Coopertown High School - Yearbook (Coopertown, TN)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of Coopertown High School, in this year 1950 A. D. being unsound of mind and body, do hereby submit our last will and testament. u I, John York, leave to Houston Wilson my ability to get Miss Mayo in a good humor when she is peeved. I, Virginia Ann Murphey, will leave. I, Robert Watts, will my amorous inclinations to Preston Balthrop. I, John Miller, will my ability to go to town with Mr. Melton to James Bennett. I, Wilola Teasley, will my ability to maneuver an opponent's basket- ball goal to Peggy Lipscomb. I, Bobby Wright, will my ability to score in basketball games to Pres- ton Balthrop. I, Harold Binkley, will my neatness to Mouse Wright. I, Ora Lou McMahan, will my ability to get along with teachers to Sue Teasley. D I, Joe Pratt, will my unusual ability to get tickled at lunch to Richard ean. We, Bobby Lee and Charles Browning, will our ability to nourish swine to Billy Wilson and Jerry Wright. I, Coach Billy Alley, will my coaching ability to Fat I-lead. I, Dorena Wilson, will my ability to gain weight to Joyce Wooten. I, Margaret Jeanette, will my typing ability to Martha Nell Jones. I, Ruth White, will my ability to get married to Marjorie Dowlen. I, Nell Corlew, will my quietness to Betty Ruth Murphy. I, Barbara Watts, will my ability to hide cheating papers to Ray Elliott. I, Juanita Dorris, will my curly hair to Dorothy Fort. I, Jones Elliott, will my love of horses and dogs to Noah Troughber, who shot Fate. I, Juanita Walling, will my ability to give orders to Ann Williams. I, Jimmie Crutcher, will my ability to take the opposite side in a de- bate to Aubrey Browning. I, Charles Hyde, will my ability to perform chemical experiments to Maydell Jones.

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CLASS HISTORY One morning twelve years ago Miss Ruth Givens, now Mrs. Thomas Chambliss, greeted thirty little boys and girls as they took their places in the first grade room at Coopertown school. The first thing our teacher tried to teach us was how to be quiet and obey her. They are still trying to teach us. In the second grade we had as our teacher Miss Evelyn Long. We were getting used to school then, and some liked and others didn't and tried slipping home occasionally only to be brought back to school by their mothers to face a very angry teacher. But we learned we had to do a few things we didn't want to. When we reached the third grade we thought we were getting pretty big because we were moved upstairs. With Mrs. Reeves' guidance, we learned many new things. Somehow we managed to get through the third grade and entered the fourth where Miss Doris Faires took us over. This was our first year to study geography and oh, what a big word we thought that was. Remember what fun 'we had teasing Miss Faires about her boy friend? Well, she got him for keeps that very year. Then on to the fifth grade where Mrs. Jesse Lipscomb taught us. By this time some had left our class and some had joined it. In the sixth grade Miss Frances Mayo taught us. Miss Mayo didn't know it then but this was only the beginning of her troubles with us as you will later find out. In the seventh grade the class was divided into two parts, one part being taught by Mrs. Copely James and the other by Mrs. Chilton. The few who were taught by Mrs. Chilton were in the A class. Well I guess we weren't so smart after all because Mrs. Chilton said if we were the smart ones she would surely hate to teach the dumb ones. I guess we were just excited at being in the room with the eighth grade. In the eighth grade we had several new members to join our class, namely Wilola Teasley and Charles Browning from Sandy Springs and Barbara Watts, Nell Corlew and Glen Frey from Gause school and Juan- ita Dorris from Springfield. Mrs. James and Mr. John L. Head taught us this year. Besides teaching us, Mr. Head was also our basketball coach. Our team didn't do so bad either because we were runners-up in the grammar school tournament. The last of school Mrs. James and Mr. Head took us on a trip to the blind school and penitentiary. It was a very educational trip and we all really had fun. It was finally time for graduation and oh what a big day that was for us. Juanita Walling was valedictorian and Wilola Teasley salutatorf ian. Well, guess who joined us as freshmen. Yes, John Miller, Robert Watts. and Harold Binkley from Sharon. Our fun had really just started, but I admit we had to pay for it. While learning that we still had to be -dis- ciplined we were sent out of class to the office, and the boys were spanked a few times with old Samson Cthe paddlej and the girls had to write themes but we settled down after awhile. I guess we were really green freshmen if there ever were any. Mrs. Williams was our sponsor this year and was for the two succeeding years. When we were sophomores a few more had left our class. We had a perfect lame-brain record because we didn't make much history.