Laingsburg High School - Looking Glass Yearbook (Laingsburg, MI)

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In leaving Missouri I hitch-hiked a ride with the only woman who can efficiently drive a semi. Namely, JoAnne Waterous. Her driver training in high school has been very beneficial. When I came through Chicago, I visited Edwin Parker who now owns the Swift Meat Packing Company. His trip there while in the eleventh grade helped him decide to make his career in this field. ij Carol (Irwin) Smith and Bonnie (Sparkes) Simon are now running a Lonely Hearts Club on a partnership basis. They decided since they were so happily married they would like to help those unfortunates who Cupid s bow had missed. In Lansing, Bob Kyes still has the same job he had while he was a senior. Bob hopes to be promoted to foreman before he is old enough to receive his old-age pension. Finally returning to Laingsburg, I decided it was unnecessary to visit Ted Rowley, who is owner of the big soft drinks bottling company here, and Barbara Hurst, who now wrestles every Friday night over the Gillette Blue-Blade TV show, since they both live in town and I see them often. I then returned to my humble home where I have lived since graduation. I have the, should we say, “honor” of being the only old maid of the girls who were graduated in ’51. rita McGrath, Class Prophet More Dignified Seniors Here we are, you lucky peonle.

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Class Prophecy In the year of 1965, I decided to take a trip to Mars. I had learned from various sources that a great number of the Class of 1951 had moved there. So, boarding a rocket ship sent to me by Wayne Basinger, who now finds cars outdated, for our journey into space I left behind what few of my classmates who preferred to remain on Earth. We made a safe landing thanks to the pilot, Clare Greene, who always was an efficient car driver in school except when it was icy. At the airport, better known on Mars as a vacuum-port, since there is no air on the planet, was Sam Wright. Sam who had risen to a high position in the National Guards was appointed by the Military Intelligence Chief, Butch Cook, to govern the planet. Sam’s knowledge of history, thanks to Mr. Doyle, has enabled him to govern the people very well. Sam’s right hand man is another National Guards’ officer, Henry Baumgras, who is kept busy waking Sam in time to keep his many dates. Leaving the field I entered a restaurant and found Norma Lee Daschner, now Mrs. George Morris, working. It seems that she had grown so fond of restaurant work while employed for A. A. Recreation during high school, that she decided to make it her life’s work. George was home with the family, she said, and was teaching them to live the routine he learned while in the Army many years back. Hearing Hill-Billy Hit Parade coming over the radio from Cincinnati 1, Ohio, I naturally found Dolores Ginther close by. She is now a space ship hostess and says she’ll remain one as long as husband Clare is a pilot. Leaving the restaurant I visited the Mars-Muddle, the newspaper plant now owned by Jack Mahoney since he sold his interest in the Owosso Argus back on Earth. Journalism students Richard Wert, Phyllis Miller and Jean Austin are working for him. Jack says his paper has the largest circulation of any paper in the universe, this is probably due to the ability of his reporters who got their start as writers for the school paper. The Reflector. Then locating the closest football field I found Larry Powers trying to teach the fundamentals of football to the children of former high school players Clare Greene, Ted Rowley, Sam Wright, Jack Mahoney, and Larry. Confidentially, they’ll never take State Championship like their fathers did on Earth, they haven’t the same coach. While I was watching the scrimmage I heard someone yelling “hello” to me. It was Barbara Willard, who never got over the habit since her cheer- leading days back in school with Jean Powell and myself. Speaking of Jean Powell it seems no one sees her very often, she is still receiving those gifts from Army’s John Hurst and spends most of her time at home admiring them. Lawrence, better known as Butch, Cook is teaching Physics at the planet’s largest school in his spare time away from the Intelligence Office. He finds it isn’t as confusing as Mr. Forster’s class was. After visiting him, I returned to the space ship, whose owner as I mentioned before, is Wayne Basinger. Wayne became disgusted with the slow speed of the late model milk wagons and built the first space ship to speed up delivery service for his customers on Mars. I I returned to Earth and while in Missouri I stopped to see Ann Herblet. She finally decided she couldn’t get Missouri off her mind, so she moved there.

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