Welcome to our new online community.  Membership is FREE and available exclusively to our alumni and friends!

This is Palmyra's private, online community created exclusively for Palmyra HS alumni.   It is a secure, password-protected environment established by the Palmyra Public School District.

Once you register, an email will be sent to confirm your membership and validate your email address.  Be sure to click on the link in this email so your account can be activated.

Become a member and take advantage of the following services:

• Reconnect with faculty and former classmates
• Organize class reunions
• Discover ways to support your school
• Share alumni news and activities

Features include:

• Message boards for In Memorial, Lost/Missing Alumni, Career & Volunteer Center, Class Notes, School & Alumni News
• Subscriptions to keep you updated by e-mail of classmates and message board updates
• Alumni directory that's searchable by class, by name or by occupation
• Lost / missing alumni directory to help find people that others are looking for
• Social networking (Facebook, Skype, MySpace and LinkedIn) support

Search for friends and make new connections with the online community!  All you need to do to take advantage of all the community has to offer is to proceed through the registration process to establish an account.

Thanks to Bob Sanders (unofficial class photographer, 1959) for gathering these images.  Click any photo to open album.

Add your logo and website link, if you have one, to our sponsors list!  The cost is only $200/per year for the Premier Package which includes the Banner ad on all pages and the Banner/Logo in email blasts and newsletter. The $100/per year package includes the Banner Ad.  The money raised helps to defray the cost of operating our website.  If you'd like to do your part and help the cause, and your business at the same time, please let us know. We appreciate your generous Panthers/PALS SUPPORT!

To All Readers of “BACK IN TIME” ,

For the past four years and over 130 hand crafted editions, BACK IN TIME has been dolling out local history in spades through the pages of THE TOWN NEWS. In recent years, Burlington County Freeholders honored this column with its own History Preservation Award, recognizing that a town’s history is its heart and soul.

In the wake of THE TOWN NEWS closing, I am pleased to announce BACK IN TIME will continue in Regina Collinsgru’s wonderful Monthly hometown newspaper THE POSITIVE PRESS. Regina has expanded the circulation of the paper to include Palmyra, Riverton, and Cinnaminson. The Newspaper is circulated at 16,000 copies and is mailed to every home and business in Riverside, Delran and Delanco. Locally, the paper is available at The Riverton and Cinnaminson Public Libraries, Ward Fuel, JT Vac and Sew, Palmyra Borough Hall, Mulberry Café on Cinnaminson Ave and Georgetti’s. Eventually, the plan is for the paper to be mailed to every home in Palmyra, Riverton and Cinnaminson as well.

Until then, spread the word that BACK IN TIME is back and get your copies at the locations listed. The newspaper is usually available the first week or so of the month, and the Deadline is the 15th of each month for your own submissions, photos and news. Please go to www.thepositivepress.com for more details and online articles about the towns we live in!

BACK IN TIME will feature in every edition with expanded coverage and more photos. Subscription information is available at the POSITIVE PRESS website if you live outside the area and would like your editions mailed to you each month.

Your history is who you are, and its preservation is important.

For more info, go to the Borough Web site @ www.boroughofPalmyra.com and scroll to “communities” and then “Historical Society”.   You will also find some old postcards and historical photos on www.riverlineneighbors.com website as well as many contributory articles. Help us in making Palmyra a better “Place to live and grow”. Get involved in the future of Palmyra by celebrating its past. !!!!

I’ll see my dedicated readers and friends of the Palmyra Historical Society every month in THE POSITIVE PRESS

                                                   Will Valentino 

                                                 Board Of Trustees

                                                 Palmyra Historical & Cultural Society

BACK IN TIME is © Will Valentino.  No reproduction without Author’s consent

There's a rousing cheer rings far and near,

And the air is filled with song;

When we shout her praise these happy days

As we mingle with the throng.

For we ever, as we sing,

Make Palmyra's praises ring.

Come join with us in songs of praise,

And let every voice be raised.

Oh we'll sing and shout her praises well,

For our Alma Mater dear.

A message to alumni, faculty and friends of Palmyra High School

Check out our page on event planning information for tips and ideas, including how to add your event to the site.

Are you looking for your yearbook? Yearbooks are now available for the The Class of 1962,1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968 and 1969. All the yearbooks are in good condition. Contact Ron Bogdan at "GETMYYEARBOOK.COM.  Please see the advertisement below on the lower right hand side of the webpage.

PALMYRA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ACCEPTING DONATIONS OF PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA

The Palmyra Historical Society is asking all PALMYRA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI MEMBERS to help us with the archiving of historical images featuring Palmyra, Riverton and Cinnaminson. …The best photographs of the town and those things that everyone remembers and would love to see again…High School and Beyond. . The best photos may see publication in a book on the town’s history as well as being featured in BACK IN TIME, a weekly column in the TOWN NEWS newspaper highlighting Palmyra history and nostalgia.  Your best photographs are needed, as well as photos of events,  documents, advertising memorabilia from Palmyra businesses, house photos, old deeds, artifacts, signs, sports items, paper items, and old newspapers. Search your attics and Family archives.  Please call WILL VALENTINO at 856 303 0758 and leave a message regarding donations or email him at icarusfalling88@comcast.net . Photos can be scanned and returned to you if you desire it. For more info on our organization and our archives search go to www.boroughofpalmyra.com, and click on communities and scroll to ‘Historical Society”

Supporting Memberships in the non-profit PALMYRA HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SOCIETY are also available. A $12 donation for an individual and $20 donation for a family helps assure the future preservation of our town’s history. Any larger financial donations will help us fund this project, our public events, and the conservation and preservation of Historical items donated to our organization. Checks to: Palmyra Historical Society Box 446 Palmyra NJ 08065.

When in Palmyra, visit our three display cases of artifacts and memorabilia in PALMYRA BOROUGH HALL.

Joan Toye Sambuco, Class of 1979

Be sure to check out the list of reunions and events posted to the left in "Upcoming Events".  If you are a planner of a future event, be sure to read "Event planning information / add an event" for tips and information to make your event a success.

Keep your e-mail and mailing addresses current and you'll receive the details of alumni information, activities, events, and reunions.

Photos from 1949 through 1955 are online in the gallery.

High school classes began shortly after the completion of the Spring Garden Street School in 1895; this building is on the National Register of Historic Places. With increased enrollment, the school was moved to a former girls school, Berkeley Hall, in 1907, and to its own building in 1909. A large addition was completed in 1922. The 1909 structure was destroyed by fire in 1957, and after a vote that narrowly defeated establishing a regional high school, additions were made to the building in 1958 and 1961.

In 1907 the Red Devils, Palmyra's football team, began its rivalry with Bulington City.  This is the oldest school rivalry in Burlington County.  Now we are known as the Palmyra Panthers, but the rivalry still exists as does Palmyra High School's fierce determination and drive to achieve both Scholastic and Athletic excellence.