Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-06-06
Sandy Spring
Ne1v School
Holds First
Graduation
BY Jane Day
WA 4.9648

School takes place at the Meet
ing House Saturday at 1890
am. About 80 graduates-the
first from the new school-will
receive diplomas at a meeting
for worship during which the
school chorus will sing.
Students will celebrate the
years end informally with a
Strawberry Cowbake the night
before. That Is, they'll cook
steaks over an open fire-and
in line with seasonal custom,
eat strawberries, too.
Among the graduates are the
following from the county:
Robin Burrowes, Sandy Spring
Roger Clark, Bethesda; William
Gordon, Ashton; John J. Meyer
III, Sandy Spring; Robert Mi.
mura, Silver Spring; ]. Lewis
Moore, Sandy Spring; and Jen'
infer Wolfe, Takoma Park. An
other graduate of particular in
terest to the community is Sid
ney Hutton III of West Grove,
Pa, whose grandfather grew
up in the Brookeville area and
who has a number Of relatives
here.
The 10th anniversary Of the
Sherwood Alumni Association
will be celebrated at a banquet
Saturday at Z pm. at the Ash
ton Methodist Church. Wilton
j. Boswell, association presi-
dent, promises there will be
fun but no long speeches"
David Brigham Is toast.
master, Delmas Wood Jr., joke
master, and the Brookeville
Hill Billies will sing. Alumni
are urged to bring cameras and
old class pictures.
This graduating class marks
the S0th year of Sherwood as
a school. 1t was established as
a Society OF Friends School In
1888 when there were no free
high schools in the county, &C.
cording to the alumni president.
The county took over opera
ton Of the school In 1905. It's
first graduating class was com.
posed Of exactly two members.
Anyone who has attended
Sherwood In the last 80 years
is welcome to attend the ban.
quet. Tickets are $3.50.
Among the college students
home for summer vacations
are Frank Curly Kricker
from The Citadel and ia m S
Austin w from Hobart College
in Geneva, N. Y, with a class
mate Eric Lox from California.
Mary Austin, a student at
Johns Hopkins School of Nurs-
ing, was home for the week
end and with her brother,
James, and his house guest, at.
tended the Army-Navy lacrosse
game at Annapolis then re-
turned to meet their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Austin III
at the Howard County Hunt
Club for dinner following the
Doughoregan Manor Horse
Show.
Mr.. and Mrs. Uric Hutton
spent the weekend with their
son, Tom, and his family at
Willow Grove, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Y. Candy of
Colesville left for New York
this week to meet their daugh.
ter, Mrs. Paul Malherbe, who
is returning from IL years in
Durham, South Africa. Mrs.
Malherbe's husband, who is
with an American oil company,
has been transferred to New
York for the next two years.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Y. Candy Jr.,
of Brinklow, accompanied the
Canbys to New York.
Mrs. Leon Small has returned
from two weeks in Boston and
Westchester County, N. Y. She
spent a week with a friend,
Mrs. James HI. Joyce Of West
wood in the outskirts of Bos.
ton and another week with her
daughter and her husband, Mr..
and Mrs. C. William Hartge at
Bedford Hills, NY.
Mrs. A. Douglas Farquhar
entertained at tea for friends
in the neighborhood a week ago
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Antonio Adelfio
had a few friends in last Sun.
day to see Mrs. Alexander Will
son, the former Katherine Far.
quhar of Sandy Spring, who
was here from Bogota, Colum.
bia, visiting an aunt in Be-
thesda.
Mrs. Clarence Watkins re-
ports that her son, Lincoln, has
accepted a position with the
Electric Boat Co. as a civilian
technician and now is living in
Groton, Conn. His wife and
children will join him there
when school is out. Mr.. Wat
kins was with the Johns Hop
kins Applied Physics Lab for
nvaY. 10 UaarS xKyhan h. lived