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Senior Class Will We, the Senior Class of 1955, of the Earlville High School, County of LaSalle, and the State of Illinois, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make, execute, publish, and declare this our last will and testament, hereby revoking and annulling all former wills made by us. Sharon Gould leaves her short hair to JoAnne Jacobs. Edith Snelling wills her quietness to Barbara Kukuk. Delores Claude leaves her ability to write long letters to Mary Campbell. Janyce Seaton, Sonja Nielsen, and Delores Ryg leave their friendship to Kay Conklin, Wilma Gast and Carol Pritcher. Hope it lasts just as long kids! Norma Coble leaves her bleached blonde hair to Barb Norton. Jerry Smith wills his false teeth to Shirlee Beck. So don't lose them, Shirlee. Roger Cantlin leaves his 1:00 coffee sip to whomever takes the absentee slip around. Bill Pointer wills his chipped front tooth to Bob Atherton, and for football next year, some glue for his fingers. Hope you don't need it. Bob. Betty Whitlock leaves her ability to attend Bub dances in Sheridan and still be able to go to work the next morning to Scott Atherton. William Coffey wills his stall at the Stables” to Bob Richards. Keep it clean, Bob! Alice Youssi leaves her perfect attendance to Ross Cullins. Jim Norton wills his pinball manual to Kay Turnipseed. Phyllis Gast wills her “cokes at the Stables” to Barbara Norton. Lee Wiley wills whatever he has got to whomever wants it. Bud Swayze leaves his daily shave to Merv Tuftie. Now he won t have any trouble with Lyle. Ruth Tuftee wills her stall” at the Brite Spot to Merv Tuftie. Don't have too many cokes, Merv! Larry Taylor wills his wavy hair to Scott Atherton. Connie Prater leaves her short hair to Anne Malkey and Sharon Sutton leaves her ability to take showers in gym without getting wet to Patty Godlman. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names and affixed our seal, the fourteenth day of December in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four. [V( o The foregoing instrument, consisting of one page was, at the date thereof, by the said senior class, signed, sealed, and published as our last will and testament in the presence of each other, and we have hereunto subscribed our names as wit- nesses on the day above mentioned.
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December 15, 1985 Dear Diary, Last week when I arrived in Chicago after spending thirty years in Hawaii as a pineapple buyer for the Earlville School cafeteria, I saw the names of some of my old classmates in the paper. The first name I saw was Janyce Seaton's. It seems that she had just had the distinction of being the first woman from Illinois to be elected to Congress. There was also an article on a millionaire, Jim Norton. It said he had made his fortune manufacturing pinball machines. Also in the news was Bill Coffey who had just been chosen Mr. America” of 1985 and an article on a book written by Bill Pointer, a philosophy teacher at Shadyside College. When I opened the paper, I noticed an advice to the lovelorn column. It was edited by Sonja Nielsen. Later, I stopped in a health bar for a glass of milk and saw Sharon Sutton on television. She was a woman wrestler. I was so engrossed in wrestling that I didn't notice the man next to me until he introduced himself. It was Jerry Smith. He told me that he was an undertaker now. He was also able to tell me what had become of some of our other classmates. It seems that Edith Snelling is a book- keeping instructor at Earlville; Ruth Tuftee is a nurse at Belvue; Sharon Gould has her own beauty shop; Connie Prater is married to a stock car driver; and Bud Swayze is a prominent hog raiser. Betty Whitlock has a band called Betty and Her Babes. Her singer and guitar player is Norma Coble. After I left Jerry I returned to my hotel, and I had no sooner opened the door than the telephone rang. It was another schoolmate, Lee Wiley. He, too, had just arrived in town. He said he had spent the last eight years in Africa as a missionary to the Pygmies. He told me he had stopped in Earlville and that he had seen Delores Ryg and Alice Youssi. Alice now has her own restaurant and Delores is a farmer's wife. He also said he had heard that Roger Cantlin is a guide in Australia for teachers that come there to shoot wild boars, that Delores Claude is editor of True Confessions magazine, and that Phyllis Gast has done quite well for herself in the manufacturing business. She makes canes, crutches, and wheelchairs. It’s really strange, when you stop to think about it, that, out of our class, not one of us ever ran for President. LARRY TAYLOR
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