50th Anniv Page 2

In Celebration of TCH's first 50 years (1955 - 2005)

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All the girls matched with their red pleated skirts and white blouses but the boys weren't

Early uniforms for girls:

Red pleated skirt & white blouse

required to wear uniforms. They had to wear dress clothes which meant no dungarees (blue jeans) allowed. The boys won't be required to wear uniforms for over 20 more years.

In History class when you would study World War II, it was recent history because the war had ended only 10 years before TCH opened. The Korean War ended only two years earlier! The Vietnam war started the same year and wouldn't end for another 20 years. If one of your teachers assigned a term paper about the war, your resources would be limited to the Lafayette Public Library or that set of Encyclopedia's your family bought from the door to door salesman. Teurlings didn't have a library yet and the internet was nonexistent. Teurlings also didn't have a 10th, 11th or 12th grade the year it opened.

There was no calculator to use in Math class. The first ones wouldn't be out until the early 1970s and they would only be able to do four functions at a cost of $200. Even after calculators arrived on the scene, it would be years before they were accepted in class rooms. We did get to use the predecessor to the calculator in First Grade. It was called the "numerator" and it had colored discs that slid up and down on a shaft.

1959 Football Team

Top: Reynolds Stoute, Bryant Gilder, Melvin Kling, Carl Breaux, Sammy Roberts, Pat David, Pat Arceneaux, Arthur Courville, Jessie Champagne Middle: Kenneth Plouet, Eddie Figueron, Ellis Maturin, Bill LeBlanc, Chester Guidry, Stanley Arceneaux Bottom: James Simon, Keith Zimmerman, Paul David, Sidney Stoute, George Gardiner, Johnny Gardiner, Ralph Hebert

If you decided to go to the Fr. Teurlings High School football game on Friday night, you would have seen a kicker who kicked the ball very different from today. He didn't kick "soccer style"...no football kicker did. They all kicked by bringing their leg straight up in front and perpendicular to their body. And if you wanted to get pictures of the game, you had to bring lots of "flashbulbs" with you since each bulb is good for one photo only. When homecoming week arrived, you had the fun of going to the homecoming parade which each grade participated in by building a float and parading down Jefferson street in Lafayette to Clark Field. You may have seen Teurlings play their big rival, Fatima, which was a high school. But you didn't play Fatima those first few years because they hadn't opened yet.

For a change of pace, there was the Powder Puff game in early spring. The girls would play the football game and the boys would dress up as cheerleaders. The boys also had a court just like homecoming where they had a "Queen". The girls asked the boys to the "Twerp" dance on Saturday night to cap off the weeks activities.

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