Union High School - Acorn Yearbook (Vale, NC)

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611155 Prophccy One day in Mr. Yoder's second period Sociology Class, while I wasn't think- ing about the sociology lessong don't get me wrong, sociology isn't a bore, but I think a lot of it deals with common sense and from your question until it's your turn again,you can kinda catch a nap or daydream likel was doing then. ldream- ed about my classmates and me twenty-five years from the time we had received our diplomas and graduation was all over. As it started off,I was on a bigTransatlantic Plane just arriving at La Guar- dia Field in New York. I had been looking at a magazine, Life, I believe, and as I turned back to the cover, who should be staring back from the cover at me, but the picture of Union's own Peggy Jonas,who had won for herself the title,Teach- er of the Year. About this time the plane had la nded and as I got offl noticed two rather familiar faces. On inquiring of the airline hostess, who incidentally happened to be Shelby Ca rswell,I found out they were Bill Scronce and Ralph Gil- 45 bert, who were pilot and co-pilot. I went by the c oc kpit and spoke to them and i asked how everything was and how life had been treating them. From their con- , versation I learned that they had served a hitch in the Air Force Cadets and after A ' 1 a very honorable record, they had been offered their present positions. Also, l , 5, learned that Ted Sain wa s a Jet Test Pilot. About that time, I was nudged on the X. arm by someone who said that I had New York to explore and that this was just I the airport. It seems that I was on some sort of tour. I then, went to the hotel, where I stayed and who should I find as owner and manager, but Guy Beam and Ted I-larkey. They were doing right well, too, be- cause I was supposed to be staying at one of the best hotels, or so I was inform- ed. That night as I was getting re ady to go to the opera, I turned on the radio and who should be spinning the platters,but Dean Stroup with HowardAuton as chief engineer. I was especially anxious to go to the ope ra for, Johnnie Ann Seagle, an old classmate was the star. As it turned out, I was doubly pleased about going to the opera because there I saw to my surprise Shirley and Max Jenkins who had left their children at home in Lincolnton long enough to take a second honeymoon. Jean Wai-lick, who was a secretary at the United Nations and Shirley Sain, who was assistant to the Gov- ernor of New York, were also there and afte r getting reacquainted with them, I learned that Lottie Scronce was teaching in a college in North Carolina and that Margaret Ledford was a missionary in China. These were the only two they knew about. Over coffee, in my hotel lobby, we planned to see about having a class reunion. A part of my tour included a trip to the top ofthe Empire State Building and there I found Hazel- ine Houser, who was working as secretary in an office for some big attorney. I talked with her and she told me Sadie Helms, Emma Laura Carpenter, Doris D uc kwo rth and Av Neail Carpenterwere running a big dress shop in St. Louis and were making big names for them Selve s in the clothing world. Clifton Scronce I also encountered there. He was leaving his law office to attend court,as he was in r a th e r a big hurry, I talked to him only long enough to find out that Barbara Jean Sain, who had taught business in school for awhile,was his secretary, and Lester Canipe and Bob Scronce, his callegues. My tour of New York by this time was almost c om pleted, b ut before returning home I felt I should get my friends a little gift. On entering an elaborate gift shop off Broadway, I found Shirley Faye Smith, Louise Johnson, and Rosie Tessner as its proprietors. It seem s that besides knowing thelperfectgift for everyone they also knew the low-down on everybody because they had just return- ed from their vacations which they had spent back home in Lincolnton. It seems that Max Conner and David Sain were running a welding shop and farming, as well as raising dogs in the N. C. moun- tains. J.B.Gilbert seemed to be making a go of dairy farming. Dot Abernethy was secretary to her husband as was Doris B. Reynolds, besides being successful housewives. By this time I g ue s s you're wondering just what l'm doing in New York. Well, it seems that I had won some sort of contest, no, I don't think this one was won on the most intelligent answer, but perhaps from the best experience. The rules were to fill out an Octagon SoapJingle that went some- thing like this-- Octagon Soap helps me in my work, Because, when scrubbing floors, It helps get out the dirt. Yes, I'd gone to a big city,Baltimore,in fact, and got a job in one of the largest buildings there, but doing what? Scrubbing floors as the janitoress. Asl remember,at about this time in my dreaming,Mr.Yoder called on me for the next question, which had s om ethin g to do with Foreign Relations and boy, did I have to do some fast guessing on that one! Prophetess Eleanor Whitener