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CLASS PRGPHECY Cliff Kessler owns a night club in Chicago and has Helen McKinzie, Pat Smith, and Mary Lou Bollen in his famous chorus line. Also in Chicago are Darrell Drehman and Roger Radue who own a string of taverns and restaurants. Marvin Gradert and Bill Miller are in Detroit designing sports cats for General Motors. Down South, Dick Farrell and Jerome Henry are building and testing swimming polls in Florida. Claire Farnum and Bernard De Kezel have retired and are also in Florida sailing and yachting. john Garrity has retired after setting the world record in the mile run. Several of the girls in the class are now in New York City. jane Verstraete is a fashion designer for a New York depart- ment store where Nancy Van Opdorp and Beverly Van Vooren model for creations. Dorothy Dersham and joan Atwood model hats for world-renowned designer P a t s y DeSplinter. Lynne Magerkurth writes a wo- men's column in a New York paper. Some of the class have left the United States and gone to Europe and other continents. For example, Paul johnson and Wayne Heaton own a dia- mond mine in Africa. Billie fi? Thompson, Kenny Parnell, and Ronald Wisdom are capturing wild animals there are Dick Kincaid's zoo. Bernard Tholl is in South America Minning uranium. Bonnie Wahlheim is an Eng- land preparing to swim the English channel. ln France, Gloria Deane and Patsy Stage have married wealthy continentals and are living on the French Riviera. ln Pairs, Nancy Shambaugh and Yvonne Stottler have opened a smart women's shop with Kathleen Darling as a model. Also in Paris are Pat Vander- snick and Lucille Taets, who are co-hostesses for a tea room. Lois Whitmyer, world famous artist, is touring in France. Dale Goodrich, jim Resser, and Dick Shoemaker are build- ing rocket ships in Germany for interplanetary flight. In India, Mark Vandemore has one of the world's largest harems. Elsie Gardert, Lois Jensen, and Lois Klavon are in Hawaii sunbathing. In the navy, Chuck Bachman and Bernard Huizenga are flying planes off Admiral jim Hanford's aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Qs
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CLASS PRGPHECY In 1955 the Senior class of Geneseo High School graduated, and its members began to go on their life's way. It is now 1980, the year of their twenty- fifth anniversaryg and one of the class members,Chuck Bills, has the job of locating and contacting each member of the class for its reunion. After twenty-five years the class is scattered, but each one is successful in the world. Homg in Geneseo Pauline Matteson, Lois Edgar, and Barbara Gillespie have married and are prominent in social activities. Nylah Vandenberg is now a home economics teacher at the high school, and Ray Jacobs has succeeded Dale Martin ,as basketball coach. Kathryn Yager and Marilyn Hajek own a mink farm just outside Geneseo where they raise minks for Mary Morrissey who designs fur coats. Several of the class are successful in the sports world. Bill Wethington and Bob Quayle are professional wrestlers, and Gary Combs has retired from professional basketball to be- come a coach. 'Mapleleaf Rag' is the theme song of a jazz band now touring the country and featuring Dick Adams and Alan Anderson, a pair of crazy clarinetistsg Stan Vandersnick, a hot trumpeterg Dick Ford, a gone trombonistg and Bernard Lavery, a hep tuba man. Dick DePauw, Bob Baird, Frances DeWispelsere, and Lyle Wathier are now nationally famous as the 'Four Maple- leafs' and are making record- ings for a top record company. In Indianapolis, Indiana, Earl Anderson, Charles Fiers, and Bernard Edwards are building racers to enter next year's 500 mile speedway race. John Nelson and his 'Hobert's Hot- rodders in which Dick Hul- slander, Ronnie Specht, Walt Allen, and Earl Keegan are now touring the country as a dare devil driving team. In Washington, Janice Benson is secretary to Carol Miller who has graduated from class president to United States Senator. Also in the Capitol are Jim Little and Michael Hippler, former scientific gen- iuses of chemistry, class, who are now atomic scientists work- ing for the government. On the west coast, Carol Dirck and Leota Nuelieb are airline hostesses for Trans World Airlines. Pat Painter and Janett Roehrs live in California and design homes for movie stars. ln Hollywood, Bill Wablheim and Marilyn Searle are famous movie stars while Janice Ingram writes a society page in one of the papers. A leading Hollywood producer is Sue Young who has also written a stage production starring Suzanne Smith, a well known actress. Beverly Holke and Margo Betcher are in show business as a song and dance team. Sandra Wells is also in show business as a dancer on tele- vision. Janet McKenzie is the set designer for the popular TV show 'l Love Lucy' starring Lucille Ayres. 'Diamond Jim Catour owns a gambling casino in Reno, Nevada. Bill Davis and Willard Peterson are raising horses in Arizona. Kendall Miller is making millions with oil wells in Texas, and cattle rancher Gene Stees is another wealthy Texan.
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