Annual Alumni Banquet Coronavirus Update

At this time, we feel it is in everyone’s best interest to cancel the Camden Alumni Association Annual Banquet again this year. Our desire is for everyone to stay safe & healthy. Unfortunately, with the uncertainties for what the near future holds on public gatherings, it has become nearly impossible to plan future events at this time.

We are still working on the details to award the scholarships to the graduating seniors. It is still our plan to award eight scholarships to deserving graduating seniors this year. Due to the generous level of donations received this past year we are also increasing the scholarship award to $1,250 to each recipient this year, our first increase due to inflation in 12 years.

In early to mid-May, we will be sending out a mailer to our alumni to ask you for your annual membership dues and any scholarship donation you would like to make for this year to help us fund next year’s activities and scholarships. We greatly appreciate your support at that time.

Thank you for your understanding during this ongoing difficult time of social distancing. We feel the sadness for all of the 5-Year reunion classes from both this year and last year who are unable to celebrate as a group until this pandemic is under control, especially the 50-Year honored classes: the Class of 1970 and the Class of 1971.

We are looking forward to resuming our Annual Alumni Banquets as soon as conditions will allow us to do so safely. At that time, it will be a special celebration honoring all the 50-Year classes that missed their special year along with the current 50-Year class!

Please avoid the alumniclass.com website!!

DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE!! I REPEAT: DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE!!

It is a commercial site that charges you money for full access to it’s information and is in no way connected to the Official Camden Alumni Association. Please avoid them, and definitely do not give them any money!!

This is their web address/URL: https://www.alumniclass.com/camden-high-school-blue-devils-ny/

Please avoid supporting them, it does not support your true alumni association, just some commercial business run in Washington State.
Right from the bottom of the home page of the “Camden Alumni” site:

AlumniClass.com (3412) – 10019 E Knox Ave, Spokane Valley WA, 99206.
AlumniClass.com is not affiliated with and is independent of any school, school district, alumni association or any other sites.

Yes, I am a member myself, but I joined years ago when the site was new, and got a free lifetime membership, just so I could keep track of them and try to steer people away from spending money with them thinking they were supporting the official Camden Alumni Association.

2019-2020 Memorial Tribute….

Camden Alumni Association

Annual Memorial Tribute

The Alumni named below passed away in the past year, June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020

Full NameClassCity & StateDate of Death
Kristopher Blowers1994CAMDEN, NYJune 1, 2019
Minnie I. Loomis Prosser1942TABERG, NYJune 13, 2019
Kristin Tebsharany Brown1989SYLVAN BEACH, NYJune 17, 2019
Shirley Sweeney Stedman1956CAMDEN, NYJune 17, 2019
Michael Chase1983WINTER HAVEN, FLJune 23, 2019
Bonney Mackey Ennett1967WESTMORELAND, NYJune 29, 2019
Douglas Dean1958TABERG, NYJune 30, 2019
Nancy Choquette Martin1961PORT CHARLOTTE, FLJuly 1, 2019
Brandon Humphrey2011CAMDEN, NYJuly 3, 2019
Brian Conley1966CAMDEN, NYJuly 4, 2019
Timothy Rose1979BLOSSVALE, NYJuly 7, 2019
Arizona Bartlett2016CAMDEN, NYJuly 8, 2019
Tyler Bangs2009NORTH BAY, NYJuly 9, 2019
David W. Pennington1953BUFFALO, NYJuly 9, 2019
William Sanford1945CAMDEN, NYAugust 2, 2019
Donald Sweatland1954WARSAW, INAugust 14, 2019
Ann Harden Babcock1941MC CONNELLSVILLE, NYAugust 15, 2019
Carolyn J. Olmstead Graham1954CAMDEN, NYAugust 16, 2019
David Williams1962CAMDEN, NYAugust 25, 2019
Shirley Taylor Treen1956CAMDEN, NYAugust 27, 2019
Arthur Sable1952WELLSBORO, PASeptember 8, 2019
Sevilla DeMond Purkey1956SUGAR LAND, TXSeptember 14, 2019
Beverly Strail Sanford1948CAMDEN, NYSeptember 15, 2019
James Bristol1963CAMDEN, NYSeptember 17, 2019
Diana Lynne LaLonde Sharpe1967BLOSSVALE, NYSeptember 17, 2019
Randy Hollibaugh1992CAMDEN, NYSeptember 27, 2019
Dorothy Lahue Walker1953CAMDEN, NYOctober 11, 2019
Donald E. Congden1951CAMDEN, NYOctober 13, 2019
Bruce C. Anderson1954WYNANTSKILL, NYOctober 14, 2019
Rae E. Woodard1943CAMDEN, NYOctober 14, 2019
Mary Ellen Sanborn Heaverin1965CAMDEN, NYOctober 19, 2019
Carolyn Flagg Rowlands1953UTICA, NYOctober 19, 2019
Rand Albert Preston1966CAMDEN, NYOctober 22, 2019
Janice Rung Abrams1950CAMDEN, NYOctober 26, 2019
Leland Holmes1975ONEIDA, NYOctober 28, 2019
Jane Matteson1958CAMDEN, NYOctober 30, 2019
Blanche Marie Messier1953SYRACUSE, NYNovember 1, 2019
Donald P. Kowalski1956CAMDEN, NYNovember 11, 2019
Mary Lorraine Brown Pitcher1966LAKE PLACID, FLNovember 12, 2019
Frederick Lampman1957ROME, NYNovember 15, 2019
Sharron Shannon Burgess1965GREENWICH, NYNovember 20, 2019
Harold R. (Dick) Collins1956NORTH BAY, NYNovember 25, 2019
Dawn Nelson1967CENTRAL SQUARE, NYNovember 25, 2019
Richard E. Waterman1944CAMDEN, NYDecember 13, 2019
Audrey Reid Widrig1952BLOSSVALE, NYDecember 25, 2019
Freida Willson Smith1952ROME, NYDecember 28, 2019
Eleanor Sanson Simmons1941CAMDEN, NYJanuary 1, 2020
James Robert Cole1989FULTON, NYJanuary 3, 2020
Jeannette O'Connell Scott1952BLOSSVALE, NYJanuary 9, 2020
Arthur J. Worrall1950PARKER, COJanuary 17, 2020
Gladys Myers Koleski1946CAMDEN, NYFebruary 3, 2020
Morgan Comins1955CAMDEN, NYFebruary 5, 2020
Barbara Hopper Fox1949BOONVILLE, NYFebruary 10, 2020
Erma M. Gerow Gaspa1970UTICA, NYFebruary 10, 2020
Jennifer K. Armstrong-Symonds1996CAMDEN, NYFebruary 18, 2020
John W. Duerr1961TABERG, NYFebruary 23, 2020
John Currier1953PULASKI, NYMarch 7, 2020
Kenneth D. Light1957CAMDEN, NYMarch 20, 2020
Leslie Wolcott Stewart1964SYLVAN BEACH, NYMarch 23, 2020
Suzanne Kiddney1961CAMDEN, NYMarch 31, 2020
Sophie Koleski Reeves1951ROME, NYMarch 31, 2020
Holly Spellicy1999TABERG, NYApril 9, 2020
Rose Marie Link Doane1956MANLIUS, NYApril 12, 2020
Meader G. Pattington1974LIVERPOOL, NYApril 12, 2020
Kristy Worthley Boss1990BLOSSVALE, NYApril 20, 2020
Amanda Thayer LaFlair2004CAMDEN, NYApril 29, 2020
Hal M. Kilbourne1961VANCOUVER, WAMay 2, 2020
Mary Lou Costello Maynard1944ELLICOTT CITY, MDMay 3, 2020
Marie Howard Staring1962TABERG, NYMay 4, 2020
Taya Granger Burke2014CAMDEN, NYMay 13, 2020
Jane Curtiss Watkin1940ROCHESTER, NYMay 14, 2020
James Shannon, Sr.1971TABERG, NYMay 14, 2020
Memorial Donations: The Camden Alumni Association gratefully accepts all contributions to the Scholarship Fund by alumni or others in the memory of loved ones.
If you know of any deceased alumnus from the past year who is not included in this list, please notify the registrar, Lance Williams, with the Name, Class Year and approximate date of death. Lance can be emailed at registrar@camdenalumni.com or you can leave a message at (315) 725-3023. We apologize for any missing entries, we do the best we can to keep track of alumni deaths, but resources are limited, and we depend upon family notifications or local obituaries for most updates.

This information can also be downloaded as a printable PDF by CLICKING HERE

Today would have been Banquet Day!

We just wanted to send out a message to all alumni to say “Happy Banquet Day” even though we have been unable to gather as a group due to COVID-19 restrictions. We are all saddened that the 50-year class of 1970 and all other 5-year classes have been unable to celebrate their milestone events this year.

However, there are discussions and works in the plans for a joint celebration between the Class of 1971 and the Class of 1970 for next year’s banquet, and if this all plans out, hopefully the other 5-year classes from this year will also be able to join us at the 2021 Annual Banquet for a belated celebration of their special years missed this year.

Also, as is usually done as a part of the annual banquet, the Annual Reports for the Treasurer, Scholarship Chairperson, Secretary and Registrar are now online for downloading.  You may download them by clicking here.

2020 Membership Dues and Scholarship Fund Donations

The Board of Directors of the Camden Alumni Association would like to send a thank you to all of our alumni for your understanding during this difficult time of social distancing and personal seclusion due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus.

We feel sadness for the the Class of 1970, the honored 50-year class for this year, and all of our 5-year reunion classes, who have been unable to celebrate as a group this year. We are looking forward to resuming our Annual Alumni Banquets in June 2021 and hope many alumni will join us for future banquets.

However, since we were unable to send out our annual Alumni Banquet, Annual Dues and Scholarship Donations mailer, we are now sending out this notice to request you continue to make your annual dues payments and scholarship donations.

If at all possible, we are requesting that you make your annual alumni dues and scholarship donation payment through our new online payment page on our website to limit the amount of physical mail that has to be personally handled by the registrar to process your payments and information. Payments are processed by PayPal, but no account is needed, just a credit card.

If you have already sent in your dues and/or donation, we thank you for reaching out to us already.

If you have not yet paid your annual dues or made a donation to the scholarship fund, please make your online dues & donation payment on our website by CLICKING HERE or fill out and return the mail in form you can download HERE.