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?( { has accounted for every cent of it—a record of which he feels truly proud. He has seen the membership grow from 220 to 10.865. Professor Keck is a member of Huguenot Lodge, F. and A. M. ever since 1877. He passed through the chairs and thus he is a Past Master by merit. He served his lodge as secretary for a period of five years and in 1895 the members elected him treasurer, which he has held ever since by annual re-election. 7
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DAVID S. KECK son of II Thomas and Isabella Keck, was born in North Whitehall, Lclngh Countv October 6. 1852. He received his early school training in the public school's and later entered the Keystone State Normal School, from which insti- tution he graduated in 1874- His parents were not burdened with too much earthly treasure and the father passing away while our subject was a mere child, the latter, before lie was twelve years old spent his summers working in the iron mines of Lehigh and his winters attending public school, and in this way he helped his mother to support the family. In the spring of 1869 Judge Laury, after whom our subject was named, gave him money to pay his expenses at the Normal for 011c term. Before gradu- ating lie taught during three terms the same school that he had attended when a child. When he came back to the Normal, through the influence of Judge Schwartz, a trustee, lie was appointed to sweep the class rooms, take care of the fires in these rooms, and ring the bell. In this way he earned his board and tuition. After graduating, in 1874, he was elected principal of the public schools of Hamburg. He held that position until 1877, when the Trustees of the Key- stone State Normal School offered him the Superintendency of the Model Department. He held this position until 1881, when he was elected County Superintendent of the public schools of Berks County. This position he held until 1890. From 1890 to July, 1891, his home was in New York City. He had charge of the Bonded Freight Department of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. When he resigned this position, he accepted the supervisorship of all the Indian schools in District No. 5, covering all of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. Before he started for his western field of labor he was married to Miss Susan Kaufman, Preceptress in the Keystone Normal. Their wedding trip took them to Albuquerque, New Mexico, which happened to be his headquarters while he was in the government service. Frontier life was too rough for our subject ; lie resigned his position in the summer of 1893 and on his way cast he spent a month at the World’s Columbian Exposition. The year ’93-’94 he spent on his farm making improvements and having the buildings repaired. In the summer vacation of 1894, Professor Neff passed away and our subject was appointed by the Trustees of the Keystone State Normal School to take his place— teaching United States History and English Grammar—a position which he still holds. In the summer of 1883, Ursinus College honored our subjecct by conferring upon him the degree of Master of Arts. In 1885 our subject was elected treas- urer of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association and he still holds that position, having been kept there by annual re-election. None of his predecessors ever held that position so many years. During these thirty years nearly eighty thousand dollars of the Association’s money was handled by the treasurer and he 6
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