Lowpoint Washburn High School - Quill Yearbook (Washburn, IL)

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she fluttered on down the street then, mutterlng SOmE+h1Hg about vantlng a crack r I was ov rgoyed to see Marlene dolng so well By thls tlme, I had declded to look up all my old classmates so I kept my eyes open It was a good th1ng I d1d, or I would have mlssed the sign outslde an opera house whlch sa1d that they were honored lH havlng Miss Patrlca Logan 1n person ton1ght Good old Pat I knew all the talking she had done 1n hlgh school would strengthen her vocal muscles, and now, here she was, an opera star I went lHS1d6 to talk to her and she asked me 1f I would l1ke to hear her Slhg her newest song h1t of the opera I sa1d I would, so she began, '0h, you remember Grandma's lve soap I'm sure Pat w1ll forg1ve me for leavlng her so qu1ckly, but I remem bered that I'd better f1nd the other members of our class of NSBW I wandered over to some tennls courts, and dlscovered that two of the people playlng were good frlends of mlne, namely, Rosle Splcer and John Trump I talked to John and he 1nformed me that he was still go 1ng to hlgh school When I asked hlm why, he blushed and sald, W ell, shucks, those hlgh school girls are sure a lot of fun He told me that Ros1e was operat1ng a stammerlng school for people who have trouble speaking I turned to Rosie and asked her how she llked helplng people stop stam erlng WOh, I I I l l llke lt f f f1ne,u Sald Rosle gohn told me where Fred Wisenburg llved, so I went rlght over to see 1m Fred was s1tt1ng readlng a story to h1s 2 year old quadruplets when I walked 1n He told me that he was happily marrled and has been worklng for the last 15 years 1U a factory, manufacturlng phonograph needles I asked him 1f he ever got bored dolng nothlng but manufact uring phonograph needles He looked surprlsed and sald, 'Why no' It's lots of fun lots of fun lots of fun lots of fun I closed the door softlr and ran a half mlle down the street I declded that after that I deserved a llttle enterta1nment, so I went 1nto a huge bu1ld1ng wh1ch 3dVBTt1S8d WT9St11Hg for that nlght The flrst bout had already started when I sat down It was between a b1g fellow and a llttle fellow, so I started rootlng for the llttle one, who looked like someone I should know I d1dn't recognlze h1m untll the b1g mug plcked h1m up and threw hlm on top of me Then, as I tr1ed to crawl out from underneath h1m, I notlced that lt wasn't a Nh1m', it s a nher It was Sandy Rae I sa1d hello to her and asked her how she was gettlng along She growled at me and asked me to wa1t and watch her nmolder d1s bumn Then she clambered back 1nto the rlng, and I leaped for the nearest BX1t It certa1nly looked as lf Sandy was do 1ng all T1Uht I found my machlne and set the d1als for Chlcago When I arrlved, about a second later, I stepped out and d1scovered I was on the grassy lawn of a huge, spaclous mansion I wandered 1n the froni door and looked around Then, to my lmmense surprlse, who should come to greet me but my old classmate, John Robbins He lnformed me that he was operatlng th1s rest haven for deranged hot rodders It 1S called the NCute Cottage for Crazy Car K1llers W I wasn't surprlsed when John told me that many of our schoolmates were patlents of h1s He added that there was always a supply of old tlres and lots of matches for whenever a pat1ent w1shes to 'burn onen I just happened to run1ntoJackie Moore on the street 1n Ch1C8gO She looked as 1f somethlng were on her mlnd, so I asked her what lt was She told me that she had taken up stock car raclng and was making fs . . . ., - . . . 7 . - 9 - -, 9 - Q . . . . , Q . . . 0 3 1 . . . . . . . . , c g g . . 1 . . o . . . , .3 Q . U 9 -1 1 V ---- . . . . ,, - I - 0 . . . . . . . . , , .- . . , , .A . . W 0 . . . , A . o ' I - a . . . . . - - -Y - - - . I . .. 4 . . . . A .. .. C A 9 .L . . . . . . . .. 1 . . , . . Q nn 1- -an . I - 0 U , . . , J u 0 I 1 I 9 ' W n l . 0 , . . . . . . o . . . . - 1 0 . . . . W3 4 , Q , . , 1 . . . . 0 . . . 0 Q .- . . . . - - 0 ' ' . . I A O Q 'J ' o - c , . . , . - . 1 - . . . I I . o , . . , J C , . . V O . . . - . g .l. - ' ., . -. H

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PROPHUCY One brlsk, W1UtPT ornlng 1n the y ar 1975, I sprang llghtly out of bed nd pulled a plastlc suit over my electr1cally heated long underwe r I swallowed three vltamwn ollls for breakfast CI always have an enormous apoetlte 1U the WOFHlDg7, and Jumped 1nto my sports cop or It 1 s the day for my weekly v1s1t to my old classmate, Verna Je n Inhoff, the great lnventor, so I headed for her laboratory The o thlng she has lnvented as f t 1S an electrlc eye that flts on the doors of school bulldlngs nd de+ects gtm ln the mouths of the puplls an never a pupll 15 caught golng through the door chewlng gum, two steel hands, controlled br the electrlc eye, grab the student, reach lnto h1s mouth, and remove the gum The only fault 1U the nachlne is that about half the tlme the puplls tongue 1S removed along w1th the gum Verna Jean was very glad to see me, but I thought I notlced a gleam 1U her eye She told me she had lnvented somethlng new, a ma chlne whlch travels 1U the hthdl1FUSlOH and can take a person anywhere 1U the orld 1U less than a second WThe only thlng wrong lS that I need someone to test lt for m , she SW119d, and moved closer I started for the door 'Oh, no you don't I've got to be golng, now I wouldn't r1de 1n that thlng for all then She moved closer 'P1ease, Johnnlev No!! Please 'No, absolutely not'N She plcmed up a p1pe wrench from a benc Pleaseo I Jumped 1nto her 1nvent1on HI'll be glad to test thls thlng for you How does lt wor OH She showed me by S12mW1UP the door of the machlne ln my face and throwlng a swltch on the fall Wverythlng started SD1UH1Ug and I was s r that awe to, I would be dead However, lt so happened that I never lost consc1ousness 1D the f1rst place The SU1UU1Hg stopped abruptly and I clambered out to look around I could see lmmedlately that I was 1U the m1ddle of Hollywood In f ct, I was 1U the m1ddle of Gene Cordes' SW1mmlHg pool After an ho1r's FlTl0US SW1WWlU9, I reached the edge and clambered out to talk w1th Gene, whom I hadn't seen slnce we graduated from hlgh school I told hlm he needed a halrcut, but he sald he was lettlng h1s halr grow o1t been se h1s S+Ld1O was PO1Hg to brlng back the old movle 'Quo Vadmsn, and he was POIHF to play the part of Ursus, the glant Gene sa d he w s PO1UP to demand that they get h1m a stunt man to play h1s part when he flghts the bull, because the I1TSt tlme he trled lt hlm self, th btll stuck one of h1s horns clean through Gene, Just below the heart I asked hlm 1f lt hurt ver ch t the t e, and Gene sald only when he glgsled I sald goodbye to Gene and declded to stroll through Hollywood before I left I was QOIHH around a corner when I almost ran over Mar lene Bond le were glad to see each other, and she told me she owned a parrot farm now w1th l0,000 talklng parrots I asked her lf she d1dn't thlnk havlng l0,000 parrots around the house wasn't a straln on the nerfes, but she gust cocked her head, whlstled between her teeth and sald WAwk Aww .44 . . . . . - -. , 'T! 53. , 9 ' l .a .. 1, . . ., , Q Q .Ich . , VJ. - -- . . . . - - - .- L ,, . ,L ' ' -J 0 .arg 5 ' - . -f ' Q- Ai ' , , 'Sl 1 -1 Q A I 'f.L. I V V 9 A , A 1 ' . . . . 'X N of 1 , I 1 0 -vw . . . - Q . V I V V .g ., ,D ,. , 7 v I V 2 . . . . . I J Q I A- . . . - E . I 'IW W . ., . J ' . J V - ' ' '- . . . . . A . .I , 1 W . o . . . e N A , Y 1 .. . . . ' . . . , o -, .I . o 5 , x .......- -.--- . 1 ' II I! ll N 7 . , . . . h. ll H . . . . n , 1 . k. , I' , .J ., . ' ' 4' A-- U 1. r 1, . ' 'YI' V' . J . . ,AA , . . . o I V I , I A o ' , , o . . . . 9 ' . 0 . 7 . , T ,, ,A f , I . . . i r' .3 9 . . . . . . 5 4 W I . . . . . 1 -v of. X , , ' 0 0 A A ' ' 3 3' ' - . ' . . . , 1 a , , , It ,U , ' 11- . . . . H .A . . 1 - . e 1 , - 1 x . . . . . . , . , :V 'Pl' ,. ,, - .'l 'T C . , 1 we , I f v a 7 V, . ' - If , 1h ' , U , , . . . . A . . J . . A 4. Y 1 7 1 1 III o . Q

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loads of money. But the taxes she had to pay were so large that the government was even considering taxing her taxes. She was very excited about Carole Robinson though. That very day, Carole was going to at- tempt to swim the English Channel with her hands tied behind her back. Jackie and I rushed over to buy a late newspaper to see if there was any news about her Sure enorgh, on the fifth page there was a piece about her It read nFuneral services will be held for Miss Carole Robinson at the U Oh, well, Carole always W s +he adventurous type I stepped into a drugstore for a glass of atomic punch and sat down beside Ronnie Coleson He told me that he was the star on the VILBERN GLOBFTROTTRRS basketball team I asked him if he liked play ing on that kind mander of our of team and he said, sho do lak mah gob Ah'm jes' the man fo' it n out Ronnie introduced me to Admiral John Gerber, Com Naval forces When I asked Admiral Gerber to what he NYassuh, A On the way attributed his success, he answered 'io my clean living, my always getting a good n1ght's sleep, and my ability to keep away from all women ' truth I had gone returned he had a at the however, Since I had known John in school, I realized that he spoke e Don had now, job back at his own home town of Vashburn Don sweeps floors enlarged cheese factory there He has married a lovely girl, and she helps him with the cheesecake Suddenly,as John left me, I was stopped in m tracks by the sound asked him if he knew where Don Ntske was John said that thro1ah the U of I , continued his studies in Europe and to the U S with his M A , his M S , and his P P D , and of heafenlv music wafting through the air Investigating, I entered an apartment, and there, seated at the piano from whence the music flowed, was Shirley Ficht I was entranced, I hadn't even known she could play the piano She finished the piece, and I applauded, begging her to play another NI c n't,n she said, as she began peddling again furiotslv, H his is the onl piano roll I ha e H It 1 s about an hour la that I heard the astounding news Piss Maxine Funk was returning to earth after spending the last l5 years on No other Earth people had been with her, and all abc had had to to were the N9Ft13HS Crovds ere rxshing to the rock t port to Ma r s talk ' O . . : --- . ,r, a o. . 7 . ' I 4 Q i 5 5- L f . ,, ' ' ' - .h . . . . , , 1 A ' I O ' 111 o s Y Q a I . . . 7 O ' ' th 0 I 7 . . YJ . . . . . . 0 L' 0 , ' . -0 0 . o o D o -0 o . S ' 3 . x ' . . J , , . . . . . J JA 0 N- I - o ' . n . I a . H' , L a ' , g ' ' 1 , T ' ' :Ir ' L AV . . T? - - 4 W - Q 9 U . A47 . , , ' A . , 1 1411 . . 'fel W 1 I , 1 -Q hear her story, so I went along. Before long, the rocket landed, and . ' 1 TI f ,, . ..- 1- .W . .J , I . 1-4 1 A Y' ' X . . we NZ i bx- . ll . I ' U V . . 1 .I , ------- As n Q- I . 4, V v . S . , J on , I ', 'a , a ' ' , a ess. I ' , ,1 g . ' area e ' H , i 1 - Q - d b ' I! ' N 1 ' l V . ' ' ' U ' Ll! 1 . - I . L V1-L . I J - . ' 1 ,' ' , . ' 9 ' - , ' ,. f I . r o , ' , I ', ' , a R, ,a . ' c , . , , ow ' ILV ' , , S Fink,es+eemed explorer of other orlds, stepped forth dramatical with words +hat reeked with wisdom, she spoke, 'Rsapk qtirx zaqno fi L X au eos ck C5 Qffal 7 I left to look for the remaining members of my class I was watching a television set through a store window,I heard the an nouncer say, and now, ladies and gentlemen, H1 s Gloria Anderson' Well, well, so Cloria was a big television actr I always knew she would make good Gloria app r d on the screen and l heard her s y nTry 'Lucky H t cigarett s, frien s They contain quislyn , which, spelled backward, is nvlsiuq I couldn't see too much of Gloria behind that king size package of ci arettes I had to womrney to Korea to find Jewell Winkler and Marl ne Vis sering The war has been ove for years, but Jewell and Marlene say they make more money fighting as lhcs, so tl v take turns shooting at each other Marlene saved Je els' life o , by leaping on a grenade Visa