Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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largest group ever, participated in homecoming royalty ceremonies in October. Students elected an even larger group to Who’s Who at Nashville High School. In May, the Awards Assembly rewarded students’ leadership, service, and studying with trophies, plaques, and scholarships. As with every year, each class — sophomores, juniors, and seniors — thought it was THE class and tried to prove it with competitions for the spirit stick and King and Queen of Hearts Contest. The entire year was one of constant motion, hustle, excitement, modernization, and revolutionary changes, and it all made NHS come alive. Long Live Nashville High School! Homecoming royally couples are Terry Ray and Becky Butler. Stan Staggs and Oea Ann Richard. Stacy Boles and Brenda Whitmore. Troy Duke and Janet Jones. Kelly Renard and Debbie Chesshir, Rob Coulter and Cathy Hargis, Robbye Westtall and Denise Radebaugh. Johnny Ray Wesson and Denise White, Kip Blakely and Queen Gail Harris, Gaye Goodrum and David Chalker. Steve Savage and Laurie White. Brian Howard and Maid of Honor Michelle Millward, Chris Hayes and Debie Boden. Richard Oxley and Suzan Pile, Kenneth Carrigan and Monica Hamilton. Stan Lawrence and Andrea Lyons, Lisa Lawson and David Foltz, and Kim Chism and Tracy Duke. honor lists, the Principal’s List, Merit List, and Honor Roll, recognized students who made above-average grades on report cards. Juniors assumed leadership positions on the Tattler and Scrapper staffs and in the French and Debate Clubs, further revolutionizing high school. Projects to raise money were major concerns of most clubs. Thirty-six students, the In second period English III class. Quin Minton questions Miss Russell about a test on short stories. Student Life 5 Sponsored By FIRST NATIONAL BANK

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 4 St(Jdent Lit Sponsored By FIRST NATIONAL BANK Near the entrance of the gym lobby. Greg White. Felicia Jordon, Vincent Johnson, and Renetta Hutchinson pour over a letter. A Change Of Pace Sports took on an ever- j increasing significance as the ; Scrappers blazed their way to the state semi-finals. Most of the year’s activities centered on sports. Basketball pep rallies were novelties and the Future Farmers of America and senior class sponsored intramural tourneys, allowing even nonvarsity athletes to become sports heroes. On the SRA test taken in the fall, students ranked equal to or above the national norms in most all specific skills. Three Silling on the slaps outside Mrs. Bernie Helium's room. Clay and Melinda Franklin, Stacey Staggs, and Cheryl Steel share their recreation time together.

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Webster defined school as “any institution devoted primarily to imparting knowledge or developing skills.” But, even as Nashville High was an educational institute, it served also as a place for people to meet, to grow and mature, to learn to live together, and to interact. Although the major purpose in attending school was to learn, students squeezed in enough entertainment to keep them from going off the deep end from too much work and not enough play. That entertainment included working together on class projects, joining clubs and organizations, participating in some form of athletic events, attending assemblies and banquets, helping to raise money for some special cause, or just plain socializing. Fans withstood the nipping, pinching wind of cool autumn weather to attend football games. With each Scrapper victory, the feverish football frenzy flourished. Spirit shirts and towels contributed to Nashville’s local color. The victories over DeQueen, Prescott, and Hope probably stirred students’ heartstrings more than other regular season games, because each of the foes had defeated Nashville the previous season and they finally had their revenge. Assemblies, frequently of a musical nature, furnished students with a respite from class routine and a chance to free themselves of inhibitions and participate in the activities. Even with the school board’s restriction on fund-raising projects, at least one class or club had some form of money-making venture underway at all times. High school girls competed in a number of local, district, state, and national pageants. These ranged from the newly instated Miss Nashville High Pageant to the Southwest Arkansas Junior Miss Pageant to the Howard County Fair Queen Pageant to the Miss American Teenager Pageant. Intramural sports increased in popularity when the Future Farmers of America began a basketball program and the seniors followed up with another. With so much happening, NHS was nothing less than very much alive. A display ol spirit from the junior class revs up an already potent DeQueen pep rally. Students relax and converse on the courtyard lawn during lunch on a sunny Halloween Day. 6 Student Life Sponsored By FIRST NATIONAL BANK