Cunningham High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Cunningham, KY)

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Class Prophecy As I look back on the four years I spent in high school, 1 see nine shy girls and seven gay boys starting in as Freshmen. A new world and a new experience for us all, a vast world of learning opening to the opportunities that have come to each of us. Now as 1 look back, I can see that we were all eager and perhaps independent, and 1 am not too surprised at the success of my classmates of long ago. After completing a stiff course in college to prepare myself for a kindergarten teacher, 1 came to visit in Cunningham, with my family. Oh, incidentally 1 secured a job in the Oak Ridge Public School! I was in Paducah to shop a few hours and to my surprise I saw a sign that read, Terry and Reasons. 1 went into the store and there was my old classmate, Patsy Terry. 1 might have guessed it, though, because she had worked for Kresge; now she owns her own store — and she got Benny, too! They have a fine home in Paducah. She told me to look up Betty Davis, which 1 did. I learned from her that she is engaged to a professor of history at Murray and she is a surgical nurse at the Baptist Hospital in Paducah. Betty had to rush to surgery so my visit with her was short. Mother tells me that Buck Davis isn’t married yet, but owns a fine farm on the Yellow Dog Road and is raising chickens. Mary Jane and her husband, Donald Davis, have taken over the management of Partin’s Slaughter House. They have developed it into a small factory and call it Carlisle Meat Packing Company. They have about twenty-five people working at the plant. They are a happy couple in their new house and have five husky boys — a good basket ball team. Mary told me that Lavada and Wayne Earl Bean own a 200 acre farm and have devoted most of it to truck farming cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes and beans. Quite a coincidence, beans raising beans! — as well as little beans! They have a little boy and a girl, or should I call them bean sprouts? Pansy was on a short visit, home from Chicago; she is a secretary for the president of a large business firm there. She married a lieutenant whom she met while going to business school. Before I left Cunningham, 1 met Donald Edwards; he told me he was a watch- maker there. Reminiscing over the four years 1 spent in Cunningham High School and thinking of the success of each of my classmates; although we were dissatisfied and we did not appreciate the efforts our parents and teachers put forth for us; I come to the conclu- sion they must have done a pretty good job after all. Written by Pat Williams