John Patrick Sherlock

My English teacher inspiration in the early 1960s. RIP Paul Orloff

64 years later Jack is still an inspiration as he pushed us on how to think and appreciate all aspects of English.

Mr. Sherlock was my 11th grade English teacher in Half Hollow Hills in 1966. I can still picture him at the front of the classroom drawing me in to a love of literature, words, and writing. He was clever, and smart, and funny. His words mattered. And in all my years as a student in Half Hollow Hills and beyond as I earned a bachelors degree and two graduate degrees I never encountered his match. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to sit in his classroom.

I send condolences to...

Roberta and family, deepest condolences on the entry of Jack, RIP into eternal life. As a teacher for over fifty years his legacy lives on not only in his immediate family but in the generations of students whose lives he touched. A lover of English Litetature he understood the meaning of educate in its Latin sense educare - to lead the knowledge out of his students. This indelible influence on countless others cannot be quantified but is undoubtedly profound. Well done Jack, Good and...

The Manhattan College alumni community shares the grief, and is now praying for our fellow alumni and the family at this time. The Alumni Office has been informed. As well as the Jasper Jottings community that I personally can reach. We are all a little poorer now. "No man is an island, entire of itself ... any mans death diminishes me". We are sorry for your loss.