Blizzard of January 1967

Blizzard of January 1967

This document features a poem signed by all of the students and staff that came to school on the day of the January 27, 1967 blizzard. From January 26-27 a record-setting 23 inches of snow fell over a period of 24 hours in Winnetka and the surrounding areas.

North Shore Country Day School Archives

01/27/1967

With apologies to W. Shakespeare, Henry V, IV, iii. 1/27/67
Please sign
THIS STORY SHALL THE GOOD MAN TEACH HIS SON:
AND JANUARY 27 SHALL NE'ER GO BY
FROM THIS DAY TO THE ENDING OF THE WORLD,
BUT WE IN IT SHALL BE REMEMBERED ___
WE FEW, WE HAPPY FEW, WE BAND OF BROTHERS;
FOR HE TODAY THAT TRODS THE SNOW WITH ME SHALL BE MY BROTHER. BE HE NE'ER SO WEAK
THIS DAY SHALL STRENGTHEN HIS CONDITION.
AND WINNETKA CITIZENS NOW AROUND
SHALL THINK THEMSELVES ACCURS'D THEY WERE NOT HERE
AND HOLD THEIR MANHOODS CHEAP WRILES AND SPEAKS
THAT BRAVED THE STORM WITH US THIS DAY.

[signed]
Harry Marden
Peter Kuh
Blake Allison
Mariana Florian
John Almquist
Vincent B. Allison
Sally Green
Matt Watreres [sp]
George Booz
Jeffery _____
John Booz
John Harper
Phoebe Mark [sp]
Donna McPhee [sp]
Thomas Browne
George __ ___ [sp]
Sarah Peters
Jane Croft
M.J. McCarty
Stephen Ober
William Broole [sp]
Pegge Carsten
Helen Brown
Hattie Blair
Nancy Green
Ellen Benson
Lindsay ____ [sp]
John C. Woodbery
Jean K. Talley
Nathaniel S. French
Frank Watkins
Virginia S. Deane
_____________ [sp]