Janet Guerrina

Address: 3083 Goldsboro Place
Oviedo, FL 32765
Maiden Name: Grossman
Phone: 407-359-0183
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Email: jagpenta@aol.com
Spouse's Name: Carl
Children: 7 (we are the Brady Bunch)
Grandchildren: 15
Occupation: Retired
 
Special Interests: gardening, reading and volunteering
 
Highlights Since 1962: Worked for 20 years in municipal government. I spent 17 of those years in Roseland, where I was Administrative Assistant in the Public Works Department and Planning Board Secretary/Coordinator. We moved to Florida in 1993 where several children and grandchildren lived. Eventually all 7 children settled here and the large family keeps life interesting. I settled into volunteering and have served in many capacities to different organizations. I spent five years as the family coordinator for a local nursing home. I spent several years volunteering at a battered women’s shelter and I continue to volunteer at some of our grandchildren’s schools and keep busy attending their many musical, athletic and academic activities.
 
Memories: I remember Junior year in the rented old building where the restrooms were in the basement and the partition between the boys and girls room did not reach the ceiling. Some of the boys would throw pennies over the top which the girls would not pick up (if you did you were not a “good” girl). Senior year started in the new building with many of the rooms containing dangling wires and/or windows that did not work. We did not have landscaping and were surrounded by a sea of mud and building debris. I remember Psanish IV with Miss Vogel and 6 students (5 girls and Skip Murphy). We would have to wash our ugly gym uniforms and sneakers (remember they had to be white) over the weekend and one Monday in Spanish class Skip threw Cheryl Smith’s and my sneakers out the window into the mud (we had gym the next period). I remember our first dance in the gym which was a real sock hop as the school did not want the gym floors ruined, the English trip with Mr. Graham to the Shakespeare Festival in Conn., the long hikes between different sections of classrooms, our great senior talent show and the “Roseland” girls performing. Good memories of our football games at our own new field and riding around afterwards blowing horns if we had won and some of the Saturday night parties.