Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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vice upon the altar of hisadopted country has added thirty-five years of unwearied and unbroken labor as a successful and beloved teacher of teachers To his wide and profound linguistic acquirements many learned scholars would give endorsement, and to his steadfast devotion to the interest of his pupils an drieds of now through the professional labors of sons and daughters who are them- selves filling important places in the ranks of American teachers the influence of this accomplished German-American citizen and teacher is d of the school the esteem and affection of hun- teachers who have been his pupils give abundant testimony. And being extended and multiplied. I M1sslsA1313LLE S. HORNE, CI875- .D As an Cff1CiGHt 'C6HChCr of vocal expression in the Bridgewater Normal School for nearly a generation, Miss Horne's service has been rare and noteworthy. Yet not as a teacher of vocal expression alone. In her gracious personality, her skillful stimu- lation of the appreciation of noble literary ideals, her cordial interest in the promotion of all social, dramatic and generally uplifting enterprises undertaken by the members of the school, the service she has rendered is deserving of the highest praise. But going deeper still, upon her seems to have descended in some sense the mantle of another devoted woman teacher, Miss E. B. Woodward, who was Miss, I-Iorne's close personal friend and who also for thirty years served her day and generation in the Bridgewater Normal School. Although to the woman teacher may be denied the privilege of extending her own personality into the future through the lives of her own children, yet to her sometimes come the happiness and the opportunity in no small degree to mould the lives and destinies of hundreds of young persons who in later life will call her memory blessed. N . Miss' CLARA C. PRINCE, QI87Q- .Q The service of Miss Prince to the Bridgewater Normal School did not begin with her appointment in 1879. Five years earlier, a yearls furlough which was granted to me in my own teaching work was made possible by the fact that Miss Prince, then a student in the school, and my sister Miss Edith Leonard,-also a student and later also a regular teacher in the school,-were able and will- ing to undertake most of my teaching dutieg M155 Prince assumin the 0 9. g chaff? of mY geography classes. I hold in grateful memory today this service then rendered. , 511106 Miss PfiHCC'S appointment as a regular teacher, the rapid development-of the school in its musical standards, and its present high efficiency in such lines, give abundant testimony to Miss Prince's loyal devotlon to the highest Principles Of musical art, to her own skill as a 16 i I . 311 As 1 an .impOj to I name de' e niuSiC lives sh MR' noble qui the intro Mr. BOYG to the BI have bee We belie the futur of MT- Il through ' vice, thot has had much be Yet it is mental g always ki Mr. Boyz highest it But of suhjet exercised its growtf head and for many its hlgheg In rc laborer y names th WHS StrOr Of all. Clirfisfgr i Pttso iilfer-ifffiith

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idnmer Schotlls. gewater Since ols of Rockport Y- Ar Bridge. hools of B' . 1 .rses at Summer Vrlmmgton, Del Summer School :cl to Bridgewater 396, Bridgewater arly. In Bflge rmbia Universlll haW5 5. Quincy ton s risher In BO, 6 ridge watfff Smc faljfjfl aught in P .n Hartford frva C El Gribute. I-IE YEAR 1905 is a fitting time to call to m1nd the debt , which the Brrdgewater Normal School and 1tS alumni owe to ' ' the devoted labors of several persons to whom the teachrng SCFVICC of thrs 1nst1tut1on has been an rnspired and 1nsp1r1ng 5 lrfework When I closed 'my own term of teaching at Bridge water now more than twenty years ago there were live persons on 1tS teaching force who have marntarned unbroken ever since their connection with this faculty and whose united rnfluence has been the chref factor rn the prosper1ty and growth of the 1nst1tut1on MR A G BOYDEN QASSISIHDI 1850-1853 and 1857-1860 Prrncr- pal I86O J When one compares the Br1dgewater Normal School of 1860 with 1ts one small bu1ld1ng IIS short course of study and mea re equipment and the present great 1nst1tut1on with its r1ch curriculum 1ts large student body ltS noble p1le of burldrngs beautiful campus and magnrficent teaching equrpment one recognrzes that the great force that has drrected thrs growth and expansron has been the l1fe labor of one man and 1nst1nct1vely there come to mind the words lnscrrbed to S1r Chr1sto pher Wren over the doorway of St Paul s Cathedral If you would see h1S monument look around you But lt 1S not alone as an organrzer and d1rect1n head that Mr Boyden has grven to the Normal School a service that IS unparalleled rn the hlstory of the 1nst1tut1on As a noble example of a life actuated by the highest motives as an 1nsp1r1ng teacher for half a century and a srncere and helpful friend to all hrs puprls and fellow teachers I know that he has awakened 1n hundreds of hearts a feelrng akrn to my own as I write He was one of the best personal friends that my l1fe has known MR F H KIRMAYER fI87O Q Amerrca has recerved many grfts from the great and enlightened German Empire and among these the Alumn1 of Bridgewater will always recognize with gratrtude the gift of the hrghly educated soldler professor who after layrng hrs costly personal ser 15

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:Y-B ve years ed teach er of ection of hun stimony, And' are them. te2iCl'lCI'3 the nd teacher is Wl'10 it teacher of P fi generation, t HS 8 teacher skillful stimu. al interest in g enterprises 5 rendered is in her seems Ioted woman ose personal :ration in the izher may be o the future es come the he lives and will call her rs Prince to ointment In -ed to me In Jliss Prince rd,--also H .le and will uming t C today thlS .El the fHPld escflf high nce'S loyal Skill as a 't f. v-.N . fpy-1-agus Ir. S :fit fum-,gif ow ea! Y? L 5 2. rr 1 ? may-q-Q-gsef musical artist, and to heripower of inspiring others with the best ideals, both in performance and in the teaching of the art of music. As a successful teacher of mathematical science Miss Prince has filled an important place where her labors have been abundant and fruitful. And to her also has been given the honor and happiness of writing her name deeply on the hearts of hundreds of young people whose personal lives she has helped and befriended. MR. A. C. BOYDEN, fI87Q- .Q Last but by no means least ofnthis noble quintette of long-continuing Bridgewater teachers. As a pioneer in the introduction and development of Nature Study in the public schools, Mr. Boyden's fame far transcends the limits of the direct patronage given to the Bridgewater Normal School. His plans for such courses of study have been widely published and adopted in many parts of the country. We believe that we speak within reason when we say that it seems as if the future of the Natural Sciences in America will owe much to the labors of Mr Boyden in this department, as impressed upon the public mind through the common schools As a teacher of history Mr Boyden's ser vice, thouffh less widely known, perhaps, than his work in Nature Study, has had a profound and far-reaching lnfluence, having extended itself much beyond the direct teaching fields of the Graduates of this school Yet it IS Mr Boyclen's pupils alone who can fully appreciate the loOf1cal mental grasp of every subject the keen and critical yet 1nsp1r1ng and always k1ndly and sympathetic elements of his teaching that have made Mr Boyden in the minds of many of the Bridgewater graduates thelr highest 1deal of a teacher of power and inspiration But Mr Boyden s work is not alone that of a teacher of classes and of subjects As Vice Principal of the school he has now for many years exercised a strong and ever increasin influence in directing the trend of its growth both in ideals and in scholarly attainments That the guidmg head and shaping influence of Mr Boyden may be continued to the school for many years to come IS the wish of all who know its history and desire 1ts highest prosperity In recalling my own personal relations to these five teachers as a co laborer with them 1D the Bridgewater Normal School there are other names that come quickly to mind as representing those whose influence was strongly felt durin that period of the school life which I knew best of all The names Woodward Martin Winship Russell Richards Currier Armes Hutchinson Murdock call to the minds of many graduates the personalities and labors of others who also left their 1mpress upon the life of the school Some of these have entered into still larger fields of