Peabody Demonstration School - Volunteer Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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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

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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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DAVID: When we were in the Eighth Grade, the school organized the first Clubs for our Junior High School children, the same year our class got its first article in 'The Demon.' Mr. Holden was our sponsor. We gave a Hallowe'en Masquerade party in the Gym, after we ducked for apples we were one wet bunch of kids. GRACE: We also gave Robin Hood. Dick was Robin Hood and Susan Ann, you were Maid Marian. Remember? That was the year Dick began his singing Career. Cfcene from Robin Hoodl SUE: That was just how it happened, Between the second and third acts the audience got up and walked out. Mr. Yarbrough had to get up and tell them to come back and that the show wasn't over yet. DAVID: But that wasn't our fault. There had already been two plays and it was almost eleven o'clock then. SUE: Whew! That was one more night. The Ninth Grade! Our first year in high school! Poor little Freshmen! GRACE: No, we weren't 'poor little Freshmen' because we thought we were grown then. Our boys were 'football heroes' to us then. It was their hrst year on the team. David, what position did you play on the squad? DAVID: I played end and guard. GRACE: End and guard? What do you mean? DAVID: I sat on the end of the bench and guarded the water bucket. SUE: Say, that isn't original. It was published in last year's Volunteer. DAVID: We entertained our parents and friends with a Ninth Goode Night. The boys gave a womanless wedding and a tumbling act. You girls did tap dances and a drill. There was a play, too. GRACE: All the girls in our class spent a night at Knapp Farm for the first time. And did we have fun! I remember sleeping with the pecan pies and pickles that we had brought to bed with us for a midnight feast. SUE: We had some uninvited guests in the afternoon, too. Three or four in a new tan sport roadster. DAVID: Ah, that's not important. Let's get down to business. In the Tenth Grade we were in the opera, Chimes of Normandy. Write that down. What else happened? ' C.Y2lenceD SUE: The school gave a Sunset Cabaret in the auditorium. We danced, and ate, and there were floor shows. And the climax of the year was our swimming party at Hidden Lake. Miss Heath became our sponsor in the Tenth Grade, too. She has stood by us faithfully during these past three years. DAVID: In the fall of '33 we had a possum hunt, and later on 'we gave the traditional junior-Senior picnic. It was a swimming party at Old Jefferson. We surely were kept busy preparing for that. GRACE: I remember working two days with Jane on the favors. Those angel food cakes that Mrs. Neathery baked for us! They added the finishing touches! 18