Windsor High School - Duke Yearbook (Windsor, VA)

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CLASS PROPHECY This morning as I awoke I realized this was a big day in my life. I looked over to see if my roommate, Carolyn Bissett, was awake but Isaw that she was still asleep. I got up and woke Carolyn and then we started to fix our breakfast. As we started cooking we talked of the big day ahead of us. And it really was going to be a big day, for today we were going to be passengers on the first space ship to the moon! We finished putting last minute articles in our bags and then started collecting our papers and magazines to read on the ship. We had bought newspapers from all the big cities in the United States so we could see if any of our high school friends were in the news. I went to the closet and got down our Senior Annual so I wouldn't forget a single person. As we left our apartment I thought about how lucky we were to be going on this trip. Ca- rolyn was especially fortunate to be going as the only nurse on the ship. And I was going to bring back a detailed report in shorthand on how the seats sat to my boss, the President of the Seat Sitters Company. As we arrived at the spaceport I noticed most of the other passengers were already inthe ship, so we hurried to our seat. It wasn't too long before we were out of sight of the earth and we settled back to look at newspapers. As I opened the first one I saw that the famous dancer Roland Turner had just ar- rived in Moscow, Russia to teach the Russians some of his very famous steps. His main purpose in this trip, the article said, was to better American rela- tions with Russia. As I looked down a little further on the page I saw that the famous woman scientist, Edith Gwaltney, had just returned from the Swiss Alps where she had been studying the snowfall. Then I turned over a few pages to the fashion page, where I sawa picture of a beautiful Dior creation. As Ilooked a little closer I suddenly realized the model was none other than our old friend Betty Jean Crocker. I turned to the advertisements then and saw a half page ad advertising the hottest cabs in town . Under that it said, Owner and manager, Ryland Johnson . I turned to Carolyn and told her whatl had already found out and asked her if she had found out anything. She said she had read that the famous multi-billionaire, Gerald Roberts, was now giving away a million dol- lars a week, tax free. Carolyn said the main headlines in the news now was the new law handed down by the Supreme Court forbidding people to smile. At the head of the Supreme Court was the newly appointed Ashburn Cutchin. To- gether we read in another newspaper that Lew Carr had just returned from Alaska where he had been hunting fleas for his flea circus. I looked at my watch and discovered that we had been reading for three hours so I suggested that we go get a drink. As we started walking down the aisle I noticed two familiar looking faces. I stopped to get a closer look and it was Carol Anne Wilson and Toni Young. Carolyn and I tooka seat next to them and asked what they were doing here. It seems they were going to teach the moon children English. Carol Anne asked us if we had seen Elliott Laine. She said he was on the ship and was going to the moon to hunt for uranium. 20

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CLASS PROPHECY The four of us again started in search of a cool drink. It was Toni who first noticed that it was Katherine Wells who was serving. As we talked to her Caro- lyn asked if she could tell us where any of our classmates were now. She said she had heard from a few of them lately. Carolyn English she reported was teaching math in Siberia. Linda Rimel had left Virginia and had gone back to Tennessee for some good ole mountain dew . Mary Joyce Wood was teaching shorthand in California and the great baseball player, Johnny Keifer, has recent- ly been chosen to baseball's Hall of Fame. Also Bobby Whitehead was leading all the troops of the Boy Scouts of America across India on a field trip. She also mentioned that J. C. Arrington and Willie Lee Wells had formed a society for the prevention of cruelty to farmers. We started back to our seat and bumped into Elliott Laine before we got there. So naturally we all stopped to sit down and talk. We told him what we knew about our old friends and asked him if he could help us with the others. He said he had seen Joyce Outland a few days ago and she told him she had just had her first book published and it was entitled HOW TO TYPE IN 5000 EASY LESSONS. He also said that he had read in the paper that John Henry Byrum and Freddy Hall were in Congress now. They were both trying to set a new record in filibustering. He had also heard that Nelda Sue Garris was the first woman to join the Harlem Globe Trotters and that John Staley Copeland was now their manager. He said as he was reading the comics the other day, he had noticed there was a new strip created by Herbert Taylor. John Thomas Carr had just broken the world's record for dribbling a basketball the longest. He said he read in a newpaper that Buck Jones, the clown, had just joined the world's largest circus. As I picked up my old annual, I realized there were two boys that no one had mentioned, Russell Powell and J. L. Rose. I asked the others if they had heard anything about them. But everyone just looked blank. It seems no one has heard a word from them for almost two years. Suddenly a blaring voice came over the lous speaker announcing that we had reached the moonpand were getting ready to land. Soon I felt a light bump and knew we had raachedour destination. As I gathered up my things and stepped out into the air I noticed four objects racing toward the ship. I called the others and we stood back to watch. As they came closer it seemed to be two men and two animals of some kind. All at the same time we realized that J. L.and Rus- sell had chased two steers all the way to the moon! by Barbara Palmer 21