Pawnee High School - Indian Echoes Yearbook (Pawnee, IL)

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CLASS PROPHESY SITTING BY TEE FIRE IN THE COLD WINTER OF 1966 AND DROW- SILY ROCKING, TEE SNOW COMING DOWN JUST ASIT DID INTHE WINTER OF 1946 IN PAWNEE. AT THAT MOMENT MY THOUGHTS 00 BACK TO THE SENIOR CUSS OF THAT SAME YEAR. ALL AT ONCE APPEARS THE BUS- INESS DISTRICT OF PAWNEE. THE SAME OLD SQUARE, THE SAME OLD BUIIDINOS, AND WHO'S THAT COMING OUT OF THE DRUG STORE?JUST A MOMENT I WHY THAT’S AARON VANOEISON. HAVEN'T YOU HEARD HE OWNS IT NOW AND HE'S DOING RIGHT WELL TOO .AS THE FORM SLOWLY FADES AWAY THERE APPEARS ANOTHER BUILDING. WHOSE NAMES ARE THOSE ON THE BUILDING---CASTLE SPRINGER—-LET'S 00 A LITTLE CLOSER— IF IT ISN'T IRENE FOWLER WORKING ON THOSE BOOKS I AND WHO'S THAT GENTLEMAN STANDING BESIDE HER IN THE STOVE PIPE HAT AND A THREE CORNERED BEARD? WHY, JIM, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR WAVY HAIR? I CAN NOW SEE THE PARSONAGE, AND WHO'S SITTINQ ON THE PORCH WITH A BIBLE IN HIS HAND. WHY REV. DRURY WE NEVER SUS- PECTED. WHAT COULD THAT NOISE BE—IT SEEMS I SHOUID REMEMBER LET ME SEE,OH YES, I REMEMBER NOW, IT'S ONLY MYRON STILL WOLF ING. EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE GETTING IN LINE--NYLON HOSE, IT RE- MINDS ME OF. SO WE DECIDE TO GET IN LINE. WELL IF IT ISN'T SHIRLEY GREEN QIVINO AWAY FREE LEMONADE AS THIS IS HER BIO OPENING DAY FOR DARRELL'S ORILL. LET'S LOOK IN THE POST OFFICE-NOT FOR MAIL-BUT JUST TO SEE GEORGE YOUNG. YOU DON'T MEAN TO TELL ME HE'S WAITING FOR HIS MAIL INSTEAD OF SORTING IT. HE DECIDED THE POOL BUSINESS WAS BETTER THAN THE POST OFFICE. SAY WHAT HAFPENED TO RUTH SQUIRES I PAWNEE SLOY LY FADES AWAY AND ANOTHER TOWN APPEARS. I CAN'T SEE WHAT THE SIGN SAYS BUT SOMEPUCE CLOSE TO SPRINGFIELD. SHE IS TOO BUSY CLEANING, SCRUBBING, 3AKIN0 TO SPEND ANY TIME WITH ME SO I'LL LEAVE HER TO HER HOME CARES. WAS THAT CLOCK STRIKING TWELVE I I'VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR FOUR HOURS. IT SEEMS I HAVE JUST BEEN ON A VISIT IN MY OLD HOME TOWN. PAREWELL TO THE SENIORS FAREWELL TO YOU, ALL OF YOU WE HATE TO SAY GOODBYE, FOR WE KNOW YOU'VE BEEN TRUE— TO GOOD OLD PAWNEE HIOH I WE KNOW SHIRLEY, YOU'VE WORKED WELL, BUT MYRON WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED YOU’LL NEVER TELL 'USSELL HAS LEARNED SOMETHING IT IS TRUE, AND IRENE FOWLER STUDIED TILL SHE WAS BLUE. -ARON LEARNED AND LEARNED AND LEARNED, BUT RUTH THEY SAY JUST YEARNED AND YEARNED. JIM GREW MORE, AND MORE INFORMED. AND GEORGE BECAME MORE FORLORNED. BUT PUTTING ALL JOKES ASIDE, •WE KNOW KIDS-YOU’VE REALLY TRIED. AND WE’RE WISHING YOU THE BEST, AND KNOW THAT YOU WILL PASS THE TEST. FAREWELL TO YOU, ALL OF YOU WE HATE TO SAY GOODBYE, FOR WE KNOW YOU'VE BEEN TRUE— TO GOOD OLD PAWNEE HIGH I mm