Powell High School - Panther Yearbook (Powell, TN)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTGRY We set saul un the fall ot 47 when ninety three bewuldered classmcn made our way up the gangplank of a shup Thus cruuser was chrustened The Freshman and was te bear us seawn d where we feared there would be mon sters dragons whales and bug waves whuch would cover us up These dangers faced us ln the forms of algebra scuence Englush Home Economucs and Agruculture We overcame most of them admurably some of them were Caught even wuthout a hook Our captaun thus year was Jum Paunter wuth Frank Herrell as CO captwun Norma Johnson carrued the kev to the treasure chest whule Muldred Sharp made all records and kept the log of the trup Chuef consultants were Admural Eleanor McCaskull and Rear Admural B Frank Evans A specual feature of thus cruuse was partucupa tuon un the annual carnuval wuth Betty Kelso and Bobby Chapman as candudates In May 48 the crew dusembarked for a much needed rest A new shup was necessary for the sophomore trup We found ourselves on the cruuser Wlse Fool wuth seventy eught members Each person was determuned to make thus year s trup even mure successful by agaun electung Jum Paunter as captaun Dan Cooper co captaun Rhoda MC Mullan secretary Bull Easterday trea urer O D Hatmaker reporter Mrs Moyers and Miss Rhodes erved as advusors ln addutuon to schol astuc success thus year we aptured the honor of the annual carnuval and crowned Jum Paint er and Wawanna Cameron as kung and queen of Powell Hugh The shup rocked wuth happu ness Added to thus the bovs of the class Qaun ed possessuon of the unter class basketball tro phy Our course was complete we had the sat usfactuon of a lob well done After three months of vacatuon once agaln came the task of boardung our shup There were eughty three uunuors weavung around this new shup Sophustucated Besudes studues we had one purpose thus year whuch was the staguhq of the Junuor and Senuor Banquet Whule on hup the class held uts annual electuon wuth Jum Paunter commander Woody Evans Lueutenant com mander Joyce Cooper secretary Wulma Wolf enbarger treasurer Norma Johnson reporter Mrs Hunter and Mr Fowler sponsors Glory dudnt pass us by thus year Our boys held the unter class basketball champuonshup Norma Johnson won second place rn the Junuor Chamber of Commerce speech contest and the play Lute Beguns At Suxteen was presented wuth Bull Easterday and Norma Johfson as ead Relaxung after tunal exams the Sophustucated carrued us safely unto Junuor Cove the thurd course of our journey was funushed The last cruuse unvolved deep waters short days and long black nughts We needed some one to councul and advuse Consequently Mrs Ross Mrs Moyers and Mr Fowler were found workung wuth us whether ut was a hurry up call rneetung class meetung runos to order money to rause ads to sell speakers to select or a book to publush The last shup Dugnufued We felt that bv thus tume we had mastered the art of navugatuon Marvun West was elected cap taun Jum Paunter co captaun Homer Smuth re porter Wulma Wolfenbaroer treasurer and Wawanna Cameron secretary We performed on shup the delughtful play, Mother ls A Freshman wuth Barbara Holl ungsworth Norma Johnson and Jum Palnter as leads Agaun our candudates won the annual carnuval Wawanna Cameron and Ronald Wul son as kung and queen of Powell Hugh Our uourney through the sea of school lufe has been four years of happuness success un class as well as out of class We have taken many dusappountments luke good saulors Standuncl at the raul lookung toward Com mencemant Isle we wonder what the future holds for us But whatever lues beyond the horuzon we wull meet ut wuth fauth determuna tuon and wuth heads hugh 1 ' A l f I A f 1 I - , I - J F 1 1 I ' V I I I 4 F ' ' ' , . , . . . I I I 1 1 1 - . . 4 I A - I 1 1 1 h I I ' , A r 11 - 1 - 11 1 ' I , - A 4 J- A l I J - l S. cr , ' I 4 1 1 I . . . I . 1 . I - ' 1 . . . . I I . r - , , . , , 1 4 ' I I I I U -1 I r 1 1 1 - - 11 - - - 11 - - - - 1 1 V . T I WGS SOFY19 cruiser carrying SeVel ll'y-TWO SenlOl'S. , ' . . . 1 - 1 r 1 1 - 1 1 ' : 1 1 ' 1 1 - 1 - I - - , - 1 .J 1 K 1 1 1 S 1 ' . , . . , . . I I c ' ' ' - ' T' ' 11 11 - 1 C , ' , , I V . , I I 4 , . . .- I - . I I V- - V ' - 1 ' 1 H . . I ' ' 1 I I ' -4 I v . A I , . , . 4 ', - 1 1 - ' , ' S J A , l ' .

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