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Camden High School opened in Camden in 1918 on the corner of Park Boulevard and Baird Avenue on land that was part of Forest Hill Park, renamed Farnham Park in 1927. The rapid growth in population necessitated the building of the new school, which replaced the earlier Camden Manual Training and High School that was located at Haddon and Newton Avenues. This school had opened up less than twenty years before. Camden continued to grow throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. In June of 1933 overcrowding cause Camden to convert a Woodrow Wilson Junior High School into a full high school.

The school was designed by architects Arthur Truscott and Paul Armon Davis III. Arthur Truscott had previously designed the Broadway School at Broadway and Clinton Streets and the Security Trust Building at 301 Market Street, as well as several homes on Cooper street.

The First Camden High School
on Haddon Avenue - about 1913

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Camden High School has a long and distinguished history. Many of its graduates went on to careers in public service in the city, to success in business, sports, and in the arts. As time goes by, I will be adding pictures, news articles, and other material about Camden High School.

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Phil Cohen

The Class of 1919 was the first to graduate from Camden High School

C.H.S.  CLASS TO HEAR PRESIDENT OF TEMPLE 

Dr. Charles E. Beury, president of Temple University, Philadelphia, will address the graduating class of Camden High School at the mid-year com­mencement exercises Thursday night. 

Eighty graduates will receive their diplomas from Edwin L. Seabrook, president of the Camden Board of Education. 

Miss Clara S. Burrough, principal, will present each student to the audience; Miss Lucy Dean Wilson, head of the music department, will conduct the orchestra and the choruses, which will sing three selections, “Land of Hope and Glory” by Elgar, “Bedouin Song.” by Foote, and “O Lord Most Holy” by Franck. The school orchestra will play selections from the musical comedy, ‘Yes, Yes, Yvette,” and other numbers such as “Diane,” “Priest’s March from Athalie” by Mendelssohn; “The Red Mill” by Victor Herbert, and Sousa’s “Thunderer March.”

Camden Courier-Post - October 21, 1931

Camden High Crushes Collingswood, 33 to 7
(Back in 1924)

By Otts Hulleberg

Camden High crushes Collingswood, 33 to 7!

Sounds Good, doesn't it, Purple and Gold fans? But wait a minute. That was "news" seven years ago, in 1924 to be exact, and for the last six years the shoe has been on the other foot.

Yes sir, believe it or not, the “Colls" have downed the "Purple Avalanche" for six straight seasons and suburban fans are just as confident that the present bunch of gridders under "Skeets" Irvine will run the string to seven in a row on next Saturday afternoon at Collingswood. Local fans, on the other hand, feel just as confident that 8,11 things must come to an end, and that this is a Camden High year.

Things were not always so. Camden and Collingswood have met on the field of battle 18 times, and the honors are all even. Each school can point to eight victories, while two games resulted in ties. Operations began back in 1911, but no games were played in 1919 or 1922, when the respective athletic directors were un­able to agree on a suitable date.

It seems so long ago since the ”Purple Avalanche” gained the upper hand on the "Colls," that we are resurrected that 1924 bat­tle. It may serve as inspiration for the present Camden High team, and on the other hand it may make the 1931 “Colls" just a little bit more determined to win Saturday.

Come what may, however, here goes:

Locals Were Undefeated

Camden entered the 1924 battle against the "Colls" with a record of six straight victories under its belt, still smarting from defeats at the hands of Collingswood in 1921 and 1923, no game having been played in 1922. The last previous Camden High victory had been chalked up by Don Cragin, Doug Crate, George Grenhart, et al, in 1920.

Before game time, it was announced by Coach Phil Brooks that Capt. Johnny Carson and Bruce “Parry" Wallace, star backs, were nursing injuries. Carson, however, started at quarterback with Grover "Worm" Wearshing (present coach) ; Tony Gricco and "Reds" White as his ball-toting partners, while the line had Carl Purnell and Sam Godfrey at the wings; Ed Ferren and "Chinny" Weber, tackles; “Plumber" Jackson and Max Cylinder, guards and Pat O'Brien, center.

The game resulted in one of the worst shellackings ever handed to a Collingswood team, Camden scoring 250 yards from scrimmage against 10 yards for the "Colls." whose backfield of Cliff Rubican, Herb Voight, Ken Brenner and Jack Moran was smothered completely. Camden scored 24 first downs against one for Collingswood, a forward pass on the last play of the game, Eddie Picken to "Toots" Shuster, giving the suburbanites their first down.

A case of "butter fingers" prevented Camden from scoring in the first half, despite the fact that the Brooksmen chalked up 12 first downs. However, the "Avalanche" rolled up five touchdowns in the last two per­iods on the same number of plays, Wearshing going over twice and Wallace, Gricco and “Cats" Winners each scoring one.

Wallace Goes Over

After losing chances galore to score in the first half, the Camden team began to click in the third period.

Taking Brenner's kickoff on his own 20-yard line, Wallace returned it 15 yards and the locals then paraded down the field for the initial touchdown, with Gricco, Wearshing and Winners ripping huge holes in Collingswood's forward wall. Wal­lace hit center for the score and Wearshing added the extra point with a dropkick.

Winners battered his way through tackle for the second score in the third period after an uninterrupted march of 50 yards, but Wearshing's dropkick was wide to make the score read 13 to 0.

Soon after the fourth quarter got under way, Wearshing climaxed another long march by skimming around right end for the six-pointer and "Worm"" kicked the extra point. A few minutes later, the locals marched from their own 32-yard line to the one-yard stripe of the "Colls," Grieco smashing his way over and Wearshing kicked his third extra point. Then the score mounted to 33-0 when Wearshing climaxed another march by weaving through center for 18 yards and a touchdown. "Worm" again booted the extra point.

Near the end of the game, with nearly the entire Camden second team in action, Galbraith blocked Malmsbury's punt, Shuster scooping up the ball and dashing 12 yards for a touchdown. "Chuck" Wise kicked the extra point to make the final score read 33-7.

All "Colls" Since Then

And as we said before, since that decisive victory, Collingswood has held a "jinx" over Camden grid elevens. It mattered not whether the locals had a good season or bad previous to the annual conflict, those "Colls'" just coasted to victory, despite the fact that in more than one instance the locals held their own in actual yardage gained.

So complete has been Collingswood's mastery in the last six years that the locals have been able to score exactly 14 points against 92 for “Skeets" Irvine's charges.

As to that 1924 season, Camden kept right on winning after that victory over Collingswood and the locals loomed a favorite to beat out Atlantic City for the South Jersey Class A diadem. It seemed that the entire City of Camden invaded the seashore for the fuss with Atlantic City which also was undefeated. What happen next has gone down in scholastic sports history as the biggest farce ever cooked up in South Jersey.

The Camden team, after a few min­utes of action, was withdrawn from the field because of "raw" decisions by officials, and when all the fluff and flurry had subsided, Atlantic City was awarded the game by a 1-0 forfeit score, and with it the cham­pionship. 

But that is another story. What we're interested in just now is whether or not the local "Purple Avalanche" can duplicate the feat of the 1924 team- or whether the present Collingswood team will rise to the same heights enjoyed by the Blue and Gold machines of the past six years.

Saturday will tell the story!

 Here's the box score of the 1924 game:

Touchdowns- Wearshing 2, Wallace, Gricco, Winners, Shuster. Points after touchdowns, Wearshing 3, Wise 1 (placement)

Substitutions- Camden: Malmsbury for Wearshing, Lawrence for Jackson, Wallace for Carson, Winners for White, Wearshing for Malmsbury, Mozeleski for Gricco, Wisniewski for Weber, Gassel for Cylinder, Tommesetti for Purnell, White for Wallace, Smith for White, Egbert for Jackson.

Collingswood: Boggs for Wise, Pickens for Moran, Moran for Voight, Fortiner for Shuster, Wise for Boggs, Galbraith for Hood, Young for Webb.

Referees-Geiges, Swarthmore. Umpire- Tatnall, Haverford. Head linesman- Weller, Temple.

Camden High School
Woodrow Wilson Junior High School
Leon N. Neulen - A. Gabriel Ungerleider
Cooper B. Hatch Junior High School
Elizabeth K. WIlliams
Harriet M. Reiners
Josephine H. Lewallen

Hostesses Named for Alumni June Day at City High School
Miss Annette Blaxland Heads Reception Committee for Affair on June 25; Dinner; Play and Dancing on Program; Frank Stevenson to Preside

Younger graduates of Camden High School have been named to the hostess committee for this year's hostess committee for this year's June Day to be held at the school, Park Boulevard and Baird Avenue, on Saturday, June 25. 

June Day is planned by the Associate Alumni of the school as welcome to the June graduating class. The program. includes a reception and business meeting to be conducted by Frank Stevenson, president of the alumni, a play and later dancing in the gymnasium. 

Dinner, which in former years has been served members of the alumni in the gymnasium of the school, will be held this year at the Hotel Walt Whitman. The "five year" classes are planning special dinner parties as in former years. 

"Kalana, Island of Destiny," a musical comedy written by Robert M. Haley, is to be presented by an all-alumni cast under his direction. Mr. Haley is assistant musical director of the high school and a member of the Alumni. 

In the cast will be Miss Dorothy Rodgers, Miss Constance Fish, Miss Dorothy Kritchmer, Miss Dorothy Kellar, Robert Gelston, Lewis Shearer, Russell Eisenhardt, Samuel McDermott, Harold Boogar, Walter Kruck and Thomas S. Weeks. 

Edward O'Brien of Parkside is in charge of the dinner arrangements, and Miss Annette Blaxland is chair'man of the hostess committee. 

Hostesses will be Miss Margaret J. Rubino, Miss Ethel W. Dellmuth, Miss, Ruth C. Powell, Miss Eleanor W. McLean, Miss Gladys Britt, Miss Eleanor B. Turner, Miss Ruth Keller, Miss Ruth Hickey, Miss Nellie G. Lucas, Miss Emily E. Dreher, Miss Jane N. Huhn, Miss Dorothy R. Pancoast, Miss Dorothy G. Hendrickson, Miss Marie Batten; Miss Louise J. Croneberger, Miss Ruth A. Myers, Miss Althea Saumenig, Miss Laura Pernier, Miss Evelyn L. Schwolow, Miss Dorothy M. Sexton, Miss Frances Warren, Miss Dorothy Heritage, Miss Dorothea M. Marlor; Miss Anna Smaldore, Miss Eleanor Malandra, Miss Dorothy M. McLaughlen, Miss Maud Crane, Miss Frances Lankford, Miss Evelyn Riddaugh, Miss Betty Hanna and Miss Mary G. Evens. .

PENNSAUKEN BOY WINS HIS DEGREE AT ALBRIGHT

Suydam, who lives at 3803 Union Avenue, Pennsauken, township, received state recognition as tackle on the Albright football team, playing three years. He also starred in basketball and track at Albright. He was a member of the Kappa Upsilon Phi Fraternity and Varsity "A" Club; After being graduated from Camden High school he attended Perkiomen Prep school where he also starred.

3 CAMDEN STUDENTS GET DEGREES AT N. Y. U.

The Camden students are Miss May Marchant, 422 Linden Street, teacher at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, Bachelor of Science degree in School of Education, Bella Polivnick, 1449 Ormond Avenue, teacher in Camden High School, Bachelor of Science degree in School of Education, and Charles E. Hutchinson, 1353 Park Boulevard, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering.

HIGH SCHOOLS HERE REVISED; JUNIOR-SENIOR PLAN CUT OUT 
New System Gives Choice of Academic or Commercial and Arts Courses 
SAVES $500,000 ANNEX, RELIEVES CROWDING 
Hours Reduced; Study Programs Rebuilt; Omit Spanish; Music Optional

By FRANK SHERIDAN

If students elect Sequence A they may have the option of bookkeeping or world history in the third year. Business organization may be taken instead of American history in the fourth year.

264 LAST TO GRADUATE AT CAMDEN HIGH SCHOOL 
Commencement Next Thursday to Be Institution's Farewell;
Becomes Academic Next September; Veteran Teachers to Retire

Angeleen M. Smiechowski, Mildred Elsie Smith, Grace V. Sochacki, Lillian Amelia Starke, Sally Stein, Irene L. Stern, Inez Rae Strubel, Verna E. Styer, Sabina Stypa, S. Frances Sullivan, Doris Gwendolyn Taylor, Betty H. Taylor, Geneva M. Terranova, Margaret E. Treble, Henrietta Varbalow, Cecelia Pearl Vaughan, Madeline Waeckel, Willetta A. Warner, Adele Alberta Wegrzynak, Rose Weinberg, Joyce V. Willis, Dorothy E. Wilson, Helen E. Yusk, Rae Zeit and Ruth Meriam Zilz.

Camden Courier-Post * June 16, 1933

PRINCIPALS FETE RETIRING MEMBERS
Association Gives Banquet and Entertainment for 8 at Hotel Here

Eight retiring school principals were honored last night at a banquet in the junior ballroom of Hotel Walt Whitman by the Camden Principals' Association. 

Amid decorations of roses and spring flowers these teachers, who have served the city from 35 to 40 years, heard words of praise from their schoolmates and superiors. 

They are Miss Daisy Furber, Central School; Mrs. Margaret Thomson, Northeast; Miss Minerva Stackhouse, Davis; Miss Bessie Snyder, McKinley; Miss Clara S. Burrough, Camden High; Miss Helen Wescott, Mulford; Miss Loretta Ireland, Cooper; Miss Charlotte V. Dover, Washington. 

Harry Showalter, president of the association, presided. Eighty guests represented the entire school system of 38 institutions. Showalter, Dr. Leon N. Neulen, superintendent of schools, and Dr. James E. Bryan, retired superintendent, joined in paying tribute to the retiring principals as having set a high example for Camden's school system.

The male teachers serenaded the women instructors and vice versa with song. At the closing the teachers joined hands at the suggestion of Dr. Bryan and sang "Auld Lang Syne." .

Camden Courier-Post * June 22, 1933

Camden Courier-Post * June 23, 1933

Camden Courier-Post - June 23, 1933

Mitchell Mozeleski Is Assigned to Coaching 
LOCAL STAR ATHLETE WILL ASSIST BROOKS
Wearshing Shifted to Woodrow Wilson Hi; Lobley and O'Brien to Teach 
SIAS AT CRAMER JR. WITH MARY LADEWIG

By FRANK KOPESKY

The appointments to the city's educational staff announced by Samuel E. Fulton, president of the board of education, revealed last night that three former Camden High athletes are among the new appointees. 

The trio are Mitchell Mozelski, Edward Lobley and Edward "Pat" O'Brien. In addition to the appointment of the above, shifts in the physical education department for Camden's two senior high schools were also announced. 
Mozeleski, Lobley and O'Brien were stars of the first water while attending the local institution and also sparkled in college athletics. Mozeleski has been assigned to the physical education department at the Camden Academic High School at Farnham Park and will assist Phillip R. Brooks. 

Brooks and Mozeleski will coach the various sports at the academic institution, with the latter more than likely taking over football and track and the former basketball and baseball. Brooks, however, will be in charge of the physical department. 

Mozeleski comes back to his alma mater after having had wide success in college sports and in coaching. "Mitch" attended William and Mary College and captained the football and basketball teams in his senior year, while also earning a letter in track. Following graduation from the Virginia college, Mozeleski coached at a Virginia military academy. 

Wearshing at Woodrow Wilson 

Mozeleski is well versed in football and is expected to turn out a formidable team this year at the academic institution. Still, he will have to find plenty of new material, as a number of the present gridders have transferred to the Woodrow Wilson Commercial High School, located at 32nd and Federal Streets. 

Grover "Worm" Wearshing, who assisted in the physical ed department at the local school during the past three years, and tutored the football and baseball teams, will take charge of that department and athletic teams at the Woodrow Wilson High School. 

As yet no assistant has been named for Wearshing, but within the next few weeks an announcement will be made by the board of education. 

Frank Sias, who was on the physical ed staff at the local high school and coached track, has been appointed as physical instructor at Cramer Junior High School and will be assisted by Mary Ladewig, another former Camden High grad, who has starred on the cinders for Temple University and Meadowbrook, holding a number of Middle Atlantic A. A. U. records. 

Lobley and O'Brien have been appointed as teachers in grammar schools. The former wlll teach at Fetters School, while the latter will tutor at Stevens School. 
Lobley and O'Brien Stars 

Lobley, who was a three-letterman at Camden High, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and was on the varsity basketball team for three successive years, captaining the five in his senior year when the Red and Blue won the Eastern Intercollegiate championship. 

O'Brien, who was a star center at Camden High on the eleven, is a graduate of St. Joseph's College, and performed for three years at that position for the Philadelphia institution. While both have been assigned as teachers, it is likely that they will build up a foundation of grammar school athletics, teaching the youngsters the fundamentals of various sports. 

Fulton also announced last night that in dividing the present enrollment at Camden High into two separate institutions, that both will have the required number of male students to enter the Group 4 division in athletics. 

Schedules are already being drawn up for football for teams at both the academic and commercial arts schools. Fulton also stated that in all likelihood the elevens of both schools will meet on Thanksgiving Day to decide the supremacy of the city public school football title. However, this cannot be decided upon definitely until the alumni agrees to abandon their regular Thanksgiving Day game with the senior high team. .

Teachers Assigned to Camden High
June 23, 1933

Assignments to Academic High School

English- Alice M. Reeve, Lillian A. Scott, Helen M. Bender, Alexander M. Oaks, Brenda L. Littlejohn, Margaret T. Reynolds, Helen C. Bartelt, Ethel G. Lord, Evelyn M. Trine, Lelia D. Wiggins.

Language, Modern and Foreign -Walter N. Myers, Ida S. Wettinger, Helen C. Osler, Minnie G. Eckels, William Droizlor, Katherine F. Tignal, S. Clifford Murray, Flora G. Detwiler, Gladys E. Williams. 

Special Subjects- Charles I,. Maurer, Jesse L. Stayer, Edwin G. Smith. Alice B. Westcott, Thelma L. Snape, Jennie C. Kittle.

Science Department, Chemistry, Physics and Biology- Ralph H. White, B. Everett Lord, John G. Daneher, William H. Seip, Leslie A. Read, Grace M. Gorman, Jacob O. Charles, Margaret W. Aherne, E. Wallis McKendree.

Mathematics- William M. Thayer, Mabel E. Lewis, Viola M. Blaisdell, Anne Creveling, Marion Lukens, Harry J. Balls, Philip A. Randle, William W. Duthie. 

Music- Robert M. Haley

Art- Flora A. Brugger. 

Mechanical Drawing- Stuart MacIntosh. 

Shop- Elmer Conover. 

Physical Education and Health- Phillips R. Brooks, Mitchell Mozeleski, Margaret L. Pettigrew, Marjorie Van Horn.

Miss Clara S. Burrough

Camden Courier-Post - June 24, 1933

Camden Courier-Post - June 24, 1933

Camden Courier-Post - June 29, 1933

CAMDEN HIGH FIELD TO BE AMONG BEST
New Athletic Grounds Are Grass-Covered and Completely Drained 

An athletic field for Camden High School on par with the finest in the state is the object of members of the Board of Education.

This was revealed yesterday by Walter T. Gross. Superintendent of Buildings, who has been directing work on the project since March 6.

Faced with considerable expense in improving the old athletic field, negotiations were made with the Emergency Relief Board last Spring to secure labor from that source, and most of the work on the new field was done by unemployed men.

The new field, which will be in readiness for the forthcoming football season, will have a complete draining system and will consist of a football field encirced by a quarter-mile track.

The football field has been changed from its former location on the easterly side to the southerly side of the field and already is covered by a heavy growth of grass, which was not possible on the old layout.

Almost all the original plans have been carried out thus far, and only a few units of the proposition are still to be developed to make the field one of the best in the state.

Among those responsible for the new field are: Samuel E. Fulton, president of the board; William Wythe, treasurer of the athletic association, and Phillip Brooks, athletic director of the Camden Academic High School.

The field will be used by teams of both the Woodrow Wilson Commercial and Camden Academic high schools this Fall.

CAMDEN HIGH GIRLS TO PUSH CAMPAIGN FOR 'PLAY STREETS’
Members of Health Class Urge Areas to Cut Down Juvenile Delinquency
MRS. KOBUS' AID SOUGHT

By E. CECILIA CUMMINGS

Camden High School senior girls in 12th year health classes recommend play streets, especially in South Camden, as a preventive measure for juvenile delinquency.

Death by automobile, vandalism and petty crime, they think, all spring from the same root- lack of safe places for supervised play.

This is a direct outcome of discussions in Miss Marjorie Van Horn's health classes, and of a campaign whittled to make Camden residents "reform school disgrace" conscious.

In their study of child welfare, they have been impressed above the eyebrows by the effects poor housing, crowded conditions and lack of recreation have on health, and how all these tie together to mould the typical reform school occupant.

Discussions during class period weren't getting them anywhere, however. Up spoke Frances Allebach impatiently: "We talk and talk, but why don't we DO something." She was promptly voted chairman, and Margaret Baker, secretary, of an embryo campaign.

But that was only the beginning.

It developed into a speech-making, propaganda-distributing, doorbell­pushing and petition-signing campaign, and it's showing results.

A group went to Director of Public Safety Mary W. Kobus and asked her to authorize the roping off of little-traveled streets. Reconnoitering on auto trips, armed with city maps and pencils, showed them suitable locations for play streets. Mrs. Kobus promised them her hearty support, but reminded them the signatures of all residents on those thoroughfares were necessary to rope them off as playground substitutes.

Plan for Summer

They set forth in pairs to acquire those signatures, and obtained a high percentage, according to Miss Van Horn. Their present work is to complete the petitions, when they will again visit Mrs. Kobus. Since most school playgrounds will be closed, the play streets will be needed most in Summer time, and the seniors started their campaign early enough for it to be climaxed by then.

Indirectly, the need for more play opportunities has seeped out into county municipalities, Miss Van Horn reports, through Camden's service clubs. Two seniors approached these clubs, various Parent Teacher associations and several churches, for their cooperation. Since numerous service club members do not reside in Camden, they carried ideas from the girls' speeches out into the county, where they may take new growth.

Girls active in the campaign as speakers were Olive Patterson, Madeline Danner, Lois Davis, Dorothy Schoellkopf, Henrietta McCausland, Miss Allebach, Margaret Baker, Rose Shectman, Helen Brown, Mary Burke and Ruth Austermuhl.  

So, that more or less theoretical, social service work which might be about as interesting as cold oatmeal, put these seniors all in a lather. However, graduation took some of them away from their pet project. To counteract this, the health de­partment kept in reserve a volunteer group of 22 low senior girls to carry on their predecessors' work. These girls became graduating seniors this week.

Campaign In February

Their definite work during February is to sound out all P. T. A. or­ganizations, set their case before them, and encourage the members to sign petitions. Miss Van Horn's plans make the campaign broaden during the next four months like compound interest- so that every city organization of any influence at all will be reached.

In their speeches to the various organizations, the girls emphasize that the largest one-age group of boys and girls in prisons is 19, and the second largest group, 18. More than half of all automobiles stolen, they have found, can be attributed to boys under 15.

Supervised recreation grounds in each crowded district, to keep idle youngsters out of mischief when not in school are the prime solutions to the increasing delinquency problem, the speeches assert.

Bertha Faber is chairman of a committee arranging dates for speeches and publicity. Posters have also been created and placed in approximately 30 Camden stores.”