Riverside High School - Trojan Yearbook (Chattanooga, TN)

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Class of Nine-teen-Hundred SEWJOIQ Vol. No. 1 September, 196 412 to mob in mee On to the Tournaments lt's tournament time and the fever of tourna- ment quickly spreads through each and every Trojan. Go-team-GofNervously we await the out- 5. Victory-yea! come to the rea ones and the Troj is thoroughly te victory is still happy and ever- even bigger tests power. lNow we ly tough n power ted, but ur prize and off we go p oud and re ady for of Trojan Night KO Graduation . . . Wednesday . . .June 4, 1969 . . .Memorial Auditorium at 8:00 . . . 400 or more white-gowned and capped seniors are ending their twelve years of books and weekend fun . . . leaving behind the football games and crowded gyms . . . preparing for a different more real world . . . a world of business and war as usual. It ended all too soon . . . the games of childhood turned to learning to write and read . . . learning to add . . . finding places on maps . . . and sing- ing in the school choir . . . some couldn't sing . . . but they could paint . . . or play football . . . or draw and the purpose of school dawned bright . . . to help each of us find something to do . . . and then help us to do it. It finally arrives . . . your senior year Remem- ber Beautiful girls in ful gowns, handsom in tuxedos of man marvelous decoratior sic, dancing and ror These are the event make the prom the to be remembered. That last dance, the breakfast, rushing memories to cheri it ever. eauti- dates hues, .s, mu- nance. s that event early home, for- the last year . . . the end . . . if you can make it through . . . it gets harder . . . term papers . . . science experiments . . . advanced math . . . three hours a day in brick-masonry . . . the crowded cafeteria . three or five days sitting out a suspension . . . and it's ex- pensive too . . . Money for this . . . more money for that . . . but you find it . . . after all it's your last year . . . your senior year . . . and you're going to graduate. The night finally arrives . . . you go to the auditorium . . . the band plays . . . some in uniform . . . the seniors in that white cap and gown . . . proud parents watch . . . it's an end for them too . . . and that piece of paper . . . your diploma . . . your reward . . . for sitting through those dull classes . . . cold football games . . . and crowded gyms ...itls the end ...the beginning of a brave new world . . . graduation . . .a beginning and an end . . . June 4, 1969 . . . at eight . . . at the Memorial Audito- rium.

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Sixty-N ine JJ57? lib June, 1969 Price: Class Dues Senior Trip After several boisterous class meetings, many con- ferences with school ad- ministration and a tearful plea to the Chattanooga City School Board, the Se- nior Class of Riverside made plans for a cross- country trip to California, with intermediate stops at points of scenic and his- torical interest along the way. Considerable debate pre- ceded the decision to char- ter a plane for the trip, but the consensus was that air travel provided the cheapest and most eco- nomical form of trans- portation for the cross- country jaunt. Once the preliminary decisions were made, a plane was char- ter and itinerary planned. The itinerary included an overflight of Memphis to the Midsouth Coli- view seum, the site of the 1968 Basketball Tourna- State ment. From Memphis a short flight to St. Louis to visit the Great Arch that crosses the Mississippi River and a tour of the Budweiser canning plant. Then on to Salt Lake City, Utah, to tour the magnificent Mormon Tab- ernacle and to watch the speed runs on the Bonne- ville Salt Flats. From Salt Lake City another flight was made to Los Angeles 'for 3 glorious days of visit- ing U.C.L.A., the Tar Pits, Movie Studios, and beauti- ful downtown Burbank. The final leg included an overflight of the LBJ Ranch and a stop in New Orleans to visit a French Quarter Hotel and boating down the Mississippi. 25 - 5 The group, many of them nervous and excited at the prospect of their first flight, boarded the plane in the waning moments of the dawn. The doors were closed, the engines warmed up and the plane with a slight wobble, taxied onto the runway for takeoff. As the plane taxied down the runway, the slight wobble became more noticeable and one passenger, in a sudden glance out the window, saw a wing slowly cracking and falling to the ground. Another passenger, looking out the op- posite window, saw, to his horror, the engine sputter to a stop and the propeller fall to the ground. With a sudden and agonized shudder, the plane lurched to a stop, with a wing and engine gone. After a convulsive few seconds, the entire plane collapsed into the nearby river, leaving the passengers, still neatly tucked in white seat belts, surveying the damage from a lofty perch stop the wreckage.