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The CHS class of 62 will be having their reunion on May 26, 2012. at La Dolce Casa, 16 West Broad Street, Tamaqua.
Cost is $25 per person. Contact Bill Scutta at - chezlo@aol.com - or Jack Evans at - jackevans@comporium.net - for further details.
The Coaldale High School Class of 1963 is planning a 50-year reunion. A questionnaire was mailed/e-mailed to classmates on December 27, 2011, to help determine the date and place and an agenda for the reunion. For further information, inquire at:
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Have you got a story to tell or a picture to share about Coaldale stores?
For a few years now I’ve been writing articles about some of the stores I’ve frequented years ago in Coaldale. For a small town we had many more stores than younger residents could imagine. Many of them were the “Corner Store’ variety which usually attracted customers from a very close part of town. Others, like many along Philip Street, had a bigger draw. Most sold groceries, but others were clothing, jewelry, drugs, hardware, or variety types. Names like Vahovich, Schonberger, Daley, Ambrose, and Millen were well known by all.
I would love to hear from any of our group who would like to share what you remember or pictures you may have of these people and stores. You don’t have to make a production about sharing your thoughts. I’ll try to condense and incorporate anything you wish to pass along. All these places were unique and most of the owners were certainly characters in their own right.
Give it some thought and let me know what you have to share.
Contact: Bob Sharpe
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1962 - 2012 50th Year Anniversary
THE 1962 TIGERS – UNBEATEN, UNMATCHED
By Bob Urban
TIMES NEWS Staff
December 5, 1992
They weren't many. But they were mighty
Thirty years ago, on a rainy, cold Thanksgiving afternoon, the 1962 Coaldale Tigers football team achieved something that no other squad in the storied history of that school ever attained. With a 14-7 win over arch-rival Lansford, it went through an 11-game schedule undefeated and untied.
Twenty-six players and two coaches, facing a schedule laced with neighborhood rivals and Eastern Conference mainstays, captured the hearts of their fans and their community, and completed a turnaround of a gridiron program that only three years before went through an entire season without winning a game.
The architect of this transformation was a young mentor named Geno Poli, a former Tiger fullback who, along with the savvy of Coaldale coaching legend Tom “Doc” Raymer (a former head coach who served as Poli’s assistant), put the pieces of this great team together.
“They were an intelligent club,” reflected Poli, who still remains in coaching as an assistant line coach for Eastern Conference Class A champion Marian High School.
Coaldale Tigers - Where legends were made
