101 years ago this year, this was the Miami, Texas Senior Class Prophecy written by Nina Severtson. Read it. It's interesting and a piece of history.
Retyped by Steven Charles Whipple
Grandson of Vera Mae Lee. (Graduate of 1915).
Miami, Texas High School
Senior Class of
1915 Prophesy
Written by Nina Severtson
Retyped by Steven
Charles Whipple
Grandson of Vera
Mae Lee
Bill Tolbert will
be a lawyer
At first a common
ordinary one
But with this he
will not be satisfied
For he’s bound to
be on the run.
He will climb to
higher heights
And at last with
pride we can relate
To his friends far
and wide
Bill Tolbert is
Attorney General of our State.
Walter Coffee an
enthusiastic young man
Will strive hard
to do his work
He will become
great like he desires
For he’ll never be
known to shirk.
From our State as
Senator he will go
And there he’ll
accomplish great things
Then there a
maiden will steal his heart
And waft it away
as on wings.
Thence as the
story ever goes
Life will be
sweetest of all
And as everyone
knows
Walter will be
true to his call.
Joe Tolbert will
be a banker
And of gold he’ll
have all he’ll want
For I am here to
tell you my friends
Gold is not what
Joe Tolbert will burn.
He will own a
little cottage
Just big enough
for two
And with the maid
whom he will love
He will be happy
his life through.
Lee Newman will be
a preacher
He will be known
in this country of light
As Mr. Newman the
gentleman
Whoever stands for
the right
He during his
ministry
Will write many a
book
He will be read
mostly by folks
Who upward and
onward ever look.
Clyde Mead will be
well known as a violinist
But most of his
time will be spent
As a searcher for
great truths in the sciences
And his fame will
go out as if sent.
He will charm a
sweet little maiden
While playing some
beautiful strain
And together
they’ll work through life’s journey
Their love for
each other will near wain.
Dave Lard will a
wealthy ranchman be
He’ll own cattle
by the herd
And for years he
will be free
To boss he’ll give
the word.
But as the years
roll by he will do
As many men have
done
He’ll fall in love
with a maid
And together
they’ll be one.
Lella Allen will
be a musician
Over the keys her
hands will fly
You will almost be
charmed
As you see her and
wonder how and why.
But she will not always
charm many
And some day only
one ranchman strong
Will be her whole
ambition
To gently help
along.
Lucile Ewing will
go with a Lyceum
In I dare say four
or five years
But this will not
always suit her
‘till the voice of
the right man she hears.
Her home will be
beautiful and happy
In it she will be
the head boss
And the right man
for her will be one
Who will not want
or dare her to cross.
Lauren Nelson will
be a house keeper
For a man she will
love truly well
And she will with
him be happy
Her place for the
world she’d not sell.
The two will
always and ever be
Faithful, loving
and true
They will live in
a cottage by the sea
And this’ll be
perfect bliss for Lu.
Vera Lee will be a
domestic science teacher
Her work she will
love truly well
She’ll think in
another she could not be so happy
But we can
something about this tell.
A man will come
who’ll be handsome and frank
We will a true
girl like her love
He’ll tell her how
happy she could make him
And she will
promise to be his dove.
Her man will be a
real lawyer
And she’ll be
happy just to help him
For she’ll to true
hearted be
And cater to her
own whim.
Blanch Matthews
will be a singer
And in great
places she will sing
She’ll sing such
beautiful Melodies
That calls from
all the world to her wring.
She will go to the
city of London
And there sing the
most wonderful songs
She’ll sing in the
great cities of America
And hearing people
stop and consider their wrongs
But she will do
what most girls do
She will be
pleased to sing to one man
For with a doctor
she will fall in love
And sing his
praises over all the land.
Pearl Christopher
will be a true hearted woman
She will marry at
the age of twenty-two
She will marry a
great hearted man
And she’ll help
him all the way through.
They’ll set up a
home for orphans
And in they both
will live
In this will be
their chief joy
And to this all
their means they’ll give.
Nina Severtson
will finish school
And then will
faraway go
She’ll study to be
a missionary
For she’ll think
her call is so.
After prepared
she’ll go to China
And really happy
she will be
For she’ll think
not another, but Nina
Could do her work
you see.
She’ll spend the
rest of her life in China
And her love for
this work will never fade
She’ll be a rather
homely old lady
And she’ll be our
class’s only old maid.
Vera Mae Lee and Nina
Severtson.
Any errors are mine and I take responsibility for them.
On the cover page is an image of my grandmother Vera Mae Lee Morehead’s senior
picture, taken presumably in 1915.
I apologize for not having this article before now
published so it might be a 100th year anniversary effort. But I’m
looking at the clock now on this day of December 31, 2015 and it reads 8:50 pm
which allows me three + hours to post it somewhere.
Facebook in our Morehead Family site will probably be
first post. But it is dedicated to the residents of Roberts County and
certainly for my first cousin Ruth Ann Morehead Adkins who taught school in
Miami for many years.
Steven C. Whipple
December 31, 2015
Canadian, Texas