Helen Avery taught second grade at East Hill School from 1938 to 1952 and at Belle Sherman from 1952 to 1970. Mrs. Avery initiated the fondly remembered May Day celebration at East Hill Elementary School in the 1940s and took the tradition with her to Belle Sherman in 1952.
(Sources: "Ithaca's Neighborhoods"; "Tompkins County New York: Images of Work and Play" by Municipal Historians of Tompkins County, Tompkins County Historian. Note: "Images of Work and Play" contains a photograph of Mrs. Avery's 1963 Belle Sherman class dancing around the Maypole.)
(Sources: "Ithaca's Neighborhoods"; "Tompkins County New York: Images of Work and Play" by Municipal Historians of Tompkins County, Tompkins County Historian. Note: "Images of Work and Play" contains a photograph of Mrs. Avery's 1963 Belle Sherman class dancing around the Maypole.)
Helen Avery taught second grade at East Hill School from 1938 to 1952 and at Belle Sherman from 1952 to 1970. Mrs. Avery initiated the fondly remembered May Day celebration at East Hill Elementary School in the 1940s and took the tradition with her to Belle Sherman in 1952.
(Sources: "Ithaca's Neighborhoods"; "Tompkins County New York: Images of Work and Play" by Municipal Historians of Tompkins County, Tompkins County Historian. Note: "Images of Work and Play" contains a photograph of Mrs. Avery's 1963 Belle Sherman class dancing around the Maypole.)
(Sources: "Ithaca's Neighborhoods"; "Tompkins County New York: Images of Work and Play" by Municipal Historians of Tompkins County, Tompkins County Historian. Note: "Images of Work and Play" contains a photograph of Mrs. Avery's 1963 Belle Sherman class dancing around the Maypole.)
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