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PROPHECY FOR CLASS OF 1962 In May of 1982, I was to be in Neponset for a convention at the Aeromobile Manufacturing Company. On my way through Wisconsin, I thought that I would stop at Madison and see Bob Ver Heecke, who was the head dairy technician at the University of Wisconsin. As I arrived he had just finished the first synthetic cow. This model would produce two hundred gallons of milk per day through the use of chemicals. He said that the Dairy Breeders Association was very sore at him for his invention. Within the next two years he hopes to revolutionize the milk industry with his cow. I left Madison and headed south. About half way to Janesville, Wisconsin, I was passed by a red streak. For several miles, I wondered what it could have been. Then I found out, for directly in front of me, with a flat tire, was the strange looking car. It was like no other car I had ever seen before, but the name was familiar, Chevrolet. I thought that I recognized the driver so I stopped. He turned out to be an old classmate of mine, Brad Berry, who now worked as chief test driver in the experimental division of Chevrolet and General Motors. He had just arrived in Janesville to run a series of tests on a new sport model that G.M.C. was going to bring out on the market next year. It is to have the biggest engine ever sold stock in an automobile. He said that it would be able to go at least 175 miles per hour. I asked Brad what Lee Stabler was doing now and he said that Lee was in charge of the NASA project at Edwards Air Force Base. Lee has been working on the proposed first manned rocket plane trip to Mars. When I arrived in Neponset, I had two days before the convention opened, so I thought that I would see if any of my other classmates were still around. I drove out to the Bennett residence to see if Lee was still around. As I got out of my car in front of a big, office-like building, I read a sign that said, Bennett Bros, Farms, Inc. Inside I found Lee hard at work pulling levers and pushing buttons. I later found he had been doing his chores. As we talked, Lee continued to push buttons and throw switches. He said that farming two thousand acres was a snap for three people. After we had been talking for an hour, he said that he had plowed about sixty acres with his electronic plow. As I left Lee's office, I passed Connie Stabler, who is the Bennett Brothers private secretary. She told me that Melanie was working as a model in New York. Phyllis and Rose Marie were both working at the Neponset Institute of Chemical Technology. They have been working on the problem of placement for the nuclear power plant that is to be put into operation at Neponset in the next few months. That afternoon I had an appointment at the bank, which to my amazement had moved into the building which had served as the old Neponset High School in 1962. The present school is now on what we called the Mart Gunning farm. It has also taken in several other schools who couldn't meet the minimum enrollment required by the state. There are over one thousand students going to N.H.S. At the bank, I met the head of the Accounting Department, John Verbout. He took me through the building showing me his office, which was the old Study Hall, where the business machines and computers were kept, which was the gym, and the vault, which was the Ag shop until it was remodeled and fortified. Back in John's office, I met another classmate, Vicky Morris. She is employed as a secretary in the Accounting Department. John asked me if I could give him a lift over to the Neponset Fender and Body Shop, where Clarence Rednour was fixing his car. Clarence, it seems, had bought Ed's Repair Shop and turned it into a body shop. Since he first started in the business, he has been forced to expand several times to meet the needs of the public. As I walked through the new business district, I decided to buy some gifts for a friend. I stopped at what appeared to be one of the better department stores in town. As I talked to a sales girl, the store's owner, Barb Burcham, came up to me and introduced herself. Barb said that she bought the store about ten years ago and had since expanded into several shopping centers around Neponset. She said that her head designer, Virginia Miller, had just left for Paris that morning to buy a new line of stock. I asked Barb if she ever heard from any of the kids who had moved away, and she told me that she had heard Sue Pletkovich was in Egypt. She was on an expedition to find one of the lost tombs in the land of the Pharaoh's. As I drove around town, I couldn't believe my eyes. The factories and other big businesses that had come into town since I had left! There was a huge housing project south of the old town site that spread out over several miles. The business district took in almost forty blocks in the center of town and there were also several shopping centers in the suburbs. At the close of my first day in Neponset, I decided to attend a concert to be given by the Neponset Philharmonic. The concert was to be given in the slightly enlarged old Scott Park. The park now takes up about ten acres. To my surprise, the famous concert pianist, Miss Lois Miller, was to give a recital that evening. Unfortunately, a sudden cloudburst canceled the performance. The day after the convention closed, I stopped in at Martin Engineering Company to see if anyone I knew was still there. I found Diana Dana was still employed there. She had advanced since I had worked there; she was Vice President and General Manager of the firm. After having spent better than a week in Neponset, and since the convention had closed, I headed back to my job as consulting engineer at Douglas Aircraft Corporation. Prognosticated by: Jim Thorp Lee Stabler Brad Berry 20
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Miss Americas??? Librarian Where's your horse Sue?? Diana Virginia Won't it burn?? Boy Scouts??? Posing Connie Studying hard?? New styles in Home Ec Come on Brad push that penny! ! Waiting for something
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