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The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts 2021 Awards have been published and certificates of merit provided to winning Garden Clubs. (A certificate of merit may be awarded to a club or district for publications, excluding periodicals or yearbooks) After submitting the required, detailed information to the Awards Committee, North Andover Garden Club was selected as a recipient of the GCFM's Publication Award for the North Andover Garden Club 100 History 1920-2020.
The 1920 - 2020 History Book was the culmination of a three-year effort that included researching and collating materials, followed by writing and documenting the last 50-years of history, decade-by-decade. The History team achieved their goal of providing this book to all Club members as part of several 100-year Anniversary Celebrations taking place during 2020. Kudos to Harriett Osgood, Birgit Blass, Leslie Frazier, Brenda Reeve and Norma Lochmann for the collective long-term commitment that resulted in this book that tells our history and preserves it for the future.
We owe a great debt of gratitude to our Club Photographer, Richard Kulpinski, for his many hours of documenting our efforts in a variety of group activities – in seminars, annual welcome back occasions, garden therapy sessions, holiday wreath making, and community maintenance of our parks and gardens and, of course, in the growth and maintenance of hundreds of perennials for our annual plant sales. Many, many thanks, Richard, for your exceptional efforts and support! It is with a heavy heart to say that our dear friend and member passed away on Dec. 2, 2017. Richard was the nucleus of our club. We will miss him so very much. Rest, dear Richard, for now you can raise all the plants you want on that heavenly soil!
