Joice High School - Jo Hi Se An Yearbook (Joice, IA)

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CLASS PROPHECY It is the year 1972, and a beautiful evening in October Everywhere in the of Joice are huge posters reading, 'Old Home Week Many days ago, invitations sent to all former residents urging them to attend and stressing particularly evening when a wonderful entertainment is to be given All the entertainment for program is strictly home talent Every performer was at one time a resident of town and was graduated from Jbice high school town were this this this The hour for the great event has arrived Every seat in the vast new auditorium is filled, and all are eagerly awaiting the performance in which many delightful sur prises have been promised The platform is a mass of beautiful flowers and autumn leaves and the walls are hung with garlands of pine and laurel It is truly a festive occasion Seated in the audience are many celebrities As I look about me, I see a number of my old classmates There is Kbmer Johnson, our kind hearted friend, who became very wealthy through wise investments, and is now a noted philanthrophlst Hls money is paying for much of the Old Home week expenditures The ladies in the front seats are all so stylishly and becomingly dressed dat they arouse my curiosity I am told that their beautiful garments come from the very select, not to say expensive, shop of Vivien Aasland, who designs gowns for all the best dressed women in the country She is here herself and looks 'the glass of fash ion and the mold of fonm Seated near her is Keith Anonson, a real estate dealer who own so much property that he has to keep a card index of it in order to know it himself He has given the u e of the auditorium and the large park, both of which belong to him Seated at one side, watching with interest, I see Sharon Malloy, dignified and haughty I adtabout her and am told that she is the head mistress of a very fashionable girls's school in New York and has never married although she has suitors innumerable Standing in the door, looking for old friends, I find Ronald Bakken, editor of the largest daily paper in the state, and very active politically Except that he has grown a trifle stouter and looks more cheerful than ever, he has not changed one bit since his high school days A round of applause greets the man just taking a seat by the window He looks familiar and yet not quite familiar enough I hands around and talks excitedly Now, I know do you suppose he is? Remember how he used to that stuff? He's turned his knowledge to good Yes, indeed It was he who furnished the splendid weather for the Old Home Week, and that is why he was so wildly applauded Every day he sends out his little bulletins and often the weather is just as he predicted A man is sketching the people as they come in and doing it very well,hdeed,for I peer over his shoulder to see Of course you know who that is Yes, 1t's Gary Roath They say he has become quite famous as an illustrator of magazine stories and newspaper articles Remember his drawings in study hall? can't tell who he is Ah,he waves his who he is! Jerry Fibelstad And what love astronomy and meteorology and all account and now he is the weather man. in the auditorium fades and the footlights flash on Before the packed house appears a tall, dipnifiel figure who makes an eloquent address of welcome Some of the well turned phrases sound pleasingly familiar I remember our famous class speaker, Arlyn Harang It is, indeed him He was a lawyer for a time and now is a judge of the state supreme court He acts as master of cer monies, also, and after his excellent speech introduces the perfonners. The Judge announces that after the entertainment refreshments will be served through the courtesy of Miss Loretta Evans, who is proprietor of the delightful Old Home Tea Room As he speaks the words, my mouth waters in anticipation, for I haven't forgotten the delightful refreshments she served when she entertained the class, yaus ago New the entertain ent proper begins Miss Glorianna De Lorme, the famous novk actress, and it is our old friend, Connie Abraham, very much changed She has black hair and is better looking than ever and seems to have aceuired a foreign accent Now she's dropped the accent and is taking as she used to talk She's telling about Hollywood and how she became famous She asks if we remember the imitations mm used to do in study hour when the teacher was called out of the room And we all remember It's no surprise to us that she's such a success in the pictures That girl couldgiay anything, from Juliet to Mother Goose THIS PAGE SPONSORED BY R0 ,ALB LAKE MILLS CREAMERY COMPANY Acids Ni,,,nfgIgEfJCmNERY soon BUTTER, MILK at ICE CREAM LME WHS, mm LAKE MILLS, 1owA in . I C Q O - .H , - . lr 0 O O aa U 4 U . O O And now the entertainment is to begin. There is a hushed expectancy. The light O 0 O