Photographs

Louise E. Woodruff Bush was born in 1887 to David Woodruff and Francis or Frances Demond in Morristown, New Jersey. She attended the New Jersey State Normal School where she was president of the Gamma Sigma literary society and studied the Kindergarten course. She graduated in June 1907 and began teaching in East Orange Schools. She married John A. Brokaw in 1914, who died in 1918. She married William H. Bush (1881-1954) in 1924, and a few years later they settled in Chatham, New Jersey. She remained active with Trenton State alumni groups including Gamma Sigma Nu throughout her life. She died in 1963.

Mildred G. Duncan Warnecke was born to Charles Henry Duncan (1873-unknown) and Laura Ella Woolman (1876-1928) in 1902 in Burlington, NJ. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Education from The New Jersey Normal School at Trenton in 1924. She married Rudolph Emil Warnecke (1902-1967), with whom she had three children: Donald Bruce Warnecke (1929-1931), Wuzanne Warnecke (1931-), and Carol Warnecke Harris (1932-). She taught in New Jersey schools in three different locations, specifically in Burlington from 1924-1927, Rutgers Preparatory School in Somerset in the 1930s, and in Westfield from 1942-1946.

Warnecke had been a very active member of Gamma Sigma Nu, where she later befriended Louise Woodruff Bush (class of 1911), whose photo albums also are part of this collection.

Founded in 1855 as the New Jersey State Normal School, The College of New Jersey is the oldest teacher training college in the state and the ninth oldest in the nation. Originally located in downtown Trenton, the college expanded academically and physically, and later moved to suburban Ewing Township in the 1930s.

Over the years, the name of the college has changed to reflect its expanding mission.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    New New Jersey State Normal School,  1855-1908

New Jersey Normal School in Trenton, 1908-1929

New Jersey State Teachers College and State Normal School at Trenton, 1929-1937

New Jersey State Teachers College at Trenton, 1937-1958

Trenton State College, 1958-1996

The College of New Jersey, 1996-present