Columbia High School - Columbian Yearbook (Columbia, NC)

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PROPHECY OP THE CLASo OK 1941 EMMA. SUE SNELL Last night I lay gazing wistfully out of my window at the millions of stars that gleamed in the sky. As I gazed on their brightness, I thought about an old and beautiful story that my grandmother told me many years ago. She told me that the brightest star in the sky was the wishing star and that it was the home of a good fairy who could grant three wishes to any good child that believed in her Many times in my childhood I had wished on this star, and in my dreams the fairy, queen .’isited ' with me more than once. ' How X wished that I could go back across the years and be a child ’ dgdin. I fail ' -o vouA -ring,as • ode ; will do.wh ' .t X would do if my dream could com true. That would I wish for’ And suddenly, I knew.. I would inquire of th= good fair- just what the future would hold for my class-. 1 mates and then I ' d ask Success and happiness for each of them. As I lay thus communing with myself,my eyes seemed somehow to be dravm to the groat planet,Venus that hung like a golden lamp suspended p from the heavens. Its light became blinding and presently the whole world seemed bathed in its light. Soon I hoard a voice speak softly: Thy wishes shall be granted. YJhat is your wish’ I looked about me in wonder and saw beside me a lovely croaturc dressed in mistv blue robes. It was the wishing fairy. I thought of |j my three wishes and decided to find out about the future of my class¬ mates. When I had stated my wish the fairy told me to keep looking into her star and there I might read the fate of each of my friends. I gazed as she directed arid soon these words appeared: Margaret Bate¬ man will start to college but will not like it She will marry soon and ' , with her husband and little son will travel over the United States and many foreign countries. I glanced away,and when I looked back I saw a picture of a girl and boy. They were standing in the door of a large building with tickets in one hand and money in the other. I recognized Edwina Hathaway and Walter Reynolds. The Fairy said : Edwina will her childhood sweetheart and -they will become rich owners of a theater in the thriving city of Killkenny. The scene slowly changed and merged into another,and I saw a great ; ; crowd of people seated in a great auditorium. On the stage were teo familiar figures. The soft voice said, Yes,that is Ernest Ches- son and Mary Catherine Reynolds. They will graduate from U.N.C. with i- the highest honors evor accorded a student there. Then Ernest. J.r wj-H become one of the world 1 s foromost authors,and Mary Catherine will be- fore long become the youngest president of Smith College. As this scons changed ,1 heard a whirring sound and looking oncc more I beheld an airplane about to take off. Peering from the winder;s were the smiling faces of Ruth Batemnn and Vi-ginia A1 rander dressr.u in the most attractive uniforms I hav. - 3. • n. The fairy told me