They also point to the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plyer v. Doe, quoting that "education prepares individuals to become self-reliant and self-sufficient participants in society.

How Mr. Plyer's bowl ended up in the annual auction of the contents of abandoned safe-deposit boxes at the William Doyle Galleries on East 87th Street yesterday will probably never be known.

In October 1869, the post office was renamed in honor of General Frank Wheaton by the area's first Postmaster George F. Plyer who served as a Private under Gen. Wheaton in 1861 during the American Civil War.

The squadron engaged in combat with the German Air Force on several patrols, and on 13 June, Lt Plyer was reported missing after being shot down in a combat with German planes, and later was reported to be a prisoner.