NORWAY – The custodian and the principal at the Guy E. Rowe School are in cahoots when it comes to costumes.

On Wednesday, both were dressed as Pilgrims in observance of Thanksgiving.

Terry Cram, the school’s head custodian and crossing guard, held a stop sign while cradling a toy turkey as he escorted students across Main Street.

“Hi, Mr. Cram,” yelled several students, waving at him as they filed into the school.

“We have a lot of fun,” Cram said. He owns several costumes, and what he doesn’t own he rents from a costume company. He has dressed as Tigger the Tiger, Donald Duck, Santa, Dudley Do-Right and the Grinch, to name a few.

Several people on their morning commute honked their horns, smiling at Cram as they drove by.

Cram was hired to work at the school seven years ago, having lost his job at a shoe factory. When Principal George Sincerbeaux came on board four years ago, he dressed as a gorilla for Halloween, and the costume competition was on.

“I wore this big gorilla outfit, but some of the little ones got scared,” said Sincerbeaux, who always stands outside the parking lot entrance as the students leave school at the end of the day.

“The next time I dressed as a girl gorilla, with blond hair and a pink smock,” he said. “It was one of the most disgusting things I ever did.”

But the kids loved it, he said. So do the bus drivers. “The bus drivers crack up when they see me.”

Sincerbeaux came in a wolf costume for Story Night, and last year he and Cram dressed as elves.

“This year we’re ordering reindeer costumes,” he said.