195 Get Diplomas at Catholic High

Camden Courier-Post – June 19, 1933

Largest Class in History Is Graduated as 2000 Gather for Tribute

Diplomas were awarded to 195 graduates of Camden Catholic High School at annual commencement exercises held yesterday in Convention Hall, where nearly 2000 persons gathered to pay tribute.

The class, comprising 99 boys and 96 girls, was the largest in history of the school arid represented 26 South Jersey municipalities in addition to Camden and West Philadelphia.

Rt. Rev. Monsignor William I. McKean, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Bernardsville, N.J., delivered the address to the graduates and urged them to think “deeply, seriously and with a devotion to God in that the knowledge that is acquired will be of permanence.”

Three scholarships, gifts of three colleges, were awarded to boy students. Joseph A. Hooven of Camden will go to Villanova College, Joseph G. Widua of Camden will go to St. Joseph’s College and Edward J. Lynch of Haddon Heights will go to La Salle College.

The valedictory address, “Hope or Memory,” was delivered by Widua, and the salutatory address, “Welcome for Welcome” by Miss Bernice C. Borden of Camden. Miss Borden is a daughter of Edward J. Borden, a member of the New Jersey Real Estate Commission. An oration, “Blind Gods or God?” was delivered by Ralph Doering.

Diplomas were conferred and honors distributed by Rt. Rev. Monsignor William J. FitzGerald, pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church.

Doering was the winner of three gold medals in oratory, music and physics. Other gold medal awards were as follows:

Joseph Widua, for excellence; Catherine Marcotte, Joseph Urban, Helen Joseph, James Kelley and Adelaide Roedlg, for scholarship, James DeCarlo and Donald O’Brien, for excellence in mathematics; Mary McClernan, for excelience in Latin; Stanley Kutylowskl, for excellence in stenography; Lawrence D’Aloise and James Rabbitt, for excellence in science; Mary Woods, for dramatics; Evelyn Butler, Dorothy Grisel and Comella Taulane, for commercial work; James Collier and Bernice Borden, for school spirit; William Ivins, for athletics; Charles Hughes, for service and loyalty; Michael Carroll and Marcella Lieberum, gold prizes in religion contest; Michael Carroll, for essay on Dublin Eucharistic Congress; Donald O’Brien, for mechanical drawing; Lawrence D’Alolse, for interscholastlcs spelling championship, and for four years’ perfect attendance, Aida Aspers, Genevieve Beirne, Anna Blumenstein, Rudolph Doering, Ruth Ewe, Rita Eichmann, Catherine Grim, Dorothy Grisel, Cecelfa Hopkins, Carmella Klarich, John Kelly, Thomas Logan, Carmelita Mooney, William Murphy and Anthony Taleski.

An average of 85 percent in scholarship was attained by 20 boys and 37 girls, while 5 girls’ and 6 boys registered above 90 percent in their senior year and 3 girls and four boys were credited with marks in excess of 90 percent for the four years.