Sherwood High School - Echo Yearbook (Aurora, NY)

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'Er-:cs -A 61644 Time, 1961. Scene, the Hotel Taft, New York City. Occasion, the twentieth reunion of the class of 1941. Twenty years ago the persons of our little drama were young innocents, they had pinched pennies to realize a Senior Trip to New York City. To-day they are worldly and successful, most reluctantly approaching the 'fat and forty' stage: again they are in New York City-this time for their twentieth reunion. Paul Gallery, who studied Hotel Administration at Cornell after his Sherwood school days, startled everyone with his unusual ability as a hotel manager. In 1948, the Hotel Taft offered him such good terms that he consented to manage this New York hotel. Now, in 1961, he has invited the entire graduating class of twen- ty years ago for a week's stay at the Hotel Taft, all expenses paid. Paul always did have a heart of gold. It is Thursday noon and the group is all gathered in the grill room where much reminiscing ls going on. They are being entertained by Charley Hurlbut and his Sherwoodites, a snappy swing band, which has replaced the Frankie Masters of '41 . There is one lone young lady among Charl1e's lads-and she is none other than Eleanor Joslyn. She still plays the trombone very well, but her main claim to fame is her appeal as a vocalist. Shortly after graduation she went to New York to cultivate her voice. After some years in opera, Eleanor became interested in swing It was then that Charley's talent scouts spotted her and signed her up. She has been with him ever since, singing her way to fame. There sits Miss Lois Myers, a very distinguished and brilliant looking person. She is smoking a Turkish cigarette at the end of a long cigarette holder, blowing smoke rings with amazing versatility for a Scipio girl. Lois, valedictorian of her class, is to-day one of the foremost scholars of the time. At present she is a professor at Columbia University. Her greatest.del1ght is the library where she spends much of her spare time. She always had a desire to become a librarian, but she became a professor of languages instead, and uses the library to store up more knowledge. On Lois' left we find Mrs. Bob Coyle, the former Margaret Dickinson. Mr. and Mrs. Coyle own a grand home in Auburn, and have two lovely children, Bob Jr., and Eleanor. After graduating, Margaret took a homemaking course at Cornell, taught for three years, and then settled down to put her knowledge into practical use. Seated near Margaret is the former Doris Garlock. Doris' success at dieting during her Senior year at EHCS led her to become a dietician. When Doris finally became a perfect size twelve, she met and married a young man from Alaska. So, in order to keep warm in the cold northern climate, Doris had to regain her pound- age. However, she is happy and successful in her new role. Ruth Wyant, M.D., occupies this same table. For ten years after her grad- uation from Sherwood Ruth devoted her time to extensive studyg she finally won her M. D. gumma cum laude. In 1941 Ruth, you recall, was voted the future nModel Farmer'. As a matter of fact, Ruth's technique in Ag skills helped her work her way through college. At a second table we find Mr. and Mrs. Harold Alexander. Looking not a day older, are both Harold and his blushing bride, Mildred Baker. As a matter of fact they are honeymoonlng. for twenty years Harold had been mustering courage to naskn Millie. Finally he popped the question as Spring Fever hit him the first week in May, 1961. Theirs was a lovely June wedding. True love will out! There too are Mrs. Ray Post and Gerald Chamberlain. During her senior year at Sherwood Muriel made plans for entering college the following September. How- ever the thought of separation from Ray changed her mind, and they were married in the fall. Together they are making a success of Ray's chicken farm and are saving the profits for the future education of little Everett, their son. As for Gerald Chamberlain, he has remained a bachelor farmer. His hopes came tumbling down with Mur1el'e marriage and he can find no one to take her place. Charley Hickey began participating, with a vengeance, in town basketball teams, and soon gained so much fame that he received many offers for profession- sl basketball. He then turned to coaching basketball, and has been very much in demand the last few years. . 1.4 . .-- ..- -7- . .

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'El-ics .fx GZQ44 Wd! We, the Seniors of 1941, in order to create a more perfect school, and to establish a sound basis for future graduating classes, do hereby make, publish, and affirm this, our last will and testament. We wish to bequeath the following: Mr. Lane, a library of worthwhile comic books. Mr. Kaplan, another class of the calibre of the class of '41, Mr. Maddaloni, another championship basketball team in 1942. Margaret Ann Dougherty, a stout chain to hold that heavy ring of harlie May's. To Evelyn Van Lieu, the weight Doris has lost. To Gerald Beebee, McGarry's gift of gab. To Louis Shaw, a loud speaker to let everyone know he's enter- ' ing a basketball game. Tom Powers, better luck with Margaret Ann next year. Barbara Richardson and Vincent Cahalan, for greater comfort Dale Sullivan, Mr. Grime's famous treatise uTra1n1ng Brushcutsn. Lyman Cook, a good road in front of Saxtongs place instead of the cowpath. To gaymond Drake, Charley Hurlbut's place as wit of the Senior lass. To Margaret Nolan, a place in Shy Sh1eld's orchestra. To Kenny Brown, a bottle of 'Grow-'emu. To Virginia Heath, Emily Post's chapter on Dignity. To Pat Keough, more postcards from Johnny Stickles. To Jane Powers, someone to tease her when Paul Gallery graduates. To Irene Jacobs. someone to take Tom Costello's place. To Barbara Richardson and Vincent Cahalan, for greater comfort during school hours, a double desk. To Alice Colley, permission to take Mary's place with Marvin. To George Casler, a car to buck snow drifts fDear Ruth: Perhaps Gone With The Wind will return to Auburn? To Bradley Mitchell, more complicated problems in geometry. To Ruth Powers, more dates with Dick Parker. To Edith Bunn, Geraldine Flynn's demureness. To Miss Stone, Bon Voyage. To the Junior Class, a chance to take a trip to New York To To To To To To To To Having disposed of all our prized possessions, we graciously leave our claims to priority, our Senior privileges, our wordly wisdom to the unworthy Juniors. Signed on this 7th day of June in the Year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Forty One, and affixed hereto the Seal of the Board of Education, of the Emily Howland Central School, District No. 4, Towns of Scipio, Venice, and Ledyard, County of Cayuga, State of New York, United States of America. QfZ,,1.,m,,,!..,y.1j 9, Jawa f V 444-0 , ? .We , . ' ' , 5,5 .5 h JL..,,Z.gee., my -1.40. ' was Ga.. Ala., nlewtdl SD fav!!-'Q-L rMM aaa

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' Er-:cs A 014244 pfzapfzecy - eaniinaecf Sally Keough is a tremendous success in the movies and on the stage. She is a very versatile actress, having played everything from youthful roles of Juliet and St. Joan, to grandmother and dowager queen partsgbut her forte is portraying old maids, as she did in the Sherwood Senior play. She is the Helen Hayes of '6l. Wallace Duck was so infatuated with Biology in his high school days that he was determined to continue the study of birds and bees. His specializations are ichthlology and hereptology-but he won't tell us what they mean. He has now taken Miss Beck's place at Sherwood as biology instructor. And there is Rita Shaw, head nurse of the Auburn City Hospital. Craving ad- venture after receiving her R. M. from Auburn City Hospital, Rita went over to Europe as an ambulance nurse. With characteristic Shavlan pluck, Rita often went into the thick of battle, many times she barely escaped a horrible death from ex- ploding bombs. After-the war she came back to Auburn-splendid work received rec ognltlon in the form of advancements. Bob Powers is Sc1p1o's wealthiest farmer. His training under Mr. Van Ars- dale proved very beneficial to him. He has the most scientifically run farm in the town, and he is very active in Farm Bureau Work. What tricks time plays! One guess: what did Tom Costello do after graduation? Yes, you're right. He settled down to farming and married Irene after her graduation. They have a pair of twins, a girl and a boy, who will graduate from Sherwood next year. The young chap, Tommy, Jr., is the terror of the Ag and Biology classes, but Papa Tommy humors him. Shortly after graduation Leon Brewster and Francis McGarry set up an 'Escort Service'. Since they found it hard to settled down with one girl they thought this was the best way out. Among their employees are Russell and Lester Chapin. In addition to the escort service Leon has a cigar shop specializing in White Owls, and Francis runs a blacksmith shop. Lester studies aviation in his spare time by hanging around the Fleming airfield. Russell does bit pieces on the radio and his fans want him to run a comedy program of his own. After graduation Geraldine Flynn went to Cornell where she took up making. There she met a nice young fellow who studied agriculture. Whe left college they were married and came to live in Sherwood. There Gera taught Homemaking and her husband taught Ag. Geraldine gave up teaching five years and now she has three children who are as sweet and quiet as mother always was in her schooldays. Who is that sprlghtly lady with sparkling brown eyes? Why, 1t's He Ryan! After graduation Helen took a correspondence course entitled nThe of Beauty and Make-Up'. She was so enticed with this course that she we school in New York City for two years, making extensive studies in this Now she is in demand everywhere from the M G M studios to the Sherwood G Drama Festivals. Her new cosmetic erections are all the rage in society cles. Her new lavendar scent was the permeatlng odor of the 1961 Junior at Sherwood. As a grand climax to this reunion, the class unanimously decided to s sight-seeing bus and take the same tour around the city that they took years ago. As they were passing through the Bowery Charley Hurlbut rose his seat yelling 'Lookin There on a bench a man in tattered, ill-fittin Home- n they ldlne after their len Art nt to field. range cir- Prom board twenty from g clothes with a Longfellow beard was sleeping-it was Mr. Kaplan. A sad contrast to the dapper, young French instructor of their high school days. The bus was stopped and all Mr. Kaplan'e former students piled out. That evening, Paul Gallery set a banquet table at the Taft with Mr. Kaplan, newly shaven, and decked in Paul's suits, as guest of honor. At the head of the tabla Mr. Kaplan, a dazed. thought he was back in English IV class again, shouted for order, llvered a lecture on his dissatisfaction with the choices of the Pulltiz for the novel and the play awarded in 1961. Same old Mr. Kaplan. one of bit and de- er prizes This regeneration of their Senior Class Advisor was a fitting termination to the twentieth reunion of the Senior Class of 1941. Helen Ryan Rita Shaw Muriel Bishop