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

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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

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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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and development of l-laddon l-leights High School, Somewhere near the center of a ponderous volume, dutifully recorded by various Board secretaries, we find under the date July 26, l907 the following long-winded entryi Whereas , . , the school accommodations now provided in this district are inadequate and unsuited to the number of pupils atttending or desiring to attend school, and Whereas it is the opinion of this board that in order to provide adequate and suitable school accommodations, a plot of land should be secured and an addition to the school house erected, therefore be it- Resolved, that a meeting of the legal-voters of the School District be held , , on the sixth day of August, l907 , . . To authorize the Board of Education to purchase a lot for school purposes , . . ln other words, it was planned at that time to build an addition to the grade school to be used as a high school. Previously, anyone desiring a high school education went to Camden. Special arrangements were made for auarters in which classes would be held during the erection of the new building. On August 6, l907, it was recorded that the legal-voters of the district had author- ized the board to purchase land for school purposes. This land was bought from Ben- jamin A, Lippincott. lt was also resolved S that in order to raise money for the project the board should issue bonds for various - amounts and different periods of time. l It is interesting to note that on October l lel, l907, it was moved and carried that applications for admission to pupils from Blackwood should be rejected in order that preference might be given to pupils nearer byl On December 9, l907, there was a question as to whether the board would be obliged to provide for a commercial course in the high school, or whether they could, instead, pay the tuition of pupils from the district taking commercial courses in another district. Our source of information fails from this point to enlighten us on such matters as the increase in attendance, the courses offered, or other improvements. Pages of finely writ- ten long-hand notes inform us only of such matters as the continued presence of water in the basement of the new building, the buying of coal for the Baptist church to replace that used when closses were held in that building, and the giving of the contract for window shades. But we know that the high school grew and behaved as all good high schools should, for on February l7, l925, the new high school building was officially dedicated. l-lere we have worked and played for four short years. Although we are on our way Y out, we are not on our way toward forget- ting our high school and its place in our hearts. i Nine THE GARNETEER 0 l Mechanical Drawing Sewing Typing 936