Georgetown High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Georgetown, IL)

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The Georgetown Hi-Times 1929-1930 SPRING CONTESTS ATTRACT MANY Many people, especially among the freshmen have signed up for the annual spring contests this year. You can’t begin younger,” and “The younger the better” seems to be the policy they are following. Ever since 1906 when Harrison Parker won first place in oration in the county contest, Georgetown has considered the spring work in declamation, oration, and extempore contest one of the most important activities of the school. Since that time Georgetown has won five more firsts in oration, six firsts in declamation. and three in extempore speaking. During the last few years various changes have been made in these contests. They are still open to all the schools which belong to the Vermilion County-Athletic Association and the final contestants are chosen by preliminary district contests. Changes have been made in the number of classes and in various rules governing them. Instead of one declamatory contest as was the case at the beginning, there is now a humorous division and a serious one. The extempore contest is no longer very extemporaneous in as much as there is a choice of only twelve subjects. In the oratorical contest instead of writing original orations, the speakers merely learn speeches as one does in a declamatory contest. Last year Georgetown won three seconds and one third place in the final meet. This year the competition is strong at home and the goal is all first places.” Those out for humorous declamation are Yvonne Branham, Keva Hawkins, Elizabeth Warner, Lucile Hinton, Margaret Chapman, Lavera Wimsett, Elizabeth Cope. Mildred Wells, Evelyn Smith, Eileen Brooks and Thresa Tanzey. For serious declamation are: Jean Almy, Alma Warren, Alfrieda Finney, Paul Ward, Melinda Jones, Mary Powell. Thelma Cook, Elizabeth Chapman, Dor-thene Bunch. Winnifred Burd, William Jones and Donald Haney are out for oration. The extempore speakers are Carl Maflfet, Kenneth Crum, Dwight Lambert, Gilmour Roberts, and William White. Miss Mack has charge of this work and has been given extra time this semester so that she can adequately’ care for the strenuous work of coaching so large a number of aspirants. FOUNTAINS My fountain of youth Is fashioned from pearl; In its waters of truth, No eddy, no whirl. My fountain of youth Is molded in jade. ’Tis life's memory meadow , Where trial casts no shadow And dreams do not fade. Mayreen Thornton, ’31 CL’RRENT MYTHOLOGY Venus—Anna Shelako. Apollo—“Tubby” Emory. Mars—John Haworth. Jupiter—Paul Wyre I uno—Yvonne Branham. 1‘ai e Twenty-six THINGS THAT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY

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1929-1930 T h i-: Georgeto w n 11 i-Ti mks Georgetown ReOue Features Musical Activities of Tear Semi-Chorus To Enter Contest May 15 and 16 THE 1930 SEMI-CHORUS FIRST ROW: Edith Haworth, June lloth, Katherine White, Lebusanna Paradiso. Goldie Morrison. Elizabeth Warner. SECOND ROW. Ruby Ramsey. Mary Powell, Frania Nier. Nelda Jones, Ellen Jones. Helen Niziolkiewicz. THIRD ROW: Jean Almy. Lois Emory, Alma Spicer, Miss Allen, Winn if red Hurd, Miblred Hoggess. In the activities of the school each year the music department takes a large part and the year of 1929 and 1930 has seen especially good work from the girls' chorus. This chorus consists of girls from all the four classes in school. The Georgetown Revue of 1930, given at the high school, March 28, was the big feature of the year. It was an original show arranged by Miss Allen and given in place of an operetta. As a whole, the show was organized along the line of a musical revue. A slight continuity of plot was found throughout with a variety of musical numbers consisting of southern melodies and popular songs augmented by some original numbers written especially for the revue by Mr. J. Worth Allen, father of Georgetown’s music directress. The scene was in a “Mythical Georgetown Somewhere South of the Mason and Dixon Line.” Wayne and Edith Carter (Wayne Henry and Edith Haworth) at the home of Colonel and Mrs. Carter (Kenneth Crum and Mary Powell) had invited a number of guests and school friends to a house party on their plantation. A charity minstrel was to be staged and the aid of all including the negro servants had been enlisted. The rehearsals for the show offered opportunity for the songs, dances, and other musical numbers. Solos, duets, quartettes and chorus numbers afforded variety. The introductory song was a Georgetown song sung by the entire chorus as were “Cryin’ for the Carolines” and the southern jubilee songs. The negro servants and Lord Hooey, a visiting Englishman, who was trying hard to win the love and favor of the fair Miss White, furnished the comedy. One amusing feature was the Rosettes, a chorus of live boys dressed in girls’ ballet costumes. This chorus served as a pony chorus, dancing before the curtain between scenes. One dance executed backward with masks fastened to the backs of the heads furnished much fun. The Rosettes were Kenneth Crum, Homer Morris, Dannie Mahoney, Larry Sawicki and Joe Mahoney. THE CAST OF CHARACTERS Kenneth Crum Mrs. Carter Wayne Carter Alma Spicer Edith Haworth Homer Morris Lois White Lois Emory Negro Servants- Ambrose......................Larry Sawicki Washington....................Joe Mahoney Sambo...j...........-.........Dannie Mahoney Isaiah................... ...... William Parke Guests ............................Entire Chorus Pianist................................-..... Katherine White The semi-chorus has been a very active organization this year. It consists of sixteen girls chosen from the Girls’ chorus. Katherine White is the pianist. The girls are: Alma Spicer. Lois Emory, Frania Nier, June lloth. Lebusanna Paradiso, Jean Almy. Goldie Morrison, Ruby Ramsey, Winnifred Hurd. Edith Haworth, Helen Niziolkiewicz, Nelda Jones, Elizabeth Warner, Ellen Jones, Mildred Hoggess and Mary Powell. “The Dance of the Pine Tree Fairies” by R. R. Foreman was the contest number. It was written in three part harmony. As an optional number the girls sang “Pale Moon,” an Indian song by Frederic Knight Logan. The contest was held May 15 and 16 at Bismarck, Illinois. The Senior Show-Off was also a big feature of the year. The music department had charge of one part of this. The Side-Show Minstrels was first on the program. This was followed by various chorus numbers including “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise” and “Your Mother and Mine.” The music department has also helped at various church services during the year and at the Parent-Teachers meetings. The Girls’ Chorus sang at the Mothers’ 'l'ea and will assist in the spring May Fete. Page Twenty-five

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1929-1930 '1' h k Gkorgktown H i-Ti mks COMPLAINTS ON DIVERS MATTERS A Nonsensical Dissertation on “Nothing At All” Prize Winning Essay by MARY POWELL WE herewith resolve to make an attempt at a personal essay, or a personal attempt at an essay, take it how you will; though upon reconsideration, we advise you to change that word “attempt to “attack or “assault, even to ambush ; any number of 4 Vs will do it. HE that as it may, having resolved to write an essay and that in a complaining tone upon Complaints, we looked upon the mountain range of Unhandy Things and Difficulties in General, and felt, like the prospector, that “there’s gold in them thar hills , the sad difference between us and the afore-mentioned prospector being that we will never find that gold so the hero and heroine can marry, having befriended the old prospector when the villain—but what have heroes and heroines and villians and prospectors to do with us ? Really now, we ask you! AS we become more and more undeceived and hardened and as our eyes are opened to the sad realities of life, we find ourselves looking upon the world as a “vale of tears and if not a “howling desert exactly, at least an exceedingly noisy one. The world can scarcely be said to “howl in this day of moderness and sophistication; it squawls, and honks and plays saxaphones—but no howling, a bit too uncivilized— that, my dear Genevieve Angelina! TO return to complaints. Heading the list of Things to He Complained About comes the revolving door. Now, for instance, we saw our old friend, George, on the street the other day. “Good old George”, we thought, and would have rushed to meet him, but—We were entering a Revolving Door. Alas! so was George, and a fat lady and a messenger boy. Really, it was quite five minutes l efore we saw old George—a number of George’s revolving very fast, true—but not the good old George we had considered him. In fact we were both too exhausted to appreciate each other we didn’t enjoy old George as we had planned. Tut! Tut! A world without revolving doors -what a prospect of relief! SPEAKING of leaves—Who was? We certainly were not! Waiving all such minor details, the way magazines are put together—it’s disgraceful! To wit: We go into a barber shop—not a woman in sight and six men ahead of us. We relax and pick up a magazine and sweetest peace floods our heart. A good story opens as if by magic to our hand and we read we become well-nigh excited -remarkable in this day when every story is a sensation and may the hottest win— we read on and on—the hero is almost downed by the villain when—continued on page fifty-nine, says the impudent line at the bottom of page thirteen. Furiously we rifle through the leaves—ah, at last no, this is page fifty—here it is. Sighing with relief we again pursue our story. Hut what’s this? Says the first line “Such a color scheme is a happy solution for the northern room. We feel like the old man who discovered that somebody of Hiblical time had a wife “one hundred forty cubits wide and seventy cubits long”. Unlike the old man we do not believe this from “kiver to kiver . Something is wrong. Ah—the solution: This is page one hundred fifty-nine. THEN there is that matter of exciting shows. Did you ever go to see a war picture and, when the fair heroine is struggling with the brute soldier, rise and shout to a crowded house and the huge delight of the gallery, “The knife is on the table ? Then, brother, we desire to shake your good right hand. Let us go into a huddle and form a society for the prevention of Exciting Shows, and use for our motto some light little thing such as “Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agctur or, perhaps, “He who does not shout may at least laugh”. A rebuking look from the Grandfather clock brings to mind that good old adage “Enough’s aplenty . Let us end the program with “The Cowboy’s Lament or Hury Me Out on the Cold Prairie, and quaff a last bumper to “Complaints. May they die an earlv death!” BLUE AND GOLD. THEN SILVER Maykkkn Thornton wan’d that life’s mth can he Of a million different hues; The green that is the sea, The sky’s ever-varying blues, The splashes of beauty that line the iccst When at the end of each cloudless day. The sun sinks slowly to saffron rest And night’s shadows begin to hold sway. But often this same road appears, II'hen the heavens are gray and cold, To stretch on through the weary years. With never a joy to unfold. It’s then that we need the most courage, .And the love that will help us to find Those precious bits of silver With which clouds are supposedly lined. I’auc Twenty-seven