Grant High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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V. 8. Grant MEMOIRS Page IS llllimilliniMIIMIIIIIIIIIinilllinilinMIllMMMIIIIIMIIIIIIMIIIIIMMMMIIHIIMMIIMIIinnilllllllllMMIIIIIIMlinillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllinilllllllMlllllllllllinillllllMIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIHIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIUllllMIIUIMIIIIIIM The election of officers on the Student Council was entirely within the Council this term, though hereafter it is planned that officers shall be elected by members of the Student Body. On October the third the following officers were elected: John Paul Jones, president; Eugene Tarbell, vice-president; Bernice Woodard, secretary, and Frances Ford, treasurer. The first activity of importance undertaken by the Student Council was the choosing of the colors for the school. A committee of the representatives and teachers was selected to arrange combinations of colors for the pupils to vote on. Royal blue and gray, standing for peace and the national unity, restored by Grant, won by a large majority. A button sale was sponsored by the Student Council as the first means of making money for the treasury. A button with a blue background and a gray letter “G” was sold for ten cents and a goodly little sum was raised in this way. As another means of making money, the Student Council had charge of collecting dues for membership in the Student Body. The following rules for organizing a school club have been adopted by the Council. 1. The group interested must petition the Council seeking permission to form a club, stating its purpose. 2. Those interested must secure a faculty advisor. 3. They must write a constitution to hand in to the Council for approval. The following clubs have conformed to the rules and are well started in their organization: Girls’ Trails Club, Boys’ Radio Club and a Girls’ Debating Club. These clubs are proving popular. A committee has been appointed from the Council to work with some of the Faculty members to make a Constitution for the Student Body. We have been very fortunate in getting money this term. Benson Polytechnic boys showed their friendship for us by lending us five hundred dollars for a term of three years without interest. All stores with which we have traded have been exceedingly kind in giving us plenty of time in which to pay our bills. We are hoping that future Councils will perfect and carry out the projects which the first one has started, and so conduct affairs that our Student Body organization will be a great success. With a fine school spirit to support them, and with the loyal support of the students, the Student Council will be able to make laws that will increase the welfare and happiness of all the Student Body of Grant High —Bernice: Woodard.

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Fifth Term Class SOME achieve honor, and some have honor thrust upon them. We had the honor of being the senior class thrust upon us this term, but we intend to bear the responsibility so well that by June, 1926,— when we have achieved the right to be seniors—Grant High School shall be proud of its first graduating class. On October the eighth, eighty-four of us assembled in Room 214 during the study period to organize our class. We showed ourselves a class of rare judgment when we chose the following officers: Miss Burns, advisor; Miss Jones, honorary member; Walter Heitkemper, president; Mignon Morgan, vice-president; Jack Card, treasurer; Tom Dunham, sergeant-at-arms; and Helen Pearson, editor. Most of the work done by the class has been under the direction of committees appointed by President Walter Heitkemper. The social committee, consisting of Florence Wold, chairman, William McClung, John Dougherty and Kathleen Bell has been planning a dance to be given in the near future. On Open House night, Graham Covington, Richard Harper, Walter Heitkemper and John Deifell assisted as ushers. The candy booth, one of the greatest attractions of the evening, was in charge of Florence Bell, chairman, Caulean Creath, Lucille Laughlin, Marjory Whetsel and Fielda Wiggins. As a result of this sale the class contributed twenty-five dollars and seventy-one cents to the school treasury. The first student program assembly was given by our class on November 26. An excellent program was planned by a committee consisting of John Deifell, chairman, Marjory Whetsel, Clara Apple-gate, and Rodney Lloyd. We are represented i n the student council by Edgar Rutan, Mignon Morgan, and Dorothy Brown. “Memoirs” springs into being with some of our members: John Deifell, as editor-in-chief, Elizabeth Scott, as literary editor, and Richard Harper, as business editor. Some of the cheers heard most frecpiently on the football field were given for our men—Lloyd Backstrom, John Walker, Robert Pilkington, Tom Dunham, John Doherty, and George Greenland. All of the clubs have strong members from our group. Indeed, we are an enthusiastic, ambitious class, and, we are trying to remember that “the fifth termers are establishing the standard for Grant.” —John Walker. Secretary.