Sid Shroyer
Michiana Chronicles ContributerSid Shroyer is a contributor to Michiana Chronicles and was a co-creator of The Wild Rose Moon Radio Hour, heard monthly on WVPE. He became a part-time announcer at WVPE in 2001 and has just recently retired from hosting of All Things Considered.
Sid is also a retired New Prairie High School English teacher, where he coached softball, advised the yearbook
staff, and created classes on the Holocaust and the Vietnam War.
He is a member of Temple Beth-El, South Bend, where he is the director of security and a member of the board of the Kurt and Tessye Simon Fund for Holocaust Remembrance.
He met his wife, Judy, at the student radio station in Bloomington and they have two children: Matt in Minneapolis and Lily in Brooklyn.
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I became immersed in the study of the Holocaust because I took on the responsibility of teaching about the Holocaust to high school students in 2001. It’s…
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We are standing in a field on the Saturday before the election, somewhere between Highway 61 and the White Bear Yacht Club, 20 miles northeast of…
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It’s just a coincidence, right?One man’s good fortune and another man’s misfortune play out within minutes of one another in the same town, less than two…
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I woke up at 3:00 last Friday morning thinking about a scene in a movie we’d watched the night before. One of the main characters, a police detective, had…
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I miss my retired teacher friends. We meet once a month for breakfast to tell war stories, solve the problems of the world, and revel in our good fortune…
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Passover began Wednesday night and millions of Jews across the country were figuring out how to celebrate the holiday while social distancing. Normally…
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When I was 16 and people with whom I agreed burned the flag, and people with whom I disagreed used the flag as a weapon, my dad said to me, “It’s our…
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When I turn the corner at the top of the stairs, there’s Kim, Kim Macon, the Development Director at WVPE, behind her desk and a computer screen, in her…
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The story is well known. In 1988, Sister Maura started the Chapin Street Clinic in a vacant garage, to provide health care for people who are uninsured.…
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Every time you turn around there’s another 50-year anniversary story that you’re gonna hear, the moon landing, Woodstock, and just ahead, the last Beatle…