Newcomerstown High School - Newcosean Yearbook (Newcomerstown, OH)

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Senior Class CLASS PROPHECY Arthur Atkinson, a New York journalist, sat at his desk in his shirt sleeves. He had been working at a paper for a number of hours and the clock next to him said twelve o’clock noon. A calendar on his desk showed the year to be 1960. As he sat there working on his paper, not knowing what to write about, he was reminded of the time 16 years ago when he had had to write his class prophecy. He had worked days on that. It was strange, he thought, that some of the things he had prophesied had come true. There was Bob Laughlin. He had prophesied him to be a pilot. Bob now was piloting a transport plane between London and New York. Last week Art had flown from London in Bob’s plane and had been surprised to find that Rosemary Kinsey was tne air hostess and Wayne Lehman the co-pilot on the plane. When he landed in New York he found Howard Rogers was directing air traffic at the New York Air Port and Marjorie Hanson was working in the radio tower. Art missed his guess about Barbara Heller. He thought she would be a dancer, but she had given up her career to marry the great American architect, Andy Wilkin. In the New York World this morning Art had read about the new hospital Andy had designed. Dr. George Kistler had been appointed chief-of-staff for the hospital and June Swigert, superintendent of nurses. Among the names of nurses who were on the staff he had noticed Hazel Terrell, Mary Miller, and Lillian Kees. As Art continued to reflect on his high school class prophecy, he remembered that he had thought Earl Egler would be a baker. This had turned out to be true for now Earl was the head of the World-Wide Baking Co. with offices in Peoli City. Ruth Kissell was his private secretary and it was she who made the now well known “Dream” Cake from the famous Soy Bean flour. John Ray Smith was advertising manager for the company. As Arthur’s thoughts went on, he happened to glance out of the window. There across the street was a billboard which advertised June Patterson’s Frilly Frock Dress Shop. The featured designers were Selma Hunterson and Marilyn Ley. He had often heard about the creations these designers had made. The picture of the girl on the billboard seemed familiar. He got up and went to the window. Why, it was Marian Watson! He had thought she was going to be a stenographer. Below her picture was the caption “Hair style is the creation of Norma Warner, famous beautician”. Just then Art’s private secretary, Billie Dillehay, came in with a message that Lt. Commander Richard Warren was there to see him. Lt. Commander Warren, famous dentist of the U. S. Navy, had just returned from a vacation in Europe. He wanted Art to take the afternoon off and see a football game with him. Coach Bob McFarland’s team, the Trojan Terrors, was playing a team of all-stars for a benefit performance at Madison Square Gardens. The star of the team was Myron Cramlet whom Bob had trained to be one of the greatest backs of all times. As they stepped into a cab to go to the game. Art noticed it 28

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Senior Class Warner, Norma Warren, Richard F. Watson, Marian Lee Wells, Paul Eugene Wilkin, Andrew Montgomery, Jr. Wilson, Mary o R G A N 1 1 z A A T I H I L O E N T 1 S 1 N c D s E X This Page is Sponsored by Home Equipment Company 27

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Senior Class belonged to Joy-Ride Taxi Cab Co. of which Jack Shurtz was president. He mentioned this to Dick and on the way to the game they talked of their other classmates. Art learned that Don Carruthers had just finished a season in Europe with his orchestra and was now coming back to the United States to play in the movie “Bands of 1960”, directed by Jerry McCune. Patti Powell, the famous pianist, was also to be in this movie. Dick had seen Dallas Beal while he was in Europe. Dallas was a professor of music at Oxford University in England. Also at Oxford was Opal Stocker, secretary to the president of the university. On the way to the football game they pulled over to the side of the street to let a car with a police escort go by. And who should be in the car but Edwin Tilton, now Vice President of the United States! Art and Dick recognized the head of the police escort to be Dick Wylie. When they arrived at the game they were greeted by Paul Addy, manager of Madison Square Gardens. He gave them choice seats in the front row. While they were waiting for the game to start, John Kay, a New York Times sports writer, came over to see them. He said he had just seen Harold Hannahs and Wayne Porter, naval flyers, at the game. During the half the two were going to do stunts in their airplanes. Right now Bill Chambers, an airplane mechanic, was giving the planes a last-minute check. When they noticed Phil Steffen taking pictures of the crowd, Dick remarked that the class prophecy had been right in predicting that Phil would be photographer for the New York Times. Talking with Phil were his assistant, Erma Hoffman, and Lyle Swigert, a man who was in the news right now. He had just invented a new type of airplane called the “Silver Streak” that had a speed as fast as sound. It was now time for the game to start. Art and Dick recognized one of the officials as Harold Huff, and another as Kenneth Durben. The first half of the game went very quickly with the score at the end of the half being tied 6 to 6. Between halves the airplane stunts thrilled the crowd. Then Weldon Little lead his band onto the field to accompany the well-known opera singer Grace Reinhardt as she sang two selections for the benefit performance. Art recognized Mrs. Coleman (Janice Johnson) as she was walking towards her seat, and called to her. She was happy to see her classmates. She told them she was living in Brooklyn and had twin daughters, Jan and June. She also told them that Norma Morrison was living next door to her. Norma had married the great author, Ralph Waldo Morley, and she herself had written several best sellers. By this time the game was in the third quarter. The Trojan Terrors had just made a touchdown and were leading by a score of 13 to 12. At that moment Bob Smythe came over to talk with Art and Dick. He said he had recognized them when they were cheering for the Terrors’ last touchdown. Bob, manager of the Newcomerstown Giroways Inc., was in New York on business. Art asked him if any of the class of ’44 were back in Newcomerstown. Bob told him that Paul Wells was President of the Uni-