Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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posters in the summer. They are very active throughout the year as they supervise and plan all pep rallies and lead the cheers at football and basketball games. The band is the second mode of motivation that helps keep the NHS spirit alive. Under the direction of Mr. Thomas Allison, the band plays many popular and traditional tunes during the football games and at halftime. Some people say that even if the cheerleaders and the band were not there, the spirit would be just as great among the students. But what are band members and cheerleaders anyway? Students! A display of spirit from the junior class revs up an already potent DeQueen pep rally. Lori Smith concentrates on her music while Paula McDaniel plays and watches the cheerleaders do a dance routine. Student Life 15

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Keeping The Spirit Alive When a school has unified spirit, it makes the year seem to flow more smoothly for many students. School spirit is mostly seen at football and basketball games and at pep rallies. Spirit is not only exemplified at Scrapper sporting events, it is also seen in student participation at par- ades, beauty pageants, and in everyday school activities. Spirit is not just something that happens — it has to have some motivation to push it and get if going. Nashville High's motivations lies in the cheerleaders and the band. The cheerleaders, supervised by Mrs. Anita Stuckey, begin working on cheers and Kim Wells helps lead a Scrapper cheer during a spirited pep rally. Senior cheerleaders Janet Jones, Laurie White, Susie McKinney, and Debie Boden help the senior class in the Victory Battle Cry for the coveted spirit stick. 14 Student life

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Special Assemblies: A Change of Pace Mr. Barger joins students and Up With People cast in an energetic segment of the show. (Photo by the Nashville News.) Several events took place at Nashville High to break the monotony of the classroom. Whether it was a talent show, pep rally, or an intramural basketball or softball game at noon, these activities seemed to satisfy the need of a change of pace at NHS. During the first part of the school year, regular pep rallies were held every Friday during football season and on conference game days for basketball. Many of the events took on a musical nature such as the program put on by a professional musician, entitled the Wonderful World of Brass which dealt with different kinds of brass band instruments. Other musical shows included different bands from the various colleges in the area. The University of Arkansas Theater Department presented a unique type of entertainment to students with a play entitled Halley's Comet is Long Overdue. It is very rare that a play is presented at high school due to the accommodations and acoustics in the gym. But the actors looked over the problems and as in the old actors' saying the show must go on the show did go on much to the delight of some of the students and teachers. In February the Student Council held its annual Valentines Day Talent Show. All of the entries were of some musical nature. While the judges were tallying up the votes to see who had won the talent show principal Bill Dawson did a short comical routine singing and playing his guitar. The Valentines King and Queen were also announced at the assembly. 16 Student Life