Katherine "Kay" Sheridan (1920 - 1984) · Maynard Historical Society Archives

Title

Katherine "Kay" Sheridan (1920 - 1984)

Description

Katherine Ann "Kay" Sheridan was born in 1920, in Concord, to Frank Sheridan, a long-time Maynard Postmaster, and Ellen Reilley, a housewife. She was an only child and a lifelong resident of 5 Bent Avenue in Maynard. She graduated from Maynard High School in1938 and earned a degree in elementary education from Bridgewater State College in 1942. She joined the Maynard School System in 1943 as a sixth grade teacher. She was appointed principal and fifth grade teacher at the Coolidge School in 1948. She spent her summers at the family cottage on Lake Ossipee in New Hampshire.
She retired in 1977 and passed away in 1984.

Photos:
1. Kay - 1977
2. Maynard High School senior photo - 1938
3. Poem published in the Screech Owl yearbook - 1938
4. Screech Owl Staff - 1938 (Kay - front row, left)
5. Screech Owl Staff - 1937 (Kay - front row, second from left)
6. Bridgewater State College class photo - 1942
7. Principal of Cooledge School and 5th grade teacher - 1953
8. Principal of Coolidge School and 5th grade teacher - 1958
9. Principal of Coolidge School - 1972
10. Kay's desk nameplate - 1976

Date

1920-1984

Contributor

Thomas Sheridan: When we were kids, we would visit Cousin Kay at her happy place at the family cottage on Lake Ossipee. She was a different person there than our school principal for some 40 weeks of the year.