Webb School - Sawney Yearbook (Bell Buckle, TN)

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.9 XL ENN SCHUUL Seated, left fo right: Mr. M. H. Scott, Jasper Shealy, jimmy Lindy, Ralph Braund, Mr. Harry Himel- rick. Standing: Buddy Ferguson, Beau Robertson, Earl Tally, Jim Bush, Roy Ellzey, Campbell Francisco, Walter Graham, Cliff Bass, Lewis Holmes. Regardless of where one may venture, he will be surrounded by discipline . . . the cop on the street, the MP's in the army, the coach of a football squad, the teacher in the classroom. Here at Webb we add another member to the ranks of these stalwarts of equality and justice-the monitors. These boys form the backbone for our school. They are the ones who correct when We get out of line. Call them Wing leaders, monitors . . . tyrants or despots, they are our dormitory dis- ciplinarians. These boys represent each division of each dormitory unit . . . each hall, each Wing. They are the boys who serve voluntarily and for no rewards-as the sergeant or the chief petty officer in our school. Chosen by the faculty, these boys must have physical stamina, leadership . . . and above all, courage to turn their buddy in for misconduct. To a boy in a prep school his happiness revolves around his friendships and yet these boys are willing to sacrifice this. I say sacrifice but actually they are gaining something. They learn that a true friend will understand the weight of responsibility and will desert them when they assume their place of discipline. Also many of them learn to their dismay that many of their so-called friends desert them at this time. They learn that too often one is too blind to see the fallacies in a friendship. This is indeed a valuable lesson to be learned. Too often boys grow into manhood not realizing that the world's not full of true friends. It is here in this small but significant beginning that they come to face this fact. This small group of boys are making their first step toward manhood .... Whether or not they deserve to be called a wing leader or hall monitor will be decided by them alone. They were selected by men who believed they were leaders . . . re- sponsible and conscientious. They will be the ones to live with their conscience if they failed to carry out their duties: if they succumbed to the temptations of others to show their duty. This year has been a successful one and an orderly one. Credit is due to a great extent to these boys. They have done an excellent job. This is but a small tribute to their works- work which made them a somebody, a real example of a Webb gentleman. ' DOR ITORY UNCIL Page 59

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Kneeling, lefi fo right: Albert Frierson, Roy Ellzey, jimmy Lindy, Owen Hendley, Peter Claverie. Sealed: Clack Becker, Stanley Taylor, Charles Crabtree, Bard Rudder, Mr. M. H. Scott, III fAdvisorJ, Bob Gilliam, Bob Thomas, Jim jones. Slanding: Jim Clark, Jim Anderson, David Smartt, Walter Gra- ham, Dub Hale, Lann Malesky, Billy 'Hurteau, Axel Soestmeyer, Jim Bush. In the past few years at Webb the dramatics club has prob- ably been the least active of the extra-curricular clubs. This was partly due to the lack of interest, the lack of funds and equipment, and most of all to the lack of a capable director. A remarkable change took place this year. The club was blessed with a fine director in the person of Mack Harris Scott, III. Mr. Scott took over the dramatics club of Webb School with a record of polished productions behind him. How- ever, here he found very little talent, and less equipment to work with. That was in September! By February he had already produced a three-act comedy in which he acted himself. The play was entitled My Three Angels. Briefly the story tells how three convicts become the good angels of a sadly harassed household. The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas day the temperature gra- ciously drops to 104, and where convicts cannot only hire out but apparently never have to report back. The three angels Joseph fBard Rudderj, Jules fAlbert Friersonj, and Alfred fOwen Hendleyj are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads. On the DRAMATIC way from France is a snarling cousin, Henri fMr. Scott, to oust Papa QBob Thomasj from the business he has botched. Along with the cousin is cold-nephew, Paul fWalter Grahamj who is jilting papa's daughter, Marie Louise QMarcia Manley, for an heiress. The three angels-two of them murderers, the third a swindler-take the visitors on. All three convicts have sunny natures, warm hearts, clever hands and sleepless brainsg all three are passionate believers in the Robin Hood of man. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters aright in a gallic Christmas Carol where it is simpler to bump Scrooge off than convert him. CAlso included in the cast were Mrs. Calahan, R. L. Gilliam and Jimmy Lindy.J During commencement week a night is reserved for the dramatics club. The play for this time is still in the process of being chosen but it is fairly certain that Hasty Heart will be the one. The story tells of a wounded soldier whose last few weeks of life, spent in a hospital in the Orient, are changed by the attitudes taken towards him and ultimately by him. The play is a mixture of comedy and drama and is predicted to be a howling success. In summarizing, this year has been a boost to the Dramatics Club. It is hoped that the popularity of the club will steadily increase and, under the sponsorship of Mr. Scott, this seems to be the prediction. The Dramatics Club would like to thank Mr. Scott for the ine work he has done in the past year. Bo

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ORWQLE 4 I l l Kmfcling, lcfl lo rigbl: Lewis Holmes-Editor, Clark Becker-Assistant Editor. Fifi! VOID! Markley Huey, Rex Bushong, Walter Graham, Bob Gilliam, Smith Murphey, -lim Clark, Bill Lassiter, Carl Trep- pendahl, jimmy Lindy, Bob Thomas. Second row: Mr. J. M. Callahan, Jr. fAdvisorj, Carlos Plumb, Chuck Coolidge, Charles Mayo, Tim Martin, Ralph Brziund, Tom Wilson, Nat Long, Bill James, Gunter Smith. Third row: Campbell Francisco, Ab Taylor, Richard Murphey, Steve Herring, Paul Craft, Charles Crabtree, Pat Nesbit, jim Hornsby, Ellis Hirsh. Fourth row: Cliff Bass, Owen Hendley, Page Faulk, Roy Ellzey, Frank Smith, Pick Stephens, Sam Eason. The school year of 1954-55 might well be termed as the transitional age for the Webb School newspaper-the Oracle. This year the paper has undergone a complete overhaul and has come out successful. As is typical of all new things, this year's Oracle staff began not knowing what to expect. The editors had gotten some big ideas and the staff were to put them into being. They tackled what seemed the impossible. They were going to make the paper bigger and better. It had been said in criticism of the old paper that by the time it came out, the news was stale but the editors wanted the change. So they decided to put it out more frequently. To the average on-looker this object of remaking a paper would seem simple, but this is far from the truth. It requires a lot of work on the part of a lot of boys and fortunately these boys were available. They went the second mile to see that the other students enioyed a better paper. Often this meant that they must sacrihce something, but they realized that work must come before play and that getting out a paper is more important than playing a game. At first this idea of a different paper was a novelty and Page 60 was interesting and inviting but as each issue rolled OH the presses the boys on the staff realized that it was no game. They found that the job required consistent efforts on the part of all, There could be no loafing, for one department was dependent on another. In this constant service was found a group of boys that deserve much more credit than they got. Undoubtedly many of those who gave of themselves will never be publicly rewarded, but their work will always be seen in the fine papers they put out. And so we pay tribute to all of those boys who went into a new and difficult job and came out successful. We lahd each one from editor to writer, from typist to distributor. They all made up a part of a machine which could not have run without them. Webb School has long had its newspaper but will End it hard to obtain a better group than these. In the past they had a precedent to follow and references for guidance. This year the staff depended on their own initiative. And so this group leaves to those of next year its record, hoping that they may profit from this year's mistakes and make next year an even better Oracle.