Georgetown High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Georgetown, IL)

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BAND The Georgetown High School Band began work promptly this fall by playing in the Westville Labor Day parade under its new director, Mr. Earl Houts. Immediately a campaign for a better band and more musicians was started. Among the improvements was the adoption of the symphonic idea and a departure from the rag, blare, and brassy type. Other improvements resulted from the idea that the band is an organization in which one is given the opportunity to become a follower, as well as a leader. Thus each individual was encouraged to study a solo and participate in a small ensemble. The library has been enlarged and many new methods and facilities enable the band to function more smoothly. With the help of the twirling corps, the band gave interesting performances at all the home football games and followed the team to several games away from home. The two groups took part in marching formations, making letters and other designs at the half. In October they went to the Charleston Band Festival and attended the football game there. Since both the county and state corn husking contests were held so near to Georgetown, the band was asked to help with the entertainment. During the Christmas season the ensembles presented a program over WDAN and in January the entire band gave a short concert for the radio listeners. For the basketball games a pep band was organized which furnished music at all home games. An outstanding event of the year was the first annual Winter Concert given on January 30, 1940 On this occasion the entire band presented a variety of numbers. During the intermission Mona Lewing played a clarinet solo, Udell Wolff played a flute solo, and the trumpet quartet, composed of Margaret Woodruff, Walter Zielinski, Halbert Alexander and Charles Dukes, played. For the Junior Play the entire band performed, but only the special groups played for the Senior Play. The soloists and ensembles were asked to provide part of the entertainment for the assembly program sponsored by the Student Council during the latter part of the year. The Band sponsored a concert given by the Eastern Illinois State Teacher's College Band in April, when both Udell Wolff and Mr. Houts were asked to conduct a number. After the concert the members of the College Band and the Georgetown Band were given light refreshments in the Home Economics room. Udell Wolff was the Assistant conductor during this year. 22

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Thornton get the Home Economics and the Student of the Week. By the way! Who's the edittor of this here paper, anyway? Countin' up all them articles and puttin' 'em on that silly dummy was always a mystery to me. said Mike. Well! that's something that just takes practice. Helen Henry is our editor. You should see her trying to find errors to correct, answered Pat. Well! Pat, I'm sure glad everything is goin' all right and here's to the success of the paper in the future. ANNUAL STAFF Editor—Beryl LeCount. Business—Elizabeth Eickelman, Helen Kocanda, Walter Davis. Sales—Josephine Didocka, Laura Kocurek, Lottie Christowski, Zelda Mikel, Violet Maziekas. Advertising—Mary Sanders, Wilma Newlin, George Bromley, Helen Gorman, Catherine Nandzius, E. Wolcott, June Edmonds. Photographs—Helen Lewing, Joe Didocka. Sports—George Howlett, Charles Mollett, Udell Wolff, Margaret Woodruff, Walter Zielinski. Calendar Activities—Dorothea Ann Sandy, Elizabeth Eickelman, Mona Lewing. Typists—Mona Lewing, Dorothea Ann Sandy, Udell Wolff, Helen Lewing.

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LEFT TO RIGHT—Bernice Gardner. D um Majorette. Roberta Pollman. Beverly Johnson. Charolette Sleva. Regina Smith. Margaret Wells. Wanda Grimes. Eleanor Hughes. Helen Kovaclc, Norma Jean Sandy. Margaret Winters. Lois Muncy. Katherine Middlemas. Eunice Hayward. Marjorie Sanders. Constance Hart. Virginia Smith, Barbara McDill. Betty Holstine. Acrobat. Not in picture. Mary Desmet. and Tholma Tucker. TWIRLING CORPS The Georgetown High School all-Girl Twirling Corps was organized in the fall as the result of numerous requests from students who wished to learn the art. They met twice weekly after school and practiced with batons, which each individual purchased, under the leadership of Bernice Gardner and the direction of the band master. In the course of two months' time, they had appeared at several home football games and the Charleston College Band and Majorette Festival. The corps was given the opportunity to perform in their efficacious home-made uniforms of white and gold before the vast audience of the college homecoming festivities and was announced as the only twirling corps in the State of Illinois. Georgetown remains the leader of the all-girl twirling corps idea in this area. The need for a professional instructor soon became apparent and, upon the recommendation of Director Austin Harding of the Illinois University Band, the services of his drum major, Mr. Carl Davis, were engaged. The girls willingly gave up their Sunday afternoons to study with this master teacher to learn and perfect all the rudiments and several combinations of them, which they performed in unison simultaneously with marching formations. The basketball court was the scene for a continuation of their gridiron activities. Many trips and performances in other programs won state-wide acclaim for the effort of these Georgetown girls. 23