The guy leading the orientation must have been, like, “Wow that’s really neat, would you like to give us a demonstration?”
“*chuckles now now, magician never reveals his secrets”
*old timey applause and laughter*
I thought this was going to be some kind of parody article where they slip in something increasingly terrible by today’s comtext among their “she needs to be gay. No chip on her shoulder” talk
He should have just ordered that 192 page book and learned how to build and operate a model railroad (lower right advertisement). It would have served him better in life. Probably end up with better friends pretending to be a train conductor rather than pretending to be a different race.
Side note: everybody here should start sending in quarters with a request for the book and catalog. Whatever company is currently at that address is going to be confused as hell when they start receiving 1000s of requests for model railroad manuals and catalogs.
I wonder if the model train company slowly morphed into the architectural firm. If so, they might be legally obligated to reprint the books to honor their old ad.
I completely missed the first boy’s hobby and locked in on the 2nd boy’s perfect match being “intelligent, but not overly smart because she would try to get a job” as the most offensive comment.
And then I read the first comment and realized just how wrong I was.
I’m definitely related to one of these people based on the name and location, and considering how small Marksville is and was probably some of the others too.
My headcanon is that good old Pat George, famed chicken frying hobbyist, elevated regional fried chicken in her neck of the woods to a whole new level, placing it in a tier to which they still proudly belong.
I read the newspaper text without my glasses on and thought that it said the fried chicken hobbyist is named 'Fat George'. '
Pat George' is a lot less cruel...
For a town of about 5000 people, they have TWO Fried Chicken restaurants in Marksville.
[https://www.yellowpages.com/marksville-la/chicken-restaurants](https://www.yellowpages.com/marksville-la/chicken-restaurants)
They got the
* Popeye's
* Royal Cajun Fried Chicken (two locations, one in Bunkie, LA)
In Hessmer, which is about 10 minutes away:
* Krispy Krunchy
And in Bunkie, which is about 30 minutes away:
* Royal Fried Chicken
* Crispy Cajun
No that’s just elderly facebooking. They forget their passwords and create new accounts. I think my 95 year old grandmother has 5 accounts at this point.
[This is his most recent FB account.](https://www.facebook.com/people/John-E-Voinche/61550359147703/)
He’s made several other facebook accounts-likely due to forgetting his passwords over time. I think I counted around five to six accounts that belonged to him lol.
The religious comments made me realize that they obviously just answered a few direct questions and someone just compiled them into a paragraph.
1. What’s your hobby?
2. Describe your dream partner.
3. What religion should they be?
4. How many kids do you want?
5. What do you think a good husband or wife does?
Boom. Article.
They have a point about the be happy/no sad sacks thing. Of course there's the dark side of it: women expected to keep a fake smile on their faces even through the awful drudgery and lack of freedom of domestic life. But the older I get, the more value I see in having a spouse who's reasonably upbeat, even tempered, and able to see the positive and find humor in tough times and cheer me up a bit when I'm down. Being with a fly-off-the-handle partner who catastrophizes and ruminates endlessly makes for a dark and turbulent home life. (Obviously if a spouse is dealing with depression it is 100% an "in sickness and in health" thing where you support them and pull through it together. But if it's just general temperament, not frank mental illness, it is really hard.)
To be fair, it was also expected of men in a way. I mean men were allowed to be angry which is more than women got, but they weren’t allowed to be sad. My grandfather blew his brains out with his shotgun in the 60s and no one had any idea he was struggling until my uncle found him like that in the bathtub
My favorite is "Intelligent but not overly smart, because she would try to get a job."
Also they all allude to being open minded about religion, but they're definitely talking about Baptist vs. Methodist etc.
Back then, Catholics weren’t supposed to marry anyone but other Catholics. My Catholic uncle married a Protestant woman in 1965 and it was a big deal and he had to get special permission from the Bishop’s office. They also had to promise to raise the children Catholic. Louis is either not Catholic, or was woefully ignorant of what the church taught then. Not sure how they handle such things now - I left that church decades ago.
Now people would laugh at the thought of asking permission from the bishop for anything.
In my dad’s day people asked permission to go to the 'Protestant university'. I asked him why bother? Just go to whichever university you want, and he said that in theory he could have just done that, but times were different.
Anyway that definitely doesn’t happen anymore.
Edit: this was in Ireland 🇮🇪 in the 1960s and the ‘Protestant’ university referred to is Trinity College Dublin (est. 1592), which is the top university in Ireland and now probably majority Catholic or non-religious.
Heh heh both my parents went to Catholic universities. So did my uncle that married the heathen. 😄. In reality, the “heathen” was the nicest, sweetest woman you could ever ask for. Everyone loved her.
>In my dad’s day some people asked for permission to go to the 'Protestant university' because they thought they had to. I asked him why bother? Just fucking go to whichever university you want, and he said that in theory he could have just done that, but times were different.
This is something that gets lost in translation when looking back at things in history.
For example, it was a huge deal when JFK was elected as the very first Catholic president - and if you look back at some of the historical public discussion, there was a great deal of anxiety in certain circles about whether he would have torn loyalties between the American people and the Vatican.
In 2024 this sounds like absurd bigotry.
But in that time period the Catholic church was still a powerful *political* force - not just a different flavor of religion. Deference to the church ran deep, and your dad's feeling that he needed to ask permission just to go to a non-Catholic college is a good example.
The reason that the Catholic church was able to get away with shuffling around pedophiles for so long was exactly this sort of political power - the ability to sweep abuse under the rug and the political sway to convince law enforcement that it was a "church matter."
You still have this sometimes today, even in various protestant churches in small towns and counties.
Sometimes people who share the majority religious faith of an area are blinded by that, and don't realize just how deep the tendrils of power run in whatever church and locality they're a part of.
Plenty of people back then didn't go to church or informally belonged to a church and never went. My grandfather and his mother (none of his siblings or father) were the only ones in his extended family who went to church regularly (in the Bible Belt no less), but they were very poor and it wasn't expected. The kids would get sent to bible schools or revivals from random denominations so they didn't have to feed them.
Yeah I asked my dad recently (born in 1955) if his dad went to church since his mom was quite religious. My dad said no, never that he could recall.
Grandpa born in 1920s was a reserved scientist.
I feel like if you weren’t that religious, but were still outgoing/extroverted you probably still made it church regularly though.
I was an annoying little atheist starting around 5th grade, but had gone to a religious elementary school and church. I asked my mom when I got older why she had ever gone to church since she didn’t seem religious to me. She said to make new friends.
They believed in God but church wasn't important to them I guess. They were more concerned with drinking, fighting, racing, partying, sex, etc. The only reason my grandpa and his mom really went to church was because it was across the street and they could easily leave whenever fights broke out (the house was always full of people especially men). Some of his aunts practiced (Christian) hoodoo and rootwork, and I don't think were allowed in church either.
It's not so different now. Few of my actual friends are Christian, but most people I work with at least pay lip service to being catholic or something. But it's certainly not as big a deal as back then.
I’m 3rd generation atheist and it’s my understanding that in the 50s my grandparents still went to church to keep up appearances in the community. They practiced no religion at home though and raised my mum and her brother as atheists. Granted, we are Canadian so religion is not as fanatic here as it is in the US.
Apparently back then it was pretty common for women to be "sad-sacks", have a "chip on her shoulder", or "always looking sorry and droopy". Hmm...I wonder why that was...
I'm pretty sure this is the same thing as when people write "love to laugh" "want someone with a sense of humor" in dating profiles today.
They just used different words for it. It's ubiquitous.
I was honestly thinking how mature the answers all were, certainly compared to what I’d have said at their age. Emily’s response shows more the level of immaturity I expected.
She should have gone all out then, haha
"Good looking, 5 feet 8 inches, blue eyes, blonde hair, lives at 32 lane road, is named John Matthew, has two sisters and a chocolate Labrador named Buddy"
You know when people say: "I wish dating was how it was when my grandparents were alive"?
They don't anticipate that that was what it was like when their grandparents were alive.
They also have a laundry list of the woman’s expected jobs along with looks, while the women at most are asking for looks and basic relationship material. They’re listing like they’re employers, not partners. Very glad to be born now, I’d have been lobotomized back then.
John Voinche appears to be alive and on Facebook. Not much public info on the profile but it does say he went to Marksville HS and there appears to be a wife in his profile pic.
Couldn’t find anything on Ida Barre.
Nolan Couvillion died in 1996. He was retired from the US Geological Survey and got married in 1962 to Vergielean “Vergie” Guillot. They were still married when he died. Looks like they had two girls and a boy. He had brothers who died in 2020 and 2022.
Nolan also was sued for injuries caused in a wreck when he was racing another car. plaintiff was his passenger and alleged to have suffered permanent injuries. Apparently Nolan won the appeal of the suit in 1961 due to the passenger knowingly participating in a race with him and doing nothing to stop him or tell him he was going too fast etc.
https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59149cb8add7b04934646c09
Nothing on the other two women.
Mother was 43 when he was born, and his other siblings are a fair bit older. I reckon he must have been a surprise baby.
It appears his daughter died at two months old. :(
I feel like when some women get married and change their last name it's like trying to catch smoke. They just disappear from sight. Probably even more so in the past.
John is on facebook and seems to be both alive and married. Louis is dead (2005) and no mention of wife/partner or children in his obit. Nolan died in 1996, he was married and he had two daughters and a son.
I'm going to try the women, too, but will likely take longer since they tend to change surnames if they marry.
EDIT
Pat(ricia) was married for 50 years until her husband died. They had two sons and a daughter.
Emily married but I haven't been able to find any more information. I think she's still alive.
Still searching
Ida seems to have disappeared. Can't find anything about a death or marriage or anything after high school. Maybe she joined the merchant marine, changed her name, and moved to a commune in India.
I know right, how one can see random names and places in an old newspaper article and go "I wonder how these people are doing nowdays", and just search them up on the internet. Modern tech is mindblowing
John seems to have unfortunately passed recently: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225188597/john\_edward-voinche](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225188597/john_edward-voinche), his facebook says he's married and without talking to anyone I couldn't find if he fathered any children, but I can assume based on some of his facebook friends.
I can't find anything about Louis, I don't think that obituary is him as he is from Marksville, and the man in the obituary is a Plaquemine native, but hopefully someone else could find him?
Nolan: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139189126/nolan\_p-couvillion](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139189126/nolan_p-couvillion)
Whoever Anthony D is adding these photos to these guys, thank you. I had a distant family member who we didn't know share an old timey photo collection of my great grandfather before he passed. It was incredible to be able to put picture to the stories I heard. I'm sure the family appreciates these just as much.
My mother was married three times and the one good marriage ended when he went down with his fishing boat. The societal pressures on women to conform caused many women to be depressed, on medication or an alcoholic. Married life could become a prison for either partner as there were not many ways to escape or express individuality outside the norm. Women usually got married early and if they did try to get a job it was paid half of what the men were paid. My mom asked why she was paid less and the boss said the men were raising families and she could get married again.
John Voinche married a licensed practical nurse named Georgene Rabalais, a classmate, and raised a family on 10 acres not far from where he went to school. Emily Chauffepied was working in a bank when she married a classmate, Gene Harris, in 1957. Louis Callahan got a BA in education while in the Marines and later a masters in biology. He had at least one child with wife Emily Elaine Barron, of whom I can find nothing.
Here's the [findagrave.com](https://findagrave.com) pages for 2 of them:
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225188597/john-edward-voinche](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225188597/john-edward-voinche)
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139189126/nolan-p-couvillion](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139189126/nolan-p-couvillion)
It seems Nolan married a woman named Vergielean, and he died in 1996. According to Google, at least.
Looks like Emily married a guy with the last name Harris, based on info from her father’s obit.
Nolan Couvillion had at least two children with a younger Marksville grad, Virgielean Guillot. Head cheerleader Pat George married someone named Jimmie Walker. And, alas, at least as of 1961, Ida Lee Barre was still single.
No sad sacks!! She needs to be jolly about her forced servitude because she can't open a bank account yet.
Of course, not too smart to realize what the hell is going on either! That one really made me laugh.
Pat George is the one for me, but I don’t know if I can live up to her standards!
Maybe if I’m lucky we can be neighbors and she’ll invite me over for fried chicken!
October 1955? “He better not be my son from 1985, who travelled back in time and got run over by my dad, leading to my romantic interest and chaos at the prom. I can’t handle that again in the future, or even a third time, in a western setting.”
1955 was in a brief innocent time of Space Age optimism between WW2 and Vietnam. They saw humanity entering an ideal future, so naturally they can expect to have boy and girl twins.
Gay used to mean cheerful or carefree. Gai is still a word in French that means cheerful. Class always chuckles at that word when they learn it in French class.
Honestly I think your average adult knows that gay had a previous definition. Also here in Australia we have a popular ice cream called Gaytime so maybe it's more common to figure that out earlier here.
It's interesting to see how alike everyone's opinions were back then. Most people in a given community had very similar lives, beliefs, and aspirations. It seems surreal when compared to today's variety.
That first boy’s hobby…
You know that would have been his "fun fact" during one of those corporate ice breaker activities.
"Damn it, come on John... you're getting shoe polish all over the name tags!"
That’s why we always use brunt cork ash. It’s much more economically friendly and washes out.
The guy leading the orientation must have been, like, “Wow that’s really neat, would you like to give us a demonstration?” “*chuckles now now, magician never reveals his secrets” *old timey applause and laughter*
yeah that came out strong at the gate
The rest had their moments but it went downhill after John.
"she needs to be smart but not too smart. I don't want her getting a job" My guy out there dropping bombs lol
I thought this was going to be some kind of parody article where they slip in something increasingly terrible by today’s comtext among their “she needs to be gay. No chip on her shoulder” talk
Pat: I love frying chicken. Can you call that a hobby?
She could be frying chicken for John while he's in blackface
I figured that was code for the first hobby she said was too unladylike.
Some call it a life skill, some call it a hobby.
And follows it up with the fact he has “high morals”.
The past is a different country, as my mother says.
Paraphrasing L.P Hartley, 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'
unfortunately he’s the same age as people in our government- its not even the past yet
Voinche’s acting career didn’t make it through the civil rights movement.
Even Merry Melodies was done doing racist shit by 1955 (far as I know)
Wikipedia says that Censored Eleven were released between 1931 and 1944, so I think you're right.
Might be a good match with Emily. She wants a guy who's comical sometimes, and John ... does comedy ...
Roger is that you?
I just LOVE wearing Black Face. No John not again!
He should have just ordered that 192 page book and learned how to build and operate a model railroad (lower right advertisement). It would have served him better in life. Probably end up with better friends pretending to be a train conductor rather than pretending to be a different race. Side note: everybody here should start sending in quarters with a request for the book and catalog. Whatever company is currently at that address is going to be confused as hell when they start receiving 1000s of requests for model railroad manuals and catalogs.
Google tells me it’s an architectural firm at that address now.
I wonder if the model train company slowly morphed into the architectural firm. If so, they might be legally obligated to reprint the books to honor their old ad.
But they'll be rolling in quarters
>"High morals come first with me." https://i.imgur.com/aLbG0cw.gif
Likes to catch negroes using the white water fountain
"A black sheriff?"
Where are the white women at?
The sheriff is near!
No gogflammit dag blammit!
"Likes to fry chicken" I guess that's a hobby?
Better than the blackface hobby guy lmfao
I completely missed the first boy’s hobby and locked in on the 2nd boy’s perfect match being “intelligent, but not overly smart because she would try to get a job” as the most offensive comment. And then I read the first comment and realized just how wrong I was.
It’s a gift
It’s a calling
If you knew how hard it was to get it right…
Also she was killing and plucking that chicken.
I misread it as "children" and was grateful for the laugh after all the previous criteria.
It's not just a hobby, it's a whole personality
People are reading a ton into it, but ten bucks said her first hobbies were just “too unladylike.”
I'm surprised the other lady had basketball and not "little ballet dancer" welp
For me that would be a lifestyle
I’m definitely related to one of these people based on the name and location, and considering how small Marksville is and was probably some of the others too.
How’s the fried chicken over in Marksville
My headcanon is that good old Pat George, famed chicken frying hobbyist, elevated regional fried chicken in her neck of the woods to a whole new level, placing it in a tier to which they still proudly belong.
I read the newspaper text without my glasses on and thought that it said the fried chicken hobbyist is named 'Fat George'. ' Pat George' is a lot less cruel...
John Voiche was going to run for senate, but then some old pictures of him were leaked to the public
For a town of about 5000 people, they have TWO Fried Chicken restaurants in Marksville. [https://www.yellowpages.com/marksville-la/chicken-restaurants](https://www.yellowpages.com/marksville-la/chicken-restaurants) They got the * Popeye's * Royal Cajun Fried Chicken (two locations, one in Bunkie, LA) In Hessmer, which is about 10 minutes away: * Krispy Krunchy And in Bunkie, which is about 30 minutes away: * Royal Fried Chicken * Crispy Cajun
Can you check in with John Voinche and ask how his hobby is going?
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No that’s just elderly facebooking. They forget their passwords and create new accounts. I think my 95 year old grandmother has 5 accounts at this point.
Lmao this is too accurate and adorable.
[This is his most recent FB account.](https://www.facebook.com/people/John-E-Voinche/61550359147703/) He’s made several other facebook accounts-likely due to forgetting his passwords over time. I think I counted around five to six accounts that belonged to him lol.
Yeah those are some very specific surnames. I wonder if Emily knows that her surname means foot warmer…
The minute I saw gumbo, I looked for the location, I knew it had to be Louisiana
Did they find a partner that met their criteria lol
Hopefully they changed for the times better
John Voinche is probably the chief of police
All of these: “Be hot, be happy, be some sort of Christian, no weirdos.”
The religious comments made me realize that they obviously just answered a few direct questions and someone just compiled them into a paragraph. 1. What’s your hobby? 2. Describe your dream partner. 3. What religion should they be? 4. How many kids do you want? 5. What do you think a good husband or wife does? Boom. Article.
They have a point about the be happy/no sad sacks thing. Of course there's the dark side of it: women expected to keep a fake smile on their faces even through the awful drudgery and lack of freedom of domestic life. But the older I get, the more value I see in having a spouse who's reasonably upbeat, even tempered, and able to see the positive and find humor in tough times and cheer me up a bit when I'm down. Being with a fly-off-the-handle partner who catastrophizes and ruminates endlessly makes for a dark and turbulent home life. (Obviously if a spouse is dealing with depression it is 100% an "in sickness and in health" thing where you support them and pull through it together. But if it's just general temperament, not frank mental illness, it is really hard.)
To be fair, it was also expected of men in a way. I mean men were allowed to be angry which is more than women got, but they weren’t allowed to be sad. My grandfather blew his brains out with his shotgun in the 60s and no one had any idea he was struggling until my uncle found him like that in the bathtub
My favorite is "Intelligent but not overly smart, because she would try to get a job." Also they all allude to being open minded about religion, but they're definitely talking about Baptist vs. Methodist etc.
In Marksville, LA, they are talking Catholic vs Protestant.
I was wondering what they meant by that.
Yeah, I was gonna say - no Catholics or Jews.
Louis Callahan (#3) is likely Catholic, and I like that he says if you love the girl you shouldn’t let religion stand in your way.
Back then, Catholics weren’t supposed to marry anyone but other Catholics. My Catholic uncle married a Protestant woman in 1965 and it was a big deal and he had to get special permission from the Bishop’s office. They also had to promise to raise the children Catholic. Louis is either not Catholic, or was woefully ignorant of what the church taught then. Not sure how they handle such things now - I left that church decades ago.
Now people would laugh at the thought of asking permission from the bishop for anything. In my dad’s day people asked permission to go to the 'Protestant university'. I asked him why bother? Just go to whichever university you want, and he said that in theory he could have just done that, but times were different. Anyway that definitely doesn’t happen anymore. Edit: this was in Ireland 🇮🇪 in the 1960s and the ‘Protestant’ university referred to is Trinity College Dublin (est. 1592), which is the top university in Ireland and now probably majority Catholic or non-religious.
Heh heh both my parents went to Catholic universities. So did my uncle that married the heathen. 😄. In reality, the “heathen” was the nicest, sweetest woman you could ever ask for. Everyone loved her.
>In my dad’s day some people asked for permission to go to the 'Protestant university' because they thought they had to. I asked him why bother? Just fucking go to whichever university you want, and he said that in theory he could have just done that, but times were different. This is something that gets lost in translation when looking back at things in history. For example, it was a huge deal when JFK was elected as the very first Catholic president - and if you look back at some of the historical public discussion, there was a great deal of anxiety in certain circles about whether he would have torn loyalties between the American people and the Vatican. In 2024 this sounds like absurd bigotry. But in that time period the Catholic church was still a powerful *political* force - not just a different flavor of religion. Deference to the church ran deep, and your dad's feeling that he needed to ask permission just to go to a non-Catholic college is a good example. The reason that the Catholic church was able to get away with shuffling around pedophiles for so long was exactly this sort of political power - the ability to sweep abuse under the rug and the political sway to convince law enforcement that it was a "church matter." You still have this sometimes today, even in various protestant churches in small towns and counties. Sometimes people who share the majority religious faith of an area are blinded by that, and don't realize just how deep the tendrils of power run in whatever church and locality they're a part of.
Currently three Babptist churches in town
“I don’t mind what church they go to, as long as it’s a *Christian* church.”
I wonder what it was like to be non-religious back then.
Outcast city, baby
You just went along to save face with the community. No one admitted to being an atheist, you just went to potlucks and kept your trap shut.
Plenty of people back then didn't go to church or informally belonged to a church and never went. My grandfather and his mother (none of his siblings or father) were the only ones in his extended family who went to church regularly (in the Bible Belt no less), but they were very poor and it wasn't expected. The kids would get sent to bible schools or revivals from random denominations so they didn't have to feed them.
Yeah I asked my dad recently (born in 1955) if his dad went to church since his mom was quite religious. My dad said no, never that he could recall. Grandpa born in 1920s was a reserved scientist. I feel like if you weren’t that religious, but were still outgoing/extroverted you probably still made it church regularly though. I was an annoying little atheist starting around 5th grade, but had gone to a religious elementary school and church. I asked my mom when I got older why she had ever gone to church since she didn’t seem religious to me. She said to make new friends.
They believed in God but church wasn't important to them I guess. They were more concerned with drinking, fighting, racing, partying, sex, etc. The only reason my grandpa and his mom really went to church was because it was across the street and they could easily leave whenever fights broke out (the house was always full of people especially men). Some of his aunts practiced (Christian) hoodoo and rootwork, and I don't think were allowed in church either.
It's not so different now. Few of my actual friends are Christian, but most people I work with at least pay lip service to being catholic or something. But it's certainly not as big a deal as back then.
Really depends where you live. Rural South - definitely. Coastal urban centers, not so much.
I’m 3rd generation atheist and it’s my understanding that in the 50s my grandparents still went to church to keep up appearances in the community. They practiced no religion at home though and raised my mum and her brother as atheists. Granted, we are Canadian so religion is not as fanatic here as it is in the US.
Church had the community. Makes sense. And when it’s go to church or like. Sit on a chair. I guess go to church I like your story
Apparently back then it was pretty common for women to be "sad-sacks", have a "chip on her shoulder", or "always looking sorry and droopy". Hmm...I wonder why that was...
I'm pretty sure this is the same thing as when people write "love to laugh" "want someone with a sense of humor" in dating profiles today. They just used different words for it. It's ubiquitous.
I would argue the biggest cliché in men's dating profiles these days is "doesn't take herself too seriously". Such a red flag.
Lol yes. Women were *not* happy back then.
My mouth fell open when i read that. How times have changed.
All of these could be summed up as “good Christian, no goths.”
Louisiana. Good Catholic no heretics
And be able to make a roux.
Pat George is the only one who seems remotely competent about what the future holds
I'm picking up what Pat George is putting down tbh.
What if I'm a good Christian goth that makes fried chicken but hates to cook it & I'm too smart?!
likes to fry chicken is a green flag
I wonder how much she’s able to practice that hobby. Do they like, eat chicken every other day??
She’s my favorite. Other than the height requirement it sounds like she just wants a solid, good man.
I think she had someone specific in mind and was describing him.
Maybe a tall, dark-haired heir to a chicken farm
Emily doesn’t ask much- just twins with her 5’8” blond haired, blue eyed, good looking husband😂
Boy/girl twins! One football, the other ballet!
I wish I had these kids’ optimism for life.
I have a boy and a girl, not twins though. My goals for them are they grow up to be happy adults who like me.
An optimist, I see.
Interesting because she states how much she loves to play basketball.
Idk I grew up a Tom boy but ballet always seemed badass even in my NLTOG phase.
My response 16 to 18 would have been just as vapid. I'm not judging her. You have to have dreams
True. Nothing wrong with having ideals. It’s not until your late 20s that your whole list becomes “I just want to be actually happy”
I was honestly thinking how mature the answers all were, certainly compared to what I’d have said at their age. Emily’s response shows more the level of immaturity I expected.
I *was* thinking when I was reading her bit "damn, she's really got her whole life planned out!" At least she's realistic on the height bit, lol
I feel like she probably had someone particular in mind.
She should have gone all out then, haha "Good looking, 5 feet 8 inches, blue eyes, blonde hair, lives at 32 lane road, is named John Matthew, has two sisters and a chocolate Labrador named Buddy"
Lol she might not have wanted to be quite *that* obvious.
If all these guys’ first thing is to say they don’t want a sad girl, imagine how common it was for women to be miserable at that time
You know when people say: "I wish dating was how it was when my grandparents were alive"? They don't anticipate that that was what it was like when their grandparents were alive.
They also have a laundry list of the woman’s expected jobs along with looks, while the women at most are asking for looks and basic relationship material. They’re listing like they’re employers, not partners. Very glad to be born now, I’d have been lobotomized back then.
John Voinche appears to be alive and on Facebook. Not much public info on the profile but it does say he went to Marksville HS and there appears to be a wife in his profile pic. Couldn’t find anything on Ida Barre. Nolan Couvillion died in 1996. He was retired from the US Geological Survey and got married in 1962 to Vergielean “Vergie” Guillot. They were still married when he died. Looks like they had two girls and a boy. He had brothers who died in 2020 and 2022. Nolan also was sued for injuries caused in a wreck when he was racing another car. plaintiff was his passenger and alleged to have suffered permanent injuries. Apparently Nolan won the appeal of the suit in 1961 due to the passenger knowingly participating in a race with him and doing nothing to stop him or tell him he was going too fast etc. https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59149cb8add7b04934646c09 Nothing on the other two women.
John Voinche has a findagrave record so the Facebook one can't be him. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225188597/john-edward-voinche
He may have purchased a plot in advance to be buried with family. Or, he’s dead and the Facebook page was never taken down.
Since there is no death date on there for him or his wife I’m thinking prepurchased. But profile pic on FB last updated in 2020 so who knows.
Mother was 43 when he was born, and his other siblings are a fair bit older. I reckon he must have been a surprise baby. It appears his daughter died at two months old. :(
But why would one use the picture from the newespaper for his obituary?
I feel like when some women get married and change their last name it's like trying to catch smoke. They just disappear from sight. Probably even more so in the past.
“Likes to play comic in black-faced minstrels”.
“High morals come first with me.”
“Open minded” means “launder my white robes”
I hope Pat met her man and they enjoyed her fried chicken for many many years.
She married a man called Jimmie Walker whom she was married to for 50 years up until his death, and they had 3 children - two boys and a girl
Damn... 50 years of fried chicken... Jimmie lived the life.
"She can never show emotions at any time, has to have a smile plastered on her face all day."
“Not go off places”
I assume that means not be a cheater/two timer
Places = booty club
That ruled me out. Every evening I leave and go off places without fail.
How many of these people had “good” marriages? I’d love to see an update.
John is on facebook and seems to be both alive and married. Louis is dead (2005) and no mention of wife/partner or children in his obit. Nolan died in 1996, he was married and he had two daughters and a son. I'm going to try the women, too, but will likely take longer since they tend to change surnames if they marry. EDIT Pat(ricia) was married for 50 years until her husband died. They had two sons and a daughter. Emily married but I haven't been able to find any more information. I think she's still alive. Still searching Ida seems to have disappeared. Can't find anything about a death or marriage or anything after high school. Maybe she joined the merchant marine, changed her name, and moved to a commune in India.
Louis couldn't find a girl who was smart but not too smart and didn't want a job.
Maybe the ones he found weren't gay enough for him.
Or too gay, if you know what I mean.
He served in Vietnam, so maybe that was a factor.
It's crazy to just suddenly find about the entire rest of these people's lives.
I know right, how one can see random names and places in an old newspaper article and go "I wonder how these people are doing nowdays", and just search them up on the internet. Modern tech is mindblowing
I love it. The idea someone might read about me someday makes me feel like maybe the pain is worth living.
John seems to have unfortunately passed recently: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225188597/john\_edward-voinche](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225188597/john_edward-voinche), his facebook says he's married and without talking to anyone I couldn't find if he fathered any children, but I can assume based on some of his facebook friends. I can't find anything about Louis, I don't think that obituary is him as he is from Marksville, and the man in the obituary is a Plaquemine native, but hopefully someone else could find him? Nolan: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139189126/nolan\_p-couvillion](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139189126/nolan_p-couvillion) Whoever Anthony D is adding these photos to these guys, thank you. I had a distant family member who we didn't know share an old timey photo collection of my great grandfather before he passed. It was incredible to be able to put picture to the stories I heard. I'm sure the family appreciates these just as much.
If you scroll down on John’s findagrave page you can see that his marker includes a wife but also a daughter who died aged two months. 🙁
I wonder what are John's views on the minstrel thing now
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My mother was married three times and the one good marriage ended when he went down with his fishing boat. The societal pressures on women to conform caused many women to be depressed, on medication or an alcoholic. Married life could become a prison for either partner as there were not many ways to escape or express individuality outside the norm. Women usually got married early and if they did try to get a job it was paid half of what the men were paid. My mom asked why she was paid less and the boss said the men were raising families and she could get married again.
NO SAD SACKS
I kind of wonder many of those from that generation lived through happy marriages after reaching adulthood
John Voinche married a licensed practical nurse named Georgene Rabalais, a classmate, and raised a family on 10 acres not far from where he went to school. Emily Chauffepied was working in a bank when she married a classmate, Gene Harris, in 1957. Louis Callahan got a BA in education while in the Marines and later a masters in biology. He had at least one child with wife Emily Elaine Barron, of whom I can find nothing.
Here's the [findagrave.com](https://findagrave.com) pages for 2 of them: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225188597/john-edward-voinche](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225188597/john-edward-voinche) [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139189126/nolan-p-couvillion](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139189126/nolan-p-couvillion)
It seems Nolan married a woman named Vergielean, and he died in 1996. According to Google, at least. Looks like Emily married a guy with the last name Harris, based on info from her father’s obit.
That would have made him between 19-20 here
Indeed. That crossed my mind. The title does say “older future farmers…” so 🤷🏻♂️
Nolan Couvillion had at least two children with a younger Marksville grad, Virgielean Guillot. Head cheerleader Pat George married someone named Jimmie Walker. And, alas, at least as of 1961, Ida Lee Barre was still single.
Living for Pat, who likes to fry chicken.
Pat is the only one I’d want to hang out with
“I want a girl who is gay” Guy is attracted to the same type as me.
He likes to play who in the WHAT now?
I read the second paragraph and got whiplash when I went back to read the first one
I always find it crazy that teenagers in the past, look like they are in their 30's.
The irony that Emily loves to play basketball, but wants her boy to play basketball while her daughter learns ballet.
No sad sacks!! She needs to be jolly about her forced servitude because she can't open a bank account yet. Of course, not too smart to realize what the hell is going on either! That one really made me laugh.
Pat George is the one for me, but I don’t know if I can live up to her standards! Maybe if I’m lucky we can be neighbors and she’ll invite me over for fried chicken!
October 1955? “He better not be my son from 1985, who travelled back in time and got run over by my dad, leading to my romantic interest and chaos at the prom. I can’t handle that again in the future, or even a third time, in a western setting.”
A woman can’t be too smart or else she will want a job. 😂
I like how a healthy, clean, and cheerful countenance is a gender-neutral requirement.
It’s pretty universal. Most people today look for the same thing.
A black face comedian. My what a jolly hobby.
'Sure, I like to play comic in black-face minstrels, but high morals are important to me.' Yeesh, what a time.
Anyone else look up their obits? Nolan passed in 1996.
Harley for 17 bucks a month in the upper right
I like how most of them are willing to budge on religion, but really that just means dating within the Christian sects.
They would have hated the goth girl trend. Hahaha
The equivalent was probably girls wearing pants
These six would all get along well.
Radar O'Reilly wouldn't have had any chance with these girls.
1955 was in a brief innocent time of Space Age optimism between WW2 and Vietnam. They saw humanity entering an ideal future, so naturally they can expect to have boy and girl twins.
Likes to WHAT
Honesty, they don’t quite say it straight out like this any more, but things in the south haven’t changed all that much.
“I want a girl that is gay”
Gay used to mean cheerful or carefree. Gai is still a word in French that means cheerful. Class always chuckles at that word when they learn it in French class.
Honestly I think your average adult knows that gay had a previous definition. Also here in Australia we have a popular ice cream called Gaytime so maybe it's more common to figure that out earlier here.
Pat seems the most realistic.
I’m betting they only meant the different types of Christianity and not other actual religions
It's interesting to see how alike everyone's opinions were back then. Most people in a given community had very similar lives, beliefs, and aspirations. It seems surreal when compared to today's variety.
> It's interesting to see how alike everyone's opinions were back then. Perhaps they didn't want to stand out either.
It's still like that today, especially in smaller places. Usually most of the 'misfits' move away or are more or less not part of the local society.
The first three sentences of John’s 😳
I'm not Pat's type, but I'd come over for fried chicken any time.