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

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NJVItMkI ARTHUR BAILEY Honk” They say he is handsome—is he? History, Mathematics. Baseball 2-3-4. Track 4. Hi-G Club 4. Class Play 4. Committees and entertainments. EDITH SPALDING - “Spalding” A typical, American athletic girl. History, Science. Chorus I. Pythagorian 2-3-4. Vice President Class 3. Girls Reserve 3-4. Commercial Club 4. Basketball 2-3-4. Basketball Captain 4. Hi-G Club 4. Toka Staff 2-3. Assistant Scroll Manager 4. Class Play 4. Dramatics 3. Committees and programs. CAROL HUSSEY - - - “Karo” Might be n orse—but how? History. Entered G. P. H. S. 1923 from Merlin High School, Merlin, Oregon. Glee Club 4. Track 4. Baseball 4. Class Play 4. EDNA BATMAN - - - Ed” Character—excellent! Home Economics, Languages, History. Junior Girl’s Club 3. Girls Reserve 3. Ciceronian 4. Committees and Programs. ROY PERRY - - - Perry” I dare do all that may become a man. Mathematics, Science. Baseball 1-2-3. Pytha- gorian 2-3. Committees and programs. Class Play 4. LUCY ALLEN - - - Kitty” Good as she seems Home Economics. Junior Girls Club 3. Girls Reserve 3-4. Pythagorean 4. Committees and entertainments. Page Sixteen

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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

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heard anything so enthralling. We see a stage in a Chautauqua tent, and Clara Herbeck dressed in a creation of pale blue cerise is singing Oh, the Selfishness of Men.” Unknown to Clara. LeRoy Stephens, chairman of the Anti-Woman’s League, comes next on the program, speaking upon the subject of “The Dangers of Giving a Woman Her Own Way.” These two old friends have never married and never expect to, so we hear Eli Allen, manager of the Chautauqua, telling his pet snake. Ah, a town in Sweden. How queer, the men all look depressed. The scene passes on and we look into a hall where Iris Burns is speaking to the women on how to use caveman tactics on their husbands. Ah, I am choking! I am suffocating! Will no one help me? I see Carl Oestreich, the chemist, looking at me, but he moves not. The vapor is killing me. I’m----- Say, wake up, Alberta! Can’t you see it’s almost eight o’clock, and time you were at school? What a relief! I had just been asleep in my own bed. Today final exams begin. Edythe Andrews, Bernice Coon, Alberta Shoemake, Chester Edgerton. A BAREFOOT BOY I want to be a barefoot boy. As in the long ago. And walk along in perfect joy. And whistle as I go. With not a care within my heart. And just an eye for birds— I want to walk again apart With father’s flocks and herds. I want to be a boy again, A happy barefoot boy; I want to taste the joy again Of sweets that cannot cloy— I want to wade knee deep in bliss And sun me, all reborn. And spread my toes; my reason’s this: I’m troubled with a corn. Page Seventeen