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

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 ia a buckaroo, he keeps a string of motorcycles instead of horses as a hobby. Dale is married to a night club singer and his three sons are coaching at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. Dale is Just recovering from a nervous breakdown. He tried to see all three teams play at the same time. The finder moves to Westpoint and I see Patty there as the extremely popular Dean of Women. Patty is also yell leader and really rates with those Academy boys. She hasn’t time for things such as this though, she's married now, but she left her husband in Echo, working in his sawmill. In her spare time she paints flag poles. As her gobby she has become a collector of logging chains, which she uses to decorate her parlor. Her two girls help her With her task of yell leading. I was rather surprised when I visioned Eugene coaching a volleyball team at Vassar College, where Shirley is a freshman. They still aren't married, but Eugene says that they plan on it as soon as Shirley can get enough credits to graduate. Eugene's hair has silver streaks in it and he is a little heavier - in fact, he is a lot heavier. He weighs 250 pounds. It’s a good thing, too, he needs a big chest to hold all his medals - you see he has won the balloon blowing contest for the last nine years. He won an extra big one last year for blowing up 4832 balloons in succession. This year he was offered a fine position with the Naval Observatory Staff, filling their balloons. I had almost decided to put away my microvisioner when I thought of a final test - to look down on Portland. I see Helen and Swede there running an indoor swimming pool. Swede is the main life-guard there and their sons help him. Helen runs a lunch counter in connection with the pool. Their two daughters help here there. After hours they all practice swimming for the big contest that will come in the next spring. My invention is a success!!!! I guess I'll get into my rocket ship and fly back to my oil wells and my family. You see, I have a wquadron of space ships now. It's all in the family too. I have nine boys, the oldest, C. C. Me. Ill, who with me make up the squadron. They call me Blackhawk III.