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

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COMMERCIAL instructors are Mrs. Winslow, and Mrs. Fox. Teaching: ART this year is Mrs. Henman. Instructor of INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. Martin Trepte. plays his flute for interested students. LIBRARIAN. Miss Dorothy P. Hutchason. is shown checking books out to students during first period. SCIENCE teachers. Mrs. Sullivan and Mrs. Tardy, show a dried snakeskin to Nellie Anne Hershberger and Robert Scroggins. [16]

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Mr. Masters Instructed MECHANICAL DRAWING and TRADES classes this year. Mr. RifTe Is seen directing the L. D. Glee CLUB In a Christmas carol. The teachers of Grants Pass Hi spent many an enjoyable hour during the year at their noon lunches held in the homemaking room. ■A . SOCIAL STUDIES teachers pausing for a moment In front of the new building are: Mr. Mannan. Miss Calhoun. Miss Trull, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. O’Neil, and Mr. Lewis. W HOMEMAKING TEACHERS. Miss Egbert. Mrs. Brewster, and Mrs Frerlchs, are shown supervising pre-school children annual play school. lh ,r The faculty’, combined with the other teachers of Grants Pass, nailed together wooden boxes to be used for sending gifts to boys in the armed forces overseas. They contributed generously to the Red Cross Christmas Seal Drive, bond and stamp sales, the county war chest, and other helpful organizations. War brought many new teachers into our school. Men and women came to Grants Pass from the West and Mid-west to instruct the sons and daughters of the famous Southern Oregon Cavemen. Carl Carpenter, new basketball coach, worked in a defense plant at Wichita, Kansas during the summer months. Otis Wilson returned after serving two years in the U. S. Marines. Under the leadership of Frank W. Thomas, new principal, the faculty’ successfully carried on their teaching duties under considerable war-time stress and strain. [15]

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Don Ausland. STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT Will the meeting please come to order?” Thus the meetings of the Executive Board and Student Council started this year. Their goals were to create closer relationship between the administration, community, and students. The students of these two organizations met their goals and in so doing experienced the benefits of self-government. All student problems and plans are brought before the Student Council and Executive Board for discussion and action. The Executive Board sponsored a project where each class was assigned a plot on the school grounds to plant shrubs and quick1 growing plants, thereby improving the appearance of the school. The Executive Board consists of the officers of the student body, class and club presidents, advisers, and the principal. The Upper Division Student Council consists of the first vice-president, class and club representatives from the three upper grades, and advisers. The Lower Division Council is presided over by the second vice-president, and is attended by representatives of classes, clubs, and advisers. APPOINTED officers are. SITTING: Margaret Wood. SCROLL editor; Bonnie Holcomb, public Ity; Frank Burdell. advertising. STANDING: Dwight Corthell. ticket manager; Bev Clark. TOKA editor. BELOW, left to right: Bob Taylor, vice-president; Alvy Boyce, second vice-president; Barbara Bauer, secretary; and Betty Garner, treasurer.