Ponchatoula High School - Greenback Yearbook (Ponchatoula, LA)

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MEMORIES OF THE FIRST GREENBACK Thlrty two years ago the Semor Class of Ponchatoula Hrgh publrshed the fust edrtron of our annual edrted by Hattre Earnest lt was the only edttron unt1l 1942 Let us glrmpse mto that early GREENBACK and see what thmgs were ltke around P H 9 when Mr C C Prttman was pnncrpal back 1n 1926 Tlus GREENBACK had a secuon devoted to l1st1ng all graduates from 1912 to 1925 The f1rst graduatmg class 1n 1912 had exactly one member Sad1e Akers Sulhvant but by 1926 the senror class had grown mto a large group of 32 ln th1s class we fmd the name of Wtlltam Edward Butler Of hlm tt was sard It LS better to love what you can not have than to have what you cannot love A look at the Class Horoscope shows turtner that ms mckname was Brlly and hrs favoute express1on How do you lrke them apples'P Hrs ambmon later realrzed was to be an athletrc coach but the class prophecy foretold for htm a lrfe as a ratlroad man whrch also came true to some extent Another secret revealed by the Horoscope rs Brlly s hobby whrch was strangely enough gomg to Hammond Personalltres elected that year were Prettrest G1rl Rose Hoover Most Handsome Boy Alonzo Rarford Most Popular Hatue Earnest and Peggy Yokum Best All Around Hester Burns and Kenneth Rlchardson WIIIICSI Wtlhe Earnest and S arlet Creek Branch Best Athletes Lucrlle Marmrlhon and Wrll Ed Butler Most Intellectual Bermce Edwards and Peter Ebrecht Other famrhar names we fmd III h1gh school at th1s ttme mclude Charles Van Vrancken and Hester Mollye Burns now Mrs Threadgrll but then better known as Toots1e edrtor of the school paper The Radro then rn 1ts thud year It was m thrs same year that the Home Ec Club was organrzed and the school cafeterla was then four years old It reported that durmg the year da1ly sales mcreased from frfteen quarts of soup and frfteen loaves of bread to twenty quarts of soup and thtrty to forty loaves of breadl Sports were then as now h1gh on the l1st of Ponchy acttvrttes Coach Jack Vaughan headed a successful football team wluch lost Just one game all season The lmeup was headed by Ponchatoula s own Four Horse men W1l1 Ed Butler Young Rrdgdell Peggy Yokum and Kenne h Rtchardson Captam Butler called Ponchatoula s gndrron Phantom was h1gh pornt scorer ln the state tn 1925 Other boys athlettc teams were basketball and track also under the drrectron of Coach Vaughan Gtrls sports mcluded basketball and tenms Thanksglvmg Day 1925 saw Ponchy s fust Homecommg A crowd of 2500 watched as P H S defeated the Bogalusa LumberJacks Thus ends our Journey mto years gone by as we close the last page of the lrttle paper back annual Though ll bears lrttle resemblance to the GREENBACK of today rt has served well 1ts purpose of keepmg fresh the memorres of 1926 1 . . , ,s. - 1 . . . . 1 . . . . . . . ,, ' 1 W . ' ' . , . . . . . ,, . ,, . . . . 1 1 - U 1 1 1 . . , . N ' 9 I 1 11 . - ' 11 n - ' - - ' 11 ,, 11 5. ' 11 ' 11 ' 11 ' we - 1 f 1 1 . 1 1 v ' - ' - 1 11 - , . 11 - - - n vv , - ' 1 l 1 L ' 1 H , . . ,, . . . . , . , . . . . 4 , . . . . , . . I 1 1 . 1 . . 1