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SILK lllll QL XSS lllST0llY Our hugh school days mught well be compared to a game of ball whuch uf you ut well y u wun, uf you play ut u you lose Early un September l946 we the Senuor class of l95O assembled at Powell Hugh School to begun our game There were ahead of us four long years whuch to us seemed remote and far unto the future yet we were eager to play the game and make our scores We organuzed as any group would do What an organuzatuon the Freshman Team' Mrs Eleanor McCaskull and Mr B F Evans coached us that furst year and called the game accordung to the rules L C Jenkuns was elected presudent to hold the team to gether and to unform us of our progress Frank l-lerrell was selected as vuce presudent to assust L C un putchung a good game Robert Vandergruff attended our funances whule Betty Wells furnushed the press wuth our scores and accomplushments Algebra and Englush were to be over come and then cuvucs home economucs scuence and agruculture We dud not struke out on these although there were many foul balls called Soon we began to feel that there were sugnals to learn and plays to put unto actuon We gradually took form and developed unto a wunnung team When the Freshman year came to a close we found that our records and aver ages were beyond what had been antucu pated We had run even past furst base To make the score a luttle more note worthy we entertauned a raduo and scuence club and had sponsored Edmond Roberts and Nancy Cooper as kung and queen candu dates After a bruef peruod for rest we pre pared for another stretch the Sophomore year Wuth the seasons return un I947 we found that several of our players were muss ung namely Irene McElroy Barbara Bowen Harold Bowman Edward Moore Jeanette Paunter Edmond Roberts Bull Sharpe Eve lvn Ledford Wuth fewer people we knew that we would have to work even harder Team work must have developed to a greater extent thus year because belueve ut or not we passed economucs and geography No wonder we dud so well wuth such sponsors as Mr A G Haworth and Mr Wull J Swafford and such offucers as Bettye Capps and Robert Vandergruff presudent and vuce presudent resoecflvely Ruth Bur oun secretary Mae Mann treasurer and Wunston Bullen reporter We scored a home run when Ruth Burgun became carnu val oueen our Sophomore vear lt seemed that we had been on the players bench onlv a few munuutes when we fo' nd ourselves anturunatunq the thurrl base The Junuor Year Now we could slude on thurd' Englush agaun and home economucs musuc cnemustry Spanush agruculture and typung We must meet these qualufucatuons We grabbed up our mutts and gloves We must go We must wun thus game Quuckly we elected offucers and sponsors Robert Vandergruff presudent Jummy Duncan a new comer vuce presudent Wunston Bullen secretary Charles Roach treasurer Betty Wells reporter L C Jenkuns sergeant at arms umpure and coach Mr H l- Fowler and Mr Aaron Pratt It was not long before we duscovered that agaun we had lost several players who had euther struck out or jouned other teams Lawrence Copeland Muldred Cassidy Luna Fortner Paulune Gentry Bar bara Jean Berney Betty Hutchunson Ralph Mulls and Betty Jo Rogers Added attractuons that year were the sponsorung of Wunston Bullen and Jummy Evans as carnuval candudates the Junuor Varuety Show and the Junuor and Sensor Banquet Our scores were so hugh thus year that the chuef umpure Mr W W Morrus thought that they were umportant enough to be recorded on a card even to Mrs Mc Caskull s Englush grades The fourth year brungs the bug round up What wuth speech arts specual themes play practlce class meetungs pucture mak ung the Junuor Senuor Banquet and grad uatuon we have only a luttle tume for oc casuonal studyung ln spute of these hunder ances to effectuve functuonung we can report a year that us satusfactory from many pounts of vuew Our senuor year has been a happy one At the very begunnung of our senuor year we knew that our most capable leaders were needed so we chose Charles Roach as presudent Jummy Evans qualufued as vuce presudent Bettye Capps as secretary Clyde Mereduth treasurer and Franklun Massey reporter As sponsor Mrs Ross coached us un smooth play cooperatuon and sportsman shup The games seem to have been played un swuft successuon of events and now that the year us alomst over we are lookung back ward at the mustakes we have made yet lookung forward to what the future may hold For after thus season us completed the curtaun wull fall the team of l95O wull dus band and each wull choose an unduvudual game of Iufe All hustory us a story of gradual develop ment We have taken a few steps un the rught durectuon possubly bequnrinq to walk and fallung pretty often yet we have been able to catch a qlumpse of the possubulutues of a hugh school educatuon We trust that a oreater performance us un store for us as each member of the class of 50 launches out to hus separate thrullung adventure ,X 1 Y y V Y' . 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LAST WILL AND TLSTADIILINT State of Tennessee County of Knox Cnty of Powell We the l95O Senlor Class of Powell Hrgh School belneved to be of sound mlnd and Ilmlted lntellngence declare thus our flnal Wlll and Testament makung vold all others To the prlncupal and faculty we be queath our sincere thanks and apprecuatuon for thelr help In our years of hlgh school and our hopes that as promxsung a senlor class will emerge next year We bequeath our honorable tltle Dug nrfled Seniors our abundant knowledge of English and history and our excellent study hah 'ts to the Junrors We bequeath the sportung sparlt of dear Powell Hugh School to the Sophomore Class We bequeath our shyness and our abrlrty to appear lntellxgent to the Freshman Class To all future Seniors we bequeath our pleasant memorles of the lunch room the study hall the class play the Junior Sensor Banquet and all the varrous and sundry class meetlngs We bequeath the length of the hall from the cafeterra to Mr Morris offrce to Franklln Rhyne who seems usually to be loaflng there To Pete Campbell Jnm Painter Leo Cooper and all other boys who have crew harr cuts we leave the plnkung scussors ln the Home Economrcs department To T L Frne we leave the slldlng door to the agrucultural department and only hope that he can get from beneath It n To Lovetta Hurst we leave the unex cused permit stamp In the offlce To Bob Norman we leave the bulletrn board wlth all nts announcements data and tabulatrons We Flossle Weaver Helen Black and Glena West bequeath our abrlrty to play basketball to Kathleen Massey Betty Barley and Jeanne Loy We Nancy Cooper Wlnston Bullen and Helen Black leave our swrshy cheer leaders skrrts to Brrdre Lee Cooper Gerald une Headrrck and Barbara Kelso Upon the class of 5l we bestow the fol lowvng personal possesslons I Carl Amann hereby will my standzng as Corporal In the Natronal Guard to Wayne Gregory I Imogene Bayless leave my fruendll ness to Barbara Webster I Helen Black leave my athletuc abllrty to Pearl and Betty Wyrrck I Wanda Bledsoe Leave my talkatrve ness and grqgles to the Sexton twlns l Betty Bowman leave my qulet ways to Jo Ann Dew and Dons Worsham I Wlnston Bullen leave my beautlful smrle to Trula Poston Smale Trula I Marlorle Camobell leave my ravlshrng eyes to Joyce Ann Cooper I Bettye Capps leave my secretarual rob to Mrldred Sharoe I C M Clifton leave my blond halr to John Nelson I Muldred Colller leave my way wath Mr Pratt to Bettv Rhodes I Buddy Conner leave my abrluty to play basketball to Woody Evans I Nancy Cooper leave the secretarys office to Betty Kelso and Iva Lou Muse I Ralph Cox leave my contlnual Ioaflng to Marcus Keeney l Jlmmy Duncan leave my ablllty to tell the teacherl, off to Gerald Schadd I Fannette Edmondson leave my way of persuasnon to Don McConnell I Jrmmy Evans leave my good looks and my way wnth the women to Newtle Braden I Ted Fortner leave my ablluty to sleep In all classes especnally rn hrstory class to Jack Lewis I Jo Ann Fulks leave my ablllty to cook to Olga Taylor I Eluzabeth Harbln leave all the Junror Boys rncludung Blll Easterday to Norma Johnson I Bxll Hatmaker leave my book How to Wln Fruends and Influence Teachers t Frank Herrell I Lora Hubard leave my chewrng gum and my art of popplng It to Wilma Wolfen barger I L C Jenkrns leave my flve easy rules on how to sneak out of football practlce to Edwnn Spradlun I Katle Lyons leave my dlgnlty and quiet dlsposttlon to Johnavee Gray I Mae Mann Butcher leave my left over proposals to Louise Gibson I Franklln Massey leave my walk and my lumber legs to George Gouns I Clyde Meredlth leave my handsome look to Dale Taft I A J McBee leave my flne he man Glen Brock to Gene Black I Juanlta Myers leave my slze to Bar bara Armstrong and Barbara Hollingsworth I Robert Parker leave my smllunq blush which I rnherlted last year from James Jen nrngs to Sammy Cooper I Jlmmy Prater leave my guarding ablll tres un football to Dan Cooper I Donald Proffrt leave my heught to Carl Rhodes and Harry Fersner I Nerlrn Rudlngs leave my beautlful talkung volce to Marvnn West so that he may charm Mrs Bell I Charles Roach bequeath all my bust ness affalrs to Jam Palnter I Lloyd Strange leave my cave man style of playung football to Charles Nix and Homer Smlth I Robert Vandergnff leave my atten tuons to Wawanna Cameron I Gwendolyn Washam bequeath my love for handsome men to Dot Black I Flossse Weaver leave my wonderful knack of tyornq to Edith Ford I Wanda Wergel leave the 4 H Club to Kathleen Massey I Betty Wells leave my Beta Club sen lorrty to Jama Ruth Tlpton I Glena West leave my blythe and care free cha m to Roberta Weaver I Marlorue Wrlqht leave Brown s Rest aurant to Rhoda McMulIan Lastly we do hereby apoount Mr H J Fowler as our sole executor In wntness whereof we herebv set our hand thus 76th day of May N nptpon Hundred and Frfty SENIOR CLASS OF l95O Wutness Mrs Grace Ross W W V I I I ' I I , V . 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