Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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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

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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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Drawings by Dea Ann Richard. Cassandra Wright, and Terry Wilcher determine who wins each of three turkeys given away by the journalism classes |ust before Thanksgiving. After home economics classes spent the morning preparing them, Kim Horn and Miss Cathy Cooley, manning the sales, sell a caramel apple to Renetta Hutchinson. The Debate Club voted to charge membership dues of $2 per year to cover poster-making, float-building, and party-giving expenses. But, by February, only one member had paid those dues. The Debate Club threw a gala Halloween costume party where members originally planned to charge entrance and at which collectors for UNICEF collected more money than the Debate Club. The Debate Club entered a poster in the DeQueen poster contest, De-Head DeQueen, drawn and painted by David Boden and Anna Westfall. The poster won first place and $15. An entry in the homecoming float contest did not place. Sid's Sportswear donated basketball and football pins to the French Club which sold them to Scrapper fans to raise money for its annual celebration of Mardi Gras. They also placed third in the poster contest for $2.50 and third in the homecoming float contest for $20. 1 With thoughts of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association workshop in New York City in mind, journalism classes worked as hard to raise money as they did to produce quality publications. Near Thanksgiving, journalists sold chances for 50c each to junior high and high school teachers, parents, and pupils on turkeys donated by Piggly Wiggly, Farmer’s Market, and Joe’s Grocery. They raised more than $128 from the turkeys. Quarters slowly trickled in as people purchased cups of steaming hot chocolate during lunch on cold, wintry days. The Publications Department also sponsored the first annual Miss Nashville High School Pageant. The Future Homemakers of America busied itself with projects to raise money for the Parent Student Tea in the spring. FHA members began a long string of fund-raising projects with the selling of four types of cookbooks. Afterwards, they sold giant coloring books, coloring cloths with erasable crayons, and pocket calendars. Members made and sold caramel apples to students and faculty for one day during lunch. Cheerleaders attempted to promote Scrapper Fever by selling orange Spirit towels and fluorescent “Scrapper” bumper stickers. They used their money for materials needed to make posters. Student Lile 21