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

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1 “Lee Sheldon has attained what for him is the highest peak of fame. As an aside he invented a pair of winged shoes, enabling girls to walk home quickly from airplane rides. “Charles Howard is amusing large audiences in New York. He is singing the leading role in the musical comedy, ‘Ten Nights in Paris.’ “Leora Patton has made a large fortune growning bird seed. 1 his occupation requires only about two months in the summer, so Miss Patton has plenty of opportunity to devote herself to her favorite pastime—that of reading Chaucer and John Erskine. “Every evening we are pleased to listen to the melodious voice of Jack Blanchard telling his evening bedtime tale over Station BLAB. We always knew Jack’s ability to tell stories would lead him to heights of fame. The 'London Punch’ tells us that Harry Dorman is ‘knocking ’em dead,’ in leading London and Parisian theatres playing the leading masculine role in 'Why Gentlemen Prefer Brunettes.’ Very characteristic of Harry. “Harvey Woodward now holds the job of official bathing suit inspector at Palm Beach. He says he doesn’t need any help. “That is all I know about the class of '28. But if you will go down to that further booth where they are selling ice cream cones and ask for a copy of ‘Who's Who’ you will be able to find the rest,” said the man with whom the stranger had been conversing. The stranger went to the booth the man had mentioned and got the copy of 'Who’s Who.’ He turned the pages rapidly, searching for any of his old classmates' names. Finally he stopped and read: “Edwin Dole is the proud owner of a conversation silencer. The automatic device has the power of making all persons, other than its owner, unable to talk for any desired length of time. “Henry Hillis is in Poland lecturing on the benefits of a high school education. Many examples from his own experience here are used in his speeches. “Douglas Orme, after much painstaking work, has perfected a new gas which he claims will rid any school or study hall of all its occupants in a short time. It also proves a very valuable thing for fumigation. “The Grants Pass Daily Post, edited by Ira Woolfolk, circulation 250.000 gives a column to the splendid juggling act presented at the Broadway Theater by the Neilson Twins—Ronald and Duncan. “Marie Strack is a very popular entertainer at Jump-Off-Jce, where she is manager of a zoo. “Mary Durham has written a volume entitled, ‘Play the Violin in Ten Easy Lessons.’ The proceeds from this book have made her exceedingly wealthy. “Robert Lutz has become an efficient truck driver, practicing on five-ton Whites in the busy thoroughfares of Oregon’s metropolis. Robert has taken the final examination on the size and eloquence of his vocabulary and has passed with a high grade. “Dr. Malvin McCarthy, M. D.. D. S., Ph. D., has completed the final edition of a treatise in twelve volumes on the complete cure and control of cynache parotinitis, commonly known as mumps. Dr. McCarthy has had a vast amount of experience along this line. “Donald Griffith, formerly known as ‘Shiek,’ is now dog catcher for Maurice Jordan’s new cash and carry delicatessen and butcher shop. “Agnes Gardner is now making large sums of money teaching young Eskimos how to make hot dog sandwiches. Whenever asked where she learned to compound such delicacies she says, ‘Why, in G. P. H. S..’ Ruth Smith is still selling notions behind the counter of one of Woolworth’s largest variety stores. We find, however, that she is still an admirer of red hair. —26—

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 the horses arrived he started and cried: “Rewarded at last! There is one of my old classmates, Richard Claudson, riding the fastest of his enormous string of famous race horses, which are known the world over. After this outburst he looked around him with more interest than he had shown previously. “Well, well,” he exclaimed as he saw two ladies a few rows back of him. “I believe that there are two more of my old classmates.” A few minutes’ conversation soon revealed the fact that Alma Langworthy and Bessie Riddle were overseeing t':e sales of their famous confection, popcorn and chewing gum combined. After watching the races for a time, the stranger left the grandstand and walked around the grounds for a while, f'inally. he came to a tent where Julia Wright was telling fortunes. With her experience in Vienna, where she had been in training, she was pleasing her clientele with a fine fortune—for fifty cents. He continued to walk around and finally someone called him by name. After talking a few minutes to this fellow, the stranger said: “Tell me of the members of the class of 1928.” “I know of only a few,” said the man, “but I will tell you those. Percy T. Booth now has a number of honorary degrees conferred upon him by several institutions of higher learning in Norway and Sweden. This was done in recognition of his services as a manufacturer of a well known product. “Percy’s product is extremely popular with Charles Ernst, who uses it extensively in the manufacture of his well known candy. ’Copenhagen fudge.’ He offers this to any of his old classmates whom he meets. Beryle Conklin has finally bought out the company that publishes ‘The Literary Digest.’ She says that she is going to increase the circulation of this magazine bv adding spice to the stories. “Willis Ausland recently won the All-American Flag Pole Sitting Contest, having sat for three weeks, six days, 23 hours and 59 minutes on a pole 100 feet high. “Junior Peters has been sentenced to I 5 years at Sing Sing. He was caught in Ben Alberts’ chicken yard and the explanation that the chickens were his was not successful. “Esther Winters is conducting a very popular correspondence course in commercial art. She is doing this in connection with managing a 360-acre ranch, a husband and a family. “Professor Ronald Beers, working in collaboration with Lillian Williams at Kerby’s internationally known Chemical School, has invented a new type of glue. It is thought that this will revolutionize the fly paper industry. “Everyone is now having the pleasure of reading a real book, written and published by Richardt Hansen. The title of this priceless edition is “Nine Hundred Easy Ways to Reduce.” “The Lee girls, Mildred and Zelia, have taken up grand opera and are now at the top of their chosen profession. Emil Harbeck is at present engaged in revising high school literature books; so many people agree with Mr. Harbeck that former books of this type have been too easy for the students that his new book has an enormous sale. “Anita Winbourn has become a well known criminal detective in the Placer police force. Vernon Duncan has finally become a high-pressure salesman. He is now in Borneo selling silk hats to the natives. He is said to be very successful. Esther Hawkins is dancing in theaters all over the world, especially in Turkey, Timbuktu and Tennessee. She is specializing in the Highland Fling. —25—

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“Connie Baker is working hard in her dressmaking establishment in New York. Kenneth Robinson gives her a great deal of assistance since he is Paris’s highest paid modiste. Mervin Bilderback has completed the installation of his 252 barber shops. He now operates shops from i la Juana to Vancouver. “Florence Adams and Jeanette McCaw have written several long volumes. ’Seven Ways to Get Acquainted.’ ’The Way of All Youth’ and many other interesting stories. Victorine Hiatt commends their perseverance in adding that extra thousand words that make all the difference in the world in literature when considered in the light of a missile. Victorine, we hear, has thrown one of their volumes at a number of too forward young men. “Iva Moore has become a humanitarian. She is varnishing the sandwiches in Pullman dining cars so that the attendants may be spared much strenuous labor in dusting them. “Marion Turner is also a reformer, but a little more radical. She claims that women should shave their heads. Up to the time of our going to press she has not found any followers. “Lilian Fosbery is serving in the capacity of private secretary to Senator Ross Johnson from Oregon. “Julia Gigler has at last reached the height of her ambition. She has studied chemistry from beginning to end until she can at last pass a test with a grade above fifty. “Althea Smith has become tremendously rich through the invention of a noiseless coffee cup. The sale of this is almost remarkable. “Evelyn Steele is now a stenographer for the Steel Trust which has its offices in the Steele Building in Toronto. “Bruce Smith is operating a sausage stuffing factory in Chicago. His jolly nature and hearty laugh help to increase his business. “Four years ago Pearl Coulson became Miss Horning’s successor in teaching Domestic Science at G. P. H. S. As Pearl has more or less an artistic temperament her talent has been in constant use in making new cake icing decorations. Helen Ringuette is now the only woman conductor who works for an airplane company. She is in danger of losing her position, however, for the company has tried for several years to teach her how to short change passengers, so far without success. “Dorothy Harper and Ruth Burkett are conducting a hotel for bootleggers only. Although the building is enormous they are having an addition built so that they can accommodate all who wish to stay at their hotel. “Buena Wetherbee is a teacher of English in the largest college in Africa. May Sears is an actress, loved by large audiences in New York. Berlin, Constantinople and Iceland. “Holt Wardrip, recently crowned king of the House of David, has appointed William Meeks as an agent to investigate Babe Ruth’s secrets of fly swatting. Hoy Opdycke has become a famous interpretative dancer and at the present time is filling an engagement at the Covent Garden, London. “Donald Harmon is writing songs that are appropriate to sing at football games. It is thought that he is slowly forcing Irving Berlin into obscurity. “Evan Anderson has become a minister. Foreign countries receive much of the benefit of his wonderful ability, as he is constantly traveling from one country to another. The stranger stopped reading, shut the book, sighed, vanished into the crowd, and was seen no more. Buena Wetherbee Robert Lutz Percy Booth —27—