West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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Herbert A. Greenwald Page 7

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HE SERPENTINE Department of Chemistry State Normal School, West Chester, Pa. T is universally the custom to try to discover in the face of the infant traces of resemblance to one or both parents This is an unconscious recognition of a phase of a great biological truth. Each individual inherits from genera- tions of ancestors all the physical traits, and mental and moral peculiarities which constitute his distinct personality. Therefore, in a study of the life of an individual, any true conception must take into account the hereditary factors incident to parentage, place of birth, and opportunity for mental and spiritual growth which so potently determine what the man is. In treating a personage of such pronounced personality as Professor Herbert Greenwald, it is itally important to hold these facts of universal law in mind. Professor Greenwald ' s father, Henry (jriinwald, is a nati e of Hesse-Darmstadt, who was brought ti ) .America by his widowed mother when but fourteen years old. After two years residence in .Kmerica the mother died, and Henry was compelled to shift for himself. It is from such sturdy German stock, planted in . merica under adversity, that the subject of this sketch has drawn his parentage. His mother, Etta Griin- wald (Etta Hansen), is a natixe of . meri ca, but of Danish parentage from Schleswig. Herbert Greenwald was born in Moorestown, Xew Jersey, . ugust 14, 1881, his present home. His education began in the common schools of that town. He graduated from the Moorestown High School in 1897. Immediately after graduation he entered the Trenton Normal School to prepare himself to teach, and was graduated from that school in 1901. I- ' or the next two years he taught in ungraded schools in several New Jersey counties. During this time he devoted his spare time and vacation periods to completmg his preparation for college. He graduated from Rutgers ' College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1909. It is worthy of emphasis that Mr. Greenwald earned his way through college and at the end of his Freshman year, after all his expenses had