On May 8, 2013, sixteen time travelers went back in time at the Naples Garden Club library to rummage through decades of yearbooks, scrapbooks, minutes, flower show booklets, house and garden tour brochures, annual reports, and the like, gathering vital information for the 60th Anniversary History Project.
Under the guidance of Lydia Galton serving as chair, twenty members (listed below) of the garden club have committed themselves to research each of the six decades of garden club history to produce the booklet, Naples Garden Club A Brief History 1953-2013.
While getting dusty and eating pizza, the group discussed the scope of the booklet, delved through the many documents found in the library, related information received from oral histories told by long time members, and reminisced about wonderful accomplishments of the club.
The goal of the group is to present a completed booklet to the membership on November 4, 2013, exactly sixty years from the date on which our club was founded. Save the date for the wonderful anniversary luncheon planned for that day.
History Volunteers
1950’s
Helen Stephens
Carol Conant
Sondra Quinn
1960’s
Lydia Galton
Sue Synnott
Isabelle Staffeldt
1970’s
Fifi McMahon
Wendy Knauer
Melinda Earle
1980’s
Catherine Ware
Linda Brown
June Kroeschell
1990’s
Kathleen Hawryluk
Diane Green
Gail Pica
2000’s
Arlette Bradley
Marilyn Gross
Barbara Sampson