Lacrosse High School - Tiger Tracks Yearbook (Lacrosse, IN)

Page 31 text:

SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY THIS WAS THE LAST DAY or SGHOOL AND I wAs DLAD. I wAs GETTING TIRED or TEACHING IN THIS REEDRNATDRY. I WENT HOME AND STRAIGHT' ENED ouT uv eooxs, ron TOMORROW I wAs ooINo TO FLORIDA ON uv vAcATIoN. THE NEXT MORNING I GOT INTO A TAXI AND STARTED EDR THE AIR PORT. THE uAN DRIVING THE TAXI DRovE VERY FAST AND REGKLESS AND AcTED LIKE HE DIDN'T HAvE A CARE IN THE WORLQ As THE MAN STARTED SINGING TO HIMSELF, IAT ONCE RECOGNIZED HIM AS Boa STOTTS, HE TDLD ME HE HAD HAD THIS Joe SINCE HE GRADUATED FROM SCHOOL IN 1949. HE SAID HE HAD T0 BE cAREruL NOW aEcAusE HE HAD wREcNED THREE BARS AND ONE MORE WOULD NEAN HE WOULD LOSE HIS Doa. I BID Boa rAREwELL AS WE DANE TO THE AIR PORT. I soARDED THE PLANE AND IN TEN MINUTES WE WERE IN THE AIR. I HEARD ALL THE Youwo aovs WHISTLE AT THE sTEwARDEss AND I TURNED AROUND AND RECOGNIZED HER IMMEDIATELY. SHE wAs NONE OTHER THAN PEGGY FRENCH. SHE TOLD UE SHE LOVED HER Doe AS IT GAVE HER A oooo cHANcE TO PICK up A MAN. SHE ASKED ME TO COME UP T0 THE DADIN T0 SEE THE PILOT wHo wAs AN OLD OLASSMATE or OURS. I SAW A LITTLE ouv SIT' TING AT THE CONTROLS or THE PLANE. HE wAs so SHORT THAT HE WAS SITTING ON THREE PILLOWS TO SEE our or THE WINDOW. As HE TURNED AROUND I KNEW AT ONCE THAT HE wAs BILL SEYFRIED. BILL TDLD ME HE LIKED FLYING FOR IT HADE PEOPLE LOOK UP T0 HIM. As WE GAME oNTo THE LANDING FIELD I DID PED AND BILL so LONG AND WENT BACK T0 uv SEAT. As I GOT T0 uv HOTEL AND STARTED UP T0 uv ROOM A BELLBOY ASK IF I WOULD LIKE HIM T0 U L self 00

Page 33 text:

-i-iii-ti CARRY MY BAGS. WHEN I SAID I DID, HE PIOKEO UP MY BAGS. HE ACTED AS IF THEY WERE FEATH- ERS. BY HIS GREAT STRENGTH AND BULGING MUSf CLES I KNEW HIM T0 BE WALT SIRORA.WALT AND I CHATTED TOGETHER AS WE WENT UP IN THE ELE- VATOR. HE TOLD ME HE LIKED HIS JOB BECAUSE ALL HE WANTED WAS A BED AND SOMETHING TO EAT. I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING AS THE SCRUB WOMAN CAME INTO MY ROOM. SHE DlDN'T SAY A wORO TO ME BUT STARTED T0 scRUB THE FLOOR. HER LONG HAIR WAS HANGING DOWN IN HER FACE AND FINALLY WHEN SHE LOOKEO UP I SAW IT wAs NONE OTHER THAN PATRICIA FILER. PAT TOLO ME SHE HAO T0 OO THIS T0 KEEP HER FAMILY GOING, FOR HER HUSBANDS PENSION WOULD NOT KEEP THEIR sEvEN BOYS IN FOOO ANO CLOTHING. As I FELT sORRY FOR HER I TIPPEO HER A QUARTER ANO STARTED OUT TO SEE THE SIGHTS OF THE CITY. I HEAOEO FOR THE BEACH AS I THOUGHT A SWIM WOULD OO ME GOOD. AFTER SWIMMING FOR A WHILE I SUOOENLY GOT A ORAMP IN MY LEG. I STARTED YELLING FOR HELP AND THE LIFE GUARD RUSHEO OUT TO ME. As HE PUT HIS ARM AROUNO ME HE BLUSHED. WHEN WE GOT OUT OF THE WATER I KNEW HIM T0 BE GEORGE PIOK. GEORGE ANO I HAD sUP- PER TOGETHER THAT EVENING. DURING THE MEAL HE TOLD ME ABOUT ONE OF OUR CLASSMATES WHO RAN A WONDERFUL NIGHT CLUB. AFTER OUR DINNER WE WENT TO THE NIGHT CLUBQ THERE A WOMAN WAS DOING THE BALLON OANOE. WHEN SHE HAO FINISHED SHE JOINEO Us AT OUR TABLE. TO MY SURPRISE SHE WAS NONE OTHER THAN SHIRLEY JOHNSON, NOW FRENCH. I ASKED SHIRLEY WHY SHE WAS DANCING AND SHE TOLD ME THAT IT COST TO MUOH TO HIRE OTHER GIRLS, aEsIOEs SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS AS GOOO AS ANY OF THE OTHER OANcERs IN TOWN. THE NEXT OAY I THOUGHT I WOULD G0 T0 THE GIR- cus THAT HAD COME TO MIAMI, As I WAS WALKING L .T7-93' AZ ,J - -H I If 4. J, I 'B I X I X 71 -I