Milan High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Milan, TN)

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X ff! ,fxxxl THE PROPHECYXOF THE SENIOR CLASS OF IQJB As I set there waiting-for the stroke of genius to strike, I fell usleepg and us I slept I dreamed this dream. I wss paying u visit to that celestial city which lies beyond. I had died of thnt terrible mnludy, spring fever. In this city I set upon L lofty hill from which I wus permitted to view ull scenes on earth. The lives und accomplishments of people were unrolled before me es if by magic. I wus enabled to see ull, know ull, prophesy ull. I ndturclly looked up my former schoolmctes, the Seniors of the Cldss of '38. My uttention wus called to u scene in Bruzil. I suw u broad-shouldered msn with un dir of authority supervising the construction of a large dam. In an attractive bungalow nearby I saw a little women con- tentedly going about her duties as housewife and two sturdy youngsters playing in the yard. I recognized these people as those whom I had known as Billy Caldwell and Frances O'Daniel. The scene chsnged. I viewed a beautiful home in the suburbs of s smell but thriving cityl In the liv- ing room of this house listening with greet enjoyment to the program of Americe's most pcpulsr comedians, nbumbelln Jones end 'Pugn Johnson, wee Marion Thompsonn now the wife of the President of Model Milling Com hnya I was permitted to visit u greet publishing company. Sested behind the desk in the president's office was Boyd Webb interviewing the famous novelist, nvelyn Keil. As I walked out I recognized the office boy to be none other than Julien Venn. What could this next scene be? It is n gathering of wonwn, furmer's wives. As I drew necrer I sew Nell Daniels, now u matron discussing the problems of chicken culture with my old classmntes Lurlene Burger, Wustel Fene Ccsey, Bessie Cary, Inez Volner, Audrey Gurmsny, Corinne lcMinn, and Mary Sempson. I stayed long enough to recognize the county demonstrutor to be Helen Stinson. -

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PROP!-ECY qcom-DJ Again the scene changed, this time to one of horror. On the aory field of bettle I saw General H. H. Peex leading his men, facing death with them brevely not sitting back from the scene om conflict and directina their actiozs. sack behind the lines I beheld an awiul scene, My old friend Mertha Poindexter who had held my.hend as I lay dying of spring fever was oeing equally conscling to our soldier boys as a nurse in the ermy hospital. who could resist such an opportunity to view from above old M. H. S.. School was out and I run in on e faculty meeting. was it n faculty eeeting or merely some oi LHCSU 1938 Seniors loefing in the orfice? The Superintendent is Ray Munnina. He is dearly loved by all the pupils becuuse he cannot reprimend those who ure no worse then he wus ten yeers ago. Other teachers ere Nancy Alexander, teacher of public school music, Geraldine Moore, Letin teacher, Ruth Veughn, instructer in the commercinl department, Willie Annu Teylor, teacher of English, und Catherine Manning, Home economics teacher. Some ms5netic force culled me to the Sterrick building in Memphis. A sign on the door of e eighth floor office ennounced thut Byron Haynes, Architect was out. I welxed on down the hell und 51unCed into the office of L. M. Rdmer, Attorney. Sitting in a stately munner before his desk teking down in precise shorthund whet he dicteted wus his stenogrepher, Mhrthu Rhodes. While in Memphis I visited u nisnt club long enough to hear Dcrris Cogdell accompanied by the orchestra of that muster of rhythmn Ben Denney sing one of the populur songs of the dey end to observe the presence of Louise Mills, still c spinster end her escort, Harry Fuchs. , I was werned thst my time wus limited so I hasten- ed ucross the country to Hot Springs, Arkunsus, to view briefly because here my visionury power wus tuxen the work of Dr. Dorothy D. Wheeler in the hespitel there us she lebored to restore to health those ef the Class of '38 who had fallen by the wayside. Q Harguret Fly. I