Maroa Forsyth High School - Trojanaire / Maronois Yearbook (Maroa, IL)

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NG The Echo ee CLASS PROPHECY You have heard the history of our high school days and our last will .and testament as we leave; now let us look into the future, May I take you to St. Louis where the olass of 1943 is holding a reunion in July, 1953. Ani What a beautiful day it is here in St. Louis... As fi gaze from the pier where our boat is docked, I see several friends fathering for a reunion. This group graduated from the Maroa High School on April 50, 1945. This is the first time in ten years that they have met. They seem to be having a wonder- ful time reminiscing. Come with me down to the boat and meet a few of the classmates as they arrive. I am anxious to meet and talk with my old classmates and pals of M.C.H.S. Look whom I see immediately! None other than Judge J.R. Miller and his wife, the former Charlotte Creekmur. Well, life's like that. A little behind them comes three girls: Betty Daviay Audrey Jump, and Edna Matheney, still pals as they were in '43. I am informed by Charlotte Creekmur Miller that they are nurses at the great Research | Hospital in Chicago. Well, wéll, well, I can. hear Cy Young comings, loudly dis- cussing sports with Dean Burns. You might know Cy would be talking about sports. He tells me that he is a ee oe for the Cubs and Dean Burns is the sports writer, Here comes Mary Current strolling leisurely along. She's made a name for herself, The public is enthusiastically prais- ing here latest picture Don't Keep Him Waiting.” It seems there is always a teacher from every class and we are not lacking hépeeess LT ie eee thet Bernard } Liorgenthaler is a famous Agriculture teacher. I see coming toward the dock two old pals Wesley Gardner and Dick Tuggle. They always said that the farm was the life and they have proveca it by being successful farmers. fin aquaplane has jus alighted! Who could the pilot be Oh, it's an Aviatrix, Jo Ann Longsdorff, and the stewardess of . the pica is noné other than Irene Mee, She always seid she'd be one. Among the passengers I see Mrs, Barney Hinkle the former’ Virginia Cramer who is making great achievements in music, Louise Dial now New York's debutante, of the season and Barbara Marlatt, hostess of St. Louis's largest notel, Nice work girls!

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yee ea Is I, daa I; f; Ty The Echo | : — ela Allen Jones, bequeath my business manner to Donald pape : ee bequeath my: shyness to Bille Ann Hoffman. Everett Frank Leisner, bequeath my ability to hitch - hike to Joe Saville. Uthel. Joan Longsdorff, bequeath my ability of studying so hard to Phyllis’Marlatt, who, by the way may need it, Robert Bernard Hargenthaler, bequeath my mischieviousness to Emmett Girard, Barbara Cathryn Marlatt, bequeath my dimples to Marion Johnson, Marjorie Lois Massey, bequeath my seat in Don McKool's car. J to Evelyn Marsh so there will be an re seat in Joets car, Bdna Marie Matheny, bequeath iny long finger nails to sudrey Beasley. Herschel Glenn McKown, bequeath my high rating as an officer in the Victory Corps to Jack Cockran, Mivee Irene Mee, bequeath Virgil Vikoff to Shirley Bolen. John Ross Miller, bequeath my ability of getting around to Richard Griffith so he may enjoy the world as I did, John udwin Rose, bequeath my nickname to my brother, Possum, shirley Lou smith,bequeath my long red hair to Betty Hughes. Betty Lou Stoutenborough,bequeath my typing ability to Verna Vaughan, Richard Hex Tuggle, bequeath: my good looks to John Osborne so he may be a man of the world, Naomi Vivian Wheeler, bequeath my bicycle to Willa Mae Comer so she may get to school early every morning. Clarence Young, bequeath my talking all the time to Jack James so he may keep the conversation going.

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Strutting like bantem. roosters up to the boat we hear a cheery hello from Jim Clough and John Rose. Can you itapine it? They are coemanagers of the 1953 World's Fair, It's bound to be a success under the supervision of these two men. Cy isn't the only one in sports. I learned from a pa per handed’ to ce ae before the arrival, of Naomi Wheeler, a she TOO: 2s 7-10 the adlines of sports as the Tennis Queen of-'53. ‘Masd ° L had heard that Albert Eeim was a” speed demon in he Salt Plats ‘of, Salt Lake City, ‘Utah but I- thought maybe -he wouldn!£ wake’ it here - ‘pocay.. ‘Wrong however, Because heré hé-is Jand Allen | Jones “is with, him: Alien: is a cowboy from Tuscon, hte ZONE » “Good old Tuseons | ia So ee ana weet ae ee ee The Marines, . have. landed! Major Herschel ‘Mcown has just arrived, HerSchél' is still as enthusiastic about the Marines ae i KK young man hurries up to me and asks if this is the boat foe bine penlor renunion, 1 told: him thaet-- 26. Was and then 1 -re it efra He would eopnized that it was Uverett Leisner ile | was be late beeause he now owned a saw E some his mén. . was p mill and had: been Following him was Betty Dunham now a radio commentator. one fives us all the latest news. Arriving late and in Mati her 8 shirley Heal and kar joric Massey. Times es eSibing short. bimb- 1 amuse tells rou what these = Lvis- are doing. shirley completed seven years of college, then met a handsome interne, of course got married but she hopes ts finish that last year somé time, Marjorie Massey i¢g°a traveling missionary an China, We Bees that Russell Baldwin and Carl Anderson cannot be with us today, as they left to join. the Nevy before they Pimiened their Sore years I hope you nn uadtt been bored by my 2 réinting to you whem my classmates will be doing, however T must glose because £ aoe Captain dimmie Current and -his wife the former Betty Lev Stoutenborough ready to come on deck end also with them is the former Shirleylou Smith: just back from her honeymoon in Hawaai. Pe posh will soon be tency bo sadd over th still blue waters to what I know will be a hapoy reunion for ne eerlors-.of Aix: