Jefferson Township High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Mexico, IN)

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Class Prophecy One spring evening, as I was on the front lawn of my million dollar mansion near Denver, Indiana, romping with my children, a shiny, new four-door, red, Cadillac convertible, screeched to a halt in the driveway. Imagine my amazement when my old schoolmate and cousin-by-marriage, Marabel Kraning emerged. The date was ten years to the day since we had graduated from dear, old J. T. H. S., May Z, 1951. Jane Dunnuck, she greeted me, I've come to pay you a visit and rest a little. I've just driven through from Reno, and I'm completely exhausted. Wendell, my second husband, you know, sirnply won't come through with more alimony. How can I take in Paris properly on only 310,000 a week? I motioned her to a chair on the veranda and we began confiding all our latest news to one another. I purchased the most beautiful new dress today, I told her, At that new S and S store. Erma Swayer and Norma Shambarger are the proprietoresses. It's a very exclusive woman's shop. This brought to Marabel's mind another old classmate. Merna Ault has now reached the zenith of her ambition. She is a professional skater with her latest husband as co-star. I guess she and her first husband didn't get along too well--it seems he loathed skating. The more we talked, the more we remembered of our former classmates. I told her of the latest Collier's cover girl, Bernita Adkins. The cover story said she is Powers Modeling Agency's star model for French bathing suits. It was practically dark, so I called the children inside. Michael snapped on the television set. Across the waves came the announcer: In this corner, we have Ezzard Charles. And in this corner, we have James Bacon, who is fighting for the championship tonight. Of course, we watched it--for Jim had been in our class, too. He became the new World's Heavyweight Boxing Champiori' in the 13th round with a T. K. O. I told Marabel of my chat with Donna Arnold, whom I had met while touring the western states. Her love of horses had taken her to Texas, where she married a real-for-sure cowboy. While he's riding the range, she writes comic strips for the daily newspapers. As we went on talking, I remembered what I'd recently heard about Max Sullivan. He has a hog farm near Mexico. Each year he drives a new Chevrolet. Then, Marabel thought of Donna Otiker, who was our class photographer. Darling, she cooed, Did you know Donna has her own studio in Hollywood? She is happily married, which is very unusual for Hollywood marriages. Later on, when I asked who her lawyer was, she told me she had employed Marjorie Snyder. She had done a very good job for me whenever I ask her to get my divorces, although it cost me S 10,000 'extra to pull her from her job as D. A. in Courter.

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I, Dave Miller, will and bequeath all chalk and erasers that have been thrown in the assembly to any Junior boy who is daring enough. I, Donna Otiker, will and bequeath my ability of being a photographer to Nancy Kinney. I, Betty Postill, will and bequeath my ability to drive Buicks to Jerry Williams I, Donald Runkle, will and bequeath my way with redheads to anyone who can stand them . I, Norma Shambarger, will and bequeath my beautiful singing voice and ability to play the accordian to Bill Yoder. I, Marjorie Snyder, will and bequeath my ability to speak rapidly to Norman Fisher. I, Max Sullivan, will and bequeath my ability as rebounder on our basketball team to Harold Richardson. I, Erma Swayer, will andbequeath my temper to Howard Richardson. I, Marabell Kraning, will and bequeath my bashfulness around boys to Marcia Carpenter. I, Bernita Adkins, will and bequeath my ability as a great clarinet player to Byron Swayer. I, Jim Bacon, will and bequeam my large, bony, frame to Roy See. I, .Terry Bernard, will and bequeath my singing ability to Don Cover. I, Donna Otiker, will and bequeath my ability as secretary of the Senior Class to Carole Benedict. I, Mary Kline, will and bequeath my good fortune in being the first in the Senior Class to receive a diamond ring to Doris Fonts. I, Merna Ault, will and bequeath all my freckles to Claris Ann Guillaume.

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As the evening passed, I told her I had seen in the New York Times where Don Runkle was the president of the National Undertakers and Embalmers' Society. He replaced Digger O'Dell. I was reading the same paper, Marabel said, There was a front page story about Jerry Bernard. He has joined Bob Hope on his tour of Army Camps. I saw him last month at a camp, I said. The WAC's are just cra-a-zy over his beautiful blond hair, which he spends most of his time combing. Marabel asked if I remembered Betty Postill. Of course, I said. She is the girl that fell in love with two fellows. Both of them had to go to the Army. Yes, she said, Betty finally married both of them. Now they have her in jail for bigamyf' And Mary Kline is very happy these days, I reported. Remember, she was the first girl in our class to have a diamond. She was the first to be married, too. They have those six children they wanted, and are very contented. Say, asked Marabel, what is that huge new building that is going up on new highway 31 ? Oh, I answered, why, that's the future home of International Farm Implements Dave Miller has been Farmall dealer for several years. The new building is the result of his efficient salesmanship and good management. We were so absorbed in our conversation, we hardly heard the doorbell ring. The butler came in to announce that a neighboring couple had dropped in for a few minutes. After the neighbors had left, Marabel was still tired from her long trip, so she decided to stay at our house for the night. We both went to bed to dream about the former classmates mentioned in our class gossip' and the good ole days at J. T. H. S.