Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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Live From NHS When students assembled in the gym. the purpose was, for the most part, to cheer for a group of athletes or to listen to singers perform. When David Bremlow of the United States Fifth Infantry Division Band opened the act with Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are.” he set the stage for the screaming, standing ovations, and thundering applause which accompanied the band s performances of “Night Fever. ’ “Staying Alive.“ “Isn’t She Lovely?,” “I Wish,” “Sir Duke.” “Star Wars.” and “Nice and Juicy,’’ on November 15. To the psyched-up audience’s urgent cries of “More! More! More! More!” the army band replied with the “St. Louis Blues March” as a finale. Youth choir member Terry Reed performs a solo from “Relevant.” In December a youth choir from area Baptist churches presented the program “Life.” Clad in blue jeans and pale blue shirts, the youth choir sang “Life; It’s Contagious,” “A Phony Never Wins.” “People,” “Relevant,” and others. Phil Brown, Terry Reed, Tammie Wilson, Terri Tollett, Lisa Romine, Lori Jacobs, and Greg James performed solos throughout the program. An inovation wrought changes in the concept of sports. Administrators, Principal Bill Dawson and Superintendent Carl Barger, concocted an idea to magnify interest in the basketball program. To thundering applause and standing ovations, army band singers David Bremlow, Joel Jayner, and Jesse Powers perform to a medley of songs from Stevie Wonder's “Songs In The Key of Life album. 22 Student Life

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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

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Student Life 23 The idea involved a two-fold plan. Half of the plan occurred on January 9 when the basketball teams scrimmaged against each other for the student body. The Orange Teams mastered their opponents in each of the three scrimmage games. In the first of those three games, the sophomore boys competed against each other. Orange defeated White 8-4. Jay Chesshir, Jeff Linville, Lance Click, and Tim Ponder each scored two points for the Orange Team and Neal Lovell scored all four points for the White Team. The girls’ team met in competition afterwards and Orange won 13-6. Penny Floyd and Lisa Romine with four points and Kelly Callan with five scored for the Orange Team. Lauri White scored four and Cassandra Wright two for the White Team. The boys’ varsity team met head on in the final competition and once again, the Orange Team won, 13-9. Stacy Boles and Charles Wright scored four points, and Auguster Newton with three, Rufus Coulter and Tim Davis with two each completed the Orange Team’s score. Kenneth Carrigan scored five points while Omie and Richard Clardy both scored two points for the Black Team. With Phase Two of the administrators’ plan, pep rallies for basketball conference games made their debut. The first of six basketball pep rallies took place on January 5 when the DeQueen Leopards were the Scrappers’ first conference opponent — a pulsing reminder of the pep rally that took place in September. As with football pep rallies, classes, the band, and basketball teams competed for the much-coveted spirit stick with their resounding shouts of “V-l-C-T-O-R-Y; that's the Scrapper battle cry!” For the Prescott pep rally, LaDonna Green, Sharon Copeland, Tammie Wilson, Janet Langley, Sandra Craig, Becky Butler. Monica Hamilton, and Lori Smith underwent a startling metamorphosis to entertain Scrapper fans with their Mr. Caterpillar skit. They performed several feats, the last of which entailed walking over the body of volunteer Kip Blakely who lay prostrate on the gym floor. Beginning in January the Future Farmers of America instituted an intramural basketball program which drew crowds to the gym on a voluntary basis. Once there, they focused their attention on the action-packed contests between the Globetrotters. Cavaliers, Officers, Corn Critters, and other FFA teams. On February 14, Valentine’s Day, students and faculty congregated in the gym to witness the crowning of a king and queen chosen from among sophomores', juniors’, and seniors’ nominees in the second annual Valentine’s Day King and Queen of Hearts contest sponsored by the Scrapper staff. The gym played an important role in assemblies. It was the site of the introduction assembly on the first day of school as well as the Awards Assembly toward the end of school. The ceaseless chanting of students at pep rallies, the infectious music of the United States Fifth Infantry Division Band and the “Life” program made NHS come alive between its walls. During the sophomore boys' basketball scrimmage game on January 9, Jeff Linville (40) and Mike Frohnappel (33) fight for possession of the ball, while Robbie Sanders (20), Greg White (53), referee Gary Segrest, and Marty Renfrow (21) anxiously await the outcome. The Orange team won it 8-4.