Auburn High School - Trojan / Oracle Yearbook (Auburn, IL)

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CLASS PROFHECY Dear Mary, I have just found a minute to write you about the big event. It v;as really great. You probably remember how we used to sit at all the class meetings and tell about the big class reunion that we were going to have. Personally, I never thought we would have one, but I guess I underestimated our class. I suppose you got the same kind of card that I got for an invitation. I thought it was really very clever reading: ::Pack your grips and bring the kids. We fur- nish baby sitters and diaper and bottle service. I had to get e. short vacation from the boss before I could go. As I probably told you, I am new secretary and writer for Danny Kaye, It is really a wonderful job. It is just like going through some of those com- edy readings thnt I used co do in school. Well, I arrived at the hotel and was greeted by a huge sign saying: V 3LCGME ATJHJKN GRADUATES OF 1947 . It made me feel pretty good a. l more anxious to see all the old gang. A3 I went in I noticed a bell boy in a bright red suit with gleaming gold buttons, smiling at me. He looked vaguely familiar and as ho started for- ward with his quick light step I knew it was none other than good old Ick McReynolds . He Lad been working at the hotel for about six years and he was the one who suggested that we have our reunion at the Stevens Hotel. He told me that I was the first one to arrive but that he knew the others would be arriving soon. I told him that you wouldn!t be he. e because you were teaching French and history at the University of Paris. He said that he wasn’t surprised because you were the prize history student in our Senior class- As I cane downstairs later, I saw another group arriving. It was Don Pohlod and Art Deschamps. As I found out later, Art is nov the owner of several l'arge farms. It seems he married a little farm girl and he is quite the farmer now. Don has done very well for himself, too. He did such nice work on the drawing on our yearbook that when a couple of artists saw; it they looked him up and now he is one of the oountrys leading commercial artists. It seems h-- is one of the best in his line of work. Soon I heard the door open and in walked I.larceau Criouelion, his wife, and the cutest pair of twins you ever saw. They are boys, two years old and they were

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I, FRANCES LSSJAiv, hereby will my love of teachers to MARGARET ARCHER. I» DOROTHY MACMURDO,bequeath my well-trodden trail from Auburn High to Auburn Grade school to some other ambitious person. (Shall I say. Carolyn Medd?) I MILFCRD MCREYNOLDS, will my flirtatious eyes to FRED CHITI. I, GERALDINE NARDI, bequeath my ability to take shorthand to JOAN FING. I, PHYLIS NUCKCLS,leave my brains in economics for anyone who's dumb enough to want them. I, MARGARET PIERCE, bequeath my treasured place in Auburn High cheerleading section to JO HOARD. I, DON POIJLOD, bequeath ray G. I. haircuts to DALE HARRIS; that is, if he can keep a part in his hair with his hair so short. I, FRANCES PRELEC, will my chestnut tresses to anyone who can comb down to the ends without taking calesthenics. I, CARL RENKEN, leave my excuses to being absent, on account of working, to GEORGS ARCHER. I, JO ANN WARD, will my hearty laugh to FRED MAN- SHIP. Signed, sealed, and published by the said Senior Class of 1947, who, at their request, have subscribed my name as witness to this, their last will and testa- ment, and do declare all documents of said Senior Class null pd void from this day forth of May 29, 1947, in the city of Neverknew, county of Neverwill, and state of Don’tcare, A-Test Rude Crude Unattractive Signed, Mary Hunley

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the life of the reunion. Marc is now playing the saxa- phone in Guy Lombardo’3 orchestra and is doing very well'for himself. He was still the same happy-go-lucky Marc, though. I decided that I would sit in the lobby and wait for the rest of the class to arrive. Soon in walked two girls who looked like a million dollars and dressed the part too. I soon recognized them as Wanda E’’ 1 everyone that they were going to go to the wonderfull state of California as soon as school was out. Well, it seems they did go to California where Mary got a job as a professional model and Wanda soon married one of the rich producers at M.G. M. studio. Later a young woman dressed in white with a blue cape walked in. I looked closely and saw she was a nurse. Suddenly it dawned on me. It was none other than Margaret Pierce. She had just gotten off duty from the huge General Hospital where sho is now supervisor oil the nurses. I had a nice long talk with her and I know she is a fine nurse. While sitting in the lobby I noticed a young woman walk in and the moment she entered the room she seemed to command attention. She wore a huge pair of horn rimmed glasses and as she walked, she held herself very erect. She fooled me for a minute but as soon as she smiled I knew it was Dot MacMurdo. I rushed over to her and she recognized me at very first sight. As I was talking to her I soon realized she had not changed much from the old school days. You probably remember that she was president of the Student Council her Sen- ior year in school. Well, after school was out she went in for politics and she is now Congresswoman from the second district in Illinois. Glancing toward the door I saw a cute little blonde walk in with a perfect little angel beside her. I knew in a minute that it was none other than Erna Ladage, The little girl is a perfect replica of her mother. Erna has changed very little. She still lives on a farm near Auburn. Her husband is quite a raiser of Berkshire hogs and they must really have a wonderful farm. She certainly has a lovely little girl. Soon I noticed another girl who looked familiar and I recognized her as Gloria Kern. She started out working at Myers Brothers and now she is head of the woman’s clothing department. She hasn’t changed at all. Glancing out of the window I noticed two girls coming down the street who looked very familiar. It