Georgetown High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Georgetown, IL)

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 Class PropKec)) STATION G. T. H. S. broadcasting its annual alumni program from Georgetown Township High School, June 1, 1936. The first number on our remarkable program will be a favorite selection, rendered by Mile. Baum who is now starring in grand opera at Kellyville, Illinois. She will give us, “You Gotta See Your Mammy Every Night.” Mile. Baum is accompanied by the Honorable Guy Lewis, on the animated dishpan in a minor scale. Guy has, of late, finished his contracts with the New York Symphony Orchestra. We now have the pleasure of announcing that we just received an encore and an appreciation call from Mr. and Mrs. Mavin Maloy who are now residing in Buffalo, New Hampshire, where Mavin is teaching sewing and home economics in high school. Our next number, which I know every one will appreciate, will be given by Miss Helen Youmans who has just returned from New Guinea where she has been teaching expression to the natives. Her reading will be on the “love making generation.” Thanks for the claps—we haven’t time to bother about the encore. We have just received a letter from Miss Helen Holaday who is wintering in gay Paree. In the spring she tells us she is going to join a society of nuns to whom she will incidentally teach the Charleston. We shall now be favored by a polka, given by Madame Pierott, formerly Miss Mary Louise Rees. It is only within the last year that this latest miracle, that of transferring pictures by radio, has come to pass and we are glad to favor our audience with this number. Immediately after graduation, Mary joined the South African Follies and persuaded Leo to go too, but he got tired trying to keep tab on Mary and after three months he returned, a physical wreck. After this disaster, Mary joined the Follies in France. The number on our program to be given next is presented by a mixed quartet, Russell Barr playing the lute, Ora Belle Duke the xylophone, Louis Clift the Jew’s harp, and Guy Lewis his dishpan. They have travelled all through Grape Creek County and have made one great hit. It is recorded by the federal authorities that this famous company was given the honor of killing the wild cat near Fairmount. Folks, we have now tuned in on England where a court case is in procedure. The defendant’s lawyer is Clark Emory and the prosecuting lawyer, Phillip Burgoyne. Clark is defending Miss Clark who was brought 1926 Page Twenty-three

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 JOSEPHENE SMITH, Jo Girls’ Club 2, 3, 4; B. B. 1-4; Com’l Club 3, 4; Latin Club 2, 4; Purple and White 3; Swastika 4; Junior Play; Operetta 4. You always think of Josephene with a smile of appreciation. She has worked hard in school and will certainly create a bright spot in some busy business man’s office. Moreover, if she’s like the general run of stenographers, she might even go a step farther. She has had some theatrical experience so we bet on her. VIVIAN LUCILE THORNTON B. B. 1-4; Latin Club 1, 2, 4; Com’l Club 3, 4; Purple and White 3; Swastika 4. Vivian is little but she’s mighty. She started in so young that it’s only this year that she has been able to reach the floor with her feet when she sits in the assembly chairs. PAUL WILLISON Class President 1, Vice-President 4; Ag. Club 1, 2, 4; Football 2, 3, 4; Football 2, 3, 4, Capt. 4; Ag. play 4; Com’l Club 3; Lumo Ruido, Vice-President 4; May Fete 2; Operetta 3; F. L . H. Club 3, 4; Purple and White 3; Swastika 4. Paul was one of the mainstays of the football team. His great personality has also attracted must attention across the footlights. It’s wonderful what a great change attending high school has made in Paul. One prominent senior Miss was heard to say that since becoming captain of the football team, taking up the use of Stacomb, and appearing in sheik breeches all the fair ones fall for his line. HELEN V. YOUMANS Santa Rosa, Cal. 2; I atin Cluh 1, 4; Girls’ Club 3, 4, Pres. 4; Glee Club 1-4; Com’l Club 3, 4; Lumo Ruido 4; Declamation, winner of county contest 1, 3; Oration 4; B. B. 1-4; Tennis Club 2, 3; Operetta 3, 4; May Fete 1; Junior Play. Helen is always bubbling over either with a plan for the Girls’ Club, or with enthusiasm for somebody she “just loves’’, or with some secret she won’t tell. She has won two gold medals for Georgetown and is still working for her Alma Mater’s honor. 1926 Page Tiventy-two

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 to trial for having dyed her hair black. Now she is blaming her action upon the druggist who was Robert Clift. Robert denies the charge but on looking at Clark’s red face and Philip’s perspiring brow it seems that there’s something rotten in England. We will now be favored with a dance hopped by Monsieur Harmon and Mademoiselle Richards. They are perfect artists. Millard waved the red flag and Mary took it up. They are now starring in some of the largest villages, such as Ridgefarm and Broadlands. (They seemed very anxious for their encore. Mary slipped, Millard tried to stop her, caught his toe and both fell flat, then made a gracious bow to the audience.) Our next number will be a musical selection, directed by Joe Edmonds. He has become very famous, since immediately after graduation from G. H. S. he went to the South Sea Islands where he accepted a position as musical director in a deaf and dumb school which was founded by the Honorable Mable Elliott who will appear next in New York City giving lectures on helpful service for the dumb. You will be very grateful, I’m sure, to have the opportunity of listening tonight to an address on the morals of Washington, D. C. This will be given by Mrs. Davis, formerly Miss Priscilla Arthur who was a graduate of G. H. S. in 1926. She has been in various projects since her marriage but now has very kindly promised to favor us with this lecture. Next we shall be favored with a delicate musical trio by the Misses Vivian Thornton, Josephene Smith and Florence McMaster. They have accomplished world feats and once broke the record for running the scale. They are now, and have been for the past two years, engaged as a company playing for the inmates of the Kankakee Asylum. Please stand by and you will be given a selection by Miss Maybelle Emory’s barnyard chorus. She has spent all her life teaching roosters to sing and now claims that she has some hens that will actually crow. Mr. Paul Willison will now entertain you with a lecture on “How to Teach Ducks to Swim.” He was chosen as Secretary of Agriculture and so far as we know is giving splendid service. As the concluding number on our program, the entire class of ’26 will render a mixed song. We gratefully appreciate your patience in standing by and listening to our program. We believe that you will all agree that the class of 1926 has made wonderful strides in the world and has done much to make it a better place in which to live. 1926 Page Twenty-four