Galatia High School - Galatian Yearbook (Galatia, IL)

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Centennial The year of 1947 marked the one hundredth year of the creation of Saline County. The Centennial was held October 23, 24, 25. On the first day there was a tour. The parade of floats, which was about three miles long, depicted Saline County's history of the past one hundred years. The second day, which was October 24, all the contests were held at the Saline County fair ground. Some of the G. C. H. S. teachers were participants of the bearded contest. On Saturday, the last day, there was a parade of the floats. The parade started in Galatia at the old tobacco barn and,went to all the high points of interest in Saline County, then back to the fair ground in Harris- burg about one o'clock that afternoon. The Peabody Miners had a float which had the title of Peg O' My Heart . There were three girls from Galatia High School who rode this float, namely, Frances Blackburn, Betty Perdue, and Betty Devine. The float from Galatia Community High School won second place. This float was made by Mr. J. B. Bond's agricultural class and was of a colonial agriculture scene. Ten girls from the high school were in the Pageant. They were Mary Smith, Margie Williams, Phyllis Weaver, Mary Lou Cowgur, Pat Jackson, Hazel Hedges, Betty Perdue, Jean Jones, Betty Maple, and Mary Eatherly.

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' ,, 1 Class Prophecy Alpena, Michigan May 20, 1958 Dear Jim, I can scarcely realize that so many years have passed! Though it has been ten years, it seems only yesterday that we sat together in Annual Staff conference with other Seniors and Mrs. Throgmorton. When you have finished your spring shearing of those Wyoming sheep, I am happily anticipating your visit to my Michigan Duck Farm. You know, Jim, I received a very interesting copy of the Bearcat Journal the other day. I'm sure you remember Betty Abney who sent it to me. She is teaching in G. C. H. S. and sponsorfng the Senior class this year. Several pages of the Journal were given over to the Where- Abouts of Seniors of 1948 . Pauline Brown is employed as a traveling sales lady for a large New York Clothing House. She is really vacationing as she earns. After leaving high school Jane Rose Brown took up the study of medicine. She has a new medicine which is recommended for anything from an eye disease to Athlete's Foot. Ralph Brown has a Hudson garage in Galatia. You know he spent a lot of time in the Work Shop with Mr. Bond. I always thought Ralph would be a farmer. Frances Blackburn has gone to Switzerland. After making a study of the Swiss art of wood carving, she expects to return to the Ozark region of Missouri. There she and her husband will operate a Novelty Shop, specializing in novelties of hand carved wood. Viola Bryant and her husband have a karakul ranch in California. I'd cgrtainly like to have a Persian lamb coat made from a lamb on that ranc I One of our group has gone into the movies. Guess? It is Mary Lou Cowgur. Her first picture is to be released next month. Mary Fern Smith and Betty Maple are opera singers. They are touring the states together. Betty Devine and husband have taken up a home-stcad in Alaska. Donald Dunning married Eva Combs, the girl of his high school days. They live in Galatia and are the proprietors of a corner grocery. M Mary Eatherly went to Florida. She will probably become a Spanish frs. Geneva Fisher is teaching in a Business Scho-Cl in St. Louis, Mo. Bill Fletcher is owner and manager of the Fletcher Wholesale Company in Kansas City. Betty Golliher is a nurse, Working with D-octor Delmond Weir. They are also scientists and are experimenting with a particular vitamin, which when perfected, is supposed to cause one to retain youth for as much as one hundred fifty years. And would you believe it? Billy Griffin is a lawyer. I always knew though, that he had several approaches to the truth. CContinued on next pagel