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

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 THEODORE STEIWIG “Ted” His popularity) overwhelms him. History. Glee Club 4. Dramatics 4. Class Play 4. Baseball 4. Committees and programs. CLARICE BUNCH - - - “Ky” Commerce. Girls Reserve 3. Toka Staff 4. Class Play 4. Committees and entertainments. SHIRLEY DELLINGER - “Shirls” Knows lots hut doesn’t dare tell it. History, Mathematics, Science. Entered G. P. H. S. from Kerby High School 1922, Kerby, Oregon. Dramatics 3. Programs and Committees. DREA CONROY - - “Dreary” I want a Hero! Entered G. P. H. S. in 1921 from Butte High School, Butte, Montana. History. Junior Girls Club 3. Pythagorean 3-4. Girls Glee Club 4. Rooters Club 4. Commercial Club 4. Committees and programs. Girls Reserve 3-4. Dramatics 4. Ciceronian 4. Class Play 4. ERIC McCANN - - “McCann” Eighth wonder of the world. Mathematics, History. DESSIE COOVER - - - “Dess” True as the needle to the pale. Or the dial to the sun. Home Economics, History. Entered G. P. H. S. from Modesto High School, Modesto, California. Basketball 3-4. Baseball 3. Junior Girls Club 3. Girls Reserve 3-4. Ciceronian 4. Committees and entertainments. Hi-G Club 4. Page Fourteen

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“Oh!” I breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the rope draw taut and the girl •.topped with a jerk. The guide conies around the side of the mountain into view, followed by a woman of great fame in police circles, as a detective, Lucile Hayes! And we are more than surprised to see that the man is Chester Britten. He starts pulling in the rope and finally the girl lays at his feet. Reaching down he gently lifts her and we recognize Elsie Walton, originator of Walton’s Study Ionic for Freshmen. As if to rest us of what we had seen, the next picture is laid in a quiet country town in Ireland. Eric McCann is lord and ruler, or whatever they call them in Ireland. He is slowly driving along the country lanes in his Rolled-Barley coupe. He stops to speak to Philip and Carol Hussey who are raising four-leaf clovers for a living. They, with Viola Bordon as assistant, are becoming rich at this unique work. Oh, goody! A circus. Turner Perry! Never heard of it. Roy Perry is talking through a megaphone to the crown telling about the tallest man and shortest woman, who are Ellis Dodson and Arlela Myers, and about the wild west girls, Eleanor Cougle and Lucy Allen. We see a woman, none other than Rilda I urner, at the box office selling tickets. Uh-hum! So this is the whyfore of Turner and Perry. The woman who is buying tickets suddenly grabs a small, fat-faced boy who is just crawling under the tent and administers a slap or two, while she said: Shame on you, Howard Jr. Can’t you learn to behave?” It is Dorothy Egger. “Jabber, jabber, jabber. Oh. Heavens, what can the next scene be? Parrots? I should say! Virginia Roy, our exquisite darling Peggy of the class of ’24, is an old maid with several parrots for company. Feature it! Could anything be more impossible? But—she looks happy. Oh. she is listening; she hears some one. The door quietly opens and Bernice Coon-Crockett, wife of Coach Crockett of the University of Grants Pass, walks in to pay her old classemate a visit. “Oh. Peggy, she exclaims, “Have you heard the latest? Well, you know. I’ve never had much faith in Mintie Wilhelm’s new invention, that of sticking a needle on the tip of a banana and hearing the news from all over the world. This morning I was playing with the thing and I heard the most startling news. Edith Spaulding has become insane from overwork and is now coaching the girls’ basketball team in Salem. Twee Isham is also there leading the Rooters Club. See the line of people standing in front of this show-window. What can it be? Oh, look! Doris Condit, beauty specialist, is demonstrating a new freckle lotion which she has perfected. She has put some lotion on the face of her helper, Clara Loughridge, and in just a minute we shall see how it works. Oh! the experiment is perfect. Another stage. We are just in time to hear an announcement. Mademoiselle Mora Baird, a pupil of Pavlowa, will now with her classic and aesthetic dancers interpret the “Swan Song.” How thrilling! I always knew she would become famous in this world. Some of the members assisting her are Theodore Steiwig, Stanley Lawton and Vera Wilbur. The scene changes to a room, greatly resembling a library. I can almost smell the musty books. An old, wizened, dried up man is diligently working at a table in the room. A book. “ The Phrouselufology of Caequitmentorum,” by Elsie Patton, a noted author of the day, lies open before the man. A man-servant mysteriously appears and announces, “Mr. Bailey, a lady to see you, sir.” The man looked up, sighed and answered, “Show her in.” “Ah, Miss Rader, how glad I am to see you,” said Honkie, as a lovely young woman swept into the room. “What can I do for you?” Page Thirteen

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 I know you are awfully busy in your research work, but I just wanted to ask your advice about my two latest pieces of sculpture, ‘Venus at the Pump’ and ‘Spring Has Went’.” So another of the class was a scientist, trying to find why test tubes break, and Zelda a sculptor. Well, well! stranger things have happened. A South Sea island. A wedding is in progress. Mary Wertz is entering the sea of holy matrimony with the high chief of the island. What in the world is the excitement off to one side, and who are the natives holding? It is Helen Smith, missionary to the natives, who has just escaped from the savages of Mary’s realm. She appears and tells Mary that George Cougle and wife, Edna Batman, are ruling one of the adjoining islands where Edna is teaching the people Latin so that she may discourse with them in her native tongue. Another warm scene. The sheik and sheikess of Araby. Who can it be? Seems like the class has been everything, but this really is a surprise. Ah! It is Chester Edgerton explaining to a group of young shieks who are taking lessons from Ethel Hagan, that in 1924 Nettie Coover kidnapped him and took him to the Sahara. Beware of women in leap year,” was his warning at the close of the lecture in the Shiek school. The New York Times office with Irene Jay in the editor's office. A news reporter, Lois Kincaid, has just laid a pile of papers on her desk. “Lois, we have lots of news today about old friends. Listen to this: ‘Marjorie Siegriest, wealthy automobile manufacturer, elopes with Vera Johnston’s arratic husband. Vera says she will not combat the case as she needs a rest. Vera and her husband had been running a restaurant at Three Pines.’ ” Irene picked up another article. “ ‘Mable Potts overcomes Bolsheviks in Russia and is made Czarine.’ My, hasn't our class become famous, though! ‘Paul Allen, who had mysteriously disappeared quite a while ago, has come to light now as the heir to a dukedom over in Luxemburg. He is second Sir Walter Raleigh to Queen Clarice of Sweden. I .a Vita Hough, painter of red-heads, has won heroic glory in her latest picture, with Bert Courtney as her favorite model'. Oh, Lois, listen to this ad: ‘Fishers! See Louis DeGenault for phosphorescent angleworms. The fish, by this means, are able to see the bait in the deep, dark depths of the ocean.’ ” A drawing room. A beautiful blond woman, none other than Louise English, is seated at a piano softly playing ‘‘Love’s Dream” to her husband who is half asleep on a davenport. Another woman comes from a curtained window seat, followed by a man who apparently is an ardent admirer. We can not help but notice with what grace she walks and with a start we realize it is Bessie Sirls, and the man-—Waldo Tucker. Bessie is a favorite in Chicago society, still playing her old game of “Hearts.” No, she is not married, but although Waldo, a farmer in the middle west, claims to be visiting his brother, Hayden, and sister-in-law, we can easily see he has another idea in his head. “It’s time for our guests,” said Louise. “I’ll call the fortune-tellers.” In another minute the chemist and I saw three gypsy fortune tellers whom, although they were covered with paint, we saw clearly were Gwen Milledge, Dessie Coover and Edythe Andrews. Due to their success as gypsies in the class play of 24, these girls formed a company and are now demanded everywhere at all fashionable gatherings, to tell fortunes. The guests have begun to arrive and I see Blaine Pruitt, known as Herr Von Pruitt, owner of a deer farm in Merlin, the metropolis of Oregon, surrounded by an admiring group. Again, as the scene changes, we hear the sweetest singing. Surely, we have never J Page Fifteen