White Pigeon High School - Wahbememe Yearbook (White Pigeon, MI)

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CLASS PROPHECY OF 1952 Beginning my prophetic journey I find myself in the city of New York in 1970. I have just started my first extended vacation since taking over the duties of head nurse at Bellevue Hospital here in the city. Naturally needing a new wardrobe I decided to go shopping. I i entered Saks Fifth Avenue store and asked to be shown to the ready-to-wear department. Reclining in a chair as I was watching the mannequins j model the clothes, I suddenly find that one mannequin looks vaguely familiar. Asking to look mors closely at the dress she was modeling I inquired as to her name. To nry surprise I found she was Margaret Gadson, a former classmate of mine. I invited her to lunch with me so we could talk over old times. As we were enjoying our lunch we proceeded to discuss our former classmates. She said she had recently been on Michigan State Campus and had noticed a man carrying a large briefcase and with a familiar walk racing across campus. I inquired whom she had seen and she related it had been Robert Gage. She said he was now a bachelor professor at the college but still enjoyed flirting with the coeds. Talking to him she found that Arthur Lee Clutter and Bob viere co-partners in A Bureau of Correspondence for the Lovelorn. You remember Arthur's problem solving mind back in high school. We continued to reminisce of our former classmates. I asked her if she had heard the new singer, Teddy Martin, on the radio? She replied that she had. Much to her surprise I told her it was really Ted Cholometes, the guy with a voice from our class. It seems he was a nember of the Navy until discovered by Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts and was rapidly becoming another Johnny Ray. Continuing our conversation she told me Virgil McFall had dedided he liked school bettor than he thought and was now Superintendent of Fhite Pigeon High School. She also revealed that Mr. Ilanchett had retired from school to his farm near Coopcrsville and now spent his tine entertaining his grandchildren. Te found that Pat Tavernier was married to a navy officer and with her three children was traveling over the world. Also that Joan Tavernier had married and settled down near the city of Mottville and spent her time commanding the chauffers of her fleet of 20 Buicks. Evelyn Eeach, I found, was giving up her careers as head nurse at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago to marry the chief surgeon of the hospital. We discovered the cream we were using for our coffee was from that most famous dairy of Michigan owned and operated by Enos Foss with the help of his wife and children. Conversing further we found that Charles Rudloff had married and settled down on a farm near Middlebury with his wife and five children Charles has envented a device to grow corn without even planting it in the ground. You remember how am' itious Charles was in high school. She remembered that Don Cast had become another famous Bigger O'Dell in the city of Sturgis and had a booming ‘‘ait not very lively j business.