Garfield Grade School
Garfield Grade School- The Shamokin Area School Board awarded a bid to raze the former school at Sunbury and Franklin streets on June 29, 1966. Soon after, the city acquired the plot and also a plot from Reed's Dairy. In 1968, a federal grant in the amount of $7,500 was awarded to the city to renovate the lots into a playground, which will include two basketball courts, tot area and two horse shoe pits. Construction of the Sunbury Recreation Area started on Sept. 21, 1968. A ribbon cutting took place on June 12, 1969. The total project cost $75,000. Of that amount, the city paid $18,000. The remaining balance was paid from additional grant money.
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(1920) Shamokin Garfield Grade School Class of 1920- Seen are, front row from left, Marlin Welker, Helen Kolonda, Margaret Shoener, Lois Eckman, Sara Prothroe and Thomas Hughes; second, UNK, Hannah Hill, John Tucker Worrail, Edith Saliday, William Graves, Marsha Hertzog, Fred Haddock, Beatrice Momley, Don McAllsworth, Helen Hall, Robert Graham and Blanche Gilger; third, Jere Reeder, principal; Alvin Runker, Lena Anderson, UNK, Anna Homiak, UNK, Mary Shensel, William Lehner, Catherine Dunkelberger, UNK, Mary Owens and Robert Ross; back, Frank Bottiger, Viola Gearhart, ALbert Renn, UNK, Furey Rando, Mildred Strausser, Alwood Haddock, UNK, John Bainbridge, Ruth Roberts and Russell Davis.
![(1908) Shamokin Garfield Grade School Class of 1908 [sic 1898]- Shown here are eighth grade students under the direction of Jere Reeder, upper left, principal of the school.](https://photos.smugmug.com/OldPhotographs/Educate/Shamokin-High-School/GarfieldGradeSchool/i-SnP6Kf5/4/51212883/Ti/class-Ti.jpg)
