Fulton Centralized School - Fultonian Yearbook (Swanton, OH)

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Joyce and Carolyn Johnston Beverly Willson

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CLASS PROPHECY In the twenty years since 1954, many things have changed. Of course I have long since retired from teaching, but one never quite gets out of harness. The alumni needs an office boy to be on hand to collect news of all our F.H.S. graduates. Luckily for me, I m their boy . Right now I'm busy sending letters, telegrams, and radiograms, trying to make plans for the annual get-together. Carolyn Johnston started it all. She has her own wholesale-retail business in women's clothes. You know it—her slogan is, The best they're wearin' came from Carolyn. Of course in the business she travels a great deal. Occasionally she meets an alumnus or hears about one. When she does she gets names and addresses and gives or sends all the information to me. She's very enthusiastic about keeping in touch, so she sparked the whole idea of an alumni secretary for our school. I just happened to be lucky enough to be on hand. This is the big year for the class of '54, for it is the twentieth an- niversary of their graduation. Because of this, I have been in cor- respondence with some of them and have gone to see others. It's cer- tainly wonderful what they're doing. Bob Bratton is a 4-D comedian. 4-D is something like 3-D, only with goose-pimples. You remember how you used to dodge in the 3-D movies? 4-D does all that, and along with its sound track it has an odor track. Yes, I know, some of those 3-D pictures smelled, but this is more realistic. For instance, the scene is in Hawaii. Not only do you see the flowers, hear the water lapping on the beach, etc., but you smell the perfume of the flowers and the fragrance of the pineapple juice factory. Imagine a gooey one-crust pie coming at you and you smelling the lemon! It was Bob's idea and he took the lead in perfecting it, though he prefers acting before the camera to the production end. Bob Cufr has an interesting profession. He specialized in elec- tronics. Then he became interested in reading the thoughts of historic characters. People tried to do that thirty years ago. Bob has really done it. He has actually picked up some of Napoleon's thoughts when he was planning his Egyptian campaign. He's trying now to find out what happened in Napoleon's childhood to make him the restless conqueror he became. Bob has done some exceedingly enlightening research on George Washington. What puzzles me is how he can sort out Wash- ington's thought waves from those of some ordinary Virginia farmer, or from those of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, or Richard Henry Lee, for example. Some day I'll ask him to explain it to me. Alice Elton is a comedienne on the stage. She can make any scene excruciatingly funny just by doing some of the things so characteristic of her. She doesn't make faces like Martha Raye used to, or go through some of the falls and other antics so characteristic of Joan Davis. She relies on stage business more like the Marx Brothers, and the whimsical. She is exceedingly popular, as you know. Everyone plans to see her when in New York. You won't see her in many movies or television shows, for she prefers the stage where she can see and hear her audi- ence. Bill McElheney has quite a business now. He has started radioing steaks and other beef products. This idea had been suggested as early as twenty years ago when Bill was a senior. However, elaborate send- ing and receiving machinery, electronic equipment, and other things