Trustee's Hall at the Germantown Avenue site

Entrance to the Mermaid Lane site (photo courtesy of Joe Conway)

• Photos from the Mermaid Lane site!
• Issues of The Mirror!

• Spring Garden group at Linkedin
• Spring Garden group at Facebook

Spring Garden College was the oldest private technology school in the United States when it closed its doors. Unfortunately, most of the school records and property are gone. Transcripts can be obtained. More information on that can be found at the bottom of this page.

The school went bankrupt in the early 1990's. It purchased the campus of the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf on Germantown Avenue, near the Mermaid Lane site. At the time school enrollment was declining and the school could not maintain financial viability.

This website was started in an attempt to reacquaint alumni. I copied an article from the January 1992 Alumni and Parents Newsletter on the history of SGC.

Here are links to the guestbook archives. All of these have been moved to the new site. The guestbook at this site has been shut down. All new entries need to be made at the new site.

December 1997	December 1998	December 1999	December 2000
February, 2002	October, 2002	July, 2003	July, 2004
January, 2005	December, 2005	August, 2006	February, 2007
January, 2008	December, 2008	2009 until May

Transcripts:

Many Alumni are in need of transcripts. To get transcripts you need to contact the following:

Cathy Demarco
Information Storage Alternatives
1419 Zebley Road
Boothwyn, PA 19061
phone(610) 497-8835
fax (610) 497-4668
email isa_scan@msn.com

You will need to include your SS#, dates of attendance, how many copies you need and the address(s) where they need to be sent. If you need them sent to a college or business, include that address. Most colleges won't accept transcripts from the student. There is a $15.00 fee (as of Sept 2002). You can have more than one copy for this amount. Please make a check or money order payable to "ISA"

You can email the information (webmaster note: I do NOT recommend emailing your SS#) to ISA or send the information in the mail with your check. The transcripts will be sent out as soon as ISA receives payment.

Since SGC is no longer in existence, the transcripts are "not official", although no school or organization has turned down any transcripts as long as Information Storage Alternatives sends them. Information Storage Alternatives sends a letter of explanation with the transcript. If you have any questions after receiving your transcripts, you can contact the Department of Education at 717-772-3623

Please note: The Department of Education does not maintain any transcripts for Spring Garden College. Information Storage Alternatives is the custodian of these documents.

Accreditation:

There have been some inquiries lately about accreditation of the college. This is required for certain government jobs. Alumni Pete Spinelli, contacted ABET in May of 2004 about the EEET program and received a letter stating that the EEET program was ABET accredited from 1973 to 1991. Other programs were accredited as well. Your best bet is to contact them yourselves. http://www.abet.org.

This site was conceived (ha!) and developed, in my spare time (ha!) by Wayne Woodruff (BSEET 1980) (wayne@2zars.com). The information here is correct as of the date listed below. If you find any errors or discrepancies, please email me at the above address. If you really have no life, visit my web site.

Last updated 11-January-08

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