Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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the girls busy by engaging them in a number of various activities. The cheerleaders used their creative abilities to decorate for the football and all-sport banquets. They sold sodas and Hi-C drinks in the concession stand during the lunch hour throughout the year to NHS students. Another of their moneymaking projects was the selling of spirit buttons for both football and basketball seasons. The squad also sponsored a poster contest for the In a pep rally the cheerleaders perform their routine to Mr. Touchdown U.S.A. DeQueen pep rally in which the senior class took first place. For a special treat, Mrs. Stuckey chaperoned the eight girls on an overnight trip to Texarkana. They enjoyed an evening of swimming in the tropical atmostphere of the Holidome. The following morning they went shopping at the Central mall. The end of the year brought both feelings of sadness and happiness. Sad because the Sr. cheerleaders were graduating, and happy because the girls remaining had good expectations of next year's fun and excitement. During one of the pep rallies the cheerleaders performed The Devil Went Down to Nashville. Debie Boden took the role of Rockey in a skit performed by the girls at one of the pep rallies. Organizations 29

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A Fireball Of Spirit The ending of the 1979-80 school year began the busy summer for the Nashville High School cheerleader squad. The girls practiced one day a week, but work increases later, as they practiced each day the week before camp. From August 25 until school started they worked two hours a day. Five of last year's cheerleaders, Dena Floyd, Susie McKinney, Janet Jones, Brenda Bissell, and Debie Boden, along with three new ones, Ann McAdams, Laurie White, and Deanna Waddle, attended the National Cheerleader Association Camp and Workshop on July 21-25. This year’s Workshop was held at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. In spite of the fact that sponsor, Mrs. Anita Stuckey and Deanna Waddle lost their luggage before they got out of Mineral Springs, they had a good trip. With tear-filled eyes the cheerleaders accept a gift of appreciation from Mrs. Anita Stuckey at the football banquet. The 1980-81 NHS cheerleaders are: Debie Boden, Laurie White, Brenda Bissell, Deanna Waddle, Ann McAdams, lanet (ones, Susie McKinney, and Dena Floyd. The two main sports, football and basketball, kept the cheerleaders busy throughout the year. In preparation for all of the football games and some of the basketball games, pep rallies were supervised by the squad. This year the girls performed a variety of new cheers: UFO, NHS, Success, Take That Ball Away, and Catch That Scrapper Spirit, along with many of the old favorites. They performed dance routines to music supplied by the band. The cheerleaders were also responsible for many entertaining and spirited skits ranging from Popeye Protects His Family to the reinactment of Rockey's fight. The girls proved their acrobatic skills by building pyramids and by performing other such stunts. Then at each football and basketball game the squad became a fireball of spirit by chanting and cheering. Also adding to the excitement of the games and pep rallies were the colorful spirit posters made by the girls. Mrs. Stuckey also helped keep 28 Organizations

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John Cherry checks negatives, looking (or the right picture to print for a certain section. The Scrapper: Meeting The Challenge The 1981 Scrapper staff had several challenges to meet when it first assembled to begin work on the yearbook. The first challenge dealt with the new staff; very few of the staffers had experience working on a yearbook. The second challenge dealt with getting used to a new adviser, or getting the adviser used to the old staffers. Also a new adviser meant moving the journalism room to a new room and having to relocate all the materials vital to a yearbook. Miss Debbie Russel the present adviser was married during the summer and moved away so Mr. John Robert Schirmer took over the duties of adviser. The third and biggest challenge dealt with cutting the cost on the present yearbook without letting the quality of the book go down. Due to the economy, yearbook ads and yearbooks have not sold as well as in the past so the staff cut some corners by eliminating some pages and doing a lot of work themselves so the publishing company wouldn't charge for doing the work. By cutting the corners, the yearbooks didn't go up much for the students and the yearbook stayed out of the hole financially. To help the yearbook staff get started, Mr. Cordon Hale, a representative from Walsworth Publishing Company, came and presented Editor Lance Click and his staff a workshop on basic yearbook principles and technicalities. After the workshop many of the staff members found the workshop to be helpful, Scrapper staff members are: (Back row) John Cherry, Tim Bishop, Lee Boozer, Myron Starr, Allen Kirkpatrick, Tim Ponder, Drew Tollett; (Front row) Mr.John Robert Schirmer, adviser; Beverly McCann, Terry Melson, Kim Lindsey, Libby Millward, Andrea Young, Lisa Rockey, Mimi Taylor, and Lance Click, editor. Scrapper Editor-in-Chief Lance Click searches for just the right picture to make one of his layouts complete. 30 Organizations