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PAGE 4 — SECTION THREE THE OCEAN CITY SENTINEL-LEDGER SPRING EDITION — 1977<br />
High quality education<br />
2,300 students being educated<br />
in city's three public schools<br />
Classroom facilities in the<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> public school<br />
system were expanded<br />
considerably this year with<br />
the opening <strong>of</strong> a $3.2 million<br />
addition to the Intermediate<br />
School building.<br />
With the Intermediate<br />
School expansion project<br />
completed, the seventh and<br />
eighth grades have been<br />
removed from their former<br />
occupation <strong>of</strong> space in the<br />
high school building into the<br />
new facilities. The construction<br />
<strong>of</strong> the new addition<br />
to the Intermediate School<br />
building was made necessary<br />
Buy Where They Are Grown<br />
by over-crowding which<br />
forced the high school<br />
program into a split class<br />
schedule.<br />
Employing an effective and<br />
efficient program <strong>of</strong><br />
education, from kindergarten<br />
through high school, the<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> public school<br />
system graduates students <strong>of</strong><br />
high quality, equipped intellectually<br />
and culturally, to<br />
make contributions to the<br />
contemporary society.<br />
The <strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> system<br />
maintains three buildings,<br />
one for senior high school<br />
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from kindergarten to third.<br />
The system functions with a<br />
faculty <strong>of</strong> about 140 teachers,<br />
directed by a full administrative<br />
department. The<br />
business <strong>of</strong> the schools is<br />
directed by a Board. <strong>of</strong><br />
Education, the members <strong>of</strong><br />
which are elected in annual<br />
school elections.<br />
The school enrollment this<br />
term numbers almost 2,400<br />
students. There are 1,162 in<br />
the high school building, 720 in<br />
the intermediate grades and<br />
441 in the primary grades.<br />
The high school accepts<br />
students from sending<br />
districts from several nearby<br />
seaside and mainland communities.<br />
The public school academic<br />
program is fullv accredited<br />
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RADIOLOGY<br />
June 1st, 1977<br />
18th & Asbury Ave.<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
398-6300<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> High School , <strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> Primary School.<br />
by the Middle Atlantic States<br />
Association <strong>of</strong> Colleges and<br />
Secondary Schools.<br />
The system has a vocational<br />
guidance program, which<br />
features a testing procedure<br />
developed by the Drexel<br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology. The<br />
program helps the students<br />
and parents plan for future<br />
education or occupations.<br />
The system has an extensive<br />
sports program, and<br />
the Music Department<br />
teaches instrumental music to<br />
interested youngsters starting<br />
in the fourth .grade.<br />
At the high school, an extensive<br />
and interesting<br />
program <strong>of</strong> intramural, junior<br />
varsity and varsity sports are<br />
<strong>of</strong>fered, along with cultural<br />
activities such, as choir<br />
singing, band and orchestra<br />
participation, dramatics and<br />
and hobbies.<br />
A look inside the new school<br />
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A FUN WEEKEND<br />
The Artisan Order for<br />
Mutual Protection holds its<br />
annual outing here in <strong>Ocean</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong>. The event is listed this<br />
season for June 17. 18 and 19.<br />
A complete business<br />
education, including data<br />
processing and similar<br />
technological arts, is <strong>of</strong>fered.<br />
Physics and chemistry<br />
laboratories are available to<br />
students, along with industrial<br />
arts workshops for<br />
those so inclined. The<br />
curriculum fits the<br />
educational desires <strong>of</strong> almost<br />
any youngster.<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> High School's<br />
major sports teams are<br />
respected in competition<br />
throughout the state. The<br />
school fields football,<br />
basketball, baseball, track<br />
and swimming teams, and<br />
there are varsity sport activities<br />
for girls as well as the<br />
boys.<br />
A group <strong>of</strong> students in the<br />
English Department publish<br />
the school newspaper, "The<br />
Billows." The student staff <strong>of</strong><br />
The Artisans stage a program<br />
<strong>of</strong> events that is interesting to<br />
everyone, resident and<br />
visitor. The weekend is<br />
climaxed with a Miss Artisan<br />
beauty contest.<br />
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<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong>, New Jersey<br />
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editors and reporters get up<br />
the copy for the weekly issue<br />
<strong>of</strong> "The Billows," and it is<br />
printed as part <strong>of</strong> the community<br />
newspaper, the<br />
Sentinel-Ledger.<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> High School in<br />
cooperation with the Cape<br />
May County Vo-Tech School,<br />
supports a program that gives<br />
the student who is not totally<br />
satisfied with the academic<br />
program at the high school<br />
and alternative to dropping<br />
out.<br />
The program is the<br />
Cooperative Industrial<br />
Education Program. CIE is a<br />
work-study that encourages<br />
the student to continue on<br />
toward obtaining a diploma<br />
while at the same time he<br />
learns a trade and earns some<br />
spending money at the .same<br />
time. The student studies the<br />
necessary academic subjects<br />
in the high school classroom<br />
several hours a day, learns a<br />
tradcrat Vo-Tech, and" works<br />
at his trade on jobs in area<br />
industry.<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> Intermediate School.<br />
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First worshippers<br />
prayed in campground<br />
The first place <strong>of</strong> worship in<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> was probabjy the<br />
cedar tree under which the<br />
founding fathers prayed for<br />
guidance as they set about<br />
organizing their dream <strong>of</strong> a<br />
Christian community.<br />
The Christians who<br />
.followed them, however,<br />
settled down' in a natural<br />
grove <strong>of</strong> cedars and scrub<br />
pines in the upper end <strong>of</strong> the<br />
island and <strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong>'s first<br />
established meeting grounds<br />
came to be: Today, more than<br />
100 years later, a modern<br />
steel - brick - glass place <strong>of</strong><br />
worship stands on the site at<br />
6th st. and Asbury av.<br />
The early worshippers<br />
brought tents and camping<br />
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equipment and set. up camp<br />
grounds on a wooded area<br />
between what is now 5th and<br />
6th sts. They did their worshipping<br />
out under the bright<br />
seashore skies.<br />
About 1881, the Tabernacle<br />
Association, membership <strong>of</strong><br />
which comprised the city's,<br />
founding fathers, built a<br />
pavilion on the campgrounds.<br />
In subsequent years the<br />
pavilion was closed in with<br />
wooden walls, ,<br />
The original structure<br />
served its purpose until the<br />
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Resort nears century mark<br />
* * • * ' • • • • % • ' "<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> in 1979 will<br />
celebrate its 100th anniversary<br />
<strong>of</strong> the founding <strong>of</strong><br />
trip city by four Methodist<br />
ministers. The centennial<br />
celebration is being'planned<br />
in both the civic and religious<br />
areas. Here is the story <strong>of</strong> how<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> began.<br />
The modern history <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> began on a bright<br />
September day in 1879 when<br />
four Methodist ministers<br />
stepped from a rowboat onto<br />
Peck's Beach on the bayfront<br />
and agreed they had found the<br />
site for a Christian Resort.<br />
The future <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
was in the <strong>of</strong>fing in the<br />
summer <strong>of</strong> 1789 when the Rev.<br />
William B. Wood, <strong>of</strong><br />
Philadelphia, and the Rev. S.<br />
Wesley Lake, <strong>of</strong> Pleasantville,<br />
attended a religious<br />
service at <strong>Ocean</strong> Grove, on<br />
the Jersey Coast to the north.<br />
Mr. Wood and Mr. Lake<br />
agreed they would like to<br />
establish a smiliar religious<br />
community in Southern New<br />
Jersey. Back in Pleasantville,<br />
Mr. Lake expressed his idea<br />
to his brothers, the Rev. Ezra<br />
B. Lake and the Rev. James<br />
E. Lake.<br />
Later that same summer,<br />
the three Lake brothers were<br />
sailing across Great Egg<br />
Harbor Bay, headed for South<br />
Seaville in Cape May County<br />
to attend a camp meeting.<br />
Halfway across the bay their<br />
attention was attracted by a<br />
tree-covered island known as<br />
Peck's Beach.<br />
<strong>On</strong> September 10, 1879, the<br />
Lake brothers in the company<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Rev. William H. Under this / gnarled<br />
Burrell, also a Methodist prayed for guidance.<br />
cedar, founding ministers<br />
Explorer's discovery<br />
Peck's Beach sighted in 1633<br />
The first historical<br />
reference made to Peck's<br />
Beach, the sand island on<br />
which <strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> is located,<br />
was an entry in the journal <strong>of</strong><br />
David Peitetsson DeVries,<br />
"""Dutch explorer, who was orie<br />
<strong>of</strong> the many early adventurers<br />
along what is now<br />
the Jersey coast.<br />
DeVries' entry dated 1633.<br />
noted "flat, sandy beaches<br />
with low hills between Cape<br />
May and Egg Harbor."<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> did not come<br />
into <strong>of</strong>ficial existence until<br />
From April 21st to May 31, 1977<br />
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1879 when four Methodist<br />
ministers came by rowboat<br />
from the Atlantic County<br />
mainland to establish a<br />
Christian resort.<br />
: Prior to this time, the island<br />
on which <strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> Is located<br />
was called Peck's Beach. The<br />
origin <strong>of</strong> that name is<br />
shrouded in antiquity, and<br />
there has been many versions<br />
penned by historians <strong>of</strong> the<br />
area. /<br />
<strong>On</strong>e <strong>of</strong> the more popular<br />
legends connected with the<br />
original name <strong>of</strong> the island<br />
concerns a redoubtable<br />
whaleman who operated in<br />
this vicinity about the year<br />
Salvagers roamed<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> beach<br />
In the early days <strong>of</strong> u,ooden<br />
ships in coastwise trade, one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the more colorful<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essions along the<br />
Southern New Jersey beaohfront<br />
was that <strong>of</strong> the salvage<br />
expert.<br />
In most instances.<br />
salvaging <strong>of</strong> cargos from<br />
wrecked ships was done by<br />
organized companies, but<br />
enterprising individuals found.<br />
the practice pr<strong>of</strong>itable.<br />
Legend has it that on Peck's<br />
Beach and at other points<br />
along the New Jersey beachfront,<br />
residents would tie a<br />
lantern to the neck <strong>of</strong> a horse<br />
and turn it loose to graze on<br />
the beach at night.<br />
The ruse -.va* tr> lead the<br />
pilots ui passing ships, to<br />
believe that the moving,<br />
bobbinu light was another<br />
vessel parsing by. It was<br />
hoped the duped pilot would<br />
steer toward it and become<br />
stranded on the shoals.<br />
It is reported that early<br />
• residents <strong>of</strong> Absecon Island.<br />
whereAtlantic <strong>City</strong> is located,<br />
would station a lookout in a<br />
high place during church<br />
services to keep a watch out<br />
for stranded vessels.<br />
• There is the story that<br />
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minister, sailed Great Eeji<br />
Harbor Bay again, this time<br />
in the direction <strong>of</strong> Peck's<br />
Beach. '<br />
They landed on the bay side<br />
<strong>of</strong> the island and followed a<br />
cow path to a bluff on the<br />
north point <strong>of</strong> the island.<br />
There under a cedar tree they<br />
held a conference which was<br />
opened by prayer for devine<br />
guidance and blessing.<br />
There they made their<br />
decision. Peck's Beach was to<br />
be the location <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Christian seashore resort they<br />
had envisioned.<br />
Ten days later, September<br />
20, a meeting was held in<br />
Philadelphia at the home <strong>of</strong><br />
the Rev. Wood. The meeting<br />
discussed ways <strong>of</strong> organizing<br />
a land improvement and<br />
camp meeting association to<br />
administer the activities at<br />
Peck's Beach.<br />
Simon Lake, father <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Lake brothers, was elected<br />
president <strong>of</strong> the association.<br />
The meeting also decided on<br />
the name New Brighton for<br />
the new Christian resort, but<br />
later they decided on the<br />
name <strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong>.<br />
Over the next 10 years, the<br />
Association cleared titles and<br />
acquired property until each<br />
acre on Peck's Beach was<br />
subject to the restrictions the<br />
Association intended to impose<br />
on property owners and<br />
which was the basiB on which<br />
the entire development was<br />
advanced.<br />
Each subsequent property<br />
owner was required to agree<br />
to the covenants before he<br />
would get a deed to the<br />
property.<br />
ownership <strong>of</strong> a stranded<br />
whale on the beach here. It is<br />
possible that the name Peck's<br />
Beach evolved from these<br />
legal proceedings.<br />
* According to historians,<br />
Dutch Swedes and English<br />
claimed West Jersey; which<br />
comprised what is now known<br />
as South Jersey. They<br />
claimed it by discovery and.<br />
subsequent purchase 1 from the<br />
Indians. However,. the<br />
English emerged the owners<br />
and made sundry grants to<br />
favorites <strong>of</strong> the English<br />
throne. After passing through<br />
a number'<strong>of</strong> owners, the title<br />
came to the West Jersey<br />
Society, known as the<br />
Proprietors with <strong>of</strong>fices in the<br />
city <strong>of</strong> Burlington.<br />
Founders' legacy<br />
PAGE 5 — SECTION THREE<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> famed<br />
as a 'dry' resort<br />
. ' • - • • • . » . ' * • ' ' '<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> was founded as<br />
a /'dry town." and has<br />
remained so over the 98 years<br />
it has been in existence.<br />
Nowhere on Peck's Beach can<br />
fermented liquors be<br />
manufactured or sold.<br />
The ban on liquor dates,<br />
back to 1879 when the<br />
Methodist. ministers who<br />
founded the resort included<br />
restrictions in all property<br />
deeds which forbid the<br />
manufacture or sale <strong>of</strong> liquor.<br />
This anti-liquor restriction is<br />
enforced without exception in<br />
<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong>.<br />
Visitors will'find no liquor<br />
stores, taprooms, cocktail<br />
lounges or nightclubs an their<br />
sojourn here. If this is the<br />
pleasure <strong>of</strong> the visitor, he will<br />
have to go to "a neighboring<br />
community to satisfy his<br />
pleasure.<br />
The anti-liquor restriction<br />
was only one <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong><br />
limitations set on property<br />
owners in <strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> by the<br />
founding fathers. They also<br />
forbade the selling <strong>of</strong> mer-<br />
• / . .<br />
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.was. even a restriction on<br />
bathing in the surf or enjoying<br />
a boat ride on Sunday in this<br />
Christian resort.<br />
Over the yean, however,<br />
these restrictions have been<br />
relaxed. Today, visitors by<br />
the thousands enjoy the ran<br />
and boating pleasures on<br />
Sunday, and every other day<br />
<strong>of</strong> the week.<br />
There are still some<br />
restrictions on Sunday saks.<br />
The law has bed eased to<br />
that the purchases <strong>of</strong> such<br />
necessities as food, drug* and<br />
other similar items may be<br />
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While most <strong>of</strong> the restrictions<br />
have been relaxed with<br />
the passing <strong>of</strong> the years, it is<br />
very unlikely tbe~ban «o<br />
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<strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>City</strong> is free <strong>of</strong> the<br />
inebriates and the rowdyism<br />
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