Thencanic Society member ca. 1890s. Later a medical doctor at Mercer Hospital, a City Council member, and a member of the Trenton Board of Education. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37421923/alfred-dunbar-hutchinson
Jules Irving was born on April 13, 1925 in New York City. He was a director and producer, known for Loose Change (1978), What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (1977) and The Detective: Bull in a China Shop (1975). Co-founded the San Francisco Actor's Workshop in 1952 with wife Priscilla Pointer, Herbert Blau, and Beatrice Manley. There, he served as Consulting Director until 1966. He was Artistic Director of the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center from 1965-1972. He died on July 28, 1979 in Reno, Nevada, USA. One of his daughters is actress Amy Irving.
Model School student and Thencanic Society member ca. 1890s. Later the New Jersey State Librarian and editor of the Hudson Dispatch, Jersey City. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179586895/haddon-ivins
Model School Class of 1907. FamilySearch ID: 9KMZ-FFQ
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1899; Thencanic President, February - September 1899. Son of the Superintendent of the New Jersey School for Deaf-Mutes, Trenton. As Colonel in World War I, led a detachment to rescue the "Lost Battalion." https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102178346/weston-jenkins
The founding of the New Jersey State Normal School in Jersey City was based on legislation in and subsequent amendments to the New Jersey Laws of 1903. Chartered in 1927 and formally opened on September 12, 1929, New Jersey State Normal School in Jersey City was the sixth state normal school established in the state. The first state normal school was established in Trenton in 1855, followed by subsequent state normal schools in Montclair, Newark, Glassboro, Paterson, and finally, Jersey City.
Shortly after 1855, while deliberations were ongoing regarding the establishment of a second state normal school, a local Jersey City-based Saturday Normal School that was run by the Jersey City Board of Education began in 1856, operating for a total of twenty-three years. In 1877, a teacher training school began in a grammar school where student teachers took “training class” to observe and do practice teaching.
By 1886, preparatory work for teaching transferred to the Jersey City Training School for Teachers. In 1896 it relocated to a new building and was institutionally reorganized to have two departments: “Model” and “Practice.” By the end of 1900, the school closed and the Board of Education renewed their 1896 proposal for the Assembly to pass a bill providing a location for a Jersey City-based state normal school.
In 1911, the New Jersey Department of Education attempted to cement jurisdiction of the state, rather than cities and counties, to unify the training and certification of teachers across the entire state. The State Normal School at Trenton started offering a state certificate, which allowed graduates to teach in any part of the state. This contributed to a decline in attendance to existing Jersey City-based training schools that could not offer such a certificate, in addition to the onset of World War I.
While educators and officials in Hudson County long sought to establish a normal school locally, it took nearly twenty-five years since the initial state legislation (1903-1927) before the construction of the state normal school in Jersey City. Various factors led to delays, such as legislative setbacks, funding changes at the state level, difficulties in securing a site in the city for the school, and tense partisan political battles. These challenges were met with the advocacy of Jersey City civic clubs and appeals by various Jersey City education commissioners, ultimately leading to the legislature approving funds for the New Jersey State Normal School at Jersey City in 1927. Two years later, the New Jersey State Normal School in Jersey City opened in 1929.
The New Jersey State Normal School in Jersey City was renamed and restructured throughout the years:
- New Jersey State Normal School in Jersey City, 1927-1935
- New Jersey State Teachers College at Jersey City in 1935, offering bachelor of science degree in education and the country’s only teacher-training college with a three-year program
- Jersey City State College in 1958, offering a bachelor of arts degree and four-year liberal arts program
- New Jersey City University in 1998, establishing a College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, and College of professional studies
The founding of the New Jersey State Normal School in Jersey City was based on legislation in and subsequent amendments to the New Jersey Laws of 1903. Chartered in 1927 and formally opened on September 12, 1929, New Jersey State Normal School in Jersey City was the sixth state normal school established in the state. The first state normal school was established in Trenton in 1855, followed by subsequent state normal schools in Montclair, Newark, Glassboro, Paterson, and finally, Jersey City.
The New Jersey State Normal School in Jersey City was renamed and restructured throughout the years:
- New Jersey State Normal School in Jersey City, 1927-1935
- New Jersey State Teachers College at Jersey City in 1935, offering bachelor of science degree in education and the country’s only teacher-training college with a three-year program
- Jersey City State College in 1958, offering a bachelor of arts degree and four-year liberal arts program
- New Jersey City University in 1998, establishing a College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, and College of professional studies
Conrad J. Johnson (1912-2009) entered New Jersey State Teachers College and State Normal School at Trenton in 1931 as a music major, but changed to industrial arts, graduating in 1936. His first teaching position was in Toms River where he taught until the early 1940s. In 1942, he joined the faculty at his alma mater where he was an instructor in the Industrial Arts Department for 40 years at Trenton State College until his retirement in 1982.