Nashville High School - Talisman Yearbook (Nashville, IN)

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ROBERT MA LA N Basketball 1,2g Softball 2. X X. E xx , JOYCE COX Cheerblock 45 Scholar Staff 4: Entered from Col- umbus 1957. ROBERT CROSS RONALD DECKARD DEAN ROBERTS JOHN MOORE Basketball 2, 3. Scholar Staff 4. Captain of Safety Patrol 1 2, 3: Scholar Staff 4.

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WILLIAM POOL DELILAH HOOVER Basketball 1.2,3. 4: Cross Scholar Staff 4, Chorus 3, Country 2, 3, Drama 3: Band 1. Chorus 3, Talisman Staff4. RICHARD MATLOCK Basketball 1, 2, 3, Softball 1, 2, 3. WAYNE FOLLOWELL ROGER BILLINGS SHARON HA MMOND Basketball 3. Basketball 2, 35 Baseball 2, Scholar Staff 4: Drama 3- 3, 4: Chorus 35 Drama 4.

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. W- ln August 1955, 48 expectant teen-agers enrolled in Nashville High School. Initiation, the real beginning of high school, was held a few days after school began. The Seniors, armed with paddles, and the Freshmen dressed in their parents clothing, were excused from school for the day. That night a party was held for the Freshmen at the lower shelder house. In November the class sponsored a fun house and fortune telling booth at the school carnival. David Bessire was voted Carnival King. In April we sold colored chickens and raffled off rabbits to raise money. During May, under the direction of our English teacher, Mrs. Jack Oliver, we published a news- paper named, THE NINTI-l'S NOSEY NEWS and a booklet of limericks written by us. Our class officers for this year were, Howard Zody, Presidentg David Bessire, Vice President: and Madeline Shields, Secretary-Treasurer. Our sponsor was Mrs. Belulah Grant. We entered the Sophomore Class on a bright day in September, 1956. For the school camival we held a basketball toss, cake walks, a turkey raffle, and sold refreshments. The class sold salt water taffy to make money. November ll, our class rings arrived from the Herff Jones Company. In March we held a basketball game between the women and the girls, and the businessmen and alumni. At the end of the year, the class went to Spring Mill State Park with the Juniors. Madeline Shields was elected cheerleader, and also reigned as basketball queen. Our sponsor this year was Mrs. E. K. Congram. Our class officers were, David Bessire, Presidents Larry Crabtree, Vice Presidentg Madeline Shields, Secretaryg and Linda King, Treasurer. Our Junior year was busier than any before. Our first project was selling taffy at the County Fair. This year six members of our class played varsity basketball, and two girls, Madeline Shields and Susan Schrougham were elected cheerleaders. Judy King reigned as basketball queen. This year the class won the intra-mural basketball games, and Larry Crabtree became the first three-letter -man at Nashville. He won letters in basketball, track, and baseball. Christmas we earned money by selling fruit cakes. The class also sold candy at noon, and refreshments at all home ball games. Our two biggest projects were the Junior-Senior Prom, and the Junior Play, The Prom, held at the Van Orman Hotel, in Bloomington, was April 25. Music was fumished by Rick Sutherland, while Madeline Shields and Dave Bessire were crowned Prom King and Queen. The play, entitled SEVENTEEN IS AWFULLY YOUNG, under the direction of Mrs. Paul Snyder, was given in the gymnasium, April 11, The Juniors held the first graduation dance this year. The class decorated the Rogers Bldg. and furnished cokes. A disc jockey. Jerry Chapman, MC'D the evening. Two members of the class were employed by the Brown County Democrat and The Evening Republican of Columbus, to write school news. They were Linda King and Barbara Bessire. This was the first year for a student council at N.H.S. Charles leffler represented our class. Our Senior year began late, due to the construction of a new grade school For three reasons this was our big yearl First, for the first time, the High School was set apart from the grade school. Second, because Van Buren School consolidated with Nashville, and Third, because at last we are Seniors! Our first activity was initiation, held three weeks after school began