Janet Littlefield celebrates her 73rd year of membership of the Old Lyme Country Club.  Photo by Bob Lorenz.

The movie “Gone With The Wind“ won an  Academy Award for Best Picture, Franklin Roosevelt was the US President and Janet Littlefield joined the Old Lyme Country Club (OLCC).  The year was 1940 and last week, the OLCC honored Janet and 21 other long term members with a delightful dinner celebrating and recognizing their contributions and camaraderie during the past 33 years.  

Group photo of the OLCC long-serving honorees. Photo by Bob Lorenz.

The club celebrated these anniversaries with a dinner, an emotional sharing of the Club’s oral history, a game of OLCC trivial pursuit and a sharing of fond memories and events that shaped the OLCC’s first 98 years. 

Another highlight of the evening were many member stories of similar experiences of friendship and life’s events across many decades. 

The OLCC was founded in 1916 as a small informal Club organized by members of the Old Lyme community to promote recreational sport and social activity.