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Eleven Complete Mine Rescue Course, 1961

A newspaper photograph of the eleven employees of the Hegins Mining Company, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, who completed a course in first aid and mine rescue. The photo appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, Tower City, February 17, 1961.

The employees and their instructors are identified as follows: Note that there is a mismatch between the photo and the identifications, with many more men listed as being in the photo! A correction has not yet been located.

Front Row:  Glen Deeter; Michael Jacobs, U. S. Bureau of Mines Instructor; Marliam Carl; Steve Matsick, State Department of Mines Instructor; Marvin Kimmel; Forrest Otto.

Second Row:  Earl Dunkle; Chester Otto; Irvin Shade; Charles Kessler; Warren Stutzman; John Wetzel; James Savidge; John Kimmel; Robert Reinoehl.

Third Row:  Robert Herb; Charles Stutzman; Russel Geist; Norman Kembel; Leo Lucas; Earl Keiffer; James Huntzinger; Norman Dinger; Charles Witmer; Walter Harner.

Blog readers are invited to correctly identify the men in the photo.

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Photo from Newspapers.com.

Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.

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