North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Louls J Catlgnanl Mary Frlel Brown Edythe Dickens Natalie Dickey Margaret Douglas Physfcal Education 'lbrarlan Commerce Commerce Muslc Ethel Friedman Joan George Lnlhan Gnlchrust Emogene Gnlpun Mrs Margaret Gray Home Economlcs Spamsh and Hfs ory Hfslcmry l-llst ry Jean Hagey Thomas Hall Jr Mary Halloran Mary Katherune Hammer Jvnmne Harvull Soc1olSmd1es Indusrrlol Ar s Engl h Home Economics Englfsh Mrs Robert L Emma R Hewutt Anna Margaret Hull Eluzabeth B Jackson Kommerud Mrs Herbert Kropf English Englfsh Clwcs Englfsh and History Health and Phys cs FACIJLTY

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Gee lVh1z, here I am at last, Penny Szngleton' Sure thought Id ne: er make zt I haze dreamed o taking those steps or a long time Funny but that aisle nezer seemed so long be ore Lingering zn my ears are the strams o Pomp and Czrcumstance ll hat a wonder ul eelzng comes ozer me as I s1t here on the stage uzth my classmates' Lookzng out znto the crou ded audztorzum my mznd uanders back to my school days at North, the days whzch I cannot relue, but o uhlch I haze so many nostalgzc memorzes It seems only yesterday that I came to INorth as a seventh grader ll e uere really squares then R member the con uswn o those rst days? We could nezer get to the rzght place at the rzght tzme It dzdn t take us long, though, to realzze that ue had many thzngs to learn about thzs place zn uhzch ue uould prepare ourselzes or the uture Soon ue settled doun to our nezer to be orgotten rst year at North The year-1948 49 IV e were zn the ezghth grade Con dent o ourseli es ue looked dou n on the seienth graders and elt a lzttle bigger and more zmportant Ao longer uere ue scared 0 gettzng lost In the halls or hazing llght bulbs stuck zn our ears only one ear remarned Mr INoel7 Nope his paddle ll e had heard some wild and wicked tales about that paddle rom some o the less fortunate ones Speaking of the un ortunate mes, our homeroom teachers were Mrs Parker Mrs ackson Mzss Alley Mr Doak, and M1ss Hagey ust thlnk, the next year ue would be graduated from junzor high In the nznth grade ue uere strzckly in the grooze and began to feel that ue uere a part o the school How nzce zt sounded to be called reshmen ' Although ue were 171 our last year o yunzor hzgh bezng con s1dered a part o the high school made us eel our zmportance ll e elected Kenneth Madden to the presidency o our reshmen class Don Brown and Gene: 1e1e Perry were elected lice preszdent and secretary treasure: respectzzely What un it uas electing superlatues' Some o our real gone classmates receu ed these honors Now we were elzgzble to run or an o ce o the student body, too The year was clzmaxed by junzor hzgh gradua tzon at uhzch time u e recezz ed u1th przde our junior high school diplomas Sophomores' Sophomores' Hurray' ll e uere no longer in junior high Almost 616710716 began to take part zn the school actu ztzes Szngzng ln the Senzor Hzgh Chorus and playing HI the Band uere really a lot o fun The boys played on the football basketball and baseball teams and some o the girls supported them as cheer leaders and mayorettes Forward march' Get zn step' Fall out' Company halt' That s rzght the boys uere taking thezr zrst year o R O T C Wznmng the Armzstzce Day Parade uas an honor and I m sure they haven t orgotten Federal Inspectzon Those uere only a eu o the many things ue partzczpated zn, though there were many Yes the old school spzrzt had taken hold o us As junzors, we began to realzze that ue uere nearlng our goal Nou we uere really on the beam e started the year off by electmg junzor class o zcers T Perry uas chosen to zll the o :ce o preszdent Other o zcers elected uere Herman Schroeder zzce preszdent Elza ll zllzams secretary and Anne ll est treasurer Some o us became members o the INu Eta Sigma Chapter o the lNdfl0Ildl Honor Society ll e ended the year by entertaznzng the semors at the annual unlor Senior Prom Then ue began to look oru ard to taking our last step up the ladder 0 completzon our senzor year At last our dream had come true I! e uere seniors and ezery one was lookzng up to us A lot of thzngs happened zn our senzor year at North Fzrst, there was the electzon o senzor o zcers who u ere Herman Schroeder preszdent Thomas Wlllzams uce preszdent, Anne ll est, secretary and Bez erlee ufflgbf treasurer Attendants for Football Homecomzng were Margie Floyd and Margaret Szlz eman and Bezerlee Il rzght uas queen Recen :ng the honors o Bachelor o Ugllness and Mzss North High uere Herman Schroeder and Bezerlee Wright, respectzz ely Mary Helen ll zrshzng was appoznted editor of the NORTH STAR and alsr co editor of the POLARIS Kenneth Madden serz ed as the other co ed1tor o the annual By rzght of hazzng the highest azerages on thezr last term exams Kenneth Madden and Mary Helen ll 1rshzng uere president and uce president o the Honor Society respectzzely Anne West was elected captazn o the cheerleaders and the ootball team chose thezr captazns rom game to game Close races loomed zn the electzon o superlatzz es uhzch was a lot o fun Speakzng o un reminds me o the Senior Formal the unior Senior Prom, and that uonder ul Sneak Day Yes those uere the good old days Although they haze come and gone their memo ries wzll always lznger 171 our hearts Dzd someone say somethzng9 ll hy yes Mary Helen ll rrshzng zs delzzermg her salutatory address Valedrctorzan Kenneth Madden speaks next E1 ery one szts erect and listens attentzz ely He must hal e uork ed hard to achzeze the honor D A R Medalist, Elza Wflllzams, receu es her medal How proud she must feel to haze been chosen the best gzrl cztzzen by her classmates The Czutan Medal goes to Kenneth Madden by the same merzt Finally the moment uhzch ue haze looked oru ard to arru es A unny feelzng comes oz er me suddenly At last we haze receued zt' The cert! zcate which to us symbollzes a reuard or tu el1e years o work a high school dzploma Lookzng at it we all seem to realzze that our care ree school days are ozer and ue must look to the uture The muszc begzns agazn, and each graduate clutching hzs dzploma tightly ualks up the aisle uhzch uzll lead hlm out into the uorld In a short time ue hafe been transposed rom stu dents to young men and uomen and we must each fznd our own place in lz e jon COLFS MARGARET SILVEMAN 1 s Hl.'P0l1Y...CLA.. 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