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

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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

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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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 9 3 2 THE T O K A » 9 3 2 Name Julia Fa «an Walter Flint Free! Wall are Beryl Clifton Richard Bettendorf Harrison McCracken (ilenn Virtue Ora Louise Nelson Ira Towne Noted for Smiling eyes Sleeping in classes Bing Crosby's double Long eye-lashes Fast driving Gray matter Baby blue eyes Mincing steps His brogue Ambition Be a seal trainer Sleep Indefinitely Be college bred Be a night nawk Be a detective Be a handsome Civics teacher Be a college professor Be a butter n’ egg man Play varsity football Cause of Heath Boiled in oil Sleeping sickness Hough Talked to death Fell off a kiddie car Mud Natural causes Various reasons Vocabulary January 8. Basket Ball For the first conference game of the basket ball season, the Grants Pass boys traveled to Medford, where they were defeated by a score of 64 to II. Mrs. McDonald: Oh! David, come quickly! at once!! 1 here’s a mouse in the kitchen squeaking dreadfully! Mr. McDonald: Really, what a nuisance you are. Can’t you oil it yourself? Name Jblvelyn Hull Clifford Gilbert Andrew Gigler Leonard Rice William Carl Noted for Bewitching eyes Good nature Orange sweater Freckles Smallest senior Ambition Care for wayward mice To be ambitious Hitch-hiking To milk cows Skip school successfully Cause of Heath Laughing gas Bewitching eyes Studied once Holding hgndi Put on the speck January 15. Basket Ball Grants Pass defeated Ashland in the local gym by a score of I 7 to I 5. In basket ball, as in football, the Cavemen excelled in sportmanship, and in clean playing. We had a good team, but, in some cases, the other team was better. We say this because who wants to be beaten by an inferior team? The lineup for this year was as follows: Wiley and Flory, guards; McGuire and Jackson, forwards; Cook and Fredericks as centers. [18]