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Janice Becker nee. Swensen is crowned by Don Dahlke as "Friar" Don Cochran and others look on --Photo by Ed Neill for 1954 Sherwood Union High School Quiver. |
Each day the bus driver would shout "Sherwood." Johnson would ring the bell to get off. Someone would look around and shout, "Robin Hood?" The quip always got a laugh. It also gave Floyd something to think about during those long walks into town. The Robin Hood icon is free. It excites people around the world. He floated the idea of having a Robin Hood Festival in his newspaper, the "Sherwood Valley News." A crew of World War II veterans (Elks and Kiwanis mostly) rolled up their sleeves and dyed their long johns green and showed up at movie houses wherever the Robin Hood movie was showing. The crowds enjoyed seeing them so much that they were invited back. Not only that. They were asked to appear at small town festivals all around Portland. The rest is history.