INTRODUCTION

During the First World War a group of homes, known as "Yorkship Village" was built to house the Employees, and their families, of the New York Shipyard in Camden, N.J.

Production slowed after the War and the houses were offered for sale. This community was in Haddon Township at that time. When water and sewer facilities became a problem the City of Camden legally incorporated the community and renamed the project "Fairview".

During the 1920's the male residents gathered in the Yorkship Square as a form of socializing. Eventually this group rented the bottom floor of a house to facilitate the games and equipment of a club. Thus the formation of the Independent Citizens Athletic Club was started in 1928.

When the repel of prohibition was evident the club applied for incorporation. The charter was signed on September 17, 1931. The name selected for this Incorporation was: The Independent Citizens Athletic Club of Fairview.

INDEPENDENT was used because the Organization was to have no Political affiliation.

CITIZENS referred to the members' relationship to the Community.

ATHLETIC designated a prime objective of the membership, to engage in sports activities.

Over the past fifty years the history of this Organization includes: An impressive expansion of facilities, an unprecedented atmosphere of sincere good fellowship, continuous involvement and broadening into all fields of Athletic endeavor, a Social Calendar that has encompassed the Community and provided a full program for the Membership and involvement in the Civic activities of the community that is unsurpassed.

In the following pages we hope to relate our History, as best we can, within the limitations of reasonable volume and material available.

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