Rome City High School - Gladiator Yearbook (Rome City, IN)

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Senior Will (Continued) Edith Cook and my typing ability to Pat Bowder. AlsoI will my ability to get along with the teachers to Red Conley. May he do as wellasI have. (Fifteenth) I, Carol Gaby will my place in the men’s quartet to Jon Baker, may he be a better man than lI. I will my ability to get typing budgets and home project papers in at the last minute to Roberta Eckhart and Doris Donat. (Sixteenth) I, Edward Cureton, will all personal as- sets to persons named hoping their outcome on life will be as bright as mine. My abil- ity to crack jokes I will to Mr. C. C. Smith and typing to Ed Sattler. Item I V: As an additional asset we the Advanced Typing Class will to the typing class of ‘ 48’’ the ability to get the school paper out on time, and quiet and innocent be- havior in the typing room. We, the Senior band members will to all the band members the ability to goto band on time so Mr. Barr won't have to come up to the assembly. Item V: We hereby constitute and appoint our principal, Mr. H. J. Ward as exe- cutor of this will. In testimony we, the Class of Nineteen Hundred Forty-Seven, declare this to be nd testament on this fifteenth day of January, Nineteen Hundred and For- 4 Pay lon. Fant ne - President a ti ©] ae 7 SS ee ee LG a - ) Secretary 0 l the Seniors of 1947 be doing ten years from graduation. Most of them late twenties then and should be started on their life work or profes- crystal ball prediction of 1957.--Edward (Ted) Cureton will join the xe education while there, then see the world on a tour, planned by Un- then return to civilian life and help factories sell on foreign markets of foreign ports.--Carol Gaby will go to nursing school to prepare Mostess wu.k but after three years of college life will marry a fellow medical student whose name I can't clearly see in the crystal ball.-- Bill Schell will go to col- lege at Indiana and major in bookkeeping and accounting. He will graduate and marry a rich co-ed and work for her father in his large department store in Chicago.--- Gerald Amerman will marry Bonnie and live happily ever after. He will help his brother and father with the farm for awhile then work in a garage but later decides to open his own garage in Kendallville.--Marceda Munk will marry Hop after he returns and help Hop's father with the farm for a few years. Thenthey will buy their own dairy farm near Albion and raise prize Holsteins. They will have a herd of twenty-three.---—- Homer Feightner will take a job at Iron Sales in Kendallville and sell and repair farm machin- ery. He and his father will later buy a large farm which they will farm together and Homer will still work for Iron Sales, though only as an advisor.--Don Trowbridge will start working at Kendallville Foundry and because of his excellent training at R. C., will quickly advance to foreman and then to supervisor. He will marry Katie and they will buy the Hoosier Grill and she will manage it and he will eat all his meals there, on the cuff.--Dick Barkley will go in with his father to buy the Standard Service Station in R.C Dick will handle the gasoline, accessories, and used car sales and his father the (Con.)

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Prophecy (Con.) mechanical end. Later he will sell outto his brother and gotol. U. and major in Business Administration, then return to R. C. to enlarge the business and create the largest, most efficient Super Service Station in Northern Indiana.--Donna Sturgis and Amy Whetzel will enter Fort Wayne Business College to become stenographers or sec- retaries, however, Amy won't stay in over a year as church bells will beckon her to a nother profession. She will marry a farmer and help him figure his income tax. Donna will finish her schooling in Fort Wayne but soon after graduation will marry an ex- soldier who will manage a fleet of laundry trucks in Kendallville.--Ellen McClure will stay at home for awhile then marry some bird from Fort Wayne.--Phyllis Racht will work, for a short time ina restaurant, but will soon quit to become Mrs. Verne Leatherman.-- Virginia Franks will work at Frick’s Grocery but will soon marry Louie and settle in Wolcottville.-- Mary Biddle will work in Fort Wayne while taking college courses, then will go into a partnership and start a dress shop.--Everett Pardue will continue his drum study and play with several bands in or around Fort Wayne. - Shirley Jacoby will secure a position in Detroit but soon tire of city life and returnto Brim- field. He will, of course, bring Gerry back with him. If this prophecy doesn’t hold true don’t blame me, maybe the crystal ball is cracked. :