Camden County Vocational School - Vocationalist Yearbook (Pennsauken, NJ)

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v Y,Y, ALUMNI HE standards of a school are determined by the quality of student it produces. Employers, in this age when there is a vast number of highly trained persons who are unemployed, have a large group from which to hire their employees. It is up to the student to take advantage of all the opportunites and instruction which this school oflers, so that he will be in that selected group from which workers are hired. Then, too, we must never feel that our education and training are completed. We must continually study the new methods which industry is constantly adopting and as a good citizen we should keep ourselves well-informed of local and interna- tional problems and situations. It is our duty to give of our strength and ability whenever the community needs us. Never should we sever our relationship with this school which has helped us to grow and advance, and one of the best ways to keep in touch with school is through the Alumni Association. This is an active wide-awake organization which meets every month. There is always a good program at each meeting and you get an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with the old grads. In order to make it possible for every graduate to join, dues have been abolished. Remember, no dues ...... interesting and educational program ...... enter- tainment and refreshments at all our meetings. We want you to join. We greet each and everyone of you. Come out and make an even better and bigger Alumni Associ- ation. We need you and you need us. CHARLES COLOZZI, Prefident X U II AX 'I' I U N .X I, S I II IJ U I

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CAMDEN COUNTY T IS only fitting that we should record the progress of Camden County as we mark the advancement of this school, because the need of this industrial area has been the reason this school was established ten years ago. Since the County incorporation in 1844 the population has increased more than tenfold, from 25,569 people in I8SO to 252,312 in 1930. The last thirty years have seen the population nearly triple itself. Little settlements of scattered houses soon began to take shape of enterprising communities. The City of Cam- den, keeping pace with the rest of the County, has increased in size until there is no doubt that it is destined to become Walt Whitman's city invincible . Geographically, Camden County consists of thirty-six municipalities cover- ing an area of 222 square miles. About 33,000 acres of this land are devoted to farming and agriculture. The rest of this area is taken up by more than 300 diversified industries and their employees. Although the County ranks only seventeenth in size in the state of New jersey, it is sixth in population, therefore it seems that homemaking is not the least of our industries. The County is well situated, being only a short distance from Philadelphia which is the center of all the great markets east of the Nlississippi. Fifty-two percent of the total population of the Nation live within three days transpor- tation distance of this center. The excellent location and transportation facilities have done much toward the rapid industrial development of this area. Industrialists were quick to realize that in the County was a fertile field for the establishment of their industries. This is what prompted the founding of about 309 establishments. The IQ3O census showed that there was an average of 33,952 workers employed in the County who in turn received S42,5I7,7S4 in wages. The valueofproducts they manufactured was estimated at S303,373,937. From a very humble beginning more than a century ago this small group of in- dustries has risen to attain renown in the markets of the world. Naturally as the County grew in size so has the City of Camden. During a short period of almost thirty years the manufacturing output has increased S2II,OO0,000. The 237 different industries of the city have gained the rank for Camden of the fifth greatest city in New jersey forits manufacturing output. It is truly New Jersey's most highly industrialized city and it leads the entire Nation in the proportion of its population engaged in industry. About 29,000 of its 118,700 inhabitants are engaged in some industry. Iron products, leather, fiint, glass and oilcloth were the early commodities associated with the name of Camden. These industries have been replaced by the newer commercial establishments such as: Esterbrook Steel Pen Company, Campbell Soup Company, Van Sciver Company, R. C. A. Manufacturing Com- pany, the New York Shipbuilding Company and the Armstrong Cork Company soon followed these others into prominence. Before the dawn of the Twentieth Century, Camden was already gaining an industrial reputation. From 1930 until today its rise has been meteoric. Situated in such a diversified industrial area, the graduate of the Vocational School has an excellent field in which to seek employment in the trade he hopes to make his life's work. C A M ll li N C 0 li N T X