Lora Sheridan
, Maryland
Lora A. Sheridan was born on July 26 1933 in Auburndale MA to Lora E. Nicolson and Charles F. Harris. Ten years later her father was killed when the troopship Dorchester was sunk by a German sub off the coast of Greenland he had been with a civilian group planning to build an airbase there. By that time the family was living in Wakefield MA and had grown to include three children one just a year old. Fortunately their mother had previously been trained as a secretary and had several years of work experience so she took over as breadwinner. All the children went through the Wakefield public schools and Lora Ann graduated in 1951 from Wakefield High. She went to college first to Colby College in Waterville ME and later to Lowell Teachers College in Lowell MA from which she graduated in 1956. Loras began teaching the following autumn…