Sheridan High School - Syllabus Yearbook (Sheridan, IN)

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The Syllabus 21 ............................................................. Nellie Pettijohn is head hash slinger in a Busy Bee restaurant at Indianapolis. Oh, yes! and Vern Deer. Do you know that in all of my travels I had heard nothing of Vern. Well, a few days ago I happened to be passing through Frankfort. When the train pulled in at the station the trainmen unloaded the blind baggage. And who should the extra passenger be but my old friend and disappointed office seeker, Vern Deer. He asked me if I wouldn’t pay his car fare out to Kirklin. He said that it was absolutely necessary that he get there because he had a date with a preacher’s daughter. —Charles H. Long, ’15.

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20 The Syllabus ...................................................................mil.mi she is an old maid. However, she has not lost hope and at her ripe old age has become infatuated with a Polish musician and expects to make a trip abroad next spring. LaRue Stout is editor of a prominent western newspaper. He is a great advocate of Socialism and Women’s Rights. He attributes his success to the training he received while a staff member of the Syllabus. While in Los Angles we attended the 1946 Follies at one of the large theatres. You can imagine my surprise when I found Dorley Melsor at the ticket window. The manager of the house informed me that she was a star at that position due to her knack of snapping her chewing gum and attracting the attention of the passersby. Chase Walker is a bug philosopher. At present he is in the jungles of South America making an extensive study of bird and insect life. During his leisure time he is accumulating data for a new dictionary. He has called this new work “Walker’s Simplified Definer.” At least one member of the old class has carved his name on the wall of fame. Marvin Barker majored in History of Indiana University and is now head of the History Department at Boxley High School. Every person has a talent if they will only develop it. Marjory Stahl has certainly struck the highway to success. She is a great theatrical star of London. At present she is playing the part of Portia in “The Merchant of Venice.” It doesn’t seem possible that she was ever a conspicuous character as Cindy in “Kentucky Belle,” does it? Shortly after graduation Ethel Stahl and Verna Thompson went to India as Foreign Missionaries. They are now making a tour of the United States giving stereopticon lectures on “Life Among the Natives of that Dark Continent.” Fern Harris is running a beauty shop in Paris. As a side line she is representing a hair restorer. She poses as a living example of the possibilities of that wonderful tonic. Bertha Phebus and Opal Stephenson say there is nothing so valuable as a practical education. Immediately after graduation they began to apply their art of Domestic Science which they received in High School. They both married farmers out by Big Springs. The last time I was in Big Springs they were having a big law suit. Mr. Teter was attorney for the state. From what little I was able to hear of the case it seems as though some of Opal’s chickens had chicken-like, crossed the road and torn up Bertha's garden. And naturally enough Bertha, woman-like, had wrung their necks. Being unable to settle the thing by arbitration, they had taken it to court.

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The Class of '16 First Row Left to Right—Ernel Gregory, LaMar Oberlie, Clara M. Hughett, Ruth Walker, Elf-leda Emery, Lois Fristce, Vera Palmer, Mary Boone, Cleo Ogle, Leona Butcher, Letha Dean, Euler Suton, Lawrence Baker. Second Row Left to Right—Glenn Stephenson, Meveril Thistlethwaite, Hershel Allen, Laura Mae Kercheval, George Rawlings, Maxwell Branson, Wayne Godby, Frank McConnell, Porter Brandenburg.