A photograph taken about 1917 of the 5th and 6th grades of the Tower City Schools, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
SCHUYLKILL MEMORY LANE QUIZ
Clue: This week’s picture shows a fifth and sixth grades school room of the Tower City Schools taken about 60 years ago. Many of the faces are a bit blurred, but many will be recognizable.
Answer: The children shown on last week’s school photo standing are: Ethel Schreiner; George Nunemacher; Clara Travitz; Alvin Baker; Katie Reiner; Clarence Leuschner; Miss Lawler; Mary McDonald; Helen Russel; Clara Hile; Clifford Reightler; James Kavanaugh; Annie Riczkis; Edna Hensel; William Savage; Tom Schell; William Dando; Henrietta Horley; Norman Shiley; Irene Moyer; Susan Schrope; Elda Hoffman; Gordon Shomper; Sadie Schnell; Maude Boyer; Florence Vanzandt; Jennie Boe; Earl Hand.
Seated: Tina Gable; Grace Shadle; Harriet Lewis; Elizabeth Burns; George Evans; Donald Schoffstall; Donald Wolfe; Make Tallon; Merle Klinger; Vera Wolfe; Lillian Kline; Esther Grim; Paul VanHouten; Irene Henry; John Machamer; Joe Watkins; Francis Griffith; Hilbert Hoffman; Jim Stephens; Joe Walsh; Richard O’Neil; Edgar Smith; Robert Krebs; Mark Challenger; Paul Breyer; Ruby Geist; Jim Lemke; Charles Wood.
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From “Memory Lane,” West Schuylkill Herald, 5 May 1977, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, via Newspapers.com. Readers submitted photos. A clue was given. And, the answer was provided in the next week’s edition of the newspaper.
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