Published by The Dalles High School Students, June edition, pages 57-59 SENIOR DEPARTMENT SALUTATORY Prophecy My dear Jane: Your long expected letter received and of course as you know I was more than glad to hear from you. You ask me to tell you what I know of the old 1919 class and by strange coincidence I just came in touch with them a few weeks ago. Fate has brought their names to me and so, a few more words of each. Some years ago an announcement came to me from Pumpkin Hollow, Oregon of the wedding of Alice Skelly to Jake Eslinger. The bride was charmingly dressed in white charmeuse, etc. You know the lingo they put in those announcements. I have since put Alice out of my mind as doomed to happy domesticity for life. About the same time someone wrote me telling me of the amazing success of one Exie Morgan, and asking me if I had ever heard of him. It seemed he had raised a marvelous pig. One that had three more curls in its tail than any other pig had ever thought of having. As I was thinking over these two old class mates, a strange thing happened, a knock sounded at my door - (not that a knock is at all strange) - and upon opening it I saw a stout, rather good looking man. The face seemed oddly familiar and yet I couldn't place it, there seemed to be something added and then I discovered it was a downy fuzz that inhabited his upper lip. At Last! Why Curly Kohler! After the first shock was over, and Curly had persuaded me to purchase one of his patent Kiddie Koops, guaranteed to hold anything but the Kid, I sat down and heard from him the sad tales of some of my friends. I learned that Thorman Smith had drowned himself because he fell in love with three Miss Smiths at one time and couldn't decide which one he wanted the most. Dorothea Wolfken had changed dreadfully since her school days and had recently accepted a position as fat lady in "Darnem and Faily's Circus". The last thing that Curly had heard of Jim Hill was that he had established a training school for young and good looking Nurses. And our old friend Urban, what of him? Why he has started a Beauty Shop on Broadway for the raising of maidenly blushes. He has been very much of a success along this line, I hear. The thing that scandalized me was the marriage of Helen Cooper to that erratic Bolshivist, Juno Frates, and her adoption of his theory, "Be or Bust". The other day in the paper I cam across a notice that surprised me. I see that Judge Donald Wilkinson is sueing for a divorce from Mrs. Pearl Baker Wilkinson because he made a mistake and married the wrong twin. I also read the Beatrice Powell received a prize for an essay entitled "Military Training in the Home". Eva Fosnot and Bertha Forrest have been granted pensions and a life-long meal ticket at the "Home for Elderly and Decrepit School Ma'ams". Did you hear of the terrible bank robbery we had the other day? Several Million Dollars were stolen. The thug and his accomplice were caught, however, just as they were leaving the city. They were clever. The woman especially had the police baffled for quite some time. They are also criminals of long standing, their careers dating back to their school days. Their real names are Florence Howell and Wilfred Saunders. Are you not shocked? It is a shame we have such characters in our class. Martha's illustrious career gave me a thrill. She has taken up a farm and is supplying the surrounding country with onions. Onions that are noted for their strength and lasting qualities. Ruth McCorkle has more than attained her measure of success. She was in charge of the "Pedagogue Convention" held at Rufus (Oregon) last month, for teachers over forty, who have lost their youthful looks. Frank Becker, do you remember him? He has recently completed a new Ford Model that will ride on the ocean. He has been to Germany where he visited the Kaiserine Helen, our dear Helen Mayer of old 1919 days. Lela Pashek is a veterinary now. Yes she and her husband have gone into partnership. Thompson & Thompson. Famous for their cure of love-sick animals. You know that Bessie Potts went on the stage soon after her graduation. Well the last I heard of her she had been elected to the Harem of the Sultan because of her wonderful execution of the Fan Dangle before his Majesty. She says she is running in opposition to about forty other wives but that she always did like the competition so she is getting along fine. Myrle Baker has established a Home for Lonesome Twins, whose prospective husbands got mixed and married the wrong girl. Helen Jane has entered a Convent because of her intense dislike of masculines and all their institutions. Ivan seems to have found his vocation in life because he is now a professor in a Boston Academy, teaching young and timid men, "How to Make Love in Five Lessons". Alex Shipe has a splendid position with A.M. Williams where he is instructing the infants of the community in cultivating sleek and shining pompadours by use of Herpicide. Now, Jane, I have told you all I know about the class of 1919 and so you see that after all we have been successful and have all of us attained our measure of success in one way or another. Let me hear from you soon. As Always, Billie Submitted by Earline Wasser