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

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LEWIS DE GENEAULT - •'Lew” Not afraid of lvorl(. Will lie down and go to sleep beside it. Mathematics. Baseball 2. Track 4. Pythagorean 4. BESSIE SIRLS - - - “Bess’ FrailitX), thy name is Woman. History. Opera 2. Basketball I-2-3-4. Chorus 1-2-3. Spanish Club 3. Dramatics 3. Junior Girls Club 3. Class Play 4. Committees and programs. PAUL ALLEN ... “Professor” A man the Women never (new (?). Mathematics. Band 3. Dramatics 4. Glee Club 4. Pythagorean 2-3-4. Class Play 4. Rooters Club 4. 1 oka 4. Committees and entertainments MINTIE WILHELM - - “Partner” Service with a smile. History. Class Secretary 4. Class Play 4. Committees and entertainments. LeROY STEPHENS - - “Steve” I’m right! know it! I feel it! History. Mathematics. Entered G. P. H. S. 1922 from Willamina, Hi. Willamina, Oregon. Football 3. Baseball 3. Dramatics 3. Athletic Manager 4. Scroll Staff 4. Pythagorian 4. Class Play 4. Glee Club 4. Senior Boys Quartet 4. Hi-G Club 4. Committees and entertainments. VIRGINIA ROY - - - “Peggy” Earns her letter waiting for the postman. Commerce. Entered G. P. H. S. from Forest Grove High, Forest Grove, Oregon. French Club 3. Junior Girls Club 3. Class Secretary 3. Pythagorian 4. Treasurer Glee Club 4. President Commercial Club 4. Girls Reserve 3-4. Senior Class Play 4. Entertainments. Page Eighteen

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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

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SENIOR CLASS WILL LET IT HE KNOWN TO ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENT: We. I he Senior Class of the Grants Pass High School, in the City of Grants Pass. County of Josephine, State of Oregon, in this year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, being in possession of our diplomas and still in our right minds and under no undue influence, do declare this our Last Will and Testament, dividing our great abundance of hidden assets among our esteemed faculty and the students who will still attend this said school. hirst: Io the High School in general we do will our good fellowship, our undy- ing school spirit, our pep and all of our troubles. Second: f o the members of the School Board, we leave our deepest gratitude for their promise of the longed-for gymnasium and addition to the High School, with the hope that our posterity will derive benefit therefrom. Third: To Superintendent Mishler we bequeath Catherine Carrell as an assistant to help him care for the fast increasing population of Grants Pass High School. Fourth: Io Professor Hepp, we leave an efficient Student Body Council, who will attend meetings regularly, thereby saving him much time and worry. Also, a large goat to eat the papers from the Assembly floor. Fifth: To Mrs. Stearns, our beloved class advisor, we leave our most sincere gratitude for her ever ready help in our troubles, imaginary and otherwise. Sixth: Io Miss Horning, we bequeath the Inter-class Football Teams so she may have someone to prepare a banquet for in the coming years. Seventh: To Miss Henry we leave an auditing committee with at least one mem- ber who understands laws and orders of bookkeeping, that she may not have all of the work and worry of keeping the school money. Eighth: To Miss Catterson, we bequeath a large book entitled, “How to Conduct an English Class Seriously,” with the hope that it will be used to advantage. Ninth: To Miss Peat, we leave more ability to solve impossible algebra and geometry propositions. 7 enth: To Mr. Schenk, we leave a room without windows to be used the eighth period, so that his class of boys will center attention on him and not the typing girls. Eleventh: To Miss Moore, we bequeath one Valentino and one Pickford to take the leads in the next Senior play she directs. Also a permanent wfave. Twelfth: To Miss Dennis, we leave our best wishes that she will not follow in the footsteps of “Barber-ism” established by the Senior girls. Thirteenth: To Mr. Van Dyke, we the Senior girls, leave all our smiles. Fourteenth: To Mr. Alden, we leave all our convincing manners. Fifteenth: To Miss Anderson, we bequeath a brass medal for having conquered Huck Knapp, heretofore deemed impossible. Sixteenth: To Miss Knotts, we bequeath enough big boys to take the place of the Seniors in her typing classes. Seventeenth: To Mr. Brown, we leave a late book “Something New in Assembly Talks” to be studied and practiced thoroughly. Eighteenth: To Miss Gearhart, we leave two dozen bandage gags to be used to silence the girls in her sewing class. Page Nineteen