Milan High School - Light Yearbook (Milan, OH)

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CLASS PROPHECY • • • While sitting here this evening, my imagination wheels have carried me, like a spirit, ten years into the future. I find myself in a room where several of the Junior boys have assembled. It seems they have joined the Knights of Columbus and they are about to begin their weekly meeting. Just as the meeting is called to order, the door flies open and there stands Gordon Waddle — much embarrassed, but smiling. We are surprised to find that he is just arriving — late, as usual — to the Junior-Senior banquet held ten years ago. The boys, of course, explain to Gordie that he is a bit late. Finding that he is TEN YEARS late, he inquires about his former classmates, as he wishes to see them. This is what the boys are telling him . . . Myrtle Downing was married soon af- ter graduation and is now living with her husband and two children in a small house trailer near Turtle Creek in Milan. Leo- nora Miller is Myrtle’s maid, but is still hoping and working for a married future. Louis Stuckey has replaced Henry Barnes as caretaker of the cemetery, but is not too successful, as there have been many reports that he spends most of his time fishing in the cemetery pond. Donna Stoll has established her own business. This concern is about a half mile from Milan, on Old Plank Road. The name of it is “Donna’s Wrecking.” Her specialty, it is said, is Fords and Buicks which she completely wrecks, personally. Pvt. Bob Koch and former Mary Lou Rice are sharing barracks with Lt. Cliff Mills and the former Zanne Masey. Mary Lou replaced Zanne as the head hash- slinger when Zanne was offered a job as drum majorette in the Army band. At the death of Mrs. Sloane, the late daughter of Thomas Alva Edison, the Edison Birthplace was willed to Wilma Uther because of her fine efficiency as a former hostess. Bernice Weilnau is living in complete bliss and is rolling in money, being the square-dance caller on that favorite radio program, “Grand Ole Opry.” Glen Springer has bought all of Frank Russell’s farms and has become a very successful farmer. Edelle Treon lives near Koch’s and Mills’ barracks as she has become a tank- driver in the Army. Bob Molnar is right guard for the Cleveland Browns. Lavern Henson has the honor of be- ing campaign-manager for Donna Hermes, who is running for the presidency of Wives of America Club. Nancy Sherwood is the Fuller-Brush woman between Cleveland and Detroit. This route is very convenient for Nancy, as it keeps her in close contact with her two husbands, who are kept apart by the distance between the two cities. Lyle Riehm and Mr. Eckler have recent- ly struck it rich, after finally discovering perpetual motion. Shirley Scheid is a dancer for the Bal- let Rouse Dancing Academy in Cleveland. After nine long, but well spent, years in college, John Burley has at last man- aged to acquire the honorable degree of D.D.D. (dirty-ditch-digger). Red-nosed Russ Stower is the chief cider-fermenter for Robertson’s Orchards. Elsie Mortensen is a model for the New York branch of the Powers’ School of Modeling. Judy Risden owns a traveling medicine show. Pat Russ has become an understudy in the finer arts of typing and shorthand under Miss Arlene Wollin. Don Doerner is a happy custodian at the Andrews School for Girls, at Willough- by, where Pat Limbird is teaching retail- ing. The boys have not heard too much in- formation about Barbara LaVine Rospert lately, but the last they heard she was the proud mother of seven lovely children. With this morsel of information, Gordie drives off, resolving never to be late again. 13