Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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Class Prophecy of 1909. NORMAN WILEY. Lsnnzs Asn GENTLEMEN oF Elms:- The great pleasure of speaking to you on this occasion is one that I shall always cherish and remember. This pleasure is two fold : first, I am glad to be again with my friends and former classmates, and to feel once more that mutual good-will and brotherhood which I have missed so much in the many years that have passed since we were pupils of the Waltham High School g secondly, I feel that it is a great honor to have the privilege of appearing before a gathering of people who are morally, intellectually, and physically the superiors of any on this earth, a people who will occupy, in the minds and histories of unnumbered generations to come a place side hy side with the children of Israel and the Pilgrim Fathersg a people, who, in the short space of ten years have established a government and social order that is a model for, and the envy of, the whole world. I have been requested to review to-night the history of this republic, and was chosen to write this account, not because of any deserving ability on my part, but because, being a foreigner, it was thought that I should feel freer to present the facts of this history as they are. This I have endeavored to do to the best of my ability, without either elaborating or withhold- ing anything of the slightest interest or importance. But to my task. 1Vithin the memory of all of us, or, to be more nearly exact, less than twelve years ago, the whereabouts of the Garden of Eden was one of the great mysteries of the world. The second chapter of Genesis states that four rivers, the Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Euphrates, flowed from the Garden. That, of course, located it in Armenia, somewhere near Mount Ararat, but, as no one had been able to find it, the general belief was that it no longer existed. Q In 1915, this fabled beauty spot was discovered by Warren Glancy. Several years before, Glancy came to the conclusion that women were useful articles, and decided to have some. Accordingly, he became a Mormon, and in less than two years had twenty wives. He found, to his grief, that women were more than articles, deserted his wives to become a Mormon missionary, and was sent to Armenia, where women were plentiful. It was while he was flee- ing from some bandits, whose wives he had tried to convert, that he stumbled upon the Garden of Eden. He immediately realized the great possibilities of the place, and his fertile brain quickly evolved a brilliant scheme. Throwing up his job as missionary and getting divorces from his twenty wives, tfor he could always get anything he wantedl, he came back to Mass- achusetts and set to work on the details of his scheme. ' A reunion of the class of '09 was to be held on New Year's Eve, 1915, and it was here that he decided to launch the undertaking. That reunion was one of the most important events in the annals of history. Fortunately, the entire class was there, with the exception of myself, and, of course, I wasn't wanted anyway. Even Tad H Bartlett and Charlie King were pre- sent, trying to sell their goods, Bartlett's famous two cylinder T. D., and Konig's,' luxurious ti

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