Georgetown High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Georgetown, IL)

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KHAKI AND BLUE, '18 Alice Hawkins teaches public speaking in the Austin High School, Chicago. I visited her last winter and found that she was doing splendid work. Henry Canaday is still lamping sights in the signal corps and inventing impossible things. He is a second Edison. Mildred Fletcher was kept busy after her college work as Treasurer of the National Christian Endeavor Societyg but is now happily married to a prominent athletic star. ' P Thomas Lewis, greatly fatigued after the publication of his latest book, Are the Destinies of Man Preordained? has gone to the Kyfhauscr Mountains to get a good sleep. Elise Rossignol has seen very little of America in the last few years. But all the world has heard of the great success of the operas given by her for reconstruction funds. Elizabeth Roesch is now starring in her masterpiece, The Dance of Joy. Melba saw her in New York and says that she dances with the same airy grace as she once did on the gym- nasium iioor. Charles Dunivan is a member of the inter-state basketball team. He attended the banquet and surprised everyone by his grown-up appearance. Earl Richards has never strayed from the home fold. He is a progressive farmer on the home place. He raises wonderful crops and all his farm machinery is run with Ford motors. Virginia Taylor is still nursing. She promises to be as ca- pable and as well loved as Florence Nightingale. She has been in Europe since 1920, but expects to return next year. Albert Gustafson is athletic manager at Princeton Univer- sity. He has gained fame by opposing outside reading and refer- ence work for credit in athletics. Gladys Morris majored in Spanish at college and received an appointment as Dean of a. South American college. She sent a very interesting letter, describing her work, to be read at the banquet. Richard Graves is State Railroad Inspector of Illinois. The little Dick of my wash-tub vision is a real Dick. Gwendolyn Carter is that big pompous lady who drives her own car and manages her own farm without the help of a mere man. Mary Bubnis, because of her love for eating and her love of Chicago, is teaching Domestic Science in Austin High, the same school in which Alice teaches. Hazel Schecter is the loving wife of the professor of Math at Columbia University. She now has no awe of, mathematics and is the same Sheck of High School days. Margaret Tate teaches during the winter, and following her usual custom of traveling in the summer, is now in the Rocky Mountains. 4 Izel Ensley is principal of a Montessori school in Chicago. She loves her work and is very successful. Florence Moore, as you may know, is happily married. She lives in that most desirable place, the country. ' Mary Elizabeth Jones is doing Chautauqua work with the Lincoln Chautauqua. Her sweet voice and lovely face have thrilled many an admiring audience. Well, that completes ,the list and must also complete my let- ter, for Little Ruth has just awakened and wants to go walk- ing. , With love, EUGENIA.

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KHAKI AND BLUE, '18 Class Prophecy Grand Rapids, M ich., July 9, 1925. DEAR Miss Moons: I was immensely pleased when I heard that you had re- signed at U. of I. and accepted a position as head of the English department in your Alma Mater. Of course you have not forgotten our G. H. S. Class of '18. I have the most newsy news about them! Melba spent the Fourth with me. You know she has been teaching mathematics in the Alton Boarding School, New York. I was not expecting her and had arisen early Monday morning to do my washing. Scarcely had I started when I received a belated telegram say- ing she would arrive at noon. I rushed back to my wash-tub. What was my surprise upon beholding in the steam the form of Chuck. His girlish, re- morseful face looked out from between iron bars. My horror was changed to giggles when I beheld Art and Veva per- forming their famous tight rope stunt before a large Grape Creek audience. My heart was moved with compassion to see poor Scheck with her four dirty-faced little boys clinging to her mud-drabbled skirt. Our cherished Mickey was sitting on the corner of Main and Van Buren playing his accordion and holding out his tin cup for pennies. Jinny was a pompous fat lady with a diamond ring and a pet chicken. The voice of demented Izzy came in mufiied screams from behind locked doors, Bonney Jolly Jazzers, how art thou fallen! Above a brilliant riding habit appeared the grinning face of Gladdie, the bareback rider. Fatherly Dick was on the floor building erector Fords for little Dick. Mildred, her head encased in a large red handkerchief, appeared trundling a banana cart. Red was running on a slippery track. He won. I rushed to con- gratulate him. As his hand grasped mine I awakened to find myself standing over a tub of cold water, holding in my hand a bar of slippery soap. A sensible thing for a practical house- keeper to be doing, wasn't it? To return to Melba. She attended the annual alumni ban- quet at Georgetown last month. There she learned about most of our classmates. Harry Smith is the influential congressman from Illinois, who is always wanting to adjourn before time. Doesn't that sound natural? Marian Snapp is a designer in New York for the Vogue, Greater than Lady Duff-Gordon in her day. She has always had an inclination toward this work and is very successful. Arthur is a capable government ranchman in Arizona. He is enjoying experiences as thrilling as those in Riding the Rim. Maude Jenkins, who has been doing a noble part in Y. W. C. A. work, was married last Christmas to a former army officer. Need I give his name? Melba had not heard of Alta so I quietly slipped into the house and put a record on the Edison. Alta's clear, sweet voice thrilled through the night. She has won great success in Grand Opera. Harley Starks who, as you know, was recently appointed ambassador to France, attended the banquet. He was on his way to Washington and will sail next month.

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KHAKI AND BLUE, We Seniors Oh! here's to the class of nineteen-eighteen, A jolly good bunch as you always have seen, We have a big time and believe in our fun, But sometimes we start before work is done. There's Sheck, so gay, so fair and so tall, Who says, Give me 'Shrimp' or no one at all, And Florence, although single just now, We hear is soon to take that vow, Which says if hearts are good and true, They should be made into one from two. Betty, the lass, has the men at her will, But most of her time she gives to Bill, Marian's brown eyes are cast far away ' To look for him who'll return some day. Eugenia, the book-lover, now comes next, She's quite a shy maid and so easily vexed. Now Alta follows with that clear, sweet voice, Of the men they say she makes not her choice. And then Virginia, I hate men, says she, But wait till she reaches Chicago, Oh me! Now Melba and Gladys you know very well, Ridgefarm's history they sure can tell. Mary and Izel have a quiet way, They study and learn and are here each day. Henry's our soldier, of him we're full proud, He is clever and witty, but never is loud. Veva, with Mildred, you always can see, She says she likes good company. Alice is quiet, reserved, and small, She came from Peanut to us last fall. Emancipated Harry comes next in line, Very business-like, yet likes a good time. Margaret, our dear, is a very good sport, Of skating she's fond, but cares not to court. Now, Red, you know, is the best of athletes, He has carried off honors in many big meets. This war is cruel, pouted Maud one day, It has taken my Lester so far away. And Harley, oh my, he can't be convinced, He forms his opinions and won't budge an inch. Of Arthur and Chuck I can't think a thing, But each, I'm sure, has a girl on the string. Earl has a Ford which brings him much fame, And Dick' has a car, the make is the same. Elise is talented, also loving and forgiving, And Izzy gets all of the joy out of living. Tom is clever, quiet, and deep, We advise that he go to the Alps for a sleep. Now this is the class that pushes things through, For it is we who originated Khaki and Blue. J. ELIZABETH Rozscn. !