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Phyllis Geiger is happily married to Chief of Staff Locke and has come through her ten years of basic
training with flying colors. In the past two years the colors have really been flying because the army adopt-
ed chartreuse and purple delta jet jeeps and Phyllis always was a hot rodder with the Slush—O-Matic feed
truck.
Bill Johnson and Louis Loysch have combined forces for the hottest jive band in the world, Louie uses
a combination slide guitar and string trombone with the built in harmonica and Johnson handles the hula
dance part of the show. The boys are in great demand all over the world.
Tom Bright really made history. For fifty years people have been trying to find a way to get to the
moon, but Tom says, that's the old fashioned way. Not very long ago, he turned off his half-pint model
airplanes loose with an anchor on the back. He forgot to set the engine timer and it kept right on going,
snared the moon, and hauled it back to Tom when the gas ran out,
Gerald Jackson has invented skinless, seedless juiceless, treeless, useless oranges to sell to the people
who don't like citrus fruit, He says a whole new field of business has opened up and is getting snowed un-
der with demand for the fancy delicacies,
Jake Sapp, the old "Richland Ridge Runner, " is coaching football at the South Pole, He has a fine
team of Penguins who stands a good chance of becoming the World's Champion Penguins Football Players.
mainly because they're the only ones.
Our of Gawja boy, Bill Turner, is prospering (Georgia Style, $5.00 a year), on his 1/2 acre of peanuts
on cotton up yonder way in Blakely. He says that he uses slow-growin' peanuts. He has been taking a
siesta since he planted them right after graduation and they will be ready to harvest sometime this year if
Bill isn't too tired to do it.
George Neukom, virtuoso of the gold plated ivories, has come up with a pocket size piano that can be
used to entertain yourself while waiting in a dentist's office to have your own ivories gold plated. He says
this arrangement has sold one piano so far, and this was to a dentist.
H. C. Nesbit is the general manager of the General Managers General Assembly which generally man-
ages to keep all general management in a general muddle,
Helen Wells, the big brain, is currently occupied as Chief Tester of Electronic brains and Mechanical
Minds. She keeps these machines on their toe bolts by asking such intelligent questions as "where does your
fist go when you open your hand?" and "How high is up?" This last bright bit caused one of Cornell Uni-
versity's brains to blow its chrome plated li'l of top.
Loyd Davis, the Big Time Operator, is still in the big time. He is currently occupied at the crank of
Big Ben, but he says he always seems to have time on his hands,
Harold Hinsz who goes by the alias of "Arch" (because he is in constant need of support) is a genuine
(guaranteed) genius (Pat. Pend.) He has now invented a disease to go with some cures that his rival genius
Floyd Cherry came up with. The cures weren't good for anything except Cherry's ego, and he says he left
that in his other pants.
All in all, our little platoon has been very successful in the past ten years. Another ten years and I
probably wouldn't be able to tell who's who.
Yours truly,
Keith Witham
P.S. In case you're wondering how I happen to know your whereabouts, I am the occupant of the
third cell to your right, just down the hall, I couldn't take the class of 1954 either.