Grant High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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U. S. Grant MEMOIRS Page 3 What I like best about Grant is the lunch period. After waiting-through four periods, I get hungry—especially on gym days. Even if I do have to cram the food down with hand and fist, it tastes mighty good anyway.—John Hamilton. Trying to decide what I like best at Grant High and why I like it is not such an easy task as one might think. The fact that I really like it all makes it still harder to decide. I think I like the way the classes are conducted about the best: having a different teacher for each subject, and moving from one room to another: this is a change and a rest and makes one feel more like working.—Jack Spicker. I think the best thing about Grant is the gymnasium. I always feel so fresh after being there. It seems such a relief to get away from studies. I wish it was every day.—Rowland Elliott. I like the study of science best in Grant. It is very interesting because we make many experiments showing the reason for many different things.—Earl Martyn. I like my first period Math class because Mrs. Baker has inspired us to heroic efforts—though that is as far as we have progressed for all her explaining.—Dewitt Bennett. My First Days at Grant I have spent fifteen hectic days at Grant High School. With teachers to the right of us, teachers to the left of us, and pupils everywhere. It was no easy matter for a freshie to get his bearings. But now I can make a bee line with the busiest to reach recitation room and even hold my own in the mad rush for the cafeteria. Here I feel at home and can regain my equilibrium which has been much disturbed by the intricacies of Spanish and the contortions of “gym.”— Harrison Olmstead. Freshmen: Why ? Freshmen are we, tender young things, Rc imping under the Seniors’ wings, Eating crumbs right out of their hands; Serving all the Juniors’ demands, He ping to fill their shoes some day, Making “Freshies” work the same way; Even the Sophs, our next of kin, Never see us when we come in. When thru the next three years we pass, How we will help each Freshman class; Yes! Roll ’em around on the grass. —Eileen McIntyre.

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Page 2 MEMOIRS V. S. Grant From, Of, and By The Freshies (Gleaned by Janet Young.) RESOLUTION As we are Freshies of Grant High School, We all want to try to obey its rule By being good and working hard So each will get E's on his report card. —Gladys C. Reynolds. Wonders of Grant High Halls: “Immense!”—Carl Breuner. “Grant's Pass!”—Elizabeth Searle. Students: “Millions!”—Mildred Heston. Office: “A great big office with two secretaries. —Charles Mc- Quinn. The safe: “No burglar could ever break that!”—Neila Shaffer. The principal: “So nice.”—Agnes Graham. The dean: “A lady just for us girls!”—Mildred Donogh. The grounds: “Won’t they be beautiful in spring?”—Morton Smith. Location: “Grant is in a good neighborhood and has nice chil- dren.”—Margaret Israel. Building: “Best in Portland.”—John Gavin. Studies: “Algebra and Oral English are best.”—Elsie Mac Leo. file cafeteria: “A place to get good, hot meals. —Leonard Havs- sen. School spirit: “No school has such school spirit.”—Paul Preston. The gym: “Must be the biggest in Portland!”—Roma Managban. “My favorite place!”—Malcolm Mitchell. Athletic equipment: “What a lot! Perfect supply!”—Lindsay Wilson. The Freshies: “We’re a fine lot even if the sixth termers don’t know it! —Victor Harbaugh. Favorites I like the “freshies” best at Grant. Of course they look very young and very green to the others, but even the most dignified upper class-man was a “freshie” once, so if you don’t know them, I advise you to “look them up” right away.—Ruth Bracher. I like the system for numbering the rooms very much at Grant High. It saves much confusion between periods and is simple for new students.—Elizabeth Corby. I like Mr. Fletcher and Miss Henderson best at Grant.—Ethna Nash. I like the 2:45 bell best at Grant. I think it is the sweetest music I have ever heard.—Robert Hoomis.

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Page J, MEMOIRS V. 8. Grant BLitprarp Staff John J. Deifell.......................Editor Josephine Olsson.........Associate Editor Beatrice Desilets.........Literary Editor Janet Young...............Literary Editor Harriet Medernach.... Organization Editor Donald Guild..................Joke Editor Harold Frauendorf............Sport Editor Bernice Henry..................Art Editor Stedman Shaw............Business Manager William McClung. .Asst. Business Manager Rodney Lloyd......Asst. Business Manager Maxine Stein.......................Typist Advisors Miss Burns........................Literary Miss Von...........Jokes and Organizations Miss Whittlesey.....................Sports Miss Croxall...........................Art Miss Houck .......................Business March Ah, March! We know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April’s violets! —Helen Hunt. School Spirit WN discussing the spirit of Grant High School, as a newcomer, I can judge it by the cordial reception given not only to myself but to all others who have just entered this term. There is an unusually friendly feeling manifested in the classrooms, in the halls, in the cafeteria, and also in the crowded buses in the morning. All the students are enthusiastic in the forming of new clubs, and the school seems like one large family. Even our principal radiates cordiality and friendliness and this attitude is necessarily reflected in the students. In my opinion, the student body should strive to further develop this spirit to the highest degree that it may prove beneficial both on track and field. There is nothing so helpful in the winning of interscholastic contests as the unity of spirit and the desire on the part of all to win. So, let’s turn out and yell for our teams, join the student body, and take a part in the school activities! This spirit, so marked now at the beginning of this school, if carried on by the coming students, not only will make Grant High one of the finest schools in the city, but also will give to us, her first students, an inspiration for our future lives. —Dokotiiy Davis.