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

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY May 20. 1935. This is a clear evening, the radio ought to be working fine. Maybe I'll hear from some of my old class-mates of G. P. H. S. It has been exactly ten years since we graduated! Who knows where they’ve all gone! Zip, whistle, scratch. Ah, I hear someone speaking. It is faint, and hard to understand. Now it is clearer. Station XYZ. J. W. announcing. (Why! that must be Jake Whorley!) Honorable Louise Fallin is collecting material for 'Who's Who in America,’ and will now broadcast these statistics as the educational feature of tonight’s program.” (Can you beat that) Dorothy Lundburg is conducting a campaign for money to buy toothpicks for the starving bob-cats of Paris. Another of my Classmates! Melvyn Cardwell is now the head of the International campaign for prohibition. Ah, a report from the musical world—Virginia Rengstorff is playing comb and paper solos in Gladys Woodruff’s famous Dumb Dora Orchestra. Lloyd Morrison—Now playing for the King of Siam. Now for those who’ve acquired fame—Dorothy Campbell, now playing “Cleo-patria at the Egyptian theater in Paris. Marie Harbeck!—editor of the Daily Journal at Hugo. Cora Randle—what next—has recently returned from Petrograd where she has been taking a course in “How to do the Laughing Blues. She is now starting a class and we all hope she will be successful as she has chosen this for her life work. Bill Breitmeyer is now owner of Galice’s new thirty-siory department store, and is fortunate in having in his employ the able Mr. Richard Lawton, who holds the position of chief clerk in the ladies hat department. Both are doing exceptionally well in their especial lines of work. More fame!—Doris Lowdon is becoming famous as a missionary to the Hindus. Well Doris was always inclined that way. It would have been a shame for her to have taken up anything else. And Martha Wright—has just reached the climax of her literary career with the writing of “ The Vamp and Her Science.” Keep up the good work Martha. Frank Day!—The great chemist!—Has worked out a new theory of proposing. Oh. I wonder when it will be released to the public 1 Funny, how they stick near home! LaVern Herron has been promoted to the position of grave digger in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. I always knew he would be great, if he kept on. Still talking about Flora Gillott. The newspapers pay her enough attention without bothering the radio fans—but she deserves it I guess. She’s Queen of the new Man-Hating colony of East Hollywood. Well, even if Flora is so famous there are others—Bertha Gigler for instance—manager of the Rogue River Steamship Board. Guess that ought to make a few of them sit up and take notice! Donald Neilson is coaching a cross-word puzzle team at Yale— but even that won’t compare with Bertha’s accomplishment. For goodness sakes! Wayne Jordan!—the largest cattle rancher in Oregon owns a five-acre ranch near Selma! And Ruby Varner-—assistant dishwasher for the Britten Lunch Room. Grants Pass is bound to be on the map—I always knew it! My word! News from Chicago. Wilma Sheeley is now the Secretary of the Secretary’s Secretary of the Madame Bum’s Hosette Co. Peggy Tuttle is dancing in the Chop Suey Cabaret. Her stilt performing feat is celebrated throughout the world. News from abroad! Norma Trumbly? Oh, My! Norma has made use of her great talent. She has worn out the American public and is lecturing in Europe on the subject, Man, the Brute.” Oh, yes. Pete is with her but he doesn’t appear because of the effect it would have on her audiences. Patricia Gale is also lecturing on “The Art of Reducing.” She is still touring America, however. —2D—

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY I our years ago. in the fall of 1921, ninety-six ungainly looking Freshmen entered Grants Pass Hi. At their first meeting the following officers were elected: Milton Green, president; Albert Smith, vice-president; Ruth Newman, secretary; Kenneth 1 ompkins, treasurer; Harriett Clapp, representative to Student Body Council, and Miss Yannke, class advisor. Having been duly initiated they soon made a name for themselves. Blue and gold were chosen for class colors. 1 he following year they re-entered school as Sophomores, a little more intelligent looking than the year before, and ready to help the school all they could. The officers elected were Milton Green, president; Dorothy Zimmerman, vice-president; Albert Smith, secretary; Marie Harbeck. treasurer; Catherine Carrell, representative to Student Body Council, and Mr. Schenk, class advisor. As Sophomores they participated in all forms of athletics, having four boys on the first team in football, and two girls on the basketball team. In baseball both boys and girls played. I he Sophomore boys won the interclass baseball and basketball championship and the girls won the baseball. The class was awarded two small pennants in Scroll and Toka contests. These pennants were proudly attached to the large class pennant. I he social functions of the Sophomores, though not numerous were interesting in their nature. The most important event of the year was the party given the Freshmen, which for the sake of variety, took the form of a county fair. I he girls of the class enjoyed several hikes later in the season. Soon after the first snow a large 25” was seen upon old Mt Baldy. Several attempts were made by the other classes to destroy it but it remained until the snow melted. In 1923 the class took up the roll as Juniors and they proved themselves well worthy of the name. For their class officers the following were elected: Syd Young, president; Marie Harbeck, vice-president: Ruth Newman, secretary; Virginia Rengstortf, treasurer: and Norma Trumbly, representative to Student Body Council. Mr. Schenk was again selected as class advisor. I he class assumed all the responsibilities of Juniors and conducted both the Frosh initiation and other events for which only a Junior can qualify. I his year the class won the inter-class baseball championship and also the track meet. The Juniors also were awarded first place in the Stunt Nile contests. 1 he larger part of the football team was composed of Juniors, and the class had three representatives in girls basketball. It was with great pride that the old class of '25 entered school for their last year. They were not only proud to be Seniors but they were the first class to graduate from the wonderful new High School. Laverne Jess was elected president; Lew Wyrick, vice-president; Marie Harbeck, secretary; Frank Day, treasurer; and Catherine Carrell, representative to Student Body Council. In the Senior year they never slackened their pace. T he class of twenty-five won the Scroll and I oka pennants, and Stunt Nite, as well as both girls’ and boys’ inter-class basketball games. Dorothy Zimmerman, their representative, won the beauty contest. The talent of the class is not confined to these things for Martha Wright won the Lincoln Essay medal. Now, as their Senior year draws to a close they feel they have not only gained by their high school years but have given something, and taken part in the activities to such an extent that they will not soon be forgotten. By MILTON GREEN.

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DeNlonte Seybold is coaching ballet dancing in the Saxoff School of Dancing under the auspices of the Methodist church in Hong Kong for those afflicted with wooden legs. Well, I guess it’s all right! Francis Bahm—the strongest woman in the world, can lift 550 pounds with her little finger. It sounds tragic but maybe it’s so. Fred Daws has quit wearing a shirt! Hm—he got out of the habit while he was running a fresno and plow on the school-grounds. Isn’t that a shame! Helen Mattison is in the asylum. Poor girl she didn’t know whether to debit” or “credit.” More tragedy!—Oh, no it isn’t either! Kenny Anderson sliced part of his fingers off with a knife but he’s been making fairly good progress in typing ever since. Now, he can hit one key at a time! News from the stage—Syd Young is playing opposite Glorious Gloria” in “Trin-itratoluene” otherwise T. N. T.” Another message from Paris—Well, no wonder! Milt Green, the sheik, is now a floor walker in a women’s department store in Paris. 1 alk about luck!—Louis Ringuette has inherited a gold-fish farm from his great aunt. He’ll have fine success teaching them to dance. Hugh House and his troublesome Ford have parted long ago. He now takes trips via the mule. It’s probably safer! Oh, dear—it seems to be all bad news, now. Wade Harmon, the great cross-word puzzler, is in a sanitarium. It seems that he worked too hard hunting for a four-letter word beginning with g” and ending with 1” meaning female. Maybe this will be better! No, it isn’t —Edith Ayer has been shut up in an asbestos cell on the charge of arson. Ah, this is fine—Jean and Laverne Jess are as happy as ever in a ranger station on Mt. Everest. They have a high outlook on life. Oh, my conscience—I was always in hopes that no one I knew would ever be a solicitor—they are so boring—but here comes Raymond Walker with the agency for a two-piece, one-button, full dress suit, which he sells to the South Africans. There’s Merle Griffin, too, selling foot warmers to the Eskimos! There's certainly a lot of them taken to foreign countries. There’s Wendell Grout, posing as a model for grass skirts in the Hawaiian Islands. And Lawrence Schmidt instructing Hula Hula dancers at the South Pole. Some people have peculiar notions! Doesn’t seem as if any of them have become inventors—I did so hope there would be. Oh, listen to this. An invention at last—John Hendren has invented a fur-lined bath tub to be used on cold winter nights and has become enormously rich. What! A scientist—Inez Fulk, the great bugologist, has discovered a three-legged fly! And Ashby, do you suppose they could have agreed on a vocation—after so many minor disagreements during their high school days. Ashby attempted to cross honey-bees with lightning-bugs so they could work at night but the result was unsatisfactory because the poor bees worked themselves to death. Bertha hord, too, is at the height of her glory. She has invented a new and more efficient way to work academic arithmetic which is growing more popular every day. It’s always disheartening to hear of those who have missed their calling and have contented themselves with something else—lujuesc Howard’s ambition to be a dramatist has never been realized. She is engaged in teaching auto mechanics and agriculture in the I hree Pines High School, another thriving little city near home. Oh, yes, and Ruth Newman is Dean of Women at the U. of Merlin. It isn’t a very large university but it has the name—that’s enough. Ruth Flint is an English instructor in the Grants Pass Junior College and is also “house-mother” of the Alpha Sigma Sorority. They say she is very strict. —30—