Ashland High School - Echo Yearbook (Ashland, IL)

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CLASS PROPHECY OF 39 I am slttlng at my desk under Pxttman s nose 1n the Ashland study hall makmg a man sxzed attempt to concentrate on my Enghsh lesson w1th a very reallstlc ladxes axd sess1on on my r1ght In a last desperate effort I bury my head ln my book and am soon lost ln Henry Dav1d Thoreaus hterary creatlon, Walden I always fancled myself hav1ng a cabm ln the woods on the shore of a lake as Thoreau has 1n Walden, far far away from the hectlc hfe of the Ashland hlgh school and those prodlglous Englxsh asslgnments The ladles ad sess1on grows to a sllght whlsper and soon d1m1n1shes entlrely as dusk gathers around my sohtary cabln on the lake As dark ness settles around me the moon peeps over the pmes on the oppos1te shore and 1n thxs quletude, I begm to dream The moon emerges from the pmes nts rays send a sllver path across the lake dlrectly toward me and my mlnd veers from the present to the long hard years of the future I seem to see my classmates and faculty of the old A C H S approachmg on thls sllvery path as they wlll be ln the years to come Leadmg the parade IS a busy f1ll1ng statlon attendant, located ln Tombstone, Arlzona none other than my old classmate Bob Aggertt A dark gxrl IS next I am not surprlsed to fmd W1lma Anderson She xs hap plly marned and IS havmg trouble wlth her eldest son Walter Lee II He has the hablt of walkmg out west of town every weekday ex enlng for seemlngly no reason at a Next I see a man so comely that he m1ght be taken for a woman It IS Bern Benjamln He IS runnmg a dalry products factory and speclallzes 1n a b1g cheese Heres my old fr1end Les Blakeman Blake has become a carpenter 1n the Sa hara Desert and bullds a very Sp8Clal two car garage A successful look1ng producer was next to tread the sllvery pathway Although hls speech was somewhat hmdered by the presence of a huge stogle 1n h1s large faclal aperture It IS stlll sounded somewhat luke a typhoon meander1ng across the waters Thxs rather breezy gent IS none other than my old sxde klck Bud Caswell, producer of the 1nternat1onally famous Caswell Follles As Bud blows past me a gentleman who loooks rather muslcally 1ncl1ned approach es me I should have guessed It he was Sld Campbell He dldnt have much time sand he had to get back to h1s work rmgmg the three chxmes between programs over Ashlands foremost radxo and televlslon statlon P U N K The next person seemed to be takmg h1S tlme Very unusual I thought when I learned he was Wack Johnson, turned WPA worker I notlced on hxs shovel a unlque Slttlng attachment of wh1ch he Sald he was the lnventor and from Wh1Ch he expected to make m1ll1ons A member of tl1e fa1r sex next approaches my humble lake shore It IS Emma Jean Pnce an old classmate Her pos1t1on IH busmess IS that of asslstant postage stamp hcker for Sears 8.1 Roebuck The lady next approachlng me walks wlth the llght, a1ry tread of a dancer Anna Mae Bryant or1g1nator and star performer ln the latest creatxon the Feather Dance The lady succeedmg the feathery personage gnves me lmmedlate knowledge of her pos1t1on as a housewlfe Who but Shmny Logan She tells n1e she made a well meant effort to become a career glrl but succumbed to the successful wooxng of Wack to whom she was haopxly marr1ed A rather cornulent lady IS next to be 1nterv1ewed Rlta Wankel by name She I learn 1S a pancake baker for a Iworthwestern lumber company She once baked flapgacks for the Champxon of flapjack consumers and he llked her art so well that they were happlly marr1ed She saxd she could bake a pancake ln almost any shape known to the culmary professxon but couldnt compare wlth the outlandlsh examples of the lowly pancake to be found perched on the heads of modern women A man w1th extlemely long ha1r wh1ch had been dyed black was next to approach me He was Jack Robmson only he had substxtuted off for the last three letters of h1S name and was billed over all stage screen and radlo appearances as Robmoff composer of operas and worlds flnest Vl0llYll'St I was shocked at such a drastlc Llex en - .i . . . , . - . . . . . . , ' 1 . . , . . . Q . . . , 5 . . . . 1 . - - 1 1 1 . . . . , . 1 1 , ' 1 1 ' . . Y . . ll. , . . , . A , . . . - , . . . , . . . , . , 1 , . . . . 1 . . , . . ' - L I ' ' - ' ' u 11 1 1 - - ' - 1 . - , ' . . . , . . - ' xc 11 11 , . . . . , . . -