Powell High School - Panther Yearbook (Powell, TN)

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67,515 OQWL AT LAST OUR GOAL Classmates at last we ve reachec. our goal We ve galned a helght wnth heart and soul All these twelve years that we have tried We ve worked for thus one year our prlde When we were IH the Freshman class Gur mlnds were green as blades of grass But an the Sophomore Year you know Our mmds were clear our hearts aglow The Junnor year as one might guess Was full of fun and eager zest Our grades no good the teachers sand But well be great before we re dead' A toast to teachers through the years In English Scnence History or Home Ec You answered the questuons we could not get And now we face the future brlght Lughted by Powell Hugh Schools gleaming lught We ll go on wnth courage true To face the work we have to do By Thomas Rvce Cfblffd Ong fTune Sulver Threads Among The Goldl Good bye dear old school We are leavung you thvs sprung Through happy days we ve been here Learned to labor and to sung But dear school we now have work to do And each one a place to fill And so now we say adveu To you for ever more Dear old school good bye to you Golden may our future be We II ever owe a debt to you All the days of our llfe thru By Marla n Cooper I r ' I 1 - l -I ll , . I I I , . 11 11 I ' I I I I I Who buttoned our clothes or dried our tears. 1 r 1 ' I I I ' - I I I I I .

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KLM czhfafory Soon we the senuors of Powell Hugh School are goung tc wutnes the buggest event un our lufe We have been lookung forward for some tume to that great nught when we shall leave thus shup of knowledge and go upon land v huch at tumes has seemed so far away The members of the class of 49 are happy amud all of our strufe to reach the long sought shore True Happy Iandungsl a pang of sadness strukes unto our hearts We shall be lonely for the pleasures we are leavung behund for the lovung skuppers who have been so kund and thoughtful and have steered us away from the rocks because of enforced separatuon from our mates who must stay for another trup and for the old decks that wull echo wuth our customs As we thunk of our duscharge we recall the sunny day back un the sprung of l9-15 when we were guven certufl cares whuch announced the completuon of elementary courses and ushered us onto that all umportant trup a board the freshman saul boat Our hearts and munds were fulled wuth wonder and pleasant antucupatuon That sum mer was the longest vacatuon we had ever taken and ut seemed as uf we would be on land forever We left un the fall of 1945 wuth our vessels hutched to a star We whustled yelled and scrambled over the decks luke mad for a few weeks but our spuruts were soon dampened by those hugh and mughty senuors who would pass us un theur huge boats and splash us thoroughly After a whule ut was decuded that we should elect offucers and a skupper for our boat So we stopped on a lu tle usle called class meetmg We got very luttle out of that meetung except a lecture on how advanced saulors should act However later we were able to accomplush our purpose and we selected the followung to steer our course Mrs Ross Sponsor Theora Lucas Presudent Mary Kath Clendon Lamb Sargent at arms Louuse Owens Treas urer and Barbara McClaun Reporter We took part un the carnuval and had fun tryung al though we dud not wun We closed the year wuth a swummung party at Lakewood ln that year wuth our splendud teachers helpung us we managed to make a few good grades We left for what we thought was a well eamed vaca ton and we were glad to rest Although we loved the voyage we were begunnung to get a luttle sea suck ln the fall of 46 we boarded the Sophomore for our trup We were glad to heartuly welcome the Lacy gurls who have been wuth us smce We were surprused and sad when we returned and found so many of our number gone Some had stayed on land to partucupate un ,obs other schools marruage and the servuce of our country Among these were Wulma Helms Juanuta Warren Jewell Reed Maxune Gubson Robert Spradlun Carl Worsham Bobby Yates Louuse Owens and Clara Terry After pausung for some tume over the grasshoppers cf Buology and the subuectuve compluments of Englush u was decuded we could agaun meet and organuze our class We had learned that Sophomores should not guggle and act luke nuts so we behaved much better than we had the preceedung year Mrs Ross had guuded us safely through our furst year so we selected her agaun lt was decuded that we were advanced enough to have two sponsors and we elected Mr H J Fowler also We apprecuated Theora Lucas work very much and eleded her as our Presudent agaun Our other offucers were Mary Kathryn Black vuce presudent Beulah Beeler secretary, Lynn Morgan treasurer and Mattne Lyons reporter That year we took an actuve part un the carnuval, and were overpoyed when we won We elected Mary Lee Kutts a our queen and Lynn Morgan as our kung they made us adorable rulers We helped the other classes and took part lh any actuvutues whuch came our way We had a skatlng party near the end of school and everyone had a grand tume leven uf Bull Reneau dud fall and damage the floor! Our only musfortune durung the year was the loss of two fel low students Delores and Imogene Head who lumped over board and swam to shore because they couldn t walt to get marrued We funushed the year wuth a splendud pucnuc and swim mung party at Lakewood The fall of I947 found us agaun down at the docks and ready to take off We spent the furst week un settlung unto the old routune and the second one regrettung the los of more students who had stayed on shore some of whuch were Gordon Forrester Margaret Patt Loretta Eales Fleda Weaver Clendon Lamb, and Davud Franse A few weeks later we faced agaun the problem of leaders We knew that Mrs Ross and Mr Fowler were the ones for us They readuly agreed to help us For our offucers we chose Frank Cooper presudent Wade Smuth vuce presudent Beulah Beeler secretary and James Byrd treasurer We worked hard to make the most of thus voyage The many events of the year were clumaxed by the Junuor Senuor banquet near the close of the year whuch both students and teachers enuoyed very much The theme of the banquet was a curcus and you can be sure we had a We closed the year wenuer roast at Mr H H Browns Three long months rolled around to make us what we are now SENIORS O how we have loved to travel so smoothly un our good shup SENIOR How proud we were when as we passed smaller vessels we could look down as we had once been looked down upon and sa Please would you luttle Freshmen care to move ove wuth that reverence your elders look We were happy to be the furst class to elect offucers and dud not pause untul we had secured Mrs Ross again for Sponsor We knew that wuth plays annuals and so on that we could never do wuthout a woman who knew Shakespeare Chaucer and grammar from kuver to kuver so we chose Mrs W A Bell as Co sponsor Our other offucers chosen unanumously are Wade Smuth Presudent Bu'l Reneau Vuce presudent Barbara McClaun Treasurer Maruon Cooper Secretary Mattue Lyons Reporter and Martha Smuth and Glenn Brock Sgts at arms We have had a wonderful tume at work and play Now we are lookung forward to these last few days wuth pleas ure The annual Junuor and Senuor banquet our class play and other actuvutues are keepung us un a state of bedlam We trust that as we leave we wull recall the more seruous thoughts our beloved teachers have Irlstllled 'H our munds and we shall try to luve up to theur desures for our future as we launch out on the bugQeSf YOYIQC we have yet undertaken May ut be Bon voyage' Mattue Lyon Reporter I I I I . . 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