The Tamaqua Area High School Class of 1969 recently celebrated its 50th reunion. Front row, from left: Betsy (Kalny) Ritchie, George McHale, LeRoy Steigerwalt, Glenn Miller, Edith (Ditchey) Burkey, Beth (Griffiths) Essington, Thomas Shaeffer, Dane Hirsch, James Jordan and Gary Billman. Second row: Helene (Lutz) Smith-Marx, Julie (Reed) Yerger, Cathy (Demyanovich) Datcko, Ruth (Houser) Pedron, Georgine Clemens, Dorothy (Hornberger) Setcavage, Phil Houm, Linda (Dunn) Delay, Barb (Morgan) Sotak, Edna (Waidell) Cravitz and Suzy (Machamer) Billman. Third row: Dennis Balliet, Salley (Coleman) Wargo, Sandy (Gill) Waidell, Kathy (Krout) McGee, Gloria (Marko) Yesavage, Arlene Derr, Jane (Nevenglosky) Libby, Mary Beth O’Lear, Mary (Haldeman) Meredith, Patricia (Nicollas) Hoppes, Beth (Rarick) Frace, Joanne (Matsago) Noll, Ginny (Miller) Maghotta, Chris (Nancarow) Steigerwalt, Gail (Laurenti) Blessing, Ann (Sestakauskas) Vavro, Sharon (Houser) Herring and Gail (Richards) Jordan. Fourth row: Suzanne (Hope) Welker, Debra (Krapf) Pattee, Theresa (Lee) Cole, Joyce (Stahler) Schellhammer, Michael Waidell, Dennis Sabol, Steve Sassaman, Gary Williams, Linda (Clewell) Borger, Lynn Zimmerman and Robert Henne. Fifth row: Dave Frederick, Daniel Schroeder, Larry Seligman, George Wenzel, Stephen Schuetrumpf, Steve Daderko and Tom Coggiano. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO