Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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Times of your life Moments to remember The brightly decorated cafeteria dressed in lively pink with white candles, pink tablecloths and different colors of umbrellas and flowers set the stage for the long awaited Junior-Senior Banquet May 22. For many students the banquet was a night to be remembered. The junior class presented to the seniors “Times of Your Life. ' This was a special time for all seniors to take one look back on all their past accomplishments. The program consisted of the invocation led by Bryan Chesshir, a welcome by junior class President Donnie Parrish and the acceptance speech by the senior class President Robert Bennett. The menu consisted of steak, baked potatoes, cream style corn, bread and butter, cake and iced tea cooked by Donna Carozza and Ruth Wilson. For the first time in several years a select group of sophomores were asked to serve at the banquet and help clean up afterwards. The junior class presented a skit and then did prophesies for most of the seniors. After the banquet they held a prom in the gym with entertainment by a disc jockey from Y-102. Although it was a special night there were a few tears shed, but all in all it was a night to be remembered forever. Th« cImi sponsors Mrs. Brenda McLaughlin and Mrs. Joy Johnaon look pleased with the smooth running of the banquet. Seniors nervously await their prophesies presented by the juniors. Junior-Senior Banquet 87

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Richard Hug-he , alia Bozo, wait to introduce the •children Steve Hearon, Kelley Loveli . and Robert Bennett portrayed by Marvin Johnaon, Kelly Dildy and Matt Van Horn. Junior claa President Donnie Parrish gives the welcoming speech at the banquet. Sophomore Wayne Toliver prepares to serve Debbie Acord during the meal. In one of the skits Marvin Johnaon portrays Coach Bill Thigpen. 26 Student Life

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Eternal seniors Where’s Alfred? Senior play caat and crew include: (front row) Markell Parker, Mary Bradford, Suaan Sunder-man. Suzanna Reed, Brenda Biaaell, Tammy Combee, Teresa Rowe, Anita Shelton, Mandy Hockaday. (second row) Dale Sullivan, Billy Dean, Jeff Riley, Kelley Lovells, Ann McAdams. Cindy Reed, Mike Spigner, Vic Harding, Jana Witherspoon, Eddie Brown. Brenda Archer, Greg Slilavan, Jim Hamilton. Mac Carlton, and Jay Mitchell. The lights dim and the curtain slowly opens on a patio at the Hope Springs Nursing Home. Seated in a lawn chair is Theodore Lump (Mike Spigner) resting on his cane and being lightly dusted by Ida (Brenda Archer), the clean-up lady. The 1982 senior play, held April 16, was as amusing if not more than last year’s. Under the direction of senior class sponsors Mrs. Jan Ponder and Mrs. Mary Frances Spigner, 20 cast members and numerous stage hands presented “Hope Springs Eternal at Nashville Elementary Auditorium. The residents of Hope Springs are incredibly old and the Social Security office smells something fishy. Mr. Baggot (Oreg Sillivan) thinks that many of the residents are dead and the home is cashing in on their social security checks. Baggot sends Howard Elliot (Jeff Riley) to investigate. The curtain closes and the crowd is relaxing and talking among themselves. Suddenly, in a voice shrill and sharp . .. “Alfred!?!! A little old lady (Mary Bradford) upsets the audience in her fruitless search for her husband. Howard finds Hope Springs to be quite unusual. It is regarded by the residents as a sovereign nation under their queen Eleanor the First (Ann McAdams). Queen Eleanor decrees that the next social activity after their Halloween dance will be a butterfly chase at the request of “Prince Max (Jim Hamilton), heir to the throne. Howard arrives during the chase and meets the lovely Jill Scott (Kelley Lovelis). Their conversation is interrupted by a frail butterfly seeker, the “countess” Blanche (Tammy Combes), who is a hypochondriac. After the queen's court returns from the hunt, the handsome Howard is spied upon by “Princess” Billie (Jana Witherspoon) who is dressed as a butterfly to capture the attention of the “Duke,” Robert E. Lee Sherman (Vic Harding). The play progresses as snoopy Howard tries to find the secret of the courtiers’ advanced age, which he thinks is in the water. After many attempts to prove this he finds that the only chemical in the water is sulfur. After learning of this, Sylvia Shafer (Teresa Rowe) tries to convince her mother, the rowdy “Lady Rusty Russell (Brenda Bissell) to come and live with her. But Mrs. Shafer’s daughter, Penelope (Anita Shelton) makes a nuisance of herself and convinces Rusty otherwise. The resident doctor, Maud Grimm (Cindy Reed), reveals that the only thing that has sustained the patients was the fact that they could still pretend in their kingdom and hold important positions. The Hope Springs residents have believed that the water hew kept them alive and when Howard proves otherwise Queen Eleanor suddenly passes out. The curtain closes once again and emcee Markell Parker announces the result of a ticket lottery. Who is the winner? Way back in the back a grandmotherly-type lady raises her hand. Ushers Mac Carlton and Jay Mitchell hurry the slow Mrs. Elvira Hoffmeyer (Cherie Keeney) to the front. She has won a hibachi. A hibachi? Oh, yes! Mrs. Hoffmeyer proceeds to relate the story of her Hawaiian vacation and is quickly whisked off-stage. The curtain opens. Prince Max is almost ready to take the throne when the supposedly deceased Queen Eleanor arrives on the scene in a funeral home shroud and reprimands H.T. Scott, (Eddie Brown), Jill’s father and the local mortician, for mistaking death with a common fainting spell. With her return, the home is back to normal. Howard and Jill realize their love and, to coin a phrase ”... they lived happily ever after.” The curtain closes. 28 Student Life