Georgetown High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Georgetown, IL)

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THE GETowH1s 23 lllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIHlllHlllllllllllllllllllllllllllHHH!HIIIIIIEIIIIIIIIIHHNlllllllllHlllllHllllllllllllllllllHllllllllllNll1llllllllllllllllllllllllKHllllllllllllllllllllllllI Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIll'- well, all valuable members, have joined our class. Lois has been given the honor of representing us both as president and editor-in-chief. The record our fellows have made in football and basketball this year speaks for it- self. Shack is expected to bring us honors again in tl ack. Lois Satterfield, Emma Keenan, and Robert Cornelius are to represent us in declamation and Fred Snyder and Robert Cornelius in extempore. We have already had three parties and are intending to have many more. In proof of our quite exceptional ability, here is our record: Of the eleven men on the football team this year, eight were Seniors. Shack Macklin, Denzel Edmonds, Thomas Jenkins, Herbert Thornton, and Lester Dunivan made exceptional records. Herbert, Thomas and Lester have done likewise in basketball. The countless victories of Orville Macklin and Robert Tharp prove unquestionably our superiority in track. The school tennis champions, Lois Satterfield and Robert Cornelius, are both from our class. The records of Frances Mingee, Lois Satterfield, and Horace Stark, as speakers, are a source of pride on our part. Alta Powell, Eulah Morris, Denzel Edmonds, and Robert Cornelius have been members of the high school orchestra for four years. We have given successfully two plays, one of which, the senior play, Betty's Last Bet, drew, undoubtedly, the largest crowd that ever attend- ed a high school play. Our average in grades has been superior to that of all other classes in this school during the past three and one-half years and still continues to be. Lois Satterfield and Robert Cornelius are breaking all records of G. H. S. by graduating with nineteen credits each. Thomas Jenkins is doing likewise with eighteen and one-half. ' We have reported more news through the agency of Eulah Morris, Denzel Edmonds, and Robert Cornelius, to the newspapers than any other class that has ever been in G. H. S. High school notes have also been sent to others besides the local papers, a thing which has not, heretofore been done by this or neighboring high schools. We are successfully making this annual with the greatest cost of any annual ever made here and during the worst economic conditions this coun- try has known for the last two decades. The moral and social standing of our class is distinguishably pre- eminent. Holding these truths to prove conclusively my first statement, we, the senior class, leave you to go out and conquer in the world as we have con- quered here. ROBERT CORNELIUS. LlllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllillIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHIHltllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllHHllllllllll!llllIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllll1IllllllIIllIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllll

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22 THEfGETOWHIS lllllllIlIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIII II Illllll ll I IIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIllIIlllIIIllIIllllllllllllllllllllllll I I I I IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Out of the ceaseless struggle for existence in school life have emerged twenty-nine Seniors, battle-scarred, but not defeated, and all the more pre- pared to contend and conquer in the great battle of life. Would, dear reader, that you turn with me for a few moments from the turmoil of existence to a retrospection of the history of those twenty- nine, which is unparalleled in the annals of G. H. S. Uncultured and untutored in the conventionality and etiquette of high school, we, the twenty-nine and fourteen others, entered our freshmen year in the fall of 1918, but we soon acquired scholastic tendencies and participated in all activities. Parties, numbers of them, were our diver- sions after the primal charms of entrance into high school had withered. We elected Orville Macklin to pilot us over the unknown, stormy sea of our first semester. Glentis O'Neal, long since departed to Ohio, was our presi- dent for the last half of the year. September, 1919, and our troubles began again after a greatly en- joyed vacation, for geometry, ominous and forboding, towered like a mighty giant, eager to destroy us, and Caesar, mighty conqueror that he was, stood ready to vanquish the thirty-tive that remained. Because of the athletic record that Orville Macklin, by that time more generally known as Shack had made, we elected him again the president of what was then our sopho- more class. That year, more parties and roasts and a pusillanimous at- tempt to ensnare the elusive hearts of the upper classncen were our enter- tainments. Our president, our speed king, also showed his ability as a runner by winning in the county, Charleston, and state meets. '20, as Juniors, there were twenty-six of us, proud and haughty, for coveted Seniorship lay but one year before usg but school activities soon grew strenuous enough to bring us back to earth and to cause us to think of the present and not of the future. For the first time in our history, a girl was given the honor of being our president and Alta Powell filled the position exceedingly Well. Football first, for we had a number of stars on the team, and then basketball, and, later, track claimed our attention. Junior play, sighs, nights of anguish for Miss Ruth Clark, our coach, end- less labor, and then All of a Sudden Peggy reaped its own reward as one of the best Junior plays ever given in G. H. S. More exhausting training and sleepless nights and Lois Satterfield and Frances Mingee emerged as victors from the school declamatory contest. Then Lois and Horace Stark, in declamatory and extempore, respectively, wan out in the district, both representing us in the county contest at Westville. Shack won places in the County and Charleston track meets. At the Junior-Senior banquet, we showed the Seniors that they had met their equals and we served them a ,very sumptuous and long-to-be-remembered banquet. Now we are Seniors, lacking all that dignity that people say is charac- teristic. Emma Keenan, Denzel Edmonds, Effie Pribble, and Sarah Crom- IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllll Ill Ill III lllll IIIIIIII IIIII IIIIIIIII Illl ll Illl lll I lllll lll lllll lllll Ill II II I III I Illlllllllll lllIlllllllIllllllIlllllllllllIIIlllllIIIIIIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllll lllll l Il

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Elllllllllllllllll ll l l lll lllll lllllllllllllll ll llll1lllllllllilllllllII4HlIl1!iIlllll!lllllllllililll'llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ll l ll ll llllllllllll lll lllllllllllllllllll llllilllllllll CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of 1922, of the Georgetown Township High School, having attained the heights prescribed by our noted advisors and having compassion on the condition of our under-classmen, do donate the following articles and wishes to them and the faculty: To our friends f??J, the teachers, we leave fondest memories and deep regrets Q???J at our parting. Thelma Jones leaves to Helen McGee her ability to go through high school in three and one-half years. Effie Pribble, ourmost dignified Senior, leaves the aforesaid dignity to olaHoward f we 4f' Luda Barr eaves her prompt answers in Civics class to Bob Snapp. Beware of the Pork Barrel, Bob. Alta Powell leaves her position in the High School Orchestra to Dolly Yoho. ' Thomas Jenkins leaves his ability as a football and basketball star to Earl Jumps. Earl, you should feel very much honored! Robert Cornelius leaves his sleepy, Monday mornings in V eigil to any unfortunate Latin student that wants to take charge of them. Denzel Edmonds leaves to Edward McMahon his liking for baseball during the absence of Professor Black. 5 Geneva Rees leaves her practice of lowering her voice during recita- tion to Robert Smith, Esq. Margaret Smith leaves her good nature and unassuming airs to her sister, Zella. Sarah Cromwell leaves Lester Stevens to the care of Rilla Macklin until she wants him again. Lela Richardson leaves her ability to use the mails toward DePauw to Serena Moore. Lois Satterlield leaves her old maid tendencies to the quiet and sedate Mable Parks. Ethel Muncy begs Ivan Patterson to take upher radical arguments in Civics class. ' Emma Keenan leaves her speed and accuracy in Manual Training to Gladys Pringle. Dovie Parker leaves her best wishes and greatest sympathy to the next misguided and unfortunate idiot who attempts to write a class will. Mable Richardson leaves her good fortune to stay in town half of the time to Audrey Cobble. Jotham Lyon leaves his power of blushing, when talking to the girls, to Lynn Rucker. Herbert Thornton leaves his power of proposing, when spifflicated, to Dale Bratton. lllllllllllllllllllll llllllll IIIIII ll IIII Il I I Ill ll l ll l llllll l l l l lllllllllllllllll lllllllllll l l l ill ll Ill