Williams High School - Tusayan Yearbook (Williams, AZ)

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THE TUSAYAN CLASS PROPHECY On May 27, 1949, our class met as a unit of Williams High School for the last time. Mr. King, our class sponsor, told us that a famous scientist wished to talk to us. Mr. King then introduced Dr. Ignatious Z. Ignatz who is known the world over for his research work in the field of chemistry. Dr. Ignatz started his talk by telling us that untold wealth and prosperity awaited each and every member of the class, if the class would join with him in an experiment that would benefit all mankind. He then went on to explain that he had discovered a serum that would extend the life of the human race by 200 years. He had been administering the serum to animals and insects and had succeeded in extending their life span four times their normal life expectancy. He had now reached the stage where he needed people who would be willing to take the serum to find out ii it would work as well for humans as it worked for animals. In other words he was asking our class to volunteer as a unit. After many hours of discussion among the members of the class, the entire group voted to take the serum to find out what effect it would have on human beings. Dr. Ignatz had pointed out that the serum would take effect in a period of 24 hours and that we would look exactly the same fifty years from now as we looked on the day we took the serum. The following Monday, May 30, was set for the day for the experiment to start, and on that day we would all take the serum and wait for the next twenty-four hours to see what effects the serum w'ould have. We dreaded that twenty-four hours because that would decide how we would look for the next 200 years, IF THE SERUM WORKED. On the morning of May 30 we all appeared and took the step that decided our whole lives. The twenty-four hours passed, and we were all alive. Our facial features appeared exactly the same as they had been but our bodies had all undergone changes. No two people reacted to the serum in the same way. Naomi Whitted, for example, grew to be eight feet tall and she was so strong she could whip anyone in class. Margaret Elizabeth Fisher had become the world’s largest woman, tipping the scales at 945 4 pounds. Grant Smith’s body grew smaller w'hile his feet grew larger. Lula Mae Willsey and Mildred Williamson had been sitting next to each other during most of the day, and they grew together with one body and two heads. It was immediately realized that a chance of such a person getting mar-red was out of the question because it is all a married man can bear to have a wife with one mouth going all +he time. No man could stand up under the terrific strain of listening to two he Is talking all the time. We were a sad group of people for the rest of the day. We talked the s tuation over wondering how we would make our way in the world. Since the experiment was a failure as far as bodily appearance was concerned, we knew that fame and fortune had passed us by. Suddenly an idea dawned. We would form a freak show and travel around the world and become famous as the largest collection of freaks ever assembled under one roof. And so, in the year of 1999, The Viking Freak Show features the former senior class with each of the members having the same facial appearance that they had fifty years before. Pictured on the following page is each and every member, and you can all see the effects of that terrible serum. 12

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Retta Leo Melick THE TUSAYAN Collin E. Owens Ruth Avila Mildred Williamson Class Sponsor Mr. J. M. Kin Margaret E. Fisher 1 1

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