Meridian High School - Mana Ha Sa Yearbook (Meridian, ID)

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Senior Class Prophecy One cold evening in Novemeber, 1950, I sat before my fireplace enjoying the comfort of a warm fire. Suddenly there came a knock at the door, and upon answering it, I saw a mes- senger hoy who was none other than Willis McFarlan. I signed for the message, thanked him, and returned to my chair in front of the fireplace. The telegram happened to be from Adrienne Snodgrass, who was planning to take a vacation and visit me. Adrienne is running a home for homeless children. The thoughts of having a visitor from M. H. S. brought back many pleasant memories of my four years in high school. I wondered where all my class- mates were. My, but I was getting sleepy. I thought I would :it by the fire a few minutes longer and then retire to my bedroom. My thoughts wandered back to my classmates. Suddenly there appeared before me a small, queer-looking fellow, who said if I would sit very still and not interrupt, he would tell me where all my classmates were. I readily agreed. This is what he toid me: Roy Duerock has recently won the boxing championship of the world. Long may he swing. His wife, the former Ruth Hill, is enjoying his honor with him. Winnie Lou Sherman, the editor of the Mana Ha Sa of 1941, has continued working in this line and is now editor of the New York Daily Times. Dick Baker recently won the motorcycle race at San Jose. Such speed! Jack Coggins is touring the U. S. with a professional basketball team. Doris Bowers conducts a large and fashionable kindergarten. Cecile Brown has realized her ambition to be a dietitian, and is now rcriding in Denver. Loren Calkins is a prosperous contractor and has just concluded an agreement to put the finishing touches on a new State capitol dome. Hazel Chapman is drawing a large salary as language interpreter in the New York Cus- toms House. Maxine Cochran and Margaret Watts are two of the leading milliners of Paris and are extensively patrcnized by American society women. Bettie Collins is teaching domestic science to the little Eskimos in Greenland. Ronald Cornwall is contented on his farm south of Meridian. He takes great pride in his herd of Guernsey cows. Neal Edwards and Wesley Coryell are partners in operating a factory for manufactur- ing finger-nail polish. Well, this is a surprise. Alvin Dick, after taking so much interest in dralnatics in high school, is now an actor on the legitimate stage. Ex-president William Davidson is using his oratorical powers to good eifect in the campaign inaugurated by school authorities against the spring fever microhe. Walter Bentzinger is working in an automobile factory in Detroit. He hopes to make cars that travel faster without leaving the road. Evelyn Doty and Opal Estep have continued their work in libraries and are now working in the Carnegie Library in New York. We now see Lawrence Douglas Walking from the tennis court in Atlanta, Georgia, after winning the tennis cup for the third consecutive year. Gwendolyn Downer conducts the rummage sales in Nampa, Idaho. Harold Heikes has developed into one of America's foremost humori: ts and cartoonists. Bill Erwin has gone as a missionary to teach the Chinese how to dance. Eugene Felt has taken over Happy's Hamburger stand. Now it is Pet's Hamberger stand. Helen Bernice Fordice, who was always smart in history, is teaching this subject at Boise High School. Eugene Friend is advertising agent for a new patent haircurler, and Leonard Starkey accompanies him on his rounds as a living example of the curler's efficiency.

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Senior C ass Prophecy fContinuedj John Gale manages the Gale Hardware Company, and Lorna Frost manages John. Ellen Gish plays the piano in a swing band in New Orleans. Joyce Gray is a featured tap dancer on Broadway. Billy Jewell is a famous surgeon in Pittsburgh. My, how he can carve! Delores Johnson is the pianist for amateurs on Major Bowes' Amateur Hour. Laura Johnson is society editor of the Statesman. Jim Knudson is typing for the governor of Idaho. I wonder if he still makes as many errors as he did in high school. Reed Law, while out hunting jack-rabbits, discovered a gold mine on Table Rock. Esther Link is teaching Home Economics to the students of Eagle High School. Anyway we hope she's teaching them. Ruth McAdam has taken up a ranch near Kuna and is raising guinea-pigs. Louis Murgoitio is a daily advertiser of cook books over station KOA. Mabel Nelson is working in a chewing gum factory in Nebraska. She gets all her chewing gum free. Doris Oliason is working for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer as an artist. Jay Packard is singing with Glen Miller's orchestra, who is featured over the Columbia network. Lorraine Pilkinton is owner of a dancing school in Baltimore. Ruth Scholten is one of her star pupils. Robert Potts has become a woman's home companion. Was Patrick Henry right when he said Give me liberty or give me deatl1 ? Jerry Radloff has turned comedian and is successor to Jack Benny on the National Broadcasting Company. Bert Roylance is author of a popular book, How to Make a Living Doing Nothing . Well, what do we have here? Emerson Smock seems to be permanently attached to girl's hair ribbons. He is designing larger and fancier ones in San Francisco. Merle Smock, after taking no interest in girls in high school, is bringing home the bacon to Janie Ulmer. He owns a grocery store in Salt Lake City. Gerald Scott has taken over his Dad's job and is now janitor of Meridian High School. How's school, Gerald? Edna Glee Smith discovered that she had a very nice voice for radio and is now telling Mother Goose stories to all little Jacks and Jills. Darrell Stikes is a prominent barber, whose specialty is cutting the M. H. S. boys' hair in the latest style. Betty Teeter, after making several unsuccessful experiments in matrimony, has at last settled down to run a boarding house. Scott Urquhart is playing football in Pittsburgh. Some people are demons for punish- ment. June Waitley is a business woman in Wall Street and has broken many a broker's heart. Clarence Wallace is singing in the Metropolitan Opera., in New York. Nice work, Clarence. Arnold Watkins plays the bass drum in the U. S. Marine Band. John Wolfe is a screen photographer in Hollywood. And does he like pretty faces! He ought to-he looks at enough of them. Verda Wood is raising fancy varieties of potatoes and cabbages and spends .her spare time writing pastoral poetry. And then-like a breath of wind-the little man was gone. I didn't even have a chance to thank him. I felt as though I had been dreaming for a long time. My eyes grew heavy. I rose from my chair, switched off the light, and walked into my bedroom. How good a bed would feel! And now I bid my last farewell to M. H. S. graduates of 1941.