This series contains items pertaining to Nowlan's attendance at Saint Saviour Elementary School, at Manual Training High School (now the Secondary School for Law, Journalism and Research) in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, and at Brooklyn College located in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. Included in the series is Nowlan's certificate of diploma from Saint Saviour Elementary School, 1935, a report of his grades, and a corresponding commencement exercises program. The collection also contains two school yearbooks including a 1939 copy of Prospect, the Manual Training High School yearbook and Nowlan's Brooklyn College yearbook, Broeklandium, 1948. A commencement exercises program for Brooklyn College, dated 1948, is also included.