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

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i 9 3 2 THE T O K A 1932 December I 1. Junior Play The Junior play “Fixing it for Father was given at the High School auditorium December I 1. The plot centers around Professor Risdon, Boyd Wyatt, who has allowed his name to be used by Dick Cunard, Harold Hansen, his brother-in-law, in a correspondence vvith a matrimonial agency widow, played by Rachel Bundy. Dick dares not use his own name because of the peculiar conditions of his former wife’s will, which forbids his having any love affairs for three years. The Risdon daughters. Helen Dodson and Wilma Copple. receive one of the letters while their father is away, and upon investigation they find the whole pack in his bureau drawer. They decide to teach their father a lesson. Their iovers, played by Clifford Woodley and Wallace Palmer, help by disguising, one as a widow, the other as the professor. The pseudo-professor mystifies the entire household, and Jack, as the widow, succeeds in disgusting not only the professor but Dick. The real widow appears. Emma, Mary Treadgold, the sister-in-law of the Professor Risdon and Dick, complicates the affairs still more by deciding to marry the professor. Harry does a good deed by turning the attention of the real widow to Harold, Robert Adams, the son of Merton, Ray Green, a visiting friend. A new will, written by Dick’s wife just before her death, is found. This leaves her fortune to the professor. Dick gets what he deserves, the widow gets a husband, the lovers get each other, while the professor and Aunt Li .e, Mary Ellen Ingram, are left in peace. December 1 5. Inter-class Debate The question for the interclass debates was Resolved: I hat the several states should enact legislation providing for unemployment insurance. The Sophomores were represented by Jack Van Dyke and Bob Howard, affirmative. Fred Dayton and John Shaw from the Junior class also upheld the affirmative: while Bob Peck and LeNora Brown, Senior representatives, upheld the negative. The freshmen failed to turn out. The Ted Cramer debate cup was won by the Seniors, making it the third time the numerals “32” to appear on this cup. [16J

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jg32 THE T O K A 1932 November 20. Football I he football season was closed on the Ashland field in a fiery battle between the Ashland and Grants Pass teams in which Ashland came out victorious, 12 to 0, while Medford won the Southern Oregon championship. Name KuKenia Hunt Mildred Cox Charles Vannlce Donald Bailey ImoKene Johnston Vivienne Morris HI ad vs Hively Be Nora Brown Frank O'Neil Lola Myers Noted for Her wee small voice Dark brown eyes Manly stature Seven league stride 1 im pies Black eye-brows Honf? hair I ebatinK Sheikish ways High grades Ambition Ain’t got none Meet Joe E. Brown Do big things Be a king's dictator Crow old gracefully Be a stenographer Be a school marm To be de-chorus Be a master truck driver Write French poetry Cause of Death Worked too hard Murdered Shaving Over-exercise Heart trouble Printer's pie Cracked nuts Idleness One arm driving Water on the brain November 25 Thanksgiving Program Selected members of the Sophomore class showed their high degree of dramatic ability when they produced the one-act play “It Might Have Been Worse.” Jack Van Dyke and Lila Fae Williams as the son and daughter quarreled in a most realistic manner. Mary Harmon and f rank f armer as the mother and father were both good in their parts, the mother as a lady always taking the part of her children who thought they didn’t get as much as the others their age, and talking about how she worked her poor fingers to the bone; the father as a hard-working business man who is always being the subject of quarrels because he does not get the children enough clothes and things. Ray Geer as the messenger boy who brings the news to the father that he has lost all of his money and Juanita Bell as the maid who helps the family iecover from the shock were also good. November 25. Football On T hanksgiving Day the usual battle between the alumni and football team of the High School was played, and, as usual, the alumni proved superior to the boys. Too bad we can’t collect all our “finished product’’—the All American stars couldn’t smash our line! The Director of Athletics The coach. What would we do without him! It is he who makes the team. He is the team’s morale; its backbone and supreme judge. It matters not what the crowd may say, so long as the coach approves. Leonard B. Mayfield, who has been the football and basket ball coach here for the past three years, has done much toward introducing a complete course of physical education for boys in the Grants Pass High School. He studied for his master’s degree in the University of California last summer and is planning to take another such course this coming summer. Besides coaching, Mr. Mayfield has a very interesting class in biology. A man who gains the respect and liking, not only of the athletic boys but of the whole student body, is a worthy member of our faculty, as well as an asset to old G. P. H. S. 1151

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« 9 j 2 T HE TOKA j 932 December 18. Christmas Play It has been the custom for a number of years past that the Senior Class give the Christmas program. This year the class of 1932 chose the play “A Sign Unto You.” I he setting of the play is in a wealthy East Side home in New York. The time is Christmas Eve. The family thinks only of the physical side of life, except the son who has chosen to become a preacher. Instead of taking a wealthy East Side church, he chooses to work among the tenements and slums. The two girls are not content to live with their parents and have an apartment of their own in Upper New York. After living in this apartment for about a year, they are dissatisfied and want to move into a larger and more expensive apartment. Their present allowance will not permit this move and their father will not increase their allowance. It is the custom of the family to come together on Christmas Eve for dinner, and the girls with their mother and father are impatiently awaiting the arrival of the son, who is usually late to these gatherings. When the son arrives he explains that he had been detained by the need of one of his tenement families. 1 he mother tries to persuade him to give up preaching in the slums and to go into business with his father, or to take a church more worthy of their name. While she is talking, a little newsboy comes to the door. He faints on the doorstep from the cold and the lack of food. The sight touches the heart of the family and they help in caring for the child. The newsboy falls asleep on the couch from exhaustion after braving the storm. The son .tarts reading the Christmas story, and while he is reading a light shines in the form of a halo above the couch. One of the girls goes over to investigate and finds that the newsboy is gone and that he was typifying the Spirit of Christ. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” December 19. Basket Ball The first basket ball game for the local boys was played on the home floor with Chiloquin. who carried off victory by a score of 24 to 15. December 24. Students Play Santa Claus About a month before the Christmas holidays. Mr. McDonald thought it a good idea to create a Santa Claus club to help out the poor children who weren’t going 10 have any Christmas. He held a meeting and the members elected Bill Carl president. There were several committees organized, one to rebuild the toys, and one to take care of and remodel dolls. They asked the students to donate old toys to be fixed over. The members of the club worked hard for three weeks, and by Christmas everything was ready. They met at the high school. Carl Boesch furnished a truck to deliver in, and Robert Jones made a good Santa Claus. Mr. McDonald was ill, and Mrs. McDonald took his place. They had a list of places to go, and it would have done anyone good, and I know' it repaid the members for all their work, to see the children’s eyes “pop w'hen “Santa Claus” stepped through the door with his pack. The parents were all very grateful for what was done. The distributing was finished about 10:30 by a very tired but happy group of people. They wish to thank everyone for their contributions and help. 1171