Raymond High School - Ra Co Hi Yearbook (Raymond, IL)

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CLASS PROPHECY Ml, 43 Dear Diary I am so excited for tomorrow I am startxng on a trxp through the Unxted States and Canada, sometlnng Ive always dreamed about Uncle Percxval really as a dear to pay for all of it And I always thought he was just an old ussy Well anyway every thing 18 packed and ready I went down to the statxon thxs morning to purchase my txck et and xmagxne my surprxse ln seexng Lew1s Durston behmnd the ticket wnndow He zn formed me he had only recently been promoted havxng prevzously been a wastepaper basket emptier May 4 1968 The bxg day has fxnally arrxved I mean the one on whxch I start my tour I was so excxted I could hardly eat a bmte of breakfast Mother called a tax1 whlle I put on my hat About two seconds later wlth a swxrl of dust and a screech of brakes my taxx ar rxved I struggled out of the front door wxth a suitcase mn each hand and a box of lunch whxch mother had mslsted that I take stuffed under one arm May I help you Madam? 1nqu1red a voxce strangely rem1n1scent of h1gh school days I ,glanced up and there I was face to face wxth Roy Murphy He gently shd the box of lunch from under my arm and led the way to the taxl whxle I followed carrymg the suxtcases What a rxde we had After go1ng through four red hghts and dr1v1ng a quarter of a m1le on the raxlroad tracks we were gett1ng ready to try the sldewalk for a whxle to break the monotony when a polxceman on a sh1ny motorcycle slld up belund us You d never guess who he was None other than Charles Herrmann He warned Roy that that sort of thmg better never happen agam, or else After boardmg the tram and fxndzng a seat near the window I was accosted by the conductor As usual Ihad forgotten where I had put my txcket so I began searchmg fran txcally At last I found lt and as I handed lt to the conductor I was astomshed to fxnd ject m h1s arms and upon closer exammatxon dlscovered It was an old battered French Horn Mxlton explaxned that as the tram entered each town he would play a tune on his horn Just at that moment we entered the c1ty lxmxts of Sxoux Clty Iowa Instantly he raxsed h1s horn to h1s hps and the lxltxng strams of S1oux C1ty Sue fell on my ears May 6 l968 Spent the mght m Sloux Cxty Couldn t fmd a suxtable hotel but ran across a won derful room at Mxss Jane Snyder s Select Boardmg House For Lau.es We had a wonder ful chat and she xntroduced me to several of her boarders One :ff the ladies seemed famxhar, but I couldn t remember her name, untxl Jane saxd that xt was Geraldxne Poggenpohl Gerry ns an outstandmg lecturer, and when she xsn t traveling, makes her home wlth Jane Gerry saxd they both lxke to gmggle as much as ever May 7 1968 Arrxved ln Arlzona last mght and I went to see the sunrxse at Grand Canyon this mormng I ve never seen anytlung quxte as lovely On my way back to the hotel I passed a huge sxgn saymg, Are you lookmg for food for scenery, for a horse? Then stop at EugeneDeva1sher s Dude Ranch only two miles ahead Sure enough, xt was the Eugene I had known back mn Raymond I mqunred about h1s frxend, B111 Durston, and Eugene was surprzsed I hadn t heard that B111 was a member of the House of Representahves May l0 1968 Had a facxal and wave at Dott1e s Beauty Shoppe tlus afternoon I never eamed the shop belonged to Dott1e Weffenstette when I decxded to go there She seem Havr- a mce busmess 3 I I . . D ' 0 ' ' . IO . l that he was Milton Gilbert. After exchanging greetings I noticed a strange looking ob- mmmm . 0 ' 1 I . g . . . , 4 I