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

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Stairway 50 5He Huture We have just returned from a wonderful trip, visiting some of the planets. The pilot on our spaceliner was Joe Frensley, and Gayle Woodall was our steward- ess. We five were together the night we landed, and we had plenty to talk about since we had not seen each other since our high school graduation twenty years before. First we visited Mars. There we met Carolyn Dunavan and her husband, Tommy. When we claimed our luggage, we met William Brown who was to pilot the liner back to Earth. Registering at one of the best hotels, we discovered Clabern Ferrell work- ing there as desk clerk, and he told us Luther Patton owned the hotel and employed William Bilbrey and Thomas Mitchell as bell captains. At Joan's insistence, we at- tended a fashion show. Ruby Benson, Patsy Smith, and Gale Hicks made lovely models. On our way to the spaceliner for Venus, we met Jo Ann Bryant and Stella Cathey, both happily married and working as secretaries for a large research organization head- ed by Doc Baggett, a well known scientist. Arriving at Venus on schedule, we saw Carolyn Jackson who told us she was prac- ticing law and that Barbara Peek and Nancy Johns lived near our hotel with their families. We had lunch at Dougee's of Venus , and the proprietor was none other than Douglas Tatum. Who should come in while we were eating but Linda Himes prac- tically dragging six kids. James Foster had just bought a huge supermarket which we visited. While we were admiring the store, Mary Lynne Greer and Judy Massey came in to shop for their families. Next we visited an art exhibit. We saw many beautiful pictures and even knew two of the famous artists, Carl Spruill and Billy Ray Dennis. Upon returning to our hotel, we met Rachel Penuel in the lobby. She told us she was on the faculty of one of the largest universities on Venus and Robert Baggett was the dean. Our next stop was Pluto. A billboard advertiseda movie starring Angelia Vander- pool and Don Collins. Kay Jones sold us our tickets, and we met the owner of the theater, Donald Sharpe, who was happy to see us. We visited a big hospital and said, Hello, to the resident surgeon, Billy Burke, the Supervisor of Nurses, Judy Wherry, and Joyce Neal, another nurse on the staff. On the way back to the hotel, we saw a sign which read: Que Stick Corky's Pool Room . Standing there was Corky Williams waving good-bye to Harold Cassell who was pulling off on his motorcycle. Across from our hotel, construction work was in progress. Si Hood was directing the work, and Richard Matlock was busily painting a completed area. Just before our take-off for Saturn the next morning, we met Jon Ann Whitson and had a nice chat. She is a lab technician, and she told us her good friend, Helen Garner, is now a teacher. On reaching Saturn, we met Jerry Lewis who was working in the baggage department at the spaceport. He said that Shirley Dean had married a millionaire and they owned the spaceport. We called her, and she and her husband took us to a night club owned by Tommy Davis who gave us the V.I.P. treatment. Gail Ray and Faye Medlin were in the chorus, Donald Ferrell was top comedian, and Lucy Sutton was hat-check girl. After the show, we hailed acabolater and Leslie Deason turned out to be our driver. He had to stop at Turner and Perry's Gasso Station. You guessed it-Eddie and Mac's. The next morning, we boarded the liner for the Moon. Our first visit on the Moon was to the new high school where Palmer Sorrow, the principal, gave us a warm welcome. We also met Frances Bartolini, the home eco- nomics teacher, and Shirley Spry, the gym teacher, who introduced us to two lovely girls whose last name was Hood - Helen and Jackie's daughters. While on tour of the school, we met Anthony Pierce working on the electric heating system. We next visited a big industry and found Joan Heflin and Pat Lee employed there as top sec- retaries. The next morning, Pat rushed to the drugstore to phone in her reports on the planets to her newspaper. Here we saw Philip Roberts. Can you imagine him a pharmacist? We left for Earth that night. When we picked up our tickets, we met Donna Holbert who worked there as reservationist. On the way home, we realized that most of our classmates lived in space. We wondered if we, Pat Hollis, Joan Lee, and Carolyn Qualls, might find jobs - as a news- paper reporter, a commercial artist, and a private secretary-on one of the planets.