Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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ALMA MATER 1. Within thy life we grew; The task you set we knew: To burn thy beacon bright, Where fail the rays of right. Chorus O Alma Mater, thy children strive To keep thy faith alive O Alma Mater, we sing for thee This song of loyalty. O Alma Mater, thy voice alone Will guide in paths unknown. Within thy life we sang Of love and peace that rang Throughout thy sounding halls Now memories in thy walls. Beyond thy life we raise Thy worthy name in praise Where e ' er we chance to be We honor B. T. C. Walter Nardelli, ' 33

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To the Alpha Board: My teaching began in the State of Maine in the autumn months of 1887, after receiving my diploma from the Gorham State Normal School; thence on to a country school in the mountains of New Hampshire, and soon to Concord, its capital. During my short principalship of the Rumford School in Concord, I conceived the idea of further study, and was directed to the Bridgewater State Normal School— that glowing forge of education where Albert Gardner Boyden was principal. Mr. Frank Ford Murdock, first principal of the North Adams Normal School (likewise its first president when the school became a college) was instructor in geography at Bridgewater. He was a great teacher. His work attracted wide attention, and he was given charge of the teaching of geo- graphy in the city schools of Chelsea to which I had strayed after my courses at Bridgewater, and a live term or two in the fishing town of Rockport. Dr. Albert Boyden asked me to come to the eighth grade in the Training School (1895). His genial, contemplative attitude toward our interests stimulated us, always, to try new ventures. His was a great gift. Arthur Clarke Boyden, who was vice-principal with his father, outlived the principalship, and became Bridgewater ' s first president. He was a teacher never to be forgotten; and some of us thought the old school had lost what it was out to get, by placing in an executive position, one who could create in his students a real urge to think. When the Junior High School opened, Dr. Arthur Boyden asked me to become principal of the Training School, for we had been steadily losing Mr. Brenelle Hunt, then principal, to the rarer, upper air of the psychology classes. To us older teach- ers he has always seemed our Training School Principal, but psychology was his bent. We were glad, indeed, that he continued to work in Bridgewater, where his brilliant mind still scintillates — an ornament to the college. Dr. Zenos Edmund Scott, our sceond president, brought an inspiring conception of education which the college will never lose. All of us were grateful for his penetrating study of our problems as they were, for his quick, time-saving decisions, and for his breadth of knowledge of educational movements, and wide acquaintance with educators — all of which he shared with us so generously. The year 1938 marked the close of my work in Bridgewater. It also marked the close of President John Joseph Kelly ' s first year of administration. With us many years as a highly appreciated teacher, his continued consideration, and always gracious interest remain-— a song and a silence in the heart. Martha May Burnell Brookline, January 16, 1939.

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