Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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Agriculture and Homemaking Benefit Students Courses in the field of agriculture ranged from animal science and mechanics to forestry and judging. Each class trained its students in areas which proved beneficial to them outside of school. Projects included measuring tree heights, judging poultry, livestock, and dairy products to repairing the school, building picnic tables and visiting farms and dairies. Home Ec, generally thought of as a class where one learns to make white sauce, included sewing, baking, and the latest in etiquette. Home Ec II, more specifically called home furnishings, gave students an opportunity to study area houses and furniture styles. Girls in Child Development had first hand experiences in working with students at the Howard County Children's Center and Nashville's Public Kindergarten. LEFT- Preparing to work on a gasoline engine, senior Ranay Floyd selects the proper socket. BELOW LEFT- Finishing the cutting on her pants outfit gives Cathy Chism just enough time to remove the pins before she begins the actual sewing. BELOW- First year sewing student Kathy Fritts is half way home on cutting out her gauchos. BOTTOM- Senior agri students gain practical experience in barn construction. Billy Ray Jones and Gary Kirkpatrick get the exact measurement before sawing.

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Business Department Advances Students' Skills Balance sheets and a pegboard payroll system kept bookkeeping students busy all year. Checking accounts and posting ledger assignments made lor much homework. Students devoted a large part of their time in shorthand to mastering theory principles with emphasis on reading, writing, and dictation of practical material. Personal and family cash and check book records consumed most of the time for Business Math students. They also gained experience in figuring wage income deductions from wages, and special wage problems. Office Practice centered on a review of material presented in other business courses and introduced students to new related subject matter through simulated work experiences such as practice sets. Specific training in typing, record keeping, indexing and filing, telephone usage, operation of office machines (calculators, adding machines, duplicating machines, and transcribing machines) and applying for a job made for an involved year. Typing I students began with F-J-F in the first semester and progressed to research papers and invoices by the second semester. Typing II placed more emphasis in business as a career. Each student compiled an office manual containing approximately 100 pages of individually typed jobs and duplicated materials that were prepared by class members. Occupation students compiled a book on various occupational subjects. In addition to career studies, such as bank operations, the class discussed dating, marriage and family life. TOP RIGHT- Typing II, a class which is notorious in demanding concentration and hard work, sees Diane McCrary thoroughly engrossed in one of Mrs. Aylett's five minute timings. RIGHT- During the first in a week-long series of student-taught occupations classes, Dena White discusses with classmates problems and benefits of having brothers and sisters. BELOW- After completing their bookkeeping, Sonya Manning and Quonya Coulter take advantage of spare time to file some cards before office practice, an act which captures the attention of Ranay Floyd and Tammie Fincher, but makes no impression upon Deann Masey. BOTTOM RIGHT- Balancing a notebook and typing simultaneously is a skill which displays that Ricky Williams, Debbie Walters, Rhonda Blackburn and Cathy Bagwell are Typing II students.

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After physical fitness exams, the three classes of boys' physical education barely had time to catch their breaths. Units on touch football, dodgeball, trampoline, hunting safety, basketball, weight-training and conditioning, volleyball, track and field, and softball, and the skills tests kept the boys in tip-top shape. Although lifetime sports is strictly a classroom subject, students learned the rules and regulations of twenty-eight different sports and activities, including field-hockey, self-defense, wrestling, archery, soccer, rhythm and dance, and swimming. Girls' P.E. operated on a less hectic schedule than did the boys. Cleaning the gym before basketball games, playing cards, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table tennis, running laps, and exercising filled the year. Second period class received an added thrill when Coach Segrest taught them the basics on the trampoline. Physical Fitness Shapes Students ABOVE- Classmates Marc Thomas, Wayne Banks, Jimmy Kent, Carl Mathias, Ronnie Barnett, Coach Mike Walker, David Brown, Bobby Parker, and David Riggs keep in position as Billy Bennett spikes the ball and Bobby Simmons awaits its return in fourth period P.E. class. LEFT AND BELOW- Step by step Coach Gary Segrest demonstrates the art of self defense to his lifetime sports class. Jerry Harwell pays CLOSE attention while participating in this in-class training session. Student interest runs high in this the largest class on campus. 26