H.B. Wilson School

The H.B. Wilson School was named for Henry Braid Wilson, a leading citizen of Camden and the father of Admiral Henry B. Wilson Jr., for whom the Admiral Wilson Boulevard was named after. The school, whose plans were approved by architect Arthur Truscott, opened in 1907. There were eight classrtooms above a basement. Daisy Y. Ferber was the first principal. As Camden's school-age population grew, the need for additional classroom space did so too. In 1915 land adjacent to the existing school was purchased. In 1919 a contract was awarded to expand the existing school. Earl Light served as principal in the early 1920s. In 1936 additional students began attending the H.B. Wilson School who had previously attended the Evered School on Ferry avenue, which had been closed at the end of the 1934-1935 school year. Many oher Camden schools at this point were anywhere from 40 to 670 years old, and applications were filed with the federal government for funds to improve them. In April 1939, the WPA notified the board that they approved the board's application for improvements to Central School and Central Annex, Mickle, Yorkship, Stevens, and H. B. Wilson Schools.

The H.B. Wilson School was hit by scandal in the early 2000s as charges were brought against administrators and staff concerning the misappropriation of funds and public property.

A New $20,000,000 H.B. Wilson School is to be built at South 8th Street and Woodland Avenue. The new school was slated to open in 2007, but funding issues caused a delay.

Camden Courier-Post - June 22, 1933

Boys Smash Desks In Camden School But Take Nothing
Suspects Believed to Have Resented Teachers Refusing Promotion

Hiding in the H. B. Wilson School, Ninth and Florence streets, until a Parent-Teacher Association meeting was over and the school locked for the
night, several boys turned vandals by forcing open desk drawers, breaking the glass in book cases, marring desks and strewing papers about.
A check-up revealed nothing was stolen.

Lawrence Miller, of 814 Florence street, janitor, reported the incident to police yesterday. Detective Clifford Carr after an inspection of the school
obtained finger prints from several papers and turned them over to Detective Edwin Mills for duplication. The prints will be compared, Carr said, with
the names of suspects taken by him following a conference with teachers.
The names included those of boys' who had failed to gain promotion or who were troublesome to teachers in the school. The Parent-Teacher
Association meeting was closed at 10.30 p. m. Tuesday night. With no windows or doors forced in the school, Detective Carr was confident the boys gained admittance by secreting themselves about the school during the meeting.

Camden Courier-Post - February 3, 1938

MINSTREL ARRANGED BY CHURCH PLAYERS

The minstrel troupe of the Centenary Tabernacle M. E. Church will present a show at 8 o'clock tonight at the H. B. Wilson School, Ninth street and Woodland avenue, under sponsorship of the P. T. A.

Camden Courier-Post * February 5, 1938

LIBERTY AND WILSON CLASH IN PLAYOFF
First-Half Season Title of Grammar League Is at Stake Today

Liberty and H.B. Wilson will battle it out this afternoon at 2,30 0' clock at Convention Hall for the first-half title of the National Division of the Camden Grammar School League.

Both teams finished the first half with six victories and one defeat. Liberty handed Wilson its lone reverse, while Stevens pulled an upset by downing the former.

Some of the players from each school graduated during the past week, but, as they represented their schools all during the first half, they will be permitted to see action in the playoff.

Liberty is led by Archie Luzi, diminutive sharpshooter, who led the league in scoring with 74 markers in seven games. He far outclassed the others as can be seen readily when the statistics show that his nearest rival, O'Neal of Sumner, took second place honors by scoring 39 points.

Bizazzo, Shuda, Hare, Eulo and Luzi will probably start the game for Liberty. Wilson will use Garzarelli, Scarbonja, Ross, Mahoney, Lapiska and Kevis.

	H.B. Wilson Elementary School 9th & Florence Street, Camden NJ August 28, 2003

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