Prophetstown High School - Prophet Yearbook (Prophetstown, IL)

 - Class of 1940

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I see you, Bill Johnson, as a cartoonist in the employ of walt Disney. You are now starting on the production of WThe Life of Puddin' Head wilsonn. The author is Corinne Fadden. My crystal ball shows that you, Harry Farrell, have recently purchased a Durock bus which you will use to con- vey the inhabitants of Prophetstown from limit to limit. Do not be discouraged if business is poor at first. Donald Frary, you have reached the end of your career with the Bayles Company. 'You let the representative from the Potter, Potter, Potter, and Potter Pottery Company beat you to the choiccst clay deposit of the year. Your careers as an insurance salesman, Fuller Brush representative, and lipstick tester, have been short ones, Jack Murphy. Your next employer will be the Plumley Dental Supply Company. You will probably have a good pull in this organization. As I gaze into the crystal globe, I see you, Eugene Wilson, posing as the bearded lady. Your hobby seems to be collecting razor blades, but not using them. Glenn Wheat, I see you wielding a whip. You are un- loading the animals which you recently acquired on your trip to Campbell, South Africa. I see you, Stuart Warner, standing at the marriage license bureau. You seem to be hesitating about the first name that is to be put on the license. The last name seems to be Schryver. I see water--lots of water. I see you, Lester Zinser, piloting your new streamlined model plane, named the J. Stewart Deluxe, on a transriveranic flight across the Mis- sissippi. Your passengers are all raving about the excel- lent food on this liner. The cook is your twin brother, Leslie. There is a man dressed in a tux and top hat-Jwhy its that old maestro, Woolie Jack Woolums playing at Helen Johnson's debut. Luella Ackeberg, my crystal shows you walking with Dr. Johnson. He is giving you instructions about a patient in room 509. You are the night supervisor of the Mercy Hospital. Your future looks dark, Earl Brooks. The White House has cast its shadow over your life. Your name is in the

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f V -Ella Potts and Her Tootin' Tots are playing at the Orange Grove Night Club in Hollywood. Ella Potts looks like you, Ruth Bayles. You, Jean Clary, are a demonstrator of cosmetics, Your ability to give beauty treatments and beauty advice has made-you famous. You are in great demand. 'I see a very proud woman sitting behind a typewriter, It is you, Jana Clementz.4 You have just won the Nobel prize for your latest novel, NThat Dark Night.N Mabel Currie, your new position as secretary at the Urban Stockyards in Hooppole, Illinois, is a very good one. Your future looks very bright. You will be a success with your employer's help. A very delicious smell is coming out of this house in Lyndon, Illinois. I see you, Pauline Garrison, as the founder of a modern cooking school for both men and women. Your fame has spread to the utmost parts of the world. Jean Gibson, I see you as a bubble dancer in the Dab Dab Follies. When you dance you are always accompanied by the blare' of music. I see you, Phyllis Heller, modeling Schiaparelli gowns in Paris. Presently you will come back to this country with gowns of your own creation. ' The social whirl in Lyndon has certainly up, Ruth Hoogerwerf. The city council met and change the name of the twon to NHarringtonH. the mayor, your social life will be full. Jean Lawrence, your marriage to Gus Roman prise to Prophetstown people. Now you are the ents of three little WGraveyardsH. Every Sunday caught you decided to As wife of was a sur- proud par- afternoon, out in the back yard, pop shows the little ones how basket- ball was really played back in 'LO and mom gives some yells to show how she helped daddy win. Your wait for Amos to propose to you, Marilyn Hansen, has been a long one. Because of his rheumatism you have had to install an elevator in order for him to make his nightly visits. Anna and Lillian Hvalgren, you are the proud founders of a business college in Prophetstown. Since the high school was unable to keep its equipment, business has been very goods .



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headlines. You will be remembered as the first page boy in the White House to receive an old age pension. Brace Baldwin, as a representative for the Potter, Potter, Potter, and Potter Pottery Company, it is your Job to buy up all the best clay deposits in the country. Don't let anyone beat you to the dirt. My crystal ball shows you, Keith Curry, still carry- ing the old torch. It seems as if you don't care to hunt for a new one. THE LITTLE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE He bids a cheery good morning to his trans-parents. Then he eats a heavy breakfast of Ghost-Toasties and sliced doughnut holes. Dashing out to the mirage, he backs out his Phantom 8 and heads for the Seven Lost Cities of Cibola. Upon arriving at his office, where he works at monkey business, he peers through the opaque glass into his pri- vate office to find his secretary already on his lap. He silently dictates a letter to her and tells her to throw it out the window because it must go by airmail. Having a successful failure of business for the day, he closes his office. - He leaps into his Phantom 8, which is waiting at the curb in the middle of the street, and gets picked up for going through a black light at the stop light. He is taken to the tennis court and brought before the unlawful judge to be tried. Being-convicted, he happily makes his way homeward. As he is tired and weary, he eats lightly of lead and butter spread with marble-ade, dashes up cellar to a nice soft, fluffy pin feather bed. Soon he is snoring on into a sleep- less night. Mike

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