Unionville High School, The Graphic, 1944, Page 13

Description:	PROPHECYAs we are walking down 42nd street in Savannah, Georgia one warm day inJuly, 1955, we suddenly notice before us a large sign. What does it say? “Fern’sBeauty Salon.” It sounds familiar. Yes, I remember now. There used to bea girl back in Unionville named Fern Kuhnes who graduated with my class of’44. Wonder where she is now? Oh, well. As we walk down the street, we seea beautiful black haired lady going into the salon. She looks very familiar andcoming closer we see it is none other than Mary Boshears, an old classmate of ours.Mary, recognizing us, gracefully walks up to us, and we learn that she is nowmarried to Dale Young, another classmate. She reports that Dale has his lawoffice in Cincinnati, Ohio, that they are living in the suburbs of the city, andthat they find life everything it is “cracked up to be.”As we enter the salon we see a customer talking to a well-groomed, younglady who indeed is the same Fern from our hometown. She says she is happilymarried to Eugene Timberman, a former sailor lad, and we then recall those airmail letters she used to write in study halls. . Eugene is superintendent of theshipyards in Savannah and Fern is following her long-thought-of career.Mary says she is taking a vacation through the southern states while Daleis west on a business trip, and since I am also vacationing we journey on together.As we are touring through North Carolina, we stop at a filling station for gasolineand notice a sign reading, “Hash’s Repairs and Service Station.”—Could it be theGlen of yesterday? We’ll soon find out. Sure enough the door opens and atall man in a grimy, greasy attire walks slowly to the car. Yes, it is Glen. Glenreports that he likes the South just fine, is married to a southern lass, and theproud father of two sons.We are talking school days over with Glen and all about the good old timesback in “44” when one of Glen’s boys runs up with a letter in his hand. Glenimmediately says it is from Ralph Wampler who also graduated with us. Ralphis in Kansas City, Missouri, and a manager of a large department store. Ralph iscoming South in the summer and is bringing his wife and their daughter.It is getting rather late so Mary and I journey onward and decide to spend thenight in Asheville, North Carolina. The next morning we start on our journeyhomeward. Coming through Kentucky, we stop at a large cafeteria in Louisvillefor dinner. As we enter the bright, gay-colored restaurant we see a small, well-dressed lady whom we recognize instantly as another classmate, Doris Headley.Doris tells us that she loves her restaurant and is making plans for enlargingit soon. She has never married, but she tells us there is plenty of time. Sheadds that she hears from Mary Fern quite often and that the former Barbara Chestnut,who is now manager of the F. W. Woolworth & Co., in Indianapolis, is marriedto a business man and very happy with her career and her husband. Barbara alsois the mother of small twin girls. We make a note to stop in Indianapolis andsee her when we reach Indiana.Nov/ we enter the Hoosier state and just on the outskirts of Evansville, as weare enjoying the beautiful homes, we notice a big white barn with “EugeneRichardson” written across it. We wonder if it could be Gene of “44”. We driveup a well-kept lane to the neat cottage, and as we get out of the car, we seea lady coming to meet us. Well, if it isn’t Alice Richardson and her tiny daughter.So Alice and Gene made it after all. Alice invites us in and we talk over thedays of “44”. She tells us that she hears quite frequently from Phyllis Mitchellwho is now married to John Russ. They live in New Albany, where John is in thelumber business.We leave Alice and journey northward. As we come through Bloomingtonwe meet Jim Skirvin who reports that he is now baseball coach of Indiana University. Jim says that he not only likes baseball as well as ever, but also an I. U.student to whom he will be married soon.After a friendly chat with Jim, we go to Columbus. When we stop for a“snack”, we meet none other than Jeanne Frye who tells us she is now a secretaryfor Noblett Sparks in Columbus. Jeanne is still single, but is very happy inher chosen career.As we come through Needmore, we see a truck with Elmo Young’s name onthe door. Yes, it must be the Elmo with whom we went to school. We stop toinquire, and the one stepping from the truck is none other than curly-haired Elmo.He tells us that he lives around the corner. We drop in to see his home and findBertha Chitwood tending the five kids, who are curly-haired youngsters like theirPa. Elmo is owner of a truck line and busy at the quarry in Unionville.Bertha tells us that Irene Hacker is married to “Peck” Young. After shetells us how to reach the Young’s residence, we leave her and Elmo and theirlarge family. We find Irene and Peck living on a large farm and the proudparents of a small son and a daughter. After talking to Irene for a while, wego on our way to our own homes. Finding the class of “44” very much scattered,but contented, we are satisfied that they have all done well in the world.
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