Howard High School - Rebel Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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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

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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 CLASS HISTORY theme of Springtime The book shelves were completely camouflaged by pale pink Wallpaper on which hung pink and white dogwood blos- soms. One of my fondest memories will be the 100th Year Anniversary Pageant, Out of a Dream, which Mrs. Linam and Mrs. Dennison produced. just think, every grade in the entire school was represented. It deserved the Academy Award for splendor. Honors were already beginning to come to next year's seniors when Ray was elected presi- dent of Student Council and Shirley Conwell, Corresponding Secretary. We were off to a good start. Our senior year arrived and with it our class rings which we were so proud to wear. The year '52-l53 might have been a big one for Eisen- hower and Nixon but it also had great signifi- cance for Allen, Donald Ray, Mary Sue and me when we were chosen class officers. What wonderful.memories the football games bring back! An -orchid to you, Bobby Herald, Donald Ray, Roy, Bobby Dixon, Frank, Bobby Eakes, Billy, Gene, and Bobby Beck for some really great football playing. Oh, the time we had selling hotdogs and cof- fee at the iirehall across from the school on No- vember 4. We, seniors, were chasing in and out of the school getting food while a mock elec- tion was being held there. This caused quite a bit of confusion, but wasn't there general con- fusion everywhere that day? . . . Then came Christmas. It was hard for us to keep back the tears as we hummed Silent Night at the close of .ourbeautiful and last 'Christmas program. We loved -chorus, 5 didnt we? I know you won't ever forget our basketball team that was known as Coach Barrick's Star Studded Five. Leslie, you found yourself this year in basketball, didn't you? Donald Ray, I've always wanted you to teach me that hook of yours. It was hard to give you and Roy up at mid-term, Billy, but rules are rules. Do you remember the hard time we had get- ting advertisements for the annual? Later, I well remember the staff room with typewriters clicking and brains racking to meet the dead- line. Bobby Beck, we shall never forget the grand job you did as Editor. We couldn't have had a better one. There must be numerous other things I ought to be able to remember for didn't I, along with Paul, Tommy, Ray, Jean Croney, Bobbie Anne, Leslie, and Jerry take the well-known Blomberg Memory Course? Of course, the Prom Qwe were guests this timej . . . the Music Festival and the never-to-be-forgotten Senior Day. Gene, We are all proud of your winning the Civitan Medal and we congratulate Shirley Con- well on being awarded the D.A.R. Medal. We weren't particularly surprised when we learned that Ray was to be Valedictorian, but I was cer- tainly shocked when I was chosen Salutatorian. The music is playing now and we are march- ing-marching out into a bigger World-a world which dear Howard has prepared us so well to meet. Yes, along the road of life we have finally reached that milestone marked High School Graduation. We are proud and happy but forgive these tears of ours. We love our school and a few sentimental ones must be shed when we realize ere long we will be gone. GAIL HOLLAND