Richland High School - Tiger Yearbook (Richland, IA)

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Class Prophecy - - t It has been ten years since the Class of 1954 has passed through the doors of R, H, S, Now as the fortune teller looks through her crystal ball, she tells us what the Class of 1954- is now doing, As we look through the crystal ball we see ----- Miss Cleo Swartzwelter as a nurse--Professor E-instein's nurse! He chose her because of her good old German name, She has the job of giving him his daily egg shampoo to beautify his long white hair, By the way--she uses turkey eggs, just for sentimental reasons, Now we see Miss Carol Morgan who has just accomplished the amazing feat of swimming from New York to London in only 3 weeks and 4 days, She and her husband were the only participants in this contest, Her husband came up in the middle of the ocean to follow a mermaid, We see a cloud of dust and hear the whine of a high powered motor as High Veloc- ity Vic wins again in the shiny gray job, his '36 Special, He has just become the first man to ever win the Indianapolis soo , five years in a row in the same car, In the crystal ball we now see a great celebrity, joyce Mineart, who has won the Nobel Prize for her inspiring novel Corn With My Beer or Hic, Life With Maynard The fortune teller sees someone sitting on a pile of money, It is Bill Cobb, who has, just finished counting the last million dollars he made today from one of his automobile factories, He just stands thinking how he will' soon be standing in his new home with his beautiful wife and six children, The crystal ball now shows a group of men who have taken time out to repair the ring again, Angry Arbie , the women's Flea Weight wrestling champion of the world, has just thrown her opponent through the ropes again, Although, she has been wrestling for ten years she has never killed anyoneg she has just broken a lot of bones, We now see a salesman in a ladies' hat shop, john Pepper, who is the former ladies' man of R, H, S, He has now settled down to one woman, He and Marilyn Monroe were married soon after she divorced joe Di Maggio, They have been happily married for ten years now and have a pair of quiet red-headed twins, We are now gazing at Ginny fthe great, Neil, She is leading the Olson Redheads to their 788th consecutive victory, She has a breath taking' scoring average of 347.8 points a game. Ginny takes the team all over the United States in her FLAMING RED PLYMO- BILE, I The crystal ball now shows us Bob Curtis, a towering 6' 3 gentleman with the strength of a bull, He has now taken a job in a lumber jack camp as a tree-topper, He is the only tree-topper who doesn't have to climb a tree to top it, The latest model basketball shoe which was created by Frank Lukavsky, is now seen, He now owns a great shoe factory, As he looks at these shoes he thinks of the great times he had when playing basketball at old R, H, S, Now here's a bit of excitement -- it's Sherry Watson who is just about ready to take off, ZOOOOoommmm! There she goes, She is going to the planets in a new space ship, Sherry is the first woman to ever do so, and we hope she returns safely to tell us how long it took her to reach them, As we peer into the crystal ball we see Don Fritchen crowned Mr, Basketball , The Minneapolis Lakers hired big Don soon after he graduated fr om high school and he i now completing his eighth season with them, In the last look through the crystal ball we see Milly Hinshaw who is now the player- coach of the Hot Shot Iowans, the first women's B, B, team to enter the National Basket- ball Association, Her team begins a series with the Men Lakers for the world champion ship and then a six month world tour with the Globetrotters,