Literary Editor......................Norman Slagh
News Editor...........................Sherwin Terpstra
Art Editor...............................Willard Nyenbrink
Business Editor......................Arthur Kraai
Circulation Editor..................Herschel Weaver
Humor Editor.........................John Harsevoort
Henry Walters
Sponsor...................................Mr. G. Plasman
The 8th Graders
Our Kindergarten this year was again a large one. It consists of Beverly Bos, Gerald De Roo, Marcia De Roo, Robert De Wys, Gerald Lee Essenburg, Jerry Lee De Vries, Thomas Koop, Bernard Jay Luurtsema, Kenneth Machiela, Gary Lee Raterink, Gary Schamper, Larry Nienhuis, Gladys Ann Ten Broeke, and Dale Ver Beek. Since our room is so crowded, we are letting them go home at noon. This, too, comes as a suggestion from our school commissioner, who believes that 5 year olds should attend school only half days.
Our room has been rather fortunate in having few pupils absent because of sickness. Of course, many have had to stay at home on account of the snow and stormy weather.
Our room was enrolled 100% in the Junior Red Cross. We gave $2.86 for this cause. We also did our share for Infantile Paralysis.
David and Rachel Blauwkamp had their tonsils removed during Christmas vacation. Roger Wayne Steigenga also had his adenoids and tonsils removed about a week later.
Bernard Luurtsma had the Chicken-pox, but no else seemed to have been exposed, so we had no epidemic at school.
Our cook, Mrs. De Groot, was rather unfortunate in spraining her ankle during Christmas vacation. All the school children remembered her with a basket of fruit. While she was unable to come, Mrs. Vonk was here to take her place.
We have purchased some new library books. The children have been quite interested in reading them.
Many of the boys and girls have had birthdays during the school year. We had "treats" from Arnold Essenburg, Gerald Koop, William De Wys, David Blauwkamp, Harvey Dale Meppelink, Dale Slagh, Roger Wayne Steigenga, Mary Ann Vanden Heuvel, Gladys Ann Ten Broeke, Dale Ver Beek, and Glenn Essenburg.
A few weeks ago the Bussis Implement Co. had a Progress Caravan to show some of their new equipment, and also suggestions how to change houses and barns to make them more modern. We took a walk over there in the morning. Some were interested in a milking machine, while others looked at refrigerators and cupboards.
We received a new cupboard. It is so useful for our textbooks, but also for our new library books. This enables children to read books they have read in the beginning of the school year, as well as reading easy and simple library books.
Room 2
We are going to Chicago on April 11, 1947. Twelve children from our room are going. Mrs. Gerald Plasman is going too. We will go at 7:00 A.M.. We will go to Soldier's Field and to the Field Museum and to Shedd's Aquarium. The cost is $4.40. If your son or daughter is going send a lunch along, They will get one meal. We will be back in Holland at 10:kkk00 P.M.
Jerry Mc Safety accompanied by Sgt. Ferneldus of the Detroit Police Safety Dept. will entertain and instruct school children here March 28, at 10:00 A.M. in the school.
We are starting to play soft ball again. It is a lot of fun to play again.
In the beginning of the year Vivian Petroelje had an operation. She was out of school for two weeks. While she was in the hospital her room bought her a basket of fruit.
In February we had a snow storm and we were out of school for three days. Those three days we could play in the snow.
In December we had our pictures taken in school. It took about two months before we got out pictures.
Our room sold Christmas seals. If we sold 100, 50, or 25 we could get a comb, a tooth brush, a ruler, a pencil or a notebook. Our room sold about 1,890 seals. For the room we got two light weight bats.
The day befor Christmas we had our Christmas program. Then we had vacation until the day after New Year's Day.
The fifth grade has been making Easter lilies for their art work. The fourth grade made daffodils and the third grade made bluebirds.
Jonathon Blauwkamp
Alfred Bosch
Room 3 News
I'm sure you have all herd or read about the Red Cross Fund. People are going around to your homes collecting for the Red Cross.
Our room packed four Red Cross boxes for children in far away lands who do not have as many good things as we do. There were all kinds of nice things in them and many useful things.
We had a man at our school last week talking about safety. His name was Sgt. Ferneltus. He is a member of the Detroit Police force. He was accompanied by Jerry Mc Safety. There is also a train ride coming this month. Many of the children are going. There are many of the parents going along. There are fifty of our school going. We're going to see three places; the Field's Museum, Soldier's Field, and Shedd's Aquarium.
Many children are playing ball as the sun starts to shine. They are getting ready early so they can win all the games they play. There have been a lot of children absent the last few weeks because of the flu.
We are having one new dictionary. This is a large unabridged dictionary.
The new maps which we got recently are very nice. The old ones were all worn out. We could hardly find places on them. They are a great help to us in Geography and many other studies.
We have received several new library books. They are very interesting to read in our spare tim
Gayle Huyser
THIS SCHOOL NEWSPAPER WRITTEN IN 1947 WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO SEE WHEN YOU ATTEND THE ALL SCHOOL REUNION ON APRIL 29, 2017 FROM 10 AM TO 1 PM AT THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE.