Blue Ridge High School (CUSD 18) Class of 2001 Senior Prophecies
Since I never went to the senior prom for my graduating class, I
never got to hear the entire set of senior prophecies. I was vaguely
aware that I was in them somewhere, as someone told me that I'd been
portrayed as updating the cash registers at the local grocery store
with "new and improved computer technology". (Well, they weren't too
far off. I did work there for a while and I even set up a laser printer there once.)
I figured that this had been lost to the sands of time long ago--after
all, who would care to save a copy about eight years on? Who (other
than myself) would still be using the same computer? (This document was
written toward the end of 2009.) Turns out I pulled over one day to
pick up a computer balanced on the edge of a dumpster. The power supply
proved to be bad, but the computer itself and its hard drive were fine.
And to my complete amazement, the complete set of Senior Prophecies was
on this computer.
They are presented below in unedited form for your viewing enjoyment. I
have nothing to say here, because I'm too busy being amazed. Seriously,
what were the odds?
Some of these turned out to be pretty close to the mark. Others didn't.
And still more of them name people that I haven't heard from or about
since the graduation.
If you graduated from the Blue Ridge High School Class of 2001 and happen to find this, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks.
SENIOR PROPHECIES
2011 and still living in Farmer City. With
nothing else to do, the bank parking lot was about the only
option. While we were reminiscing about the past,
ironically, Craig Hethke came along in his Red Chevy Nova. Being
the friendly person that he is, Craig stopped by to say "hi". He
told us that he had just talked to Seth King and that he was supposed
to help round everyone up for the class reunion of 2001, which would be
taking place in a couple of weeks. To make our Friday night
a little more exciting, we decided to help Craig find the class
of 2001, by taking a road trip around the US Before we began our
excursion, we went to see what was going on at the oh so exciting
races. As the winning driver stepped out of his car to claim his
$1,000 prize, we exclaimed in unison, "Oh my goodness, its Craig
Noble!" Amongst the pit crew that came out to congratulate him
was Chuck Riblet. We went and flagged them down to tell them to
hop in the Nova and to join us on our quest to Chicago. "That's
perfect, since I was heading there anyway to coach first base for the
Cubs game tomorrow," said Craig.
We got to the game just in time to hear Brent
Salyards leading the crowd in "Take Me Out to the Ball
game". He was a great imitator of Harry Carry. While
we were in line waiting to buy peanuts, we glanced at the T.V to find
it was Seth King announcing the game on ESPN. As we returned to
our seats, we spotted someone we knew out in center field. "It's
a bird, it's a plane, NO, it's Curt Burton!" As Curt was trying
to figure out who was shouting his name, he got pegged in the head with
the baseball. Before we knew it, here came Laura Hocker running
out onto the field with her sports medicine degree. Not too far
behind her was Bethany Lee in the ambulance. They checked Curt
out and Bethany said he would have to miss the rest of this game.
This worked out great for us since we needed to take them with us to
find everyone else. We were getting a little crowded in the Nova
so Brent offered to take the "Corse". We were off to New York
with a new car load of people.
On our way we saw a bus broken down on the side of
the road. Come to find out, Dut Basham was driving the N*SYNC
tour bus with Kati Anderson as a roadie and Jessi Sheild as the fashion
designer. All they needed was to recharge their battery, so we
got out the jumper cables. To get a little extra cash, we sold
Craig and Brent's cars and all hopped on the bus. We finally
arrived in New York City. We had some down time, so we decided to
catch a Broadway show. Much to our surprise, out came Gibby Kirby
and Luke Thomas. We finished watching the show and then told them
to come with us to find the rest of the crew. We were headed to
Vermont when out of nowhere we see someone walking along the
road. We usually don't pick up hitchhikers, but we decided to go
with our instinct on this one. It turned out to be beneficial for
us because the man was Nick Bateman. When we got to Vermont we
found the location of the school in which Michelle Holstein and her
sidekick Amanda Harman were teaching Preschool. On our way out we
stopped by the ag shop, only to find Jessica Bottles trying not to get
her beautiful hair caught in the conveyer belt on a machine.
Next, we were going to Maine to have a look, when out of nowhere
some crazy driver eating KFC chicken ran into us. Oh my, I think
that's Andrew Smith! Here comes another ticket! I guess
we'll have to go to the collision repair shop. When we got there
it was our good friends Travis Shoudel and Mark Vanderwarf
working. I bet they will give us a good deal.
While in Maine, we stumbled upon two familiar faces at a coffee
shop. The voice reading the poem sounded familiar. Who
would have known, it was Katie Mecum and close by was her publicist
Ashley Rudisill. We are now on our way with five new passengers
and are headed to Georgia. We decided our tunes and upholstery
weren't hip enough. We heard Josh Moody and Blake Young are in
the stereo equipment business and maybe before we get them on board
they will "modernize" our bus for a better ride. After they fixed
us up we were headed to Florida. As we arrived in Ft. Lauderdale,
we planned for a fun afternoon at the golf course. We went to buy
some snacks when out of nowhere came Adam Hawkins. He said that
he had been running his own golf resort for about a year now and that
Jessica Hoffman had just got done winning the LPGA tour. He also
told us that Brant Hendricks was out playing a round of nine and that
he would be in shortly. So we waited for him and then were off to
find the remaining classmates.
On our way to Tennessee we stopped by the mall to pick up some
things. When we ran into Bobbi Davis. After our trip to the
mall we decided to catch some WWF action. In the ring, we spotted
Bryce Walters. Apparently he had become a famous wrestler.
As the match started and the referees were being announced we heard
them say that Jason Maxwell was refereeing Beavis's match. When
the match was over we loaded up the bus and hit the road heading to
California. On the way we saw signs for a circus a few miles down
the road. While we were there, we happened to notice that the
lion tamers looked familiar. We finally realized it was Sheena X [ed. actual surname of Burton],
Caroline Fernald, and Molly Hart with their whips they made in art
years ago. They were extremely extremely excited about going on
our adventure. Everyone was exhausted, so we decided to stop at a
little motel that was by the side of the road. The first person
we saw was Nilay Patel who was carrying on the family business of
owning his own motel.
We turned on the news only to find Jacob Foulks and Matt Plunk were
labeled as the next Bill Gates on CNN Live. We called them up and
they told us they'd meet us in California with their private jets which
were designed by aeronautical engineer Pete Walsh. We stayed the
night there, and the next day Nilay joined us on our trip.
Still on our way toward California we saw a river, so we decided
to go fishing. On the path to the river, we noticed a van.
As we looked in it we discovered it was Mandy Cupp, Kenna Dunlap, and
Briana Harvey. Since high school, they had been living in a van
down by the river. Kenna was still "the hottest thing to ever hit
this town." There was something whimpering in the grass next to
the van. Come to find out it was an injured rabbit. We took
it to the nearest vet. Strange, but true it was Ashley
Baxter. She nursed the rabbit back to health and we were on the
road again.
We heard that due to Eric Zimmerman's outstanding school spirit he had
become a cheerleader at Texas A&M. We told him we were on our
way to Vegas. He said that worked for him, since he had to check
on his casino, the 4th dimension. While we were in
Vegas, we ran into Audra May. She had become a Las Vegas wedding
planner and had just finished planning a big wedding. It was time
to hit the road again. We had to go through a construction zone
and saw Joe Bingham and Graham Franklin working on the highway.
They told us Rusty Woliung was right down the road surveying, so we
told them to get on the bus and we went to pick up Rusty. As we
finally approached the California border, we decided it was time for a
little rest and relaxation. We headed to the beach where they
were filming Baywatch. We went to see what was going on and saw
Jeremy Lindstrom who had become the next David Hasslehoff from
Baywatch. Krisha Otto was in charge of suntan lotion
application. After the beach, we needed to freshen up so we went
to the nearest salon which happened to be owned by Jamie Baker and
April Partlow. They informed us that Janae Harper was going to be
modeling in a fashion show and that Kim Whalen was going to be there
drawing portraits for her Art Gallery.
We were listening to the radio on our bus and heard they were giving
away WNBA tickets for the tenth caller. We all got out our cell
phones and started dialing. We ended up winning the
tickets! We went to the game that night and what do you know,
Shawna Kidd had become the star player for the LA Sparks! We
started a cheering section and began chanting "guns don't kill, Shawna
kills" just like old times. After the game, it was back on the
bus. We heard about a successful accounting firm in Hawaii, owned
and operated by Brenda Ruch, with Erin McKinley and Dion Lathrom as her
accountants. We called them up and told them to meet us back in
Farmer City because we were getting ready to head back to Illinois
hoping to find the remaining eight classmates. On the bus
we were watching TV and what we thought was Judge Judy had turned into
Judge Brianna, starring Brianna Roe. In the current case Ryan
Peyton and Jenny Rawlings were doing some serious FBI detective
work. So we called up the TV station and had them join us.
On our way out of California we saw a beautiful mansion and had to stop
and take a picture. Coincidentally, out came Betsy Power.
Apparently she had won the lottery and was a millionaire. She was
still good friends with Karla Strum, who was an actress in Hollywood,
so she gave her a call and we went and picked her up. We had
finally made it back to Farmer City with only one day to go until the
reunion. We had to get some food to take with us, so we stopped
by the IGA. Down came Nathan Boyles from his apartment above the
IGA. After we checked out, Ben Blacker bagged our groceries in
record time. We saw William Walsh at the IGA updating the cash
registers with his new and improved computer technology. We
finally had the whole gang back together so it was off to the
reunion. A good time was had by all and the Class of 2001 was
happy to be back together again.
...I look forward to my ten year class reunion, and hopefully this has
come online in time that some of my classmates will have seen it. I wonder how many will be there?
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