The HENRY H. DAVIS School was built in 1925 at 3425 Cramer Street in East Camden. The school was designed by architect Benjamin Howell Lackey, and was featured in the book that the firm of Lackey & Hettel. Inc. published shortly thereafter. The school is named after Dr. Henry Hill Davis, a Camden physician. He was a school board member, Camden's first medical inspector, and first chief medical inspector. His work in the areas of school health and nutrition saved countless lives of the young children in Camden.

The Henry H. Davis School was accepted by the Board of Education on July 26, 1926, and dedicated on October 2. It replaced the old Rosedale School on 32nd Street near Westfield Avenue, which came into the school district with the annexation of Stockton Township in 1899. This school was reopened in 1928 to serve crippled and handicapped children. The first principal was Minerva C. Stackhouse. She held the position until her retirement in June of 1933.

The Davis school has for many years served the students of East Camden, including the Rosedale and Westfield Acres neighborhoods.

Camden Courier-Post - February 4, 1938

Parent-Teacher Association News

H. H. Davis- The executive committee met at the home of Mrs. Stanley Dill and plans were made for a Founders' Day program. Mrs. William Allen was appointed historian. Calvin Chambers, publicity chairman, and Joseph Martin received certificates for completing a first aid course given by the Red Cross. Miss E. A. Matthews, Miss K. Weber, E. A. Harker, Mrs. O. Richardson and Mrs. Calvin Chambers attended the city group meeting..

Do You Recognize Anyone Here?????

Henry H. Davis School
1952
7th Grade Class

Top Row	2nd Row	3rd Row	Bottom Row
1 Sandra Kolan	1 Lane Eastwick	1 Pee Wee Trout	1 Dorothy Danielson ?
2	2 Jack Hamilton	2 Tom Sullivan	2 Eileen Call
3 Charlie Weiner	3 Janice Stinsman	3 Lynn Benner	3 John Kriedler
4	4 Pat Neely	4 Pat Hawn	4 Lee Akers
5 Bob Harop	5	5 Mary Livingston	5 Tom Esworthy
6 Susan Duvall	6 Dottie Dietz	6 Ruth Sinclair	6 Bob Wirtz
7 Doug Moffa	7 Kay Rush	7 Eileen Mathis	7 Marty Krek
8 Bonnie Rowan	8 Francis Smith	8 Georgia Slattery	8
9 Howard Guinn	9 Joan Kifferly	9 Joann Neiman	9 Edith Miller
10	10	10	10 Judy Pfersich
11 Bob Bartosz	11	11 Pat Chamberlin	11 Elaine Rogers
12 Nora Vance	12 John Franzen	12 Andrea Fitzgerald	12 Rocco Gambacorta
13 Carol Urban	13 Freddie Kalt	13
		14 Carol Clayton
		15 Warren Eaches
		16 Caesar Martorano

July 2008- A reunion is being planned for later in the year.
If you recognize anyone or are in this picture yourself,
PLEASE e-mail Bob Bartosz at civilwarbnp@verizon.net

Parent Volunteers
Photos courtesy of Gail Nasuti Burke. My best guess is that they date from the early 1970s

Office Volunteers

Left to right: Mrs. E. Swayne, Mrs. Lillian Nasuti

Satellite Lunch Aides

Left to right: Mrs. S. Buchanan, Mrs. D. Bottjer, Mrs. Lillian Nasuti Chief Aide, Mrs. Y. Difioretti, Mrs. O. Stinger

Bus Aides

Left to right: Mrs. S. Traczyk,
S. Turner, Mrs. E. Jenkins
Not Pictured: Mrs. S. Taylor

In June of 2003, Davis School Teacher Karen Borrelli served as a coach on America's Special Olympics Team at the World Summer Games in Ireland.

Camden Courier-Post - June 16, 2003

Teacher to coach Special Olympics squad

By LAVINIA DeCASTRO
Courier-Post Staff

College could not prepare Karen Borrelli for her first job - teaching physical education to disabled students at Camden County Vocational Technical School.

"Back then, there were basically no resources to tell you how to teach them," Borrelli said. "You just had to figure things out, like how do I get you to run a 50-meter dash if you can't see."

She did figure it out.

And nearly 30 years later, she is still helping disabled athletes to excel, this time as a Special Olympics Team USA coach.

Borrelli, a physical education teacher at Dr. Henry H. Davis School, is one of five people coaching 15 New Jersey athletes who will represent the United States in the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Ireland.

The delegation left Sunday for Belfast. They'll practice there the rest of the week. The games begin Saturday in Dublin.

"I didn't even know there was a Team USA," said Borrelli, a Lindenwold resident. "Then I got a letter saying `You've been nominated' . . . I didn't even know what was involved."

What's involved is a lot of work.

"She spends a lot of time after school," said Florence Gavin cq, principal of Davis School. "At least six months out of the year she has kids coming in here from 3 to 4:30, and that's all volunteer."

And that's also just part of Borrelli's regular Special Olympics activities, such as the roller hockey team she coaches and summer camp she organizes.

To coach the athletes in the World Summer Games, she had to attend six training camps and travel to Special Olympics' New Jersey headquarters in Lawrenceville once a week the past two months.

During the training period, she's had a chance to share the experience with athletes such as 25-year-old Jason Clark, a Washington Township resident who plays table tennis.

Borrelli and Clark are the only members of the New Jersey delegation making their first trip to the World Summer Games.

"They picked a good year," said George Clark, Jason's father, noting this is the first time the games will be held outside the United States.