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

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The Senior Class dedicates Per Annos 1974 to F. Allen Sherk with respect, affection, and gratitude for twenty one years of leadership and service F. Allen Sherk was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on September 19, 1913. Soon after his family moved to Derby, Connecticut, where he started his elementary school education. His parents, the Reverend and Mrs. Elgin Sherk, were sent to Teheran, Iran and remained there several years during which time their eldest son completed his elementary education. The family re- turned to the States to live in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Sherk attended Lakewood High School and graduated in 1931. He spent a post-gradu- ate year at Western Reserve Academy, then went on to study at Yale, and graduated in the class of 1936. As an undergraduate, Mr. Sherk was a member of the Varsity Track Team. The following year was spent working part time at Foote School, and studying for a Master's in American History. During the academic year of 1937-1938, Mr. Sherk was a dormitory master, a history teacher and a track coach at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachu- setts. On june 15, 1938, Mr. Sherk married the former Margaret Bostwick Bradley, whom he had met while she was working at Foote School as an apprentice teacher. They remained at Milton Academy until 1942, when they returned to New Haven with son Truman, born the previous year, when Mr. Sherk was offered a job at General Electric Company in Bridgeport, work- ing first as an engineer in the Radar Section and then as a supervisor in the Electronics Section. In 1945, Mr. and Mrs. Sherk returned to Milton with their son and daughter Susan, born in 1943. The Sherks lived in a dormitory, where he was the housemaster along with his other duties as history teacher and track coach. Allen Sherk had two careers at Milton Academy. The first started as he arrived in the middle thirties, unmarried, to teach the sixth grade in the Lower School and to do dormi- ' tory duty and coach in the Boys' School. The two lady teachers who started here the same year are still present and remember Allen as attractive, firm but friendly, and imaginative in dealing withthe young. They were to find him a little less attractive when they heard about one Polly Bradley, who was to become Mrs. Sherk. As World War ll started, Allen left to do his share in the war effort. When the war came to an end, Cyril H. jones had been appointed Headmaster and was quick to urge Allen to con- sider returning to Milton as a Housemaster and teacher of history in the Boys' School. After careful thought and con- sultation with Polly, Allen returned in September, 1944. The job of Housemaster at Milton was a key one in those days, as it is today, for the school was run more like an Eng- lish school than most American ones. The Housemaster was responsible for the welfare of his students and was their chief adviser. Allen took to the job and soon won the respect of more seasoned men who worked under him. Polly added a warmth which brought out the best in Allen and the rest of us with whom he worked. While Polly supervisd the running of the Housemaster's quarters, helped by a fine nanny to care for Truie and Su- sie, Allen went about the business of accomplishing what Mr. jones had foreseen he could do. As an intellectual, Allen guided the members of the history department from rather old-fashioned methods of teaching to what has be- come fashionable in all schools - more concepts and few- er dates. As a reward for his tactful and skillful handling of colleagues, Allen was made chairman of the history depart- 3