Northern Arizona State Teachers College - La Cuesta Yearbook (Flagstaff, AZ)

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High School Senior Prophecy Being a Play in One Act Time: 1950 Place: Aiunini Hotel Lobby, Flagstaff Dramatae Personnae: The High School Class of 1925 Scene: The hotel lobby. A very dignified man is impatiently pacing back and forth across the lobby. Bell hop enters whistling, sees guest, stops whistling. Bell Hop: Paging Mr. Harry Wintermeyer. (Dignified guest stops pacing). Guest: Here, boy, I am Harry Wintermeyer. Bell Hop: Telephone call, sir. Wintermeyer: What the — (Walks over to telephone). Hel- lo — who? Harrison? No this is — oh, Harry, yes, yes, this is he. Oh, yes — no — Mrs. Whozit, I have not had the pleasure — you say you used to be Delpha Thompson — yes, surely I remember. Uh-huh the banquet is at seven — all right, goodbye. (Hangs up receiver, resumes pcaing. Door opens, Mildred Helfinstine walks in, sees Winter- meyer, stops and addresses him). Mildred: Do you happen to be Mr. Wintermeyer? Harry: The same. Madam. Mildred : Oh, I ' m so glad ! (Harry registers a disturbing feeling). Mildred: Why do you stare at me so? Harry: Indeed, and whom have I the honor of speaking to? Mildred : Why surely you have not forgotten me, I am Mil- dred Helfinstine. Harry: How stupid of me not to recognize you. (He ad- vances to meet her, they shake hands). (Three women enter). Mildred : Why look, Harry, there ' s Catherine Jones, and Bert and Helen. Harry: You don ' t say? Mildred : Here, girls, how are you ? Girls: Not so punk, where ' s the eats? (Couple enters, talking). Man: I ' ll tell you, Sue, tain ' t so. Sue: Why, Max, how could you? Max: I reckon them ' s the lost uns. Say ain ' t Harry gray? Sue: For goodness sake. Max, do act decently tonight. Max: Can ' t be did. Sue: Oh, heavens. Max : Oh, hell. Sue: How do you do, Mr. Wintermeyer? Harry: Why — oh it ' s Miss Gist — I am fine, thank you. Max: So help me if ya look like it. Harry: Pardon, sir.

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But he reached just what he aimed for, tho it was a far off goal. Brick has made Babe ' s reputation look like fiction of the past. Scored a record in the sport world that so far is not surpassed. Pick up any Sunday paper and just turn a page or two, And you ' re sure to find him in there grinning pleasantly at you. But after him the vision faded. Like a curtain slowly drawn, Till at last it all did vanish — My prophetic gift was gone. But it ' s memory cheered me greatly, And amused me some to see, That of all these Normal seniors. Not one teacher would there be.

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Max: I said mavbe — ah what ' s the use? Look, here comes Ted. (Ted walks in slowlv, iiumming). Ted: Thank God. Max: For what? Ted : I ' ve got something that will rime with persongatisur- gatesel. Max: Yeah — I ' ll take two bits worth — rotten. (Green and Herriot enter). Green: Gimme a cigarette. Thanks — got a match. Red: Now all you gotta do is borry a place to blow the smoke. Green — Uh huh — never thought of that. Red: ' Lo, gang. How ' s tricks coming? (Delpha comes in closely followed by Katherine Shirley. There are various remarks from gang ). Delpha: Did you ever see such a mob? Katherine: Yes, once in a circus. (They mingle with the others, greetings are exchanged. All exit to dining room for banquet. All are seated but Sue Gist). Sue: The class will kindly come to order. Max: Order my eye, I came to eat. Sue : Will you never grow up. Max Hendricks ? Max: Nope I ' ll always want a bottle. Sue: Shut up. Max: Yes um. Sue: The purpose of this meeting is to tell our experiences since we leffN. A. N. S. Will you begin, Helen? Helen: Well, Bert and I taught school awhile; then Mr. Zieg- field heard of us ; we was in the Follies quite awhile, but we ' re both retired now. Delpha: Well, all I ' ve done is get married, and have a good time. Green : Well, I haven ' t done much, pretty near got married once, but the girl saw my shoes and broke the engage- ment. I am president of the Arizona Borrowing Society. Mildred H.: I went to a nursing school, graduated, and I ' ve been issuing pills ever since. Harry: I became interested in finance shortly after leaving school, I have been connected with several brokerage firms and a short time since established my own firm. Catherine Jones: I ' ve just been teaching school all the time. Red : I ' m the best engineer in seven states ; I ' ve only wrecked 22 cars and killed enough cows to run Armour ' s for a year. I repeat I ' m the best engineer in seven states. Ted: Interesting if true. Red. Now as for me, I ' ve kidded myself along with writing and the funny jiart is I ' ve kid- ded the public into buying two out of every hundred things I write. Max: Yeah — interesting if true. Well, take me now, I been punching cows and everything till I got married ; since then I been doing what Sue tells me to. Sue: Max, you are horrid. Why didn ' t you say that we have a lovely ranch and a car and everything? Max : Yes um.