Timmonsville High School - Tihisco Yearbook (Timmonsville, SC)

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George Rollins will invent fountain pens which will automatically write the answer to any impossible examination question, and will become wealthy selling them to Timmonsville students for the history and Latin examinations Miss Dobson and Miss Wright may give them. He will then turn his atten- tion to the study of medicine and become one of our leading physicians.. Now, I see a lovely future for some one. A beautifully dressed lady and a large automobile are standing in front of a magnificent residence. This lady has turned her face toward me, and I see Floy White's happy counte- nance. She has just purchased this residence with the proceeds received from writing for The Literary Digest. Apparently, I see in a brilliantly lighted room ladies, gentlemen, girls and boys in perpetual motion, and in their midst a gentleman in full dress, whom I do not know. After watching him giving instructions to these people a few moments, I recognize him as none other than mv old schoolmate, Henry White, giving dancing lessons, mostly of an athletic type. 1 see cut-glass, silver, and just lots of beautiful gifts everywhere, and in the midst of the pretty room a lovely brunette, dressed in an immaculate white costume. After several years’ experience in sight-seeing and social service work, Mary Alma finally succumbs to a dormant temptation and returns to the old Palmetto State, to become the happy bride of one of our Congressmen. This scene is dim. but I hear sweet sounds, and now I see a large audi- torium filled with people. On the stage, gracefully seated at a beautiful piano, is Paul ane, handsomely attired in a blue and gold costume of Duchess satin, charming the auditorium with selections from Mozart, Paderewski, and many other noted composers. It is difficult to recognize the dignified girl I see, but. judging from her wonderful success in 1'immonsville High School, I think it must he Shelly McKay, who is filling the chair of French in Yassar College, and who is so highly esteemed by the faculty. This scene is a beautiful one. My vision enters a new field. In the french room there are beautifully dressed ladies, waiting for the curtain to rise. The dark curtains part, and I see a lovely creature, with light curls and blue eyes, gowned in a black velvet dress, with diamonds galore, who has attained a high position with Keith s vaudeville. We do not know her until she smiles, and then we see our dear classmate. Ruth Conyers. I now behold a scene which is a fitting one for the close of this mysterious insight into the future. Acres and acres of cultivated fields, green and invit- ing in the early morning sun, surrounding a large colonial home. I look again, and. to my astonishment, I see my carefree friend and classmate, Melvin Purvis, who has inherited an immense fortune, master of the scene of enchant-

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(prop ecj of tfyt tfaes of 1920 are three kinds of prophets—Old Testament prophets, weather prophets, and Class prophets. We laugh when we hear weather prophets, we groan when we hear Old Testament prophets, and when we hear Class prophets we immediately grow drowsy. When I realized that I was to become a prophet of the most annoying kind I followed the mysterious plan of getting into my possession the foot of a rabbit killed on Friday night in a cemetery before the rising of the North Star. On possessing this, I am permitted to look into the future of my dear classmates, and this is what I see. 1 see before me the vision of a court room. The central figure is a lawyer standing at the bar, one hand clenched, demanding a favorable decision from the judge, and, as the lawyer turns, I recognize my classmate, Marion Huggins, who, two years later, became Governor of South Carolina on the National Woman’s ticket. Mamie Ham, you have made a wonderful record in the Timmonsville High, and your future surprises me. You are to give up all thoughts of books and turn to the dramatic world. I behold a crowd gathered around a bill poster, craning their necks for a glimpse of the evenings attractions. The greatest attraction is the one in which you are the star. James White, away down in Florida, I see you in the midst of a magnifi- cent pine growth, with that sweet girl of your 1020 selection walking beside you, both intently watching the success of your recent discovery, grafting an apple into a pine tree to produce pineapples. Alma, you have always sought money, and in the year of 1030 you shall be made Secretary of the Treasury. The Government will profit by your effort, for you have the power to collect and know the value of a dollar, ha ing once gotten it. Your profound knowledge has been gained through your being Treasurer of the Class of 1020. Quite contrary to general opinion, I see a handsomely fitted dental office, in Augusta, Ga., where, through a genius of our Class, painless dentistry has been invented and is being practiced. There he stands in his usual easy dig- nified manner. It will surprise you when I tell you he is none other than our classmate and friend, Laurie Anderson. In Paris I see a good-looking woman attired in a handsome traveling suit of brown, who has the reputation of having remarkable literary ability and a great fondness for travel. At a second glance I recognize our classmate, Dorothy Keith. She promises us a full description of her travels when she returns.

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ment. On one side of the house is a large, open field. I soon discover that this is an aviation field and that Melvin has devoted his entire time to aero- planes. A revelation so wonderful as this I did not feel like keeping forever from the eyes of the world, so I set it forth on the printed page that all may see and know the future career of each distinguished member of the Class of 1920. Evelyn Coker, Class Prophet.