Introduction
The first Camden High School stood at 450 Haddon Avenue, the corner of Haddon and Newton Avenues in Camden. The school was built during the term of Mayor Cooper B. Hatch, one of Camden's leading citizens in the late 19th and early 20th century. Born in the then farmhouse that now houses the Camden County Historical Society, Hatch became involved in politics early in life. He served on the Board of Freeholders and on City Council, finally being elected mayor of the City of Camden in 1898. During his term, which ended in 1902, the Manual Training and High School was built at the corner of Haddon Avenue and Newton Avenue. This building would serve as Camden's high school until the completion of the current Camden High School at Park and Baird Boulevards in time for the 1919 graduations. The school was renamed Junior High School No. 1. One of the first principals of the Camden Manual Training and High School was Clara S. Burrough.
After the new Camden High School was built in 1918, the school was renamed Junior High School Number 1. In June of 1933, upon the retirement of Miss Burrough, Junior High School Number 1 was again renamed, and in recognition of her long service to Camden's children the school became the Clara S. Burrough Junior High School, and remained open in that capacity as late as 1956. By 1959 the school had closed, replaced by the then-new Pyne Point Junior High School. The building was eventually razed. The site now is occupied in part by the I-676 Interstate Highway.
Postcards
Many Leave High School in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
PRESIDEN[T] E. E. READ, JR.
The graduation exercises of the Camden Manual Training and High School were held in the First M. E. Church last night. Hundreds of friends and relatives of the graduates crowded the church in every available space. The young graduates occupied a stage, which was prettily decorated with the school colors and flowers. Edmund E. Read, Jr., president of the Board of Education, presided.
Besides orchestral selections the program included an essay on “Child Labor a Barrier to Education,” by Elizabeth Newton Wilson Stock; oration, “The American Alexander the Great,” William White; “The Beauties of Elegiac Poetry,” Miss Brita Larsena Horner; oration, “The Parting of the Ways” of Henry Cabot Lodge, by George Taylor Parke Phillips; essay, “The Power of Music,” Georgie Rovilla May Fry; oration, “Our Nation’s Birthday,” George M. Bryson; address, Professor Josiah H. Penniman, dean of the University of Pennsylvania; presentation of diplomas, President Read, of the Board of Education. The graduates follow:
Emily Henwood Allen, Wilhelmina Everham Archer, Minnie A. Bailey, May Bowker, Jane Viola Bryson, Jessie Blanche Bulifant, Florence Violet Cannon, Sadie May Carter, Estelle Cliver, E. Blanche Craig, Mary Elizabeth Cummine, Susanna May Danser, Florence Cornelia Davis, Charlotte Desborough, Carrie Lucretia Dorward, Elizabeth Mead Durgin, Edna Francis, Georgie Rovilla May Fry, Mary Jane Garrigues, Nellie Smeych Hagen, Frances Sickler Hall, Margaret M. Hall, Grace Edna Hankins, Helen Elizabeth Herbert, Minnie Margaret Herbert, Brita Larsena Horner, Bertha Charlotte Huntzinger, Virginia S. Hurff, M. Ella Johnson, Elizabeth Ellen Keith, Ethel Maria Lee, M. Ada Mattson, Roberta Katie Patterson, Sallie Peacock, Mabel Allen Rockhill, M. Gertrude Shafer, Marguerite Estelle Sharp, Emilie Viola Virginia Smith, Adaline Stavers, Elizabeth Newton Wilson Stock, Jennie Malcolmn Taylor, Anna Dorothea Thomas, Ina Reader Van Hekle, Ethel Maude Weatherby, Wilmina Margaret Williams, Amy Dalton Witcraft, Maude Estelle Wright, Helen Virginia Yearsley, Franklin Levi Beringer, George M. Bryson, Horace Albert Ebener, Howard Howell George, James Marble Hargrove, William Harris, James Milton Hess, Jr., Clarence J. Hunter, Frederick Jones, Jr., Stanley Cooper Kimble, E. Harrison King, Charles Elmer Phillips, George Taylor Parke Phillips, Albert Trenchard Pidgon, Julian Kent Potter, Alfred Gustav Renner, John Davis Sargent, Henry Doughty Savage, Ned Hensel Sayford, Bertrand Schneeburg and William White.
Camden News Notes
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Another day was put in by Vice Chancellor Grey yesterday hearing the interminable testimony in the case of the Jonas Glass Company against the Green Glass Bottle Blowers’ Association.
Miss Minnie Tierney, the pretty Irish girl who was taken violently insane at the Cooper Hospital Wednesday, will be removed to the State Hospital for the Insane by Overseers of the Poor Jefferies to-day.
The graduating class of the Camden High School gave a banquet in the Masonic Building Wednesday night. The toastmaster was Edward H. Sayford and the toasts were: “The High School Graduates in After Life,” Professor James E. Bryan; “The Influence of the Senior Class,” Miss Clara S. Burroughs; “Our Alma Mater,” Miss Susanna Danser; “School Athletics,” Julian K. Potter; “Our Curriculum,” Miss G. Rovilla Fry; “The Girls of ‘03,” George T. Phillips; “The Boys of ‘03,” Miss Helen E. Herbert.
Camden Lodge of Elks has appointed Frank Healy, Peter Verga, Frank Gardner, A. R. Dease and Levi Farnham a committee to arrange plans for enlarging its handsome headquarters at Broadway and Federal streets. The first floor of the addition will be used as a bowling alley, shower baths and shuffle boards. There will be a stage on the second floor and on the third there will be rooms for billiards, pool and other games.
Albert West, colored, of 1018 Linden street, reported to the Camden police yesterday that he had been swindled out of $6. West says he met a man who gave the name of William Beston, and claiming he had been sent by the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad to get West to work as a porter. Beston declared White [sic] must first have a uniform and after measuring him Beston asked for the $6 as advance money. He then told West to report at the railroad office. He did but no porters were needed.
Class Soon to Leave Camden’s High School
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Class Soon to Leave Camden’s High School
Supervising Principal Bryan Announces the Names of Graduates Who Receive Diplomas
Supervising Principal James E. Bryan, of the Camden Public Schools, yesterday announced the following as the graduates of the Manual Training and High School:
Fulton Russell Aleck, Linda Allen, Albert Edward Becker, Charles Edward Blair, Anna May Boyle, Ethel Beatrice Buckwalter, Mary Keyser Carlin, Elmer Robair Cavanna, Ida May Coles, George Douglass Connelly, Ethel Sidney Conrad, Elizabeth Leona Cromie, Lillian Elliott, Harry Davidson Evans, Helen Reed Faust, Rufus Hill Flinn, Florence Nohl Garwood, Anna Mayer Geister, Reba Gilkey, Anna Rosina Goerlick, Hyman Isaac Goldstein, Newton Hughes Graw, Harriet Mabel Hall, Effie Flewelling Harbaugh, Helen Austin Hinchman, Thirston Henry Jackson, Mildred De Puy Janke, Vinal Alfonso Johnson, Elizabeth Linda Kemmerer, Dorothy King, Clara Adelaide Larzalere, Jessie Oleita Lewis, Mabel Emma Lewis, Margaret Agnes Larigan, Anna Denny Lyell, Elizabeth Marchaust, Mabel Louisa Morris, M. Alice Murphy, Henrietta Evelyn Nesson, Mary Laugheed Parsons, Charles Edward Paxson, Reba May Peacock, Ethel Emma Pressy, William Haywood Rogers, Harry Burnley Rose, Frank Maxwell Sayford, William Deacon Shemley, Albert Whittaker Cook Smith, Sara Florence Stanton, Carrie Estella Steelman, Ethel Matthews Todd, Earl Frank Tucker, Elizabeth Allen Whitely, Harry Wickland and Perry Hollinshed Wood.
The class day exercises will be held at the High School Auditorium, June 20, and the commencement exercises at the First M. E. Church on June 22.
1910 Camden High School Baseball Team
Camden Manual Training & High School Class of 1910
Camden Manual Training & High School Class of 1910 — Class Day Program of Commencement Exercises.
Philadelphia Inquirer — December 23, 1912
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 23, 1912 — Wilbur F. Rose — Helen Anderfer — Kathryn Sprague — Helen Chafey — Lynn Bailey — Percival Cook — Paul Taylor — Kendal Stuart. Click image for PDF of complete article.
Teachers Ask More Pay
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The high cost of living has struck the members of the teaching staff of the Camden High School. They have sent a request to the Board of Education asking that they be considered in the way of necessary increase in order that they may be able to at least eke out an existence. This applies only to those receiving less than $1200 a year. A special committee of the board will consider the matter.
12,000 Camden Pupils Members of Red Cross
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Children Have Paid in $3175 in Dues to Aid Relief Organization
Just what excellent work is being done by Camden’s public schools in connection with the Red Cross is indicated in the report of Superintendent Bryan, made yesterday, in which he shows that in twenty-six schools in the city there are 12,000 members who have paid $3175 in dues. This leaves a balance of but 4000 children who have not become affiliated with the organization and these are fast becoming members, so that very shortly virtually every boy and girl in the city attending school will be a member of the society. Dr. Bryan has suggested to Dr. Daniel Strock, president of the Camden County Chapter of the Red Cross, the following principals as a committee to further prosecute the work: Mrs. Margaret Thomson, Northeast School; Miss Dorothy Morris, Dudley School; Ralph Parker, Liberty School; Mrs. Mary Brown, High School; George B. Pine, Pensauken [sic]; Miss Emma Summerill, Collingswood; John Koerner, Audubon; and Helen A. Amelson, Helping Teacher.
Junior High School No. 1 Class of 1920
Junior High School No. 1 Class of 1920 — Class Photo.
Camden Courier-Post — January 27, 1928
Camden Courier-Post, January 27, 1928 — Lay Claim to City Junior High Court Title — Junior No. 1 Girls Win City Cage Title.
Camden Courier-Post — June 21, 1933
CAMDEN JUNIOR HIGH WILL GRADUATE 163 THIS AFTERNOON
First Honor Pupils to Stress Need of Physical Education — BURLING WILL SPEAK
Commencement exercises for 163 graduates will be held at Camden Junior High School No. 1 at 2.30 p.m. today.
James Steel is the first honor pupil and will read an essay on “The Need of Physical Education.” Reed Gulick is the second and his essay will be on “The Value of Conservation of Forests.” Other honor pupils are: Margaret McCord, essay, “A New Era in Education”; Emmett Ross, “Campaigning against tuberculosis”; Paul Swetkoff, “Using English in School and Out”; Edward Gurtcheff, “The Objects of an Ideal Education”; Jacob Gonchereff, “Madame Curie and Her Discovery in Radium.”
Former Assistant Prosecutor Albert E. Burling will be the principal speaker. C. A. Dennis, principal of the school, will present the certificates. Warren Norris, class president, will accept them on behalf of the graduates and present the class gift. Fred Tieman will give the address of welcome. Prayer will be offered by Rev. C. W. Robb, pastor of Bethany M. E. Church. Selections will be given by the orchestra and a violin solo by Stanley Skokowski.
The graduates are:
Amme, Roberta — Atkinson, Mary — Barnabie, Olga — Barnard, Faith — Battilana, Ida — Becker, Flora — Beldina, Palmetto — Bradley, Ida May — Brady, Louise — Brewin, Dorothy — Campbell, Dorothy — Campbell, Margaret — Carr, Sara — Cimino, Mildred — Clark, Virginia — Colache, Elizabeth — Connor, Ruth — Day, Alverda — De Fulio, Emily — Dellmuth, Mary — De Maio, Adeline — Dewey, Bertha — Di Taranto, Mary — Di Vito, Jennie — Dohrman, Edith — Doto, Carrie — Downs, Elizabeth — Duffield, Freda — Ewing, Mildred — Filon, Ruth — Flippen, Rubie — Foster, Helen — Friedman, Fay — Glover, Sara — Gramley, Gladys — Griffith, Mildred — Groom, Marion — Hall, Ethel — Hehl, Ruth — Johnson, Anna M. — Johnson, Anna R. — Joniak, Josephine — Kemmerle, Mildred — Kumfert, Ruth — Kyler, Margaret — Laws, Martha — Linthicum, Elsie — Livingston, Naomi — Magonigal, Irene — Marcoinni, Marianna — Marini, Violet — Marzela, Susie — Mazilli, Irene — McCord, Margaret — McCord, Mary — Megee, Evelyn — Miller, Elva — Monforte, Carmella — Mucci, Madeline — Navarro, Mamie — O'Brien, Eileen — Palmer, Stephanie — Paoli, Dolores — Paris, Lucile — Passeri, Josephine — Pearl, Fannie — Pilla, Mary — Pizzine, Grace — Powell, Dorothy — Price, Anna — Rossetti, Rose — Ruggerio, Mary — Scharnagle, Laura — Schoell, Ethel — Schwab, Mary — Seinni, Mary — Shetler, Mary — Shinn, Ida — Simpson, Dorothy — Smith, Carolyn — Sorrentino, Adelia — Southard, Helen — Spada, Ida — Spencer, Edith — Stafford, Loretta — Sullivan, Dorothy — Trostel, Dorothy — Undorfer, Margaret — Walker, Kathryn — Warrington, Madeline — Welch, Doris — White, Kate — Wilson, Elizabeth — Wolf, Ruth — Woodling, June — Wunsch, Vera
Anderson, Richard — Ash, George — Bernardi, Dominick — Cardillo, Anthony — Chambers, Robert — Cole, Clifford — Constan, Charles — Crane, Horace — Cutler, Bernard — Di Bartolomei, James — Di Claudio, Umberto — Dorofee, John — Douglas, Warren — Ellis, Edwin — Fawcett, Miles — Franks, William — Fullerton, Albert — Fusco, Anthony — Gaskill, Walter — Goncheroff, Jacob — Gulick, Reed — Gurtcheff, Edward — Hughes, Robert — Humes, John — Hoxworth, Warren — Humphreys, Wilson — Hutchinson, Tennie — Janoff, David — Kirk, Adolph — Lee, Louis — Lester, Milford — Link, James — Lloyd, William — Mignogna, Woodrow — Mills, Franklin — Morgan, Ritner — Morris, George — Mucci, Joseph — Murphy, Hildreth — Mutzer, Edwin — Nec, Julius — Nelson, James — Norris, Warren — Obenhaus, Paul — Olbrich, David — Opfer, John — Potena, Dominic — Porter, Harold — Procacci, Patsy — Reyno, Walter — Rinaldi, Lewis — Ross, Emmett — Schwartz, Samuel — Shaw, Milton — Skokowski, Stanley — Squillace, Ralph — Steel, James — Steer, Stanley — Sterling, Harry — Stuart, Harold — Swetkoff, Paul — Tiemann, Fred — Toll, Daniel — Valente, Matthew — Walden, William — Ways, Albert — Yeager, Jack — Zito, Vincent
Women-And What They Are Doing
Camden Courier-Post —
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 through-out 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.
Miss Irene J. Reger
Camden Courier-Post —
Camden Courier-Post — June 23, 1933
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.
Camden Courier-Post — June 23, 1933 (Editorial)
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.
Teachers Assigned to Junior High School No. 1 — June 22, 1933
This list of assignments released to press at the school board meeting held on June 22, 1933. The school was re-named Clara S. Burrough Junior High School at the same meeting.
English — Sophie M. Fleming, Jane E. Shibe, Marie Y. Lattelle, Jane H. Kelty, Mildred S. Evans, Jane E. Tobin.
Social Subjects — Sarah S. Taylor, Bertha H. Summerfield, John A. Gregart. Science — Edith M. Martin, Robert G. Test, Maude Griffin.
Mathematics — Arline H. Davis, Marion D. Grau, Charlesanna Myers, Wilton D. Greenway.
Commercial — Donald A. Hilsee, Gregg D. Haupert.
Music — Georgia Chew.
Art — Florence M. Beck.
Shop — Ray F. Hanson, Leon J. Foley.
Practical Art, Girls — Barbara W. Meeker.
Physical Education and Health — James G. Heard, Dorothy S. Lee.
Miss Clara S. Burrough
Camden Courier-Post — June 24, 1933
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 kindness 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 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 proposed 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.
Girls in Costume Present Pageant
Camden Courier-Post —
Represent 18 Nations in Offering Before 400 at Burrough School
A colorful “international” pageant, featuring 18 girls costumed to represent as many nations, was presented Thursday in the Burrough Junior High School auditorium before 400 students enrolled there in the adult education evening school.
In an address preceding the pageant, County Superintendent of Schools Albert M. Bean reviewed the expansion of night school courses in Camden. He was introduced by Henri d’Orville, principal of the school.
The girls taking part in the pageant and the nation each represented are:
Esther Peterson, Ireland; Leah Wildstein, Scotland; Evelyn Lazazero, Italy; Susanna Innatore, Poland; Penny Palermo, China; Monica Vasikouis, Holland; Ida Capepelli, Spain; Catherine Gellura, Russia; Stella Emerle, Japan.
Laura Chmielinska, Germany; Mary Gellura, Switzerland; Helen Good, Greece; Mary Perno, Roumania; Anna May Harris, Egypt; Esther Cucigella and Helen Roman, France; Sue Ruggerio, Mexico, and Rose Henley, India.
Others in the cast and their roles are:
Mamie Jackson, “Aunt Jemima”; Helen Chilchowski, “old-fashioned girl”; Connie Cappelli, “Betsy Ross”; Nicolina Gallassi, a “Red Cross Nurse”; Frances Hoyle, “Sailor Girl”; Margaret Edwards, “Sailor Boy”; Beatrice Howell, “Miss Columbia,” and Adele Walinski, “Uncle Sam.”
Camden Courier-Post — February 1, 1938
HONOR CERTIFICATES WON BY PUPILS AT BURROUGH SCHOOL
Junior High Awards Made by Principal Trembath in Special Assembly — 9A-2 GIRL IS LEADER
Honor certificates, scholarship pins, music buttons, athletic letters and championship awards were presented to pupils of Burrough Junior High School during a special assembly program yesterday by Principal T. W. Trembath.
Students receiving honor certificates for outstanding contributions to all-around school life included: Highest honor scholarship, Mildred June Allen, 9A-2; honor scholarships, Norma A. Canzanese, 9A-1; Eleanor Spector, 9A-1; Dora Anna Wagner, 9A-3; Anna Mae Winstanley, 9A-1; Robert Bowell, 9A-4; Jeanette Norma Lalli, 9A-2; and Ethelyn Blessing, 9A-3.
English — Albert Kreger, 8A-2; history and geography, Mary Colalillo 8B-1; science, William Anderson, 9B-4 and Charles Metz, 9B-5; mathematics junior business, Leslie Hudson, 8A-1 and Norman Glenn, 8A-3.
Club leaderships: dancing, Mildred June Allen, 9A-2; checkers, Louis Cooper, 9A-1; puzzlers, Lena Santangelo, 8A-5; council, Gloria Keefe, 9B-1; girl reserve, Margaret Cowgill, 9B-1; editors, Eleanor Spector, 9A-1, and library, Jeanette Norma Lalli, 9A-2.
Library Awards Made
School servicing, William S. Gibson, 9A-4 and Bruno Melchionni, 9A-5; library service: Virginia Carsley, 8A-1, Virginia Shearer 8A-5, Esther Biasi 8A-6 and Elizabeth Kracht 9A-1; stage managing, Bruno Melchionni 9A-5, Emil Meloni 9A-5 and Charles Merkh 9A-5.
Homeroom leadership: Herbert Foltz 8A-7, George Charles Turnbull, 9A-3, Hazel Pine, 9B-4, Mary Colalillo 8B-1, Patsy Marcotulli, 8A-4 and Daniel Starr 8B-2.
Student government: Health chief, Anna Mae Winstanley, 9A-1; council and court: Carmella Julia Marchisella 9A-2.
Students receiving “A” averages for the year received pins in school colors inscribed “honor student.” “B” averages were rewarded with similar pins bearing the inscription, “for scholarship.”
Glee club members of merit got the award of a pin in school colors bearing a music staff and quarter notes.
‘B’s Awarded In Sports
Students representing their class in four consecutive intra-mural sports received the block letter “B” for sweaters. Certificates were awarded to girls' championship class teams in volleyball and Newcomb.
Ninth grade “A” averages were made by: Norma Canzanese, Eleanor Spector, June Allen, Jennie Garramona, Jeanette Lalli, Jeanett Kaplan, Doranna Wagner, Ethelyn Blessing, Robert Bowell, Edna Pfeiffer, Elizabeth Chase, Zelda Berlin, George McClellan and Josephine Beldina.
Ninth grade “B” averages were made by: Anna Mae Winstanley, Louis Cooper, David Cohen, Millie Marzilli, Betty Cramer, Rita Puleo, Arvida Peterson, May Pasell, Elvira Polidore, Althea Young, Dorinda Todd, Kenneth Ennis, Anthony Di Servio, Theodore Bunalski, Lillian Jenkins, Neno DeMarco, Bruno Melchionni, Leslie Hudson, Myra Schaffer, Nicola Pompeano, Gloria Keefe, Marian Jarvis, Clarence Monk, Charles Thompson, Elizabeth Blair, Elizabeth Olive, Joseph Thompson, Edith Andrews, Harry Marsh, Nan Converse, Bertha Feldman, Dolores McCormick, Evelyn Molotsky, William Anderson, Ida Rabinowitz, Anthony Ambrosino, Thelma Thomas, Charles Metz, William Dube, Orville Showers, William Johnson, Frank Hoffmeister, William Smith, Nicola Seneglia, Anthony Petrome.
Eighth grade ‘A’ averages were made by Emma Downing, Leonard Hudson, Frederick Robertson, George Richterman, Albert Kreger, Russell Pierce, Herman Kripitz, Norman Glenn, Bernard Lentz, Howard Haines, Mary Garner, Mary Colalillo, Armando Cardillo.
Eighth Grade “B” averages were made by Ella Durham, Margaret Fields, Sherman Freed, Martha Fish, William Hench, Armond Capanna, Rose Cianci, Robert Gray, Dorothy Davis, Dorothy Terry, Jack Kates, Edith Lukoff, Leonard Muscioscia, Miriam Van Sciver, Virginia Carsley, Henrietta Griffith, Jessie Odell, Edward Zane, Marjorie O'Brien, Yolanda Di Filippa, Palma Ferri, William Cox, Arleen Edwards, Penelope Marlys, Carmella Gallo, Elsie Judd, Doris Jones, Harriet James, Anthony Constantino, Rose Tryka, Rose Mavronikilas, Anna Shivers, Dorothy Paglione, Erma Pollato, Florence Meccariello, George Edwards, Arnold Shepherd, Lincoln Wood, Howard Weeks, Orlando Compoli, Carmella Constantino, Ernest Ferri, Vincent Serchia, Janet Wenger, Warner Lombardi, Henry Maiale, Frank LaMarra.
Music button recipients by grades were: 9A-1, Lillian Friedenberg, Anna Winstanley and Eleanor Spector; 9A-2, Betty Cramer and Pauline Barracliff; 9A-3, Etheylyn Blessing; 9A-4, Evelyn Fusco, Clarence Claypoole and John DeLakas; 9A-5, Virginia Pitts, Antoinette Pacifico, Gloria Polatto, Leslie Hudson and Joseph Mazola; 9B-1, Virginia Blair, Claire Wenger, Myra Schaffer and Nicola Pompeano; 9B-2, Grace Reino; 9B-3 Nan Converse, Zelda Berlin and Fred Jenkins; 9B-4, Ida Rabinowitz and Thelma Thomas; 9B-5, Faust DiCarlo and Roland Pepa; 8A-1, Armand Campanna; 8A-2, Irene Pettit and Dorothy Terry; 8A-4, Clara Iapolucci, Helene Haushalter, Elsie Judd and Mary Ann Garner; 8A-5, Rose Mavronikola, Zetta Rentz, Elizabeth Raspa and Sarah Warke; 8A-7, Harry Edwards and Herbert Foltz; 8B-1 John Burgo.
Athletic letters were awarded to: 9A-1 Michelina Dazzione, Lillian Friedenberg, Alma Wallace, Anna Winstanley. 9A-2 June Allen, Dina DiCesaris, Jennie Garramona, Marie Jackson, Shirley Laxton, Millie Marzillai, Arvida Peterson. 9A-3 Elvera Catalina, Elizabeth Manella, Althea Young. 9A-4 Josephine Cardile, Louise Della Monicke, Josephine Guarino. 9A-5 Antoinette Pacifico, Virginia Pitts, Gloria Talerico, Pearl Warner, Louise Watson. 9B-1 Oliver Everett. 9B-2 Charles Thompson, William Vasey, McKinley Burrell. 9B-3 Max Dippner, William Smith. 8A-1 Carlo Degianni. 8A-3 Carmen Carbone. 8A-4 Patsy Marcotulli. 8A-5 Albert Basile.
Cheerleader rewards were won by Alfred Green and Tony Russo.
Championship certificate awards were made: Volleyball — Inez Braxton, Elvera Catalina, Elisa Mannella, Doranna Wagner, Gertrude Wallace, Althea Young, Gina Annibale, Lucy Augelli, Mary Colallilo, Mary Canzanese, Frances Caratola, Carmella Constantino, Antoinette DiPasquale and Rose Gellura.
Newcomb: June Allen, Dina DiCesaris, Jennie Garramona, Marie Jackson, Shirley Laxton, Millie Marzilli, Arvida Peterson, Elvira Polidore, Ethel Reese, Doris McMacklin, Florence Meccariello, Lois Mitchell, Dorothy Paglione, Erma Pollato, Yolanda Pompeano, Elizabeth Raspa, Zettie Rentz, Virginia Shearer and Anna Shivers.
Camden Courier-Post — February 15, 1938
TREMBATH TO ADDRESS TEACHERS AT GLASSBORO
T. W. Trembath, principal of Burrough Junior High School, will address a meeting of teachers of the Glassboro Public Schools today at 2:15 p.m., in Glassboro Junior High building.
“The Place of the Junior High School in Public Education” will be Trembath's topic.
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Camden News Notes
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Because of the excellent work she has done in behalf of the Jewish Ladies’ Aid Society, Mrs. Jacob Silver has been presented with a gold medal.
Tonight Jacob Weitzman will give a reception and dinner to his fellow members of the Seventh Ward Republican Club.
The Class of ‘08, of the High School, is arranging to give a St. Patrick’s Day party on March 17 at the home of Miss Gandar, 1471 Kenwood avenue.
Presiding Elder J. Morgan Read preached at the Tabernacle M. E. Church yesterday.
Camden News Notes
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Sixty feet from the ground, a 20,000-gallon tank is being erected for a soap manufacturing concern at Fourth street and Atlantic avenue.
A delegation from the Second Ward Republican Club yesterday attended the funeral of William Robinson, which took place from his home at 842 Carpenter street.
Efforts are being made to have Dr. Nachman Heller, of Harrisburg, become rabbi of a Camden synagogue. He is widely known in Jewish circles for his brilliant writing.
Work of installing a much-needed padded cell in the city jail has been completed to the satisfaction of Mayor Ellis.
About the only thing to show that yesterday marked the city’s eighty-second birthday was the flag which floated from the tall pole in front of the City Hall.
Members of the Debating Society of the High School will wrestle with this question next Friday night: “Resolved, That Co-education in Public High Schools is Undesirable.”
At the North Baptist Church yesterday, Rev. Kerr Boyce Tupper, of Philadelphia, preached eloquent sermons to large congregations. This church has not yet selected a successor to Rev. Kittredge Wheeler who resigned to go West some months ago.
Camden churches continue to experience a wonderful awakening as a result of revivals.
Mary Jones, 29 years old, of 911 North Second street, was badly bruised by a trolley car at Broadway and Newton avenue yesterday. She was taken to her home in an ambulance.