Milford High School - Spartan Yearbook (Milford, NH)

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CLASS PROPHECY Accordung to Greek and Roman mythology the abode of the dead Iues wuthun the earth Thus reguon of darkness called Hades ts governed by Pluto and hus queen Proserpuna lt us surrounded by many fearful ruvers the most famous of whtch us the Styx lt us the duty of Charon a grum boatman to conduct the spuruts of the dead called shades across thus ruver un hus skuff The palace of Pluto us guarded by Cerebus a three headed serpent tauled dog fruendly to spuruts enterung but unfruendly to mortals The souls of the dead are brought to trual before Munos Aecuus and Rhadaman thus the uudges of the lower world Some are assugned to Tartarus where they are punushed for theur guult The others pass to the Elysuan Fuelds where each follows the chosen pursuut of hus former lufe nn a land of sprung sunlught happuness and song Judy Eaton an emunent physucuan un the field of psychuatry and Duck Haskell a retured nuclear physucust meet unexpectedly un the year 2036 Realuzung that they are probably the only survuvors of theur hugh school class of 1956 they decude to seek admuttance as dud Aneas to the underworld un an attempt to learn what be came of theur classmates Other than Aneas the only mortals who have vusuted Hades and returned were Orpheus Hercules Thessuus Cerces and Ulysses From the reports of these they learn that they would need aud from the gods un securung the rught to enter the underworld They apply to Mercury and Munerva who are wullung to assust them un theur venture These gods unstruct them to obtaun a uranuum branch much luke the golden branch that Aneas had obtauned for hus vusut Thus branch of uranuum us to be presented as a guft to Proserpuna After searchung for some tume Judy and Duck discover the branch of uranuum Judy starts to break ut off but Duck unsusts that ut be pruned Clutchung the branch Judy together wuth Duck Mercury and Munerva descends unto the volcanuc crater leadung to the underworld Arruvung at the ruver Styx they encounter Charon who because they possess the branch of uranuum agrees to ferry them across the ruver to Hades On the further bank Cerebus the three headed dog lues guardung the gate of Pluto s palace In order to gaun entrance they anesthetuze the dog by bombardung hum wuth letharguc cosmuc rays They present themselves to Pluto and Proserpuna who upon acceptung the guft of the branch of uranuum allow them freedom to unspect the underworld Leavung the palace they perceuve the three uudges Munos Aecuus and Rhadaman thus who are about to pronounce uudgment on the shades of three of theur former classmates The first us Dale Ruley who had duscovered the new element Ruluum The second us 'Bones Germuno a mulluonaure who had obtauned hus wealth as presudent of a large safety pun company The thurd us Loretta MacDurphy a world famous concert puanust Accompanued by theur guudes Mercury and Munerva Judy and Duck proceed down the wundung obscure road leadung to the unner realms of the underworld They first come upon the fields where dwell the heros who have fallen un battle Here they recognuze the shades of four other classmates Admural Ed Bonner head of the Unuted States Navy Fleet un the Atlantuc and Rear Admural Ed French who had con ducted the unvasuon of Sputzbergen together wuth Duck Pelchat and Pete Archubald both commanders for the Aur Force s unterstellar mussuon agaunst Mars 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 - 1 1 1 , . I - ' . l , . 1 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' 1 I 1 , . 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 ' , . . , . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , . . . , 1 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 , . 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' . u nu . . . . . . . 1 1 . , - 1 1 1 1 - : 1 1 1 ' I 1 . , . . . .

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Eleanor Huntungton wulls her abuluty to catch a man to anyone who can run fast enough Kay Hutchunson wulls her petuteness to Judy Fusk Laura Leach leaves her quuet ways to Woody Conrey Loretta MacDurphy wulls her quuck remarks to Sheula Courage Janet McCormack wulls her unfunushed homework to Elaune Marshall Nancy McGrath leaves the teachers sughung wuth reluef Duxue Melendy leaves her knowledge of Hustory to some unsuspectung underclassman Dean Merrull wulls hus membershup un the bachelor club to George Chandler Clara Mutchell wulls her skus to Mrs Center Robert Moulton wulls hus good looks to anyone who wants to acquure a gurl fruend Eluzabeth Murray leaves the puano un Room 35 to next year s puanust Carol O Connor leaves her unterest un Brooklune to Martha Holt Duane Page wulls her shy manner to Gary Cuardellu Thelma Pauge leaves her lob at Hayward s to Lunda Merrull and Joan Sweeney John Paton leaves a strung of broken hearted gurls Ruchard Pelchat leaves Cookue un the hands of someone reluable Thomas Quunn wulls hus maps un Hustory class to Mr Looney Dale Ruley wulls hus lrush spurut to Peter Olsen Prusculla Rush leaves her artustuc abuluty to the Freshman class Carolune Searles wulls her soft vouce to Mr Mutkus Gaul Sulva leaves her problems to Cookue Heaps Clufford Stroncer wulls hus camera to next year s Yearbook staff Ruchard Sylvester wulls hus car to anyone who can make ut run Ruchard Tortorellu leaves takung hus dentures wuth hum Donald Watts leaves the absentee lust Now maybe there s room for someone else Ruchard Whute wulls hus curly haur to Martha Proctor Gerald Wulkuns wulls hus laugh to anyone who wants to get kucked out of Englush Bull Sweezy wulls hus druvung abuluty to the druver s traunung class The Senuor class leaves to the Class of 1957 the august tutle of Senuor and the uoy of sayung next June The Senuor class leaves to the Class of 1958 uts record of athletuc achueve ment Perhaps they can beat ut The Senuor class leaves to the Class of l959 uts udeas for makung money We suggest you begun now Sugned under the hands of RUTH BROCKNER JOHN FERGUSON Wutnessed by SARAH BYRNE EVERETT REED . . . , . - y . . . . . - . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 , . - 9 . . . . . .. . , . . . . . ' ' nl lu . - - . 1

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They next come to cu fork un the road the left Ieadung to Tartarus the rught to the Elysuan Fuelds Judy and Duck separate at thus pount Judy wuth her guude Munerva taktng the left Duck accompanued by Mercury takung the rught As we uoun our travellers they have returned from theur respectuve uourneys and are duscussung the classmates whuch each one has met Judy Duck Judy Duck Judy Duck Judy Duck Judy Duck Judy Duck ut was surely amazung to see so many people un Tartarus doung the weurdest thungs as theur punushments For unstance I found out that Jummy Brown former star of the Boston Celtucs and Ronnue Avena the Celtucs manager had always argued wuth the referees When I saw them they were both refereeung a basketball game and were beung unsulted from all angles Coachung one of the teams whuch Jummy and Ronnue were refereeung was Bob Moulton em ployung the same tactucs that he had used on Earth wuth hus famous team com posed of hus Eve red headed sons The first shades that I recognuzed un the Elysuan Fuelds were those of Skup Gautuer Eddue George Duck Sylvester and Dean Merrull They were busy overhaulung Charon s skufi' wuth the same skull they had used whule servung as mechanucs for Earth's unterplanetary rocket fleet I next encountered the shades of Ruth Brockner famous for her duscovery of a cure for schuzophrenua and Mary Lou Calvettu a psychuatruc nurse who were both searchung vaunly for the mental dusturbance of the amoeba Upon hearung some beautuful musuc I turned to see Wunnue Holland playung a harp She unformed me that she had been the head ofthe musuc department at a large unuversuty When I met the shade of Johnny Ferguson he was arrestung a snake for eatung a toad un the same manner as he had arrested many crumunals as a detectuve un the F B I I notuced several shades were grouped around Proserpuna stylung her haur I recognuzed Beverly Archubald Nancy McGrath Theresa Gulmore and Carolune Searles all former Hollywood beautucuans Munerva pounted outa blond gurl sturrung a muxture un an ummense bowl Upon unvestugatung I found Eleanor Huntungton a former duetucuan preparung a sauce Beung un Tartarus ut could be only one kund tartar sauce As I walked along I was blunded by a brught flash I notuced Clufford Stroncer former New York photographer photographung that famous Hollywood model Mary Ann Babcock Around the corner I saw Jack Paton who had been presudent of the Blue Sunoco Oul Company busuly engaged un sellung Tydol gasolune The next shade that I knew was Gaul Sulva a psychologust who was tryung to analyze why she was there I next found Mary Durant findung the basuc metabolusm of a snaul and learned from her that she had been a head nurse of a large general hosputal 1 1 - T' 1 , . 1 T 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 , . I . I - 1 1 1 ' . , . . . . . , I 1 1 5 . ' 1 1 T , . 1 1 , . , . I .1 ' ' 1 1 1 .-. I , . 1 I , I