A photograph, circa 1903, of the teacher and students at the Oak Grove School, Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, located west of Pine Grove, on Oak Grove Road.
The caption for this photo provided the following information:
Do you recognize any of these faces? The photograph was taken at the Oak Grove School, probably in the year 1903. The teacher, standing at the left should be familiar to many — it is the late William “Uncle Bill” Smith. Can anybody name the others?
Mrs. Beulah Behney of Pine Grove brought the picture in to the Press-Herald. She was accompanied by Mrs. Mary D’Agostino, who also attended the Oak Grove School, and they remembered their school days there very well indeed. Mrs. Behney, the former Beulah Mease, said that Mr. Smith taught as many as 73 students in the school, grades one through eight. Their studies included Hulls Arithmetic, Mental Arithmetic and Algebra — which Mrs. Behney told us are the hardest math books in the world – physiology, history, Pennsylvania citizenship, spelling and reading.
Mrs. Behney is one of the students pictured here as is Mrs. D’Agostino’s mother. “Look,” Mrs. Behney laughed. We all had our hair frizzed for the picture!” Frizzed hair and ribbon bows, Sunday suits and Lord Fauntleroy collars — how many of them do you remember.
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From Newspapers.com. The above photo appeared in the Pine Grove Press Herald, January 20, 1972, as part of the feature “Down Memory Lane.”
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