Ponchatoula High School Sophomores, 1926, Ponchatoula, Tangipahoa Parish, La
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Source:  1926 Greenback (yearbook)

The information below was taken from the Ponchatoula High School Annual, 
Green Back 1926.  The Sophomore's name is listed and a quotation related to 
them.

SOPHOMORES - PHS -- 1926

Class Officers:

President - TILGHMAN WHITLEY
"He's witty and he's wise,
His limits are the skies."

Vice-President - JOSEPH BODKER
"Always studying how to avoid study."

Secretary - Treasurer - ALBERTA JENNIE BODKER
"A girl with a dimple can always smile"

ALICE ALEXIS
"She's not as timid and bashful as she looks."

HARRY CLIFFORD ANDERSON
"All that I know is that I know nothing."

JARED BESSON
"Fain would I climb, but I fear to fall."

WILLIAM BOOTH
"Love is like measles,
We all have to go through it."

JOHN ALVA BRANCH
"Men may come, and men may go,
But I stay here forever."

ARCHIBALD JOHN BRAY
"Life is short - so am I."

LUCILLE BUFORD
"A little girl whom everyone knows, 
Has so many friends and not many foes."

OLA FRANKLIN COATS
"Good in everything but especially in her studies."

HERMAN HILL COLMER
"Original wit, and eyes so brown,
Just enough mischief to hide every frown."

ANNA BLANCHE CRONAN
"An admirable little girl who has lots of friends."

JOSEPH EARL EBRECHT
"Men of few words are best men."

HENRY EARL ELLZEY
"Better late than never."

HENRY JOSEPH FOLSE
"To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

HERMAN JOSEPH GAUDE
"Not afraid of work - but not in sympathy with it."

EUNICE HEINRICH
"Rare compound of oddity, frolic and fun,
To relish a joke, and rejoice at a pun."

ALEX LAVIGNE HEITMAN
"Come not I to boast or play,
But rather to mold my future way."

ALBERTA LOUISE HILS
"Silence is more eloquent than words."

CLARA ALBERTA HOWES
"Be good and you will be happy,
But you will miss a lot of fun."

TEDDY TOWNDROW HOWES
"Slow but sure."

BOWMAN KINCHEN
"Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."

HENRY MORGAN McCAHILL
"Much in little."

ROBERT MOLLERE
"A level-headed man who poses as a ladies' man, but who is unsuccessful."

FREDERICK JAMES MORGAN
"He wants what he wants when he wants it."

EDITH ETHEL PERRIN
"Neat, not gaudy."

DARWIN HILDON PITTMAN
"A lion among ladies is a dreadful thing."

GOLDA CAROLINE POCHE
"She's a maid of quiet ways."

HALLIE OLIVE RIDGDELL
"When a friend, a friend indeed."

CARMEN VERA ROMES
"O, boys, where are thou?"

BILLY SETTOON
"Into the midst of things."

KATHERINE SCHMIDT
"Katherine's a good sport,
We'll say there's none better,
And when you've said that of her, 
You've got her to the letter."

MINA LEA ESTHER TATE
"Let me live in my house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."

NELLIE MAE THOMAS
"Nellie, a good sport, honest and true,
Here's to you, 'Nell,' dear, we're always for you."

NORMA ALINE TURNAGE
"Precious jewels come in small packages."

CHARLES VAN VRANCKEN
"I'm quiet, but I am here just the same."

ELLA CORINNE WELLS
"I say just what I think,
Nothing more, nothing less."

NANNIE MARIE WOOTEN
"Her eyes are full of laughter."

HOWARD WATKINS
"Awfully shy."