SUNY at New Paltz - Paltzonian Yearbook (New Paltz, NY)

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P DMI TR TIG FACULTY

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or fifty years the executive affairs of the school have been administered by five ca- pable and well-trained schoolmen. The credit for making it possible for New Paltz to have such highly qualified men at its head is due in no small part to the fine judgment of the boards of trustees who selected the men to fill the principal's chair. The prestige of a school is largely depend- ent on the ability of its faculty and the esteem in which they are held. New Paltz can well be proud of its instructorsg not only are they teachers, but above that, they are friends to whom an appeal for guidance can always be made with the assurance that it will be re- ceived and considered in the kindest of fashions. In the following pages we present the men who laid the foundations of the school and carried on its work, as well as those indi- viduals whose present pleasure it is to main- tain and 'augment the traditions of New Paltz Normal. '

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The First Local Board ON DECEMBER 15, 1885, the Trustees of the New Paltz Academy turned over to the State all Academy property to be used in the future as a school for e pro fessional education of teachers. Aishort time later Superintendent o ubl1c Instruction, W. B. Ruggles, appointed as the Local Board of the New Paltz State Normal School the following: Charles W. Deyo, Esq., New Paltz Solomon Deyo, Esq., New Paltz Hon. Josiah J. Hasbrouck, New Paltz Lambert jenkins, Esq., New Paltz , Hon. Jacob LeFevre, New Paltz Hon. Alton B. Parker, Kingston Gen. George H. Sharpe, Kingston Hon. Albert K. Smiley, Mohonk Lake Hon. Jacob D. Wurts, New Paltz This board met january 9, 1886 and elected the following officers A I2 Smiley, President, Solomon Deyo, Secretagvg Charles W. Deyo, Treasurer These men, with their fellow members, helped to guide the former Academy during its early years as a full-fledged Normal School. J Twenty-one l