Hopkins School - Per Annos Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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Although my years with Hopkins were few in number compared with so many others, I found them to be the most enjoyable and rewarding of my entire career. It has been my distinct privilege to work closely with Mr. Sherk as his secretary. This gave me a depth of feeling and admiration for his thoughtfulness and sincere concern for the Hopkins family as well as for the combined school family. His work is recognized as a true dedication to all because of his never-ending efforts of Service Above Self. Helen P. Palaski My twenty one years as Headmaster's wife at Hopkins Grammar, and lately Hopkins Grammar Day Prospect Hill School, have been happy, busy ones, and in spite of the telephone and some hectic moments I wouldn't have missed it for anything. Life has never been dull and the advantage of living on a lovely campus lat times like a private estate!! and working with an exceptionally fine faculty, staff, and young people was most rewarding. I never would have had the opportunity of meeting so many interesting people if I hadn't been married to the Headmaster of a school in a university town, I have, for instance, had the privilege of being the dinner partner of several university presidents! There are so many pleasant memories that I will never forget: pre- paring dinner for the seniors and their dates before the Senior Prom, working in evening dress, with Eddie Brown tossing salad while dressed in his white dinner jacket, Ed DeNoyon playing cards as a woman would at Christmas assembly in the old study hall in Bald- win Hall basement, faculty planting day and picnic for the landscap- ing of Lovell Hall, chaperoning many dances when dancing was dancingl, picnicking on the trip to away games, the children's faces when they talked to Santa Claus at the faculty childrens' Christ- mas party, junior School Night productions, faculty dinners, with their various themes , Country Day School Headmaster and Con- necticut Headmaster meetings ta wonderful group of menl, the first sight of girls on the campus lhow pleasantll, the beautiful view of New Haven at sunset, when the rocks and buildings are bathed in rose color, and at night the sparkling lights of the city, sliding down our hill sideways in the car one icy day, better still, sliding down the hill on a sled, before the snow was plowed, junior School voices on the athletic field, hunting through the buildings for Christmas deco- rations, etc, that have been mislaid, Parents' Nights, and pouring and pouring coffee, dedications, teas, games. What will I do with my time now? Margaret B. Sherk The Hopkins Grammar Day Prospect Hill class of 1974 takes great pride in dedicating Per Annos to our Headmaster, F. Allen Sherk. It is especially appropriate that we honor Mr. Sherk, for in a sense we are all leaving our school together. Those of us who came to Hopkins six years ago found a tranquil campus, steeped in tradition. Mr. Sherk was the staunch supporter of these gentlemanly concepts of education. Before our year ended, the angry temper of the times beat upon our hillside retreat. Rebel- lion was the mood, relevency was the battle, and reaction was the answer of some. Somehow, Mr. Sherk brought us through. He didn't please all of the people all of the time, but he kept his cool. Many a headmaster, many a college president, fell victim to the student re- Mrs. Margaret B. Sherk bellion and many schools were badly scarred by the events of those years. But here at Hopkins, tradition bent a little, changed a little, and we all came through a little better for the test. Next came coeducation. Once again, we heard clarion calls to the left and to the right. The prophets of doom and gloom gathered, but a new school emerged, and at the helm was once again F. Allen Sherk. We, the class of 1974, take this opportunity to thank him for his inspiration and guidance throughout the years we spent together as a family - solving our problems and rejoicing in our successes. Scott M. Graham 7

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