Howard High School - Rebel Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Stairway 50 Success So dear to our hearts are you, Howard. It hardly seems possible to leave you after twelve years. Years of work, play, hardships, worry, good times, all the fun seem so precious. Now we are seniors. You have changed us from the carefree, gay chil- dren we once were into adults ready to face a new and a different life. Looking back we think of the people who played such an important part in our lives, the teachers, Mr. Gruber, our classmates, and all of our friends. Yes, we have learned much from you, Howard. Yet there is still so much more to learn, but you have shown us the way, so how could we fail? Our minds drift back to our first years of high school. How new this life was to us! We really felt grown up. Our sponsors, Miss Anderson, Mrs. Franklin, Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Dunkerlywere so helpful and so understanding. That year we elect- ed our first class officers, some of us were Junior High Cheerleaders and Majorettes and others played on the Basketball team. However, the most important event of the year was our graduation from Junior High School. The girls looked so pretty in their pastel dresses and the boys wore sport coats and slacks. All of us tried to look so dignified. As sophomores our class was divided into three homerooms under the leadership of Mrs. Franklin, Miss Halloran, and Mrs. Webb. Luther Patton and Thomas Mitchell made the football team, Gale Hicks, Faye Medlin, and Donna Holbert made the All- Star Band, Linda Himes was chosen to go on the GSMT trip, and Gayle Woodall was elected Queen and reigned with Doc Baggett as King. We completed the year with a wonderful swimming party and picnic at Pleasant Green. As juniors we were great rivals of the seniors. We tried to yell louder at the pep meetings, attend more games and make more noise in the cafeteria. This was the year of the Junior Variety Show. Almost everyone participated in this wonderful, back-breaking, fun-loving event. We sold football programs and had loads of frm at the dances after the game. Honors were really coming our way this year. We made the All-Star Band, the Chorus won a plaque at Murfreesboro, Linda Himes was chosen to go the Girls' State, Helen Ethridge went on the GSMT trip, and I, Donna Holbert, was Carnival Queen and represented Howard as Clinic Bowl Queen at the Hippodrome, Judy Massey and Patsy Smith were Jtmior Attendants to the Football Queen, twelve juniorsymade the National Honor Society and were they thrilled! Helen Ethridge was chosen Miss Howard School and later competing in a city-wide beauty and talent contest was crowned Miss Nashville. We were the first class at Howard to have our all important Junior Prom, Stairway to the Stars in the gym, the first to entertain with a breakfast following the dance, and the first to get our class rings in the spring of our junior year. Our last activity was a swimming party and picnic at Rawlings. Seniors at last, sixty-one of us, the largest class ever. We elected Gale Hicks, editor of the Rebel and we all got busy getting ads and having our pictures made. Linda Himes was named editor of the Rebelier , I, Angelia Vanderpool, was chosen Foot- ball Queen and I represented Howard at the Clinic Bowl dance the night before the game. My attendants were Ruby Benson and my co-author, Judy Massey. We made All State Chorus and All Star Chorus this year as well as last. We gave a wonderful skating party at the Rollerdrome one Saturday night in October when we chartered the place from ten until twelve o'clock. Never shall we forget Thomas Mitchell and Doc Baggett trying to skate. Our Christmas party was fun too. Then came exams, re- port cards and the new term. We were on the home stretch so we hit the books. Then in late spring came the never-to-be-forgotten prom. This time we were guests trip- ping the light fantastic for the last time as seniors. Then Senior Day. The good time we had will never be forgotten. What a glorious finale to four wonderful years! Finally graduation night arrived. Dressed inour caps and gowns and marching to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance , we realized that our high school days were coming to an end. With our diploma in our hand and tears in our eyes we bade Howard farewell. 26 Donna Holbert Angelia Vanderpool Judy Massey