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PAGE 4 — SECTION THREE THE OCEAN CITY SENTINEL-LEDGER SPRING EDITION — 1977
High quality education
2,300 students being educated
in city's three public schools
Classroom facilities in the
Ocean City public school
system were expanded
considerably this year with
the opening of a $3.2 million
addition to the Intermediate
School building.
With the Intermediate
School expansion project
completed, the seventh and
eighth grades have been
removed from their former
occupation of space in the
high school building into the
new facilities. The construction
of the new addition
to the Intermediate School
building was made necessary
Buy Where They Are Grown
by over-crowding which
forced the high school
program into a split class
schedule.
Employing an effective and
efficient program of
education, from kindergarten
through high school, the
Ocean City public school
system graduates students of
high quality, equipped intellectually
and culturally, to
make contributions to the
contemporary society.
The Ocean City system
maintains three buildings,
one for senior high school
classes, another for the in-
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termediate grades fourth
through eighth, and the other
for elementary education
from kindergarten to third.
The system functions with a
faculty of about 140 teachers,
directed by a full administrative
department. The
business of the schools is
directed by a Board. of
Education, the members of
which are elected in annual
school elections.
The school enrollment this
term numbers almost 2,400
students. There are 1,162 in
the high school building, 720 in
the intermediate grades and
441 in the primary grades.
The high school accepts
students from sending
districts from several nearby
seaside and mainland communities.
The public school academic
program is fullv accredited
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18th & Asbury Ave.
Ocean City
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Ocean City High School , Ocean City Primary School.
by the Middle Atlantic States
Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools.
The system has a vocational
guidance program, which
features a testing procedure
developed by the Drexel
Institute of Technology. The
program helps the students
and parents plan for future
education or occupations.
The system has an extensive
sports program, and
the Music Department
teaches instrumental music to
interested youngsters starting
in the fourth .grade.
At the high school, an extensive
and interesting
program of intramural, junior
varsity and varsity sports are
offered, along with cultural
activities such, as choir
singing, band and orchestra
participation, dramatics and
and hobbies.
A look inside the new school
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The Artisan Order for
Mutual Protection holds its
annual outing here in Ocean
City. The event is listed this
season for June 17. 18 and 19.
A complete business
education, including data
processing and similar
technological arts, is offered.
Physics and chemistry
laboratories are available to
students, along with industrial
arts workshops for
those so inclined. The
curriculum fits the
educational desires of almost
any youngster.
Ocean City High School's
major sports teams are
respected in competition
throughout the state. The
school fields football,
basketball, baseball, track
and swimming teams, and
there are varsity sport activities
for girls as well as the
boys.
A group of students in the
English Department publish
the school newspaper, "The
Billows." The student staff of
The Artisans stage a program
of events that is interesting to
everyone, resident and
visitor. The weekend is
climaxed with a Miss Artisan
beauty contest.
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editors and reporters get up
the copy for the weekly issue
of "The Billows," and it is
printed as part of the community
newspaper, the
Sentinel-Ledger.
Ocean City High School in
cooperation with the Cape
May County Vo-Tech School,
supports a program that gives
the student who is not totally
satisfied with the academic
program at the high school
and alternative to dropping
out.
The program is the
Cooperative Industrial
Education Program. CIE is a
work-study that encourages
the student to continue on
toward obtaining a diploma
while at the same time he
learns a trade and earns some
spending money at the .same
time. The student studies the
necessary academic subjects
in the high school classroom
several hours a day, learns a
tradcrat Vo-Tech, and" works
at his trade on jobs in area
industry.
Ocean City Intermediate School.
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SPRING EDITION — 1977 THEOCEAN CITY SENTlNEL-LEDGER
7f'-'-;' •;;__.- -CAMP CROPWJ>PA/V$' \
First worshippers
prayed in campground
The first place of worship in
Ocean City was probabjy the
cedar tree under which the
founding fathers prayed for
guidance as they set about
organizing their dream of a
Christian community.
The Christians who
.followed them, however,
settled down' in a natural
grove of cedars and scrub
pines in the upper end of the
island and Ocean City's first
established meeting grounds
came to be: Today, more than
100 years later, a modern
steel - brick - glass place of
worship stands on the site at
6th st. and Asbury av.
The early worshippers
brought tents and camping
heaton
i.Jkc.
equipment and set. up camp
grounds on a wooded area
between what is now 5th and
6th sts. They did their worshipping
out under the bright
seashore skies.
About 1881, the Tabernacle
Association, membership of
which comprised the city's,
founding fathers, built a
pavilion on the campgrounds.
In subsequent years the
pavilion was closed in with
wooden walls, ,
The original structure
served its purpose until the
summer of 1957 when it was
razed to make way for the
new modern brick and glass
structure which now occupies
the sod campgrounds..
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We're100 in 1979
Resort nears century mark
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Ocean City in 1979 will
celebrate its 100th anniversary
of the founding of
trip city by four Methodist
ministers. The centennial
celebration is being'planned
in both the civic and religious
areas. Here is the story of how
Ocean City began.
The modern history of
Ocean City began on a bright
September day in 1879 when
four Methodist ministers
stepped from a rowboat onto
Peck's Beach on the bayfront
and agreed they had found the
site for a Christian Resort.
The future of Ocean City
was in the offing in the
summer of 1789 when the Rev.
William B. Wood, of
Philadelphia, and the Rev. S.
Wesley Lake, of Pleasantville,
attended a religious
service at Ocean Grove, on
the Jersey Coast to the north.
Mr. Wood and Mr. Lake
agreed they would like to
establish a smiliar religious
community in Southern New
Jersey. Back in Pleasantville,
Mr. Lake expressed his idea
to his brothers, the Rev. Ezra
B. Lake and the Rev. James
E. Lake.
Later that same summer,
the three Lake brothers were
sailing across Great Egg
Harbor Bay, headed for South
Seaville in Cape May County
to attend a camp meeting.
Halfway across the bay their
attention was attracted by a
tree-covered island known as
Peck's Beach.
On September 10, 1879, the
Lake brothers in the company
of the Rev. William H. Under this / gnarled
Burrell, also a Methodist prayed for guidance.
cedar, founding ministers
Explorer's discovery
Peck's Beach sighted in 1633
The first historical
reference made to Peck's
Beach, the sand island on
which Ocean City is located,
was an entry in the journal of
David Peitetsson DeVries,
"""Dutch explorer, who was orie
of the many early adventurers
along what is now
the Jersey coast.
DeVries' entry dated 1633.
noted "flat, sandy beaches
with low hills between Cape
May and Egg Harbor."
Ocean City did not come
into official existence until
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1879 when four Methodist
ministers came by rowboat
from the Atlantic County
mainland to establish a
Christian resort.
: Prior to this time, the island
on which Ocean City Is located
was called Peck's Beach. The
origin of that name is
shrouded in antiquity, and
there has been many versions
penned by historians of the
area. /
One of the more popular
legends connected with the
original name of the island
concerns a redoubtable
whaleman who operated in
this vicinity about the year
Salvagers roamed
Ocean City beach
In the early days of u,ooden
ships in coastwise trade, one
of the more colorful
professions along the
Southern New Jersey beaohfront
was that of the salvage
expert.
In most instances.
salvaging of cargos from
wrecked ships was done by
organized companies, but
enterprising individuals found.
the practice profitable.
Legend has it that on Peck's
Beach and at other points
along the New Jersey beachfront,
residents would tie a
lantern to the neck of a horse
and turn it loose to graze on
the beach at night.
The ruse -.va* tr> lead the
pilots ui passing ships, to
believe that the moving,
bobbinu light was another
vessel parsing by. It was
hoped the duped pilot would
steer toward it and become
stranded on the shoals.
It is reported that early
• residents of Absecon Island.
whereAtlantic City is located,
would station a lookout in a
high place during church
services to keep a watch out
for stranded vessels.
• There is the story that
children recited a special
bedtime prayer. ."God bless
Pop, God bless Mom, and
send us a ship before morning."
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minister, sailed Great Eeji
Harbor Bay again, this time
in the direction of Peck's
Beach. '
They landed on the bay side
of the island and followed a
cow path to a bluff on the
north point of the island.
There under a cedar tree they
held a conference which was
opened by prayer for devine
guidance and blessing.
There they made their
decision. Peck's Beach was to
be the location of the
Christian seashore resort they
had envisioned.
Ten days later, September
20, a meeting was held in
Philadelphia at the home of
the Rev. Wood. The meeting
discussed ways of organizing
a land improvement and
camp meeting association to
administer the activities at
Peck's Beach.
Simon Lake, father of the
Lake brothers, was elected
president of the association.
The meeting also decided on
the name New Brighton for
the new Christian resort, but
later they decided on the
name Ocean City.
Over the next 10 years, the
Association cleared titles and
acquired property until each
acre on Peck's Beach was
subject to the restrictions the
Association intended to impose
on property owners and
which was the basiB on which
the entire development was
advanced.
Each subsequent property
owner was required to agree
to the covenants before he
would get a deed to the
property.
ownership of a stranded
whale on the beach here. It is
possible that the name Peck's
Beach evolved from these
legal proceedings.
* According to historians,
Dutch Swedes and English
claimed West Jersey; which
comprised what is now known
as South Jersey. They
claimed it by discovery and.
subsequent purchase 1 from the
Indians. However,. the
English emerged the owners
and made sundry grants to
favorites of the English
throne. After passing through
a number'of owners, the title
came to the West Jersey
Society, known as the
Proprietors with offices in the
city of Burlington.
Founders' legacy
PAGE 5 — SECTION THREE
Ocean City famed
as a 'dry' resort
. ' • - • • • . » . ' * • ' ' '
Ocean City was founded as
a /'dry town." and has
remained so over the 98 years
it has been in existence.
Nowhere on Peck's Beach can
fermented liquors be
manufactured or sold.
The ban on liquor dates,
back to 1879 when the
Methodist. ministers who
founded the resort included
restrictions in all property
deeds which forbid the
manufacture or sale of liquor.
This anti-liquor restriction is
enforced without exception in
Ocean City.
Visitors will'find no liquor
stores, taprooms, cocktail
lounges or nightclubs an their
sojourn here. If this is the
pleasure of the visitor, he will
have to go to "a neighboring
community to satisfy his
pleasure.
The anti-liquor restriction
was only one of a number of
limitations set on property
owners in Ocean City by the
founding fathers. They also
forbade the selling of mer-
• / . .
chandise on Sunday.* There
.was. even a restriction on
bathing in the surf or enjoying
a boat ride on Sunday in this
Christian resort.
Over the yean, however,
these restrictions have been
relaxed. Today, visitors by
the thousands enjoy the ran
and boating pleasures on
Sunday, and every other day
of the week.
There are still some
restrictions on Sunday saks.
The law has bed eased to
that the purchases of such
necessities as food, drug* and
other similar items may be
bought on the Sabbath.
While most of the restrictions
have been relaxed with
the passing of the years, it is
very unlikely tbe~ban «o
liquor will ever be reversed.
Ocean City is free of the
inebriates and the rowdyism
found in other resort* where
tbesaleof liquor ispermtttad,
and residents and visitors
alike agree this is fine for Otto
home-like seaside resort
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