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

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Cancer Drive Is Smashing Success Ardent class competition in the newly instituted Cancer Drive began with a special kickoff assembly previewing the coming week’s scramble for dimes and dollars for the worthy cause. The following days were hectic ones of cake sales, bottle drives, car washes, telegrams, sweatshirt days and noon dances as the classes attempted to reach their individual $500 goals. The student-faculty basketball game captured the GPHS spotlight with a large crowd turning out to watch the fun. Netting the largest single donation of the drive, the slave sale climaxed the week which concluded with the victorious Seniors contributing $510 to the final total of $1,120. CHAMPIONSHIP'' Faculty team trounced Senior boys’ team in their contribution to Cancer Drive activities. NOON DANCE induces high spirits and brings in cash for 'Class of '64. CONTRIBUTING to Cancer Drive was the price students hod to pay for privilege of wearing sloppy dress.

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FOREIGN EXCHANGE student, Nedret Koran, takes active interest in America's national sport. HOBNOBBING with Medford foreign exchange student from West Germany at American Field Service Banquet is Nedret Karan. Ned, foreign exchange student from Turkey, slipped right into the American way of doing things. He especially liked coming to school in “comfortable clothes without a neck-tie.” His American family was quite similar to his real one, except male dishwashing in Turkey is taboo. After a month in the U.S., he found it strange to be dreaming in English! He returned to Turkey in mid-summer feeling that America could always be called his second home. GPHS Plays Host to ExchangeStudent JOINING with his American family, the Bazetts, Nedret contributes to the family's musical endeavors.

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THE GIRLS' ANTIPHONAL CHORUS, consisting of the Girls' Glee and girls from the A Cappella Choir captivate the audience with an Italian hymn. Providing an absorbing evening of outstanding vocal entertainment, the annual Spring Concert featured the A Cappella Choir, Girls' Glee and Mixed Chorus plus ensembles. Girls' Sextet and Boys' Double Quartet. Under the direction of Ron Hollensted, the choral groups presented a wide variety of music including spirituals, Latin hymns, popular arrangements and light novelty numbers. A special highlight of the program was the presentation of the Stalian 'Pueri Hebraeorum' by the Girls' Anti-phonal Chorus, a combination of the Girls' Glee and the girls in A Cappella. CAPTURING the attention of the Spring Concert audience with the spirited arrangement of The Chariot Ride, the Boys' Double Quartet provided further proof of the growing excellence of the GPHS vocal music department. Spring Concert Thrills Audience