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

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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

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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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Cooking Gymnasium Chemistry Shop a modern sewage disposal plant built in l928, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Christian Scientist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, a fine Borough Park at Eighth Ave- nue and High Street, and a Borough Hall built in l9ll. The police department is composed of twelve trained officers under Police Recorder Sydney T. Smith. Three of these officers are assigned to traffic duty. They handle the heavy seashore and other South Jersey ' traffic which goes through Haddon Heights on the White Horse Pike. The entire police force is subject to call from headquarters at all times through an electrical signal system. The lOO acres of land on Little Timber Creek and King's Run belonging to the borough was recently turned over to the County Park Commission for a public play- ground This park is a picturesque spot, and includes a lake, tennis court, pavilions, and other recreational facilities. The Borough Park at Eighth Avenue and ' High Street is a popular recreation center, with tennis courts, a baseball diamond, band concerts during the summer, and other pro- visions for amusement. Athletic events are staged on the fine field adjoining the high school. Historically, King's Highway is important, in that King George lll of England is reputed to have passed through on that thoroughfare. The oldest house in Haddon Heights is the Hatcher House, built by the Glover family in l74O, Haddon Heights is far from isolated lt is surrounded on the north by Audubon, the west by Mount Ephraim, the east by Haddon- field, the south and southeast by Barrington, and on the south and southwest by Bellmawr. Four famous highways, King's Highway, the White Horse Pike, the Black Horse Pike, and Clements Bridge Road serve Haddon Heights. These thoroughfares offer comfortable transportation to South Jersey points, and frequent and convenient transportation to Camden and Philadelphia, Regardless of the How l hate school l spirit characterizing a large number of our generation, even the hatin'est of us must appreciate the importance of our high school and its place in the town, from the time about l9ll when its first class graduated from the building on King's Highway, boasting seven-no less-efmembers, until now, when our class of '36 can claim almost two hundred V I Our high school is comparatively young, but for a while we began to wonder if it had any history at all, Digging down in the depths of mind and literature, however, we were able, eventually, to uncover facts which put before us the inception Eight THE GARNETEER 0 1936