Ridge High School - Reflector Yearbook (Van Wert, OH)

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CLASS PROPHECY The sun descended on our covered wagon, a crude and slow means of transportation but the most suitable for the journey to the Northwest Territory. As pioneers we bravely face many perils on our journey. We prepared ourselves for the night, hoping no Ind- ians would visit us and disturb our slumbers for we like to sleep. My friends call me Rip Van Winkle, the Second He, of course, just slept for twenty years. I have his record broken. One time we went to sleep coming from England and awakened just in time for the Revolutionary Warf Oh, hum, I'm getting sleepy. I wonder what will be taking place when I next awaken? KSleep comes and all is forgottenl. Another day dawned and as I looked around I triedtm remember, Uwhere are the Alleghany Mountains and where are the crude facilities we once knew? What is this lux- urious means of transportation?U A faint voice from in front informed me, This is the Covered Wagon of l958.H nl958!U I exclaimed, UWhat's so, important about this year that I should awaken?H uNearby in Ridge School a class of eleven girls and two boys are graduating,U was the reply. HI need more sleep,U I yawned, and rolled over on my luxurious bed and continued my slumbers as theCbvcreC Wagon of l958 traveled along. Crash! With a jolt I was awakened. HAn accident! Get his license numberlu cried my companion. I went to get the license number. I stopped with astonishment,--the license plate was marked 1950. Twelve years had passed since I had awakened at Ridge School. That thought was in my mind as w? were being taken to the hospital to have minor injuries taken care of. UE1even girls and two boys was the number my companion had said,--I really should have stopped to see them. Won- derwhat they're doing now?H Stopping the automobile,we found ourselves in front of a magnificent white stone structure which bore the name of Haines Hospital. A nurse ushered us into a room where there was an operating table with shaded lamps which cast their reflections on Pauline Haines whose face is now outlined with patience and endurance. After minor cuts and bruises were taken care of,we wandered down the hall until we came to a room where Lois Uneapher was tale ing the pulse of Virginia Taylor, a socialite, who had been operated on for gallstoncs recently. Lois seemed to be in a great rush as her next patient was a handsome young man, she had to count his pulse twice because she said the first time she held his hand too long. In an- ll

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other room we discovered Helen Sealscott with her face practically concealed under a layer of tape. She had just had her face lifted, thinking it would increase her business. He restaurant ferred men on our way her way to in town we thouch married works londe interne. While we were the former Evelyn Engle, who the office of a law firm of Haines is a partner. There because Evelyn's husband de- LJ 2 which the husband of Doris seems to be some jealousy out of the hospital when she said she was on marry a young b stopped to s len Gorman, as a young ladr pre- with red or black hair,so imagine my s prise 1 ee in mands that she quit and Doris demands that hor husband do some firing. From there our journey continues to another part of town where we stopped our stream-lined model in front of a white bungalow. In answer to my knock, Katheryn Prior came down the hall wiping the beads of perspiration from her brow. Her tasks are many and her pennies are few be- cause she has recently matrimonial bureau, as t fect man. Leaving the city we come to a farm house wit the door stands the high-pressured s tle, whose winning ways addition of a new radio Traveling down the in Ridge Township. We a woman with her skirts joined that he result of life-long club,--a not finding the per travel into h a washing the courtry untilwe on the line. Before are the reason for Ann Cooper's to her household conveniences. road we come to a house located turn into the drive and out pops flying. Yes, it's Edith Walser alesman,Charles Knit- CWindyD who hasn't married yet but tells us the man a- cross the field just can't get up the gumption to ask her. Anyway she wants to do the proposing so she is waiting for leap year. We stop before another farm house with a white pic- ket fence bordering the lawn. This one is inhabited by Milford Holland, a bachelor, who was out on the lawn trimming the hedge. Several Children were playing close- by and soon they ran over and said, HOh, Unkie Miffie, please catch a pretty butterfly for us. He answered, UNow, kids, don't bothe r your uncleg he's very busy.H 1 The last stop is at a well-known beauty salon where we stop to get a manicure which is given by the hadau Ruth Faller, the owner of the shop. She tells us tha her trade is daily increasing and soon she thinks she will abandon her career to marry her former boss. At last we find our way to the highway. Once more that con- tented sleepy feeling pleased to find the Clas the question HTonight we is answered after twelve that night in May, l953, the billowy sea of life. passes over me and I am ,quite s of '58 doinv so well. At last launch, where shall we anchor?H long years. Each one did launch and is now securely anchored in