The short answer as of April 2025 is no.  We fully realize this would be a convenient way to donate and pay dues to the alumni association.  The alumni association is not able to implement and maintain such a process at this point in time.  We will keep this in mind as opportunities present themselves in the future.  Most importantly with this response – thank you for any contributions you can make to help the alumni association.  Thanks to you we are making a difference with some impressive – and needed – scholarships.

The alumni association does not keep that information in our database.  We only enter and maintain addresses for graduates.  Individual classes may maintain their own list of members who may not have graduated to invite them back for class reunions and activities.

The membership question states the following when you try to join:

Did you graduate from Shamokin? If yes, what year? Note - Only graduates of Shamokin or Shamokin Area can join. Include maiden/graduation name if different than current name.

We recommend only alumni being able to join.  We have run into some verification problems when friends or relatives have asked to join on behalf of a graduate.  Our recommendation is to have them create their own Facebook account and join.

As of 2022, the President of the Coal Township Alumni Association is Sam Weaver - 1148 W. State St. Coal Township, PA 17866.  Telephone 570-644-1005.

The alumni association greatly appreciates contributions which come from an estate or other areas.  To properly process, be sure your bequest states Shamokin Area High School Alumni Association and designate if it is for the General Fund, Scholarship Fund or another specified purpose.  Please contact our Alumni Association Treasurer if you have any questions by reviewing the officer's tab.

The alumni association maintains a database of names and addresses which are used to produce labels for class reunions, our annual newsletter, and occasionally an urgent mailing when needed.  The name we keep on file may reflect your maiden name or a name change.  In general, it will include your name at graduation.  This association with your graduation name is helpful for those reviewing mailings or if a name is posted on a necrology list.

Examples:
• Sue Jones (graduation name) gets married to Bob Miller.  She now goes by Sue Miller on a regular basis.  The alumni database would list her last name as “Jones Miller”.
• Bill Smith (graduation name) had a name change to Bill Martin and goes by Bill Martin on a regular basis. The alumni database would list his last name as “Smith Martin”.

GED (General Educational Development) is an exam. It is a series of four subject tests a person can take to demonstrate their high school academic knowledge.  Earning a GED diploma from your state is the equivalent to a U.S. high school diploma.  Some students choose to take this certification exam if they were not able to complete a traditional high school program. The Alumni Association will place those receiving a GED diploma in our database under the class year they would have graduated.  Please contact the high school for more information on how to take and secure a GED.  If you have received a GED diploma, contact the high school so that they can process and pass this information along to the Alumni Association Registrar.

Each class is responsible to fund their own class reunion.  The alumni association does not get involved at that level.  You can reach out to the class representatives listed on the webpage to see if they can provide input. Those class representatives are not necessarily involved with individual class reunion planning, but they may be able to give some direction.  To review the class representative list, see:
Alumni Information / Class Representatives (indians.k12.pa.us)

Jeff Clutcher '78 - the alumni association registrar - can provide your planning committee mailing labels from our database for your group to send out a letter to classmates about what your committee may be planning, location, cost, cutoff dates to receive payment, etc.  It would be a good idea for you to contact him for additional details, including the coordination of revised addresses you may get back to have Jeff update our database. How to contact Jeff, see:
Alumni Information / Home (indians.k12.pa.us)

Ashley Miller Yeager '03 can post details about your reunion out on the alumni association webpage when information becomes finalized. See:
Alumni Information / Class Reunions and Related Activities (indians.k12.pa.us)

At our annual alumni association banquet in May, we acknowledge various anniversary classes.  Many times, those classes make a financial contribution to the alumni association for the general or scholarship funds or both.  Thanks to those contributions, we are making a difference to help graduates continue their education.  See past newsletters (minutes on the 2nd page or so) for details.  Donations may not be finalized until a point in time after their class reunion.  See:
Alumni Information / Newsletters (indians.k12.pa.us)

When a newsletter is mailed to an alumnus who is over 100 years old, we truly don’t know if they are alive and well, deceased or if that newsletter is simply being thrown away.  Periodically our alumni registrar reviews public databases to see if any of these centurions are deceased in which we update our information.  This is not a foolproof process to fully know who should be on the mailing.  At some point in time, we make a cutoff to the mailing.  Please let Jeff know if you were removed in error.

Jeff Clutcher
5 S. Harding Ave.
Shamokin, PA 17872-7516
570-648-5282
jeff.clutcher@juno.com

Assuming we have the correct address, the alumni association can't control what happens when it heads to the post office and beyond.  We have heard reports of family members not always passing along newsletters or the item was thrown out accidentally.  Sometimes when mail is forwarded to a temp location for a period of time, it doesn't always process properly (but this is a guess on our part - 1st class items are OK, but bulk items may be suspect).  You can check with your local post office for expectations and exceptions.

In 2004, the United States Postal Service redefined and renamed the classes of mail. Fourth Class Mail was split into several categories including Library Mail, Bound Printed Matter, Media Mail and Parcel Select.  The alumni association uses this class to send out the newsletter.  The great rate for processing has the drawback of – possibly – taking days or weeks to be delivered.  It depends upon the capacity of the local post office making the delivery. 

You can call, write, or email Jeff Clutcher to verify we have the correct information on file.  Current and older newsletters are available on the website.

Jeff Clutcher
5 S. Harding Ave.
Shamokin, PA 17872-7516
570-648-5282
jeff.clutcher@juno.com

Generally speaking, any names received between March 1st and the following end of February will get placed in the Necrology list in the spring newsletter (mailed in April).  Those names will also be placed in the May banquet program.  The banquet program could also include additional names received in March, April, and early May, prior to the program publication.  If we get older information (someone died several years ago but we just were informed), those names will also be placed in the next available newsletter and banquet programs.  Due to the publication dates of the newsletter and banquet programs, it's possible for an individual to be on a banquet program Necrology list for two years.  In this example, we received the name before the current banquet program went to press and used it again the next year in both the newsletter and banquet program since it qualified for the May 1st/Feb 28th cycle.

The short answer is that we either updated the incorrect alumni entry by mistake or received incorrect death information which got posted to a person in the database who is alive.

A more involved answer, including how to correct.....

We have over 21,000 names in our alumni database.  Several thousand of these entries are listed as "Deceased" or "Missing" and are on our website.  Some alumni have been on this "Missing" list for decades, where we truly do not know if they are alive (and we could use their mailing address) or deceased.  Once a year we provide a mass mailing to over 11,000 alumni with our spring newsletter.  Over 1,000 newsletters are returned with revised address information or "Address Unknown".

The maintenance to our database is an ongoing process, a truly moving target to keep current.  We need to update thousands of entries each year.  This includes updating with regular address changes (someone moves), address changes made by government (PO Box gets renamed to a street name), name changes due to marriage, adding new graduates and updating the database with deceased members information.

Jeff Clutcher is our Alumni Registrar.  He has been faithfully maintaining the database since 1986.  As part of his duties, he routinely updates entries through newspaper obituaries, letters, personal contact, email and telephone calls.  He receives information from family and friends who have reviewed the "Missing" members on the website, informing him that an alumni member has died.  Sometimes this information is incorrect. Obviously, the data we have on file is only as accurate as the corrections which are given to Jeff.

If you know any entry which may be inaccurate or missing, please feel free to call, write or send an email to Jeff with the name, class and US mailing information.  Include deceased information (date of death) if available.  His contact information is listed below.  Your help by contacting friends, relatives, or alumni directly to verify information before reporting back to Jeff is appreciated.

Our database information is confidential and is only used for alumni associated activities.

Jeff Clutcher
5 S. Harding Ave.
Shamokin, PA 17872-7516
570-648-5282
jeff.clutcher@juno.com

No.  Email entries you receive which say "Shamokin Area High School Alumni Reminder" (pointing you to a website outside our webpage) or a request for you to open an email because "Someone is looking for you. Find out who!" are not created, endorsed, or maintained by our alumni association.  If someone is trying to have you log onto a website outside of "https://pa01001568.schoolwires.net/alumni", it is not part of our alumni association.

Some examples of email which are not supported by the Shamokin Area High School Alumni Association:
- From: Reunion Seeker (renuionmatches@holidayroundworld.com) "Someone Has Searched For You, Find Out Who"
- From: Reunion Searches (fyuykgnhdkid0a2vfi@yardjewel.com) "You have 3 New Search results, December 30, 2008"
- From: Alumni (alumni@mychallenge.com) "Shamokin Area High School Alumni Online"
- From: Alumni (alumni@my-challenge.net) "It's now possible to see if anyone has been searching for you including former classmates from Shamokin Area High School...... To find out if someone's searching for you go to http://my-challenge.net"

Be careful when using social-networking sites.  An example is Reunion.com.  When filling out information on the site, you may be giving permission to use email addresses in your contact list.  This could send out email from you.  Reunion.com is a legitimate service.  The site didn't hack your e-mail account.  You gave it permission to access your contact list at setup. To be fair, this is easy to do accidentally when not reading the details of joining.

Another example is alumni@mychallenge.com (or a variation from alumni@my-challenge.net).  This site said the following in a recent email:  "We have found a great place for Shamokin Area High School alumni to meet online.  It's free to register.  To see who has recently joined go to http://www.mychallenge.com.  Regards Michael Davies".  Once again, this is NOT part of the Shamokin Area High School Alumni Association.

Our Alumni Registrar (Jeff Clutcher) maintains a database of over 21,000 graduates.  Our yearly mailing goes to over 11,000 members.  These addresses are provided to our publisher (Paulhamus Litho, Inc.) for the annual spring mailing.  They take those addresses and compare them to a database they have purchased from the US Postal Service.  It reconciles the alumni provided address with what they have on file.  An example of this would be an address which we have as "RR 2 Box 123", may get changed to "123 S. Snyder Rd."  Individual mailings may be sent to the "RR 2 Box 123" address - these are the labels printed by Jeff.  Larger mailings, which qualify for bulk rates, go through Paulhamus Litho, Inc. and would have the "123 S. Snyder Rd." address.  Jeff continues to update the database with the most accurate information.  It's an ongoing process.