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Shortsville School, Chatham Township

This beautifully preserved old schoolhouse is in Shortsville
School: Shortsville School
Township: Chatham Township, Tioga County PA
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Year: 2000
Photo Submitted by: Joyce M. Tice
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Chatham School, Chatham Township
Added 11 DEC 2007
The names on the back of the picture are listed below:
From front to back
Left row:                          Next Row:                 3rd Row:                4th Row:
Richard Sutton                Leland Baker              Larry LaPoint         Sandra Short
?????                             Robert Baker              Robert (Bobby)      Shirley VanOrder
Harry ???                        Ralph Johnson                   Treat              Marna Fuller
Jr.????                            Merle Thompson        Eugene Hunter        Patty
Dennis Mosher                Rozinna Johnson        Ellen Morley                Turner
Theodore (Teddy) Fuller    Nancy Thompson        Jane Fuller             ????????
Marie Neal                                                       Lester Thompson     Gary Joe Reynolds
Connie Short
David (Bucky) McNett

Right hand row:
Frances Short
?????????
Joy Johnson
Linda King (no relation)
James Erlway (Jimmy)

Joyce, while going through some of my deceased parents stuff the other day I discovered this picture.  Chatham Township school was located in Little Marsh and was built in the early 1930's.  My father was in the first graduation class that had gone through the high school from 9-12.  Before that the lower grades went to a one room school house in Shortsville and would go to Wellsboro for high school if they could.  My dad's older brother, Charles, rode the train from the Junction in Middlebury Center each Sunday evening and stayed in a home there during the week and came home again on Friday late.  The school burned on Good Friday, March, 1958.  It had grades 1 & 2 in one room, 3,4,&5 in another and 6,7 & 8 in a separate room. There was also a special education class the last 3 years before it burned. All with one teacher per room.  The high school had an English teacher, a Science teacher who was also the principal, a Math teacher and a history teacher.  Latin  was also taught .We also had a candy store that was open after lunch and for afternoon recess (15 mins).  Our nurse's office was in the same location. It was basically a college prep high school.  I was in 8th grade when it burned down and we got consolidated with Cowanesque Valley Jointure in Westfield the following school year.  The Chatham Fire Department Firehouse is now situated on the spot where the school used to be.

Thanks,
Marie Neal King

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