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THE 1906 CLASS MEMORIAL i ' r i.;-
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CL S) L ' AGENDA 23 J. GEORGE BECHT, ' 05. J. George Becht was born in Lycoming Coimtv. He received his preparatory training in tlie Montonrsvilie Pub- lic Schools and the Lycoming County Normal School. In 1899 he entered Lafayette College, and graduated from the same in 1890. He took a post-graduate course at Harvard University in 1900, and pursued special courses at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and at Columbia University during- 1903 and 1904. Mr. Becht began teacliing school at the age nf fifteen, serving as Principal of the DuBoistown Public Schools, 1886-1887; Instructor in the Lycoming County Xiimial School during the summers of 1887-1890; Assistant Principal of Muncy High School and Lycoming Counts- Normal, 1890-1891, and as Principal of the latter for the next two years. In 1893 he was elected County Superin- tendent of Lycoming County and served in this capacity for ten years, wlien he resigned the position to take the chair of Psychology and Pedagogy in the West Chester State Normal School. In 1904 he became Principal of the Clarion State Normal School, and is still serving in this position. Dr. Becht is actively identified with the work of the Penn- sylvania State Educational Association as the President of tiie Child Study Department. Professor Becht received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Bucknell Uni- versity in 1905. REV. J. S. BROMLEY, ' 06. Rev. J. S. Bromley was born in Liverpool, England. In 1871 he went to Belfast, where, in 1873, he was converted and joined the Presbyterian Church. In 1875 he entered Harley College, London, where he took his theological course. While in London he was baptized into the fellow- ship of the East London Tabernacle. In 1877 he crossed the Atlantic and devoted several years to evangelistic work in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and the Eastern and Middle States. He was ordained in the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, and then ac- cepted an invitation to San Francisco, where, on Februarv 7th, he organized the Hamilton Square Church. After re- maining three years with this church and one with the St. Helena Baptist Church he returned east. He spent a year at Westmont, N. J., three and a half years in Wissahicken, Philadelphia, where, during his pastorate, the present build- ing was erected. He had been s xteen years with the First Baptist Church in Reading, Pa., when he resigned to accept a unanimous call to the Great Bethel Baptist Church, Uniontown, Pa., where he commenced his labors on Janu- ary I, 1906. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him bv Bucknell University in June, 1906.
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