HomeMy WebLinkAbout00024 CLASS PROPHECY
Dear Mr. Clements,
Ten years have elapsed since last you taught that memorable class of 1957 , and
changes have occurred as changes will . While thumming through my old photo album
last night, I decided I would drop you aline and tell you how each of those mighty
seniors of '57 have progressed since leaving the 'ole campus of ZHS 10 long years ago.
James Casey Kearse , bought the super x market and invented a machine that
automically sacks groceries .
Mary Frances Gill now leads the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra , but instead of
using a baton, she decided to use a piccolo.
Paul Canaday and Glenn Miller coach high school football in rival schools, they
still get along fine though . Because their wives are such close friends, they don't
dare argue over sports .
Linden Laviano is now playing first trombone in Tony Almerico's Jazz Band .
Jackie Massey is the proud mother of 5 little Washburns who plan to grow up and
become race -track drivers like "pop " .
Virginia Edgeman is head mermaid of Weekiewashie Springs . In her spare time
she teaches her six red -haried daughters how to cook and sew as well as their Mom .
Margaret Keen is head dietition for Pasco County's school lunch program . It
seems she first became interested in this line of work as she rushed madly around
the senior class homeroom collecting money for lunch tickets .
Larry Hill was discovered by a scout from the Detroit Tigers and is now playing
pro baseball .
Charlotte Collins has her hands full with her nine boys, she and Larry have their
own baseball team .
Elaine Collins really got in some good practice when she worked at her father's
auction house . She is now working at Howard's auction house in Clearwater, as head
auctioneer .
Elizabeth Cutshall is teaching English at the University of Florida where she
specializes in the diagraming of sentences.
Barbara Welsch owns the biggest record shop in the world, where the exclusive
product is, of course - - -Elvis Presley records .
Lynn Steve , Freddie Holt, Bob Flannagan, and Lee Cumbie bought the Silver
Dollar Speedway in Lakeland where they race jet propelled stock cars .
Gerald Price has his own Dry Cleaning establishment and fleet of souped up de -
livery trucks .
Murrell Nesbit is a phys. Ed . teacher and coaches an all -star girls basketball team .
Linda Sue Colbern and Audry Oliver liked Glee Club so well they are now teaching
music to rebellious high -school students.
David Bright is now a retired and prosperous young gent. , seems he struck oil one
day while digging a hole for a telephone pole .
Sally Krusan is now happily married to an executive in the Insurance business whom
she met while employed as his private secretary .
Ada Austin and Norma Jean Baker, after attending the All -State Band Clinic in
Tampa , opened a fashionable music school for tone -deaf children.
Jerry Lee Fisher is chief designer in her own crinoline factory . She manufactures
them in all colors, sizes, and thicknesses .
Elmer Hinsz and Raymond Bodiford went back to Canada and now they are prosperous
gentlemen farmers.
Odell Dees is head pharmisest at City Drug, which he bought from Scotty . Peggy
Prowant is chief soda jerk, her specialty being "Chocolate Sundfes" to be served on Sat-
urdays .
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