Gardner High School Teachers 1956-1960

The names of the teachers listed below may not “ring a bell” with everyone in our class, but may bring back special memories to those who knew individual teachers through their college, commercial, or general courses and extra-curricular activities. Some teachers or their subjects influence your life in ways that you do not recognize or fully appreciate until much later. Which teachers do remember, and why?

 

Miss Virginia A. Aldrich – World History, U.S. History

Mr. Martin L. Anderson – World History, Arithmetic

Miss Mary G. Bailey – Art, English

Mr. James W.H. Baker – Physics

Mrs. Marcia L. Baker – English*

Miss K. Doris Berry – Stenography, Typewriting, Office Machines

Mr. George J. Black – English, Art, Latin*

Mr. Hervey F. Bowden – U.S. History, Modern European History

Mr. Kenneth E. Bowen – English, Psychology

Miss Helen Chafee – French, Spanish

Miss Sarah E. Clark – Business Law, Problems of Democracy

Mrs. Edla S.  Denney – English

Mr. L. Edward Dolhenty, Jr.**Basic Business, Problems of Democracy

Mr. Walter Dubzinski, Sr. – Civics, Health, General Math, Guidance

Mr. Robert T. Duncan – Basic Business, General Science

Miss Geraldine Foskett, English

Mr. John S. Gearan, Principal/English* (5/9/56)

Miss Mary A. Glasheen – English

Mrs. Vera L. Glendenning – Health, Homemaking

Mr. Edward W. Hilbourne – Chemistry, General Science

Mr. Edward V. Hill* – English, Geography

Mrs. Dorothy K. Hopkins – Bookeeping, Typewriting, Office Practice

Mrs. Mary L. Horrigan – Bookeeping, Typewriting

Mr. Dean E. Johnson – Industrial Arts

Mr. Joseph T. Kivlin – Printing

Mr. Martin O. Lahtinen – U.S. History, World History

Miss Louise Kraskouskas ** – English

Mr. Roland C. Lambert – Boys Physical Education

Mrs. Hope H. Lavalee** - Art

Miss Helen Lepkowski – Stenography, Typewriting, Bookkeeping, Office Machines

Mr. Robert Littlefield – Assistant Principal/Geometry

Mr. William M. Lloyd, Jr.* – Band Director, Music

Miss Kathleen M. McCarthy – Basic Business, Typewriting

Miss Dorothy R. O’Neill – English, Speech

Mr. Chester J. Poliks – General Science, Biology, World History

Ms. Priscilla Power –Girls Physical Education, Sports

Miss Elizabeth B. Saben – Director of Guidance

Mrs. Helen F. St. George - Latin, French

Mr. William P. Small*** – German, English

Miss Muriel M. Sutherland, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus.

Mr. Philip J. Tarpey – General Math, Economics

Miss. Carolyn A. Thatcher – Stenography, Typewriting,

Mr. John R. Tinker, Mechanical Drawing, Mathematics, Drivers Ed.

Mrs. Mildred E. Tinker*** – English

Miss Marion Viets – Algebra, Geometry

Miss Helen Whittier – Biology

Miss Dorothy K. Young – Bookeeping, Typewriting

 

Note: In February of 1955, Mrs. Dorothy J. Littlefield substituted for Miss K. Doris Berry who was placed on indefinite leave because of an illness in her family.

 

The Asterisk (*) denotes teachers or administrators who were appointed in 1956.

The Double Asterisk (**) denotes appointment in 1957

The Triple Asterisk (***) denotes appointment in 1959

Remembering Jean Williams Albert Mattson

Jean A. (Williams) Albert Mattson, 71, a longtime resident of Fitchburg and Westminster, died Friday, July 4, at her daughter's residence, after a brief illness. She leaves three daughters, Julie A. Orlando of Leominster, Renee J. Smith, and her husband John of Bolton, MA and Christine M. Leger, and her fiancée Glenn Ares of Gardner, MA; two brothers, David J. Williams and his life partner, Joyce Z. Cariglia of Worcester and Keith A. Williams, and his wife Annette of Carey, NC; 10 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren and one niece and two nephews. She previously was the wife of 34 years of Rene J. Albert, who died in 2003. Jean was employed at the Tyco Company in Westminster in the Accounts Payable Dept. for many years. She was a 1960 graduate of Gardner High School and was a member of the former Good Shepherd Church in West Fitchburg.