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

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 THE TO K A Walker Senior Class Adviser SENIOR CLASS SONG Hie spring days are here; The sun is bright and clear. All the class is free from care. And it may even dare Commit some mischief rare: I his class of mine. The class of 29. Chorus: We are jolly Seniors Of old Grants Pass High, Happy, yet sorry That school days Have passed by. Longing for the days to be Oh, how proud are we. I am lucky Just a senior to be.

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 THE TO K A Chester Flory Chet “I think it's kind of stuffy in here English. History. Language. Sec. of Service Club 4. Boys’ Glee Club 4. Entered from North China American School. Stunt Nite 4. Operetta 4. Ruth A. Breitmayer R. A. B. “Just a minute, Chester.” Home Economics. English. Orchestra 1, 2. 4. Stunt Nite 1, 4. Senior Play 4. Ruth Gray Ruthie “Oh, Delirium! When I get my Ph.D.!” English. History. President of Girls’ League 4; Vice-President 3. Glee Club 1, 3. En-t red G. P. H. S. from North Central High School, Spokane, Wash., as a freshman. Stunt Nite 3, 4. Senior Play 4. Operetta 3. Delegate to Conference at Eugene 4. Typing contests 4. Editor of Scroll 4. Scroll staff 1, 2. Toka Staff 3, 4. Senior Squall Cats 4. Student Council 4. Stanley Wickham Stan ejT “Now, Miss Macy! Now, Miss Macy!” History. English. Entered from Franklin High School, Portland and from Lake View High School, Chicago. Stunt Nite 3, 4. Glee Club 4. Stage Mgr. Senior Play 4. Gifford Hart Ciff “I thing that was the man who—” Science. History. Agg. Club 3. Orchestra 3, 4. Entered G. P. H. S. from Kerby. Dorothy Reasoner “Dot “Mercy goodness!” English. History. Entered from Gold Hill High School as a sophomore. Stunt Nite 4. Geraldine Thompson “Gerry” “I’m in my seventh heaven.” English. History. Orchestra 2, 3, 4. Stunt Nite 2, 3. Senior Play Staff. Typing contest 3, 4. Torch Honor Society. Gordon Bell “Liberty “Now, back home. I know—” English, History. Vice-president Service Club. Orchestra 4. Entered from Lock-wood High, Saskatchewan, Canada. Stunt Nite 4. Senior Play Staff 4. Charles Baker “Bud “Let Jack do it. He wants to.” English. Mathematics. Orchestra 3. Carol Baldwin Carol “Naughty but nice.” Home Economics. English. Stunt Nite 2, 4. Senior Class Play Staff. Toka Staff 4. —22—

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 THE TOKA CLASS WILL OF 1929 LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL PERSONS BY THE FOLLOW I NO BRESENTS: That we. the Senior Class of the Grants Pass High School. Josephine County. Oregon, having completed the prescribed courses in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, all members being somewhat of a sound mind, and influenced in no way, do hereby make our last will and testament. First: We bequeath our successful social and studious life in high school to the class of nineteen hundred and thirty. Second: To the Sophs we do will all the meanness enthralled within our enterprising class. Third: To the Freshmen, we do will our dignity and stately manners. Fourth: To the incoming Freshman class, we do will and bequeath our loyalty, re- spect. abilities, and our beloved colors, blue and gold. Fifth: To the faculty of the said Grants Pass High School, we leave our many sweet memories of the happy years spent together. Sixth: To Mr. Larrimore, our faithful janitor, who. we feel sure, will know how to dispose of them, we bequeath our mental cobwebs. INDIVIDUALS I. Elwin Abel, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to detect all crime in G. P. H. S. to our already famous Gumshoe of Pickles. Harold Dorman. I, Arthur Ayer, do will my ability to shout wrong answers in all classes to Jack Dedrick. We, Mary Appleby and Glenn Pearson, do will our parting place at the back exit of the assembly to Carlton Wiley and Eunice Musty. I. Carol Baldwin, do will and bequeath the care of my beloved brother, Howard, to Mary Meade and Velma Allen. I. Gordon Bell, do bequeath my ability to stay single to Annabelle Taylor. We, Maxine Bennett and Pearl Reynolds, do hereby will and bequeath our ability to obtain dates for every occasion to Miss Hall. I, Sally Matson, do will my serious ways to Leland Gillette. We. Lem Massie and Stanley Wickham, do will and bequeath our mannerly ways and love for life at the quiet fireside to Ulva Coover and Jean Fallin. I. Bertha Fallin. do bequeath my interests in Rogue River to Jay Frederick. I. Ruth A. Breitmayer, do hereby will mv long name and short figure to Charles Miller. I. Jack Doyle, do will my wavy hair and wild western tactics to Howard Eismann. I, Loris Everton, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to occupy one desk to Lester Harbeck. We, Wayne Ryan and Bea Kenyon, do hereby will our love for jitney dances to Earnest Bearss. I. Dorothy Reasoncr, do will and bequeath my slenderness and blonde hair to Mary T rumbly. I. Nellie Ford, do will my ability as a toe dancer to Lillian Paige. I. Alma Collins, do will and bequeath my love for canaries and cats to l orrainc Goswick. 1, Larry Gentner, do will and bequeath my love of the great white way to Wm. Fitzpatrick. 1, Chester Flory, do will my unbreakable habit of asking questions and arguing with my teachers to Robert Couch. —24—