Grant High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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TALBOT TWITCHELL WEBBER WELLS TERRY THOMAS WEISS WHITING WHITELY TATE TYRELL VERRY WOOD SWANSON. V. THIRION WEIR WELLNER WINSHIP

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SWANSON, VIVIAN—Attendant to May Queen: Tri-Y, 7-8: Girls’ League, 1-5: Girls' League Play. 4. TALBOT, JOHN—Gym Leaders, 7-8: Faraday. 7-8; Germania. 7-8. TATE, DOUGLAS — Sans Souci. 3-5; Migwans. 6-7: Euclidian. 8: Faraday President. TERRY. MAXINE —Junior Tri-Y: Girls’ League. 2-5. THIRION, FRED — Royal G: Football; Baseball. 3: Gym Leader; Fire Squad, 6-8. THOMAS, DOROTHY — Live Wire. 3-4: Cashier, 5-7; Valetudons. 6-8; Girls' Athletic Club Reporter, 5; Class Pin Committee, 8; Girls’ League, 1-4; Class Play, 8. TWITCHELL, NORMAN — President of Student Body, 8; Athletic Representative. 6: Hi-Y, 5-8; Phil-adorians, 5-8; Royal G. 6-8; Der Arion. 5-8: Athletics. TYRELL, WAYNE — College Preparatory. VERRY, DANA — DeForest, 4-8; Glee Club, 1-4; Traffic Squad. 4-8; Chief. 8; Fire Squad, 7. WEBBER, HAZEL — College Preparatory. WEIR, VIRGINIA — Entered from Los Angeles. 4; Trekker, 6-8; Cashier, 8; Class Play, 8; Girls’ League. 4-8; University of Southern California. WEISS. MILDRED — Girls’ League, 1-5: Germania Club, 7-8. WELLNER. BURTON — DeForest Club. 6-8; Faraday. 8: Traffic Squad. 6-8: Fire Squad. 7. WELLS. MARGARET — Glee Club, 2-3; Cashier. 4-8; Live Wire. 4; Girls’ League. 1-8; Tri-Y, 6: Faraday. 7; Girls' International. 7-8: Traffic Squad, 7-8. WHITELY, JIM — Polemic. 8; Quirites, 5; Stage Crew. 7-8: Live Wire. 2; Cashier, 1-3-8; Frosh Frolic Committee. 8; Business Manager, Memoirs. 8. Frosh Frolic Committee, 8: Business Man. Memoirs, 8. WHITING. MARION—College Preparatory. WINSHIP. IRENE WINIFRED — Entered Grant in second term from Commerce High School. WOOD. RUTH—Girls' League. 3-5; Tri-Y. 6; went through grade school in seven years, three extra credits for graduation.

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THE NEW MEMOIRS Necessity is the mother of invention. To our own satisfaction, at least, we have confirmed the foregoing maxim. The mother made a stern demand, and it is in compliance with this demand that the staff has produced the January, 1931 Memoirs. For the last several terms the Memoirs has enjoyed a most remarkable and sudden growth. This advancement, however, has not been without its ill effects. Because of the large deficits varying from $200 to $300 per issue, the Student Body fund has been placed in a precarious position. Our first staff meeting last September might easily be compared to an assembly of relatives to whom the will of the dear departed was being read. Alas! The legacy bequeathed to us was the discouraging fact that continuation of the former policy of expansion so that each class could produce a bigger and better Memoirs would mean financial ruin for the Student Body and that a complete change must be made to remedy the condition. Upon our shoulders has rested the work of effecting this change. We have attempted to publish an issue that will please as many as possible, to maintain the high standard of quality established in previous issues and yet to keep the total cost within a reasonable figure. To accomplish such a task would prove to be quite difficult even for a group of experts. And inasmuch as expansion is much easier than retrenchment, the staff has found it no easy task to produce this issue. That the high school annual of the large city school holds a position of considerably less importance than it did a few years ago is a generally recognized fact. The high school newspaper has come to take its place in part. Taking cognizance of this fact, we have made this Memoirs into a book of 48 pages whose purpose it is to record more intimately the activities of the Seniors. It is not a reduced Memoirs; it is an entirely new publication—a Senior book. In keeping with this policy no one except the Seniors has been obligated to purchase a copy. We, students of Grant, wish to excel in scholarship, sports and progress, as well as in numbers. Being the largest and youngest high school in Portland, it is quite fitting that Grant High School should break the tradition of the large, expensive annual and lead the way to a newer and better plan. We take no little pride in the fact that our issue of Memoirs has not incurred a legacy of debt for those who come after us. We hope that in the years to come when the manners and customs have changed some” our classmates will turn through these pages and recall their good old days at Grant High School. . . . Forrest Mills.