WOMEN-AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING

MISS IRENE J. REGER

Miss Irene J. Reger Presides at National Convention of Nurses Now in Session in Chicago

By ISABEL M. ELLIS

Miss Irene J. Reger, R.N., of this city, is in Chicago, Illinois for the next two weeks where she is presiding at the annual convention of the National Homeopathic Nurses' Association of which she has been president for the last two years.

Sessions of the convention opened yesterday and will continue through­out Saturday. The meet is held in conjunction with the annual convention of the American Institute of Homeopathy with which it is allied.

Miss Reger was graduated from the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital Nurses' Training School and later studied at Columbia University. She is
active in nursing circles and is school nurse at Hatch and No. 1 Junior High Schools, this city.

Junior High is Renamed to Honor Miss Burrough

Junior High School No. 1 yesterday was renamed Clara S. Burrough Junior High School, in honor of Miss Burrough, retired principal of Camden High School.

Renaming of the school at haddon and Newton Avenues was voted at a special meeting of the Camden Board of Education before the commencement exercises in the high school building.

Miss Burrough, who has been ill, and who was unable to attend the graduation exercises, retired after 45 years' service in Camden public schools, and after serving as principal at the high school for 33 years. Samuel E. Fulton, president of the board, praised Miss Burrough's service, in announcing renaming of the junior high school of which Miss Burrough was the first principal..

A FITTING TRIBUTE

Clara S. Burrough Junior High School! That is, the new and eminently fitting name given the school at haddon and Newton Avenues, originally Camden's first senior high school and more recently known as Junior High School No. 1.

It is only unfortunate that miss burrough was ill, and unable to attend the graduation exercises, and ceremony in her honor. She was the first principal of the old senior high school, now named for her, and served there and at the new high school for 33 years, following 12 years' served in other Camden schools- a total of 45 years' devotion to education in this city. It is a notable record of an outstanding educator and outstanding woman.

Fitting as this tribute is, however, the greatest tribute is the admiration and respect for her in the hearts of the thousands who were her pupils, and who have never forgotten her unfailing kindness, firmness and fairness.

MISS BURROUGH DIES DAY OF RETIREMENT
Principal 39 Years; Death Casts Pall on Graduation; Pupils Stunned

Within an hour after she retired as principal of camden high school Miss Clara S. Burrough died yesterday at her home at Haddonfield after 45 years as an educator in this city. She was 64.

The funeral will be held Monday and strictly private but the body will be on view tomorrow afternoon and night at her home at 228 Washington Avenue, Haddonfield. Burial will be at Colestown Cemetery.

Death came to Miss burrough at 1 p.m. A few minutes before, 23,000 school children were being dismissed for the Summer vacation.

News of her death cast a somber pall over the gala school closing; students, school board members, fellow teachers and thousands of alumni who can sincerely state they owe much of their success to Miss Burrough, were grief-stricken by the tragic news.

Her Imprint Deep

The woman who admittedly has done more for the public schools in Camden than has any other person or group of persons, passed away at her home.

Her death was sudden, for while she had been ill for several months, she was discharged from Cooper Hospital about two weeks ago and her condition was not regarded as critical. However, while camden high school was holding its last commencement exercise Thursday, Miss burrough suffered a relapse. She was attended by Dr. Thomas B. Lee, of Camden and Haddonfield. She is survived by a sister-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Burrough, of Merchantville.

Miss burrough's death turns what high school students intended for a bestowal of appreciation, into tragedy. The students had, out of their gratitude for the diligence and kind ness and service rendered by Miss burrough, launched a canvass in the student body for funds. With the money collected they had planned to purchase an easy chair for Miss burrough for her convalescence and to make a "purse" for her.

Graduation Ball Canceled

A revue and dance, which was to have been held tonight at the high school in honor of the graduating class, was canceled yesterday by :William A. Rogers, president of the Associate Alumni. He said a meeting of the alumni will be held at which memorial resolutions will be passed instead. Class reunion dinners will be held at Hotel Walt Whitman tonight because it was too late to cancel them for graduates coming from distant points.

Her death also cast a shadow on the signal honor which board of education bestowed upon her Thursday. In commemoration of her unparalleled service in the public schools, the board had renamed the Camden Junior High School No. 1, haddon and Newton Avenues, the Clara S. Burrough Junior High School.

Samuel E. Fulton expressed for the entire faculty and school board the grief and sudden shock they felt when they heard of Miss burrough's death. He deemed her death "a severe loss not only to the public school system and the children who come under it, as well as ·to fellow teachers, but also to mankind as measured by the desire to help every one with whom she came into contact."           ,

Hoped to 'Attend' by Radio

The following graduates and others joined in paying tribute to Miss burrough as an educator:

Esteem from 'Her Boys'

Congressman Charles A. Wolverton:

"I greatly deplore the fact that Miss burrough has passed away. She was a wonderful leader. I was among her first students at camden high school, graduating under her in 1897. To her I owe much of my success. I had a warm affection in my heart for her. She aided the faculty and school to attain greater heights. Her devotion to the Camden school system was a monument to education 'of 'our city."

Dr. William H. Taylor, dentist, former football star: "I think she was a marvelous and beautiful character. I don't think we appreciated her enough while we were in the high school. We grew to appreciate her more and love her after we graduated".

Assemblyman Frank M. Travaline, Jr.: "She was the most valuable public servant we ever had. She was a good disciplinarian and had a broad view of education. She tried to understand the problems of the pupils, parents and board of education. The high standard of the Camden school system and its high rating are attrib­utable to her efforts. Camden has suffered a distinct loss."

'A Great Educator'

Dr. William H. Pratt, chief medical of schools: "Miss burrough had the health of her pupils at heart. She co-operated in every way possible with the medical department to improve their health and physical education. We obtained excellent results and I feel the school system has suffered a great loss."

Former State Treasurer William T. Read: "I feel that a great educator has passed on. I think she was a remarkable woman. She was of great assistance to my uncle, Edmund B. Read, when he was president of the board of education."

William A. Rogers, president of Camden High School Associate Alumni: "It will be hard to replace Miss burrough in the school system. I regret she could not have lived to see the fruits of her efforts. I saw her in the hospital and she expressed the same regret."

While she was confined to her home and unable to attend the graduation exercises at camden high school, arrangements had been made to install both a sending and a receiving radio apparatus in her home. This was so that she could hear the commencement broadcast and also in order that she could deliver a brief address to the graduating students. But she told Fulton that she felt too weak to go through with the pro posed program, and it was abandoned.

Before becoming principal of the high school, Miss burrough taught in Cooper School and Fetters School. She was transferred to the Camden Manual Training and High School, located then at 125 Federal Street, in November, 1894, when classes were held on the second and third floors of the building at 125 Federal Street, and the Camden Telegram was published on the first floor.

During her regime as principal Miss Burrough saw the high school moved from "Newspaper Row" to haddon and Newton Avenues in 1899 and then to Farnham Park in 1918.

Native of Colwick

Miss burrough was born in Camden County in the district now known as Colwick, the daughter of William K. Burrough and Sara Ellis Burrough. Hers was an old New Jersey family which had been living in Camden County for over 200 years. Her mother was from Ellisburg, in Delaware Township, a settlement named for the Ellis family. Miss burrough had one brother, Joseph Ellis Burrough.

The family moved to North Camden and Miss Burrough received her elementary schooling at the Cooper School on North Third Street above Linden. As there was then no high school in Camden, she commuted between Philadelphia and Camden to attend Friends' Central School. After graduation she took the teachers' examination and obtained her first teaching position as a teacher in Cooper School. From Cooper she was transferred to Fetters School, and from there to the Camden Manual Training and High School , on Federal Street, in November, 1894.

Took University Work

While she was teaching she took a great deal of work at the University of Pennsylvania and also at Cornell University. She majored in physics and mathematics. It was these subjects which she taught when the high school was at "Newspaper Row."

The time soon came when a larger building was needed. The Board of Education decided to build at haddon and Newton Avenues, and ·In October, 1899, the building, which is now Junior High School No. 1, became the new high school. Here Miss burrough continued to teach physics and mathematics. She was admired and respected by all her pupils. Her dignity, fair-mindedness and ability to cope with trying situations won her to everyone. She was particularly successful in treating boys' discipline cases.

She was made principal of the high school in 1900, as successor to Martin Scheibner. Miss burrough taught her classes after she became principal, but she gave up teaching when the pressure of the work as principal became too great.

The school was located at haddon and Newton Avenues for 19 years. When it was moved into the new building in Farnham Park in 1918 most of Camden considered the location to be too far from the city activities.

This was the fifteenth year of the school's location at Park Boulevard and Baird Avenue, and Miss burrough's thirty-third as principal:

She was instrumental in introducing a variety of courses in the school's curriculum in order to fit changing needs. She welcomed new ideas and was the first to try many of them. camden high was among the first to adopt Student Government with Miss burrough's co-operation..