Ponchatoula High School Juniors, 1926, Ponchatoula, Tangipahoa Parish, La File Prepared and Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Carol Carvalho, Apr. 2001 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Source: 1926 Greenback (yearbook) (Taken from the Ponchatoula High School Annual, Green Back 1926. The Juniors' name is listed and then a quotation relating to them.) JUNIORS - PHS -1926 HENRY EUGENE CUNNINGHAM - Class President "Many a woman may I admire But one sweet woman is my desire." HOMER YOUNG RIDGDELL - Class Vice President "Not a shark in class but a whale in football." OTIS NATHAN FUSSELL - Class Secretary Treasurer "Eat drink and be merry, For tomorrow you may die." CLARA LENORA ABBOTT "Original wit and eyes so brown, Just enough mischief to hide every frown" CHARLES HOWARD ALLEN "Loyal hearted, strong in mind, A finer boy nowhere you'll find." T. C. ANDERSON "Better sense in the head, than in the pocket." EARL DENMAN SYLVEST "A grin or a smile, you could see a mile." OSCAR HAROLD BAIN "True merit is like a river; the deeper it is the less noise it makes." HOWARD BONVILLIAN "Be it man or boy, If we could have no girls, There would be no joy." CHARLES ANDREW BRANCH "He's witty and he's wise, His limits are the skies." BERNICE EVERETTE COWEN "Modest and sweet is she, A truer friend hath no one." CARL CLARENCE CULLOM "Help us convince him that girls are harmless." EARL BAKER DAVIS "Out of school life into life's school." GLADYS MARY DAY "As welcome as sunshine in every place, The beaming approach of her good natured face." ALICE CECILE DECOTEAU "Often seen but seldom heard." LOYD DUDLEY "There's many a man of many a mind, But the one of the kingly kind, Is he who dreams of the deeds he will do, And then with a will, makes his dreams come true." BERNICE EDWARDS "A big heart always wishing to do right and to be a friend with everyone." BYARD EDWARDS "Do what you have to do, but do not be worked to death." EUNICE FANNALY "Like sunshine in a shady place." LYMAN EARNEST GAUDE "Let thy speech be better than silence or be silent." JULIA AKERS HAIGHT "Hers is a nature hard to forget, Honest, simplicity, friendliness, she has it to let." BEATRICE HANO "Why should she worry, --she knows the future." VIRGINIA CAMP HAMLET "Beauty, brains and dancing feet, All combined to make her sweet." SVANTE YVONNE HAWKINS "She can sing and dance and play, Quite a winner we would say." ALONZO FRANK HOOVER "Happy am I, from care I'm free, Why aren't others content like me?" ROSALIE ADELINE HOOVER "The same hand that made her lovely, made her lovable." JOSEPH W. HOWES "A big heart always wishing to do right, and to be a friend to everybody." EDNA CARRIE JEFFERS "It doesn't pay to worry; things are bound to happen anyway." ELLIS ROY JENKINS "A quiet, sincere, very likable fellow." LOUIS FREDERICK KINBALL "A good fellow among fellow always trying to do his best." EMMET JOSEPH LA ROSE "A boy who knows in just what proportion to mix his work and play. A general favorite with everybody." ALVIN JAMES MARMILLION "Our idea of an ideal young man." JAMES McCAHILL "Let us blot out the past, trust to the future, And rejoice in the good old present." D. A. OLDEN "Silence is the greatest are of conversation." ADA MARIE PALMER "Sober, pensive, and demure, One of those friends you're always sure." BERTHA ERLINE PERRIN "Her good nature is just a glimpse of her character." ROSE EMMA PUGH "Her quiet ways and faithful work, Are sermons to all who shirk." HAZEL CATHERINE PUSEY "Happy and smiling, content and free, Why can't everybody be like me?" KENNETH MILLER RICHARDSON "A rare good sport, tender and true, The best all round in all our crew." JEANNE ROBICHAUX "An admirable little girl who has lots of friends. ANNA MAE SCHMIDT "Anna Mae is cleaver and bright; In fact she is just erudite." AUDREY MAE SETTOON "A gentle maid makes a good woman." ANNIE LOU SUTTON "Life is one romance after another." BERT EARL TUCKER "A man who can calmly wait, is master of the situation." ADELINE TURLEY "Not like the rose may your friendship wither, But like the evergreen may it last forever." IRENE MARGUERITE TURNAGE "A lovable character, very graceful in size, Smiles all day and flirts with those eyes." MARGARET EUNICE VINYARD "She adorns all that she touches." INEZ ZOIE YOKUM "Tush! Tush! Place the boys with the bugs."