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

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FIRST ROW: l'eake. Kinsey. Miss Daphne Matthews. D. Beyer. Carlson. T. Horn, Martin. SECOND ROW: Miss Mytle BIrtchet. W. S. Carpenter, Hoffmaster, Brown, Cox. Skow. J. Steward. Where Democracy is Practiced Not dust particles of force , but individuals in a democracy, is the keynote of all activities undertaken by the administrative branches of the Grants Pass student government, consisting of the executive board and both upper and lower division student councils. This viewpoint is brought to light even more by the increased size of the executive board and the added activities undertaken by the councils. Proving the most active of the eleven committees appointed by the executive board, the assembly committee composed of Miss Lynnetta Quinlan, Miss Bertha Calhoun, Donald Ewing, Dan Beyer, Chester Carlson, Jackie Tetz, Roberta Bestul, Wally Reid, Pat Breitmayer, Gladys Goodwin, Dorothy Wallman, Bill Davis, and Sally Milbank is providing one of the many entertainments to which the student s fee of one dollar entitles him. Another committee that was of great service to the school was the club committee, whose members are Miss Ruth Kelly, Otis Wilson, Miss Mary Margaret Woodward, Betty Peake, Lillian Ruth Ladd, Bill Rice, Wayne Norton, Virginia Bestul, and Renita Nunn. This committee undertook the responsibility of arranging the meeting schedule of the various clubs. Since participation in clubs is one advantage of modern education, all students in the lower division are required to belong to a club, and members of the upper division are encouraged to join at least one of the many clubs at their disposal. A third committee composed of Miss Sarah Parr, Miss Nina Johnson, Merlin Morey, Tom Horn, Dick Eismann, Jean Probst, Diane Knox, Betty Jean Steward, Bob Shier, and Merwin Spalding arranged the Monday homeroom programs which both upper and lower division follow. Both the student councils and the executive board undertook such worthwhile projects as: the forming of the student defense committee to combat the problems that would arise from possible air raids; inaugurating the selling of defense bonds and stamps, which proved to be very successful; the paper-saving campaign which netted the government a goodly amount of this much needed product; working with the Scroll staff in establishing policies of better student cooperation; revising the student body constitution; purchasing a camera for use by the Toka staff; and promoting better safety conditions. Advantages that all students enjoyed as members of the student body were: the right to participate in activities by representing the high school on athletic teams, staffs of publications, and debate teams; admission to all athletic, dramatic and musical presentations of the student body; subscription to the Scroll; and seven or more professional assemblies that are educational and entertaining. [PAGE TWELVE]

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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]

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FIRST ROW: Smith. Coutant. R. Clayton. Lathrop. Allison. Skow. Andrews. Cox. SECOND ROW: Thompson. Kinsey. Peake. Young, Dysert. Simpson. Hussey. Fowler. McClellan. Sarnaln. THIRD ROW. Beyer. Hoffmaster. Miss Quiman. Brownell. Gigler. Darnellle. Husen. FIRST ROW. Ogle, Vannlce. Calvert. Shier. Bertrand. Fall. SECOND ROW: Dahl. J. Smith. Thompson. D. Brown. THIRD ROW: Mrs. Edna D. Hartin, B. Brown. Herbert Lewis. Carlson. [PAGE THIRTEEN]