Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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By this time we had reached the television-radio room and found the machine already in use. On the screen before us we could see the operation which was taking place at that very minute. I learned that the famous surgeons who were performing the operation were Raymond Blumberg and Robert Hazzard. The three nurses assisting them were Helen Johnson, Ruth Sible, and Marian Smith. Because it was necessary for these people to wear masks during the operation, I did not recognize them immediately. I was also informed that the anaesthetic which was being used had been discovered by Mary Scheiern, a former nurse of the hospital, in cooperation with Gordon Ransom and Merle Hoy who had formerly been employed as internes. It was explained to me that this new anaesthetic not only deadened all pain, but also kept the patient from talking about his operation for months afterward when it had been completed. I next visited the ninety-sixth floor of the hospital. Here flashed a sign which read, Radio-Therapy Treatment of Disease.” I learned that Elwin Brown, Clifford Roche, and Thomas Gee had perfected a method for preventing and curing various diseases by means of shortwave radio. All in all my visit was a very short but intensely interesting one. Time was flying, and I wanted to see the rest of Berlin. Taking leave of the hospital, I found my way to the edge of the city where the large stratosphere transportation building was located. Here I found that Elaine Wanamaker, Margaret Chance, and Mary Howard were making very successful rocket-powered ships which had been invented by three of the world’s most noted inventors, Roger Robinson, Charles McMellen and Willis Johnson. At the time three of the rocket ships were returning to the field, completing a half-hour’s journey from New York. As the pilots one by one emerged from their ships, I immediately recognized them as being three of my old classmates of 1937. Alfred Palmer, Leonard Ginebaugh, and Eleanor Chamberlain had been piloting rocket ships for the company since 1950. In my hurry to gain entrance to the main office of the building, I nearly overlooked Dorothy Gott, who was working and chewing her gum most diligently at a desk outside the door. I could plainly see by the sign on Dorothy’s desk that she had obtained the position of first secretary to the owners of the firm. Dorothy explained that it would be impossible for me to see my classmates, the three owners of the company, because they were at that time trying to close a deal with Wolverton Brothers, Richard and Robert, for the purchase of a half-dozen Wolverine rocket-ships. After having a long talk with Dorothy about the class of 1937, I decided it was time for me to leave. I had wished to spend that night and the following day in the great city of Paris, so I immediately made my way to the brain-wave-space machine where my pilots were waiting patiently. Having become familiar with the operation of the machine, I began to concentrate my thought on the beautiful city of Paris. The next minute we were standing in front of the Franco-American Hotel, Page 23

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CLASS PROPHECY Friends: The nature of my part in today’s program, the class prophecy, demands that I take you with me twenty-five years into the future. Now that we are safely transported to the year 1962, let us look back over the period intervening between 1960 and 1962 when good fortune made it possible for me to make a breath-taking jaunt around the world in two years of thrill-packed experience and adventure. It was in 1960 that I first approached the shores of Sciencia, a little island in the tropical waters of the southern Pacific, and there time and circumstance began the chain of events that makes it possible for me to report so completely on the class of 1937. Sciencia, as the name implies, proved to be the home island of a number of very progressive scientists whose ideas were revolutionizing the world. I left my boat moored in the still waters of the Pacific, and walked from the sandy beach to a very imposing building facing the waterfront. Inscribed over the door were the words, ''Brain-wave-space Machines for World and Interplanetary Travel.” My curiosity was immediately aroused and my first thought was to enter the building. As soon as this thought flashed through my mind I was mysteriously transported inside. Here I discovered that the brain-wave-space machine had been put into operation by its inventors. Picking up my thought-waves, the device had suddenly carried me within the structure. It was here that I first came in contact with some of my old classmates of 1937. William Robertson, Melvin Mann, Rudolph Johnson and Robert Wilder were among the group of scientists who had created this miraculous machine. I was told that chief pilots Bayne Bernier and Donald Seiler would accompany me on a world tour in one of their famous inventions. I thought this a wonderful opportunity to see the world, and so after securing my log in which I planned to keep a record of my experiences on the journey, I was eager to be on my way. After entering the machine, I was instructed to merely think of a certain place in which I would like to be and the device would immediately respond by carrying me to my destination. I thought of the world’s largest and most noted hospital in Berlin, and before I knew what had happened I was standing before the huge structure. Upon entering the building, I discovered Fred French, who was employed as an interne, issuing orders to a number of nurses. Fred told me that a major operation was being performed and that through the hospital’s large television-radio which had been perfected by Berdyne Travis, Gaylord Lake and Bill Scheid, it would be possible for us to see and hear everything that was taking place in the operating room. While making our way to the large room which contained the famous television-radio machine, I was admiring the structure of the enormous building. Fred informed me of the fact that the plans for the hospital had been drawn by William Nelson and Gordon Panncy, who had made their fortunes in the field of architecture. Page 22

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which was being run by Neva and Reva Holcomb with Isabelle Dun-nett acting as general manager. We decided that this would be the place to spend the night after we had seen a little night life in the gay city of Paris. We soon found the ever famous Parisian” night club which had been made a success by the efforts of its owners Madeline Boyd, Betty Brock, and Geraldine Matthews. Dale Rosecrance and his American orchestra were playing a popular song which was being sung by the Nightingale of Paris,” who was none other than Miss Ruth Gallagher. I recognized other members of the orchestra as Donald Campbell, Harold Zeigler, and Earl Barker. While sitting at our table, we admired the beautiful and exquisite decorations of the club. Then, as head waitress, Marian Holliday, was informing us that the decorations were planned by Hazel Hoople, Betty Danner and Nevene Coe, Margaret Dodes and Betty Wellman came strutting through the door. Betty and Margaret, with the assistance of Nadine Dancer and Marjory Owen, were known as successful map-makers.” They operated the largest beauty parlor in the city of Paris. Hours later I returned to the hotel for the rest of the night. The following morning I went to the lobby of the hotel and deposited my three cents in the newspaper teletype-machine, which had been invented by Vernon Gallop and Pauline Gierman, and there before me was printed the last-minute news of the world. In reading the news over carefully, I discovered that Lawrence Read, who had been elected President of the United States, was using his Supreme Court packing and unpacking machine to increase the number of justices to twenty, much to the disgust of his advisors, Harry Ronan, Herman Smith and Maynard White. It was then that I decided to embark in the brain-wave-space machine to the capitol city of the United States. Upon arriving in Washington, I went immediately to the Senate chamber where Senator Jack Faude was delivering a very convincing speech on the elimination of war. In his address Mr. Faude proposed the use of the anger-eliminator machine for pacifying disgruntled statesmen. From the Senate chamber I hurried to the House of Representatives to hear Representative William Erridge oppose President Read’s plan of packing twenty dignified justices on one little bench. As soon as I opened the door I overheard Louis Wagner talking to his wife, the former Maxine Smith, over the one-way telephone which had been perfected by William Coates and LaVern Avery so that it might be possible for husbands to talk to their wives without being interrupted. After listening to the country’s troubles in the House of Representatives, I again boarded the space machine and set my thoughts on the largest scientific laboratory in the world which was located on the Pacific coast. Here I found that Murl Connor, Pauline Chambers and Donna Decker were working on a four-hundred inch telescope which would make the stars shine brighter than those in Hollywood. By 1962 the gasoline supply in the United States was nearly exhausted and Wilhelmina Hahn, Elmira Blow and Genevieve Gates were perfecting a device that would employ cosmic-ray power from space. With Page 24