Mrs. Allie Torrance had hopes of quietly slipping out of Sherman School this spring after 40 years of service. But the Sherman PTO last night insured that her retirement will be a noisy one. Parents and teachers presented her with a radio-alarm clock, heavy applause, jangling poetry and a chance to exchange loud memories with students of her first five years' teaching. "I'll tell you frankly why I didn't want anyone to know I was leaving," she explained. "While I'm not a super-anything, I've been a teacher and an assistant principal at Sherman School for so long that some children expect to be in my class when they reach sixth grade. A few stop me on the street and say, 'I'll be in your class next year.' All I say, is 'It will be very nice if you are.' I didn't want the children to discuss my retirement..."

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