Daycroft School - Milestone Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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,seg K 'Xp- N 5 - yi- ' rig? 55+ gan- rookllne Mass KJ.. swf? ,cf-JJ If you ever enter Mayor Lyman s classroom durmq recess and hear a Jlflqllflq of money and a rattlxnq of nab papers all you have to do IS follow your nose Surrounded by a bunch of hungry howhnq boys and qlrls wlll be Ioan Strecker trytnq desperately to keep calm and at the same ttme hand out the rlqht change Gettlnq down to the ser1ous Slde of thlnqs Ioan was born rn Boston Massachusetts on Iuly 30 1926 She adrmts havxnq been a very qood gxrl not that she 1snt now but that must have been due to the tralmnq she had at the Lawrence School m Brookhne From there she attended Brookhne Htqh for three years where she seemed to make qulte a name for herself tdont worry a qood onel She decxded to poln our senlor class at Daycroft and Well here we are ln the Chemtstry lab aqam but not for lonq After Bobby Mendoza has succeeded tn blowmq us out of lt we hear a fam1l1ar volce saymq the famous words I should qlve a hoot whrch IS loans pet expresslon Of course xt mlqht be followed by lt s a pamc but that would not be sulted to th1s occasron Ioan IS an actxve partlcrpant 1n all the act1v1t1es both soclal and academlc She IS the Class Treasurer whrch seems to be tnfluencmq her xn her work toward Skldmore Busmess College Ul where we know she w1ll succeed 18 AN STRECKERAS iw as ssh? QRQ2 Cfxlp-'QL5-'O 9 0.3 Du AJ-3'-2 cv-Jap , . W, I . , I . t Y ' 5- K ' . -5 k ff , K , sw .I FJ , . , n ll I 1 I I I 1 n , , . , .

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Q,tLaVL,X3.7A-lp J fxflhifmcw Ri'- -9 W7 ,.,,M, .Q ray fr Stamtord Conn f'7Ld'fx4Q X kijyy fkfrffzk-if iflfh LQ lf you ever happen to be rn the vrcrnrty ol Stamford on a Tuesday evenrng don t drscard the opportunrty of dropprnq rn at Adelarde Hall Upon enterrna the burldrnq you w1ll probably be stupefred by the absence of every body Followrnq your ears you wrll be waited rnto the lrbrary on the wrnqs of the latest popular sonq There seated at the Sternway you wrll see sur mounted by Olly s wavy harred head a qreen back packed between two or three ot hrs aclmrrers who lrke the rest ot the populatron were rntently lrstenrnq to hrs l ely playrnq Upon rnaulrrnq you w ll trnd that thrs musrcran enloys and uses hrs talent for he has playea the strrna bass rn a hrqh school orchestra for three years and has also spent three summers workmq rn orchestras two at Happy Acres and one at the Granlrden Hotel at Lake Sunapee New Hampshrre Olrver was born rn Mamaroneck New York on Aprrl 28th 1926 Hrs irrst three years ol school were spent at Mamaroneck Grammar School He then moved to Rye where he attended Rye Grammar School and Rye Hrqh School untrl the rnrddle of h1s lun r year at whrch trme we were happy to have htm torn our class COh how we needed boysll After araduatrna Olly, weather pernnttrna Cmeanrnq the draft? wrshes to ao to college and maror rn Chernrstry Heres wrshrnq success to Olly, he earned rt 17 f I er J ,faw 5' 'x :Q-4, -JV! f fff'-t.,m,4,-.r-GA! freed-cz OLIVER SHATTS at if-1 we Q MJ! fir.-0 to . J J f' O , t 6 . x , , .T x .Q A N fr f r . -' ,' . . .-..- ' ' - -J-3' 1 'e , l . , I f f A ,r yr 2 K ff... N. ' .,, N .' 1,3 BVU I X 4, NJ X A ' ' ' -V , Q vi- ,fff I, I I R L f ,X . ,fu , fi, ' xl V I Cf ,xi ' 1, . X, I Z I . I, , , , I L ,I , K' 1 1 Y zo , ' A '

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Mx Danen Conn OJ 13 , A K-ll'-gflx If at any t1me after evenlng study hall you happen to be IH the Glrls Dorm1tory dlrect yourself towards the plano where mrdst a group of slngers you w1ll flnd a small dark grrl trylng hard to h1t the rxght notes whlle every one around her m1sses them Thxs small member of the SGHIOFS IS by no means the least for bes1des bemg the presldent of both the class and of the Student Counc1l she contrxbutes greatly to the MUSIC Department lune struck her fxrst dlscordant note m Bombay lnd1a on Iune 26 1927 In her fourth year she sa1led to England whlch was her home unt1l she came to Amer1ca four years ago at the outbreak of the war After several adven tures she came to lrve w1th Mrs LaForge 1n Darlen Upon entermg Daycroft she 1mmed1ately became famous through wleld mg her hockey stlck so successfully She IS strugglmg th1s year w1th f1V9 sublects Chem1stry French Modern l'l1story Engllsh and Umted States H1SlOTY Although not dest1ned to be a great chemlst she mrght pass French credrtablyl Iune IS contempla1tng Oberlm College as her next step and IS loolcmg forward to a brrllrant VPD musrcal career 19 l UNE URQUHART LAING es leant- rvlls f Wt ir p ut S' Y .Q ' . eg . , ' 5 - A X , , 1 pq I H - 1 'N-s X tl- . L5 ' . V7 ffcv xy' ilk lah , M- . n M 'M 4 - A , c- - .b