Grundy County High School - Mountain Laurel Yearbook (Coalmont, TN)

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CLASS PRQPHECY It is new in the year of 1955 that I, June Creighton, R.N., in New York City, sit reflecting in the early twilight. As I think of other days my thoughts wander back to 1945--just ten years ago. Why? What happened then? After a few minutes I re- member . That was the year I graduated from Grundy County High School . I think of all the members of my graduating class. How many changes have come to them in this period of ten years! 1 I glance to the book on the table beside me ---- a current best seller entitled, Nine Little Girls and How Thev Grew, by Ernestine Ross. My eyes neit Irest upon a lovely painting that hangs on the wall before me. The artist was Stanley Gene Nunley. In the old days I had never suspected that he had artistic tal- ent. I gaze appreciatively upon the massive fire place in the room built by John V. Tate, now a well known mason. I look over to the window and admire the exquisite draperies designed by Mme. Rollings. I knew her as Jessie dollings. , A.noise on the outside causes me to move to the window. I find that there has been an accident. In one of the cars was Dr. Nathan Barker and Nurse Do- reen Wooten, rushing actress Dorothy Louise Smith to the hospital. The people push frantically to get nearer the sceneg but and able policeman, W. H. Mc- Ginnis, pushes the crowd back and makes way for an ambulance driven by Lloyd Ledbetter. Within the crowd some one is crying out: nDoes anyone wish to hire a lawyer? I saw everything that happenedlu This person was none other than Robert David Martin. As the crowd disperses, I turn from the window and return to my chair before the glowing fire. as I sit watching the dancing flames, I pick up a papen Upon turning to the editorial page, I notice in the corner the name, Burwell Henley, and beside it the word ueditor . Directly under this is Lewis Jacobs, assistant editor. I remember that they were close friends durning high school days. I turn to the fashe ion section and one of the Powers' Models seems fa- 1 Ht