Author: Dustin Scholz

  • COVID-19 Coronavirus Banquet Cancellation

    At this time, we feel it is in everyone’s best interest to cancel the Camden Alumni Association Annual Banquet for this year. Our desire is for everyone to stay safe & healthy. Plus, 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. We are still hoping to award eight scholarships of $1,000 each this year, and are awaiting the receipt of the scholarship applications from the school system. They have a process in the works for collecting and distributing the various scholarship applications from graduating seniors.

    In the coming months, 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 will greatly appreciate your support at that time.  If you wish to make your membership payment and/or a scholarship fund donation now, you can download a printable form by clicking here.

    Thank you for your understanding during this difficult time of social distancing and personal seclusion. We feel the sadness for the 5-year reunion classes, especially the Class of 1970, the honored 50-year class for this year, who are unable to celebrate as a group this year. We are looking forward to resuming our Annual Alumni Banquets in June 2021 and hope many of you will join us for future banquets.

  • Statement on COVID-19 (Corona) Virus…

    We are following the COVID-19 (Corona) Virus carefully, and do not know what conditions may be by Alumni Banquet time in June.

    At this time, we are hoping social distancing and the warmer early summer weather will slow or halt the spread of the virus and no action will be necessary. But at this time, the forecast from the CDC is not looking promising.

    However, please keep in mind that if health & safety conditions or federal, state, county or local regulations make it necessary, we will have to cancel the Annual Alumni Banquet and send refunds to everyone who has made reservations.

    We will do our best to make such a decision in a prompt and timely manner to allow everyone to adjust their plans. At this time we are delaying any email or postal mail advertising about the Annual Alumni Banquet as long as possible. We hope to have a better handle on things by the middle of April. We have set an internal deadline of April 20th as our final decision point to either cancel/postpone the banquet or continue with the advertising as planned. We are also leaving open the possibility of having to cancel as the date gets closer if things have not improved and we have sent out the invitations.

    At this time, we are removing access to the downloadable reservation form and blocking access to the banquet reservation page until such time as we have made a decision on what we will be doing concerning the annual alumni banquet.

    We have been thinking about this a lot this week, and are trying to find the most prudent, safe and effective path to follow forward. May you all be safe & healthy during this troubling time. We all look forward to our next alumni gathering, whenever that may occur!!

  • New Facebook Page…

    As an alternative and addition to posting information here on the Alumni website, a new Facebook page has been created to act as an additional distribution point for information about alumni activities.  If you have a Facebook account, you can find the page here:

    Link to the Camden Alumni Facebook Page

    All news and information will continue to be posted here first, and then to the Facebook page as time permits or remembering to do it occurs 😀

  • Annual Camden-Florida Reunion…

    Sorry for the late notice, I just remembered to request the information
    from the new organizer, Darlene LaDuc….

    Annual Camden-Florida Reunion

    Wednesday, January 22, 2020

    Golden Corral Buffet

    3950 Wedgewood Lane
    (FL Route 466, ½ mile east of US Route 301)
    The Villages, Florida 32162

    2020’s Camden-Florida reunion will be held on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, starting at 10:30am, at the Golden Corral, 3950 Wedgewood Lane, The Villages, FL 32162. The cost will be $13.00 per person (for lunch, tax & gratuity included).

    Reservation requests and checks should be sent by January 15, 2020, to:
    Darlene LaDuc
    3303 Belcherry Loop
    The Villages, FL 32163
    CLICK HERE to send an email to Darlene

    Late requests should be phoned to Darlene at 352-661-3700. If you are considering attending it would be a good idea to put the above information on your calendar as a reminder.

    Any other questions can also be directed by phone to Darlene LaDuc at 352-661-3700 or Wendy Wimmer at 315-225-7552

    Don’t forget to consider “Downsizing” and donate
    any small items for the fund-raising raffle.
    Proceeds go to the Camden Alumni Association Scholarship Fund.

    Looking forward to seeing all those who are able to come. Have a great year !!

  • 2019 Banquet Photos are Finally Online!!!

    Class of 1969 Group Photo

    Apologies for the terrible delay on posting the photos for the 2019 Annual Alumni Banquet.  Between preparing for my own class’s 40th Reunion in August and dealing with other things, picture editing and posting slipped my mind for awhile and then kept getting pushed back as time was just occupied with other things….

    You can now find the all the banquet photos and others in the Photo Gallery using the link at the bottom of the page or use the link below to go directly to the 2019 Banquet Album:


    CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE 2019 BANQUET PHOTO ALBUM PAGES