Morley Consolidated High School - Tigers Yearbook (Morley, IA)

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that year were Mr. Blanchard, Mrs. Dunlap, and Miss Miller. ln our sophomore year we gained a boy who started to school here, Marvin Tallman, that made a class total of four. The teachers that year were Miss Miller, Mrs. Dunlap, Mrs. Shumaker, Mr. Brennen. In our Junior year we entered with four and ended with five, collect- ing Claire Gombert the second semester. Our teachers that year were Miss Miller, Mrs. Davis, and an old face around here Mr. Greenawald. In our senior year we got Paul Mitchell who brought our total of five to our present number of six. Our teachers being Miss Miller, Mrs. Peck, and Mr. Greenawald. This concludes our class history of which we are very proud and satisfied. CLASS PROPHECY OF 1949 Every year in a class prophecy everybody is getting married so this year we are going to be a little different in writing the things we are apt to be doing in a few years. When I left this school I had to make some money so I went humming. I bummed on the Milwaukee, the Northwestern and many others but the one I liked the most was the railroad that ran thru the hills of the Ozarks down south. It all happened one sunny day a few years back in July, it was one of the hottest days of the year, so I climbed on one of the cars passing by. It was sure cool up there breezing along in the wind I pretty near fell asleep. While I was riding along I heard a noise and went to investigate there was another bum riding on the box car hitch, humming to himself to his hearts content, then all of a sudden he started to fall off so I reached down to help him and who do you suppose it was just another bum Marvin Tallman, I should have let him fall but who likes dead bums. We decided to harmonize our voices together so we started to sing. We sang for a while then we realized that there was another voice singing with us. We looked around and saw a bum in the ice hole of the refriger- ator car cooling himself off. He saw us and climbed out of the hole, and came to us and to our amazement it was Claire Gombert, our old class- mate. We were sure glad to see him as we rode we talked, and as we rode we began to remember old times, and the things we used to do then. As we talked we didn't notice that the train had stopped so we got off. This was one of those towns that had a bum camp, so we went where our instinct told us to go. Sure enough there was a camp, so we went where our camp was and made ourselves at home. Over in one corner there was a group of men and a man in the center of them telling them somethings so we drew closer to see what it was all about. He was preaching a sermon to them. Claire kept staring at him, and Marv asked him what he was staring at, and he said that it was Paul Mitchell, and I'll be doggoned if it wasn't. After the sermon was over we asked Paul over and we talked to him about things for about an hour, as we talked we got off on the subject of the girls that we graduated with at Morley. Paul said he saw Joyce in Tulsa, Oklahoma, working in a canning factory. He said she was pickled the time he saw her. He must have meant pickling, but you can never tell what can happen. Marv claimed he saw Jean in a little town in Alabama a few years back, working on a plantation. She was a scrub woman, but she was happy at her work. Jean always was kind hearted at things like that. We talked and talked till the train was ready to leave, so all four of us jumped on the cars and went off. We were talking as the train rolled along and then all of a sudden everything went black for a long time. There was no light and everything was quiet, then there was some light and everyone was gone. We had gone under a tunnel, how they fell off I'll never know but I'll see them someday again so I'll just keep bumming along till I run into them again. A13

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