Volume 7 , Issue 22

Class of `49 Senior Prophecy...

Just for Fun and Looking 10-Years Ahead (1959)... In May of 1949, Bill Barker & Marilyn Hort hopped on their magic carpet and flew ten years into the future to see what the "mighty" senior class of 1949 was doing. You can read that article from page 4, Sec. 2, Alva Review-Courier, 25 May 1949, entitled Class of 1949 Prophecy Is One of New Adventure, Excitement and Lots of Fun.

Here are parts of the `49 Senior Prophecy:

• Their old friends Bill Needham, William Truesdale and D. J. Hankins owned a large chain of restaurants.
• Max Ritter, Donald Peterman, Forrest Nelson, Russel Melton and Herbert Peterman were discussing their net income of their wheat farms.
• Kenneth Reed was the cook in a restaurant.
• Bill Meisner was cashier and head bookkeeper in the same restaurant.
• Dan Treece was a General planning a new offensive with his aides, Colonels Bill Barker and Bill Bircher and Captain John Fox.
• President Joseph Leroy Denner, had just signed a bill making golf othe national pastime. This bill was introduced by Senators Tom Mock and E. J. Paris.
• Bill Robinson was a matinee idol co-starring in another picture with screen starlet, Emma Fullerton.
• Jerry Brown had been nominated for All-American football player for the fourth straight year.
• Gene Myers, Don Johnson, Kare May and Lowell Arndt had set a new record in consecutive home runs.
• Leon Perfect had made 86 points in a basketball game, setting a new world record.
• Loren Perfect was a beauty specialist and had gained world wide recognition for his peroxide technique.
• Neal Hassinger and Lynn Heasly were two world renowned atomic scientists.
• Carol Melton was a famed author, had won her third Pulitzer Prize.
• Dorothy Reynolds and Ann Gill were married to Snyders and herding their brood down the street.
• Harold Butler was explaining the advantage points of the new Chevrolet to prospective buyer.
• Robert Weibner (sic) was an oil millionaire.
• Darrel Arndt was opening a new flour mill
• Raymond Blakely was editor and Wilford Bates was publisher of the Daily Blast. They had hired Wanda Jones as the Lonely Heart Editor. Their star reporter was Kenneth Carter and had covered the Mundy story. Aaron Mundy was the millionaire playboy whom had recently set a new record for speed boats.
• James Ashton was an inventor and had perfected a method of keeping soup stains off of white shirts -- his theory was, that you should wear a sweater.
• Elma Cards, Marjorie Frantz, Harriette Wilson and Jessie Hada had replaced the Andrews sisters as the nations top singers.
• Patti Johnson, Towanda Brickman and Glenda Jackson were collaborating on a new book, entitled "How to Get A man and Keep Him."
• Nilda Sherman and Agnes Dailing were co-authors of the new hit tune, "Don't Hit Me With A Baseball Bat, I'm Loaded Already."

Read through the Class of '49 Prophecy written by Barker & Hort. Then see if any of their predictions of these AHS Goldbug Seniors of `49 ever came about in 1959.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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