Roy Marshall

Gee, what have I been up to for the last 41 years... Wow, why not just wait for the book. From Troy High I went on to SUNY New Paltz for an art teaching degree. Instead of teaching art, I took a job with the Saratogian in their display ad dept. Long story short, I worked over the years at 5 different Albany ad agencies; one in Tampa; and the last one in Knoxville. I had a year stint with a publishing firm in Miami in the 70's. Probably my biggest claim to fame was restoring the Batchellor Mansion in Saratoga in 1972. It was 100 years old and scheduled for demolition. My partner at the time, Gene Turchi, and I basically rebuilt it. Today it's a bed and breakfast.
I'm now retired and doing freelance graphic design here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Try to visit our cabin in Lake George every summer.

Well we all know about Kenny and I leaving school one Tuesday morning and ending up in Miami. All I took with me were some pastels, a few prized t-shirts and my Simon & Garfunkel albums. I was a very troubled youth. Two of my favorite teachers at THS were Jean Cannon, the art teacher who really showed me the way to what has been a very fulfilling career in advertising design. I now do print ads, websites, television commercials and trade shows. The other teacher was Joyce Helmsley. I often recall her standing in front of the class reading aloud, "Oh captain, my captain..." She was so passionate, as if it were she who was waiting in the widow's walk for her love to return. What an elegant lady she was. Oddly, years later a friend of mine asked me to join her when looking at a wonderful Craftsman house to buy in Troy. It turned out to have once been Mrs. Helmsley's.