Okoboji High School - Oriole Tales Yearbook (Okoboji, IA)

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Class Prophecy Strange things happen to us sometimes and usually just when we least expect them It was a beautiful morning in Jacksonville, Florida and as I was getting ready to leave for Jacksonville High School, where I was teaching I noticed that the paper boy had left a newspaper in my box I wondered what lt could be because I knew that it wasn't the 'Jacksonville Daily News , for it was never delivered until late after noon, and so, to satisfy my curiosity, I went to see what it was I had often said that I would never be surprised at anything, but now, was willing to take back that rash vow I had made, for it was certainly a startling occurence, to say the least, to say nothing of my amazement w en I read the name and date, nThe lilford Hail September IS, 197 I was never one to remain long in suspense when the means of satis fying my curiosity were at hand, so I opened the paper hastily and here are some of the things I read I only wrote down those I thought would be of most interest to you The first thing I noticed when I opened the paper was the big head lines which read, New, All Modern Okoboji Consolidated School Opens on September 1 ' I immediately scanned through the big write up, as I was very much interested Good ol' Okoboji, now twenty years after my graduation, is classified as one of the best schools in Northwest Iowa These are some other interesting items I noticed as I glanced through the paper lr and Irs Glen Smith, the former Deanna Welle, old classmate of mine, who now lives at Yuma, Arizona, are the proud parents of triplets The triplets have five brothers and four sisters to welcome them I can remember back in our high school days, when DeAnne said that she was never going to have very many kids Yell, not very many Only twelve! You know, they come cheaper by the dozen, anyhow ary to South Africa trying his best to save the native girls from sin Irma Proendt, another classmate of mine, has advanced somewhat I remember she was Vice President of our senior class at Okoboji High, and now is President of the Montgomery, Iowa Suspender Factory making sus penders seclusively to hold men lac Mitchell has reached the highest goal of our class of Sh He is now garbage collector and junk dealer for the district of Penhook in the flourishing city of Fostoria Carol Timmons, a second Florence Nightengale, is now head nurse at a Veteran's Hospital I understand Carol does fine in her position, but is unable to take pulses because she sends the fellows pulses a racing Ronnie Arms, the shortest of our class, has become an expert at hanging ceiling wall paper He sure would be good for something like that, wouldn't he' Carole Grim is now house mother at Horatio Hornblowers fraternity at the University of lay City, Iowa I remember that she always did have a yearning for the big cities I guess Jerry Roskens must still have that fine athletic ability that he was noted for back in our high school days, for he has become the first white man to be on the famous Harlem Globetrotters basketball team Elmer Neilson, the one boy in our class of S , whom I expe be settled down by now, is still unmarried, I see In seems he' making a lot of girls happy, instead of one miserable Karen lorlsky, the smallest girl in our class, is now the top cheer leader at the University of Fostoria I always knew Karen would 'go places' with that fine cheerleading ability of hers Jeanette VanderGaast has returned to Holland and found a Dutch lad called Hank Veenstra The two additions to the family are called Jantje and Jan I remember Bob Schmidt as liking science and physics back in high school and now I see that he is a great, serious, scientist who has discovered a universal solvent, but is unable to find a container to keep it in I also saw ln the paper where an old maid lecturer was coming to lilford and when I noticed the name, it was none other than Ruth Williams, an old classmate and chum of mine and of all things, her lecture was entitled 'The Independence of lan Goodness, twenty years certainly . U - ' I h -- I+. ll . . . BD Irwin Bates has certainly changed. I see where he is now a mission- ' I ' ll ' .to . . s