Dr. Leon
N.
Neulen

DR. LEON NELSON NEULEN served as the superintendent of Camden's public school system from 1931 to at least 1955. This post had been previously held by Horatio Draper, followed by Dr. James E. Bryan, who served until 1931.

Dr. Neulen was born in Northfield, Iowa on November 16, 1894. When he registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, he was working on a farm in Northfield Minnesota, but was under contract to go to a town in North Dakota to serve as superintendant of schools. By the time 1919 he was working as a schoolteacher at the Iowa State College for the Blind in Vinton, Iowa.

Leon N. Neulen had returned to Northfield, Minnesota in the mid 1920s. In 1926 he traveled to Sweden, returning to New York on July 7 aboard the steamship Gripsholm.

At the time of the 1930 Census Leon N. Neulen was living in Champagne IL, where he was the superintendent of schools. He was hired by and came to Camden in time for the 1931-1932 school term. He apparently was commuting for the first few years, as it is known that he lived in West Englewood NJ as late as the summer of 1934, when he took a cruise to Bermuda aboard the steamship Queen of Bermuda.

After coming to Camden, Dr. Neulen became an active member of the Camden Rotary Club, and was elected club president in July of 1934 through July of 1934, succeeding by Frederick A. Vieser.

After leaving Camden, he eventually made his way to Tulsa OK, where he last resided. He passed away in February of 1985.

World War I Draft Card

SS Gripsholm

Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1931

SCHOOL HOLIDAY FOR NOV. 11 URGED
Camden Post, V. F. W. to See Dr. Neulen About Armistice Celebration

Sterling J. Parker, junior vice commander, and William E. Rilbmann, adjutant, of Camden Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will confer with Dr. Leon N. Neulen, superintendent of Camden schools, in an effort to obtain a full day's holiday on Armistice Day, November 11, for school children. The question of only a half holiday was taken up with Dr. Neulen by post officials and he requested representatives to confer with him.

The full holiday also was favored by delegates to the county council at a meeting held last Sunday at the headquarters of Butcher-Young Post at 563 Chestnut Street.

A committee has been named to gather cigarettes and tobacco for veterans in government hospitals. Members of the auxiliary will aid in the distribution of the gifts. A parade was staged Tuesday night by the drum and bugle corps to boost a benefit show being held at two Camden theatres. The corps will compete with other musical units at Perth Amboy on October 31, and will join the Verdun Day celebration at Vineland October 25. Seven candidates will be initiated next Monday night, and the annual election will be held October 26, with installation on November 2.

Members of the Auxiliary will hold their second monthly card patty at the post headquarters, 308 Broadway. Mrs. Clara Dey, Colonial Manor, has been elected president of the auxiliary. Other officers elected are Mrs. Edward A, Stark, treasurer; Mrs. Ethel Rouh, secretary; Sarah E. Fean, color bearer. 

Camden Courier-Post - October 31, 1931

ARMISTICE PARADE ROUTE IS CHANGED
Officials Announce 90 Organizations Will Be in March

A change in the route of march of the Armistice Day parade, was announced last night, at a meeting of the committee in the office of Director of Public Welfare David S. Rhone.

The proposed route is Third and Cooper Streets; to Broadway, to Kaighn Avenue, west on Kaighn Avenue to Fourth Street, thence to the city line and disband.

The parade will start promptly at 1:45 p. m. The grand marshal will be Colonel George L. Selby. The route of march is approximately two miles and shorter than any previous year.

There will be 90 organizations in the line of march. Included in these will be 18 American Legion Posts; 13 Veterans of Foreign War Posts; 18 National Guard units; five Naval Reserve units and 21 other organizations. Martial music will be provided by 15 bands.

All members of the police and fire departments who are war veterans, will be excused from duly and will participate in the parade as a unit..

Announcement was made by Jack Weinberg, chairman of the prize committee that two additional cups have been donated by the Retail Division of the Chamber of Commerce. This makes a total of 14 to be awarded. The last two will be given to veteran organizations outside the city of Camden.

More than 1700 school children from the sixth grade to the high school will take part in exercises to be held at the Convention Hall in the morning, it was announced by Dr. Leon N. Neulen, superintendent of schools.

 The children will parade under the direction of their teachers.

Camden Courier-Post
March 12, 1932

Camden High School Purple & Gold Yearbook - 1932

Camden Courier-Post - June 8, 1932

June 16, 1932

Dr. Leon N. Neulen
C. Paul Ney
Arthur Colsey
Lillie T. Osler
Roy R. Stewart

Camden High School
Woodrow Wilson Junior High School
Leon N. Neulen - A. Gabriel Ungerleider
Cooper B. Hatch Junior High School
Elizabeth K. WIlliams
Harriet M. Reiners
Josephine H. Lewallen

Camden Courier-Post * February 1, 1933

2 Towns to Pay Fees And Keep 164 Pupils On Camden High List
Pennsauken and Woodlynne $12,851 Behind in Bills to School Board
MANUAL TRAINING CLASSES CUT OFF
Domestic Science Dropped and Continuation Studies Will Cease

Less than 24 hours after the Camden Board of Education had warned school officials of Pennsauken township and Woodlynne borough that 164 pupils from those towns faced dismissal from Camden Senior High School, officials of both communities last night promised that money owed the local board would be transmitted today.

Failure of Pennsauken and Woodlynne to pay a total of $12,851.51 in tuition fees due Dec. 31, was the basis of the order sent out by Albert Austermuhl, secretary of the Camden board, on authority of Dr. Leon N. Neulen, superintendent of Camden schools. Pennsauken owes $11,790 for 150 pupils and Woodlynne's debt is $1061.51 for 14 pupils.

G. Harry Carson, Merchantville, is district clerk of the Pennsauken Board of Education. He notified members of the board when the warning from Camden was received.

J. Perry Long, president of the Pennsauken township school board, expressed surprise at the notice. He said the check covering the amount would be delivered in Camden today. 

"Pennsauken township never has defaulted in its payment to the Camden board and does not expect to do so now. The $11,790 due is for tuition for the semester which closed yesterday and we shall pay in full."

"The bill sent us by the Camden board,. dated Nov. I, 1931, informed us the money was due yesterday and would have been mailed then but for the fact that the clerk was busy with numerous other matters concerning the township board's payroll."

William Daugherty, Woodlynne borough clerk, announced that the borough had transferred the necessary fund to the Woodlynne school board's account and that a. check would be sent to the Camden board today.

Despite these assurances, the Camden board still was confronted with many problems. They included the announced intention of abandoning the Camden Evening School classes at Haddon and Newton Avenues and the Continuation School at 555 Mt. Vernon street, and dropping of manual training and domestic science courses in all elementary schools.

A net reduction of $164,466 from items In the budget for the current school year was revealed Monday when the schedule of appropriations and income for the 1933-34 term was presented. In addition to this figure a move is under way to lop off $417,766 by cutting 30 percent from salaries of 800 schoolteachers, principals and supervisors. This pay slash was ordered by the Camden City Commission but still is pending because of delay in legislation on state mandatory laws which govern the amounts paid to instructors.

Teachers Oppose Plan

The Camden Teachers' Association on January 10, voted against accepting the slash, describing it as too drastic. During the past year the teachers refunded $108,000 from their pay and are under agreement to turn back $17,000 before the end of the current school term.

Protected from arbitrary slashes in the same manner as teachers, 92 school janitors have agreed to 5 and 10 percent cuts, amounting to approximately $15,000.

While complete details regarding the extent of the economy measures under consideration in the Camden school system were lacking last night, it was indicated that curtailment of various special classes in many of the city's 38 schools would be required. A number of teachers will be dropped.

Reductions Are Drastic

The special classes expected to be curtailed include art, penmanship and physical education. No appropriation for the Continuation School, which last year totaled $22,078, was included in the 1933-34 budget. The Evening School appropriation of $2900 is wiped out.

The following table shows the amount of reduction in each item of the list of appropriations:

Administration .............. 15,888
Instruction supervisory .. 88,227
Instruction proper ......... 48,848
Operation ...................... 20,971
Maintenance ................ 111,052
Co-ordinate activities........ 8,779
Fixed charges ..................... 780
Evening School, teacher......2900
Continuation School.........22,078
                          Total $164,4611

Samuel E. Fulton, president of the board, in announcing abandonment of some of the activities, declared the budget committee made the slashes, upon recommendation of the entire board because of the city’s financial situation. He explained that teachers dropped under the economy moves who are not eligible for pension, will be given preference when vacancies occur.

Camden Courier-Post * June 2, 1933

Retiring Northeast Principal Is Guest of Honor at Dinner
School Officials, Teachers Praise Mrs. Mar­garet Thomson
30 YEARS' SERVICE IN CAMDEN ENDED
P.T.A Plans Farewell Reception at State Street M. E.

Twenty-two teachers of Northeast School, Seventh and Vine Streets, honored Mrs. Margaret Thomson, principal of the school, at an informal dinner Wednesday night in Haddon Heights, to mark Mrs. Thomson's retirement from active service in Camden schools after 30 years,

Some of the teachers at the dinner at the "Little White House" tea room are members of the present staff of Northeast School, while others have taught at the school and have either retired or been transferred.

The teachers' presented a chair to Mrs. Thomson, and a gold pin to Miss Eva Burrough, a cousin of Miss Clara S. Burrough, retiring principal of Camden Senior High School.

Mrs. Thomson began her Camden teaching career in 1904 when she was assigned to Sewell School. For 12 years the boys of Sewell School and members of their families regarded Mrs. Thomson as more than a teacher, often bringing to her little family problems to be settled, or seeking advice in matters other than affairs of the school.

In 1916 Mrs. Thomson was named principal of Northeast School, across the street from the building where she started teaching in Camden. Her interests in the families remained the same for her pupils at Northeast School were the girls of the same families she had counseled while at Sewell School.

Mrs. Thomson was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, and received her education there. She taught in the Chester schools for several years before her marriage.

She decided to re-enter the teaching profession several years after her marriage and went to Millersville Normal School for further training.

Meanwhile her sister, Mrs. Mary Brown, had located in Camden to start the French department in the high school. Mrs. Brown, pleased with Camden and its schools, persuaded Mrs. Thomson to come here, and a few years later they were joined by another sister, Mrs. Frances Wilmerton.

A member of Centenary-Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church since coming to Camden, Mrs. Thomson has been active in church affairs of the community. She has served as treasurer of the Teachers' Relief Insurance Fund, and is a member of the State Teachers' Association as well as the National Education Association.

Through her efforts, the number of Camden teachers associated with the insurance fund has increased from less than 500 to more than 500, and the benefits have been increased from $300 to $500.

Mrs. Thomson will be honored Monday at a reception given by members of the Parent-Teacher Association of Sewell and Northeast schools and by families, of the community. The reception will be held in State Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Sixth and State streets.

Dr. James Bryan, former superintendent of Camden schools; Dr. Leon N. Neulen, present superintendent; Samuel E. Fulton, president of the Camden Board of Education, and several former pupils of Mrs. Thomson will review her career as a teacher here and recount many incidents of her work.

Camden Courier-Post * June 8, 1933

BORDEN TO BE GUEST Of REALTY BOARD
Newly Elected President of Commission Will Be Honored at Dinner

Edward J. Borden will be guest of honor tonight of the Camden County Real Estate Board at a banquet in honor of his election as president of the New Jersey Real Estate Commission.

The banquet, to be held in the Camden Club, 315 Cooper street, will be attended by lawyers, real estate men and public officials from all sections of the state. The Real Estate Board, of which Borden was thrice president, is giving the dinner.

Among the guests who will attend are former U. S. Senator David Baird, Jr., Assemblyman Frank M. Travaline, Jr., Mayor Roy R. Stewart and other members of the Camden City Commission; Dr. Leon N. Neulen, city superintendent of schools, and Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.

The speakers include William S. Abbott, president of the Camden County Real Estate Board; Leon E. Todd, former president; Vincent P. Bradley, of Trenton, retiring president of the New Jersey Real Estate Commission; Carleton E. Adams, of Atlantic City, vice president of the New Jersey Association of Real Estate Boards; Samuel P. Orlando, former assistant prosecutor of Camden county, and C. Armel Nutter, general chairman of the banquet committee.

On the banquet program appears the gilded outline of a bee, typifying Borden's activities in the interests of real estate advancement in Camden county. Wayland P. Cramer is chairman of the program, committee. Chairmen of other committees follow: William A. Eppright, attendance; T. J., McCormick, entertainment; Carl R. Evered, door prizes, and Todd, speakers and guests.

George B. Robeson, former president of the Real Estate Board, Is toastmaster of the banquet, which will begin at 7:30 p. m.

Camden Courier-Post- February 19, 1936

DR. NEULEN TO SPEAK AT ST. LOUIS MEETING

Dr. Leon N. Neulen, superintendent of Camden public schools, will be a speaker at the convention of public school superintendents at St. , Louis next week. The Camden superintendent's address, which will concern potentially permanent educational values of the National Youth Administration apart from the ebb and flow of relief requirements, will be given February 26 in the Hotel Statler, St. Louis. The convention will open Saturday and continue until Thursday, February 27. Members of the department of superintendence of the National Educational Association will attend.

Camden Courier-Post - February 3, 1938

Junior Red Cross Activities Told to Astonished Elders
12,000 Members in County Learn Meaning of Real Charity
Through Aid to Sick and Needy School Classmates

By GORDON MACKAY

Bright-faced boys and girls of the Collingswood schools, representative of the 12,000 members the junior council of the Red Cross has in Camden County, astonished their elders last night by the nature and scope of their humanitarian work,

These revelations were made at the meeting of the Camden County Chapter of the Red Cross, with Dr. Leon N. Neulen, superintendent of Camden city schools, presiding.

So remarkably humane did these boys and children reveal themselves that they shared honors with Fire man Harry Cooling, of the Collingswood fire department, who was an unsung hero until last night, too.

Henry D. Rooney, familiarly known in Red Cross circles as "Pop" and the man in charge of the first aid efforts of the organization, disclosed the hero role that Cooling played some months ago.

"Cooling was a student at the first aid school we were maintaining at Collingswood," said Rooney, "and he was in class one night studying when a call came to him. The police department had found a woman overcome by gas.”

Errand of Mercy

"The Policeman who found the victim knew the fire department was at first aid school that night. So he telephoned to the firemen for assistance and Harry Cooling responded. He revived the woman and then summoned a doctor.

"The physician sent for an ambulance to take the victim to the hospital. The doctor said to Harry: 'You're going with us,' That woman became unconscious twice when on the way to the hospital and each time Harry revived her. She is alive and well today."

While Harry shone because of Rooney's tale, the youngsters basked in the sunlight of their own description of the work they did, told with modesty, and actually astounding the elders on hand.

William Stevenson, who is chairman of the junior council in Collingswood and a senior in the high school, opened the program for his associates. He disclosed that every student in the high schools and every pupil in the elementary grades is a member of the junior council. They are organized to take care of needy pupils, and the anonymous manner in which such humanitarian work is performed was explained at length by the young spokesman.

$967 Spent In Aid

Miss Dorothy Thorne gave an insight into the activities of the juniors, measured in dollars and cents. She told of the collection of $1001 from the Collingswood school children during the past year, of which $967.34 was spent to aid youngsters, needy, sick or ailing.

The manner in which these young people spent the money was an insight into the expansive work they do. One needy pupil was given a vital X-ray examination for which the juniors paid $15.

Another bill of $10 which was paid, provided medicine in hospitals for students whose own. Pocketbooks couldn't supply the money. Milk for babies, meat for the hungry, clothing for the needy- all these activities were set forth in a chapter that evoked praise from Dr. Neulen, the chairman.

The Christmas work of the high and grade school youngsters, too, formed an illuminating chapter. Miss Jessie Watt of the high school, recited how the schools have been supplying these baskets for five years.

152 Baskets Sent Out

"No family is identified by name,'" she said, "but each is known by a number which is placed on the basket and the address of the person to whom the basket is to be de livered is appended.

"In 1937 at Christmas we sent out 152 baskets."

"These baskets,” added Miss Watt, "if totaled in money, would· have amounted to possibly $1500, all of the baskets being supplied by the school children alone."

Douglas Reese of the high school senior class, who helped to deliver the baskets, told of the joy of the recipients, and how he and his fellows learned how the other half lived.

"It was an experience we will never forget," he declared.

Richard Miller, a chubby youngster who attends Garfield school, recited the international amity which is promoted by Collingswood grade schools and foreign school children.

"We send cartons from our school, and the other schools to foreign countries, filled with toys and playthings, dolls and everything that a child would ask at Christmas, but no war toys” he said.

"And no soap," he declared fervently, while his elder auditors roared, "because we don't want to insult them by malting them think we think they need soap."

Garments Distributed

Betty Jane Vogel, also of the Garfield school, told of the instruction which the pupils receive, while Phyllis Greene, of the junior high school, narrated how each of the 300 girls in the school supplied a garment she had made to be given a needy girl last Christmas.

Dorothy Paul, of Oaklyn, who at tends Collingswood High school, revealed the international friendship and amity that Collingswood youngsters are promoting by an. exchange of letters and gifts. She exhibited a tremendous portfolio which had been sent by Collingswood High to a high school in Czechoslovakia. The aliens to reciprocate, sent back, a portfolio showing the process of steel-making in the great plants at Skoda.

Miss Paul also explained that these exchanges were made with high schools as far afield as South Africa, with those in Italy and other European countries.

Helen Barton, also a student at the junior high, was the 1937 delegate to the national conference of the junior council held in Washington. She recited how the juniors had contributed between $15,000. and $18,000 during the last year to be expended in helping communities to supply libraries and playgrounds to the boys and girls of those places.

Miss Barton also recited a story regarding an accident which had occurred to two children in Delaware, who afterwards became wards of junior council.

Pay for Surgery

"They had been in an accident," she related, "and it was necessary to resort to plastic surgery in order to keep their faces from being scarred for life. The junior council sent them to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where the operations were per formed and new faces literally given to the children."

Reports were received from various committees at the session held before the juniors took charge. Representatives told how the various communities are fighting the depression by having the various Red Cross units make sweaters, jackets and other articles of clothing to supply the needy who lack these essentials.

The county chapter, too, reported $6000 sent to Washington national headquarters; as payment for the membership which had been recruited during the past year. Miss Viola E. Williams, executive secretary, reported the chapter would embrace 12,500 members shortly, the greatest known to the organization since wartime.

Mrs. M. E. Linden was presented with a pin for having recruited the largest number of new members for the Collingswood unit.

Camden Courier-Post - February 7, 1938

Is Zat So?
by
GORDON MACKAY

THIS writer makes a grand salaam to the school children of Collingswood. The youngsters are members of the junior council of the American Red Cross, itself indicative of the humanitarian objectives of the young folk. Few persons, unless they are cognizant of the grand work of the school pupils in the grade schools and ·the students in the high schools, can realize how effective these youngsters are in their charities and humanities. I

When I stop to consider that, years ago, when this grizzled old codger was a pupil in a grammar school, that the only contact we had with foreign nations was on a round globe that turned on a swivel, the amity and alliances that these Collingswood boys and. girls have built abroad seem a miracle.

We also regard as significant a little Incident connected with this international alliance between Southern Jersey and Central Europe. One realizes that the children in the classrooms reflect the nature of domestic thought, the trend of home training, home beliefs, home aims. This fact was proved to a startling degree by the straw votes taken in the suburban high schools in 1936 on the presidential contest.

The communities ran almost identical at the polls with the straw votes in the classrooms, so that the school children were really revealing the manner in which pa and ma were going to vote at the polls.

. This prelude was merely to allude more convincingly to a little fact that may have escaped particular attention at a recent meeting of the Camden County Chapter of the Red Cross in the Collingswood borough hall. The students in the junior high school made a portfolio last Christmas to send to high school children in Czechoslovakia.

MUNITIONS WORK AT SKODA SHOWN

Naturally as junior members of the great Red Cross, the C.H.S. students included in their portfolio, largely pictorial, scenes that were "interesting to pacific students here, pictures of school work, student activities, and the like.

It is significant that the portfolio which the students in a high school in Prague returned to Collingswood contained pictures of the great munitions works called Skoda. A plant that ranks with the Krupps in Germany, or any of the great plants in our own country.

I have been hearing views given by those who have returned from Europe. These travelers agree Europe is martial-minded, and that war is in everybody's thought, if not on everybody's' lips. It was necessary to take everything with a grain of salt, for after all, an American viewpoint on a European situation is not necessarily reflective of European thoughts.

But a school child's mind is reflective of the thoughts of his elders.

The mere fact that these children in Czechoslovakia should believe that their friends in South Jersey would, be interested in pictures of the great munitions plant reveals to me, at least that Europe is war-minded. I believe the kids disclosed this better than all the premiers, dictators and rulers on the continent.

I shall stick to the original premise that a child reflects its domicile, reflects its parents, reflects the home thoughts and beliefs, and this portfolio, filled with pictures of a munitions plant, is tile best argument to me that Europe is thinking and dreaming of war. Hence the warrant, insofar as I am concerned, for the increase in Uncle Sam's own national defenses.

It also indicates the simplicity of the student mind in Prague. At a distance of thousands of miles these simple children probably felt that the little pals in America were thinking along the same lines as the offspring of the Czechs.

MUCH CREDIT DUE YOUNGSTERS

Hence what could come with greater pleasure to the Collingswood children, or be fraught with a sterner message that we in Czechoslovakia are prepared, too, than to send the Jersey children a book filled with majestic pictures of Skoda's great munitions' plant.

Indeed, to my mind, it was the most telling and significant indication that war is in the European mind from peasant to dictator. To turn to the other side of the picture the work of these children among the needy of the school students is one of the finest examples of brotherly love to be found anywhere.

These youngsters, too, have learned the great lesson of real benevolence- that charity must be anonymous, that giving to the poor must be done in a spirit of helpful ness, in a mood of brotherliness whereby the one who has, gives of his store to the one who has not.

The manner in which these youngsters distribute their Christmas baskets is in this same generous spirit. The families in want are not exposed, their names are a secret. The baskets are filled; each has a number and an address. The almoners deliver these baskets to the addresses. All the children know, unless the person to whom the basket is delivered furnishes the information, is that the right number got the right basket.

The mere fact that these, school children in Collingswood could collect $1001 for their charitable work is in itself a high water mark of excellence and efficiency. And the manner in which the kids distributed the money, the practical uses to which they put the funds, is another feather in their caps.

When I read about this Junior Red, Cross I got the impression that it was one of the usual organizations for the youngsters, an organization that gave them a pin to wear and a sweater to knit, then decided to call everything jake.

 That is the usual nature of most of these "junior" organizations- a pair of knitting needles, some wool and a pin: Presto; the whole thing is complete, the entire picture filled, If I was astounded at the international scope of their work, or the fact that these school children were actually carrying on international amity in its most fruitful fashion, between the children of the various countries, the elders present were paralyzed.

If those elders revealed an insight Into their real impression of the junior council, I'm sure they would say that they had had the same idea as Mackay- a pin, a skein of wool, a pair of knitting needles.

When the amplified, expansive labors of, these children were disclosed to them, the elders were flabbergasted, but delightedly so. The children won unstinted plaudits from the chairman, Dr. Leon N. Neulen, and they deserved every tribute, every garland.

So I wish they would take another grand salaam from the author..

Camden Courier-Post - February 11, 1938

CIVIC GROUPS MEET TO REVERE LINCOLN
Camden Real Estate Board Gives Luncheon Attended by Prominent Citizens

Schoolchildren, members of service clubs, and civic leaders joined the Camden County Real Estate Board yesterday in paying tribute to the memory of Abraham Lincoln at a luncheon in the Hotel Walt Whitman.

Among the guests present were Dr. Leon N. Neulen, city superintendent of schools; Albert M. Bean, county superintendent of schools; and Joseph Hale, president of the Camden Lions Club.

The principal speaker was Hamilton R. Disston, who conducts public forums at the Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia, and is a teacher of public speaking. Introduced by J. Frank Hanly, president of the Real Estate Board, which was host to the other organizations, Disston gave a recitation in which he traced the career of the Great Emancipator from his lowly beginning until his death by assassination in Ford's Theatre, Washington, April 15, 1865.

Selecting as his topic: "Lincoln the Man," Disston described the anguish and disappointments through which the war-time President lived. He recalled the incident prior to Lincoln's election as President for a second term, when he was requested to write a letter of condolence to a woman who had lost five sons in the Civil War.

"Lincoln," said Disston, "was not a man who could be exploited for political purposes. "He received the request to write the letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, of Boston, prior to his election, but he waited until after the campaign was over before he sent condolences to that bereaved mother. That was one of his marks of greatness."

Disston recited Lincoln's Gettysburg address, characterizing it as one of the world's literary gems, and then took his audience back to the sorrowful day on April 15, 1865 when the President had the dream of premonition of his own death—the vision wherein he saw himself aboard a "dark, formless boat," that sailed away into darkness.

Disston concluded with a dramatic .picture of the President's assassination in Ford's Theatre and the escape of the killer, Booth. Disston was obtained as speaker through Ernest E. Lindner.

Represented among the realtors at the luncheon were three generations in the family of William J. Flemming, long a member of the board. Present with Flemming were his son, William F. Flemming, also a board member, and the latter's small son, William W. Flemming. Eighty-five persons were present at the meeting.

Camden Courier-Post - February 16, 1938

Dr. and Mrs. Leon N. Neulen, of 30 South Evergreen avenue, Woodbury, are being congratulated on the birth of a son, Robert Nelson Neulen, on February 14, in the Underwood Hospital, Woodbury..

Harry Roye - Loyal D. Odhner
Charles B. Crabiel
James W. Burnison
Thomas N. McCarter
Mrs. Rocco Palese
John F. Gilliams
Oliver C. Boileau
Arthur Colsey
Charles Errickson
Rev. James S. Pemberton
Dan McConnell
Leon H. Rose
Laura Moore - Russell E. Nickerson
Elber Reim - Elmer C. Pratt
Mrs. Miriam Lee Early Lippincott
Samuel Brest
Neil F. Deighan
William Atkinson
Roy Lanning - Albert M. Bean
Dr. Leon N. Neulen
George W. Guyer

Camden High School
Purple & Gold Yearbook

1940

Camden Courier-Post * July 31, 1941

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Camden High School
1942 Purple & Gold Yearbook  

BOARD OF EDUCATION

DR. ETHAN A. LANG
President
DR. HENRY WISNIEWSKI
Vice-President
ALBERT AUSTERMUHL Secretary
MRS. MARY W. KOBUS
MRS. ALICE KLINE PREDMORE
DR. RICHARD BOWMAN
SAMUEL T. FRENCH
BENJAMIN MACKLER
ALBERT E. OSMOND
RUSSELL L. WELDY
DR. LEON N. NEULEN
Superintendent of Schools
ALFRED L. DUDLEY
Superintendent of Supplies
RAYMOND G. PRICE
Supervisor of Janitors and Buildings

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Camden High School
1942 Purple & Gold Yearbook

DR. LEON N. NEULEN
Superintendent of Schools

DERWOOD J. TEW
Supervisor of Secondary Schools

CARLETON R. HOPKINS
Principal of Camden High School

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World War II Draft Card

Victor Levinson
James O'Neill
May A. Jones
John J. Horn
Samuel T. French Jr.
Joseph C. Ragone
Alfred R. Pierce
Harry R. Janice
J. Maxwell Griffin
Eugene E. Wales
John Odorisio
Dr. Leon Neulen