Driftwood High School - Tiger Yearbook (Driftwood, OK)

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CLASS PROPHECY I have been away from Driftwood for fifteen years. Since I hadn't decided whether I wanted to be a newspaper reporter or a dean of girls in a large school I had been doing both. As a newspaper reporter on the New York Eagle and with the title of Alyce Miller, Dean of Girls at an all girls school in New York, I thought I had earned myself a vacation. Since it had been fifteen years since I had seen my former classmates I decided that it would be pleasant to visit them. I learned from the Driftwood Store, which was a branch of the Ferrell- Frey Grocery Co., that Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ferrell were living on the former Dotterer place. As the former Ruth Nossaman opened the door I was greeted by the noisne of their fifteen children. After an interesting, but exhausting time I left this hectic place. I learned from Ruth that Jo Ann was proprietor of an orphanage near Byron. This was a convenient place since Milton was farming in this locality. Mr. Whitehead still thought J o too young to marry. I next journeyed over to Burlington. Here I found Nyla June attending the Grocery store and Jim managing the drug store. With these two establishments under their cgntrql, Ny1g, and Jirn had almost taken over the city of Burlington. Betty was always the most unpredictable of our class so she was the hardest to locate. Her mother had always said that you couldn't pay Betty to get married and she was right. Betty had married free of charge to anyone except her husband. Settling down wasn't for Betty. She was working in the telephone office at Portland, Oregon to fulfill her life longambition. I returned to New York rested and confident that my fellow classmates had made a success of their lives.