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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The arrival of the new consolidated school allowed the city to close many of its outdated and overcrowded school buildings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.