Cohn High School - Accolade Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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STEVENS TILLMAN YVOMAC K HELEN RUTH STEVENS Dramatic Club, '42, '43, '44, '45, '46, T. :md I. Club, '45, '46, D. O. Club, '45, '46, Most Dignified Girl. ELMO TILLMAN Senior Hi-Y, '41, '42, '43, Dra- matic Club, '42, Band, '39, '40. BE'r'l'Y JO WOMACK Honor Society, '45. ERNESTINE STEYVART Glee Club, '42, '43, '44, '45, '46, Clarion Staff, '45, '46, N. F. L., '46, Philosophers Club, '46, Prettiest Girl, Half Best Dancing Couple. STEWART STINSON SXVINK THOXIPSON WVHITSON WVILLS ZANONI ZENGER H. BASH MARTHA JANE THOMPSON Clarion Staff, '46, PANTHER Staff, '46, Dramatic Club, '43, Girl Re serves, '43. AIARTHA ZANONI Band, '42, '43, '44, '45, '46, Or chestra, '44, '45, '46, Band Spon sor, '45, PANTHER Staff, '46. CARLTON STINSON Football, '44, '45, Basketball, '45 '46, C Club, '44, '45, '46, Cut- est Laugh. FRANCES YVHITSON junior Girl Reserves, '42, D. O. Club, '45, '46, T. and I. Club, '45, '46, Red Cross, '42. GEORGE H. ZENGER N. F. L.. '42, '43, '44, '45, '46, Dramatic Club, '42, '43, '44, '45, Vice-President, '46, Honor Socie- ty, '45, '46, Vice-President, '46, l'lIilosopher's Club, '46, Most Ambitious Boy. JAMES H. SYVINK, JR. President of Senior Class, junior HiAY, '42, N. F. L., '42, '43, '44, '45, '46, Dramatic Club, '42, Senior Hi-Y, '43, President, '44, Secretary, '45, Football, '45, Bas- ketball, '46, C Club, '45, '46, Most Popular Boy, Best All Around Boy, Most Striking Per- sonality, Half Most Popular Duo, Class Orator. TAYLOR YVILSON ELIZABETH ANN YVILLS Junior Glee Club, '43, Senior ' Glee Club, '43, '44, '45, Presi- deIIt, '44, Junior Red Cross, '43, '44, '45, '46, Vice-President, '45, President, '46, Orchestra, '45, '46, Office Stuff, '46, Annual Stall, '46, Most Bashful Girl, '46, Most Courteous, '46, Philosophers Club. HARVEY BASH ELIZABETH ANN TVILSON D. O. Club, '45, '46, T. illlCl I. Club, '45, '46. JEAN TAYLOR Home Economics Club, '43, '44, Delegate to West Tennessee Home Economics Club Meeting, '43, Class Reporter, '45, Clarion Staff, '46, Annual Staff, '46, Most Philosophical Girl, Dramatic Cilub, '46, Philosopher's Club, ' 6. Graduates without pictures' ROBERT JOHN ALEXANDER, WVILLIAM HOYT COLLINS, JOHN R. EDXVARDS, JOHN W. GOAD, CHARLES G. GUNN, JR., JAMES GUNN, GLENN JAKES, LEON A. LOvELL,'MARvIN MIMS, JESSE H. POOLE, LARRY D. POSTON, JERRY A. PROCTOR, ROBERT READ, THOMAS E. SINGLETON, JAMES T. SMITH, KENNETH SUTTON, CLYDE T. TUCKER, NOR- MAN LUTHER, TVILLIAM SEAGRAVES, DOROTHY SCOTT.

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ISAACS NOKICS RO BERTSON DOLLY lN'IARlE HUDGENS Dramatic Club, '43. RONALD BRYAN lNlERVlLLE Clarion Staff, '44, '45, '46, Chorus, '46, C Club, '43, '44, '45, '46, Football, '43, '44, '45, Dramatic Club, '43, '44, Cutest Laugh. BIARY ANN PORTERFIELD Dramatic Club, '42, '43, '44, N. F. L., '43, T. and I. Club, '45, '46, Best Groomed Girl. JOHNSON LAUlll'llilMl5R OLIPHANT PAYNE SCHIVEINING SPURLOCK HOWARD ISAACS Hi-Y Club, '45, President, '46, Basketball, '45, '46, C Club '45, '46, Clarion, '45, '46, N. F L., '46, Philosophefs Club, '46 President, Class Post, Most Phil: sophical, Most Courteous. GERALDINE NORES Dramatic Club, '44. LENA ROBERTSON Band, '42, Dramatic Club, '42 Girl Reserves, '42, D. O. Class, '46, T. and I. Club, '46. DOROTHY JEAN JOHNSON Glee Club, '42, Girl Reserves, '42, '43, Dramatic Club, '44, '45. BETTY JEAN OLIPHANT Glee C-lub, '42, '43, '44, '46, En- semble, '46, Dramatic Club, '42, '43, '44, '45, '46, N. F. L., '42, '43, '44, '45, '46, Clarion Staff, '43, '44, '45, '46, Annual Stalf, '44, '46, Sophomore Editor, '44, Senior Editor, '46, C Club, '45, '46, Cheerleader, '45, '46, Class Prophet. FRANCES LOUISE SCHYVEINING Glee Club, '43, Honor Society, '45, '46, Clarion Staff, '46, D. O. Class, '46, T. and I. Club, Presi- dent, '46, Salutatorian. XVARREN LAUBHEIMER Manager of Basketball, '43,1' '45, '46, Band, '43, '44, '45, Club, '43, '44, '45, '46. ORVILLE H. PAYNE, JR. T. and I. Club, '44, '45, '46, O. Club, '44, '45, '46. DORRIS SPURLOOK Band, '43, '44, Junior Hi-Y, Football, '44, '45, Basketball, ,42 44 C. D 44 '45, Baseball, '46, C Club, '44 '45.

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CLASS HISTORY On the morning of September 8, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty, as the old clock in the hall ticked away, and the hands said the time was exactly 10:30 A.M., approximately ninety-five new pupils entered Cohn. This group was the combined big boys and big girls, too, of three schools: Sylvan Park, Park Avenue, and Cockrill. They were the graduating sixth grade classes, who only the previous semester had felt that they were really the ruling factors at their respective grammar alma maters. It might be noted in passing that this group of youngsters is the Senior Class of 1946. This feeling of bigness left us at approximately 10:31 A.M. that morning, for we quickly bcgan to realize the immenseness of Cohn compared with our smallness. H In its place came feel- ings of sadness as we remembered the schools in which we had finished the first part of our education, and of fear, as several tif one is severalj teachers told us to shut up, just because we had dared to smile at someone we knew going down the hall. With fcar and trembling, we passed our early days at Cohn. In fact, about the fourth week, we had forgotten our earlier school days and had begun to regard the teachers not as car- nivorous animals but tame ones-oops! I mean human beings. Most of the fright had gone, and we were beginning to act almost natural again. As proof of this, one of the happenings by which we remember the seventh grade was an incident of bravery-especially for a seventh grader. One of the larger lads, whose name I refrain from mentioning, but who several years later became a prominent football player, fastened one of the smaller boys in a locker. A teacher in a near-by room let him out after he handed her the only key to the locker through a hole in the door. At the conclusion of this first year, we witnfssed the first commencement exercise Cohn ever had, as the first senior class graduated from' Cohn bade our school Farewell, This ex- ercise set us to thinking and hoping for the day when we likewise could wave good-bye with one hand and hold our di- plomas with the other. The Hrst chapter in our history toward education at Cohn found a new football stadium being erected next to Cockrill. its completion placed Cohn on a par with the other leading schools of the city in athletic facilities. Sadness for the first time in quite a while re-entered our mind in 1941, as one of West Nashville's greatest friends passed away-Professor J. H. Sykes. A portrait of our beloved former principal was presented to Cohn and was hung on the east side in front of the auditorium. VVe also, in Mr. Sykes' honor, named our football stadium Sykes Field. Near the end of 1941, December the seventh to be exact, our nation was shocked by the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The next day the students of Cohn assembled to hear the Prtsident ask Congress to declare war on japan, and a few days later, on her allies. Many of our friends and relatives began slowly to leave us and enter the armed forces. Every citizen of the United States of America in the truc red-bloodetl American spirit began to become more conscious of and awake to the real meaning of Americanism and the qualities that go to make it up. Although we were only eighth graders, many of the boys felt even a deeper desire to finish their education so they might join the military forces and take up the light for Old Glory. The ninth grade passed by with only the usual happenings, study and more study Gb, but things really began to buzz in the tenth grade. Many of the students, in selecting their sub jects, became venturesome and took up the second year of al- gebra. These same adventurers began to make arrangements to study geometry and trigonometry after they had passed the second course of algebra. A very small group of students went even furthtr on the sea of the unknown and bravely took up Latin, This group, although small to begin with, slowly dwindled away until approximately a dozen were left to com- plete the two-year course. Time began to pass more rapidly now. The night to re- ceive those pieces of paper that certify we have successfully completed high school seemed only around the corntr. Swish!! Juniors. It was in our junior year that wc really did begin to regard ourselves as big dealers. However, the lessons became harder, and to cap it all, much more extra work piled up. Among other things, a prom had to be pro- vided for the seniors. To prepare for this more efficiently, we first elected a sponsor and class officers. As our sponsor, we elected Mrs. Driver, who had been a true friend and help- er to us in the past years. We also elected Malcolm Sadler, president, Tom Proctor, vice-president, Helen Ackerman, sec- retaryg Bclva Buckner, treasurer, and Thomas Green sergeant at arms. However, before the year passed, Malcolm left for the armed forces. Tom Proctor was elevated to president and jimmy Swink was elected vice-president. We worked diligently to raise the money for the Junior-Senior Prom held on the night of May 25 at the Maxwell House Hotel. When pictures for the annual were being made, wc had a wonderful time. We not only missed classes but had the en- joyment which results only from argument, as no one was sat- isfied with the group in which he had been placed. After a summer in which most of us worked CPD, we returned to school to journey the last mile of our high school study. We were seniors now, and we began to feel the responsibilities that were tacked to seniors. Our hrst meeting ended with the election of officers, who were jimmy Swink, president, Tom Proctor, vice-president: Helen Ackerman, secrctaryg Edward Crump, treasurer, Carlton Stinson, sergeant at arms, and Ray Ifrizzell, chaplain. As time passed by we began to feel very proud because the football team was enjoying the best football season in the history of the school. Upon conclusion of the season, which brought us the championship, two membcrs of the senior class, J. B. Proctor and Thomas Green, were named on the All-City Teams, All-Mid-State Teamsg the All-State Team: and Thomas, as though he didn't have enough honors, was named on the All-Southern Team. Time began to go even faster, and before we were aware of it, Senior Day, May 22, rolled around. On the night of May 17 the juniors had entertained us with an enjoyable dinner- dance at the Maxwell House Hotel. Then the night that we had waited for so long rolled around, June 7. However, there were saddened spirits as we walked down the aisles to receive our diplomas, for many hated to leave Cohn, the school that meant so much to them. Instead of waving good-bye with one hand and holding diplomas with the other, many were using their handkerchiefs with one hand to wipe away tears and carrying their I-'inis certifications with the other. However, when this exercise was completed we were then ready to embark upon the world of tomorrow with all its many opportunities.