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

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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—

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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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 TOKA I. Orion Garrett, do will my ability to obtain the ladies’ votes to Cyrus Lloyd. I, Virginia Tillman, do will and bequeath my position at the right of the driver of the Pontiac to Dorothy McBrien. I. Betty Newby, do will my cute lisp to Mac Greene. We, Geraldine Thompson and Virginia Frederick, do hereby will and bequeath our blue notes to the orchestra of 1930. I, Inger Hendrickson, do will my freckles to Eddie Madden. I, George Proctor, do hereby will myself to Lucy Cass. We, Leola Mansfield and Elsie Koenig, do will and bequeath our ability to skip school to Harvey Jones. I, Velton Haberman. do will my ability to attend High School four years and still remain unknown to Kenneth Wynant. I, Albert Jewell, do bequeath my regular attendance at High School to Joe Klitz. I, Ruth Gray, do will and bequeath my much-treasured place among the Senior Squall Cats to Tom Palmer, provided he goes to Europe. I, Lucy Hart, do bequeath my ability to get along with Mr. Van Dyke to Bernard Brady. I, Herbert Dillingham, do will and bequeath my specs to Ogden Bennight. to see through difficult chemistry problems. I, Gifford Hart, do will and bequeath my ability to butcher the violin to Gaylord Tice. I, Ida Gunter, being in a sound mind and possessing all the arts of Cupid, do will my flirting eyes to Ida Larson. I. Lois Harvey, do will my charming affections to Ernest Cotter. I. Ruth Hackett, do will my masculine abilities to Lorraine Doyle. I. Annie Heller, do will and bequeath my meek, mild, gentle voice to Mary Meade. I, Clifford Sparlin. having completed my six years of High School, do will my superior knowledge to Sy. Holloaway? I, Rick Hillis, do will, sell, or bequeath my ability to play football to Walt Massie. I, Lawrence Hunter, do will and bequeath my ability to manage the High School to Benny Spalding. I, Herbert Jess, do will and bequeath my small stature and weak voice to Rusty Totman. We, Beatrice Hively and Ethel Jordan, being both mentally and physically fit, do will our long flowing tresses to Lily Kizziar. I, Clara Shultz, do will my place in Mr. Swigart's heart while in chemistry class to Merle Redding. I. Evert Manfull. do will and bequeath my interest in women to anyone that wants it. I, Maurice Moser, do will and bequeath my quiet and meek ways to Nonie Howard. I, Nelda Stringer, do will my ability to laugh at a joke to Barbara Schmidt. I, Buryi Kickert. do will and bequeath my dramatic ability to Alberta Kuhnhardt. I, Leslie Whitehouse, do will the task of writing this epistle for the class of '30 to some poor Junior. Signed: LESLIE WHITEHOUSE. LEM MASSIE. MAXINE BENNETT. HERBERT JESS. GLENN PEARSON. —25—