Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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HOLLY CARNEY AND Sissi Davis pause for a picture during their trip. ONE OF THE statues grabs Sissi Davis' attention. AN EV ENING VIEW of the capitol captured the group's attention. Close Up 15

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Quartet hits Washington for ‘capital’ entertainment ow can a week that starts off with a lost plane crew in St. Louis end beautifully in Washington, D.C.? For most people it couldn’t, but for CloseUp participants it did. Mrs. Jan Fonder, Holly Garney, Sissi Davis and Dion-drea Starr went to Washington for a “fun but also educational week” in late January. Every day included seminars and workshops with a small amount of time for sight seeing. The lectures were mostly about bills being debated by Congress, with the most popular being the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction bill. There were two programs — one for teachers and one for students. Mrs. Ponder went on the student program at first because “this was my first time to go, and it was more sight seeing than the 7 am in Washington, D. C. ’ Diondrea Starr teacher one, which was more lectures.” Mrs. Ponder was with a group in Rep. John Paul Hammerschmidt’s office when he received news about the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Jan. 28. “It was so dramatic. The look on his face as he read the note and then him telling us. It was the fact we were there, and we didn’t just hear about it on the street.” Mrs. Ponder got to meet and shake hands with the Rev. Jesse Jackson. “We were leaving the Rayburn Building and there he was! I walked up to him, introduced myself and told him where I was from. He said, ‘I’d love to talk, but 1 have to hurry.’ It was great.” Another high point for Mrs. Ponder was visiting the National Gallery of Art. “There I were so many originals. I guess it was special to me because I teach an art unit.” Mrs. Ponder hoped to form a year-round CloseUp organization. She planned to begin raising money to help students not financially able to go otherwise. “I would like for everyone to go,” she said. “The week was beautiful.” The students who went had similar attitudes about the trip. Holly, a senior, enjoyed the week tremendously. She visited many historic monuments, including the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, and attended a few government workshops. She also spoke to Arkansas’s senators and representatives, and even had time to go shopping. Her favorite part of the trip was viewing the Iwo Jima memorial at night. “It was really touching, since the flag was being flown at half-staff in honor of the seven space shuttle astronauts,” she said. “It was really beautiful.” Sissi said the trip was “a great opportunity. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in our country’s government,” Sissi said. This was Sissi’s second trip to Washington with the CloseUp program. She said she learned some new things this time and enjoyed it even more. “My favorite seminar was the one on peace,” Sissi said. The speaker “said a lot of things I could relate to. I think it is important for us to become involved in our country’s government.” The meaning of the visit to the historic city hit Diondrea as soon as she arrived. She said her first thought was, “I am in Washington, D.C.” As the week progressed, Diondrea went on several bus tours, the “most exciting event of the whole trip.” On these tours she saw the Washington Monument, the White House, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol. 14 Student life

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DURING THE talent show, Roland Booher and Yolanda Coulter sing a duet. Students show colors in talent shows two events gave students the chance to watch their friends perform: the talent show Feb. 28 and the spring concert May 9. In the talent show, Christy Freel and John Young placed third with a duet; Chris Flockaday captured second place with a piano solo; and Yolanda Coulter took the grand prize with her solo performance of “Truly.” Yolanda decided to sing her solo the night before the talent show. “1 had no practice before the day of the talent show,” Yolanda said, “and I really didn’t expect to win anything.” There was a comical act done by Glen Lovewell and Shannon Blanchard. They dressed up like women and sang “Where’s the Dress?” Junior and senior high students attended the spring concert, which ranged from dancing to singing. The cheerleaders started it off with a dance to “Conga” by the Miami Sound Machine. Many songs were country, such as Robert Goodson singing some of George Strait’s hits and Christi and Malloy Freel’s “Mama, He’s Crazy” by the Judds, while others were Deborah Collier, Shelly Tate and Susan Hubbard’s Pointer Sisters song “I Need You.” a 16 Student life