NORWAY – The dates of the Norway Upper Primary School Reunion have been changed to Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8.
The reunion is now planned to include a memory night of story telling Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the 480 Main St. schoolhouse – now the Lajos Matolcsy Arts Center owned since 1968 by the nonprofit Western Maine Art Group – and a traditional Saturday public supper at the Universalist Unitarian Church across the street.
The Reunion Committee, headed by former UPS student Lesley Dean, who suggested the reunion to WMAG, has been fielding telephone calls, gathering information and mapping the town’s schoolhouses since the call for former students went out in September.
According to Dean, there were at least 16 and possibly as many as 20 schools in Norway. She and her father, Art Gouin, have been on “every back road in Norway,” photographing and surveying the locations of the old schools to create a comprehensive map of Norway schools.
Reunion-goers will also have the chance to buy T-shirts and memory book keepsakes of the event. Organizers are formulating plans to hold a scavenger hunt fundraiser, which will take people on a driving tour of all of the former schoolhouses of Norway.
Former Upper Primary School students or those who have old Norway school photos, information, artifacts or items are asked to call the Reunion Committee at 6 Maple St., Norway ME 04268 or e-mail [email protected].
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