Echo High School - Echoes Yearbook (Echo, OR)

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CLASS PROPHECY Time —1904 Place—An old Man's home Introduction--By the fireside in sn old mansion a very old man is sitting with his family, fifteen in all talking over old times The old man is speaking as 4 enter Now when I was a kid war beck in ”46 we really had the timesr Like that day in May when we graduated.” Believe me that was the happiest day of me whole durned life. I kind a wonder at tines what the rest of the gand is a doing. I can't remember to good but I'll try an tell ya a little bit about 'em. Last time a heard from Ina Rauoh she was herdin' sheep for Cunhas up on Battle Mountain. She aald it was kinds rough up there but she's got her old man trained into one of the best sheep dogs you ever saw. He doesn't particularly relish the idea but Erwin said he 19 kinds getting uaed to it Yeah, son we had gals in that class too. Well lemme see; there was Rita and Frances Correa, now their names are Bowman end Branstetter, but anyhow they were a pair. They are little housewives now trying to make the best out of life. Rita has thirty acres of land flooded over by the Umatilla River and Frances and her gang entertains the farmers in the vacinity with her orchestra that travels up and down the river in a boathouse. But this will top it all; one of our gala, Mary Madison by name, she's traveling with a circus back east somewhere. Well, what are ya laughing about? Somebody had to feed peanuts to the elephants. And then there was Veda Able. Last time a heard she had just bought a dairy in Portland. I heard the other day in a round about way that James Meechan was running Jimmy's Tavern in San Francisco. He has one of the best floor shows in the country where Veda dances when the dairy doesn't keep her busy. Oh, yes, incidentally the paper said last week that Jim's fourth wife is in Reno, Nevada on a business trip. I got a letter from Fances Finch the other day and she says her tumbling classes are going over big in Portland. Her advanced class has Just completed a new at.unt which I doubt if you've heard about yet but they call it the forward roll. That stunt is the main event of the show. Frances hasn't married yet because she say9 the men have heard how she eats and they won’t even take her out. I heard from my aunt the other day and she said she saw Burl Watt-enburger and his wife in Florida one day not long ago. She said Burl has grown quite a bit since I had seen him last; he was quite a bit heavier than hia wife now. And that little Edward Burl 111 was an adorable child. She also stated that Ethel seemed as happy now as she wae when she used to sit in study hall with Burl. Burl told my aunt that Bob Schiller was now married fcb a trick rldmr and living in Texas on a big cattle ranoh. By the way thi trick rider a name happens to be Adell Graham Schiller. Bob has won oaAy honors in calf roping and last year won first at Madison Square Garden. Ernie Rohde now Las an air field Ju9t out of Echo where he teaches flying and rtiere he also makes model airplanes. Ernie was married ten years ago to Janey Center whose father is still Superintendent of Eoho School. Ernie is teaching hia oldest 9on to fly now so he can have a chauffeur. In case you'd like to know Arlie Dabney is still in the Army and Just go promoted to P.F.C. last week. Arlie still has a girl in every town but hasn't landed one completely yet. Jack Brown is now married and has a traveling basketball team which he calls the Dribbling Chicks,” incidently its a womans team. Kis wife is captain! Well. I hear Maxine calling me to dinner so guess I had better let the olass of 46 take care of itself on through the rest of their years.

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 SENIOR CLASS WILL (This will develop your will power) We, the Seniors of 46. haunted by the thought of leaving E.H.S. in its present deplorable condition, do hereby will and bequeath the following, for the proper enlivenme-it of school activities in the coming years. (Also to thwart the old saying, Echo won't have a thing next year. ) I, Veda Irene Able, will my flirtatious smile and assortment of sailor's adresses to Ellen Westfall if she will use them as I did. I, Jack Frost Brow, will my ourly hair any my thorough knowledge of intoxicants to Dale Wilson. I, Rita Rose Correa, will ny ability to catch a man to anyone in need of it • I, Frances Eda Correa, will my yell-leading Job to Patty Finch, if she'll promise to go throu i all the motions. I, Arleigh Dabney, will my love for cattin' around to all hours to anyone who thinks he can survive the rigorous life. I, Francis Marie Finch give my friendly attitude toward the men to Dolly Ann Sparks. I, Clarence Edward Jordan, will my woman attracting qualities to my yound brother, who will probably make better use of them tten I did. I Mary Louise Madison, give my lady-like manners to Black Bess, please take good care of them, they're precious. I, James Charles Meechen , will my many feminine acquaintances to Charles Daly, the only other man who could possibly handle them all. I. Ina Viola Rauch, leave my ability to filch money from the treasury and still make the books balance, to sister Doris Just to keep it in the family and maybe get a little cut-in on the deal. I, Erwin Ralph Reese, will my everyready excuses to Dick Pelletier, who can use them, but not as well as 1 did. I, Ernest Fredrick Rohde, leave my car to Pedro Stone, if he won't wear it out to quickly. My sweet trombone tone I leave to Lois McElroy. I, Rober Custave Schiller, will my initials to Gene Berry for a permanent nickname. I, Edward Burl Wattenburger, leave my man-made waves to Dona-1 Reese. I leave Ethel in the safe hands of Junior McVicker, who, I'm sure 6an be trusted, We, the Senior Class will our wholesome, smiling, truthful, honest little characters to next year's Freshmen. To the Faculty, dear loved-ones, one and all, we leave at their nerves end, looking forward to three glorious months of vacation. The Student Body we leave in tears. The Seniors of '46.' Izzy Gootoh Notary Public Witnesses ♦Quatation from the book Words of the Wise , by the Honorable Edward Aberorombiel