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

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Friendly faces, all familiar, Trooping through our halls, Find them here, all in their places Answering Alma Mater's calls. Qui: ,U

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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

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