Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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OFFERING I I ADELAIDE REED. Grade IX. Bridgewater Normal School, 1865. Taught in schools of Pembroke, Kings- ton, Abington, Malden, Newton, Somerville. Teacher at Bridgewater since 1897. MARTHA M. BURNELL. Grade VIII Gorham Normal School, Me., 1887. Special course at Bridgewater Normal. Taught in schools of Concord, N. H., and Chelsea. At Bridgewater since 1895. I - HANNAH E. TURNER. Grade VII Bridgewater Normal School, 1878. Teacher in schools of Bridgewater, Digh- ton, Somerville. Returned to Bridgewater as teacher in the Model School, 1895. NELLIE M. BENNETT. Grade VI Bridgewater Normal School, 1888. Courses at Summer School. Taught in schools of Middleborough. Returned to Bridgewater. 1896. ,IENNIE BENNETT Grade V Bridgewater Normal School, 1886. Courses at Summer Schools. Teacher in schools of Middleborough. Teacher at Bridgewater since 1898. MARY L. WALLACE. Grade IV Bridgewater Normal School, 1893. Teacher in schools of Rockport and Malden. At Bridgewater since 1895. A SARAH W. TURNER. Grade ffl Bridgewater Normal School, 1878. Teacher in schools of Dighton, Taunton. Came to Bridgewater, 1897. SARAH E. PRATT. Grade fl Bridgewater Normal School, 1869. Experience in schools of Kingston, Bridge- water, Melrose, Malden, Newton, Somerville. Returned to Bridgewater as teacher in Model School, 1897. FLQRA M. STUART. Grade I Bridgewater Normal School, 1889. Courses at Summer School. Teacher in schools of Fairhaven and Newton. Returned to Bridgewater as teacher, 1890. ANNE M. WELLS. K'z'7za'efgfarZe1z. Kindergarten Training Class in connection with Mrs. Quincy Shaw's School, Boston, 1889. Post-graduate work with Miss Fisher in Boston. Taught in schools of Brookline and Hartford. At Bridgewater since 1893. FRANCES P. KEYES. As.s'z'.vZam' Kz'1zde7garz'e1z. Mrs. Aldrich's Training Class, Springfield, 1888. Taught in private kinder- garten in Springfield, and .public kindergarten in Hartford. At Bridgewater since 1895. .

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IO OFFERING FANNY A. COMSTOCK. ffzsZ1'zzcz'01f 2.72 Rhefozfic, A1'z'ZlmzeZz'a, Bofmgf. Bridgewater Normal School, 1875. Taught in Marlborough High School. In- structor in Easton State Normal School, Castine, Me. At Bridgewater since 1888. ELIZABETH H. PERRY. ffzsfffzzdoff in Dmwifzg. Westheld Normal School, 188o. Studied in Normal Art School, Boston. Taught in public schools of Springfield, Mass. Supervised Drawing in schools of Chelsea. Taught in Normal Art School. At Bridgewater Normal School since 1891. I EMILY C. FISHER. f7Z.S'Z'7'2l6f07' in Ezzglisk, Geovfzeify. Bridgewater Normal School, 1887. Courses of study in Paris and Berlin. Courses at Radcliffe College and Institute of Technology. Instructor at Bridge- water Normal since 1889. BESSIE L. BARNES. fzzsfffzzrfovf 2.72 Physiology. Physica! Tmz'fzz'1zg. Boston Normal School. Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, 1893. Taught in the Lowell School, Boston. Instructor at Bridgewater Normal School since 1893. I LILLIE E. MERRITT. Asszkiazzf f7Z.S'Z'7'ZlCZ'07' in Dmwizzg. , Bridgewater Normal School, 1894. Assistant during last two years of course. Regular instructor since 1894. LILLIAN A. HICKS. Szzpezfvzlfof of P7'dCfZ'C6 Tmcking. A Bridgewater Normal School 1875. Special courses at Harvard University and Mass. Institute of Technology. Teacher in the public schools of Boston, Quincy and East Bridgewater. Returned to Bridgewater as Principal of Model School, Sept. 1891. Became Supervisor of Practice Teaching, Sept. 1899. lVIodel School Instructors. BRENELLE HUNT, PRINCIPAL. Grande IX. Bridgewater Normal School, 1896. Principal Grammar School, North Abing- ton, ,Q6-7. Principal Grammar School, Westheld, ,Q7-Q. Returned to Bridge- water as Principal of Model School Fall of 1899.

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I2 OFFERING Fortieth Anniversary of the Principalship of Albert G. Boyden, A. NI. HE Bridgewater State Normal School has been acknowledged as stand inff at the head of the Normal schools in the United States This people of this good old town but from outsideis educators and public men not connected with this school. Allusion is made to this testi- mony not for the sake of boasting, but simply for giving the reason for the uniform sentiment which the writer has heard for the last thirty years on many occasions, and which educational papers of this and other states have expressed again and again. The principal of this school for the last forty years has been Albert G. Boyden. A Albert G. Boyden was educated in the home, on his grandfather's farm, in his father's blacksmith shop, in the district school, the State Normal School, and by private tuition. At the age of fourteen years he decided to be a teach- er, strongly desiring to go to college but could not get the funds. He gave his evenings to study, determined to do what he could for himself. At twenty one years of age he had good health, good habits, his trade, and he had taught a district school three winters. U He entered the State Normal School at Bridgewater in 1848, taking the regular course and an advanced course. After his graduation he taught a gram- mar school in Hingham during the next winter, received the appointment of of assistant teacher in the Bridgewater State Normal School and held the posi- tion three years under the distinguished founder of the school, 'Nicholas Tilling- hast, was principal of the English High School for boys in Salem for three years , sub-master of the Chapman Grammar School, Boston, one year, first A'-. i O 0 1 o - if 7 D . O ' testimony does not come from the faculty of the school, nor from the assistant again in the Bridgewater Normal School three and one-half years under the able tuition of the second principal Marshall Conant: was appointed principal of the school in August 1860, and the same year received the de- gree of A. M. from Amherst College. r Mr. Boyden was a diligent student both in school and under private tuition, and while he was assistant in the Normal School he was called upon to teach nearly all thc studies of the course, and to make careful study of the principles and method of teaching. He started in life with the determination to do every- thing intrusted to him to the best of his ability, and has never sought a positon as teacher. llc has been president of the Plymouth County Teacher's Association, of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association, of the Schoolmasters' Club, of the New England Normal Counsil, vice-president of the American Institute of In- struction , secretary of the National Council of Education, president of the Old Colony Congregational Club, editor of the Massachusetts Teacher, and author of numerous educational addresses.