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

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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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THE T O K A 1932 September 21. Student Council 932 The first Student Body meeting was called and the officers, Holland I-lory, president; Mary Louise Neilson, vice-president: Eleanor Hood, secretary; Robert Peck, treasurer; and Wallace Palmer, ticket manager, took their seats. The student body this year has progressed very rapidly under the leadership of the new officers. Last year an amendment to the Constitution was made which reduced the dues from $1.50 to $1.00. This year because of the “depression the dues were cut still further to 50 cents. To give the students a return for their money the student council arranged for moving picture shows to be shown at the Rivoli once every six weeks. Sweat suits were purchased for the basket ball and track men, which allows our school to make a better impression on out-siders. March It, 1910, the Grants Pass High School formed a Constitution and became self governing. Roy V. Cheshire was the first Student Body president. From then on we have made a steady growth under presidents of fine character to the high place we now hold among other high schools of this state. ‘ Edwin Dole, who was president during 1927-28, is making fine progress in O. S. C.; Orion Garrett, oresident in 1928-29, is making toward the goal of a fine career; Barney Harmon, 1930-31, is a student in the University of Idaho; and Holland Flory is making a success of his term as the 1931-32 president. Peck Hood Flory Neilson Palmer Small Girl: When I grow up, will I have a moustache like papa’s on my lip Nurse (absently) : Probably many of them dear. Who knows: If it takes a red-headed woodpecker five days, six hours, and twenty-four minutes to peck a hole through a cypress log, large enough to make eighteen hundred and thirty-seven thousand shingles, how long will it take a cross-eyed grasshopper with a cork leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle two inches in diameter? Clifford Gilbert: What would you do if you saw a girl being washed down the river? Chink Vannice: I’d throw her a cake of soap. C. G.: Why a cake of soap? Chink: To wash her back with, of course. [61

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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. [«)