Lewis Katz Remembered in Camden, Jersey
His public memorial may be in Philadelphia today, but Lew Katz is being remembered as a son of Camden and New Jersey, the Courier-Post reports.
“But Katz also was a man of distinction socially. He and his wife were once featured in a 1974 Courier-Post lifestyle story about how they spent their off hours entertaining, she in Anne Klein fashions, he in a safari-style leisure suit.” Photo: Courtesy the Courier-Post.
Katz’s legacy looms large in the city. He helped found the Boys & Girls Club in Parkside, just down the street from Camden High, where he graduated in 1959. It has a clubhouse named for Katz and his wife, Marjorie, who died in December.
“He’s the reason the Boys & Girls Club of Camden County exists,” said former judge M. Allen Vogelson, who knew Katz from the time they were in high school.
Also part of Katz’s legacy — and his birthright — were Jewish Community Centers in Cherry Hill and Margate named for his parents and the establishment of a Hebrew school in Voorhees.
