Hammond Technical Vocational High School - Chart Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Prophecy A ll, CHILDREN, your past is an open book — your present is obvi- ous — your future I shall reveal. By the sand on your shoes I can tell that you are from Hammond, Indiana. Your bright, intelligent faces indicate that you are from Tech ; my prophetic soul tells me that the ink on those diplomas is not yet dry — I recognize you as the class of ’25. As small boys and girls you attended grade school iii Hammond — later, I see many of you at the Industrial High ; but finally I see you all rushing to Tech where you remained until Mr. Barrows gave you those diplomas in order to be rid of you. Do not fear that you will be forgotten now that you are graduated. There will be other football and basketball teams at Tech but Gragido, Atwood, Lane, Cline, Frame, and Cook were on the first teams ! There will be other office girls but none like Edna, Mildred and Dorothy. The future ? Let me gaze ' into my crystal and I shall tell you what I see for each of you in 1935. In Indianapolis I see a large garage with the name “Warner and Frame”, also the inscription “Free Air”. Carroll is slightly bald headed; but so prosperous he doesn’t mind. William Ohr, you will become rich, and win the everlasting gratitude of school teachers by inventing “The Ohr Sandpaper Cellar for Rough- necks”. You will spend your entire life in Hammond where there is a great demand for your product. Robert Cline, the class diplomat, will enter government service, apd nine years, eleven months and twenty-nine days from now will be sailing from New York to take up his duties as United States Ambassador to Germany. Page 24