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SEG Atter saying a lingering good night to the girls, | turned and started across our front lawn. Pleasant thoughts of the Senior Banquet began running through my mind, but the dark damp night and the chilled winds urged me to quicken my step. Suddenly, I was terrified by the silhouette of a bent figure sitting in a lawn chair directly in front ot me! The e like a flash; but the smiling blue eyes, which were outstanding in the tired wrinkled face, natural urge to run hit m -stretched hand which beckoned me calmed my urge. The near-by porch light showed her welcoming expression and out to the lawn chair next to hers. As I obeaiently sat down, the old lady spoke in a low plain voice, such as I sitting in your yard on this raw night. Before I could speak, she continued, You are one of the 268 graduating members of Bay High's '53 Senior Class, and tonight the annual senior banquet was held at the Dixie Sherman Hotel. Although no one, was aware of my presence, I was there also; and as I noticed each smiling face, I peeked into the future of each individual catching a glimpse of You are, no doubt, startled to find an old lady their tomorrows. My frightened feeling return rather timid and shy. With a quick sigh, she spoke, prophet from the land of tomorrows, and I can tell you your future and the future of your classmates. My prompt request and plea brought a new smile to her face. She then settled back, adjusted her shawland began to ed--this bent old lady certainly did not resemble a gypsy fortune teller; she seemed Ah, my child, your curosity grows; but do not become alarmed I am just a harmless speak: “Josie Lee Suggs will marry young and raise a family of nine boys, but she will faithfully continue to teach a Sunday School class. Mary June Williams will be a demanding boss for the Civil Service workers at Tyndall Fie Larramore, Roama Parker, Hazel Kohut, and Seaborn Warren will be her co-workers. Pat Hilton will be Bay County's most successful lawyer. Ann Cruce will file a law suit against the meddling busy bodies of the city during Pat's first month of practice. America's “Father of the Year title will be justly awarded to Roy Lee Wilkinson in 1967. His sincere and generous ways will make him a well-liked man in any community. Jeanne Owens and Gloria King will become missionaries. They will travel to China on Vernon Lee's Slow Boat. Ambitious George Hicks will manage Panama City's leading radio and television station. His top announcers will be Ann Weller, Tommy Bush, Billy Hardy, and Wisa Stanley. June Willis and Johnny Smith will teach a new course at Stetson, How to smile with Pretty Eyes.” The Art Department at the University of Kentucky will be headed by talented Bill Ross. Margie Banks, Thelma McCurdy, and Shirley Barlow will manage a thriving florist shop in Millville. Bachelors, Jimmy Turner and Albert Rowell will have a band which will take only top billings. Jack Mathis will become a likable neighbor who will ride the bandwagon of fun and laughs through his profitable life. Blondell Blankenship will work in a dentist's office. Eddie Eisenson will work for the Florida Museum of Natural History as a Zooligist. Dot Bowen, Shirley Landrum, and Patsy Cauly will move to Montgomery, Alabama. After his successful debut in Carnegie Hall, Jerry Fleming will procede on a nation wide tour with Judy Adams as ld. Jo Ann Davis, La Verne his loyal companion. Betty and Bobby Smith will own a gift shop in Lynn Haven. Billy Mosely will own a large skating rink in Millville. Sandra Rutter, Juantia Johns, and Alice Bludsworth will be his top instructors. Doughlas Cole will own a large fleet of commerical fishing boats. Charles Taylor, Billy Wilson, and Thomas Bishop will operate the three largest boats. The dare devil act of Richard Sturges on water skis will be carried over television, January I, 1955. “Ann Lee originals will be sold in the most stylish dress shops of America. Anne's three red-headed boys will inherit her lovable personality. Joe Love, Pete Thorn, James Stanley, James Patterson, and Jimmy Arnold will race in the annual jeep race in Port St. Joe. Phillip Johnson will study art at the University of Florida. He will receive world wide recognization for his creative statues of females. La Verne Craig will begin as a designer of up-to-date styles, but her love for animals will cause her to change professions and become a veterinarian. After starring in the famous circus of the University of Florida, Jackie Sikes will return to Bay High as a math teacher. Lee Stephens will attend college and study law. Some of his bold mannerisms will be overcome and his true personality will gain him much favor as one of the best judges in the South. Joel Grace and Jo Ann Beasley will own The Queen's Used Car Lot. Bill Bailey and Frank Mustoe will wash cars when they have time off from their banking jobs. Wagner's Supply House will provide a comfortable income for Ray. Christine Gray, Betty Roughten, Myra Hallman, and Delores Mead will work as the company's high presured salesladies. Barbara James and Scotty Frazer willhold hands as the winning trophies of the American Golf Tournament of 1960 are presented to them. Bobby Mount's picture will hang in Football's Hall of Fame--that is--Annette Hall's Hall of Fame. Jimmy Hoskins will own two profitable service stations. Customers will like Jimmy's friendly and cooperative service. After serving four years in the United States Navy, Jimmy Cannon will resume his work as head chemist at the Arizona Chemical Plant. Dancing instructors for Linnie Hall's famous dancing school will be Gwen Adair, Peggy Lutz, Bobby Roughten, and Joan Prevost. Dolly Creamer, Bertha Day, Mary Frances Enfinger, Jeanine George, and Juantia Danley will be the operators for Betty Ware's mail service in Holland. Broad shouldered Richard Muterspaugh and Jerry ‘Stafford will coach football at Vanderbilt University. Billy Hagler and Jimmy Miller will manage the local A P. Jewel Maiden, Shirley McKeithan, and Mary Ann Milton will work at the Coca Cola bottling plant. Flo Bridges, Shirley Yates. Nan Brandt, and Sara Ware will be officers of Bay High's Advisory Council during 1962-63. Carlee Hendrix and Don Newberry, baseball stars, will play for the New York Giants. The quiet ways of Pat Land, Doris Decker, Laura Jane Brown, Lorene Tharp, and D. C. McElreath will win them favor when they go to work for the F.B.I. Mike Brannon, Bobby Suggs, Darnell Thompson, Junior Marlow, and Charles Tharp will compete in a National Black Berry picking Contest in 1957. Joan Culbreth and Carolyn Stehens will lead the FSU band in 1956. Charles Justice, Elmer Mercer, and Jimmy Glenn will produce pin-up calendars for interested customers. Rainsford French and John Grant will be the photographers. Billy Camp will run a tourist court at the beach. Patsy Harris and Charolette Campbell will own a bakery. Charolette will do the baking and Patsy the sampling. Russel Philips and Philip Cotton will serve in Navy's Band.
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Yvonne Sanders will model swim suits for the Jantzen Company. Warren Middlemas will resign as tax collector of Bay County and go into state politics. Leonard Goff will own a canning factory in Lynn Haven. Rex Armstrong, V. J. Nowell, James Jones, Hunter Le Suer, Edward Borschel, and Bobby Hadley will be his employees. Betty Price and Betty Sue Lindsey will attend college and prepare themselves as kindergarten teachers. Charlie Eiserman and Clarence Herold will be real estate agents in Blounstown. Bradley Pitts and La Velle Pitts will be joint owners of “Pitts' Lumber Yard. Betty Jean Herring, Mary Calhoun, Bill Dail, Walter Lee Cowan, and Madre Chamblers will put their heads together and patent a new type of vacumn cleaner. Annette Williams, Loretta Shivers, Dorothy Scott, and Annette Pierce will work at Ken McCroan's golf course. Johnny Bass will own a dairy in Springfield. Rhodes Childree, John Ragan, Jerry Sowell, and George Whitman will work in the dairy; and Horold Swain will manage the delivery trucks. Larry Peterson will be a foreman at the paper mill. His crew members will be George Barfield, Billy Akins, Lonnie Padget, George Peach, and Charles Scurlock. Laurence Avery will become a state basketball star. Royce Jackson will serve in the U. S. Navy for 25 years. Tila Ann Mc Crary, Deloris Kirkland Virginia Richardson, Jackie Stafford, and Marilyn Wages will sell bicycles for Donald Stucky and Eugene Pittman. Charles Newsome will study engineering and become a proniment figure in the engineering world. Carolyn Daniel and Joyce Campbell will publish a book entitled The Best House-Party Fun. Juantia McCrary, Wanda Mayo, and Pauline Everage will work at the Panama City News Herald. Charlie Walsh will become a fleet post in the Navy, but he will be discharged when he is caught reading other peoples’ mail. Martha Smith will work in Billy Cobb's, the local mayor for eight years, office. Peggy Hutchison will be awarded an “Emmy by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her performance in Peg of 800 Hearts. Margaret Davis and darked eyed Betty Powell will be next door neighbors for ten years. Robert Padgett will manage a local diaper wash business. Arthur Canfield, Ronnie Brown, and James Christian will drive the delivery trucks. Joanne Prince, Betty Lou Smith, and Faye Strickland will work at the Ritz Theatre. Truett Lucas, Billy Strickland, Edwin Trapp, and Pete Stephenson will work at the ship yard. The pleasant manners and the likable smile of Gretchen Nelson will win her a notable place in the hearts of many. She will develop a sincere interest in Europe. Gordan Villars will become famous for his work as a surgeon. Mary Stephens, Myrtle Tharp, and Mary Lou Tinco will be his nurses. Andre Davis will own several drive-in theatres in the South. He will marry a pretty blond and they will raise 2 girls and 2 boys. Ann Williams, Naomi Whittaker, and Jo Kelly will work in Carroll Weller's “Fuller Brush Factory. Wade Swicord will succeed as a big businessman. He will marry a local girl and their first baby girl will be named: Sandra. The former Dot Buchner will enjoy her art talents by using them in decorating her new home on St. Andrew Bay. Edmund Woodsmall will marry a girl from Chipley. Richard Youngblood will be best man at the wedding. Wade Smith, Charles Brookins, and James Creary will sell automatic dishwashers to hen-pecked husbands of Bay County. Randall Barnhart will be president of the Gulf Coast Boy Scout Council. Helen Dauphin will be Randall's social Secretary. Ruby Pettis, Doris Jean Wilkerson, Carolyn Kelly, Inez Jean Oliver, and Georgette McVay will be officers of the local Garden Club. Herbert French will become a wealthy man. Funds for the building of The University of Bay County will be set aside in his will. Ba rbara Ingram, Ruby Nell Brookins, and Mary Lizzie Bell will invent a new medicine called Spike No. 36. This product will run castor oil manufacters out of business. Rodney Davis, Eugene Howell, and Bobby Hewett will work in the pay roll office of Southern Kraft. Lois Jean Retherford, Joyce Davenport, and Shirley Teagle will take the spot light at the Olympic Meet in 1957. Muaurice Sowell, Jack Stewart, and Ronnie Groom will be Olympic fans. Mary Elizabeth Paul's sewing ability will come in handy when she raises her family of five children. Chicago's Brookfield Zoo will be managed by Herbert Grimsley, John Fahey, and Joe McQuagge. Glenda Goodsom will continue her fine church work and in future years she will be remembered for her contributions. The formers, Ann Hartly, Peggy Crosby, and Eugenia King will be officers of the P. T. A. at St. Andrew Grammar. Buddy Rogers will start off as a professional hobo, but he will later be inspired by a pretty girl and then he will settle down to become a good family man. Photos of Nell Jackson's legs will be on many billboards advertising ladies stockings. Jean Biggs will be crowned as the Rose Bowl Queen of 1957. Harold Courtney, Jimmy Burdeshaw, Joe Howard, and Preston Warren will become Sabre Jet piolets. The Florida Times Union will be fortunate in having capable Rena Jane McBride and Bill Morar on their Business staff. Patsy Ruth Lenn and Carolyn Carithers will laugh Bob Hope and Jack Benny out of business. Donald Davis will become manager of a state trucking company. Troy Long, David McKinney, and John Smith will be his best drivers. Verna Mae Brown and Phyllis Brown will be the choir directors at the First Methodist Church in Millville. Betty Cushman, Asa Maynor, Helen Miller, and Sonja McCormick will be top TV performers. Billy Pate, Horton Pennington, Ralph Pollard, Billy Reddick, and Don Redmon will become mechanics and work in Preston Sullivan's garage. Ann Pratt, Lavohn Price, and Polly Skipper will compete in a swimming race across the bay. Jimmy Sellars, Caroline Scheming, Annabele Price, and Parker Reynolds will travel over the country with Ringland Brother's Circus. Sammy Moates,-Thomas Muldowney, and Benton Gachet will be stock holders in Panama City's Fliers! baseball team. The seven kids of Shirley Vickers will occupy the front row in the St. Andrew Baptist Church Choir. Elinor Welbur, Barbara Buoy, and June Whitehead will manufacter a special black ink for bookkeepers. Elizabeth Fountain will own the ice plant at the beach Hugh Crosby, John Doren, and Charles Armstrong will be her employees. Dyanne Typper and Jon Turner will sell furniture for the Lynn Haven Furniture Company. Kenneth Glass, James Gainer, and Benford Goodwin will go to Texas to drill--that is--to take part in Army drills. As [heard her pause and then a faint “good-bye” I looked up quickly only to find her chair empty, and I have never seen or heard from the lady since. Often I think of this blue-eyed old lady and wonder if any of her predictions will come true, but only time will tell.
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