Greene Central School - Greenelite Yearbook (Greene, NY)

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CLASS PROPHECY The time is January, 1975. The place is Greene. New York. I’m supposed to get the facts, the facts on the class of 55. My name is Sunday. As I enter the town limits, a large sign greets me, which says, John Ekstrom, Mayor of Greene. I immediate- ly mark this down in my black book, under FACTS , as I prepare to move on. You would hardly recognize the village from the one we knew in 1955. The town has had a complete archi- tectural face lifting due to the efforts of Kai Madsen, whose revolutionary ideas in that field are being adopted by cities around the world. 1 decide to seek legal aid,sol go up to the office of Stevens McLaud, Attorneys at Law. They bring out the 1970 census and I find some of the members of the class of 55 listed and their occupations and whereabouts at present. Betty Winston is happily married and living in Morrisvillt.. Martha Webb is currently an assistant at Broome Tech. Gerry Turner owns a garage, where Lance Doxie and Bob Mills are employed as mechanics. Lorraine Scheuerman and family are traveling about in their new trailer. At lunch time, I cross Genesee Street to Lanfear’s Grill, where I’m surprised to meet Marge Sampson and Dotty White who are working as waitresses, while Jay Dillenbeck is chief cook. I decide to walk around the town, and see if I can catch a few more class members. I pass an austere-looking building, bearing a sign which says Home for Unmarried Matrons--Cowles, Dietrich, and Waldon, Proprietors. I learned that Dr. Jack Rounds is the surgeon at the new hospital where Audrey Bullett is head nurse. Priscilla Youngs and Sally Henninge work there also. From Jbrette Cochrane, Librarian in Greene, I learn that Norm Bryant and Toad Cook have formed a basketball team which plays everywhere. I drive down to the Greene Central School, where John Whittaker is Principal. Nancy Hoag and Madeline Collyer are teaching physical education. Judy Winans teaches industrial arts. Lauretta Lewis, of the Science department, is recovering from a seared arm which was burned when Andy Pearl, Jr., mixed the wrong elements! I ran into Ronald Shapley's brother who told me that Ron is trying to break the potato peeling record at Fort Dix. Bob Fieldhouse is rounding out his 20th year in the Army but you guessed it--A private. We had a letter from Joan Hofmann last week, postmarked Paris. When I picked up Joan’s letter at the Post Of- fice. I noticed that Dave Cooper is now the Post Master. Joyce Copeland has finally come into her new legacy anu is operating the former Brown’s Delicatessen. We hear that Mary Sampson is quite a beautician. Pat Taylor is operating a summer theatre where last week Roger Shafer was the feature soloist with the ever growing Smithville Symphony. Marty Delaney, George Dean, and Loren Moorhead are part of a troupe of Dare-Devil auto racers currently re- presenting the Ford Motor Co. in the Pan-American race. Ward Stanton and Jessee-Lobdell have been chosen to coach the American Olympic Teams. Janet Hamilton, is running the Peter Pan Nursery for the working mothers of our class. In several of the children I recognize the faces of Shirley Brewster, Shirley Keyes and Ida May Mead who are working the swing shift at the Raymond Carp. Butch Carpenter, having retired from wrestling, is now training life-guards at Genegantslet Creek. Phyllis Stringham has taken over for Betty Furness and may be seen advertising the new Atomic refrigerators Sharon Robbins went on to graduate study at the School of International Relations in Geneva Switzerland and is now the first consul at our embassy in the Tanganiyka Territory. Virginia Taft and Betty Lou Furman are County Extension Service representatives with Headquarters in Norwich. At last reports Cliff Hatfield is operating a Dry Cleaning shop for well-dressed penguins on an ice floe some- where off the Alaskan coast. By now my little black book is completed and I must get back to headquarters to type up my reports on the members of the class of »55. K 21