Wayne Parker:  

It’s going to be 50 years since our graduation. Andover was not a bad place to grow up in. Andover ,home of the IRS, Raytheon, Phillips Academy and Gillette. Andover has had a long history from 1600’s to present. I guess is worth 6 pounds and a coat. From Town members being witches at the Salem trials. To sending townsmen to the battle of Lexington and represent Andover in all our country’s wars.. The original Punchard high school that later became the jr high school then became the East jr high to Andover high school that later became the west jr high .and In 1968 the New High School was official opened for the start of the graduating senior class of 1969. My family had been in Andover since the early 1900s . Growing up in Andover Schools My Sister Alice went to Punchard High My Cousins Lorna Done ,Bob Done and Pricilla Parker My nephew and niece Gary and Cheryl Anderson ..all graduates of Andover High. I grew up in Shawsheen At first grade my mother was taken away to Danvers mental Asylum which was not talked about in those days. In 1967 my father died from a fall leaving me with my older sister and family also just before the start of 10th grade.. In 1969 we lost our house as my sister decide to leave for Florida I wanted to finish high school in Andover and then enter the Air Force. At the time a girl friend ,her sister and mother who took me in so I could complete school and graduate at Andover. In May of 1969 my mother while at Danvers a patient pushed her down and she fractured her hip while recovering sepsi...Expand for more