Meriden High School - Annual Yearbook (Meriden, CT)

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DR. DAVID GIBBS The public schools of Meriden are superintendcd by Dr. David Gibbs. Dr. Gibbs has held this high position since August of the year IQI 1. Kingswood, New Jersey, was his birth- place, and the city where he secured his earliest education. lle was graduated from the New Jersey State Normal School in 1894. The following hve years of his life were spent in scientific and post-graduate work at Harvard. Ile was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in IQO6 by Clark University. Concerning his actual experience with school work, there is much. In the interval between the time he left llarvard until he came to hleriden he had been head of both district and graininar schools, had been superintendent of schools in lhl1lSS2lCllllSCtlS and New York, had been district superintendent in the Philippines, and had been the head ol' the New XVOTLI State Normal School. From this leadership at Oswego, New York, he came to us.

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DR. DAVID GIBBS, Superintendent

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FRANCIS L. BACON, Princfpal