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

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Alive and her kitty will lend you l Ihx'uug'h the doorway of Looking- glziss House. Cupper picture? In trying to deviate from the general type of themes used in previous years, the 1941 TOKA staff has chosen for you a trip through the school year 1940-41 with Lewis Carroll's famous character, Alice- Through-the-Looking-glass. just as Alice traveled down a magic passage to Looking-glass House, so this page will be your magic door to your Looking- glass House-a reflection of Grants Pass high school. With Alice, you will see mirrored in these pages the principal events of note during the year 1940-41. To make this trip as much like Alice's trip through the other Looking-glass House as possible, we have named our divisions after chapters in Alice Through- the-Looking-glassf' Since Alice's instructor was Humpty-Dumpty, we have given our administration section that name. Likewise, we have titled the class section Looking-glass Insects, the activity section Garden of Live Flowers, the athletic section after the famous battle of the Lion and Unicorn, and the features after Queen Alice. To further carry out our theme, we have elected by popular vote the schools prettiest brunette and prettiest blonde to represent Alice's companions, the Red Queen and the White Queen. Like Alice, we are pawns in a huge chess-game trying to reach the last square, where we will become kings and queens-with mortar- boards in place of crowns. And now we invite you to take Alice by the hand and step through the doorway of Looking-glass House. May the 1941 TOKA give you an accurate reflection of your position on the checkerboard. e come to oo z'ng:g oss ouse ,Xt right is at picture of the TOKA assembly p1'og.:'rz1m in which Amy Pruden its Alive looks through the il-norway of I.t1f1kinp.f-glass House with Marian llunson and Jane Dy- sert. 4

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aw iff'- DALIC F. GINN Deokcateol to Duff: Ginn right is Mr. Hir n in his present office in the Count Court House. The 1941 TOKA staff gratefully dedicates this issue of the TOKA to Dale Ginn, in recognition of his services to the students of Grants Pass high school during the past years here as teacher. Mr. Ginn graduated from the Puget Sound University of Seattle, Washington, with a B. A. de- gree, also majoring in business administration. The '52 TOKA says of him: Another teacher with whom we were afflicted was Mr. Dale Ginn-iHe teaches commerce and commercial law and was as- sistant coach of the basketball squad. He was advis- er of the 1935 TOKA and Service club adviser the same year. In 1935-56 he began teaching civics and acted as junior class adviser. The following year he taught civics and business training and was one of the student council advisers. In 1957-38 he was ad- viser to the freshman class-now the graduating sen- ior class of '41, In 1939-40 he taught U. S. history to the juniors and also served as their adviser. This year Mr. Ginn acted as history-civics instructor and sophomore class adviser until the first of the year, when he took over his new position as county school superintendent. Obviously, during his ten years of teaching, Mr. Ginn has given students his active cooperation, so it is not surprising that he is well liked among the student body. Most of the pupils who have been in his classes will remember him for his subtle humor and his flattering way of dealing with students as adults.