Wheeler High School - Wheelerite Yearbook (North Stonington, CT)

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Page Six Th' IYHEISI FRITE Class Prophecy It was the 2 1n the date 1972 that suddenly 1ecalled the red letter year of our graduat1on f1om Wheeler School Geltrude still Gertrude Mame and I w ele puttlng our affaxrs 1n order for a trp across the country-our l1,fe long ambx tlon We had stopped ln Nolth Stonln ton s new department store for some la t m1nute shoppmg How long It had been smce we were there' Romance busmess and other dutles had kept us away for many years What changes we found' There was a hauntmg fam1l1ar1ty ln the face of the g11l who walted on us and I asked her her name She sald Bextha Eastland I was named after my aunt My fathel owns th1s store Of cours Bud Eastland s daughter Just then Bad hlmself came up to us handsome well groomed but w1th the same good natured smlle we remembered He lnvlted us to have luncheon w 1th h1m and he told us then what had started hlm 1n the busme s world You remember I was voted the best lookmg of our class Well after that I became lnterested 1n clothes and here I am today Hls Wlfe was a New YoIk g1rl who had seen DOSS1b1Ilt16S IH h1m anl had helped hlm to reallze them It was at Buds suggestlon that y e stopped at the Chamber of Commerce of flee for some tlaxel folders A scholarly lookmg man smlled at us from behmd an 1mpos1ng desk Well Dorls stlll the best dressed woman Ma1r1age hasnt changed you a blt It was Jlmmy P1' mer Success IH busmess had led h1m to th1S fine posltlon An attlactne w ldow er he had a gleam IH hls eye as he watched Gertrude We stopped at the old school w hen J1m m1e told us that Mr and Mrs 'Ham w eu now runnlng lt How appx op1 late that that should haye been the w o1k of ou1 x al edlctorlan and salutatorlan' Both Ralph Junlor and llttle Janet w ere aw ay at co' lege but thelr plctures show ed two hand some young people Our trxp went comfortably unt1l we reached Chlcago There we had motol trouble At the Cadlllac SGYVICE statlon we found that we would be delay ed seI e1al hours so we went slght see1ng Out on the Boulexard we saw a magn1fice1t house undel constluctlon A man wlth bluepunts was dashlng around but y stopped h1m to lnquue who had deslgned the house The man gave a whoop of su1 p11se and sald D01 IS and Gertlude from old Wheelel' Well It was Ward Grly and the house w as one he had deslgned f01 hlmself Hls w 1fe saw us talklng and we dldnt haye to guess hard to 1ecogn17e that charmmg blond In the aftelnoon Ward and h1s Wlfe took us to the great settlement house that we had heard so much about and there we met the woman who had made hu self famous and lox ed for her phllanthrop IC work Phy ll1s Jackson She st1ll used he1 malden nam ln publlc l1fe but we were overjoyed to hear that her old school romance had ended happ1ly ani latel we met anothel old Wheelel alum nus Class of 43 It was on one of the Great Lakes on shlpboard that we ran 1nto B111 Barker Resplendent 1n unlform he greeted us co1 dlally but he was watchlng some gulls that wele flylng oxelhead Rememb 1 my hawks he suddenly asked Only too w ell I 1ecalled the almost mother loxe be laxlshed on those bn ds Callfornla was beautlful We declded to spend a month on one of the large xanches and on 1nqu11y found 1ust the ac commodatlons we wele IO0k1Hg for Tne prop11et1ess a stunnmg tall woman met us and suddenly gatheled us both ln her arms H1 a' we cr1ed Yes I am Hllda but not Wllkmson any mole How much we haxe to talk about' Walt tlll you meet my husband We d1d and we e we surprlsed' That nlght 1n our room Gertrude sald Vtexe seen so many of ou1 old class . I , 4 V ll 79 ' 1 ' ' v A 9 v ' f s 1 - ' Q I . . Q . . . . ' ' , ' ' v v v -V , ,, 7 - . . . 3 M v 'I . . - ' K , LI - u ' - ,, H . , ' i V . . 1 - ol- Y . H ' . . , D I I . 9 1 Q 1' v. I V ' pp I I I , I I I , I c . -' ' c ' 7 v l 4 I . , - no I . c. ' . Y m. x . U .. V A , 1 1 ,, . v A . - . , c v ' 1 . Y . i Y. . ' n 1 u L 1 ' L , 1 , Y . , Y Q . L ' as , L 1 . , I - 4 ' I . ,, 4 . . ' . I Q, ' ' 7 1 . Y - v a 1 7 7. - - Y ' I '- , , . . . 7 . L D A - y. . . Y Y . . , I , I . I , ' ' I ,sr ' e , ' n , ' , , I , I . , I I' , I ' ' I - 7 4 1 x A ' rr - ' , ,, ,, v , I , I I . . . . . . N . . I k I v . . , . , ' X I , . I ' va I' '.. I I - 4 .I v 1 I y 1 L - , f I L n 1 v . -. ' V ' ' 1 ' H a ' A n n C Ax ' V . . . Y , va . . U . Q . , , - , X I . , , i I - - y , . I - B ' , ' 3 L I' I . . . n s I Q s c Y L Uv C I' ' ' ' l L A L p ' ' ' . . ' - I .i . 4 1 'c Q, ' I A' .. 1 V ' 1 v 1 . ' . .' Q s 1 ' , I I , , . , 1 I - 1 ' ' u ' ca 'ld n Y - se . I . . . I . I . I ' 3 , , , ' y ' ' v 4 .' r , L ' . I I n 1 . v Y ' V , . . .C - . , , , ' v r 'I 97 ' v I. . A , w v . Y ' ' ' v v y Q I . , I . . Y V - . . , Y Y . In 7 1 , 7 . -