Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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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.

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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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An Ever-Present Problem: Raising Money Inflation and an empty treasury forced students in clubs, organizations, and classes to moonlight. Whether the job was peddling products, sponsoring pageants, or producing plays, each project meant a way to raise money to sponsor other projects or buy equipment for that organization. A school board ruling limiting organizations to one fund-raiser per year and allowing the junior and senior classes two went into effect in December. Some organizations had already exceeded that limit, and others had not even begun. An ill-fated investment in materials used to build an entry for the homecoming float contest thrust the junior class into a deficit of $12. At the December meeting, school board members read a letter from junior class president, David Teague, stating his class’ poor financial situation and requesting that permission to sponsor a Scrapper Appreciation Dance to raise money to pay for the Junior-Senior Banquet. The board denied permission and. at the next meeting, limited dances to three per year — one after the homecoming game, one at the Junior-Senior Banquet, and one after graduation. This ruling also canceled the newly-born Valentine’s day Dance tradition which the yearbook staff first sponsored in 1978 and used to raise money for the yearbook and to crown the King and Queen of Hearts. After the denial of the dance, the junior class embarked on a posterselling spree. The senior class’ first project entailed selling chances on a stereo donated by Western Auto. During a pep assembly, cheerleader Gaye Goodrum announced that Mark Dowdy won the stereo. Their entry in the homecoming float contest placed second and won them $30. Seniors also sold 55 class T-shirts bearing the names of all seniors. Sophomores built and entered a float, “Sugarland Express,” in the Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade, placed first in the civic division, and won $50. The beginner, junior high, and high school bands joined in a mass candle and Drix Cleaner sale which profited $2,750. They spent the money to buy expensive Klipschorn speakers, a JVC cassett player, and a turntable to record performances, play them back, and critique themselves. A crucial moment in sophomore history comes when they pass their float before the judges' booth. Aboard, Debie Boden is dressed as Mrs. Claus, and Diane Henley. Greg Nation, and Kathy Hubbard are dressed as elves, as Mike Frohnappel and Robbie Sanders fish in an icy pond. They won first place in the civic division and $50. 20 Student Life