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Sherrell Glenn Parker

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 * née VMA; 1948. StepD of ALJ, brother of SJ.

Education (not mentioned)

 * University of Chicago Law School

Affiliations

 * Order of the Coif
 * Wyoming Key Club sponsor ??

Rhodes Scholar
 1914–1917: Seymour Sereno Sharp (1893–1953) (Wyoming class of 1915), Exeter College  1917–1920: Horace North Wilcox (1892–1966) (Wyoming class of 1917), St. John's College
 * Rhodes Scholar. In 1922, after graduating from the University of Wyoming and while on the faculty of Laramie High School, Parker was selected December 2, 1922, as a Rhodes Scholar, slated to attend one of the colleges at the University of Oxford in the Fall 1923. He was the third from Sheridan to be selected. The two others were:

Four others from Wyoming, as of 1917, were Rhodes Scholars, $1,500 yearly :  1904–1907: Harold Guy Merriam (1883–1980) (Wyoming class of 1905), Lincoln College  1910–1913: Edward Noel Roberts (1888–1973) (Wyoming class of 1910), Exeter College, son of Wyoming missionary, Rev. John R. Roberts (1853–1949)  1911–1914: Esper Wayne Fitz (1989–1980), Wadham College  1913–1916: Frank Graham Swain (1892–1975), Wadham College

Although Parker did not attend an Oxford college as a Rhodes Scholar, he later served on Rhodes Scholar selection committees, including 1953, 1954, 1962, 1965 (Wyoming committee), and 1966, when he was a member of the Northwest District Committee with J. Earll Miller (1889–1970), professor emeritus of the University of Montana (retired in 1961).

Extant digital resources

 * Laramie Boomerang.

 Chronicling America, Library of Congress  Newspapers, 1900 to 1999, Wyoming  1917–1923: Laramie Boomerang..  1923–1928: The Laramie Republican and the Laramie Boomerang.. .

 Newspapers.com (none)  GenealogyBank.com (very little)  Wyoming newspapers</ol> <li> Wyoming Digital Newspaper collection. Courtesy of the Wyoming State Library (yes) pw = # <li> Wyoming newspapers.</ol> <li> Wyoming State Archives. Courtesy of the Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources. <li> Wyoming Online Historical Newspapers via Google Books <li> Wyoming Newspapers (index via FamilySearch.org) <li> Wyoming Newspapers. Links courtesy of The Ancestor Hunt (blog) <li> University of Wyoming Libraries <li> Databases A to Z: News and Newspapers databases. <li> Digital newspapers</ol> <li> NewspaperArchive (re: NewspaperArchive; Heritage Microfilm, Inc.)</ol>

<li> Newspapers.com</ol>
 * Casper Star Tribune