Howard High School - Rebel Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Classes SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS ALLEN HAWKINS ..,.. ........ P resident DONALD WOLFE ..... ..... V ice-President GAIL HOLLAND ...... ...... S ecretary MARY SUE MERONY ,... .... T reasurer f 0 . ,fc 4:1 'ff -1 KD all filo

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Senior Poem Class Flower Class Colors LILY OF THE VALLEY GREEN AND WHITE Class Motto: Climb Though the Rocks Be Rugged qaaewell We leave thee, Howard, with heads bowed low As deep within our hearts, we hate to go. We think of things we hold dear to each heart And with thee, oh, Howard School, we hate to part. We think of proms, picnics, parties, plays, The good things, the bad, the bright and blue days, These twelve full years have been most kind to us And, dear Howard High, we love thee very much. So much, in fact, that we hate to say Goodbye on this, our graduation day. As we leave thy halls, we would like to say, Tomorrow will come from our knowledge today. PEGGY LAVENDER ,f ' I 1 ' . -er m, 4 ' a :J , 'Lf 'iii , 51' 5 ,lily ll l Q :Er-'SJ 4 :Q 4 A ,A'.:':h. V , -.' wr-.4L' L.1l'. '.4,,:..

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Thank you, Sir! With tears in my eyes I thanked him, just as you are doing as he hands you your diploma. QHe can see the tears but he cannot see what is going on inside my mind as I stand here thinking back over the past four years.j Tears of joy and tears of sorrow. joy for having finished our course thus far in life- sorrow for the separation from each other and from a school that we love and that has been so much a part of us for most of our lives. Oh, yes, there were disappointments but the happy moments are the ones that will remain with us. I can see us now, that year, 1950, when we became freshmen in high school. There were so many of us that it took three homerooms to hold us Qnot counting the officej-Miss Halloran's, Little Mrs. Webb's and Mrs. Walls'. That year we had fun, didn't we? I remember the Christ- mas party, the junior High Basketball team, and the picnic at Shelby Park-perhaps you re- member others. Oh, sure, the highlight of the year was our graduation when we received our ninth grade certificates. You boys looked so nice in your dark trousers, white shirts and ties, and I didn't think we were so bad in our pastels. That was the year I received the Fowler Medal. We were climbing the educational ladder rap- idly now. QOne down and three to golj We wondered if we would ever make the goal- teachers wondered if they would hold out until we did. Miss Halloran kept her same homeroom, Little Mrs. Webb kept the mid-termers While the rest of us went to Mrs. Roberts. I am smiling now as I remember the things we did that year, but outstanding in my mind are the Volleyball Intramural games, the Alumni game fthat we wonj, the Fashion Show and the Penny Carnival. I know that each of you remember many things that I have forgotten momentarily. We were feeling pretty important when we becametjuniors, weren't we? More and more the past keeps flashing before my eyes. Ray, we were really proud of you when you played with the Navy Band .... Then another Penny Carni- val .and the skit where Mary Sue, Margaret, Shirley, Beverley, Paul, Tommy, Rowena and I came as hillbillies to enroll in school. Tommy, did you really get your head hung in the desk? Some of us, by invitation became members of the National Honor Society and were formal- ly installed during an unforgettable candlelight service .... We were selfish but we didn't want Mrs. Mitchell to leave for Alaska to join her husband .... I am so proud we won the Junior- Senior Girls' Basketball game, but how could we lose with you, Donald Ray, as our coach? Will you ever forget the colorfully dressed cheering squad composed of Bobby Beck, Paul, Tommy, Ray, Dewayne, Frank, and Joe? . . . We simply swelled with pride when you, Barbara, were elected Secretary of the Tennessee High School Press Association and attended its session in Memphis. Do you remember the junior Variety Show which we gave to raise money for the junior- Senior prom? At the beginning we were in a state of chaos, as this class so often was, but we came out all right. I shall never forget how you looked, Paul, as my country sweetheart. I re- member Dewayne and Sue pantomimed a song which was being sung off stage. I can't remem- ber whether Nan pulled the curtain that year or not-she was always going to. ft I just know the Prom was one of the prettiest that has ever been gina. We carried out the