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DR. GEORGE RUSSELL ATKINSON was born in 1897 in New Jersey. He attended public schools in Camden, and graduated from Camden High School in 1918, in the same graduating class as Carl Kisselman, who would become a prominent lawyer in Camden. After serving with the United States Army during World War I, G. Russell Atkinson joined the Raymond C. Thoirs Post of the American Legion in Camden. Trained as a dentist, he married his wife Frances around 1921. By 1930 two daughters had been born, Vivian and Frances. A son, George Russell Jr. was born in 1934. The Atkinson family resided at 522 Cooper Street. In October of 1936, Dr. Atkinson, his wife and son were killed in an automobile accident on Mullica Pike (Route 45) about a mile north of Mullica Hill NJ. The Atkinsons were buried at Lakeview Memorial Park in Cinnaminson NJ. Dr. Atkinson had been a member of Trimble Lodge, No. 117 Free and Accepted Masons. He also was a medical corps Captain with the 112th Field Artillery in the New Jersey National Guard at the time of his death. He also had been past president of the Southern Dental Society, was on the Board of Advisors of the State Dental Clinic in Camden, and was a member of the Interprofessional Association's Camden chapter. |
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Camden Courier-Post * February 24, 1936 |
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SECURITY
CHAPTER WILL HOLD SESSION
Interprofessional Association to Hold First Meeting Here Thursday Night |
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Camden Courier-Post - October 26, 1936 |
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Camden Courier-Post - October 27, 1936 |
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Camden October 27, 1936 |
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Camden Courier-Post * February 1, 1938 |
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Miss Taylor thoroughly approves of the newer methods of education in which more freedom is allowed the pupil. She declares much, more can be accomplished with a class and the children do not dread school. "We have no bashful pupils any more," she declared. If I can remember how I suffered from shyness when I was the age of these little tots."
Recalls Many Pupils
Despite her many years in the classroom and her long procession of pupils, Miss Taylor can rapidly recall their names to mind. There was Judge Clifford A. Baldwin, who she remembers as a quiet, lovable little boy; Dr. Alexander Ellis, who she terms her "cutest" pupil; Clarence Fuhrman, Dr. Byron Tuttle, the late Dr. Russell Atkinson, Anna Snow, of Temple University; E. Howard Broome, Dr. Everett Hemphill, Dr. Paul Ironside, and Warren Mainak.
Many of her boys, she declares, seem to have become professional men, while few of her girls, so far as she has been able to ascertain, have followed the teaching profession. Miss Taylor's niece, Miss Ella Ellis, also is a teacher at Broadway School.
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Dr. Atkinson and his daughter Francis , his wife and small son were driving in a four door car when the child opened the door in the back seat. All were killed except the daughter. I know a huge number of people drove only two door cars after that…and I think it had a lot to do with safety locks on doors. Several dentists each took the surviving daughters, Vivian and Francis and raised them. Dr. Ludlam was one of them. His son, George, was in our CHS class and also became a dentist. He married Honey Thomas and lived across the street from us in Tavistock Hills… and George Savitsky a few doors to the left. Catherine
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