Grants Pass High School - Toka Yearbook (Grants Pass, OR)

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THE T O K A And He Croaked and Croaked Silly frog a-croakin' In the pond; For a rain he’s hopin’ All along. What ya ’spose he’s sayin’ When he’s singin' All the lime a-prayin’ For a rain? “Why won’t it rain, why won’t it rain?” He’s singin’. But nothin’ to him his silly refrain Is bringin’. Tom Meade Jokes Eugene Lee: All rules have exceptions. Hollie Dole: Oh. no. I know one that hasn't.” F ugene L: What? Hollis D; “The world hasn’t stopped going around.” Eugene L: “Oh. that’s the exception to the rule that all rules have exceptions. Raymond Bennighl: I think I shall have to get a new car. Lowell Footberg: What’s wrong with the one you have? Raymond B: “I can’t pay for it.” Mr. Carpenter (at the beginning of class) “All who are not here, get out. Art Simpson: “And after the party I sked her if I might see her home. Fred Wallace: “What did she say? Art S: “She said she would send me a picture of it.” Mary J. Duer: “So you know as much as the teacher, do you? Where did you get that idea?” Rusty: “She told me herself. She said she couldn't teach me anything.” Ulva Coover: “Did you mail my letter with yours? Bob Palmer: “Uh-huh.” Ulva C: “Did you notice that I’d forgotten to address it?” Bob P: “Uh-huh.” Ulva C: “Well, then, why did you mail it?” Bob P: “I thought it was one of those anonymous letters and you wanted to keep the address a secret.” Lois Conner: You raised your hat to that girl as we passed. You dont even know her.” Frank Nugent: “No. but my brother does, and this is his hat. Harold Keibel: “He called me a liar, and, big as he was, I knocked him sprawling. Hollis Dole: “With your fist? Harold K: “No, with my car. 174]

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THE T O K A 9C' Tressa B: “I dreamed about you last nite.” Louis V: “Shoot, sister. What was it?” Tressa B: “You were leading a jackass and singing “Me and My Shadow. Harvey J: “Is this a first-class restaurant? Bill Fitz: Yes, but if you sit over there in the dark corner, we’ll serve you. Gaylord T: “What is generally raised in a damp climate?” Roberta J: Umbrellas, of course.” Norma C: “Did you enjoy your hike out into the country? Art Simpson: “No, we had to walk most of the way.” Coots F: “Mr. Coke, if all people are made of dust are niggers made of coal dust?” M iss Walker: “ Translate: Caesar si dicat on de cur, eggesse hot uni. Hubert T: “Caesar sicked the cat on the cur and I guess he licked him. Helen Carlson: “Oh, he’s so absent minded. He’d leave his head if it wasn't tied on.” Violet Brown: Worse than that— I heard him say yesterday that he had to go south for his lungs. Mr. Swigart: “How would you graduate a thermometer? George S: “Send it through G. P. H. S. without a condition. Nellie Hamer: Peanuts are fattening.” Leland G: “How do you know? Nellie H: “Why, look at the elephant. Eddie Madden: But how do you play truant from the correspondence school? Lucy: “I send them an empty envelope.” LaMar Bell: I am having trouble with my inflections.” Mrs. Marcy: “Why don’t you have them taken out.” Fred Wallace: The acoustics was bad The construction of the room was so poor that every note I sang came back and hit me in the face. Merle Redding: “ I hen you must have suffered just as much as the audience.” Mabel Dodson: “Gee, Daphne, Moses surely must have suffered with that stomach of his. Daphne M: Why, no, Mabei. you shouldnt get that idea of him. Mabel D: What! And he always getting all those tablets!” Maxine Wieland: “Will your people be surprised when you graduate? Ernest Fletcher: “No, they’ve been expecting it for several years. Miss Gorman: “Charles, if you are always very kind and polite to all your playmates, what will they think of you?” Chuck Ostrorn: “Some of ’em would think they could lick me!” Ben Spalding: “Say, big boy, why do you comb your hair just before going to bed?” Frank O’Neill: “Oh. I want to make a good impression on the pillow.” Caroline: (At baseball game) “Oh. look, we have a man on every base!” Norma: “That’s nothing, so has the other side.” l75l

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THE T O K A Editorials America's Materialism Sarcastic and mocking taunts have been leveled at our country because she gives so much attention to the material side of life and because she is deficient in the creation of the artistic and the beautiful. We are told we have no literature, no music, and no art. Perhaps we are material, but our airplanes, radios, and high-powered automobiles are lifting the burden of drudgery from our shoulders and giving us more time for the creation of the beautiful. Culture always comes in rich maturity, and when immature America awakens, the pulsing current of her art will stimulate the entire world, rivaling the genius of Greece. The Influence Of Beauty 1 he refining influence of the beautiful and well-kept upon character is undeniable. Because it does play such a large part in the makeup of the average individual, care should be taken to provide that environment which will build up and broaden, not dull and debase, a human being. Since a spreading lawn has a much more cheerful aspect than a drab, colorless stretch of earth, let the high school lawn always be kept green and fresh, a pleasure to the eye. Youth I often think on Hazlitt’s words “No young man believes he shall ever die.” A gloriously pathetic sentiment is expressed there, a magnificent disregard for death which changes to a fear, in middle life, of being swept away before longed-for events come to pass, and. in old age, swings back to a fearless contemplation of the time when influence in worldly affairs shall be removed forever. But in the beginning, with Youth’s splendid fighting spirit, nothing is impossible; the margin of the unattainable fades from the future; and youth strides triumphantly on. I think that urge must have been given us for the purpose of stimulating us to such achievement that, when dotage creeps upon us, we shall not find in our minds the terrible thought expressed by Bryant: “And what if thou withdraw in silence from the living, and no friend take note of thy departure?” [73]