September 2025
~Coleen Germond
Please plan on attending our September GPS meeting at the Galway Town
Hall on Monday, September 8th at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:45. We will have a
brief business meeting. The most significant business to consider is approval of our
annual budget. Treasurer, Darby Knizek Neahr will present her report on GPS’s
finances and the proposed budget. After the meeting is completed, we will have
our program, Galway Movie Club, Film One.
Over the past year GPS member Dave Waite, who is a talented writer,
historian and photographer, has been working to digitalize the films created by a
group of Galway teachers starting in 1938. The September meeting will be the first
public viewing of these remastered films, narrated by our own Town Historian
Darby Knizek Neahr. Dave Waite’s article about the Galway Amateur Movie Club
follows as well as a copy of a page and photo of the film club’s members from the
book, Galway 1900-1949 A Photographic History. I expect you will see some
familiar Galway faces in photos in the film.
The “changing of the guard” for GPS board members and officers happens in
June. So, in July our new Vice President Jon Hallgren had the task of getting a
group of us together to plan our monthly programs and speakers. We have some
interesting programs and speakers planned.
GPS also has members that work year-round in our archives at the Galway
Public Library. Pat and Bruce Sanders, Margie Prasek, Bonnie Donnan, Phyllis
Sleeper, Arlene Rhodes, and Colleen Germond meet most Wednesdays to keep the
files updated and to accession historical documents. There is a treasure of local
history in our archives.
With sadness we mark the recent passing of two long-time GPS members,
Christine Donnan and Ron Surdyka, Sr. We are thankful for their friendship and
contributions to our Society, and we will miss them.
I want to thank Carol Schweizer, our immediate past president, who has
passed on her books to me. I will do my best to up her good work.
Contact us at galwaypressociety@gmail.com or visit us at www.galwaypreservationsociety.org
Zoom meeting number is 294 161 5132