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

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THE T O K A 1932 1932 September 25. Scroll The first independent Scroll since the year 1927 was mimeographed and distributed to the whole student body Friday afternoon. September 25, 1931. Over 75 per cent of the student body were to subscribe before an independent publication would be assured. More than 200 subscriptions for one year at fifty cents were sold during the first week of school. The appointed staff consisted of Dorcas Sheldon, editor; Mary Ellen Ingram, assistant editor; Fred Dayton, business manager; Norman Howard, athletics; Florence Dellinger, news editor; and Miss Agatha Harding, faculty adviser. September 26. Football On the North Bend field, the Grants Pass boys held their team to a tied score of 6 to 6. The game was a well fought battle with Grants Pass scoring in the third quarter. Our idea of a lazy man is the one who sang, “Moonbeams Kiss Her For Me.’ Puppy love is the beginning of a dog’s life. Napoleon’s men were cannibals because they existed on raw recruits. All brutes are imperfect animals. Man alone is a perfect beast. Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man by that name. When you breathe you inspire; when you do not breathe, you expire. Achilles was a man whose mother took him by the heel and held him in the river Stinx until he was intolerable. You can distribute bacteria by being too close friends. Possession of evil spirits means feeling like the devil. A curve is a straight line that has been bent. A miracle is anything that someone does that can't be done. [«)

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THE T O K A i 9 3 » « 9 3 2 September 24. Torch Honor Society The Torch Honor Society is an organization for the promotion of better scholarship, citizenship, and service among the students. I he society has a total membership of sixty members. The officers for the year are: President, Lola Myers: vice-president, Beth Talbot; secretary-treasurer, Eugenia Hunt. Much has been accomplished this past year under the direction of our capable adviser. Miss Dunn. A book exchange was held in September and January to aid the students in buying and selling their books. A small fee was reserved for the organization out of the sale of each book. In February the first public initiation was given before the assembly. Six members were initiated into the society at that time. Later in the year a play entitled “Sauce for the Gosling” was presented at a cen-cent assembly. The proceeds from the play were used to buy pins for those Seniors who had earned I 10 points at the end of their Senior year. A doctor declares that kissing shortens life. We presume he means single life. Fred Wallace: You shouldn’t be afraid of the dark. Jimmie Coke: I can’t help it; it gets in my eyes and I can’t see a thing. Fokker Aeroplanes: Good to the last drop.” Djer-Kiss Face Powder: “Save the surface and you save all.” Phoenix Cheese: “Strong as the Rock of Gibraltar.” Listerine: “The flavor lasts.” Aunt Jemima’s Pancake Flour: “There is no substitute for leather. I 7 j

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' 9 3 2 THE T O K A 1932 Geneva: I here’s a salesman outside with a moustache. Mr. McDonald: Tell him I have a moustache. October 3. Football Klamath Falls defeated Grants Pass in the home-coming and first conference game of the season, by a score of 19-12. Although in the first half the odds were against them, the Cavemen made a brilliant come-back in the last half. iashion note: 1 here will be little change in pockets this year. Senior Horoscope By 1. X. Posum Name Betty Springer Raymond Macfarlane Norman Howard Robert Nick Ison Robert Couch Jack Goetjen Dorothy Thomas Jean Welch Kugene Rice Margaret Alberts Noted for Cuteness Skipper of 13 Playing around Plus Fours Two-track-mind Wild and Wooly Quilt coat Frowning Iiis length Musical laugh Ambition Chief hasher at the Pastime Flying Sing with L. Tibbet Flagpole sitter Reno divorce lawyer Somebody's darling Live and let live Sleep in a featherbed Continue growing News reporter Cause of Death Halitosis 1 Topsee (S) Kidding 'upids arrows Made a speech Inferiority complex Midnight oil Bored indifference Mistaken for Bill C. Broke a shoe lace The honeymoon is the part of a girl’s life which comes between the lip-stick and the broom stick. Miss Walker: Will you join me in a bowl of soup? Miss I hayer: Do you think there will be room enough for both of us? You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but the rest of the time they make fools of themselves. A man (Mr. Carpenter) with a load of fertilizer was driving his wagon past an insane aslyum w'hen an axle broke. As he prepared to fix it, the window opened and an inmate (Mr. Coke) asked. “What are you doing?” Wishing to humor him, Mr. Carpenter answered, “I’m fixing the axle on my wagon.” “What have you got in the wagon?” was the next question. “Fertilizer,” he answered, again. “What are you going to do with it?” “I’m going to take it home and put it on my rhubarb.” The inmate gasped, “I used to put sugar on mine, and they put ME in the insane asylum.” [9]