Holyoke, Mass

As Schools Match Wits

by Laurel | December 5th, 2013

Front row, seated, left to right: K. Howes, S. Menard, A. Messenger, N. Judge, A. Polak; Back row, standing, left to right: K. Swinski, R. Esty, R. Smith, R. Hampson, M. Heafy.

Holyoke High School Team, 1969

Browsing though this yearbook inspired me to search and was interested to see As Schools Match Wits is alive and well at Westfield University (this site has a link to a list of the winners) and also the requisite Wikipedia entry about the show. I remembered Phil Shepardson had died and found a Barry Kriger memorial about Shepardson’s death, available on the WWLP website. Click on the image to enlarge.

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