Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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l u Ehreei Score Mears anb jfour Hn H11fObiOQI'8l3bQ ' AM a STATE NGRMAL ScHooL in the town of ,.Bridgewater, in I - the County of'Plymouth, in the State of Massachusetts. My originators weredistinguished fortheir philanthropy and the courage of their convictions. A, My first' godfather was Horace - A Mann, the iirst Secretary of the Massachusetts Boardof Educa- tionf .His associate 'sponsors were the first members ofthe Board, men widely known, Gov. Edward Everett, James G. Carter,'Rev. Emerson Davis, Rev. Edward A, Newton, Robert Rantoul Jr., Rev. Thomas Robbins, Jared Sparks, and Edmund Dwight who paid one-third the expenses of my sup+ port the first three years of my life. Other prominent friends of my advent were Rev. Charles Brooks, Hon. John Quincy Adams, Hon. Daniel lVebster, Honf Artemas 'Hale, Rev. George Putnam, and Tchabod Morton who said, Ulf the kingdom of heaven is to comeion the earth it will come through the Noi-nialschoolo.'7 I A ' o A A Nearly two years were spent in the vain endeavor to raise 310,000 to erect a new home for me. Then the town of Bridgewater gave the use of its- old 'Town Hall for my. home, and here I was born on Sept. 9, 1840. Twenty-one young women and seven young men were present to welcome me. My mother was the necessity for better teachers in the public schools of the State. My father was Nicholas Tillinghast, a native of Taunton, Mass., and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at NV est Point, in which he had been an Assistant Professor for four years. He had resigned his commission in the army and was teaching in Boston when he was selected by Horace Mann to bring me into being and establish my life. He was thirty- five years of age at this time. ' The Committee of the Board who reported rules and regulations for the government of the first Normal Schools had an interesting conception of what the head of the Normal School should be. They said in their report, I7