Shenandoah Valley High School - The Torch

01/27/2022

Anthracite Appalachia (https://www.anthraciteappalachia com︅)

01/24/2022

Shenandoah City’s heritage as a 1920 Center of Excellence for anthracite coal mining techniques, mine management, practices and production was . Be proud. Once science advances to the point coal energy can be released without burning, without emissions… Shenandoah City will rise again (https://www.anthraciteappalachia.com)

01/22/2022

Here in the sun is shining and it is warmer than , ! !

01/17/2022

Couldn’t resist rolling some film, and taking some photographs yesterday… it was an incomparable here in Shenandoah, , .

01/16/2022

One-degree Fahrenheit and gusts of… idk, gusts. I’ll stay in the , listening to for today’s effort at photojournalism… thank you, Mr. Balkavage and 1985’s The Torch and Yearbook photography experience.

01/15/2022

Here, atop Broad Mountain with 25+mph gusts for a -10+ windchill, the view is beautiful…

01/15/2022

Here, at , St Clair PA, south of Broad Mountain, it is a balmy 7-degrees Fahrenheit.

01/12/2022

(https://facebook.com/events/s/schuylkill-county-history-fair/468816063999828/)

01/10/2022

Afghanistan… my brothers and sisters-in-arms bought an entire Afghan generation (20-years) of something . It is now up to this generation of Afghan’s to decide what with be their legacy to their own Daughters and sons… I know the metal and temper of my Northern Alliance Brothers-in-Arms. Though it take another 20-years, the FATA-Taliban’s days are numbered… and they’ll never last these next 20-years.

01/05/2022

As Borough of Shenandoah’s Civil Service Commissioner, I find there is a Public Safety and Health requirement for “THIS IS YOUR SPEED” digital signs on the Gold Star hill as you enter and leave the@Borough from the South. All too often as I drive to in the morning, cars and trucks speed past,
Traveling well in excess of the posted 25-MPH. I’ll run the request past County Civil Service and secure funding from State… (https://apnews.com/article/business-pennsylvania-tom-wolf-state-budgets-appropriations-e22d5b9debea98be2a0d5002a84d276a) before submission to the Shenandoah Borough Council.

01/03/2022

https://www.anthraciteappalachia.com

01/01/2022

Good luck to Sean Clifford and the Team!
GO BLACK SHOES! Play hard, play fair, play professionally… what you do today, can motivate and set the example for generations of Penn Staters!
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01/01/2022

~ What a way to start the New Year! I drive up and there is not a single car ahead of me this morning… (https://www.linkedin.com/company/shenandoah-borough-of)

12/31/2021

: while strong male-leads may get the ball rolling… it is often up to female-leads to finish the job. ~ anon. (https://www.anthraciteappalachia.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/shenandoah-borough-of)

12/30/2021

Another step in the proper direct!

The Defense Department, on behalf of and in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded a $136.7 million contract to MilliporeSigma to establish nitrocellulose membrane

12/30/2021

12/30/2021

From Mr. Stroble to all 3100+ of his Shenandoah Valley Students, “HAPPY HANUKKAH!”

12/30/2021

Sitting here, listening to John Madden and Al Michaels call the action in the 2009 between the and … reading my… and just scored a touchdown with 2:37 to go. You know, and her famous .quotes made/make a world of sense… paraphrasing, “We do the best we can, for as long as we can, with whatever we find around us ~ a great woman, a proud American, gone all too soon… just like John Madden. :bow: ShenandoahResilient

10/27/2021

The Torch is much like the Greater Shenandoah Area Historical Society… Know your family and Community’s Past/Culture/History and you come a long way toward not just knowing who you are, but embracing all you can become.

https://m.facebook.com/shenandoahhistory/

This is a page offering the public information about The Greater Shenandoah Area Historical Society, based in Shenandoah, Pa.

09/12/2021

Here with Stewart Stroble, retired Shenandoah Valley High School teacher. We are enjoying the Shenandoah Valley Jr./Sr. High School marching band, prior to this afternoon’s game against the Battling Miners of Minersville.

Shenandoah, Pennsylvania’s own is providing today’s color guard. A day after the 20th anniversary of 9/11, all of those in attendance today sincerely and profoundly thank all of our first responders and members of the Military.

Both, our Blue Devils and the visiting Miners took the field with each football player holding an American flag. Our Blue Devils were wearing special camouflage uniforms in honor of those who lost their lives on 9/11 and all those who have given their final full measure of devotion in the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

And the game has just kicked off!

Come on down and join us!!!

03/28/2020

A good idea was raised last week by Ulicny Taylor ~ to work with our Greater Shenandoah Area Historical Society (https://www.facebook.com/shenandoahhistory/) and digitize past editions of The Torch.

This is a fabulous idea and I spent this past week trying to find a “The Torch” sized scanner to begin doing just this. Problem is Amazon doesn’t seem to carry any “The Torch” sized scanners, at least not that I’ve found. And while some Big Name Computer Peripheral Manufacturers do have the needed scanners, they come with the price tag such Big Names can and do demand.

Anyone have any ideas?

I had thought to spend a Saturday Afternoon down at he Society with my Laptop and “The Torch” Scanner and scan as many Graduation Editions of The Torch as I could. I’ve chosen the Graduation Edition because given my own time as photographer for The Torch:

1.) We spent all year “practicing our journalism and photography skills and Art” and the last edition of 1985 was to me our best. I believe this would be true for other SVHS Classes and Volumes of The Torch as well.

2.) Our last edition of The Torch was our largest editions as we looked to cover so very many end-of-school-year Events as we could. More people will appear in such an edition of The Torch. Ensure as many of us as possible have a place in the editions posted as possible is a key variable for me.

3.) If I cover down on the most inclusive and largest of our editions of The Torch, I just may inspire some of my fellow photographers and editors of The Torch to jump aboard and begin digitizing and uploading editions of The Torch to our site here.

Anyone have any questions, comments or constructive criticisms?

v/r Steve Stroble

This is a page offering the public information about The Greater Shenandoah Area Historical Society, based in Shenandoah, Pa.

03/26/2020

Either we come together as a Community to assist our most vulnerable or we don’t.

I choose to help.

03/22/2020

Published below is the Class of 1985's The Torch, Vol 31, Number 2, which covers Halloween and Christmas as well as portions of a December 1935 edition of the Class of 1936's The Torch.

I do have Vol 31, Numbers 3 and 4 and will publish these later in the week. Additional reprints from SVHS Class of 1936 are also included in these editions of The Torch.

Do we have any Alumni from the Class of 1936 following us here on Facebook?

More importantly, can anyone who knows folks from SVHS's Class of 1936 "SAFELY" provide them access to their portions of the below edition of The Torch? (I stress safely as in this time of COVID-19 concerns, we want to connect with ALL SVHS Alumni, but must be mindful of both their and our health.) Phone calls and emailed links to folks or computer-savvy friends of the Class of 1936 is likely best for all concerned at this point.

If you can help in any of this, I would really appreciate it. And let us know if you are successful in sharing this with anyone form the Class of 1937.

Thank you for your time and patience in this.

03/20/2020

Published below is the Class of 1985's The Torch, Vol 31, Number 1.

I do have Numbers 2 to 4 and will publish those in the days ahead. IIRC some of these include reprints from SVHS Class of 1936.

ALL Shenandoah Valley High School Classes should feel free to publish their own copies of The Torch to this page. In the best traditions of Jeananne Dalinsky and my time staffing the SVHS Library, I will endeavor to find better ways to categorize and hopefully catalogue all Torch submissions from all SV Classes.

Does anyone have any questions, comments or constructive Criticisms?