Vinton High School - Souvenir Yearbook (Vinton, LA)

Text from Pages 1 - 180 of the 1952 volume:

TAYLOR PUBLISHING COMPANY DALLAS, TEXAS MEANS BETTER YEARBOOKS VINTON HIGH SCHOOL As you turn through the pages of this book, may you wander once more through the mem- ories of yesterday, recalling the happiest hours the best loved scenes, and the valuable friends. May die pictures which we have chosen help to make your memories more vivid through- out the passing years. The Souvenir Staff dedicates this yearbook of 1951-52 to Mrs. Ira Lyons. Mrs. Lyons, better known as Miss Betty , is outstanding as a citizen, mother and teacher. Her kindness, sincerity and understanding have won for her the love and devotion of the students and faculty of the Vinton School. Miss Betty , even though you retired from the Vinton School Faculty,May, 1951, your influence will a lways predominate along our future paths of life. Editor, seated, center------ Assistant Editor, seated, left Sponsor, seated, right------ Standing left to right: Art Editors -- ----------- - Typist -- --------------------- Student Life Editor - - - — Business Manager------------ School Editor - --------- — Snapshot Editor - - -------- Sports Editor - -- -- -- - ---ELOISE BARRIOS ----- JOYCE GANTT MISS IRMA SPILLMON - HARRY LEE SIMON LOIS TRAHAN - - YVONNE GIBSON ■ - JEANETTE BARNES - - - - BOBBY EVANS - - RENEE REINSTEIN - - JO ANN SWINNEY - - PATSY PLUMMER W I congratulate you who are graduating from the Vinton High School this year and wish for you a long, useful, happy life during the years that lie ahead. With the passage of the years this year book will serve as a reminder of the happy days you have spent in the Vinton High School and the many friends that you have made here. Sincerely yours. ’.' ■■.' •'• •• ' l - .,. V ■ ' ',; §ftcf2a£ 4 Wj • 4J • - • ■ • .w- V ' v v ' . 'Jt-’ • • , . • TV h . v .v -. ■. Sd-da-a-e sSHW V; • 1% .� ■ : ■ - 8 .. ..•' -: • ' - V ' i v 'T: ; ■ • ; : :;v: j My heartiest congratulations to the Senior Class-who are the edi- tors of this the 1 52 SOUVENIR . You have compiled memories in picture and print that ,ou, the stu- dent body, your Alumni and friends will cherish more and more in years to come. The faculty is indeed grateful for the untiring efforts that you, the staff, have put forth in making possible this book of treasure, whose vaLue cannot be matched. MRS. J. H. WELSH MRS. ROBERT GRISSOM MR. MALCOLM E. THOMAS MRS. LOUIS LYNCH MR. MEADE P. SHAW MRS. MEADE P. SHAW MISS JOYCE LeBLANC MR. JOHN BABB MR. W. A. HANNA MR. ERNEST HOWELL MRS. MATTIE PRUETT MR. LOUIS GUILLORY MR. GABRIEL BARKATE MISS ELIZABETH HAN- BERRY MISS MARY MAR1CELLI MISS IRMA SPILLMAN MRS. E. I. HUNT MISS MARJORIE MEARI- MAN MRS. ELTON BORDELON MRS. J. R. HAMPTON MRS. H. J. HEBERT MISS CLARA LUNDY MRS. LEO BENOIT MRS. J. R. REED MRS. CARL SIMMONS MISS BERTIE LANG- FORD MRS. ANGIE HITER H(Je ate Seniote Seated: President-------------- Vice President - - - - Standing right to left: Secretary ----- - Treasurer - ----------- CLASS OFFICERS - ELOISE BARRIOS JEWEL MERCHANT JEANETTE BARNES - - LOIS TRAHAN CLASS MOTTO: CLASS COLORS: CLASS FLOWER: White Carnation JEANETTE BARNES ELOISE BARRIOS MAVIS BERRY LOYCE BERRY EVERETT BREAUX JANET BRUNO TERRY FONTENOT JOYCE GANTT YVONNE GIBSON MELBA BOLTON RICHARD LANDRY JW’ JEWEL MERCHANT HELEN RAY RENEE REINSTEIN ELODIE RIDDICK JO ANN SWINNEY ALFRED THIBODEAUX LOIS TRAHAN PATSY TURPIN MARGARET QUIBODEAUX President, seated - Vice President - - - Secretary, standing ARTHUR BROUSSARD - - WANDA WINTER - - LU DELLE JEFFERS MARTHA ALLEN UNA MAE ARABIE BOBBY LEE ARB SOPHIE ANN BEAUGH GLORIA BERRY RAYMOND BOULLION J. A. BREAUX ARTHUR BROUSSARD MARIE BROUSSARD THERESA CLOSTRO BETTY JEAN DUGAS JOHNNY ECKER SHIRLEY FAULK MERCEDES FONTENOT DAVID GIBSON BARBARA GOREE MILTON GRANGER GLORIA GUIDRY BILLY HOLSTEAD LuDELL JEFFERS NORMA LEE LeBOUEF DON McCAUGHEY sadie McClelland BARBARA ANN MILEY ELROY MOORE FLORENCE MURPHY JO ELLEN PARISH JUDITH PLUMMER ALMA JEAN QUINN BETTY LOU SAILORS ELIZABETH SIMON J. DALE SONIER LEE JAY THIBODEAUX BARBARA TRAHAN MINNIE WILLIAMS WANDA WINTER Standing: President------------------------------------------------------------Ronnie LeBlanc Seated: Vice President---------------------------------------------Wilfred Foreman Secretary-Treasurer --- --------------------------------- Dorothy Schmidt James Coleman Joseph Foreman Wilfred Foreman Keitha Fostef Ruth Gantt Lorraine Gaudet Neda Gould Earliene Granger Jimmie Granger James Grauke Carolyn Hebert Margaret Landry Joseph Ed LeBlanc Ronny LeBlanc Rose LeBlanc Joy Nell Lee Leonce Martin Erliene Miller Gertrude Murphy Annabelle Oubre Farrel perdreauville Alberta Pruitt Simon Reinstein Theo Richard Waldine Robertson Luther Romero Dorothy Schmidt Carl Schull Arnold Smith J. B. Sonnier Raymond Sullivan Janice Vassar Jack Welsh Larry White Margaret White Jimmy Williams jfies iman (J ass (Ojjicens Seated, right to left: President-------------------------------------------------- Elgie Miller Vice President ------------------------------------------... Joy Jeffers Standing: Secretary-Treasurer-------------------------------------------------Frances Prestwood Lollie Aldred Dale Barrios ■.dm Henry Bellow Dorothy Beaudreaux Len Benckenstein Betty Jean Berry Bobbie Bonnin Honor Belle Berry Audrey Bonsall Joyce Bourge James Caswell Sharon Bruce Melba Chesson Jo Ann Chesson Christine Crawford Bernadine Christian r I ' W 5 Robert Daigle Roberta Dean Dorothy De ville Carrol Desormeaux Shirley Duraso Celeste Fontenot Barbara Holstead Lottie Goddard Emma Lee Jackson Eddie Jardell Joy Jeffers Jerry Jardell Mary Landry Margaret Lasserre Er liene LeBlanc Ned LeBlanc Bonnie Jean LeDoux Norma LeDeaux Fulton Manuel James Mathews Elgie Ruth Miller Watson Moyer Rose Anna Ogea Doris Passmore James Perios Frances Prestwood James Prestwood Francis Redding Jenelle Richard Gary Richardson Jeanne Rougeau Rita Mae Stine Lou Ethel Trahan Marion Trahan Doyle Winter Betty Jo Bass V' 1 W '•‘‘ ' ‘•'••.v . . vv.. v- :- •.%•-.••. :•:■ X -v,vv , • vv A .s v . . . v .. y-V- . • '. f W - ! Seventh tjfieJe jiui jdnd Second c fnJ [fourth fffiddes Sweetlmt aj ELOISE BARRIOS QYlu £ ?ma QHajmttes , • � tru ;mL4 i ,vr?' Quum QHajsfi SHARON BRUCE Senieti avoftites ARTHUR JO ELLEN PARISH JANET BRLJNO Jjuniefi Ramites freshman DOYLE WINTER CHRISTINE CRAWFORD Safilemone a vsuites SIMON REINSTEIN CAROLYN HEBERT Best ( Id foun LOIS TRAHAN WILFRED foreman Qllest intelligent BOBBY EVANS ELOISE BARRIOS Best petisonalitj Best pillpfriounJ Wittiest QHost Pofiutan MRS. AUDREY CHESSON MRS. MILDRED TRAHAN MRS. J. H. LEE ! MRS. W. L. BOWEN MRS. HAZEL YOUNG Cafeteria Manager MRS. LEROY PATIN MRS. EUNICE BROUSSARD Assistant Cafeteria Manager MRS. MARY HEBERT MRS. REMYDEAVILLE WILL WILLIAMS Elementary Janitor IDA WILLIAMS Gym. Janitress BILL WILLIAMS High School Janitor RAYMOND BOULLION Right Guard RICHARD LANDRY Right End ALFRED THIBODEAUX Left Tackle CLAYTON COURMIER Center JAMES CONWAY Right Tackle ELROY MOORE Left End RONNY LeBLANC Full Back WILFORD FOREMAN Quarter Back EVERETT BREAUX Right End TERRY FONTENOT Left Guard LEE J. THIBODEAUX Left Half JIMMY GRANGER Left Half LEO LeBLANC Right Half VINTON 13 - DEQUINCY 6 VINTON 0 - MARION 7 VINTON 0 - VILLE PLATTE 13 VINTON 13 - LANDRY 7 Bas et all rjfeam Front row, left to right: Theo Richard, David Gibson, Milton Granger, Ronnie LeBlanc, Jackie Welsh, Everett Breaux. Second row: Rodney Burch, Wilfred Foreman, James Coleman, Ed LeBlanc, Leo LeBlanc, Jewel Merchant. Front row, left to right: Watson Moyer, Larry White, Everett Breaux, James Coleman, Ronnie LeBlanc. Dale Barrios. Second row: Donald Broussard, Lee J. Thibodeaux, Don McCaughey, Ed LeBlanc, Wilfred Poreman, Jimmy Granger, Raymond Boullion, Buzzie Reinstein. Third row: Caroll Desormeaux, Leroy Landry, J. D. Foreman, Leroy Mahaffey, Jewel Merchant, Jackie Welsh, Theo Richard. Fourth row: James Prestwood. HANBERRY COACH Left to right: Lois Trahan, Janet Bruno, Jeanette Barnes, Ruth Gantt, Patsy Turpin, Carolyn Hebert. Seated: Martha Allen, Barbara Miley, Alberta Pruitt. Carolyn Hebert, Janet Bruno, Lois Trahan. Center: Joyce Gantt, Ruth Gantt, Rosa LeBlanc, Jeanette Barnes, Annabell Oubre, Mary Landry, Erline Granger. Back row: Betty Sailors, Jo Ellen Parish. Margaret Landry, Coach Harberry, Earline Miller, Patsy Turpin, Elizabeth Simon. Up In The Clouds What Weight! My Aching Feet Ain’t This The Life Going Someplace ? 'Da-a-a, Whats Up Doc Before Growing Pains 1 Apologize Guard 'em Gabe Duh-h-, ' Wha-hoppen Taifc About Power! Memories Of Long Ago Way Up There Alone Compliments of Municipal Owned Lights, Water and Ice Plants W. A. Venissat, Mayor Councilors: M. J. Mouton M. E. Williams Curry Caswell D. E. Marshall PROTECTION M W. A. 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