Fulton Centralized School - Fultonian Yearbook (Swanton, OH)

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A Bite of the Future (Continued) acation time was coming, and after making certain inquiries, I found that I could spend two weeks loafing on the island called Yap. I’d always wanted to, after learning about it away back in the fall of 1 )48. Janice’s idea of a slow vacation seemed a good one, so I started to Yap on a tramp steamer. 1 he trip was uneventful, except that the owner happened to be aboard. He, too, was going to Yap. but not for a vacation. It was nice to see Gerald Snyder again, and even nicer to learn that he is so successful in an interesting occupation. He owns a fleet of tramp steamers and is really cashing in on slow vacations. His ships travel the seven seas just to take people to places they’ve never seen before, or. having seen before, want to see again. Gerald suggested that I plan to stay at a certain resort hotel while on Yap. By a strange coincidence, my reservation was for that hotel. Gerald told me it is the best of several on the island. On reaching the island. I found that it is built up considerably, seeminglv planned exclusively for vacationers. Changes have evidently been made since we studied about it. The hotel is excellent. Imagine my amazement when I learned that the owner of this beautiful place is none other than Bud Put- man. It seems that he and Gerald have some sort of partnership which is working out well for both of them. Bud told me that Zuma Roberts first interested him in the project. Zuma is a world traveler. She became fascinated by the Polynesians and has made an exhaustive study of their culture and languages.’ On one of her brief visits to Ai after she had done considerable work in this field, she met Bud. Her glowing account of the tropical islands and their people interested him. He visited a few of the islands, and liked them so well that lie’s still there. Bud told me of Harold Martin’s latest venture. Harold had been in the wholesale grocery business. While busy with that lie had come up with an invention. It is a device that can be attached to the top of frozen foods. Then the whole thing is inverted, and before you know it. the food is cooked. It became such a success that it threatened to make the cooking range ob- solete. As a consequence, the whole range industry is indignant. Harold decided to leave the United States and develop the possibilities in China, lie hasn t been there long, but already more of those people are using his product than ever dreamed of frozen foods before he arrived. Harold usually goes back and forth between China and the United States by the fastest means possible, because he makes the trip frequently. The last time he went to China, however, lie was on a slow boat. My jaw feels peculiar. It feels like a new tooth coming through. Do you suppose Dr. Simon’s radio-active repair work is getting more results? —Mrs. Verna Shaver.

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A Bite of the Future (Continued) workshop and began taking the instruments apart and putting them together again. She used all her spare time that way, and went about getting all the information she could. As a result, she has revolutionized the clarinet. Her instrument is so unusual she has bequeathed it to the Smithsonian Institute. Claude informed me that supersonic aviation has received a helping hand from Marian Dowling. Not only has she made some spectacular flights, but she has taught many others most of what they know in that field. She gave last year’s Bendix winner his final instruction. Experienced fliers go to her for extra pointers all the time. Janice Mabel, it seems, has become an authority on psychology and philosophy. She has written a number of books, that latest of which is “The Art of Faking Your Time.” She has become so influential that the new fad, “slow vacations ’ is attributed to her. W e may zip through the air almost as fast as light when we’re bound for work, but more and more of us are taking the older, slower means of travel when we vacation. The slowest way to travel was employed by Dolores Schmitz and her hus- band. Dolores married a wealthy Texas oil man. Claude told me that last summer they decided to take a vacation which would mix business and pleas- ure. They went by ox cart exploring the wilds of Mexico for new oil de- posits. 1 hey found some, too, but they were gone four months. How slow can one go? Patricia Burkey has taken on a new interest. I was delighted when I used my new stationery a few years ago. and found that the glue on the envelopes was flavored strawberry, raspberry, cherry, orange, lemon, and lime—each flavor on a separate envelope, of course. Since she came out with that idea, people have been writing more letters than ever before. She sold these six delicious flavors, along with spearmint, doublemint, and juicy fruit, to the United States Post Office for use on stamps and stamped envelopes. She then turned to this other activity. She is once more interested in mer- chandising. Not only does she head a school in store methods, but she also has an experimental store in which she tries out new ideas. Her latest in- novation is new to this generation, though not entirely so to us old timers. She has placed clerks at a few of the sections in the grocery department. It adds a personal touch and the customers seem to like it. It is catching on. and already clerks are appearing in a few grocery departments in regular stores. Claude, having repaired my denture (not my two front teeth). I finally left after taking too much of his valuable time.

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Senior Horoscopes Name Favorite Pastime Pet Peeve Wants To Be PAT BURKEY Claude Non-co-operative People Stenographer MARIAN DOWLING Driving Prevaricators Undecided JANICE HABEL Playing Records Laziness Secretary HAROLD MARTIN Pool Fudge A Man RUBY MOORE Messing Around Tardiness Good BUD PUTMAN Eating Conceited People Farmer ZUMA ROBERTS Going to Church Profanity Missionary DOLORES SCHMITZ Movies Fault-finding People Undecided BETTY SHIPMAN Playing Piano Prevaricators A Success CLAUDE SIMON Pat Smokers Farmer DOROTHY SNYDER “People” None Educated GERALD SNYDER Movies Know-it-alls Farmer