Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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Lire From NHS - Part n The band Dixie provided live entertainment for the Valentine’s coronation. Terry Reed, Tammie Wilson, and Keith Smith played and sang “Love Is A Rose,” “Amy” and other songs. After coaxing from the audience and band Duke Clay Franklin, also a member of Dixie, left his throne to play a guitar and sing “Fire On The Mountain” and “Traveling Man.” Prompted by Superintendent Carl Barger, Principal Bill Dawson borrowed a guitar and sang several laughter-evoking “love songs.” The newly formed stage band, on March 8, put on an open-air concert. They played pop-jazz melodies, including “Saturday Night Delight,” with a solo by drummer Johnny Sparks, “Disco Fever,” and “Velvet Brass.” “Traces” featured a baritone solo by James Bradford. On March 12, Mr. Carliss Odom, a victim of cerebral palsy, spoke to students about his life. Mr. Odom spoke at the First Baptist Church March 12-14. A stage band from Henderson State University performed in March. Two members of the group imitated Dan Akroyd and John Belushi, the Blues Brothers, in dancing and singing “I'm A Soul Man.” A youth group Inspiration, from First and Immanuel Baptist Churches of Nashville presented a program of religious music in April. Tammie Wilson. Andrea Lyons, Suzan Pile, Denise Leverett, Phi! Brown, Jeff Starr, and Stan Lawrence performed “Give Them All To Jesus,” “At The Cross,” “Would You Believe,” “If You Can’t Believe In Love,” “That’s Worth Everything,” “Whatever It Takes,” and “We’re Not Strangers Anymore.” Martha Bowers was ill and unable to perform with the rest of the group. Mr. John Robert Schirmer coordinated the background music. Singing Linda Ronstadt’s Lova la A Rota,” Tammia Wilton picks tha banjo at tha Valantina s Day King and Quaan of Haarts coronation astambly in tha gym. 24 Studant Lila

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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.

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Tommy DeBlack, a senior class sponsor, be sold. Even before the assembly had ended masters had their slaves skipping and running laps around the court. Terry Reed. Bert Johnson, and Quin Minton forced slave Terry Ray to wear an apron, hunting vest, and lipstick. Coach DeBlack was even seen carrying Susan Blakely to her English class. With what the day's work might involve unknown to prospective slaves, why would any senior in his right mind willingly sell himself into slavery? The $521.23 collected from the slave sale meant more money for the seniors' graduation party which followed the commencement ceremony. May 18. The people were different, the programs were different, but the place remained the same. The gym was the site of most assemblies at which NHS came to life. Following the Reverend John Holeton'e introductory speech, Mr. Cerlies Odom approeches the microphone to tell his life story. Preceding Inspiration’s performance, the National Honor Society made a surprise announcement of juniors voted into the organization by the faculty on the basis of leadership, character, scholarship, and service. New Hope, a singing group from Pathfinder House, a sheltered workshop, presented a program of songs including “Three Times A Lady’’ and “Fire More than five hundred dollars left the pockets of the throng of students and teachers sardined into the gym for the Senior Slave Auction. Junior High Principal Danny Howard auctioned off the seniors who sold themselves into bondage for the day. Prices ranged from $1 to $40 After all seniors had been sold, the audience demanded that Kip Blakely place himself in the auctioneer’s circle. Steve Savage was next, and other seniors followed suit volunteering their services. After Mr. Howard had sold the last of the senior slaves, the audience demanded that Coach Sighting another bid, auctioneer Mr. Danny Howard raiaaa tha prica on a aanior slave. Mr. Randy Garnar, Coach Tommy DeBlack, and David Taagua keep a list of talas.