Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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ALICE B. BEAL

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DEDICATION To Alice B. Beal, Supervisor of Training from 1928-1940, and to Gordon L. Reynolds, Teacher of Art from 1932 to 1939, whose leadership and service to Bridgewater have established them as people whose example we hope in some measure to emulate, we respectfully dedi- cate this book.

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Members of the faculty and student body regret that one of the most popular instructors has left us this year. However, great pride is taken in the fact that Miss Beat is an alumna as well as a faculty member and that she was chosen for this position of State Supervisor of Elementary Education. Miss Beal was educated in the Quincy public schools. Following her graduation from Bridgewater in 1916, she attended New York University, where she received her bachelor ' s degree and later studied at the Teachers College at Columbia University and Harvard. She received her master ' s degree cum laude from the School of Education at Boston University. In 1927 Miss Beal came to Bridgewater where she has acted as director of training for the past 12 years. She has witnessed the changing of this in- stitution from a Normal School, where two and three year courses were given, to a Teachers College which gave at first just the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education and in 1938 added the Master ' s Degree in Education. Inter- ested in the extension courses which were started here at this time, Miss Beal has been actively engaged in this work giving a course entitled Trends in Elementary Education. It is for all this experience that we feel that Commissioner Downey could not have chosen a better person than our Miss Beal to fill this new position and we sincerely wish her unbounded success!