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

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CARL OESTREICH - - “Ostrich” IVh should debaters shun womankind■1 Language, Science, Mathematics, History. Pyatha-gorean 4. Debate 4. Committees and entertainments. Ciceronian 4. DOROTHA EGGER - - “Dot” If she will do it, she will! Commerce. Basketball 1-2-3. Opera 2. Glee Club I-2-3-4. Toka Staff 3-4. Scroll Staff 4. Junior Girls Club 3. Hi-G Club 4. Class Play 4. Spanish Club 1-2. Committees and entertainments. WALDO TUCKER - - “Tuffy” Aheady spolfen for. History. Toka Staff 3. Football 4. Baseball 2-3-4. Pythagorian 3-4. Track 4. Hi-G Club 4. Committees and programs. ALBERTA SHOEMAKE - “Blondy” Beware the girl with the golden hair! History, Science. Entered G. P. H. S. 1922 from Molalla Hi, Molalla, Oregon. Junior Girls Club 3. 1 oka Staff 3-4. Pythagorian 4. Class Play 4. Girls Reserve 3-4. Rooters Club 4. Committees and entertainments. DONALD JORDAN - - “Don” Has educated feet. Mathematics, Industry. Interclass Baseball I. Spanish Club 3. Committees and entertainments. ARLETA MYERS - - “Shorty” Laugh and the world laughs with you. History. Scroll Staff 2. French Club 3. Junior Girls Club 3. Girls Reserve 3-4. Pythagorian Club. Committees and entertainments. Page Twenty

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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

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Nineteenth: To Mr. Rimer, we bequeath an automatic broom to Help him in cleaning the Assembly. Twentieth: To the Juniors, we leave our Senional Dignity. Twenty-first: To the Sophomores, we leave our originality and success. Twenty-second: To the Freshmen, including the Subs, we bequeath the care and guardianship of the incoming class. Twenty-third: To the incoming Freshmen, we leave our colors, black and old rose, and our loyalty to G. P. H. S. Individually: I. Alberta Shoemake, will my policy of “I love me,” to Theima Bryan. I, Donald Jordan, leave my important manner to my little brother, Wayne. I, Iris Burns, leave my graceful ways to Alice Harvey. I. Chester Britten, leave my mighty size to Paul Kincaid. I, Lucy Allen, do will my winning smile to Elizabeth Blanchard for vamping purposes only. I, Flora Baird, bequeath my bashfulness to Huck Knapp. I, Chester Edgerton. leave my dislike for women to Jimmy Cline. I. Rilda Turner, bequeath my book, “How to Make Love” to Melba McBrian. I. Bill Madison, leave my manly voice and whiskers to Syd Young. I, Virginia Roy, leave my slender figure to Elsie Harmon. I, Bemice Coon, leave my own particular manner of marcelle to anyone capable of copying it I. Stanley Lawton, bequeath my paid-in part of the street to underclassmen with bicycles. I, Eli Allen, bequeath my smart remarks and haughty ideas to Curtis Cole. I, Vera Johnston, will my baby doll face to Marie Passons. I. Edna Batman, leave my methods of wrong doing to Arletus Hershberger. We. Clara Harbeck and Le Roy Stevens, leave our power of debate to Helen Bunch and La Verne Batman. I. Edith Spaulding, leave my auburn beauty and popularity to Kathleen Garrett. I. Paul Allen, leave my car to Harry Barrell. hoping it will not turn his head as it has mine. I. Lois Kincaid, bequeath my old-fashioned ways to Elizabeth Coover. I. Arda Isham. leave myself and all cares involved to Lew Wyrick. I. Lee Houck, leave my taking ways to Lloyd Mornson. I. La Vita Hough, will my long hair to Huskey Spalding. I. Clara Loughridge, leave all my freckles to Don Nelson. 1. Arthur Bailey, leave my success in baseball to Calvin Bryan. I, Lucile Hayes, will my sweet voice to Elmer Pollock. I. Marjorie Siegrist, will my right to wear a diamond to any girl who can get said right. I. Donald Barnes, will my red sweater to Curtis Cole. I, Elsie Patton, leave to Mr. Van Dyke a challenge that I can chew gum faster than he can. I. Mintie Wilhelm, leave to Blanchard Davis, a card bearing these words. “Tittle Children Should Be Seen and Not Heard.'’ in hopes that she will be induced to practice what she preaches. I, Burtron Courtney, leave my red hair and blue eyes to Buster Russell. I, Clarice Bunch, do will my convincing ways to Virginia Rengstorff. Page Twenty-one