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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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(June 1959) Students from the Garfield Grade School mull over their future on the steps of the recently closed school along Sunbury Street. Pictured are, from left, Sharon Rebuck, Pauline Cox, Linda Tomcavage, Cheryl Smith and Christine Tomcavage; back, Joann Sigafoos, David Phillips, David Slodysko, Gary Smith, David Vedral , Kenneth Schickley and Greg Slodysko.
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(June 1959) Students from the Garfield Grade School mull over their future on the steps of the recently closed school along Sunbury Street. Pictured are, from left, Sharon Rebuck, Pauline Cox, Linda Tomcavage, Cheryl Smith and Christine Tomcavage; back, Joann Sigafoos, David Phillips, David Slodysko, Gary Smith, David Vedral , Kenneth Schickley and Greg Slodysko.

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  • (1923) Garfield, Coal Township, Class of 1923.
  • (1929) Garfield Grade School.
  • (09.13.51) Garfield first-grade class under teacher Rebecca Ehret are, front row, from left, Susand Shroyer, Sandra Krieger, Frances lee, John Homiak, Lee Messinger, Billy Rovito and Jimmy Strausser; second, Terry Raines, Fred Culp, Robert Rhoades, Shirley Kline, Harry Caivthern and John Fisher; third, Brent Hoffmaster, Joey Kline, Clinton Abby, Linda Strausser, Joey Sands, Paul Pedro and Rebecca Ehret.
  • (09.27.51) Garfield School, Coal Township, first-grade class are, front row, from left, Robert Dusick, Edith Deppen, Edward Yoder, Ronald Erdman, Frances Patrick, Rosemary Fabrizio and Patricia Herb; second, Robert Shingara, Richard Shurock, Robert Koveleski, Paula Werntz, Janice Fertig and Velvet Gasky; third, Elwood Yost, Elmer Hummel, Karen Smeltzer, Bonnie Lenhart, Linda Pantalone, Marcia Fertig and Isabelle Heslop.
  • (05.22.58) Edith Boden, teacher at Garfield Grade School, retires after 46 years. She is a graduate of the Shamokin High School Class of 1908.
  • (10.04.53) Garfield Patrol Boys are, front row, Albert McWilliams, Marlin Burrows, Thomas Moore and Stanley Ponatoksi; second, Bob Kleinschmidt, James Keiser and Robert Kline; third, John Kline and Charles Neidig.
  • (10.04.53) Garfield School, Coal Township, patrol boys are, front row, Gary Dusick; back, William Robel, Fred Shingara and Robert Stank.
  • (1953) Garfield kindergarten class, Miss Basilia Zimliki as teacher.
  • (07.19.53) Garfield School, Miss Sassaman as teacher.
  • (June 1959) Students from the Garfield Grade School mull over their future on the steps of the recently closed school along Sunbury Street. Pictured are, from left, Sharon Rebuck, Pauline Cox, Linda Tomcavage, Cheryl Smith and Christine Tomcavage; back, Joann Sigafoos, David Phillips, David Slodysko, Gary Smith, David Vedral , Kenneth Schickley and Greg Slodysko.
  • (1966) Garfield Grade School.
  • (1966) Garfield Grade School.
  • Garfield Grade School, Miss. O'Neil teacher.
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