE HOMECOMINGT REMEMBER THE BANQUET AND THE ATHLETIC BANQUET? WE HAD A GOOD TIME AT NORTHWESTERN, DIDNIT WE? '72