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

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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—

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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 TOKA SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY One beautiful spring morning a car was seen coming down the highway at about ninety-five per. closely followed by the beloved and industrious speed cop. Larry Centner. In due time the speeder was halted, and many excuses followed. Officer Gcntner soon recognized the offender as his former classmate. Jack Doyle. Jack, realizing that he was caught and likely to be heavily fined, tried to stave off the impending trouble by asking if he knew where some of their former classmates were. Larry forgot for the moment about the fine, and started to tell eagerly the news he knew. “The last time I stopped Art Ayer he was a traveling salesman for a permanent wave corporation, canvassing in rural communities. I read in “The Six by Nine Liar. now published by Wayne Ryan, that Maxine Bennett is with the Ziegfeld Follies. He glanced across an open field, then pointed. “See that fellow? That's George Proctor. Sure enough. George was busily pitching hay. Almost immediately “George! O. George, lunch is getting cold,” came to the two. Though years had passed the voice reminded Jack of Lucy Cass. Larry continued: Herbert Dillingham is an outstanding professor at Yale University. He has received the degrees of B. S., B. A.. M. A., Ph. D.. and the much coveted P. S. “When I was in New York last year I saw Dorothy Rcasoner and Clara Shultz doing trapeze performances in Betty Newby’s circus. That quiet, reserved, clear-speaking fellow. Chester Flory. became Josephine County's champion grass-seed grower. He is also superintendent of the Hugo Orphan Asylum and is completing his book. “How to Raise Children Without Spanking.” He says he enjoys nothing so much as the bedtime stories sent out from the Super Broadcasting Station by Ruth Breitmayer. I stopped a Rolls-Royce a few days ago and found it was driven by Glenn Pearson. He said Mary Applebe nearly broke his heart by eloping with Velton Haber-man. When Jack expressed surprise that Glenn had come up so far in the world as to own a Rolls-Royce, Larry explained. Oh. he was just the chauffeur. I really have lost track of the rest of our classmates. Don’t you know what has become of some of them? “Well, let me see, said Jack. “There's Albert Jewell. The last time I saw him he was holding a high position with Pearl Reynolds’ Zoo as head animal trainer. Carol Baldwin is endorsing 'Stillman’s Freckle Cream’ and, according to her statement, is obtaining wonderful results. Elwin Abel, you know, was promoted to the position of head general of the Mexican Army. While they were talking, an ancient Chevie roadster with yellow disk wheels stopped, and before he recognized his old classmates, Leslie Whitehouse. for it was no other, inquired how far he was from the next repair station. He hadn't had time to get the question out before he was recognized. He introduced the little roly-poly blond woman beside him as his wife and said he was inspecting his chain of hot dog stands which extended from Southern California to British Columbia. Jack and Larry told him they were discussing the fate of their former classmates and asked him whether he knew where any of them were. Have you heard that Bud Baker is now governor of the Hawaiian Islands? I noticed by the last cartoon that Alma Collins is the world’s tennis champion.” When asked where his old friend, Buryi Kickert. was, Leslie told them she had married a bus driver and was very happy and contented. “Dale Griffin is now in high society. The other night he w'on the booby prize at a bridge party given by Miss Virginia Frederick at her mountain home. Bertha Tallin is an old maid living with her grandmother in Rogue River. You may also be interested to know that Orion Garrett as a street cleaner is now living a life of drudgery. A fellow hailed us about twenty miles —26—