Milford High School - Spartan Yearbook (Milford, NH)

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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

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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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Duck Judy Duck Judy Duck Judy Duck Judy Duck Judy Duck Judy Duck I then came upon a cake bakung contest the partucupants all beung former housewuves Among them I recognuzed the shades of Laura Leach Avus Boutelle Jean Burgeson Duxue Melendy Janet McCormack and Prtsculla Rush I was amazed to see Bull Sweezy rudung un a ruck shaw drawn by Bucky Fusher lnquurung I duscovered that Bucky Fusher had been presudent of Earths first colony on the moon and that Bull Sweezy had been hus personal chauffeur After leavung the cake bakung contest I passed a large field where Donald Watts was harvestung wheat as he had done on hus large prosperous farm un the muddle west Upon hearung cu buzzung sound I recognuzed Sandra Came a dental hy guenust seated un the dentust chaur havung her teeth drulled by that expert dentust Derwyn Holder Mercury pounted out a sugn that read Secretaries Club Upon enterung I saw several shades whom I knew Presudung over the club was Vuvuan Curtus who had been secretary to the presudent of Juputer Other members of the club uncluded Esther Hammond Thelma Pauge Duane Page Judy Forbes Carol O Conner and Sheula Cassudy At thus meetung they were duscussung theur ex peruences as secretarues to famous men on Earth As I contunued by travels through Tartarus I came upon Gerry Wulkuns who had been the desugner of the Earth s largest man made satellute Together wuth hus chuef mechanucs Duck Tortorellu and Duck Whute he was repaurung the headlught of a Model T Ford I detected a fragrant aroma un the aur and saw a beautuful flower garden un whuch Nancy Henderson famous for her pruze roses was workung I next saw Clara Mutchell waxung skus and she unformed me that she ha been a three tume Olympuc wunner of the women s downhull sku run I met the shades of Connue Comollu Carolune Holland and Eluzabeth Murray They told me of many of theur unterestung experuences as nurses on Earth Wuth them were Colette Best who had done work un occupatuonal therapy and Heather Courage a former teacher for cruppled chuldren I saw a bundle of grocerues comung towards me and as ut drew closer I recognuzed the shade of Tommy Quunn He who had once been manager of a large chaun of grocery stores was now a bundle boy Concludung the vusut through the Elysuan Fuelds we came upon a rushung brook Here Roger Crooker sat flshung He had succeeded Ted Wulluams as the presu dent of hus Fushung Tackle Company We had reached the end of Tartarus and notuced someone doung push ups I recognuzed the athlete as the shade of the former world s champuon lady wrestler Kay Hutchunson Well Judy ut certaunly has been unterestung meetung our old classmates agaun and ut probably wont be long now before we uoun them as unhabutants of Pluto s unfernal kungdom , I - I I I I I ' . .. . - s .. . . . , .... I I I I ' I , . . . . H . , ,, . l 1 I ' I I I I I , . . . . . . . I ' ' I I . , . . I I I I ' - , d . . . , . . I I - I , . L I - I , . T , . , I . l . , . I I I . , .. . . ,. .