Trousdale County High School - Stepping Stone Yearbook (Hartsville, TN)

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CDRATIQN EDUCA'1IOlN An Oratlon by Grady Nlutphv My sub1ect1s not a new one As fat back as htstoly recol ds om tort fathers haye been trylng to better sult themsely es to then enyuonment They haye been trymg to proflt from the eycperlences of those that hay gone before them Put these two together and you haye EdLlCdtlOY1 Aclyustment and learnmg equal educatlon It yyould be lmposstble for me to clear ey en one field of thls ldea Therefore It 18 mv purpose to lead off ln a feyy polnts You may folloyy them lt you yylsh It 18 a prlyllege to be able to obtam an cclucatlon Xery few people obtaln a broad educatlon Most of us haye an opportumty to attend hlgh school Hoyy eyer only a few of us reach college We haye the greatest cducatlonal f3C1l1tlQS of any country IH the yy Ol ld We should be proud ot thlg fact and take ady antage of these opportun1t1es Some of us look upon school as a place of drudgery Therefore we fr1tter aw ay our t1m and do not 1mb1be freely at the fountaln of educatlon Why cant we change our vtew pomt and consider It a prtytlege to attend school and round out to the fullest our mental facult1es'7 It IS a personal duty as well as 1 duty to our fellow men for us to obtatn as thorough an educatlon as posslble Why' As we obtam our educa tlon, we get a broader ylew of the sltuatlons of l1te and are better able to cope wlth them The greatest S3tlSf3Ct1OH m llfe IS IH knowlng that you have rendered a sery 1ce to your fellow men the greater the educat1on, the greater the SGFXICS the greater the SQIXICQ the greater the satlsfactlon Educatlon IS also a form of msurance There ts only one thtng that cannot be taken away from us Our money, out homes and all other ma stays w1th us always and IS a stronghold agalnst thtey es and robbers Furthermore, 1f we haye a broad 9dLlCdtlOI1 yye yy1ll yely probablv haye the materlal factors of w hlch we yy ere speaklng The earmng power ot an educated person IS potent1ally greater than that ot the 1ll1te1ate p rson Therefore, why not obtam a good educatton as the best tnsurance of our future happmess and success In l1fe 7 CLASS on her secret I4 l97l rs her btrth date er report IS that she made the Honor Roll once yvhen she was rn the Second Grade but how do we know Seyenteen years ago on November 6 l977 Marion ranklrn yas born hes str youn b t rs enough to get what she wants How she has changed She was our Eighth Grade President also an Honor Roll student These thmgs no longer worry her bram but mstead there are Cafes Dances Meadows e c Rocky Creek again and Its Annle Rankin thus trme She was born Noyember 77 1970 Her first school days yy ere spent at Barthella where she recery ed much of her early tramrng She like several of our other girls has spent much of her time thmkmg about the Navy Last comes our President Grady That honor seems to have changed htm from the shy boy he yy as last year to one of the opposrte ktnd He yvas born H ISTORY October 30 l97l and went to Puryears Bend to school trll he joined our crew nn l937 He has been an outstanding member commg rn yery' surpnsmgly at the end to take the fourth honor Hrs berng the last card ln the group I glance up to see that rt has been trme to rung the bell for seyeral minutes but as I use to rung rt I am remanded of the bell whrch wlll soon be rrngtng to bud us goodbye to the Hull op We thunk rt only proper to Ieaye you this but of our hrstory of the days we haye spent together that If may lrye rn your memory as rt will ln ours To our faithful teachers yvho haye stood by and gurded us we cannot better show our appreciation than by sayrng Our lryes are better by havtng known you To you classmates with whom I have worked and played these many years may you have only enough clouds rn your life to ma e a gloriously beautiful sun C ROSALIE WATSON K 44 K yy yy D AJ Y K1 .- .ku v I L1 5 4 1 4 ly .Ky 4 7 1 kv, q I 13- . . , , H . ' ' .K . l 1 - ' , . .S t K-M . 7 L D v v , v my . v 78 . . . I . , Y ' y r 1 . v v ' 1 Y ' A . . . A kr, - . n - terlal factors may be confiscated. But that yvhlch we contam IH our mlnds ' Y- Y - 55 ' 1 ' v A Y! v , v , ' ' V V' v . v V y . . K I l I y . . . 0 i V V . July' . .. . ' ' . H I . I A.. . A , ', Y . V V? I I , t . , V ' . , I' F ' tr . s ' 'n - 'g 'S' A big ' f . ' , ' v ' I ' l , . , . . I ' ' ' - s t. . C 15 D

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000 CLASS HISTORY G00 Here 1 srt rn the ofbce thrnkrng just thrnkrng We are Senrors How strange rt all seems when only a few days ago vse entered hrgh school We were a qurte mrschrevous group and lrttle drd we realrze that our darly thoughts and actrons were berng molded rnto hrstcry 1 get our regrstratron cards from the frle rn whrch we placed them only a short trme ago rn order to learn some thrngs of the rndrvrduals of thrs group rn whtch we are more rnterested now than anyth nf' e se Oh yes someone has gone through them before me but Ill take them as they are for look who rs frrst' No one but Cullen Collrnsworth He always remrnds us of stale bread or left overs because he came to us from the 1939 class He was born Aprrl 2 1921 at Nashvrlle but dont let that confuse you He s been here so long that we forget he was ever any pla e ex cept Trousdale County Hes had lots of fun rn lr but drdn t realrze he ever lrved trll Betty came rnto our school Now we cant get rrd of hrm for two vear e O G he would be next He s young but women have also come rnto hrs lrfe However he strll rs carry rng on hrs work well He was born near Hartsyrlle March 18 1923 and hasn t let thrs blustery rronth affect hrs nature Hes been hrttrng the bumps smoothly takrng them as they come How can he be thrs way always' He s been recently placed at th head of the male chrracters rn the All Star Cast at Cookevrlle Here s one from J County and who can rt be but Coelle He was born up rn the hrlls about October 11 1921 Through the years hes been box ng wrth an one who dared face hrm wrth loyed hand W enough werght hell probably take the champronshrp Wendolyn from Kempyrlle born rn June 1922 She came along thrs year makrng much to do e couldn t make up her mrnd rt first but now Holder has made rt up for her Her belref has been that to lose rs but to wrn Do you remember yr ho always nrade the headlrnes' Thus was due probably to Kerley s boostrng but Carr drd hrt a hrgh spot rn one of our brggest electrons H became presrdent of the Student Body e n rf he rsn t very actrve and doesn t belreve rn the early brrd catchrng the worm He came to us from Holleman s Hollow where he was born December 31 1922 Leola Cutrell has her birthplace marked as Trous dale county and vre presume she means Cedar Bluff She was erghteen years young on Noyember 5 1939 She would have left us long ago but an operatron when she first entered hrgh school hrndered her for some trme I haye a farnt remembrance of her rn some way berng connected wrth Provrdence also When 1 saw Rocky Creek l wondered but lookrng back l saw Dean s name He was born there Novem b r 29 1921 Hrs hrstory naturally takes my mrnd to Barthelra where he formerly spelled for years at the trme wrthout error Skrnnersyrlle has always been hrs favorrte town where there rs 1 large school theatre e Many stare wrth open eyes when he talks about the good old drys spent rn thrs town Can t rmagrnatron carry you places' Just as I come to lrenes cmrd someone calls me They want to know where she can b Who can cl Was she ever rn her place' 1 go cnly to nd her rn the hall wrth Celsor When I get settled agarn 1 see that she was born at Cato May 20 1921 can t let you rn on all I know about her She first locked Mr Jennrngs rn the tvprng room to keep hrm from teachrng our class only to lead on to many rnystrfyrng trrcks What she urll tty next rs always the questron Another from Ctto thrs one berng Charles Lee who was born there Detember 3 1920 He came also from another class but rn trme to capture the honor of lest lookrng boy Whose fault was rt' Hrs or the Senror boys? It was reported that he had once Intended to make a typrst H C Wrllrams chauffeur for the boys of the class last year was born at Carthage August 31 1921 H became wrdely known when the Junror play cast had too mu h money and rnyested rt rn glass at Walnut Grove school An honor has been bestowed upon our cla s by be mg assocrated wrth Rubylre Smrth born near Harts vrlle September 24 1923 She has re ently drseov c ed that there rs noted a resemblance between Mrs Rcosevelt and herself No one had formerly re og nrzed thrs but had always wondered who rn our class would be outstandrng The name 1 see next rs the one whrch we always assocrate wrth knovrledge Earl Jones born March 13 1920 has ever stood at the head of hrs class rs always rn class wrth a well prepared lesson ready to recrte He has been the obstacle rn the ways of rr any who chose to beat hrm Vrrgre Sneecls name rs plarnly wyrrtten at the top be ng remrnded of a gentle nature and one who was tarthftl tn the end She was born near Hartsvrlle 'rntary 10 1917 Oftrmes she came rn late ut ne er wrthout a smrle Baby John that s what we all called John Mar n Hes outgrown that name so long that 1 had almost forgotten rt Another thrng that he has out proyyn rs the habrt he had rn the Erghth Grade of makrng the Honor Roll He was born Mar h 8 1927 near Hartsyrlle Dorothy Dalton the bankers daughter was born February 24 1922 In 1938 her nrckname became ueenre by her berng a favorrte of the Future Farmer boys Once a member of our Old Mards Club she s changed her mrnd lately We haye a Western grrl rn our class though she vyas born near Hartsvrlle September 19 1921 Thrs rs Mary Strnson yy ho has alyy avs been an aclmrrer of Westerners and all that goes wrth them Her fa vorrte was Autry but vre cant get who rt rs now Her hobby rs collectrng prctures Dorrs McMurry was born July 20 1921 at Harts yrlle Her name srgnrlies gentleness and all that goes ysrth a nrce quret grrl to many but to me rt recalls a day when she used glue on a boy s harr just for re venge She was once honored vyrth the trtle Mrss Trousdale When Jew ell Hall s name appears 1 can remember back only a few years when she was a grrl much larger than she rs now She just wont let us fat grrls rn fContmued on Bottom of Next Page! 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CLASS EUIZISQPHECY When one allows oneself to stop for a bruef peruod 1nd yueu the march of ttme hus realulatuon us almost mervthelmung Progress h1s lrought along wuth ut unyentuons Ihll have not only Helped mankund un hus strufe for food shelter clothung and the pursuut of happuness but hus sa1ed Iuyes und lengthened the ayer age span of Itfe Telegraphy tuavel on l1nd sea and aur raduo and tele1usuon are but a few of theur umentuons Durung the lapse of ttme from l040 to l0aa the greatest of all achueyements whtch our forefathers would h1ye thought umpossuble has been accomplushed by the un untuon culled Photor1y By photoray one can optrate 1 dutce surnular to a raduo and by turnunp a dual he cau1 pucture be or hus eyes the actuyutues of anyone ht chooses So on thus afternoon yyuth nothungv to do I th9u01t ut mught be unterestung to tturn nn dual to th d Her nt places I mught find my clussmates of I0-I0 1nd thes are the s eu1es 11ht h ate puctured before me e nrst scene th1t flashes befott u11e u 1 1 t 1 home Why' It us Goldman Gregory hus wufe Lou se and theur fotur chuldren Goldman mus uuovu ut all for he us tul tn I turn the dual a Iuttle to the rtght I see a 11ou11.1n suttung before a patntung I us Mury Stunson uhw has be onee a great 1ttust un New York Cuty Another surpruse us un store for me I hear musuc Rebunson and Grad1 Murphy are un deep comersatuon cu uract ut seems s 1usu un us un aus 11luIe Churles Lee has org1nuzed a 11 orld famous has kctb1ll team from C-uto I turn the dual further to the rught What us thus' It us O G Brockett who must haye suddenly turned atl1 entuuous for he us clumbung the Alps Nl hule serxung as 1 gtuude to tourusts Another surpruse us un store for me I hear musuc It us the nught or a grand openung of a mustctl ruuew startung the oomph gurl Maruan Franklun un The Gay Fufttes M1ruan has really come a long IX as at us thus I see as the dual shufus' It us Leoa Cutrell and Vergte Sneed tn my old home toun Harts yulle I ola us happuly marrued and luyung at Proyu dcnce 11 hule Nergte has establushed a promunent beauty parlor tn Hartsyulle and ts clotng 11 ell Woulcln t I haxe been surprused uf I had kno11n I uould see H C Wulluams as a 1er1 successful lawyer un San Francusco and also hayung as hus secretary my old French classmate Rub1Iue Smuth' I turn the dual backys ards a but I hear NOICQS then .1 sulence folloyys for Anruue Rankun 11 ho ts an Englush teacher at old T C H S has entered thc room One th ng I see ho1se1er has not changed I see some of I1 r students passung notes Am I astonushed' Coelle Hancock us actually un 1 hu uy Hx has youned the army and they ha1e speedel hum up a luttle I llnd that Earl Jones ts as studuous as e1er He has just graduated from Yale and us IIOXV preparung to en er Oxford un Englund As more scenes come 1rotund I see luene Oldham 'tncl Wendolyn Hackett working tn the P U H Cafe The1 1ppear 1er1 hlppy 1nd I remember hovu they Iuked to hang around the Cafe durtng our old school dns turn the dual closer to 7ero I see a It as en mes sunce I l111e eeuu ITIX old friend Dons Murry I see her 1s she us modelunp 1 gor eous eyenurg youu un New York C tty s most e clttstve dre s shop I a cd on Fufth Avenue Who would hue thotuyht John Wullutm Martun had marrted and YVIS PFICIICIIIW sturyuny hus ywufe to death' O vu ell mtybe I1e ll go to y1 ork some Clay A 1un I am surprusecl I see Icyxel Hall after s e h1s become 1 nurse un the St 'IllOIIl1S Hosputal un 1sh1ulle T e thun th1t us stull more surprusung though us when I see .l1mes Burrou as a promusung young doctor I turn the dual slovuly I see Rosalue Watson vuho h1s become eclutor of the Nest York Tuunes Am I surprused' I ne1er th ught th1t 1ll of Rosaltes work on the Con1u11ercu1l lNe11s Flush NI0llld haye gotten her that fur Whats thus I heur a nouse 1nd I see someone XV 1 tts Dean Robertson' Dean us un Afruca tryung to shoot luons 1u1d tugers M11 be he us really after one of those natuye gurls for a 11tfe Well tnk thus s 1 ott clussu for certaunly c1n t thunk of anyone else Watt .1 munute It seems a u notu t11t ersouu an o none otl1et than Carr HolIem1n who un re ent years has marrued Muldred Brooks but has left her wuth her ptrents 11 hule he us otut West to seek hus fortune I look more closely and I see our old Pruncupal Mr Pu uas uho us stull teuchung school un T C H S I ulso land th1t our sponsor Muss Gentry has quut teach ung enturely and has orgunuzed the unost f1mous Glee Club un the world M ' Hou thungs haye changed But uns suncerest 11ush us 11 hate1er course un ltfe fate has brought to each of these that ut has been to theur happuness and sue cess muxed 111th whateyer tnusfortttne that lufe wtll 1lyxa1s buung DOROTHY DALTON 4 an y . 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