Trousdale County High School - Stepping Stone Yearbook (Hartsville, TN)

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Stepping Stone ae -1 M no ec? It was one of those rare sprang naghts a calm and peaceful naght noaseless, as af all the e1rth yyere sleepang yyhale myraad stars kept watch from the sky There yyas no moon to dam thear brallaance and only a sangle ghost of a cloud 'lhas was the naght for yyhaeh I had been yyaatang f r I Xalen Belcher, had been entrusted yyath the task of readang tlae stars an order to see what the future maght hold for the Senaors of the Class of 41 I walked to the top of the hall and sat doyyn upon the trunk of a fallen tree Perhaps here I maght be able to succeed an fulfillang the duty that was mane Por a moment my thoughts ran yvald VVhat dad the future really hold? Now yve yyere 1 elass together, bound each to each by the bond of fraendshap lNoyy yye yyere young hopeful happy an beang ahve today, and eonfadent of tomorrow But what and where would each of us be ten years from now? As a chald I had fancaed that each star an the sky represented some person who had hved, yvas lavang or was to laye on the earth I recalled that fancy novy My star was there somewhere above me, and so was the star of each of my elassmates I maast concen trate untal my thoughts could transcend space Ah yes, and tame as yvell I must converse yyath each 1s he or she yyould be ten years from now As I gazed toward heaven my eyes became hxed upon four braght stars grouped closely together I would began wath these Surely they must be some of my classmates, or they could not attract me so Who are you' my thoughts called After a moments pause, a rach deep yoace replaed We are the Boys uartet Herma Massey, lerroll Muse, lee Allen Pendaryas, and Cleston Davas e are at the present tourang hurope, gavang concerts an prancapal cataes of the contanent It could be done' Hoyy glad I was' lNoyy to seek out others Who could the sangle star be yyho shone so braghtly not so far away I am Labba Garrett, I am the leadang star of Hollywood My yellow haar shoyys up naeely an technacolor televasaon broad Betty Labby I'arras and Gene' lhey 'are here, you yvall End them stall grouped around lalburn Dayas I alone haye broken away let Ialbaarn tell you about them Wath no other anvatataon Lalburn ansyyered I am a heart spe caalast Most of my pataents are femanane, and af medacal treat ment doesnt work you see sometames a smale yvall Labbv Davas as quate famous now you knoyy She has just yyon the Interna taonal Shorthand Contest held an Toronto Canada She says she enjoyed the trap Betty Key as marraed and keeps busy yyath her housekeepang ennae Shepphard as the yyrater of a daaly personal column an the New lurk Imam You remember ennaes oraganal adeas, don t you? VI ell her column as plenty good Farras Stalcup whom yye expected to be a teacher surprased us by becomang a renovyned coaeh of dramatacs She h1s her own studao an Hollywood now And Gene' I asked There as Gene, he saad She as the tany star oyer there yyho twankles so delaghtfully Sle ll tell yoaa about hers lf waated for a few seconds then 1 modest almost shy lattle yoace Saad, My hrst book vyall be off the press next yyeele Its tatle as Irash Eyes ' ' What of those four brallaant stars 'around you there I saad They must be TC H S companaons yvho haye made braght names for themselyes Why yes she saad yyath that same joy an other peoples good fortune One as Dee Frances Cothron one of the best known artasts of our day She specaalales an coyer des gns for magazanes Georgaa Gothard as paanast for the Metropolatan Opera Company You remember her flyang hngers Im sure Fleanor Stone has deyeloped that extraordanary busaness talent that she dasplayed as a member of our class and as now the prosperous oyyn r of 1 fashaonable radang academy Lallyan Halev holds quate a responsable posataon an VI ashangton now as Secretary to the sen or Senator from Tennessee What faan thas yy1s' I almost held my breath as another group of braght laghts attratted me Who could they be' Hello I c1lled 'and yyho should answer but Paul Cassettyl ts m he saad illeayensl h1s he forgotten all those lessons an gr mmarl Buck lsrye and I are makang an easy layang noyy lyou knoyy us? We are radao comedaans just beang ourselves You hay en t by any chance forgotten Brer Fox and Brer Rabbatf I could see them now FI hese three lesser laghts hangang around over here are my pals Roger l Cox, noyy 1 lawyer jam Majors who recently took Mr VI alburn s pl aee 'as Agraeulture teaeher at home, and jack lovelady jack has just been made Sheraff of Trousdale County I have vyarned ham agaanst arrestang the wrong man as he dad an The Mummy and the Mumps Goodbye now I see an anterestang meteor comang thas way She may be from Castalaan He was tlae same old Paul, all raght I ought to be able to locate a threesome representang Dorothy If raght l'dn1 Harper and lorene Holder They yvould surely be together lhey always were Ant yye stall are saad Edm I am 1 nurse at St 'Ihomas I am 1lyyays assagned to the pataents from Hartsvalle Dorothy IN raght as a model an New York And Lorene Holder as keepang books She tells me that she has actually learned to do at wathout erasang Do you ever meet julaa Majors? I anquared Oh often, you yyall find her not far ayyay to the West She naust be the one wath the slaghtly red hue, and those other three yyath her would be Frances Maynard Effae Oldham and Ada Dee Gregory 'Ihats raght ulaa tyyankled I am owner of a Hollywood Beautv Salon and Irances yyorks for me She alyyavs yvas an teresteel an the VI est you know I stall lake to arrange other peo pl s haar Iabba Garrett yvouldnt let anyone else arrange hers for a pactaare lhere yy1s prade and h1ppaness an her voace and I yyas so glad lf anyone desery ed h1ppaness, at was ulaa You yyall be antarasterl to know that Ada Dee has a swanle restaurant near my plaee and Ixffae and Ball own a fillang stataon just across the street hffae has become a very seraous person I dadn t thank Ball could do at , If I eoaald only keep contact for a few manutes longer, my at tempt yyoaald haye been entarely successful I must knoyy about ames lerkans Yes 'IINI Henry Sanath af I could fand them I ought to be able to loe ate Howard l avlor and good nataared Horas Oldham Vyeye been yyaatang for a chance to get an a yyord It yyas james lerkans speakang 'Xs I remember, he was always waatang for that yerv same ehanee You hay en t lost your anterest an scaence, I hope I replaed Oh, no Im a research chemast now an the laboratoraes of The eyy ard larau Cbemae al Company an Detroat Henrv as sta 'arguang aml noyy he as beang paad for at He as an the Senate Horas alyyays a loy er of lrouselales halls and yalleys as a farmer Hoyyaad 'laylor has lost has shy ness and has become a hagh pressure salesman for the olan Deere Ployy Company Feature that' I yyas completely knocked off my feet wath sur prase lhe shocle brought me back to earth, and I was just Aalene Beleher agaan The stars yyere a mallaon males away They were no longer yoaees, but tany tyyanklang laghts, andescrabably beautafaal -agea nst tlae dark blue yely et curtain of Heaven AILENE Bateman e s - I K. a Y 5 L Y a . . , , 4 . . . . r Q ,, . . , n 1 Ie- lx, . . 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S te pzng S' tone lfl'L8l LCdlfLl15l'l'L 6Ll'I1 l'l'LQl LCG1l'L 8417158 Ar th1s IIIDL of world LFISIS, more than ey er before we should be thanl1ful for our 'XIUCTIC Ill goy ernment We are threatened wlth dlsaster, and must hght lf we would l1eep al1ye the sacred pr1nc1ples of freedo1n llberty, and equallty for w hleh so m my m I1 h IX e fo11ght before I say we must fight for them not as '1 pred1ct1on that 'XIULFILI w1ll enter the w 1r bllt IH the sense that we must struggle to l1eep ever before us the pr1ne1ples ol democracy, and the trad1t1ons of honor IHTIX ery and unselhshness whleh 1re o11r herltage Prom o11r plon er forefathers we h1ye 1nher1ted 1 land of OPPUTIUIIIIX, for whleh thev s 1er1heed the1r 1ll It IS our duty, IS well I9 Ollf pr1v1lege, to glve the best of ourselyes to the preserv1t1on of those thmgs for whxch they l1ved and d1ed Ihe one most 11nportant flllllg that we can do tow 1rd protectmg Amer1e1 IS to dey elop Wlflllll oursely es 111 lIlSplI'2lIl0l1 of p1tr1ot1sm a feel1ng of natlonal umty Ihls seems 1 r1ther st iftllllg statement tal1en hterally, but we can proye that thls IS tr11e Ill 1 pr1ct1cal sense IS well as ldeallstlcally 1f we but COIISICILI' what 1 dev astatnng effect thns lacl1 of n 1t1onal umty has had on the many natlons, whlch have so recently fallen prey to the tyranny of those aggressor natlons Whose 1deal1s total government Our land has been called Ihe Meltmg Pot of the world and mdeed If IS As a natlon we 1re composed of everv race of people under the sun We can be justly proud of thls faet for these people haye come to Amerlca III the search for free dom and they belleye 1n 1nd deslre a share IU the prlnclples of llberty, JLISIICL, But beneath th1s Nleltmg Pot we m11st leeep hot the hres of patrlotlsm th It all these bloods and creeds 111 IV be thoroughly melted and fused IINIO the whole w1th no retent1on of the 1de 18 of other dns and other lands In 11 l1nd of f e speech thought 1nd 1et1o11 mueh 1nore than 111 the so c1lled IOI'lllt 1r1 111 gov ernments IS 1 l1el1 of lIllll1Lll purpose dangerous But there IS mother 1nd perhaps 1 gre 1ter danger that of the dlCI11I0l'Sl1lp We IHUSI t 1l1e e 1re that too much power does not fall 1nto the h mds of 1 sm 1ll group and yet must have 1 goyernmg p 1rty lhe only w ay th It yye can do th1s CHICICHIIE and LIILCIIVCIY I5 by sharmg our IHILTCSIS and worklng together toyvlrd a common goal And thls mutual mterest m11st be born of the healthy condltlons of the free repubhc We must work together toward a goal whxeh lb the carrylng on to betterment of o11r government a democraey ln the true sense of the word Then 1f fX1ner1ca means so much to us, shall we not strlye to preserve It Let LIS remember th 1t we llye 1n the greatest land ln all the world, the I and of Opportunlty Let us be thankful for the blessmgs w hlch are ours 1n our government Let us be fully aw 1re th II th1s IS a tlme of tr1al a metamorphosxs out of whlch we must IFISL not crushed 1nd helpless b11t w1th a greater glory 1 fuller her1t nge of all that IS honorable and to be deslred Let us then leeep 1l1ye ID our breasts thls lde 1, expressed so w ell Ill the 1mmort1l words of I lllCOlIl lh1t we here hlghly resolye that these de ill shall not h 1ve died 111 vam that th1s gre 1t ll H1011 under God shall have 1 new birth of freedom, and th If gov ernment of the people, by the people, and for the people sh 1ll not perlsh from the earth JAMES PERKINS 4 I T-fa I . 0 -1 I 1 - 1'1'1 ,,, 1 1 . 1 .1 , 1 ,-11 1. 1 , I 11 I 1 -, 1 1 wx, 11 1 x 1 ' 1 . 'I 1' I 1 v 1 1 I' 1 1 v1 v Q I 1 1' 1 1 v1 r V1 D 1. I ' I I Y Q -1 1 -f1 .1 1' 1 ' I1 11 1 1 ' ' 1 1 ' 1 1 ' '1 V11 1 111 ' I '1 . ' ' I 17 A 1 ' .1 1, -I I 1 1h11 I 1 A I 1 ' .1 ,Il 1 ' I 1 1 1 1 , . ' ,, 11 1 1 11 ' .1 11 ' 1 1 1 1 '1 2 2 , N. L. is 1 , , . 1 1 K 1, 1 - 17 1 ' W . I I ,i ev- - 13 v ' ' ' 1 1 , - 1 . 1 1 , v 14 9 . and eq1111l1tyfor Whlch Amenca IS renowned. 1 1 I 6. 1 . I' v 1 111 11 ' .1 1 1'l 11 ' I Y 1 'I - A ' 1 ' -- - 1 ' ' 1 re- , ,1 1 , 1 1 1 1 , , . .11 , 1, , 1,11 1 . , ,'11 1 , 1 ,1 1 1 , ' 1 1 ' .1 ,1 1 1 , , 1 1 . 1 1, 1 11 A 1 1 1 , 1 1 11 '. , V 1 1 . 1 . I yr 1 3 . I1 w I U 3 1 v I 2 1 1 1 111' . 1 , . 1 . ' ' ' Ak 1 1 .1 ' ,ya 1 1 r . v . r 1 ' v s . . 1 .Z , 2 , 1, -1 5. I 51, 1 , . . 1 ,Z 1 1,. , 1 1 .,, 1 '1,' 1 ' ' 1 1 1, ' ,' 1 ' 1' 1 : 45 1 1, , ' 1 ,1 1 ,1, ,1 . 1 , ' ' ' 1 '. 11 1 ' , . 1 1 , ' , 1 1 - - 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 l ' ' 1 1 , 1 ' .1 1. -17-

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S te pang Stone X Judi Wff ml jlafammf ITIL S nor Cla s of -ll reall n thelr days at Troustae County Hlgll were swlftly lll'2NNIl'lg., to a close deemed lf onlv httlnf to dlspose of thelr y il'lUllS talents deslres and abllltles To you llI'lllLI'Cll9SI11el'l these possesslons are bestowed XVlIl'l the bene factors best wlshes It I9 hoped that l'I1llCl'l beneflt wlll be derlyed from your newly acqulred rlches Xh' It IS posltlyely shoeklng Eyen whlle the rlng of our yolees and the elatter of our feet are stlll echolng ln the walls of ollr beloyed Xlma Nlater those who are left behlnd to carry on are gathered together anylollsly awaltlng the readlng of the wlll each eager to know lf they haye been left some prlceless glft X deadly sllence falls llpon the group as I rlse and clear my throat preparatory to readlng the document We the Senlor Cl lss of 19-ll of Trousdale County Hlgh School lltllig of sound mlnd and memory do publlsh thls our Iast Wlll and lestament reyoklng all yyllls pl'CVl0llSly made by us I'lrst we do hereby beque lth to the most honorable faculty ollr lhlllty to get along yvlth one another, even lf we do have dlflerent lde 18 about eertaln matters fo Mr Illllllli we leave due thanks and appreclatlon for the mlnv tlmes he slyy fat to leave the classroom durlng hlstory test VM wlll to the JllI'll0l 9 and all those followlng them the flll we hlye hlcl ln lllgll school also the small amount of dlg nlty we may possess Mara lfrances Gothard IS hereby ap polnted to see that thls ellgnlty gets proper sunllght and care belllg ln weakened eondltlon lnlght easlly become a vlctlm of some fatal dlseasel Pllll Cassetty bestows upon Clyde Pulllas the art of Qtallillllf., on hls head whlle YVYIIIHQ Clyde IS already left handed and probably wlll haye llttle trouble ID accompllshlng th eat james PETRIUQ leayes to Ralph Duncan hls excellent drlv lng ablllty Xforesald Ralph Duncan need not worry about hlttlng telephone poles or fence posts along the yyay Perk has already knocked them all down lo llp Stubbleheld Lorene Holder wllls her love for qenlor Engllsh Xt thls moment a loud nolse IS heard outslde and all eyes turn toward the door It IS Raymond Gregory and Llp, arrlvlng late as usual both stlcklng thelr heads ln the door just ln tlme to hear fhlS touchlng bequest Llp yells Thanks, Lorene, any body else left me anythlngw Herman Massey bequeaths to CllHOl'd Story hls deep mellow NOICC We yyonder lf Cllfford yvlll eyer slng, Ole Man Rly er as well as Herman does Qlestoll Davls leayes hls mlghty physlque to Ralph Marshall lllbllrn Davls yyllls hls lllmPlES to Ras Henry Holder Those two Dayls brothers llnlte ln bestowlng llpon Paul Douglas Alexander thelr power to be always the center of attractlon when ln the company of young ladles There haye been tlmes when lf was feared these popular young gentlemen mlght suffocate after belng surrounded by glrls durlng the entlre recess perlod lhere was a sllght lnterruptlon at thls polnt as Paul Douglas w o h d a ylslon of hllnself ln the place formerly occupled by not one but two DBNISSS, falnted ulla Majors leayes her method of managlng her twln brother to Frances Garrett rl'llS IS not to be taken ln the wrong, sense she merely thought Plute mlght need someone to look after hlm Llllyan Halev bequeaths to Sara Gregory her slogan 'Llttle but loud 4You may rest assured Haley that as long as Sara attends thls school your slogan wlll not dlel Iee Kllen Pendarvls generously bestows llpon I D YVll burn hls secret of how to grow tall ll D should lllye p l hlm for thatl enn e Sheppard leayes to Bllly Frank Celsor her prompt ness ln gettlng to school eyery mornlnf' Llbba Garrett wllls her extreme blondness to Ioulse Pulllas Ferroll Muse leayes hls fondness for 'llrplanes to asper Belcher who It IS belleyed wlll have llttle Iffllllllt, IH learnlng to be .1 pllot lf alrplanes are operated ln any w IX llke school buses Dee Frances Cothron bestows llpon Blanche Cook her tltle of Prettlest Glrl Here many slghs are heard among the junlor glrls as many of them had long looked forward to belng the proud possessor of thls III C Allene Belcher leaves her knowledge of hlstory to Pee VVee Beal ERIC Oldham wllls her effleleney as l housekeeper to Ernestlne Meador Irances Maynard leaves to ChflSfll1L Knlght her CICSIH. to be back on Rocky Creek Io Ralph Sheppard Henry Snlltll yyllls hls loye of a good argument R Frye cheerfully leayes hls prolnptness ln gettlng IH book reports to Kallle Morgan Dorothy YVrlght bestoyvs her holsterolls ways llllllll Yerna never say a word To Benetta YVatson the hablt of saylng eyactly what she thlnks IS left by Edna Harper From Rogcr T Coy john D Dalton reeelyes the secret of never maklng a term ayerage of less th ln 100 ln Xgrleulture Eleanor Stone bequeaths to Ruth Xleklurry ller splendld buslness ablllty Gene Pulllas leaves to ohn YVeslev YI hlte her talent for drawlng any thlng from flowers to polar bears To Dan Qcogglns, ack Loyelady yyllls hls loye for a good old fashloned square dance Jim Majors leaves to Herbert PICFCCQ hls ablllty to explaln satlsfactorlly hIS tardlness to typlng class Llbbv Davls wllls to Eudora DICREHS her ll6Sll'C to be a Home Economlcs teacher She expects to get her early tralnlng at Davld Llpscomb Betty Key bestows upon Betty ean Redman her optlon on Provldence Horas Oldham leaves hls good dlsposltlon to Bllly Yvood more Hoyvard Taylor bequeaths to lm Robertson hls place on the football team Ada Dee Gregory wllls her Independence to lmmle Tay lor lmmle never was exactly a Cllllglllg., ylne though Georgla Gothard leayes the joy she gets from pllylng a plano to Helen Payne Mrs Gardner leayes her ablllty to keep the halls cleared to MISS Lucle Clalborne IN VVITNESS W HEREOF I have hereto sllbscrlbed my name and afflyed mv seal thls tYVCl'lUCtll day of Nlay ln the year of ollr Lord nlneteen hundred and forty one SE XL The attached lnstrument was thereunto subserlbed by Annle Farrls Stalcup Senlor Class testator ln the presence of each of us and was at the same tlme declared by her to he the last wlll and testa'nent of the senlor class and we are at her request slgnlng our names hereunto ln her presence as attestlng XXIUILSQCS C V Baker Margaret Anne Gentry P ' . 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