Powell High School - Panther Yearbook (Powell, TN)

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, mf! laamena We the Senaor Class of l9-19 beang of sound mand wath out the anfluence of any antoxacant do hereby de clare thas our last Wall and Testament Faast we do hereby leave our sancere thanks and appre caataon to those teachers who have guaded us through our twelve years of publac school Second we leave the squeaks of the steps and the utter salence of the labrary to Mrs Johnson whach we hope she enaoys an peace Thard we leave to the Junaors our anherated tatle of Dag nafaed Senaors and our excellent health grades NaVe Ruth Campbell and Ruth Smath leave our habst of eatang candy an the Spanash Class to Maraorae Wraght I Glenn Brock who anherated my he man physaque from Calvan Gentry of 48 bequeath saad physaque toA J McBee Theora Lucas leave my abalaty to sang an the Englash Class to Katae Lyons Tommy Race leave my space by the geometry door to James Evans and has garl mend l no longer need at Barbara Allason who receaved my cheerleader abalaty from Juanata Mays leave my posataon as cheer leader to Wanston Bullen Charles Rhyne leave my abalaty to go to sleep an class to Ted Fortner Mattae Lyons leave my gaft of gab to Betty Jo Rogers We Mary Lee Katts and Dorothy McMallan leave our lunch table an the study hall to Helen York and Imogene Bayless lat they wall leave no crumbsl Mary Acuff leave my knowledge of Spanash to Betty Bowman but my housekeepang abalaty I take wath me I may need at James Jennangs leave my curls and smale to Robert Parker Smale Robert Kathryn Black leave my gaggles to Wanda Weagel Esther Baker leave my habat of blushang to Betty Wells and my ceaseless chatter to Betty Jo Rogers Wade Smath leave my presadency of the Senaor Class to Betty Lou Capps together wath a box of asparan for the headaches that go wath at Beulah Beeler leave my blue leans to Lora Hubard Judae Lay leave my abalaty as class artast to anyone who can qualafy l Barbara McClaan leave my abalaty to catch a husband to Juanata Myers I Maraan Cooper leave my nackname Peanut Red Vandergraff We Maurace Foxx and Brady Hatton leave our hastory grades to Clyde Meradath and Ralph Malls Better luck to them Kenneth Wallaamson leave my cute smale to Buddy Cooper lt works' Barbara Dew leave my pretty blond haar to Elazabeth Harban who gusts lo o o ves blond haar Ball Reneau bequeath my membershap an the Beta Club to Jammy Prater Wylae Moore leave my readang abalaty to Ralph Cox af I had any Joella Blaar leave my anstant gaggle box to Glena West Loretta Brown leave my abalaty to turn over an the study hall to Ruth Burgan wath the hope that she won t break a bone Sharley Weaver leave my long wooly haar to Maldred Mary Lacy relunctantly bequeath my Senaor Sweet heart Shap to Nancy Cooper Paul Roberts leave my anterest an the freshmen garls to L C Jenkans Martha Smath leave my dagnaty to Helen Black Sarah Lacy leave my questaonang voace to Joan Fulks We Franklan Cooper and Hubert Cannon leave our braght red sharts to Ball Hatmaker and Lloyd Strange I Jammae Bowman leave my Englash handbook to Carl Amann, lDon t you thank he could use at Mrs Mc Caskall I I James Byrd leave my senaor dagnaty to C M Clafton l Louase Ledford leave my Englash abalaty to Barbara Sexton l Blanche Jones leave my worn out hastory book to Gwendolyn Washam ln watness whereof we have set our hand to thas our last and only wall and testament an the year of our Lord nine teen hundred and forty nane The Senlor Class Testator Watnesses Mrs Floy Bell Mrs Grace Ross . . . . - u H I ' I ' , , I r to , . . , - I ' I - I I I ' . 'I , . I ,, ,, - ' s I A ' I . . . - - , I, , . 1 . . . ,I . - ' I ' ' - ' I ' ' ' . I, ' , ' . I . , . Il . I . .. ' ' ll - ll ' ' I - . I ' I . ' . . - - ' I, , - l l ' I . - - 'I l .. . . . , , ' . I - 1 I. ' , , , , ' - ' - - I, , , I - - -- Collier. , , . . . . ,, I ' Ia a ' , ' ll I' , .. . I' I . . . . ,, . ,, . . . I, , . l, , . I 1 I I' I . . . A I I I , I . ' I . I I I' I I . . . A . ., . , , D . , . ' I, ' , ' . . . . . , , . . . . , , I I ' - . r 1 II I , . l , , n Q I - I, , ' . I, ' , ' . I ' ' ' ll ll 4 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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-L lil 222 3400! All t0Pg The present Powell School building stands on the site of the old Perkins Secondary school house, the first to be built at Powell Station. The building was originally erected from funds alotted for grammar schools. However, since a survey showed need for high school classes in the community, the elementary school board agreed to permit the teaching of high school classes in the second story. Thus the first high school was established at Powell in borrowed rooms lElementary and high school funds were separatel. The new school building was dedicated September 26, l9l6 under Supt. Monroe Wilson. In the same year Lincoln Park, Fair Garden, South Knoxville, Halls and Fountain City were built with a total cost of Sl00,000 lSix two-story buildings for less than half the expendi- ture of our newly erected high schoolbuildingl. The faculty of the new school was composed of six teachers, Mr. W. A. Bell was the first principal. Mr. G. W. Morton and Glenmore Garret were the high school teachers. Other teachers were Mrs. Edith Bradley, Miss Beulah Bell and Miss Cleta Cox. The school consisted of eleven grades with a total of about ISO pupils. By 1923 the high school had grown to 65 pupils. The en- rollment at the present time is about five times as great. The total enrollment of the entire school is about 900 with 3 faculty of twenty-eight teachers. During the first Year of its existance the school ex- penses were as follows: Teachers S2500.007 Janitor S47.60p Supplies S325 Fuel Sol. During the present year approximate expenditures are as follows: Teachers S78,000g Janitor service 54050: Supplies S7505 Fuel 5600. During the years 3 new auditorium has been added, :cafeteria has been established, a gymnasium has been built and many other improvements made. Next year, l950, the two schools, elementary and high school, wlll be separated for the first time.