Belfast High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Belfast, OH)

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PROPHECY C lass of 1947-48 Here it is, 1968. Just twenty years since I, Katherine McClure, was graduated with my classmates at Belfast. It really doesn't seem that long and wou1dn't it be wonderful if I could see them all again? My vacation begins tomorrow and what would be a better way of spending it than visiting all my old classmates. I had heard that Lucille West and Jean Warnock had a famous beauty salon on Fifth Avenue, so this was my first stop. I recognized them at once. They really hadn't changed much. As I talked with them I found they had married into very prominent families and the shop was only a hobby. I asked if they knew where any of the others were and they told me Charles Goolsby had married and moved back to West Virginia. I boarded a plane, and within a few hours I was in Huntington, West Virginia. I wired ahead that I was coming, so Charles met me at the airport. Within a few minutes we stopped in front of a neat little farm house. Mary Alice met us at the door and that evening I was served the best chicken dinner l had eaten. As we sat on the porch talking that evening, Charles told me he had seen Hugh Hart just a few days before. I-Ie had learned that Hugh was the head of a fur company in Dayton, Ohio, and that he had built up quite a business. The next morning I left for Dayton, as I had gotten the name andaddressof the company. What surprised look Hugh had on his face as I walked into his office. It was the same old Hugh. He has his feet on his desk and was smoking one of those very expensive cigars. I ask if he had married yet and he said, No, but I haven't given up yet. It certainly was the same old Hugh! He also told me that Ellis West was in Dayton and was coach at one of the larger high schools there. I phoned Ellis that afternoon and found there was to be a basketball game that night so, thinking it would be fun to watch his team play, I went to the game. After the game he and his wife invited me to be guest at their home that night. The next morning they drove me to the bus station where I took a bus to Wilmington. Here I was to visit Clarence Shoemaker, Shug , as we used to call him. Clarence was a professor at Wilmington College. I always had a feeling those grades he made in high school would lead to something. Who do you suppose was with him when he met me? Yes sir, his wife! I knew Clarence would get around to proposing someday. I had a very enjoyable day at their home on the college campus. I asked about Catherine Barney and found she had a beauty shop of her own in Hillsboro. I left Wilmington and reached her shop about five o'clock. She was just r-losing for the day so she invited me to her home, and there I spent an f-njoyublr evening.