Monday, October 1, 2012

Gardner High School Swim Team, 1957



The Gardner High School Swim Team, 1957.

Coach John R. Tinker is shown here with members of the 1957 swim team.  Can you find the following classmates in the photo?

Managers Dexter Hedstrom, Larry Popple, and James Powers; Captains Thomas Crowley and Larry Chapman; members David MacDonald, Daniel O'Connell, William Fontaine,  Jeffrey Glinksi, Peter Evans, Stephen Erickson, Francis Richard, Roger Sharron, Jonathan Rice, Michael Gajdukow, John Olechnicki, Leon Jasinki, Marcel Clavien, Norman Beauregard, Donald Sweet, Ronald Rogers, Paul Hagen, Jerome Pierce, Creighton Morris, Dennis Erickson, Donald Diemdowicz, Glenn Theodore, Brian Bjurling, Martin Anderholm, Gerald Richardson, Albert Vallee, and Robert Dill.

John Tinker came to Gardner High School in 1937.  He took over the boy's high school swimming team in 1939, and started the Massachusetts High School Swimming Championships in Gardner in 1947.  The Gardner boy's team won the championship for the next thirteen years.  Coach Tinker retired in 1975, after tweaching for thiry-eight years.

Source: Images of America: Gardner.  The South Gardner Historical Society. Arcadia Press, Dover New Hampshire. (1995) page 99.

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