Lordstown High School - Highlights Yearbook (Lordstown, OH)

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' iflril r ,. ' X CLASS PROPHECY TIME-Ten years later-In the early summer- ---- PLACE-New York I'M in my studio practicing for my next concert at Carnegie Hall. I'd practiced ahj morning so takin a b k A g rea I get up and go to the open window. ,There is a comnottion, th on e street. Two cars seem to be concerned and a man is raising an awful rumpus about being late for an appointment of some kind. His voice sounds terribly familiar, but I can't place it. I can't see his face, because his back is to me. Just then the driver of the other car, whom I recog- nize as Lyle Bailey, an old classmate, gets out of his car I S e and walks over to the other driver. I could tell by Lyle's manner, that he was also quite hot about the matter. As the other driver turns around to tell Lyle off, I see why I recognized his voice. It's Jack Irwin, another classmate. When I get down on the street, the boys' anger had dis- appeared. After our exclamations of surprise, I asked dn boys up to my studio, to talk for old times sake. After settling the wreck, the boys took me up on my invitation. so N When we got back to my studio, Jack asked to use my phone. SQSQQ When he got through, he told us that he phoned like Kreca, now vice-president of the J. P. Morgan Steel Co., to tell him he would be late to audit his books. Jack proceeded to A tell us that, like, in his spare time, when he can get away from his wife and kids, plays golf with his business assoc- iate and personal friend, Harry Truman. I asked Jack and Lyle what they were doing. Jack R told me he is now an accountant after years of hard work, ' and Lyle finally made his ambition, a professional drummer. Listening to them, they sound like typical play boys-money 9 galore, .women--well ---- Love 'em and leave 'em. I can see without much 'effort that their outlook on life hasn't changed any in ten years. r - All of us being curious about what our former class- mates were doing, we decided to divide the kids up among us, look them up, and then meet at Lyle's home in California. Q Lyle Started hgmel and Jack and I agreed to come as soon as we could. ' I decided to get ready for my trip, that aft6Pn?0h First, I stopped at the hospital, for some of the medicine Agnes gives me for hay fever. -She is now the head nurse, and has a mansion, where it is perfectly content to live a HIGHLIGHTS, se- f

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NX ex fProphecy -ccnt.J I peaceful and quiet life with her family. Next, I stopped at llilady's Shop, where Betty Fleming 1 has been modeling. On afternoons off, she is seen sporting around in that cream-colored Buick convertible, she has al- ways dreamed of. About a week ago, Betty told me she had found her tall, dark, and sandsome andrich ideal. Yes, believe it or not, Betty is actually dreuq-eyed about him. Beck on the street I ran into Grace and Jack and the little tots, Seeing nv surprised look, Grace explained that they were taking the neighbors kids to the park and only two were theirs. I asked them where they had been because we hadn't seen them at their favorite night spot. They told me they were going to reture now, because they had completed 1' A their long lreamed of ambition, a cruise around the world, in their own yacht. Grace said it had been sort of like a second honeymoon. I I finished by shopping and started home. I stopped f at Bob Waggoner's Gas Station to have my car checked. Bob has now taked up professional singing. He is rated as the crooner of the, Bobby Soxeral' next to Frankie. critics say K that within the next year, Waggener shall take Sinatra's A9g'k place as top crooner. I asked Bob shy he bothered running a l'i 7K. gas station, when A e was so famous as a singer. He replied, 'Y- It's cheaper that way, I don't have to buy any gas, I use Al the compargv's. Let's hear from Jack Now. After I left Phyll:ls's studio, I went to see ltlke at the bank. After I had checked hi-s books, I sat , and talked with him awhile. I told, him of how I had met Iyle and Phyl, and then I mentioned the plan we had in mind. I told him the people I had on my list: Kenny, Virgil, Mary Ellen, Harold, Esther,-Pauline and Lipton. Of course everybody in . the Unitied States knew where Harold and Kenmr were and you -f, will soon see shy. That left two people that I knew nothing of. I-low in the world was I going to find them. I watched every paper, wrote letters and more letters to people wh'o I thought night know. but those two just seemed to have set- . tled down in a quiet life. It seemed so strange after their happy-go-lucky high school days. Nell, that was too .bad because there were two people I would have to skip, but that couldn't be helped. I thought I would see Pauline before I left for my vacation. You see, Pauline married a millionaire four years after she graduated and they live in New York. She and h er x H HLIBH S uf?