Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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Engaged in snowball warfare, Troy Duke takes aim at his next victim. At the climax of the Valentine's Day ceremony, Principal Bill Dawson crowns senior Dea Ann Richard Queen of Hearts. Her counterpart Stan Staggs awaits his coronation. A Semester Ot Change With the reopening of school in a.m. students glanced at the eclipse January, the second semester got underway. By the second week school had, for the most part, settled back into the old routine, but atmospheric changes prevailed, distinguishing the second semester from the first. Seniors learned of the switch from traditional royal blue and white gowns to black for boys and orange for girls. A six-inch snowfall, the largest since 1963, resulted in the cancellation of school on February 6,7, and 8. Snowball fights and the building of snowmen was popular sport during the unexpected vacation. Another natural phenomenon, a partial solar eclipse drew crowds to the outdoors on February 26. At 10:30 through sunglasses, a welder s helmet, and telescope, and peeked at its reflection in a puddle of water. After auditioning for roles in the junior class play, the cast began a two-week rehearsal before staging “Finders Creepers March 2. Mardi Gras fell unusually late and the junior play was scheduled earlier than normal. As a result, the French Club's celebration and play rehearsal coincided. To allow French Club members in the junior class play to attend both. Mardi Gras began an hour earlier than planned and play practice an hour later. After undergoing the sinister rigors of initiation, French I students became members of the French Club. 10 Student Lit Sponsored By COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY

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The playoff game with Booneville postponed the Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade until Saturday night. The parade was the first held after dark and the sophomore class took first place in the civic float division. Football players roasted their coaches at the annual Rotary Football Banquet. The Rotary Club awarded Robbye Westfall the Most Valuable Player Award, and Stan Staggs the Leading Tackier Award. To close out 1978. Christmas parties were in order. The faculty staged a Xmas banquet providing entertainment. The Library Club threw a party at Linda Bennett's house. The Honor Society ate each course of a meal at a different members' house and ended it with a party. Journalism Advisor Debbi Russell invited journalists to a party at her apartment. Future Homemakers of America attended a party in the home economics room. These were the clubs' last flings to flamboyantly bid the first semester and 1978 adieu together. At the Howard County Fair, Kelly Callan whirls around at a passenger on the Round-Up. Clubs and classes constructed floats, royalty rehearsed for homecoming, and the council planned the annual party. The Debate Club threw a Halloween costume party at President David Boden’s house. After receiving first place honors at the Arkansas High School Press Association Yearbook Workship, the yearbook staff sold subscriptions to the '79 Scrapper. It was in November that the army band performed and received the most favorable response of all of the year's entertainers. A group of students accompanied English teachers. Mrs. Neva Bryd and Mrs. Jan Ponder, to an Ouachita Baptist University play, The Diary of Anne Frank.’’ Cathy Chism became the new Junior Miss in the Southwest Arkansas Junior Miss Pageant. Observing Tacky Day during Homacoming Spirit Weak. Charlie Chaplin alias Kip Blakely and country boy David Chalkar chat attar a trip to the concession stand. Sponsored 8y COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Student Ltfe 9

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Even before the juniors presented their play, a committee of seniors had chosen the play “Deadly Earnest,” and sponsors chose characters from those who auditioned. Beginning March 5, the cast went into rehearsal for the play presented March 16. With the arrival of the seniors' graduation announcements, Wals-worth representative Gordon J. Hale called a junior meeting for the class to select which announcement style they preferred. The realization hit home that, even for juniors, graduation lurked in the not-so-distant future. The journalism department founded a new tradition in sponsoring the First Annual Miss NHS Pageant. Sophomore Renee Chastain won the title in the pageant. Twelve student journalists and Advisor Debbi Russell attended the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Convention in New York City. As delegates to the convention they became the fist NHS organization to venture so far afield. At their annual banquet, the Chamber of Commerce presented English teacher, Mrs. Neva Byrd, with the Past Accomplishments Award. The newly formed stage band gave its first performance. The French Club, as guests, were on hand to punch tickets, pass out programs, and to see their sponsor receive the award. It was a semester of change; of novelties and revolution, of the beginning of traditions and revision of old ones, and of spasmodic victories and crushing losses. It was five months that brought students into a closer association with their surroundings and brought NHS alive in the process. While on a three day vacation duo to six inches of snow, Debbie Floyd affixes a nose on her snowman. In a junior class meeting Principal Bill Dawson instructs Gary Hughes to dispense class ring brochures. Sponsor Larry Craver removes pamphlets from a box while class president David Teague oversees the operation. - --- -• •4 ‘I Sponsored By COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Student Li«e 1l