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How the new Gardner Junior High School arrived just in time
The arrival of the new consolidated school allowed the city to close many of its outdated and overcrowded school buildings
Mike Richard
Shortly after World War II, the phenomenon of the baby boom generation was born, literally.
Referring to “a noticeable increase in the birth rate,” the post-war population jump was first described as a “boom” by columnist Sylvia Porter in the May 4, 1951, edition of the New York Post. Such terminology was based on the 2,357,000 increase in the population of the U.S. in 1950.
In the early 1950s, the Gardner School Committee had the foresight to realize that such a population boom would also occur in the city. Soon, it was exploring the need for more up-to-date facilities preparing the students of the city for the second half of the 20th century.
GARDNER An original Norman Rockwell painting that hung for years outside the principal’s office in Gardner High School continues to be the gift that keeps on giving.
Members of the Williams-Rockwell Educational Gift Fund Committee met on March 1 to distribute this year’s round of grants to applicants from the Gardner Public Schools system.
The committee distributed more than $190,000 for 16 various projects, which will take place over the remainder of the year and beyond.
The fund, which was established in 2015, stipulates that any grant funding must be split evenly between arts and general educational purposes.
The largest amount awarded from the fund this year went to Gardner High School Band Director Doug Lepisto, who received $100,000 for renovations to the school’s Landry Auditorium.