Grant High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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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.

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V. S. Grant MEMOIRS Page 17 Fourth Term Class rT 'HE MEMBERS of the fourth term class recognize their oppor-tunities as upper classmen in Grant High School. Although they have come from many other high schools of Portland they have become united in the U. S. Grant spirit. As there are only sixty-two members in the class, they are a very active working body. ’Tis not often that fourth termers have the opportunity to develop initiative and leadership, but in Grant, as the second graduating class, they feel the rest of the school is looking to them for leadership. This is a stimulating challenge which they hope to answer during the four remaining terms of their high school life. Their class officers are: Franklyn O’Bryant, president; Margaret Hall, vice-president; Philip Manning, secretary; Howard Auld, treasurer; Norman Scovill. sergeant-at-arms. The social committee is composed of Emery Miller. Philip Manning, Jerome Lillie, Franklyn O’Bryant, with Margaret Hall as chairman. The constitutional committee includes Mildred Whitten, Lucille McDonald, Paul Jones, with Norman Scovill as chairman. Five of our boys were on the football team : Jerome Lillie, Edwin Howard, Arthur Charlton. Edwin Anstey and Robert Flanders. The fourth termers are planning an assembly to be given on December 23. Philip Manning. Third Term Class OUR THIRD TERM CLASS numbers approximately one hundred and seventy pupils, with an almost equal representation of boys and girls. Having begun our high school life in the other city high schools and having made our friendships there, we found our first days at Grant rather lonely. We had desperate longings for the familiar scenes of last year. This homesick feeling was intensified by the chaotic state in which we moved—a condition due to the fact that the student body was much larger than the number prepared for. But, thanks to our principal and his able assistants, order was established in a few days. W'e soon found the other students friendly, the teachers sympathetic and helpful, our work interesting, and our new school life thoroughly happy. We are proud of the many bright students of our class; we are sorry for those who find their vork hard, but we know time and effort will help them succeed. We hope that the third termers will be a power in the life of the U. S. Grant High School. Mary Reynolds.