Amherst Regional High School - Goldbug Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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1 I CLASS PROPHEOY ON THE MOON The Man in the M0071 stroked his pearly gray whiskers and gazed earthward. For two years, as we understand time, rocket ships had been flying between the earth and her satellite. Einstein, the physicist, had proved that the moon, instead of being a cold pile of stone, moving around the earth every twenty-seven and one-third days, was, in reality, a veritable Garden of Eden with a glamorous atmosphere. The face', it had always turned towards the earth was only a false drop, let down to fool real estate prospectors who might want to stake claims and set up sub-divisions for land auction sales. Or, too, this face of the moon might have been a measure of protection against colonizing nations like Japan and Italy. But whatever the reasons for the deceptive appearance of the moon, the Man in the Moon was looking out into space. It couldn't be called an empty space, for there were a lot of little asteroids flying around, but he was looking down, or was it up, through space? What he saw appeared to be an illuminated 'ldaisy chainv swinging this way and that in his sky. It was weaving and wheeling about in a most fantastic manner, as if a crazy football team had just won a game and, having pulled up the goal posts, was staging a show on the gridiron. The Man in the Moon had seen many comets, and some of them had been almost close enough to singe his pearly gray whiskers. Ulf that is a comet, said he to himself, the thing's intoxicated. He kept his eye on the moving objects with the aid of a great pair of binoculars, and he soon made out the red-white-and-blue color scheme of the great U. S. A.-Earth. Being a sedate old character, not given to garrulous outbursts, he quietly turned to Luna and observed: Here they comef' Who comes?', asked Luna. And the Man in the Moon, instead of burning her up with a sharp reply, said softly: t'The 1937 class of the Amherst High School. This is their twentieth anni- versary and they're celebrating in Crater Park on the Sunnyside. Before the Man in the Moon had time to draw another breath, the rockets began to arrive. The first one Cyou may be surej to land gracefully on that piece of green cheese and unload its freight of chanting men and women, along with their children, was the ship piloted by co-pilots John Yokubaitis and John Wroblewski. Accompany- ing these world-famed fliers were James Davis and Alec Hrynyshyn, mechanic and radio man, respectively. It's queer how habits will stick. These fellows, Irving Haskell and Karl Dihlmann, of the great Shutesbury Lumber Concern, in their forties were kids again and behaving just as they used to in Room 6, shouting and clapping on the back their old pals, Charlie Gervickas, the chemistry research authority, who had just discovered another element, and John Demko, the writer of School-Boy Jottingsn for the Springfield Republican. Other rockets had landed, 1-2-3-4-S-6. In all, ten. In that Hrst one had come some fine-looking ladies. Among them, one with the physique and spirit of an Amazon-yes-Ruth Kennedy. She shoved aside impatiently poor little Frank Page, George McLaughlin, and Stanley Kiselewski, three quiet, peace- ful little men who, we suspect, are ruled at home by their wives. Well, after a while, they were all ashore-or all amoon-with a complete equipment of lunch baskets, thermos bottles, pillows, and blankets. Quite a crowd, said the Man in the Moon, and some pretty nice-looking girlsf, as he winked slyly at Edu O'Brien, but, wonder of wonders, Ed,' had been too busily occupied with his great engineering feats to worry much about the ladies. Cornelius Slack, Lester Buckman, and Bob Bosworth had been studying moon geography and they offered to be the guides for any who wished to explore the caves and caverns on the moon, while the more domesticated stayed to prepare the community -mggii Egg..-