Sylvan Hills High School - Bruin Yearbook (Sherwood, AR)

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What Excuses are your Favorite? • • • Excuses Every student, at some time or another, has “lost his homework. Some, like two students in Ms. Brenda Zermat- ten’s accounting classes, “lost their homework in the computer.” Teachers were asked to tell some of the excuses they’ve received. Ms. Donna Morehart says that the best excuse was “a bird flew down and picked it up.” A student of Ms. Holt came up with this one: “I loaned it to a friend and she left it in my boyfriend’s car.” Mr. Burgett relates a story about a student whose father was so thrilled by the fact that his son had done his homework, that “he framed it and hung it in the living room.” A student in Ms. Dixie Martin’s journalism class woefully reported that “The typewriter blew up in my face and I couldn’t type the assignment.” HOMEWORK — Teachers have “homework too as Mr. Leslie (left) makes out a report and Ms. Brainard (right) types a test. Ken Leslie — Auto Body; Jem Lowery — Drama. Speech, Debate Forensics. Stage Craft; Dixie Marlin — Journalism, English. Banner and Bruin Staffs. Bill Matchelt — Algebra, Chemistry, Phys- ics; Theresa MeCullcy — COE. Business Machines Record Keeping, Typing, Super- visor; Joe McDaniel — Math, Calculator Math, Business Math. 108 Faculty

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Students... But what is a bad student? Band Director Jim Burgctt said humorously that the bad students he has known “always arc contradicting him, ask to go to the restroom all the time and can’t even dress themselves adequately.” Mrs. Elizabeth Broyles and Mrs. Pat Glover agreed that There are no bad students, just students with bad habits.” Distributive Education teacher Ms. Julia Fraser said that students that she would classify as bad are often “dishonest, unreliable, and lazy” while Coach Danny Myatt feels that “a bad student often has poor listening habits, no moti- vation, and a short attention span.” GUESS WHO? — One January afternoon an “unidentified source notified the jour- nalism department that none other than Paul Cody — our Coach of the YEAR — could be found in the Cosmetology Depart- ment getting a permanent — and here's the proof! Winnie Johnson — Chemistry, Life Sci- ence; Alice Jones — English; Lavem Jones — Cheerleader and Drill Team, General Business, Business Law. Sara Lafferty — Second Semester Special Education; Shirley Langston — English; Priscilla Lawson — Special Education, ICCE Related Skills. Focvhy 107

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Excuses... Being late to class is a habit for some students. Some of the reasons students gave for being tardy were funny, some were truthful, and some bordered on fantasy. Elephants seemed to be the problem of a few students of Ms. Nathil- lia Clifton and Coach Solomon who were given these excuses. “A herd of elephants kept me from getting upstairs” and “A herd of pink elephants was crossing Hwy. 107 and I had to get out of the car to count them.” Traveling seemed to make some pupils tardy. One student said she had to go by her boyfirend’s house and dry his hair, and another said he left his things for school at someone’s house in Little Rock and he had to go get them before school. I DOST BELIEVE THAT - Coach Solomon checks roll in his first period biology class as a stu- dent claims that elephants” made him tardy! Cary McGrew — Algebra, Business Math. Girls Basketball; Rosemary Moore — First Semester Special Education; Donna More- hart — English. Danny Myatt — Geometry. Boys Basket- ball; Louis Salley — Health. Athletics, Physical Education; Patsy Robertson — Sociology. American History, Psychology. Foculfy 109