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

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MR. M. B. WINSLOW. Superintendent Administrative Heads Serve School The school administration of School District No. 7, Josephine County, Oregon, is a board of directors of five members: Edward H. Gohrke, Chairman; Emil Gebers, H. M. Metcalf, Morris Milbank, and Sam J. Stinebaugh. This board of directors employes a clerk. Miss Lilian Fosbery, who keeps an accurate record of all board meetings, and assists in carrying out the policies of the board. She is the custodian of all funds of the district and makes all disbursements of funds as directed by the board. The board of directors employs a superintendent who is the executive agent of the board. It is his duty to keep the board informed of the operation of the schools, to make recommendations, and to carry out the policies of the board. The board of directors is an agency of the state of Oregon elected by the citizens of School District No. 7 as their representatives to provide education facilities for the youth of this community in accordance with the requirements of the State of Oregon and the desires of the citizens of the school district. Each member of the board is glad to give generously of his services to the school district. Each is proud of the excellent group of students in the Grants Pass high school and their achievements. Gohrke. Chairman Milbank Geber Stinebaugh Metcalf [PAGE TEN]

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STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT. DAN BEYER President’s Message The school year of 1941-42 has come to an end. It has been an exciting year — one of war, reverses, and sacrifices. Along with our other much loved luxuries must go the school annual. The TOKA will be edited and printed no more for the duration. This year the student body excelled all past ones in its policy of giving. The students bought defense stamps and bonds every Wednesday in the halls. One home room alone bought over a hundred dollars worth. The students supported and gave money to two Red Cross drives, the annual roll call and a war relief fund. Old paper for national defense was collected and student admission to one basketball games was two pounds of paper. A book week was held for obtaining books for the enjoyment of soldiers at the Grants Pass Hospitality house. Donations were made to help make Braille books for the blind. To show their increased patriotism, every student gave one cent or more so the student body could purchase a new- flag. In this year of national emergency Grants Pass high, like other schools, gave a number of its students and faculty members to the armed forces of our Nation. Although the policy of the armed forces and the schools was to allow students to finish their current school year, many, because of their eagerness to fight, could not wait and joined before the school term was over. Rights and obligations are inherited by all Americans. In peace and national security, Americans forget many of their obligations and remember only their rights. But in war, these obligations must be immediately recalled to mind and re-learned in order to preserve unity and independence. Many of the students at Grants Pass high have learned that their obligations to their country are just as important as the rights they expect it to give. They have learned this from taking part in school activities and sharing in the responsibilities. These students are ready to take their place as citizens. They are ready to support their country in danger or in peace and will not have to learn the necessity of doing their share and carrying out their obligation. As for myself, I have never had a more enjoyable or beneficial year than this one as student body president. [PAGE NINE]

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Miss Betta Harris MR. HKNRY E. TETZ, Principal Miss Carol Qibson Principal's Message What could be more appropriate in these times of adversity than to dedicate ourselves and our lives to the service of our country and to the American Way of Life? The TOKA staff is to be highly commended for the spirit which prompted the dedication to SERVICE and particularly to those individuals and organizations who put it into effective action. There is no true greatness except the greatness of service to others. Service is active unselfishness, not merely something to be conceived in the mind of man, but something to be felt, to be experienced and this is never effective unless it is convened into action. Let us always maintain a sense of gratitude toward those who do the work of the world, and particularly the hard, unpleasant, monotonous and dangerous work. We must make a comprehensive effon to attach a sense of worthiness and dignity to all forms of socially useful labor. Our first responsibility, everyone of us, whether he be in civilian life or in uniform, is to make the thing he is defending defensible. The things that are wrong with democracy are the things that are wrong with you and with me, with individual men and women. Our patriotism must go into action in our daily life — we become strong in virtue by practicing virtue. Forced in spite of ourselves to think and do, we have a chance to grow in personal integrity and moral stature as individuals, and thus not only preserve our heritage of freedom intact but enrich it for transmission to posterity. [PAGE ELEVEN]