Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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MR. CHARLES P. SINNOTT Retiring, June, l929 By his remarkable ability as a teacher, by his very genial' personality, and most of all by his sturdy integrity and absolute sincerity Mr. Sinnott has endeared himself to the many men and women who have had the good fortune to be numbered among his pupils. It is given to few teachers to show in so great a degree by their own work and Worth what the true teacher should be. A LEONARD O. PACKARD, 1902 Head of the Department of Geography Teachers' College, Boston

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Tribute Bridgewater and Boyden are synonymous terms in Normal School annals. For seventy- five years the Boydens, father and son, have kept Bridgewater a professional light-house and life-saving station, intensifying the light and adapting the means and methods to satisfy old and new demands of life. Through the first twenty-five years the father, as principal, proclaimed, acted, and promoted high standards of character, authoritative principles of education, and disciplinary pedagogy. During the second period of twenty-live years, father and son were companions in effort, cooperating most Httingly, holding fast the permanently good in principles and methods, adapting educational processes to accord with natural science, and promoting skill by actual teaching. The son, principal during the twenty-five years now drawing to a close, has been guide, counsellor, organizer of professional education, bringing it into working accord with the psychological, scientific, and social demands and opportunities of the period. He has kept the faith, ventured the path, and won new and greater successes for the school and the profession. Each twenty-five years a new building has arisen on the site of the old, each significant of the professional thought and practice of its time. A few of us remain who have realized by our experience in education in those buildings the significance of each in the successes of father and son. The buildings perish but the men are enduring, perpetuating, creating. The older Boyden was a directing father, both were companions in progress, the son, mind- ful ofthe rapid transformation in every phase of life, has discriminated the social complexi- ties in education, has lighted the way, and conducted the school to new accomplishments. Bridgewater has been Boyden for seventy-live years. Vlfhat a wonderful, admirable, marvellous duration of development! F. F. MURDOCK, 1879 Instructor at Bridgewater 1884-1896 Principal at North Adams 1896-1921

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