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Senior (lass Prophecy As we step out of our time machine in the year 1979, we are very tired and decide to find a place to rest up. We start out and turn the first corner, and what do you suppose we see but a big white building with a big white dome on it. At first we think we are in the wrong place so we decide to ask two men standing in front of the building. As we approach them, we think they look familiar. Just as we thought, Ed Weaver and Ray Reed. Ed assures us that this is Kingsville. When Eddy became President of the United States, he got homesick in Washington, D. C.. and decided to move the Capital to Kingsville. Eddy is happily married to the ex- Miss America and has a family of four girls and four boys. The children all look like their father and are all just as sweet as Ed always was. We turn to Ray, then, and ask him how life has treated him since graduation. He tells us that he is a bachelor and intends to stay that way. He is Ed’s bodyguard and owns a large estate on Creek Road where the homes of all big political party members are. Ray is known as the best host in the country. He is famous for the parties he throws and is always the center of attraction, never running out of jokes to tell. After receiving and accepting an invitation from Ray to attend one of his parties, we continue on our way. As we are strolling along, whom do we see but Joanne Bancroft coming up the street. She is all decked out in high heels, minks, and diamonds. Joanne claims that she still dislikes men, but everytime a tall handsome one walks by. Joanne casually gives him the eye, turns and whistles and says, “Where are you headed for. Big Boy.” Oh yes, same old Joanne. She is now the private secretary to Julius La Rosa, great star of television and cinemascope. She likes her work very well. We turn around and bump right into Carol Reed (who is now married to John Barrymore, Jr.) and has two very lovely curly-haired daughters. We ask the girls what their names are and they reply “Oh Shaddup” and “Why should I tell you?” Yes, such lovely children. Carol said that she lives in Hollywood but is vacationing in Kingsville. She tried her luck in the movies and was just getting places when she met John and that was that. She got married and tore up her movie contract with M. G. M. Such a shame. Carol was a good actress in school. Remember ‘ Grandpa’s Twin Sister?” Oh, how could we forget. We say “Goodbye” to Carol and Joanne and continue on our way. We pass the great Bijou Theater and guess whose name is up in lights. Jon Manwaring in Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go,” which is the greatest romantic hit of the year. We couldn’t figure it out because Jon was so bashful in school. That just goes to prove that you can never tell what’s going to happen next. Someone taps us on the shoulder and we turn around to see Pat Fandrich. Patty had just come from the beauty shop, and looks as lovely as ever. We ask her how life is treating her and she replies “Purty rough, girls, purty rough.” She says that after graduation she married a fellow whom she thought was loaded. After they were married a while, she found out that he was loaded most of the time, but not with money. Poor Pat had to get out and scrub floors to keep her home together. One day she got wise and used the rolling pin on him. She told him if he didn’t bring in some dough, it would be too bad for him. It really worked miracles. Since then the “dear” has carried Pat around on a feather pillow, treating her like a queen. Now he even carries her scrub bucket. After we leave Pat, we are stopped by Joe Brown. Joe is now a surgeon and lives in a most expensive apartment in town. Joe drives a big automobile around lown. While we are talking to Joe, his sons run up to us. He says they are real angels but knowing Joe as we do, we sort of doubt that. They take one look at us and give us a swift kick in the shins. Oh yes, real angels. We just wonder how he ever managed to cover their horns. Rosa Magons, who has taken the place of Rise Stevens on the operatic stage, is just coming out of a nightclub stage door and we call to her. She stops and we rush to catch up with her. Rosa is as beautiful as ever and she tells us that she is married to an Italian boy and they own a little Italian restaurant in Kingsville. Their spe- cialty is Pasta Fasul. She tells us that she must get home soon because she left her two children home with her husband, and she says they just about drive him nuts. The last time she left them with him, they had him tied up and gagged and were just ready to brand him when she rushed in. Goodness, what angels the people of the class of ’54 had. As Rosa hurries home, up comes Claudeen Slater. She almost rushes right by us and we reach out and grab her by the arm. We thought she was going to slug us. Imagine that of Claudeen. She tells us that she just got back from Madison Square Gardens where she won the championship in Women’s Wrestling. She also tells us that she had never married because she wants a man who can at least equal her strength and before she can find out whether any of them do or not, they get scared and take off. Claudeen has changed considerably since high school. We wish her luck and success and go on, only to run into Bernice Shank. Bernice, who was always the belle of the ball, is now operating a lonely hearts club.
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She always was good at playing Cupid anyway, and now she is known from coast to coast as “ Cupid. ’ Even in all her fame, Bernice lives in a little shed out in the edge of the woods. We think she has some money hidden away somewhere in it, but she denies it very strongly. Even yet, she might meet some nice millionaire who will marry her and take her away from all this. Bernice tells us that John Oren is now a coal miner in Pennsylvania. Remember how John was the only one in the class who wanted 15 children. Well, it just so happens that John still is a bachelor. It seems that every time he got serious over a girl, she found out how many children he would like to have and that settled that. His main excuse, though, for not getting married is that he just simply can’t afford it. John is one of the lucky miners be- cause he has a mule to help pull his cart and, of course, that is a lot of help. We leave Bernice and as we go on we see a sign which reads, Dead End Funeral Home—Tinker’s Hollow—Come in and make yourself comfortable—Co- Managers, Emilie and Kamdes—Telephone T-H-000.” We decide to go and see if this is our old pal. We rent a jet car and we are on our way. In a few minutes we arrive, and before we even finish ringing the doorbell, someone opens the door and says, “Come in and make yourselves comfortable. Such wonderful service. We ask to see Emilie and just then she walks through the door. Sure enough, it is our pal Emilie Jean Kubichek. She invites us into her home and we accept gladly. She lives in the back of the funeral home. We ask her if it doesn’t bother her sleep- ing there when there are corpses in the other room. She says, Oh, no, it isn’t the dead people that hurt you. They are sometimes safer than the living.” Her house is dark and damp and, believe us, very spooky. She asks us to stay overnight, but we politely make an excuse. Because night is approaching, we stay only a short while, but while we are there, she tells us that Bob Ball is now acting as Judge of the Dog Shows at the fairs around. She says he enjoys his work very much and has been working at this for ten years. He has only been bitten once. It seems he told a German Police Dog to heel and instead he barked once and simply chased Bob out of the ring. He bit him as he was going over the fence and since that time. Bob leaves the German Police dog judging to the other judges. He just doesn’t trust those dogs, and we can’t blame him either. After all, that could be very embarrass- ing. Before we leave Emilie, she gives us a calling card and tells us to come around again some time when we could stay longer. We wonder if she means on business. We leave Emilie and go back to Kingsville. After depositing the car and leaving the garage, we run into Margaret Church who is now on vacation from her job as a model in New York. She models fur coats in the summer and bathing suits in the winter. What a life. She tells us it is a lot of hard work but she enjoys every minute of it. She gets as high as $400 a week and still she says that she is broke all of the time. We ask her if she ever married, and she tells us that she has been married four times and is thinking about getting married again. That is, if her last husband will let her. You see, her hus- bands think that she spends too much money on her clothes and she naturally dis- agrees. After all, if she earns the money, why can’t she spend it as she pleases. Margaret tells us that she got a letter from Loretta Sowry the other day. Loretta is a private nurse for the Ambassador to Algeria. Loretta is there now, but since the Ambassador is never ill, she spends her time seeing the country or staying in her hotel room working on her hobby which is mounting foreign butterflies on a plaque. She is going to save the plaque to show to her great grandchildren if she ever has any. We say “So long” to Margaret and go into a restaurant. Keith Carlson and Ronnie Hanson are eating lunch and we join them to find out what has happened to them since school days. Keith is now the head salesman for the Fuller Brush Com- pany. That company has really expanded since 1954 and it’s a good job. Keith has a nice family and lives on Wright Street in the same house he lived in in his younger days. Every night Keith can be seen in his backyard teaching his children to throw a baseball. He is trying to make major leaguers out of them. (Keith’s own ambi- tion). Ronnie is also very successful in business. He owns and operates a fish mar- ket in Kelloggsville. Naturally Ronnie is married and has a family. You’d never guess that Ronnie’s hobby is, designing women’s hats! His wife is the best-dressed woman around—it is all due to her husband’s good taste and originality. Ronnie and Keith are working on a project of starting a gymnasium to train boys to play basketball and other indoor sports. This is a very worth-while project and we wish them luck in it. We find out from the boys that Marleah Thompson and Charlotte Rushton are now working for the Navy Secret Service Department. They say that they like their jobs very well. Who wouldn’t like being around all those sailors! It must be very interesting to know what the Navy is going to do next. Certainly the Class of 1954 has come a long way in 25 years. I wonder what they would have done if they had known then what they were going to be doing now. Good question!
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