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

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These years had passed swiftly; his funds were running low and his attainments—Paul wondered. For the first time in his life the question was squarely before him and he was determined to treat it fairly. Yes. now he stopped to think of it, he did have a vague idea of an honorable profession for himself somewhere in the distant future. He mentally gathered his acquirements and arrayed them before him. Jotting down his accomplishments, he first gave himself credit for being a good dresser and a real sport; then he was president of his class which was considerable of an honor; as a member of the basket ball team his average was better than many others—but how about the REAL thing? The report card told of the real things, and it was a credit neither to him nor his school. Was this the answer? All those days, weeks and months, these three whole years—was that all he had to show for it? Alone in that quiet room the boy fought it out. He was just a boy and had not thought of it in this light before. The picture of his parent’s faces, sad with disappointment; their many sacrifices and the many unrealized expectations for him, coupled with their loving care, came crowding in upon him. Unknowingly Paul had come to one of the marked turns in life’s road and as in fancy he looked down the inviting vista, he catches the real vision of what most any boy should be. Any one could have a report such as his. any one couid be a failure. The soul of the boy was in the cry—IT DID NOT PAY ! His disappointed face lighted with this new resolve, a new spirit arose in him. and the weary figure was filled with a new strength. The last year of Paul Emerson's stay in the Lincoln High School was marked by a new purpose. Just as good a fellow—the same jolly, popular—but a better student. His college course is completed with real honors; time rolls on. and in a western city we see a crowded court room, where a brilliant lawyer is closing an eloquent plea in this intellectual giant we recognize the perplexed boy, who sat by the glowing embers way back in those high school days. Paul Emerson’s career had answered the question—DID IT PAY ? 18

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 Class Officers PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT - SECRETARY 1 REASURER SERGEANT-AT-ARMS YELL LEADER - HISTORIAN - PROPHET POET LAWYER VALEDICTORIAN -SALUTATORIAN Committees Don Belding rence Underwood Gladys Conklin Dana Ament Dana Ament Helen Hair Dora Birchard Alva Wilson Florence Buell Friede Close Gladys Conklin FINANCIAL:—Don Belding, Chairman; Gail Hamilton. Dana Ament. ENTERTAINMENTDon Belding, Chairman; Ruth Hathaway, Sam Stine-baugh. Gladys Conklin. Laurence Underwood. Dora Birchard. COMMENCEMENT WEEK John B.xby. Chairman. Helen Hair. Alfred Oakes. Alva Wilson, May Smith, Florence Buell. MO I I O:—“ Esse Quam Videri. COLORS:—Apple Green and White. FLOWER :—White Carnation. YELL I he white, the green, the Class of 14, The Class with the grip, the Class with the pip. We'll make the High, get up and fly, SENIORS '14. WOW!!!! 20