GHS Memory Book

GHS Memory Book - Cover Design and Photo by Judy Heino Collette

Thirty-five classmates responded to our invitation to contribute a memory of their Gardner days. The invitation was sent out via e-mail, posted on Facebook, and published in the home news section of the Gardner Daily News. Samples of the GHS Memory Book will be displayed at the Saturday Reunion Dinner on July 24th, 2010. Electronic versions of the GHS Memory Book will be provided at no charge to classmates with e-mail. Paper copy will be sent to classmates who request one for a nominal fee that covers costs of copying and postage.

The GHS Memory Book includes first-person anecdotes about persons, places, and experiences that have made a lasting, lifetime impression. A separate section is devoted to other perspectives on the Gardner experience. Some are written with humor, many as tributes, and others with wistfulness, a few with wishfulness or even mischief. One thing is sure: you will learn things about former classmates that might surprise you!

The GHS Memory Book includes a cover, introduction, table of contents, and 24 pages of memories - 28 pages in all. The work was collected and compiled by Douglas S. Fleming. Judy Heino Collete designed the cover and completed the technical edit and formatting. Classmates who authored items for the publication include Yvonne Savaria Perreault, Carrie Cunningham Larson, Galdys Narkevicius Richardson, Timothy Swanson, Tom Ryan, Donna Blake Beise, Connie Lesneski Libed, Alice Winter Empie, Elaine Stanley Guaraglia, Richard Goguen, Jadwiga Narkevicius Earle, Walter J. Dubzinski, Jr., Louis Paul Migliozzi, John Oinonen, Annette Arsenault Wall, Linda Giles Merikanto, Douglas S. Fleming, Edith Needham Godfrey, Suzanne Skamarycz Nobrega, Jean Williams Albert Mattson, Judy Heino Collette, Dennis Erickson, Jan Morin Ricord, Barbara Pelletier Bachand, Nancy Ball Griffin, Jeanne Charest Mallet, Carole Nyman Platukis, Robert H. Coffin, Jr., William Farnsworth, Karen Heywood Greenlaw, Virginia Blake Monette, Stanley R. Gemborys, Winona LeBlanc Moeller, and Beverly Morze Piccone. Shari Lee Montville Whipple provided the verse that marks transitions between the sections of the text.

To request a paper copy to be sent via USMAIL, contact Judy Heino Collette. To request an electronic version you can read on your computer and print yourself, contact Douglas S. Fleming.