Superintendent of Schools in New Jersey and Member of the Faculty Committee on Assembly Programs at Trenton. Later president at Glassboro from 1937-1952.
James Monroe Green was born to Alice Hopkons and William H. Green on August 29, 1851, in Succasunna, Morris County. He entered the Model School in Trenton in 1867, then the Normal School from which he graduated in 1870. After teaching and working as principal for a few years in Morris County and Long Branch, New Jersey, he completed coursework at Dickenson College. Afterward, he became the Principal at Long Branch High School. On October 8, 1878, he married Caroline Estelle Morris (1859-1913). In 1889, he became the Principal of New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton. During his tenure, the school expanded in enrollment, buildings, and educational offerings - including a four-year college degree program for teachers. He held positions and memberships in state and national educational associations, including President of National Education Association in 1901. He also received honorary degrees and earned a doctorate by taking an examination. During the 1916-1917 academic year, he was on medical leave. Wandell B. Secor served in his place during that time. After the school year ended in 1917, he officially resigned as principal. Shortly thereafter he moved, along with his daughter Lucile Green (Model class of 1898 and Normal School Registrar 1904-1920), to his son Bayard’s home in Passaic, New Jersey, where he died on October 31,1920.
Principal of New Jersey State Normal School from 1855 to 1864.
He was Principal of New Jersey State Normal School from 1864 to 1871.
Principal of New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton from 1917 to 1923. Principal and president of the Glassboro State Normal School from 1923 to 1937.
Principal of New Jersey State Normal School from 1876 to 1889.
Principal of New Jersey State Normal School from 1871 to 1876.
Clayton Roy Brower was born in 1922 in Kingston, New York. He earned a Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Syracuse University, served in the army, and later earned a Doctorate from Columbia University. He began teaching in 1948 in Pulaski, New York, was the assistant superintendent of Plainfield Public Schools in 1955, then became professor and Chair of the Education Department at Trenton State College in 1962. In 1970, he became Interim chief executive, then president from 1971 to 1979. He died at the age of 99 on June 30, 2022.
