The Indigo Daily
Professor Presumed Dead
It's now official. Professor Thomas Foresman, English Prof at Indigo Community college is missing. His disappearance was first noted last week when he did not show up for work. It was his first absent day in his ten-year-long career as a professor. Students were alarmed and repeatedly called his home. It was supposed that he may have been called away on a family emergency, but when three days went by without word from him, friends were highly concerned.
Eloise Jackson, longtime neighbor and friend of Foresman says, " Tom's a real thoughtful feller. Don't think he's ever missed a day of work. If he'd a gone away on purpose, he woulda called to let somebody know." When asked what she thought may have happened to him Jackson answered, "I sure couldn't tell. I hope he comes home all right though. I'd hate to lose a good pal like Tom."
Dr. Stewart Townsen, president of the college said of Foresman, "Professor Thomas Foresman will always be remembered fondly by the town of Indigo, Illinois, but he holds special place in the hearts of the students, faculty, and alumni of Indigo Community." Here he paused to wipe at a tear, "I believe in the brave policemen of our fair city. If the professor can be found, they shall do it. It is for us, the living, rather to go on and reach the heights which Professor Foresman would have wished us to reach." Townsen will be running for mayor in the upcoming election.
The police have checked all the places the professor was known to visit, and are sending out bulletins to the cities of his family and friends on the chance that he may have been waylaid while trying to visit them. "On the bright side," says Police Chief Haddigan Barbor, "No John Does have been pulled up from the river in the past week."
Foresman is not known to have had any debts to characters of a shady nature, and he never carried around anything of value. Police doubt that he would have been robbed or kidnapped.
Jackson: "It's a real mystery. Poor Professor!"
