Hopedale High School - Comets Yearbook (Hopedale, OH)

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Columbia University furnished the background for the next scene. I was seated in a huge auditorium with thousands of grad- uates receiving diplomas. My ego expanded with the announcement that Norma Hocchi had received highest honors in shorthand. And then the main center of the scenes changed again and 1 found myself leaving New York and glimpsing for a second Katharine Lacich as Dean of Women at Bliss College in Columbus, Ohio. Leaving the college, I found myself suddenly out of one college and into another, in which Donna Yocum, a famous winner of arguments during our school days,had been challenged to a debate by Ray Piccin on HResolved: That men have a higher degree of intelligence than women.u Of course, Donna won. I found I had traversed a lot of territory in Hollywood, and there I beheld the one and only beauty operator of our class. Bernice Elliott, had attained national recognition as a beautician for Warner Brothers. Always interested in the dresses of the movie stars, I went to an exclusive dress shop, and who should be manager there but Freida McAfee. The gymnasium at Hollywood furnished a familiar sight, although I had never been there before, The reason for the familiarity of the scene was Jane Ann Case, who was chief instructor there,in keep- ing actresses trim. Still influenced by the trance, I was taken to Washington D.C. Since this was the year for the presidential campaign, I found am- bitious Melvin Byers making great strides for the presidency. The scene changed from politics to that of an orphans' home, in which Viola Nix was matron and Pauline Baker was her secretary. Of course, I could not leave my trance without visiting my home town-and to my surprise, Bill Gilliam was mayor.' Wanting to bring fame to Hopedale, he had sent Junior Davenport north, where he dis- covered a planet which bears his name. Slowly, but surely, the outlines of the room were coming back, and I again saw Shirley Cline at my side. My time had not been spent in vain. My desire had been fu1fi1led.Every one of my school friends had become outstanding in his field. The plane was waiting for me, and in an half an hour I was home again. In one day, I had seen or talked to every one of my former aaa, classmates.