Salem Liberty High School - Stars Yearbook (Lower Salem, OH)

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CLASS PROPHECY Late one cold and slrppery wrnter evenrng Bonnxe and I were drrvtng home from our televrston show where we were brlled as the Fabulous Ntghtrngales at Nashvrlle Tennessee We were feelrng qurte groggy from lack of sleep All at once I screamed Bonnte looked up 1n ttme to see a telephone pole rushlng at us She slammed on the brakes and skrdded tnto the pole For a whtle everythlng was blank and ftnally when the haze began to clear away I saw a strange looktng frgure commg toward us I looked once bltnked and looked agarn thrs trme to recogmze the frgure of St Peter beckontng us to follow htm through the Golden Gate As we followed htm down the streets paved wrth gold he potnted out to us some of the marvelous bu1ld1ngs tn th1s Golden Ctty The one butldtng we were most tnterested ln was the Archrves Butldtng whrch St Peter s assrstant kept the records We came to a certatn spot tn the heavem where we could see the earth below us parttcularly the Untted States We were scanntng thrs former world of ours from above when Bonme saw someone who looked very famrltar At ftrst she couldn t recogmze htm but tt ftnally occurred to her that he was Robert Myers the tntellectual member of our class who graduated ten years ago Thls mornrng Robert looked worrted Upon closer scruttny we saw why he was golng up the campus walk to conduct h1S f1rst chemtstry class at Ohto Untverstty Bonnte and I began wonderrng what had happened to the rest of our classmates and what they were dotng We asked St Peter to help us fmd out about them He agreed to help and took us to the east lookout tower After gettrng accustomed to the great herght we were able to locate our old Alma Mater Much to our sur prtse we found the hrgh school larger and even more beautrful than tt had been ten years ago We looked through an open wrndow 1nto the home economtcs room hoprng to fmd Mrs Ullmann our sponsor stttrng at her desk making out the datly menu for her class We were agatn greatly surprlsed when we saw a former classmate of ours sttttng tn Mrs Ullmann s chatr Oh' Yes we remember now Juantta Wells went to Ohto State to major rn home economrcs and she had evrdently come back and taken over Mrs Ullmann s Job Wh1le we were lookrng around the h1gh school we glanced toward Wh1pple trytng to recapture a few mem ortes A terrtble racket caused us to look msrde The Whtpple Machtne Shop owned by Junror and Dale Lauer They were repalrtng Dorus Decker s racer which he had brought home from Indtanapolrs where he was star racer on the Indtanapolts Speedway Ruth Warner h1s wtfe was there wtth htm Just as she was wrth htm at all the races Stnce there were no more fam1l1ar faces around Wh1pple we turned sltghtly to the rrght only to fmd we are lookrng at Columbus the state capttal We look through an open door to recogmze Sam Wasson the governor drctatmg a letter to hrs prtvate secretary Dorothy Young Mr Governor rang a bell on h1s desk and a few mlnutes later the butler brought 1n some tea At fust we dtdn t recogmze h1m because he looked so dlgrufted but we dectded rt was Fred Gessel Smce Hollywood Caltfornta was always a popular place among us teen agers we thought we would vtstt there Two of our classmates had always wanted to go to Hollywood to become famous As we looked over Caltforma Bonnte thought we should try the btg nrght clubs and so we peered tnto several clubs for some trace of them We saw them tn Cuo s tap dancrng just as they had always wanted to do They were none other than Donna Stauch and 11m Barley The Dewdrops Therr act recerved a heavy round of applau SC QCont1hued on page 171 , . . a 1 - l ' I ' I ' Y 1 , . . I I . ' . I . . . . . ' . . , , , ,, . ,,. , . . , . . . ' in . , . I . , n I 1 I ' ' ' . ' ' . . , : ' ' . . . . , - , . . I . - . If - s H' - . . , . . . ' I I . . I I . , 1 . . ' . . . . , , ' . . I . . I . . . , ' . - . . . ' . I . . . . . , . . s . . s . I 1 ' 1 . . ' . . . - I . . . , . . , u nl ' -

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CLASS PROPHECY fCont1nued from page 16j SIHCC Calrfornta IS such a b1g place we declded to look around some more After lookmg for a whrle we saw a brg srgn that read Roy Cunn1ngham s Roly Poly Cucus We peeked msrde looked around and saw another person we should recognrze Pretty soon we realrzed that rt was none other than June Morgen stern the trapeze performer We gazed around unt1l we saw New York I remember Bonnre s best grrl frrend Jean Schoeppner had always wanted to be a model 1n one of New York s b1g stores so we decrded to look for her We frnally found her modelxng a very beaut1ful even1ng gown 1n Swmkerton s Department Store As we looked across the street through the glass door of a brg club we saw another of our classmates Myrna Montgomery work1ng as a hat check g1rl Turnrng toward Cleveland we remembered the baseball team of the Cleveland Indrans We watched them play for awlule suddenly real1z1ng that a very good frxend of ours J1m Hockenberry was p1tch1ng for them He had been w1th the team for four years As we looked farther south our vLs1on became blurred by a large cloud of dust As II cleared away we saw Frank Farnese Jamtor of Kenmore H1gh School rn Akron Oluo St1ll farther south we saw Charles Goodwrll Sher1ff of Wash1ngton County br1ng1ng rn Roger Hupp on a charge of speedrng We remembered as we searched on how excellently Donald Gerber had played basketball for our team at Salem Llberty We spotted Don w1th the R10 Grande team an rnexpendable player He had h.1S own per sonal manager Drck Sh11l1ng As we thus observed all of our classmates we notrced a number of servxce stanons that sard B111 and Mary s on the outs1de We wondered rf II was the same Mary Lewrs Franls that had graduated 1n our class when we saw the b1ggest serv1ce stat1on of all We knew rt was the ma1n offtce of B111 and Mary s chatu of servtce statrons And sure enough there at a huge desk sat the same Mary we had known before and after her marr1age to B111 Franks When we looked to the extreme southern part of the Un1ted States we nouced a b1g yellow Cadrllac con vertrble parked along the road Standrng outs1de were Donna Kathary and her husband fwho looked very much l1ke Tab Hunterj argurng about who was go1ng to SII rn the back seat to watch telev1s1on Nearby we saw Sh1rley Orr drum maJorette of Mlaml Un1vers1ty 1n Flortda leadmg the band down Ma1n Street As we passed over the northern part of the Unrted States agarn we paused over w3Sh1DgIOH D C where we saw Delores Brooks as head f1l1ng clerk for the F B I We had become qurte weary from gaz1ng at the earth from such a d1stance As we turned around we saw St Peter beckon1ng to us We left our post for a short whrle return1ng soon to cont1nue our search for other fr1ends on earth. , I I . , W . , . ,, - . I I I I I I . . , . 1 I 1 I , , . - . . , I . . . . , , I I I I ' Q I ' I I I , I I 0 - I I - I I I , I ' I I . . . . H . I , ,, . . . . . ' I . . . . . . ,, . , ,, I I I , I I I 0 I - I I - 0 I I I I I I I I ,