Camden High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Camden, NJ)

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Flay, 191-I TO THE STUDENTS OF CAMDEN HIGH SCHOOL Another hugh school year us rapudly drawung to a close ln no other country un the world does the opportunuty for a hugh school educatuon come to so large a part of the young people of hugh school age as un the Unuted States ln proportuon there are enrolled un the secondary schools un thus country three to four tumes as many of thus age group as are to be found un sumular schools un England or the countrues of Contunental Europe 'lhus wudely offered and wudely embraced educatuonal opportunuty brungs to the young men and young women un our hu h s hools a dustunct oblugatuon to recognuze and to conscuentuoJsly undertake to get from theur hugh school experuence those values whuch wull un substantual measure uustufy the unyestment whuch the publuc makes un thus major communuty enterpruse All educatuon should be a preparatuon for better luyung To do the work of hus curr culum credutably to the end that a certufucate of accornplushment and graduatuon may be awarded wull at once be accepted as one tanguble oblugatuon of each hugh school student Bat un the doung of that work, and un the partucupatuon un all of the yarued actuvutues of the hugh school lufe to today there are other values whuch should be reflected un the progressuve deyelopment un each s .udent of certaun desurable personal characterustucs May l suggest then that hugh school should brung to each of you these sux major yalues A practucal knowledge and practuce un the matter of personal health A pronounced capacuty for sustauned effort un study and work A fune sense of personal untegruty and honest performance un doung one s work An ungrauned habut of courtesy and gentlemanly conduct A substantual regard for the rughts and opunuons of others A genuune dusposutuon to make the best possuble contrubutuon to the welfare of your own corrumunuty, your state, and your natuon thus year un Camden l-lugh School has contrubuted measurably to each of you of values such as these, tnen the year has been worthwhule, and your oblugatuon to those who make hugh school possuble for you has un large part, been met 93 f - 1 , u . Q C ,. .. . .V , P . . .. 1 . r . .. ,. . . . . y 1 1 ' H. . . . X I , ,, , . , . f

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The Hziqh School Record DERWOOD J TEW w Ml

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The High School Record Wf hfldfff ! -f INTERVIEW i L-:if as-.L--.1-l i I -'af WITH T, .. WILLIAM H 7 hifieilm e, 91 M' 4 d f 'ef 'H KETLER znrg ww M ' ' ' l WIICHAILL SLLIIXAN 1954 1 mcldent Qvdney 'Worrxson Amerlcan artxst and Original Sketch Sydney Bush Ink Drawing Joseph Krush H G 1 I S lWIr YI 1ll1am Ketler ushered me mto h1s otflce he CXPIHIIICCI that he was always readv and wllng to help anyone from Camden Hlgh School Smce I had ldentlfled mvself when I had made the appolntment no mtroeluctlons were necessarv Immedlately I began to questxon hlm about hxs acqua ntance and contacts wlth Vt alt Vt hltman XI hen dld vou first become acquamted wxth XI alt XXh1tm1n' I asked I met II hltman fortv gears ago 'and he sank lower m h1s cha1r whlle h1s eyes 'assumed 1 far fnwav look 'ls ll he were once more relnmg those past moments IS was before h1s breakdown he was then m h1s prlme After a short pause he resumed Vt hltman as I knew hxm w as a true poet he was not a phllosopher nox a sclentxst He behex ed that a sound mmd had need ot a sound bodx and that people w ho had these l 6qLllSlt6 essentlals could lne n 1 perfect CIIX md enjox 1 democricv n lts purest sense XY alt Vlutman ehd not behexe 1n the dlscrxmmatlon of classes or races, he was LICl'I1OCI'dtlCtOl1li xerx soul and he mspnred all those who 3SSOCldtCtl wlth hlm 111 the same manner U 5Ir Ketler then recounted the followmg erbert 1 crxst a scu ptor were usxtmg W alt W hxtman He muted them to haxe dmner w 1th hxm rl he d1nner conslsted of soup and bread W hxtman watched ox er the makmg of the soup At mterx als he would taste the soup from the slde of the ladle to see 1f1t were hot enough to serxe Vt hen he was satxsfied he took the pot from the stoxe placed It ln the center of the table and the three men then proceeded to dme 'I h1s mav sound funnv to Xou vet It shows the dn me s1mpl1c1tv and the utter state of pox ertv m whxch II h1tman was forced to lne I lease tell me about XI h1tm in s characterlstlcs and Ins faxorxte haunts I saxd Vt'ell Vt alt was a man f profound feelmg he was xerv kmd and felt a deep sympathv for the wrongs lY1lllCtCCl upon h1s fellowmen He w as a great judge of human nature Nlthough he dld not appear to be xnterested lI'l the conx ers ltlon of h1s frlends he was surprlsmgls alert to all that went on around hlm H15 faxorxte habltude was Laurel Sprmgs, w here he spent a great deal of h1s txme He also rode on ferrv boats where he w as able to studv the character ol men from ex erv walk of hte He had no personal followmg, vet lus 4 . - --W - n. . 1 J, , , . yr' Wt. Lf M ' . fl A' I ff f a I ' A xi , X ii, ,M . ,V ' V-if I L+ ,C 'iz 4 x ,I 'l,Q,l' .9' ,Ji c' 5' fl' : f H elm' -Lf' X - 1 H - ' T ,I -Q Lil? -1- If -YALL T 5 - i 'T X Wlyilvqleli A j -f-- Q Y, ff f - ' Q kjf If In IAP , . I in . ,I I aft 'Wt f r ' ffwit' rl. ' ff. f W ' 't if .1-4 N ' Ill' 'I 'xf , f fl . .,v I Qffj, , 13 U' K p Y -r N 3365 ' - ' .fj X , ' nf,fg,3. , ff fi S711 6' f' Zi7'5iv'f',! W F 15 ff I ,1 -1 w' '1' .' A, ' ,'j v.4'- V , f , 4 -' A ., fy l' 3411331 s sf f :V 42,1 f. ls 5 1 .45 512 51 7 Il'f'l?m:, ' ! l FH 17 lrlff' 'O' If X as I I f we It I I . V '1fL.w g41 ' L 14 J- T' 1. ' ' ' ' A ' 4 1 2 A , Y lf!!-L 'f R-Y' ' ie, V .ff -ig-7 - ,l Y ui ' A .- ll ' e 1 I . , 311 7 I I - ,. . . . . , T - - Y- X ' 1 V ' . . . , Y . x v A . V. . . . E 1 A ' Y v ' , I D ., U ., . . . v . Y Y , . V . . . 3 . . U I I V ' v 7 ' . . , . I , V. T , . - 1 ,, , X . . E . ' ' ' - e e ey I ., U , . ,, . Y. . . . .J I f ' . - v v 1 . f 2 2 -Q ' V 1 H X ' ' .H ff - .HTH- H1 x u A 2' Y . . . . . . v . ,, - ' I ' 1 . . ,, . cf 1 - - 11 r V - ' ' 1 '1 I , 0 v 1 . 1 n 1 A . - 1 . n v . I X 7 ' Y 1, 1 , 1 1 , ' ' . . I v L ' x x . J ' e . l 1 y 6 3 . y E , Z . 51 , - . x A, w 5 . 3 v 1 12 - D A 1 ps' ll ' ' I ,. f V x V ,, , ,. . . Y . v . . . v . . H