Peabody Demonstration School - Volunteer Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Glass Iaistnrp Time: A few weeks before Commencement. Plone: Volunteer Ojice. Chamcterr: Grace, David, Sue. SUE: Writing the class history surely isn't going to be easy. GRACE: I-low in the world shall we begin? DAVID: Miss Heath said we had to have it finished by Wednesday. We had better get to work. Do you all have any ideas? CLong Jilencel GRACE: Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get started. DAVID: The first thing to do is to decide how we are going to write it. SUE: How about the form of a diary or memory book? DAVID: No, that's been done before. SUE: Let's see . . . who started in Peabody in the First Grade? You were there, David, and Grace, and I. GRACE: And jack and Henry. I believe that's all. SUE: I'll tell you what we can do. I..et's write down what we have done in the past twelve years and use that as a basis. We'll all take notes. DAVID: In the First Grade . . . GRACE: Remember those little . SUE: Sometimes I believe . . . fiber! pnnrel DAVID: Well, go ahead . . . GRACE: I was just going to say that in the First Grade we made trains out of oatmeal boxes and milk bottle tops and spools. DAVID: Yes, we went to school in the stucco building on the College campus. There were acting bars in the yard. SUE: And remember the May Pageants we used to give? We were fairies that first year and the boys were elves. CDeznce of the fnirieJD DAVID: The next year we built a two-story doll house. You girls made stock- ing dolls and furniture and Curtains. GRACE: Then we sold our dolls at the Easter sale, and I bought mine back. I still have it at home somewhere. DAVID: The same year we moved into this building. I can see us moving now. We marched over following Miss Parkinson. 16

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C Seniors SUSAN ANN WALLACE Entered Peabody in First Grade, Class Secretary-Treasurer, '31, Student Council Representative, '33, Girls' Athletic Club, '31, Dramatic Club, '31, '31, '33, '34, French Club, CSeCretaryD '35,Gitl Reserves, Cfreasurery '31, '33, '34, Blue Soccer, '34, Blue Volleyball, '34, Blue Baseball, '35, Life Saving, '35,Chorus, Chime: of Normandy, '33, Nishida, Maidin japan, '35, School Broadcast, '3SQ Orchestra, '31, '31, '34, '35, JOHN H. WEBB Entered Peabody in Sophomore Class, Co-editor, Valunmr, Science Club, '33, Math and Science Club, '34, '35, Chorus, Chimm of Normandy, '33, School Broadcast, '35, Orchestra, '33, '34, '35. KATHARINE HUNT WEIS Entered Peabody in the First Grade, Dramatic Club, '33, Blue Soccer, '345 Blue Volleyball, '33, '34, Blue Basketball, '33, '34, '35, Blue Swim- ming, '33, '34, '35, Blue Baseball, '34, '35, Blue Tennis, '34, '35, Tennis Team, '34, '35s Life Saving, '34, Cheer Leader, '35, Chorus, Chime: of Normandy, '33, School Broadcast, '35. JEROME O. WILLIAMS, JR. Entered Peabody in Senior Class, Hi-Y Club, '34, '35, Math and Science Club, '35, Football, '34, Softball, '35, Maid in japan, '35, School Broad- cast, '35. EMMETT WOOD Entered Peabody in Senior Class, Hi-Y Club, CPresidentD '35, LILFRED WRIGHT Entered Peabody in Junior Class, Knitting Club, CVice-Prcsidentl '35, School Broadcast, '35. C966 Eligible for Qugust Grahuatiun WILLARD BRANDON Entered Peabody in Senior Class, Football, '34, Basketball, '35, Base' ball, '35. MASON BUSEY Entered Peabody in Third Grade, Dramatic Club, CPi-esidentj '31, '33, '34, Math and Science Club, '33, '34, '35, Sportsrnan's Club, '31, Cheer Leader, '33, '34, Chorus, Chime: of Normandy, '33, Chorus, Maid in japan, '35, School Broadcast, '35. DORSEY CROCKETT, JR. Entered Peabody in Senior Class, Hi'Y Club, '35, School Broadcast, '35. LOUISE FARRIS Entered Peabody in Senior Class. HERBERT DUNKERLEY Entered Peabody in Seventh Grade, Hi-Y Club, '34, Football, '33, '34, Qcaptainj, Basketball, '33v '34, '35. 1

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fEnter Miss Parkinson followed by pupils appropriatebf dressed and loaded down with toys, hooks, etety DAvID: It was a great day in our history! What did we do in the Third Grade? SUE: That was the year we played war at recess. The boys were soldiers and we girls were nurses. Didn't we have a lot of fun though? GRACE: We also gave a puppet show for which we dressed the puppets and then wrote their dialogue. It was called The Three Billy Goats Graff. g DAvID: In the Fourth Grade we had a library all our own and also had moni- tors. For our May Pageant we gave Old Pipes and Dgfad. GRACE: And oh, do you remember the play we wrote? What was the name of it? SUE. The Battle of King's Mountains. CBattle Seeney SUE: We're getting along line now. What grade are we ready for next? The Fifth? GRACE: Yes, there we studied about Yellowstone National Park. Dr. - Mc- Murray taught us history. Tm sure you remember him. DAVID: Yes, indeed. Have you forgotten our study of corn and our exhibit of its products and the husking bee we had? There was a contest to see who could shuck the most corn in live minutes. Who won? GRACE AND SUE TOGETHER: Glenn. CHnskers a ear dressed in overalls and in ham dresses. They husk awhile and nalbf PP 8 Z go into a country clog dancey DAVID! Yes, and that year we started the Fifth Grade garden down lby the tennis courts. Write down that in the Sixth Grade We were editors of the Peabody News. GRACE: All right. DAVID: Susan Ann won the Tennessee State Music Memory Contest, and we elected a Student Council Representative for the next year. Madeline was chosen. SUE: We did have some good times in those old days. Several queer things happened, too. CClass roorn sceney SUE: Goodness, it's ten-thirty. Let's quit for awhile. DAVID: No indeed. Let's finish now. GRACE: All right. What happened in the Seventh Grade? SUE: We began changing rooms for different classes. Consequently, we lost notebooks, pencils, pocketbooks, and . . . GRACE: Oh yes, and we gave a play called The Courtship of Miles Standish. I remember how thrilled we all were when Priscilla said to John Alden, Why don't you speak for yourself, John? That was a good play. But we must go on with our work. 17