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6 THE ERIE ECHO r ' -f ' f Florence Rural High School 1 SENIOR MOTTO: Live Wires Never Get Stepped On Senior Calendar April 27--Junior-Senior Reception. May ll-12-Senior Play. May I3-Baccalaureate. May I8-Commencement. The Class Prophecy of 1928 One fine day in l978 while sitting near the fireplace I was aroused from my slum- bers by a loud tapping on the door. Still deep among my thoughts of old school days I did not fully awaken until I was aware of the presence of a person. Start- led I looked up and beheld a young man dressed in purple tweeds. He smiled and said, Come! I am the good Morpheus' ' Involuntarily I arose and followed him from the room. When we reached the street he bade me put on a pair of roller skates which he offered me and we sped merrily along without any trouble what- soever. We slipped unnoticed past a number of fierce monsters that guarded several dif- ferent thresholds. Suddenly we beheld the river Styx at our feet and the aged Charon Cferryman at the Styx riverl vainly endeavoring to put the boat off a shoal on which it was stuck fast. Look his burden proveth too heavy quoth the good Morpheus. The music proveth too great a load. 5 I nearly rolled into the river with sur- prise on seeing Mr. Wickline, a former high school teacher of mine. As you know. continued Morpheus, 'he was the music instructor. He died of a broken blood vessel one hot summer day from trying in vain to reach upper 'Do' while taking a vocal lesson. After a while Charon took us over. We landed and immediately recognized many familiar faces. We started walking around and I rec- ognized Minnie Glime. I afterwards learned that when she finished high school she had taken up misisonary work and while living in the Samoan Islands was devoured by her cook when supplies failed to arrive from the mainland. Progressing a little farther I was start- led by the appearance of Nelda Kropf who had been an upper classmate of mine. She had been killed while traveling with her children through the wilds of the West and she died a tragic death at the hands of a couple of thugs because she failed to remember as far back as the death of her third husband The next familiar face was that of Clifford Clary. I was informed by the good Morpheus that Mr. Clary had been. while on earth, a bacteriologist and one night. having succeeded in his work, he planned a little celebration. Going into the laboratory he seized a long-necked bottle and drank fthe entire contents. But alas! It was not alcohol as he imag- ined, but chloroform. Professor Clary was not long in arriving at the Styx river. We hurried on just in time to catch sight of Genevieve Reising entering the threshold of her abode. Miss Reising -after leaving school met and later courted and won the fat man in the Campbell Circus. She was very fond of the ele- phants and spent a great deal of her time feeding them peanuts, until at last one day when she was feeding a very large ele- phant, evidently taking her for a peanut because of her delicacy, easily swallowed her. Louise Summers was the next person whom I recognized. Louise had run away with a Western cowboy, while at college. and they had joined a Western Rodeo. During a performance while riding a bronco, the bronco stopped. but Louise didn't and hitting her head on a stone soon landed in these infernal regions. Soon I discovered Jack Boss. sitting on the bank fishing. Mr. Boss had won a couple of millions at gambling, married the first girl he met. and gone to New York and set up a soap factory in the slums for the sake of charity. He was there only a short time when he died of a complication of diseases caused from soap from his own factory. Near by I saw Erma Bauman. Inquir- ing from Morpheus I learned that she had become a stenographer, fallen in love with her employer and learning that another girl loved him also. Erma fbeing a gener- ous soull took poison. Thus she ended her career as a business woman. Seated on a stump near the entrance I distinguished Martha Heyman but not without difficulty for the atmosphere of these infernal regions had caused her QContinued on Page l0.l Senior Class Will We the Senior Class of Florence Rural High School, being in sane mind. of sound body and buoyant spirits. are about to make departure from the hall of fame located here in Birmingham. And we hereby afix our dignified signatures to our declared last will and testament. Clifford Clary bequeaths his ability as a bluffer to his successor Charles Burrows. His mania for using his getting the goat system to Kenneth Welch. He desires to bequeath his rosy cheeks to the Tobins Drug Company. Erma Bauman leaves her facility for making A's to her most capable under- study. Lincoln Wasem. Her earnest de- sire is that her sweet innocence be left to Leonard Kropf. This has been granted with the condition that he make good use of it. If not, it shall be passed on to Junior Heyman. Genevieve Reising can see no other way of losing her pet freckles so she very re- gretfully leaves them to Eleanor Schafer to have and to cherish for her very own. Her charming smile she leaves to Arnold Palmer. With great regrets Paul Knott parts with his cherished nickname of Lardy. He leaves it to Eber Vincent and hopes that he will in time become worthy of it. His ability as a potato peelet he leaves to Mildred Gegenheimet. Louise Summers bewails the fact that she must leave her ability as a star for- ward to her sister Doris. Her nonchal- ance while receiving championship cups she bequeaths to Alliene MacNeill. Jack Boss passes on his charming ways and oratorical instincts to Lewis Sebolt. He hereby bequeaths eight suits to Fred Kubishke on the condition that the afore mentioned legatee keep them always spic and span. His A's and A's he leaves to Leonard Kropf. Sylvia Frankenberg does leave her secret for reducing to Miss Katherine Early whom she hopes will give it proper care. No objection will be raised to Katherine using a quantity if in her highly esteemed judgment she deems it necessary, Nelda Kropf at our request leaves her kiddish pranks to her friend Cleo Dickel. She leaves one teaketle full of steam to the General High School Fund. fContinued on Page 10.1
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