Davis School and WWHS Students of the 50's, 60's and 70's

Hello, and Welcome! If you were a student, or teacher, at HH Davis School or Woodrow Wilson High School in East Camden, NJ during the 1960’s and 1970’s, you have found an Internet home where you can leave comments and posts, and reconnect with people you knew in childhood. If you stumble upon this site, please pass along its where-abouts to anyone you know who once lived in East Camden, and attended Davis or Wilson.

My name is Ken Brown, I attended both schools… Davis from 1963 until 1972 (Kindergarten through 8th Grade) and Woodrow Wilson from 1972 until graduation in 1976. My hope is that people will find this site and that it will grow as a place for old friends to reconnect, reminisce, and leave posts and comments,  without having to pay a fee as you do at most reunion and alumni sites.

I can be emailed at Leppaluoto@aol.com, or you can leave a message or comment here at the site. At the very least, let us know you have stopped by.

***Note About Class Pictures… when you click on a page to the right for a class picture (or any other picture on the site), when the picture comes up, click on the picture to view the entire class picture maximized.  If anyone has pictures of other classes, the schools, events, or pictures of East Camden,  forward them via e-mail, and I will post them also.

*** Just a reminder, if you post comments on this site, they can be viewed by anyone searching the web. So keep your comments civil and benign. WordPress (the host site) monitors for inappropriate language and topics. If you should post something you later regret, just let me know and I will delete the post at your request.

 The “Blogroll” on the menu to the right has links to other sites that are of interest to folks with a Camden connection. I especially recommend Phil Cohen’s excellent site, it is loaded with historical information on Camden, and he is constantly adding new photos and information. The Rutger’s link no longer has the “Stories of the Neighborhood” feature, sadly Rutger’s did not manage the site well and it was ruined by spammers; many great memories were lost.

IMPORTANT NOTE - The “Archival Vault” pages listed on the menu to the right contain all previous comments that have been left on the site’s opening page since we began. Please check them out, as there is a lot of “good stuff” there. Also, messages have been left on most of the other pages, so be sure to check them out too.

 There are now class photos for many of the Davis classes of the 60’s and 70’s, as well as some from the 40’s and 50’s.  Remember to click on the photo when it comes up to  see if it can be maximize, as some photos can be enlarged, others cannot.

This front page will now just be used for updates and important notices concerning the site’s activities.

 Because this site is listed on Internet search engines, and can be read by anyone who stumbles upon it, including children and the relatives of individuals who may no longer be with us,   please keep the comments positive and benign, and  refrain from using derogatory statements and words.

Many individuals who have posted at this site, are also members of FaceBook. Many people who originally reconnected here, and posted messages over the first year of this site, no longer do, as they have moved on to FaceBook, where they continue to reconnect with others and have more individual control over their personal page. I encourage all who do not yet have a FaceBook page to check it out for two reasons… you can reconnect more directly with others there  – and you will find more people to reconnect with; and you will have total control over your page, unlike on this  site which has  obvious limitations. It also has chat, and you can create your own photo albums.

We now have a new “annex” to this site on FaceBook. I have created a group at FaceBook called “East Camden, NJ – Kids of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s” – as an additional place for former East Camden people to reconnect. There are many former students and residents on FaceBook, so if you have not yet joined that social networking site, I strongly suggest that you do. A number of people have already joined the FaceBook group. You must be a FaceBook member to join in that group, but that only requires a simple free sign up process. At the FaceBook site members of the group are free to edit their posts, posts pictures, videos, and links independently. Here is the link if you are already a FaceBook member:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=125347439784&ref=mf

AUGUST 23rd 2009 – IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please be advised that there is now only one page on this site that is open for leaving comments and posts, and that page is titled COMMENTS and POSTS and can be found at the top of the page menu on the right. I have closed all other pages to comments, and they will now be “read only” pages.

I have had to make these changes for several reasons, primarily because the site has been bombarded with spam in recent weeks and months, and while all of it has been successfully caught by the WordPress spam catcher program, my own personal computer has recently become vulnerable. Also this site has grown beyond the capacity to easily update post and comments from numerous pages, so the ability to leave comments and contact info is now confined to a more manageable single page.

Also I would again encourage anyone who visits this site to please check out FaceBook as it is a much better social networking site to search for individuals and connect directly with people you are seeking to reconnect with. There is now a sister site to this site on FaceBook, and you can find that if you are a FaceBook member, through the link above. At the FaceBook site you are free to post, start discussions, post pictures, videos, and links, and you can easily connect with others, there are already many former East Camden people who have joined the FaceBook group. So check it out, that is where most everyone who use to frequent this site, can now be found!