Nyack High School - Tower Yearbook (Nyack, NY)

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dl rs..-K HAROLD A. FAILING SOLON F. GORDON Education is more than iust reading books and learning words. In many cases, it is training of the hands to be productive and useful. For many moons, three of Nyack's teachers have been doing just this. lt is to these men, from whose patience and experience we have profited so much, that we, the Class of i952 dedi- cate our Tower. To Solon Gordon, Harold Failing, and Shirley Leighton we express our deepest gratitude. Mr. Gordon, printing instructor, and Mr. Failing, metal shop teacher, can both claim the same hometown - Lowville, New York, population 5,000. Both attended the same schools in Lowville and also the same college - Oswego State Teacher's College. After his graduation from Oswego and graduate work at N. Y. U., Mr. Gordon returned to the little one-room school he had attended in his childhood-to find that some of the students were his former classmates. Next stop for him was Nyack, where he has taught ever since. Mr. Gordon and his wife have two children - Alan, 6, and Gerald, lO. Before coming to Nyack, Mr. Failing taught two years in Seacliffe, Long lsland. Aside from his duties in the metal shop, he has been N. H. S.'s line coach for 15 years. Mr. Failing now makes his home with his wife and three children -Ann, Brenda, and John at lOO Sixth Avenue. Mr. Failing and Mr. Gordon often return to their old hometown for a faculty hunting trip, occasionally returning with a rare prize, but more often with iust memories of a pleasant weekend. DEDICATIGN

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Mr, Leighton, who teaches woodworking, was born in Westbrook, Maine, where he attended grammar and high schools. He likes to remember when Rudy Valee performed on his saxophone for high school assemblies. Following his graduation from high school, Mr. Leigh- ton was accepted at Lloyd Training School in Boston, a school specially organized for teaching ot manual arts. He has also studied at Massachusetts institute of Technol- ogy, Columbia University, Stout Institute and New York University. During World War I, Mr. Leighton enlisted in the Army. He also served during World War ll as a Civil Air Patrol cadet instructor. Mr. Leighton lives with his wife on South Boulevard, South Nyack, where he collects antiques and reproduces them in miniature. At present he is secretary of the N. H. S. Athletic Association. SHIRLEY M. LEIGHTON Left to right: H. Failing, S. Gordon, S. Leighton.