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

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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

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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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What Made This Year Unusual? • • • Happenings Strange out of the ordinary things go on in class sometimes. A few incidents are meant to be funny and some are purely accidental. Teachers have related some of these incidents to others and no matter how many times they have been told, they are still worth hearing. A series of “on purpose” humorous incidents happend during the year in Ms. Shirley Langston’s Fourth period senior English class. The class met right after lunch and many days they had something unusual waiting to surprise Ms. Langston when she returned from lunch. One day every one in the class brought her an apple, and these were pilea on her desk. Another day they had their version of a red caroet spread out from the door to her desk. Another day they met her at the end of the hall with her desk chair that has rollers and “drove” her to class. And finally during football season, they made a run through like the football players have and made her walk through it. Rumor has it that the O’Nale brothers are the “master minds” behind these happenings. Ms. Langston movea to Springdale in December after teaching here six years. Ms. Linda Davis returned to Sylvan Hills to replace Ms. Langston, and she reported that the schemes continued as she went to class on her second day back and found the room had been com- pletely rearranged! WHAT A DRAG — Ms. Langston hates the expression “What a drag'and so when her class firesents her with apples, they also wrote her avorite saying on the board. Apples are a drag!” Bon Sebastian — Current Affairs, Ameri- can History, Athletics; Carrol Self — Building Trades: Kathy Shahan — Second Semester Studyhall. Tommy Solomon — Biology, Physical Sci- ence, Boys’ Track; Bettina Steele — World History. Social Studies Survey, Spanish; Delores Summers — Typing, Shorthand. 110 Foculty