Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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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

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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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The Drama Department of the University of Arkansas presents a one act play entitled Halley's Comet is long Overdue. Principal Bill Dawson does a comical routine at the Valentines Day Talent Show. Another unusual assembly that was brought to NHS was a bow and arrow show put on by Bob Mark-worth, an internationally known archery champion. Mr. Markworth exhibited some fancy archery tricks and talked about some antique bows and arrows he had. In April two poets from the University of Arkansas came to the English classes and presented a section on poetry to those people who were interested. The poets talked about the different kinds of poetry styles and some famous poets. After reading some poetry selections the poets had the students write some poetry themselves with the idea in mind that someday the students' poems might possibly be published. The athletic people were also taken care of during the year. If one didn't choose to play on a high school team he or she could always play on an intramural team. Intramural softball and basketball was sponsored for both boys and girls and was played at noon each day in its season. The Up With People group was probably one of the biggest and Dena Floyd and Lee Boozer sing a country and western medley at the Valentines Day Talent Show. Student Life 17