Orient High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Orient, IA)

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PROPHECY Oh Joy you ll never guess what My precxous husband has 1nstalled our new Super x ray v1s1on set today Now Susxe and Sonny have sald thelr prayers and are off to slumberland I shall curl up ln my easy chalr by the flreplace and try to look 1nto the homes of my old classmates of Orlent way back ln 1948 Wonder lf I can get 1n touch wzth my old frlend janet Dickerson I wonder lf these twenty years have changed her any Buzz There we come to Omaha Nebraska and stop at a dark roomlnghouse Now we see lnto a darkened bedroom My goodness IS that janet so sound asleep wxth her ha1r wrapped up ln curlers Her apartment looks awfully old mald zsh I don t not1ce any rmgs on her flnuers exther Seems 1ncred1ble that she sould let so many leap years go by wlthout leapxng I wonder what Helen Stutt IS dolng now I ll bet she has gone far wlth her muslc What th1s'P A farm home? Why so It IS And there 1S a l1ght on ln the kztchen Now I understand there IS Helen holdmg a baby bottle over a kerosene lamp Now she goes 1nto a bedroom My stars' I ook at the beds 1 2 3 4 and 3 klds ln everyone of them Poor Helen no wonder she looks so old and tlred Now we must turn to someone else Maglc machlne can you reach Wanda Weed? Prob ably flnd her enjoylng bhssful marrxed life don t you suppose? No that guess must be all wrong cause here we are out 1n the mxddle of the Atlantic Ocean Oh there s Wanda huddled m a deck chalr From all appearances she must be very seasxck Now a sh1p nurse comes The Umted States of Amerlca s Ambassador to the Unxted States of Europe Good luck Wanda you have a blg job I d llke to know 1f Dlck Wallace has managed to keep healthy wlthout many auto wrecks Oh there s a patrol car chaslng another car down the road Looks llke you ll get caught th1s txme Dxck Hey what s th1s'P There s Dlck gettxng out of the patrol car to make the arrest Who d ever suppose he d be a patrolman? He had ought to know all the trxcks though hadn t he 'P I wonder lf Norma ever got to travel all over the country lxke she always wanted to do? Here we come to a fashlonable boardmg house Why xt s ln Or1ent too What does that sign over the door say? Orlent Boardxng Palace Proprletor Norma Kluber College students preferred Yes Norma xt looks like you got to travel yes exactly two blocks from your old home Now let s take a peek at Robert Buchanan Oh look at all the water He must be ano ther sea traveler There s the Hawauan Islands and there s a bzg crulser anchored at the dock There goes an offlcer down towards the mess hall Could that be Robert? He cer tamly has changed mf lt xs He opens the door to the galley Oh now I see there s Robert see nght over there peelxng that b1g stack of potatoes Oh now offlcer don t bawl hmm out He s working as fast as he can Remember Phyllis Wzlllams and how gay and full of lxfe she always was? Wonder xf she has changed any these twenty years Evxdently she lxves ln Des Moxnes because that at IS where we are now We enter a buxldlng There's S ' ---' 9 1 1 n . , I and helps her to her quarters. There are her trunks in the corner. L.et's read the writing ' - . 1 U Q , , s ' . . . . . . I -H . '