Help Preserve Your Class History!

 

Just as quickly as the flurry of graduations subsides, we are hit with Reunion Season – time to pull out the old yearbook and take a stroll with your high school buddies!  Over the years, Gardiner Public Library has made a point of collecting annual copies of Gardiner High School’s yearbook, the Quill.  Many of you may recall when they resided in the Hazzard Reading Room and wondered what became of them.  Having outgrown that roost, the collection is now lovingly cared for in our Community Archives Room.

Our collection spans from 1919 (when the Quill was more of a periodical school newsletter) all the way to today – with only a few gaps along the way, but that’s where you come in! 

We would love to complete our collection (which, we gather, is even more complete than that of the Kennebec Historical Society’s collection of Cony’s yearbook, Coniad – so, if ever there was a good cause for rivalry, here it is!)  

 We are missing the following years of the Quill: 1923, 1925, 1927, 1930, 1936 (that is Class of 1936; we have the 1936-37 issue), 1974, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2003.

Should you come across one of these missing years (whether cleaning out the attic, hitting lawn sales, or dusting it off your own shelf) we would happily accept a donation toward completing our collection.  

Of course, even if you don’t have one of the missing copies – or are missing one yourself – you are more than welcome to stop in and walk down memory lane here at the library!