Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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Drummer Nathaniel Benton pauses on the practice field during a band rehearsal. A common activity during football season, students David Boden. Debbie Lockeby, Cathy Hargis. Melinda Hayes. Robin Barnhill, and Cheryl Steel create a poster. “Win 'Em All.” Keeping The Spirit Alive As the young football athletes showed signs of greatness with each conquest of an opponent, a highly communicable outbreak, termed Scrapper Fever, reached epidemic proportions—and there was no stopping it. The fever began with pep rallies, but spread like wildfire. Speeches by coaches and players, competition for the spirit stick, putting on skits and making up new routines to band songs breathed life into each pep rally. In a skit for the Alma pep rally, Tammie Wilson, Debbie Graham, Sharon Copeland, Terry Wilcher, Cathy Chism, Renee Chastain, Dena Floyd, and Susie McKinney invited a lonely despondent Airdale, Gary Hughes, to join them with the song, “I’m A Scrapper’’ sung to the tune of “Dr. Pepper.” Mrs. Jim Chastain accompanied them on the piano. Poster parties became all the rage during football season. Cheerleaders sponsored a poster contest for the DeQueen game with a “Beat the Leopards” motif and awarded money prizes. The Debate Club poster, “De Head DeQueen walked away with first place. Renee Chastain and Susie McKinney shared the money for “Socket To You” with Suzanne Hintze for “Scrapper Fever — Catch It. The French Club with “Before, During, and After, Go Scrappers Go and Diane Henley and Kathy Hubbard with “Scrappers Are (Strong and Tough Is) Strough tied for third place. Shoe polish on lockers and windows, posters hanging in the gym and halls, a gaily decorated bulletin board, and paper footballs on the players’ lockers lent a festive air to the school building. As rivalry between classes made its presence known, spirit shirts with the owner’s name on back became popular. The seniors’ were vivid orange T-shirts with black stripes and letters which read “SR.’S SAY WIN.” The junior shirts were black jerseys bearing the traditional “JR.’S SAY FIGHT” slogan. Orange letters reading “SOPH.’S SAY GO appeared on a white background on the sophomore jerseys. For the first time, faculty and administration moved on the scene with their “TEACHERS SAY VICTORY shirts. A record crowd of more than 18 student Life

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best fit their concept of a junior miss. Tammie Wilson, second runner-up, received the Physical Fitness Award and Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship for her talent competition, “Love Is A Rose. Cathy progressed to the Arkansas Junior Miss Pageant in Jonesboro on January 10-13. In talent competition, Cathy pantomimed “Tan Shoes and Pink Shoe Laces,” but she did not make the finals. Nominated by senior football players and chosen by the entire team, another beauty queen, Gail Harris, was chosen homecoming queen to reign over the game against the Huntsville Eagles. Superintendent Carl Barger crowned Gail in a coronation ceremony in the gym on the afternoon of the game. Her father, Mr. Ray Harris, crowned her again at Scrapper Stadium before a large homecoming crowd. Sophomore Renee Chastain won the crown in the First Annual Miss Nashville High School Pageant in February. Runners-up were Dea Ann Richard, Kelly Lovelis, Cassandra Wright, and Cheryl Steel. The 14 freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior contestants voted Cheryl Miss Congeniality, and she also received the Talent Award for her pantomime of “Ahab The Arab.” Student Life 17 tenee and the other contestants erformed a disco version of “Satur-lay Night Fever.’’ The Nashville Band Boosters .ponsored the annual Southwest Xrkansas Junior Miss Pageant on November 4 using the theme, “The Sound of Music.” The pageant drew )ight entrants from Nashville, three rom DeQueen, and two from Mineral Springs. Cathy Chism won the crown tnd shared a scholarship award with elly Callan. Kelly’s co-entrants voted o award her the Spirit of Junior Miss ward given to the contestant whom he girls felt symbolized the one who Vinners in the Miss Nashville High Pageant re fourth runner-up Cheryl Steel, third unner-up Cassandra Wright, second runner-p Kelly Lovelis, first runner-up Dea Ann tichard, and Miss Nashville High Renee :hastain. After being crowned Southwest Arkansas Junior Miss, a tearful Cathy Chism is congratulated by KNAS reporter Rick Castleberry.

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 group of cheering high school girls give rousing send-off to football players aboard a charter bus bound for Alma. In preparation for the OeOueen game bonfire in the student parking lot, Mike Harris, Stan Staggs, and Quin Minton loss 4x4' on an already heaping pile of debris. 5000 attended the DeQueen game for the tussle. On Wednesday night before the game, some Leopard fans visited Nashville and created a disturbance. The following day. the administration issued a special bulletin advising Nashville students to leave the battles to the football field. After the Thursday night junior high game, students gathered in the football parking lot for a bonfire. The Scrapper Boosters chartered busses to transport the team to Alma and also bought them identical shirts to wear on the trip. The Future Homemakers of America packed a lunch for each football player. The football team really came into the public eye when Mike Kemp of KTAL, Channel 6 “Newscope covered a typical practice and spoke with Coach Gary Segrest. The film clip appeared on television the Wednesday night before the Stamps playoff game. The band scheduled a pep rally at the Wal Mart parking lot the night before the Stamps game, but rain caused its cancellation. The following night County Sheriff Dick Wakefield escorted a car parade from the football parking lot to Prescott for the bout with Stamps. During a pep rally speech, Head Coach Segrest remarked that Scrapper Spirit was intangible: no one could touch it for the spirit dwelled within loyal Scrapper fans.