I can see an “h” in-between the S and e.
OK. Some of us who are inclined can look for Sheila born circa 1961 who was in Chicago in 1988 and the rest can continue to look for Saila...
I realize that odds are the “S..la” person is somebody who never became anyone “important” enough to have a strong web presence and/or wikipedia article. Nevertheless, Sheila Nix and Sheila Simon were up and coming Illinois dems around the right time frame.
Of those two, Sheila Simon was born in 61 but is the much less likely possibility, because it looks as though the Land of Lincoln Legal Services where she would have worked in those days was downstate from Chicago. Also, she was already married to someone by else 1989, and I think the postcard was from ‘88.
Sheila Nix, however, has been heavily involved in the Obama machine and was a Chicago native. In her case, though, I haven’t yet gathered any of the basic details about her family background. As far as I know she too was already married by the late 80s. Or perhaps there’s a significant age difference between her and Barack.
Just getting some thoughts out there. I don’t personally feel convinced there are sordid skeletons lurking in the shows behind that minuscule reference to this name on the postcard. Still it’s nice to see more details come together about who Barack really was, instead of being left with only his “composite” sketches.