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unusual facts about Rutgers–Camden


Fred Chernoff

He was born in Los Angeles, California and graduated from Hollywood High School and Rugters University -- Camden.


1950 Pulitzer Prize

Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.

All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story

She resides in Camden, Maine, with her family and conducts an art photography of children business.

Barry Reisman

The show stayed at WIBF for 23 years until 1992 when it moved to WSSJ-AM in Camden, NJ.

Birmingham pen trade

He approached five craftsmen who worked for John Mitchell in Navigation Street, with a view to setting up business in Camden, New Jersey, USA.

Camden Airport

Camden Municipal Airport, an airport located in Camden, Alabama, United States

Camden Medical Centre

Camden Medical Centre was designed by the American architect Richard Meier, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984.

Camden Professor of Ancient History

The Camden Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Oxford was established in 1622 by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, and endowed with the income of the manor of Bexley.

Camden Toy

His father, Malcolm, worked at the makeup department of Paramount Pictures under Wally Westmore and introduced Camden to makeup effects at an early age.

Camden Valley Way

It is the former Hume Highway alignment between the localities of Cross Roads and Camden.

Camden Yards Sports Complex

The Camden Yards Sports Complex is located in Baltimore, Maryland.

Currans Hill, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Russell Matheson (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

David Hoffman

Hoffman spent much of his career producing films in Camden, Maine.

DeKalb massacre

Johann de Kalb, a German soldier shot during the Battle of Camden in South Carolina, 1780

Dip pen

Esterbrook approached five craftsmen who worked for John Mitchell in Navigation Street with a view to setting up business in Camden, New Jersey, USA.

Donald Peterson

Donald R. Peterson (born 1923), professor emeritus of psychology at Rutgers University

Edward Irvin Scott

Around 1878, the paper commission failed, and the family lived in Camden, New Jersey,

Elaine Weyuker

She is the chair of the ACM-W Council, a member of the executive committee of the Coalition to Diversify Computing, a member of the Rutgers University Graduate School Advisory Board, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association.

Ellis Lane, New South Wales

It sits within the state electorate of Camden, represented by Labor's Geoff Corrigan, the former Mayor of Camden, and the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Liberal's Pat Farmer, the former ultra-marathon runner.

Ephraim Francis Baldwin

Perhaps the best known are the passenger car shop in Baltimore that is now the central roundhouse at the B&O Railroad Museum, the passenger station at Point of Rocks, Maryland and the B&O Warehouse at Camden Yards in Baltimore.

Frank Cignetti

Frank Cignetti, Jr. (born 1965), American football player and coach, current offensive coordinator at Rutgers University, son of the former

Garman sisters

Along with her sister Kathleen she ran away to London where they lived in a one room studio at 13 Regent Square in Camden on the outskirts of Bloomsbury.

Global Battle of the Bands

The first two days were held at the Camden Underground, followed by the Finals at the Camden Electric Ballroom on December 6, 2007.

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

It is located in parts of the independent cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk in Virginia, and the counties of Camden, Gates, and Pasquotank in North Carolina.

Jeremy Ito

During his career at Rutgers, he was given the nickname "The Judge" - after Lance Ito, who presided over O.J. Simpson trial - by fans for his clutch, game-deciding kicking performances.

Jock Sanders

In the 24-17 victory over Rutgers, he had 4 receptions for 47 yards and a touchdown.

John Preston Searle

Searle graduated from Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) in 1875 and from the New Brunswick Seminary in 1878.

Labor and Employment Relations Association

It originally consisted of about 100 researchers (economists; management, human resources, and labor relations researchers; attorneys, historians and sociologists) from 30 universities, including California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Massachusetts (several campuses), MIT, Michigan, Michigan State, Northeastern, Rutgers, Stanford and UCLA, as well as universities in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Laurieton, New South Wales

A Catalina seaplane carrying entertainer Bob Hope was forced to make an emergency landing on Camden Haven adjacent to Laurieton on August 14, 1944.

Lew Dietz

Other books included The Story of Boothbay (1937), Camden Hills. An Informal History of the Camden-Rockport Region (1947), The Allagash, (1968, 1978, 2001), originally published as part of the Rivers of America Series); Touch of Wildness A Maine Woods Journal (1970); Pines for the King's Navy, (1955), concerning the struggle among settlers, Indians, and the British king for Maine's timber, and Full Fathom Five (1958), illustrated by his wife, the artist Denny Winter.

Lily Parr

The 2009 Lily Parr Exhibition Trophy took place at the Hub Regent's Park, London, as part of Camden LGBT History month again, on Sun 15th Feb after a meet the team event at the Black Cap on 14th Feb.

London Tigers F.C.

The head office is based in the City of Westminster, but the organisation works across the London Boroughs of Camden, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham.

Louis Brown Athletic Center

The Grateful Dead played at the Rutgers Athletic Center on May 15, 1981.

Lyn Spencer

During the early 1970s, Spencer was a youth worker at the Camden Youth Project in North London and an English & drama teacher at Heworth Grange Comprehensive School in Felling, Gateshead.

Maureen Flannigan

Flannigan had a recurring role on The WB series 7th Heaven as Shana Sullivan, the girlfriend of Matt Camden.

Mouthfull

Influenced by the San Francisco and Toronto Queercore scenes, the band set up the pioneering queercore night club Up To The Elbow in Camden in London.

Oran Park, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Pedro Sosa

Stepping into the starting lineup as a sophomore, Sosa made an immediate impact for Rutgers at his left tackle position, paving the way with Jeremy Zuttah and Cameron Stephenson for Ray Rice's successful debut as a freshman, the school's first 1000-yard rushing season since 1994.

Peter Francisco

In a petition Francisco wrote 11 November 1820 to the Virginia Legislature in his own words, he said that at Camden, he had shot a grenadier who had tried to shoot his Colonel (Mayo); he escaped by bayoneting one of Banastre Tarleton's cavalrymen and fled on the horse making cries to make the British think he was a Loyalist, and gave the horse to Mayo.

Philadelphia Pythians

Their first game was played at Diamond Cottage Park in Camden, New Jersey because they could not gain access to the Parade Grounds at 11th and Wharton in Philadelphia.

Piper PA-24 Comanche

Country music singers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Lloyd Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were on board a Comanche owned and piloted by Cline's manager, Randy Hughes, when it crashed in deteriorating weather near Camden, Tennessee on March 5, 1963, killing all on board.

Robert K. Crane

After that, he was professor and chairman of the department of Biochemistry at the Chicago Medical School until 1966 and then became professor and chairman of the department of Physiology and Biophysics at Rutgers Medical School (now known as Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey until 1986.

Robert McClain

He made five tackles at West Virginia, four tackles and an interception in a win over Rutgers, and intercepted an end zone pass in the against University of South Florida.

Samuel Merrill Woodbridge

He would serve 44 years as a professor of ecclesiastical history and church government at New Brunswick Theological Seminary (from 1857 to 1901) and for seven years as a professor of "Metaphysics and Philosophy of the Human Mind" at Rutgers College (from 1857 to 1864).

Steven Handel

Handel is the director of the Center for Urban Restoration Ecology (CURE), a joint venture between Rutgers and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York.

Sun Carriage

Relocating to Camden and joined by fellow Plymouth exile Chris Leech on second guitar they recorded the "Sun Carriage/Determined" (written by Ron Price) demo 7" (very rare, only about ten were pressed) for the fledgling Head Records run by Jeff Barrett (later the founder of Heavenly).

Teddy Bridgewater

As a sophomore in 2012 he started 11 of 12 regular season games, his only non-starting action coming off the bench while injured against Rutgers to lead his team to a win, a Big East title and a berth to the BCS.

The Lines

A summer of Urban festivals, including The Camden Crawl, Live In Leeds, Liverpool Sound City and Dot to Dot, support slots with Ash and Ocean Colour Scene and more recently dates with Peter Doherty's on his solo tour.

Warren Boroson

For the years 1990 and 2000, Boroson won the top business news-writing award from Rutgers/CIT.

William Job Collins

Regent High School in Somers Town, London, formerly South Camden Community School and previously Sir William Collins Secondary School which was named after him.


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