Echo High School - Echoes Yearbook (Echo, OR)

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Class Prophecy Tima-----1975 Place On a rock in Mars. Introduction ----- A middle aged man is sitting on a rock in Mars, looking into a machine that has many dials and buttons. He seems to be talking to himself, so let's listen in and see what we may hear. First as I gaze into my atomic microvisioner, I see Doris in New York. I look deeper and find that she is seated, playing a piano, at the Stork Club. She has made a new gadget which she calls a stand, that holds her trumpet in position so that she can play it while beating out the boogie. Kenny, who says, Just anything for the little woman, has learned to play the drums. Little Junior seems to have inherited a great deal of musical talent, being accomplished on the bass horn, bull fiddle and Jew's harp. My gaze shifts to the Grand Canyon and I see someone sitting on a rock. At closer view, I find that it is Clyde sitting at the edge of his air field. He has completed the jet belt” and no longer has to walk. He scoffs when he thinks of the belt that made Buck Rogers so proud in the old days. Clyde is still unmarried, but has promised to make any woman who can successfully fly to Mars and back, sole heir to his airfield. So far no one has been able to do this, although, of course, many have tried to win this grand prize. In the fracas, I lost control of my atomic micro-visioner and I find it visioning a scene in Belgian Congo. As strange as it may seem, I find Ethel there trying to teach the natives tumbling. She doesn't seem to get along very well though; for one thing, she can't understand them and another, they can't understand her. Oh, yes, while Burl isn’t busy keeping house for the Mrs., he is teaching their family of boys to play football. Of course they won't play the peanut game their daddy used to play. There are too many of them. They're all big time stuff - eleven-man you know. I next look down into Madison Square Garden and see a fight to the finish - man vs. horse. When the horse becomes tired, the rider finishes his act by leaping to the ground and shouldering the horse and dashing around the arena. Dale and Darkey get quite an applause for this stunt, and the judges proclaim him the greatest bucking buckaroo of all time. Dale also has a trick-riding act that causes quite a sensation. He holds a glass of water in each hand and puts one on each foot. Although Dale