Windsor High School - Pow Wow Yearbook (Windsor, IL)

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1948 = POW-WOW----1948 CLASS PROPHECY As the crystal ball turns again what should behold our eyes but the inside of a gymnasium filled with people. I wonder what this could have to do with our classmates. It is now viewing the bench with the basketball players on it. The boss or coach is Lee Slater. We always thought that he was a smooth player back in high school but never thought that he would turn out to be coach. The crystal ball is moving so it will show some of the faces of the crowd. I wonder what that has to do with Lee. Oh! there is Elizabeth (Kays) Slater. She has a little boy with her and I don’t know just by looking whether that is another little nephew or not. We will let you figure that out for yourself. At any rate she is still the faithful team follower. The next figure is Helen McQueen. When she was back in high school she always liked a lot of excitement and adventure. By the looks of that uniform she has given up nurses training and became a W. A. C. Recruiting Officer. Helen has a lot of extensive traveling in her future. I wonder when Johnnie D. dropped out of her sight? I don’t know but I guess that is some more personal affairs. Jeanette Morford is the next to be shown in the crystal ball. She is walking across a large carpeted floor. I see women all wrapped and dropped in furs, watch every move that she makes. I see it all now she has turned out to be a model. Who would have thought it? She seems to know what she is doing showing all the latest fashions. She looks very happy so I’ll bet Jack Beaumont isn’t too far away. No there he comes into the crystal ball now, he was home running a nursery. He seems to know his business. The next to come into view is a tall, dark, and handsome man. I can't recall any other classmates that looks like that unless it could be Gene Noffke. He is going into a garage with the name over the door NOFFKE AUTO REPAIRS I guess he has a business all his own now. Now the view shows the inside of the building and there are all kinds of cars setting around. It looks as if Gene has a very progressive business here. As the crystal ball stops turning this time in marches Davadia Peadro. She must be out in California for it looks nice and sunny out on that beach. She climbed into the Life Guards chair, so she must have turned out to be the life saver, rather than to be a music teacher. There is Bill Fought slaving away in an orange grove. I guess that diamond really meant business, that she got for Christmas in her Senior year. Next is Kenneth Quigley at a big switch board. By his actions he is certainly busy getting all of those calls through and also telling the other workers what to do. He specialize in making appointments for other people. He always liked this kind of work back in high school, but no one expected him to operate one all by himself. I now see a preacher doing his best until his voice wears out. He stops and takes a drink—of water. I can’t imagine who that big husky fellow is. I believe that must be Harold Smith but I wonder where in the world he picked up all of that fat. It was also a great surprise to me to find him preaching. He always knew the words back at high school, but the trouble then was he used them backwards. By his grave face though he must have turned out to be a great speaker of the truth. As the crystal turns again it stops at the imagine of Sara Jane Warren. She is boarding an airplane. I wonder if she is traveling or going somewhere. By the looks it is neither one, because she has on an air hostesses outfit. I guess this was why Sara Jane was always on a diet and always saying she was going to be an old maid. She is really busy giving all of those people service, but it was the kind of business she always dreamed of. Next we see a large white castle appearing but as it gets closer it has the words Hyland Funeral Parlor. Just then out walks someone that must be me. On the inside of the parlor I see all kinds of mounted animals. I guess that we are going to run a funeral service for peoples, pet dogs, cats, canaries, and other things. I never quite expected this, I believe that gypsy must be playing tricks on me. There is a loud clap of thunder and the sky lights up like a search light. This means the mystic spell is all over. If any of your fortunes are disappointments to you, don't blame me for I saw this all in the crystal ball that my friend the gypsy is holding. I guess this means now that I’ll take my leave. Lots of Luck.