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

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jg32 THE T O K A 1932 November 20. Football I he football season was closed on the Ashland field in a fiery battle between the Ashland and Grants Pass teams in which Ashland came out victorious, 12 to 0, while Medford won the Southern Oregon championship. Name KuKenia Hunt Mildred Cox Charles Vannlce Donald Bailey ImoKene Johnston Vivienne Morris HI ad vs Hively Be Nora Brown Frank O'Neil Lola Myers Noted for Her wee small voice Dark brown eyes Manly stature Seven league stride 1 im pies Black eye-brows Honf? hair I ebatinK Sheikish ways High grades Ambition Ain’t got none Meet Joe E. Brown Do big things Be a king's dictator Crow old gracefully Be a stenographer Be a school marm To be de-chorus Be a master truck driver Write French poetry Cause of Death Worked too hard Murdered Shaving Over-exercise Heart trouble Printer's pie Cracked nuts Idleness One arm driving Water on the brain November 25 Thanksgiving Program Selected members of the Sophomore class showed their high degree of dramatic ability when they produced the one-act play “It Might Have Been Worse.” Jack Van Dyke and Lila Fae Williams as the son and daughter quarreled in a most realistic manner. Mary Harmon and f rank f armer as the mother and father were both good in their parts, the mother as a lady always taking the part of her children who thought they didn’t get as much as the others their age, and talking about how she worked her poor fingers to the bone; the father as a hard-working business man who is always being the subject of quarrels because he does not get the children enough clothes and things. Ray Geer as the messenger boy who brings the news to the father that he has lost all of his money and Juanita Bell as the maid who helps the family iecover from the shock were also good. November 25. Football On T hanksgiving Day the usual battle between the alumni and football team of the High School was played, and, as usual, the alumni proved superior to the boys. Too bad we can’t collect all our “finished product’’—the All American stars couldn’t smash our line! The Director of Athletics The coach. What would we do without him! It is he who makes the team. He is the team’s morale; its backbone and supreme judge. It matters not what the crowd may say, so long as the coach approves. Leonard B. Mayfield, who has been the football and basket ball coach here for the past three years, has done much toward introducing a complete course of physical education for boys in the Grants Pass High School. He studied for his master’s degree in the University of California last summer and is planning to take another such course this coming summer. Besides coaching, Mr. Mayfield has a very interesting class in biology. A man who gains the respect and liking, not only of the athletic boys but of the whole student body, is a worthy member of our faculty, as well as an asset to old G. P. H. S. 1151

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i g 3 2 THE T O K A i 9 3 October 31 Football In a free-scoring, hard-fought game on the Klamath field. Grants Pass was defeated by a score of 32 to 23. Name Lillian Troest Moneta Meikle Dorcas Sheldon Venita Spalding Harriet Woodward Viola Coover Dorothy Hoffman Pauline Harader Wallace Rice Evona Lamb Mavsel Christian! Pauline Silver Robert Peek Gordon Corporon Holland Flory Noted for Her style Mischief Solemn expression Pickles Thinking Popularity English shark Slimness His twin Timidity Quietness Blond ness Dark wavy hair Purple cords His smile Ambition Have a Garbo-like form Be a Paderewski Be as sarcastic as Tommie Be an authority on Latin Be 5 ft. 6 in. tall Be an X-Ray specialist Be an opera singer Be a “Big Shot” Be a philosopher on studentology Be a heart specialist Be a cook Be a nurse maid Star with Greta Garbo Be a diamond merchant Be a butcher Cause of Death Marathon dance Spotted fever Did as she pleased No date Gained 10 pounds Seven year itch Broken heart Innocence ()mniscience Ignorance Vamping men Blown away Extreme mental cruelty Stray bullet Isn't going to die November I I. Football The evenly matched teams of Roseburg and Grants Pass met in a gridiron battle on the former’s field. The score favored Roseburg 26 to 20. A woman of forty will work like sixty to look like twenty. November I 3. The Girls’ League Party The girls held their annual party in the High School auditorium. As it was to be a co-ed party each girl came with her “boy partner.” Some were dressed as farmer boys and girls, some as colonial men and women and others as school students. A very entertaining program, given by members from the various classes, was presented during the evening. It consisted of readings, several musical numbers, and stunts. The program being concluded, everyone went down to the gymnasium, where the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing. Refreshments of doughnuts and punch were served. Did you ever hear of the trapper who skinned a raccoon and found a college man inside? [141

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i 9 3 2 THE T O K A 1932 December I 1. Junior Play The Junior play “Fixing it for Father was given at the High School auditorium December I 1. The plot centers around Professor Risdon, Boyd Wyatt, who has allowed his name to be used by Dick Cunard, Harold Hansen, his brother-in-law, in a correspondence vvith a matrimonial agency widow, played by Rachel Bundy. Dick dares not use his own name because of the peculiar conditions of his former wife’s will, which forbids his having any love affairs for three years. The Risdon daughters. Helen Dodson and Wilma Copple. receive one of the letters while their father is away, and upon investigation they find the whole pack in his bureau drawer. They decide to teach their father a lesson. Their iovers, played by Clifford Woodley and Wallace Palmer, help by disguising, one as a widow, the other as the professor. The pseudo-professor mystifies the entire household, and Jack, as the widow, succeeds in disgusting not only the professor but Dick. The real widow appears. Emma, Mary Treadgold, the sister-in-law of the Professor Risdon and Dick, complicates the affairs still more by deciding to marry the professor. Harry does a good deed by turning the attention of the real widow to Harold, Robert Adams, the son of Merton, Ray Green, a visiting friend. A new will, written by Dick’s wife just before her death, is found. This leaves her fortune to the professor. Dick gets what he deserves, the widow gets a husband, the lovers get each other, while the professor and Aunt Li .e, Mary Ellen Ingram, are left in peace. December 1 5. Inter-class Debate The question for the interclass debates was Resolved: I hat the several states should enact legislation providing for unemployment insurance. The Sophomores were represented by Jack Van Dyke and Bob Howard, affirmative. Fred Dayton and John Shaw from the Junior class also upheld the affirmative: while Bob Peck and LeNora Brown, Senior representatives, upheld the negative. The freshmen failed to turn out. The Ted Cramer debate cup was won by the Seniors, making it the third time the numerals “32” to appear on this cup. [16J