Ridgewood High School - Arrow Yearbook (Ridgewood, NJ)

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5 r f I MR. JOHN H. CAMBLIN Despite a vigorous life, Ted Stratton refuses to sprout one gray hair, even on retiring. Whatever became of that red-haired farm boy from here who went to Colgate and played end? asked one of the landed gentry in Far Hills at a recent social event on the estate ofa leading New York pub- lisher. That red-headed boy, J. Theodore Stratton,is winding up a career of 38 years at Ridgewood High School. Born in Far Hills, he grew up as a farm boy and then played iust about every sport there was at Ber- nardsville High School. Later at Colgate University, where he was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree in l925, Mr. Stratton played varsity football and ran the hundred in track. He continued his football career after graduation with the Golden Tornadoes, a professional team in Orange, N. J. ln l926, he ioined the English Department at Ridgewood High where he coached the football squad for the next I2 years as well as the debate team. In 1950 he took over the iob of teaching all public speak- ing classes. The pride Ridgewood has in its landscape and flower beds owes its measure to the role and carefully mapped plans of Mr. Stratton's Green Thumb committee. He organized this group to reupholster the local terrain in i950 and is its advisor today. Green Thumb is not the only successful organization he started. ln l96l he organized a cross-country squad and set it winging on its way so well that in i963 he was coaching a team that won the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League championship. As the father of five, for all of whom he had ambitions, he knew he had to add to his income. So he turned his English talents to writing. Before he put his typewriter aside as a professional, despite calls for more from his New York agent, he had written 200 pieces including stories, novelettes, and some detective fiction in the paperback field. His Time to Kill sold more than 400,000 copies. Until his children had graduated from Ridgewood Schools, Mr. Stratton lived in Ridgewood on Oak St. Now he resides in Wyckoff with his wife, Alicia. An inveterate walker, John H. Camblin has probably put in more shoe-leather time than any man in Ridgewood. Brisk walks probably account for his vigorous appearance. Between these walks he has devoted long but rewarding hours to the field of industrial arts. This native Rochesterian started as a manual training teacher in his home town in New York after completing his work at the Rochester Institute of Technology. RIT was the first of many stops on his scholastic iourney. Other high institutions of learning include Columbia, where he earned his B.A., Rutgers, Montclair State College and New York University. In i925 to a high school of some 550 students, John Camblin came to teach mechanical drawing. He became Supervisor of lndustrial Arts in l927. In his early years he taught shop classes for fifth and sixth graders in one elementary school every year. Faced with the task of putting four daughters through college, he added an extra work load. For some years he worked on o property evaluation survey in Ridgewood and nearby communities, putting his knowledge of maps and blueprints to highly practical use. In l95l, he became Director of the Ridgewood Adult School which now enrolls more than 800 students. Though indefinite, plans after June do not call for John and his wife Mary Camblin to sit in their home on Kenilworth Rd, dreaming of the past. His neighbors will see more of his rolling gait, but you can bet he'lI be off on his way to do something worthwhile. ln his wallet he carried a long list of membership cards, There's Epsilon Pi Tau, lnternational Society of lndustrial Arts and Vocational Education, the National Education Association, the New Jersey Educa- tion Association, the Ridgewood Education Association, the New Jer- sey Vocational Arts Association, the American Council of Industrial Arts Supervisors, the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A. and the National Association of Public School Education, so AV: .vi .' 2,4 ,-Q gs, ' ' f :vw MR. J. THEODORE STRATTON MISS FRANCES C. GARRETSON The Christmas Tea with its tasteful decorations and even more tasteful petit pastries, rolled dates and sand- wiches won't be the same without its charming hostess, Frances C. Garretson. Miss Garretson gradually worked her way north to Ridgewood from Cape May City where she was born and where she first started teaching, To prepare for her career, she moved over to Philadelphia and Temple Universty where she was awarded both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees. Since coming to Ridgewood in 1956, she has taught foods, homemaking and home nursing. From i958 to i960 she sponsored the Future Homemakers Club of America. In i960 a dinner that she arranged put the Mide dle Atlantic States Evaluating Committee in a happy, festive state of mind. On retirement, Miss Garretson plans to return to South Jersey where she will put her nimble fingers to work on her hobbies of sewing, cooking, fashioning iewelry, leather goods and her guitar. W, , As a pleasant interlude she is contemplating travel in Europe and the United States. Florida is attracting K.i considerable attention in her travel plans,

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ADMINISTRATION Q,-3' Page 6 '? ' William C. Leach Principal Dr. Lloyd W. Ashby Superinlendenl ol Schools U X fir-I-C. l1.1.u4.... l Frank S, Foley Ralph C. Miller Assis1cnlPrincipul ii Wilma J. McVeigh Assislant Pffncfpcf Dean ol Girls