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Gallery of student class photos
These photos are old, and the people in them may no longer
be with us. However, it's good to have these remnants of
past times. If by any chance you recognize any of these
students or others in the photos from your own family
photos or other sources, would you please let me know?
I'll be happy to post that information to share with
others.
This photo was sent
to me by Ann Nakpairat. It's an early photograph of the St.
Mary's Greek Catholic Church students, which she dates
at around 1896. According to Ann, her father, John Malenky,
is in the first row, fourth from the right. Born in 1890, he
is wearing a cap and appears to be about 6 years old. Her
grandfather, George Malenky, said to be a founder of the
church, may be the gentleman with the mustache standing in
the top row at the far left of the photo.
By contrast, here is a student
group picture from the early 1960s taken in front of the
church, which had been remodeled in the few years before
the photo was taken. My brother Steve is in this one. See
if you recognize yourself or anyone else!
This newspaper photo
of Jeddo School students from 1918 was kindly lent
to Tom Landers for me to be able to scan a copy during a
visit to Freeland in August 2008. I don't know who lent it
for that purpose. I scanned all of the material that he had
collected from Freeland area people who were willing to let
me copy their items, and then I returned all to Tom, except
for a few items that the persons involved had explicitly
said I could keep. I'm grateful to all of those people who
shared their historical items with me that way, and to Tom
for being willing to gather the material and then return it
to the owners.
This
photo comes to us from Judy Domchick, who wrote: "My
Grandfather was George Domchick from Freeland who married
Elizabeth Wilson (of Alvin Street). He was a butcher by
trade. The picture I have is of him among children attending
the South Heberton School. The back of the photo says "South
Heberton School, Miss Bilgar, Techer. About 1900." I
found Miss Bilgar's name on one of the documents that was
printed on your site. It said Miss Sadie H., domestic, h 4
Birkbeck. This fits as my Grandfather was born in 1889." If
anyone out there can identify anyone else in this photo,
would you please let me know?
School children, public school
on School St. just west of Vine St., early 1900s, from
Nadine Heckler: "The photo of the children in the school
... I'm told that Esther Williams is one of the children
in that photo at a school in Freeland that was on Fern
Street up near Walnut St. hill. The photo would have been
taken I would say 1901-1905." After I posted this, Nadine checked with her aunt Esther who confirmed that this was indeed the public school on School Street, just west of Vine street.
Here's
a great class photo from 1919 or 1920, of a young class at Daniel
Coxe Memorial School. Ed Merrick sent it with this
note:
"Here is a copy of a great old photo that my cousin in
Sarasota, Ann Cravener, sent to me. It was sent to her
by another cousin of mine, Nancy (Remak) Penn, who is
the family's most ardent historian. The photo had been
sent to Nancy by Carol (Corazza) Jones, with whom I went
to school from grades 1 through 8, until we parted ways
when I went to MMI."
According to the legend at the bottom of the photo, these
kids were in grades 1 and 2, with Miss Sara Gallagher as
their teacher, standing in the back row at right. I love
the ties on the two boys in the front row at right, and
the big bow on the girl in the middle of the 2nd row.
Several nice family links spelled out on the bottom of the
photo, too. Thank you to Carol Jones, Nancy Remak Penn,
Ann Cravener, and Ed Merrick for this!
Daniel Coxe
Memorial School students, 1919. Teacher, Miss Hinkle.
Harold Davis, Violetta Deach, Mohan, Charles Derench,
Stephen Yuhas, Ralph Barret, Vera Harris, Elizabeth Davis,
Evelyn Zeisloft, Walter Nowak, Mabel Unagst, Howard Howe,
Thel Davis, Prisilla Brehem, Mary DeComa, Anna Slank, Ida
Squarko, Isadore Daubert, Angelene Durange, Nickolas Nocchi,
Stella DeMarie, Emily DeJohn, Florence Saricks, Junior
Griswals, Violet Kozel, Anna Tomcho, Jetta Burns, Amendler,
Mabel Heller. Girl in second row, behind kneeling pupil,
third from left is unidentified. Anyone know? Tell Nick
Nocchi.
That was the caption when this photo was reproduced in
the PennySaver 6(7), Nov. 1968, p. 16. These names are
written on the back of the photo itself: Violeta Deach,
Elizabeth Davis, Mabel Unagst, Isadora Daubert, Mary
DeComa, Evelyn Zeisloft, Priscilla Brelem, Anna Slank, Ida
Squarko, Stella DeMarie, Mabel Heller, Ethel Davis, Vera
Harris, ____ Amendler, Jetta Burns, Anna Timcko, Violet
Kozel, Nicholas Nochie, Junior [Oswald?], ____ _____,
Florence Saricks, Emily DeJohn, Angeline Durange, Howard
Howe, Walter Nowak, Stephen Yulius, Charles Derench, Ralph
Barrett, ____ Mohan, Harold Davis, and teacher Miss
Hinkle. The photo came from John Zubach, as do the last
four on this page.
And another DCM photo from around 1919! We have
two copies of this photo; the sepia one at left was owned
by Carol Jones, and both are provided here courtesy of the
Freeland Historical Society.
Written on the back of the black and white copy:
Sara Heyes (back row, 3rd from left, born 11-19-1913)
Eliot Oberender (3rd row, 6th from left)
Teacher Sara Gallagher
First and second grades
Irene Remock (4th from left, 2nd row)
Daniel Coxe Memorial School, Freeland, Pa., about 1919
I have two
more DCM classroom photos from Bob Zimmerman, labeled by
him. The cropped copy might be easier to see faces in. There are a lot of little kids in this classroom! All looking well groomed and well behaved. Does anyone look familiar to you from your old family photos? If so, please let me know and I'll post information here.
This is the
other one from Bob Zimmerman, labeled by him. The cropped
copy might be easier to see faces in. This one is quite different - Bob's label says D.C.M., 3rd floor classroom, early 1900s. These look like 7th or 8th graders, perhaps. Some teachers in this photo, too. If you can identify anyone here from your own family photos or from old school documentation, would you please email me? I'd be happy to post the information.
Foster Township High School graduating class, 1941. This
photo was given to me at the end of a talk on Freeland area
history that I gave at the Freeland branch of the Hazleton
Area Public Library. Colleen Tatar was very kind in
arranging that event, one of two that I spoke at there about
10 years ago. At those events I reconnected with old friends
and I met some of the people who have been contributors and
collaborators for my website and my research in local
history, and I've been grateful for those connections ever
since.I've added a crop of the photo at a higher resolution, hoping to make it easier to see individual faces.
Freeland
High School: These two photos (halves of a larger
photo) come to us courtesy of Bob Zimmerman, who wrote the
label on the right-hand photo. The photo was taken in front
of Freeland High, showing the class of 1931-1932, along with
their teachers. According to Bob, in the last row, 5th from
left is Eleanor Welsh, and 6th from left is Eleanor Becker.
Third row, 6th from left is Mary Greshko who later taught at
DCM and Freeland High. Larry Maso tells me that his brother
Silvio is the boy at the left end of the very back row, with
dark sweater and dark hair. If you recognize yourself or
anyone else, will you please let me know and I'll add that
information here? 
St. Ann's High School: Here's another 1932 graduating
class - this photo comes to us from Charlie Gallagher. There
are just 18 students in this class photo. Charlie notes that
the tall boy in the center of the back row is Bernard Joseph
Gallagher, Jr.
Freeland
High
School: This 1957 class photo comes from Bill Smith.
The photo was taken in front of Freeland High, and unlike
the one above from 1932, this one shows the class wearing
their graduation caps and gowns. I'm adding a crop at a
higher resolution so faces can be seen a little better,
although the photo I have is very grainy. If you recognize
yourself or anyone else, will you please let me know and
I'll add that information here? 
This one came from
Eugene Della Croce. To my eye it may have been taken
outside of St. Ann's Church on Centre Street (the
church that was torn down in the mid-1960s and replaced by
the current church, recently renamed Immaculate
Conception), but perhaps it's older than that.
** Note: The enlarged view of this
photo has been digitally repaired by Jay Cawley of
Harleigh. He also digitally repaired my dad's grade
school photo shown at top left of this page. Thank
you, Jay.
This photo was taken
at the Sandy Valley School, according to Edward
Kimmel.
This last photo is from 1901.