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

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Happenings . .. Ms. Pat Fisk believes that the most unusual incident in her classes was one day during first semester. “I was telling students about a cheating incident when I was in school and about how a boy did it. The students began talking about teachers they had had who were good at catching cheaters. They mentioned the name of one who was the best at know- ing all their tricks. When they men- tioned his name, I told them that that teacher was the same one I had gone to school with and the one I was talking about. The bell rang and I could hear them laughing about it all the way down the hall.” Ms. Julia Fraser summed up the year by saying, “I still can’t believe that sec- ond period stayed quiet 30 minutes October 15!” And Coach Solomon just commented, “Everybody showed up.” LET'S WIN — Coach Danny Thomas tries to rouse enthusiasm for the Mills game, at a Friday morning pep rally. Barbara Taylor — Special Education; Boh Taylor — Handlx-lLs, A Cappclla Choir, Mixed Choir, Cirls Choir, Cadet Choir; Lloyd Thomas — Exploratory Trades and Industry. Drafting. Carl Whitfield — Analysis, Calculus, For- tran. Cobol; Kathryn Young — English. French; Brenda Zcrmattcn — Accounting, Typing. Focully 111

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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

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Office Hums With Activity It's 8 a.m.! The office is humming with teachers and students buzzing around, phones ringing, par- ents waiting for conferences, substitutes waiting for assignments, coffee perking, machines running, and among all this activity three people arc getting ready to start another day. Ms. Linda Johnston, secretary to the principals; Ms. Martha Gresham, registrar; and office secre- tary Ms. Mariam Mack arc at their desks trying to get everything in order. Ms. Johnston has worked here for eight years and does about everything including checking absentees and finding substitute teachers. Regist- rar Ms. Gresham has been at Sylvan Hills for six years but has worked a total ot nine years in the district. One of Ms. Mack's main jobs is compiling and distributing the announcements each day. AU the secretaries nave to deal with a constantly ring- ing phone which usually involves student absen- tees and parents checking students out. HEADACHE TIME - During arena scheduling Ms. Gresham and Ms. Johnston had their hands full receiving and filing schedule cards. ANOTHER CALX. — Ms. Linda Johnston constantly has to deal with all sorts of requests. NEWCOMER - Ms. Mariam Mack just joined the office staff this year and works until noon each day. SHE'S THE REGISTRAR - Students can't enroll or withdraw from school with- out consulting with Ms. Martha Gresham. Ms. Linda Johnston 112 Secretaries