Haddon Heights High School - Garneteer Yearbook (Haddon Heights, NJ)

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HADDON'S HISTCRY TO SAY thot Hoddon Heights is one ot the most outstonding ot Comden's mony delightful suburbs would not be on exoggerotion, There is odeguote evidence ot this toct in the person ot those tormer neighbors ond friends, who return os regulorly os con be expected from distonces ot three to tour hundred miles, just to regoin tor o while thot home-town spirit which Hoddon Heights inspires, Hoddon Heights os on incorporoted borough dotes bock only o tew months over thirty-two yeors, ln thot comporotively short period ot time . , . Merchontville, Hoddontield, ond Collingswood hod existed in incorporoted form tor ot leost o generotion 4 . , public-spirited citizens ot the borough hove odvonced Hoddon Heights to its present tovored position, Ot the tive townships creoted in l695 within old Gloucester County, three tormed Comden County l5O yeors loter, Those three were Newton, Wotertord, ond Gloucester. Newton ond Gloucester hove tigured in the estoblishment ot Hoddon Heights. Two sections ot Union Township formed Center Township in l8'55, ln IS65, Hoddon Township wos tormed from o port ot Newton Township. From ports ot these two new townships, Hoddon Heights wos incor- poroted os o borough in l904, with subdivi- sions olreody hoving been loid out by Chorles Hillmon in the 'nineties, ond building on subiiijrbon homes hoving been under woy since l9O A study Hall H i Six THE GARNETEER 0 1936

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1 I T , . X if 'fl Quit I I , U X N' 'Xl In jiri! X .E Ii y JXL' -xi xi' hit? l O gl .5 X L' X X. 5'-F. xXx X l W I I f ' WV 1 Jflsf A iQvWf ., Xxtx wily b .A X - X 7 CWM ' V' t .T hauyjwlfxgff-VX ..f' ' .gf 'A l ND FAC Kathryn Hottel, B.S., Home Economics, Drexel Institute. Marjorie Hunsinger, A.B., M.A., Commercial, Ohio Wesleyan, Teachers College, Columbia University. Leonard B. Irwin, A.B., M.A., History, New York University, University ol' Pennsylvania. S. R. Kamm, A.B., M.A., History, Greenville College, University of Michigan. John J. Kirkendall, A.B., M.A., Science, Colorado State Teachers College, Teachers College, Columbia University. Gladys Le Fevre, A.B., Ph.B., English, Irving College, Dickinson College. Annice Locke, A.B., M.A., Music, Ohio Wesleyan, Columbia. Ernestine R. Loos, School Nurse, Women's Southern Homeopathic Hospital, Bibical Seminary in New York. Mary McKenzie, A.B., M.S., Science, English, Swarthmore College, Temple University. Maxine Meitzner, B.S., Physical Education, Boston University, Sargent College. Helen Mish, A.B., M.A'., M.A., English, West Va. University, Teachers College, Columbia University. Sylvania Nagle, A.B., Mathematics, Goucher College. Inez Noble, Commercial, Wesley Collegiate Institute, Peirce Business School. Helene Novak, M.A., B.F.A., B.S., English, Speech, University of Nebraska, Columbia University. Mercy Olenbush, A.B., M.A., Commercial, Baylor University, New York University. Sue O'NeiI, A.B., Librarian, Bucknell University, New Jersey State Library School. Henry Burnell Shafer, A.B., M.A., University of Wisconsin, Columbia University. Kathryn E. Shutt, B.S., M.S., Commercial, Temple University. D. Hartley Sinclair, A.B., B.M., M.A., History, Music, University of Michigan, Philadelphia Musical Academy, University of Pennsylvania. Kenneth C. Slagle, A.B., M.A., English, Mt. Union College, University ot Pennsylvania. Frank E. Slaughter, B.S., M.S., Head of Science Department, Gettysburg College. Harold C. Strobel, B.S., M.E., Mechanical Drawing, Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh. Carl J. Tissall, B.S., M.A., Science, University of Arizona, Teachers College, Columbia University. Ada E. Walker, Latin, English, Keystone State Teachers College, University of Pennsylvania. Guy P. Wharton, B.S., M.S., Head of Commercial Department, Iowa State Teachers College, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Maurine Wilson, A.B., M.A'., History, Drury College, University of Wisconsin. X Five ULTY THE GARNETEER 0 1936 - 4

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This steady advancement was due to the F' 's F trend in population. Likewise, the name ot our borough was determined by the make-up ot the population. Benjamin A. Lippincott suggested the name Prospect Ridge, descend- ants ot the early settlers at Haddonfield, however, won out with their insistence on the name Haddon Heights Early real-estate operators, Frederick Fries, Moore, Pollock, and Redner, furthered Hill- man's start given the town in the 'nineties At that time iabout l9007 the intersection at King's Highway and the White Horse Pike was known as Baker's Court, We cannot proceed any further without due recognition ot the government ot Haddon Heights and its part in the betterment at this boroughs Under the administration ot Benjamin Lip- pincott, our tirst mayor, and the clerkship 7 ot Robert A. Glenn, taxes tor the tirst year Classroom totalled 52,000 5800 at this amount was not Cqfeferiq expended. The succeeding mayors have been Frederick Fries, William J. Dallas, Frank Upham, James Crawford, and William J. Dallas, in his second term, is our present mayor, By annexing in i925 the Fairtield tract, which had been a part of Center Town- ship, the area ot Haddon Heights was practically doubled. This combined area is now characterized by twenty-one miles ot paved streets, a tire department, a public library, ambulance service, titteen hundred modern residences, a private waterworks, Stairway Seven THE GARNETEER 0 l936