Stephen
M.
O'Keefe


STEPHEN M. O'KEEFE had a fifty-seven year career in journalism. entirely with Courier-Post. During the last five years of his career he wrote an weekly column called "Crossroads in History", which you can find below.

Stephen O'Keefe's last work as a journalist was published a year after his retirement, a seven part History of the Courier Post, as part of the newspaper's one-hundredth anniversary issue.

Stephen M. O'Keefe passed away on January 31, 1984.

On April 3, 1954 a banquet was held at Kenney's restaurant on Market Street in honor of retiring Camden Police Department detective August Pfleiderer. Joseph Mardino chaired the committee which put the banquet together. Other members of the committee include Clifford Carr, Harry Tracy, George Ellis, Nathaniel Jones, James Mulligan, Russell Maurer, Samuel E. Johnson, Edward C. Garrity, Frank H. Ryan, James M. O'Neill, Stephen M. O'Keefe, Edward J. Quinlan and Joseph Webster.

Camden Courier-Post - February 1, 1984
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Camden Courier-Post - February 1, 1975
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Stephen M. O'Keefe's Crossroads of History

 November 25, 1970

Comradeship Abounded in Camden's Many Clubs in Early 1900's

Camden Courier-Post - November 25, 1970
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Walter J. Roth - Morse Street - Emerson Athletic Association - Broadway - Turner Hall

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Anthony Beals
James Beals
Ernst Ballheimer
Joseph Bicker
H.G. Burke
John Boyle
Joseph Cline
Edward Carmany
Frank Christen
Alfred Christen
Charles Cliver
Harold Costello
Ray Farnham
Harold Deuter
Sam Friedenberg
Alex Friedenberg
Hubert Farrell
Joseph Flannery
Adam Grimming
David Harrigan
August Haverkamp
Alonza Howard
William C. Hansel
Ellis Johnston
William J. Kelly
Charles Krown - William Keane
James Keane - Claude Krown
Harry Knipe
Victor Lotier
Samuel Lippman
Frank McCormick
James McGrath
Frank McLaughlin - Daniel McLaughlin
William McLaughlin
John Mahney
Thomas Mahney
William Mazur
William McDermott
William Miles
Joseph Norkus - John Norkus
Thomas Naughton
William Prucella
Walter Reynoldo
Walter Roth
Charles Ricco
Frank Singer - John J. Singer
George Singer
William J. Schmuckle
Edward Shropshire
Benjamin Thomas
Irving Varley
James Woods
Albert Williams - John Welch
Robert Wilson - Robert Williams
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Veterans Boxing Association Ring 6
11th Annual Banquet - April 20, 1959


JOEY POWELL
1931 127lbs
Dick Graminga, Charles Humes 
and Tony Georgette-Managers
Eddie Prince, Lew Sparks
and Jack Blackburn-Trainers

Joseph Grochowski
Al Bunker
Ed Kaszycki
Andy Friday
John Skiba
John Dombrowski
Walter Szalanski
Nick Pawlak
Wm. O'Brien
Bill Neil
Wm. Schultz
Tom Scarduzio
Peter Paull
Barney Tracey
Dave Hainsworth
Walter Zimolong
Edward Shapiro
Thomas McLaughlin
John Opfer

Joey Powell's Well-Wishers 
ALSO EXTEND BEST WISHES TO
Sergeant Ray Smith

Vallie Francesconi
Tom Ryan
Leon Lucas
Jesse Urban
Bobby Zimmerman
Joe (Kid) Murphy
Pee Wee Wilson
Jackie Gleason
Joe Vitarelli
Al Daley
Frankie Youker
Joe McEvoy
Frank Valenti
Jim McFadden
Charles Bauer
George Ballantine
James O'Neill
Dorothy Dougherty
Agnes McHenry
Vicky Dangler
Francis Souders
Loretta and Reds
Bart
Roger Cotton
Leon McCarthy
Kenneth Geitz
Joe Daubman
Norman Jacobson
Nick Colofrancisco
Chris Rago
Charles Myers
Ray Cohand
Paul Harduk
Charles Wells
Carl Stolinski
Walter Wilson
Steve Straub
Charley Kmiec
Jimmy Tyler
Joe Dorfy
William Vogel
John Campbell

Steve O'Keefe
Sam Laird
Ed Rickter
Don Cragin
John Odorisio
Michael Przywara
Walter Paleszewski
Watson Burdalski
Stanley Snajkowski
Frank Drabik
John P. Kawczak
Frank Kulesa
Steve Kirby
James R. Asher
Polack Tony
Stephen Yakopczyna
Helen and Chick
Don Wilson
James Monaghan
George Carr
Bill Jentsch
John Greenan
Charles Galasso
Don's Barber Shop
Joe Shaw
Ben Gutowski
Tom Bristow
Joseph Stelmach
Leon Hood
George Saunders
Mike Borman
Anthony Cirelli
Bob Hardy
Frank Hardy
Benny DePalma
Frank Padulla
Mike Yack
Stanley Powell
George Kroecker
A Friend
The Fox

Tom Fish


 

Camden Courier-Post
November 3, 1966

Veterans Boxing Association Ring 6
Tom Ryan
Martin Segal

Sgt. Ray Smith
Joe Spearing
Joe "Kid" Murphy

Lew Skymer
Roxie Allen
Tom Kenney Sr.
Battling Mack
Eddie Prince
Anthony Georgette
Stephen O'Keefe

 

 

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