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Instructor of Speech at New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton.

Edith Gilman Brewster was born in 1873. Her brother was Charles Warren Brewster and her sister was Alice Langdon Brewster. She worked as a kindergarten teacher and social worker in New Hampshire. She died in 1960.

Lillie McCaughan was born on October 5, 1876, to Lillia and James McCaughan, who had recently migrated from Ireland to New Jersey, Her older sister, Elizabeth “Lizzie” M. McCaughan attended the Normal School at Trenton as a member of the class of June 1885. Lillie attended the Normal School nearly a decade later, and received the final evaluation of “Quietly animated. Articulation indistinct. Disciplinary power growing. Prepares carefully. Has teaching power,” from Grade Books and Reports, volume 1, page 22. She graduated in June 1896, then went on to teach at Clayton (near Glassboro) and Camden Schools in New Jersey until her retirement in 1939. She married William Young Leuallen in 1904, but divorced him in 1913. She spent her summers at a cottage in Stone Harbor and lived in Audubon, New Jersey where she died on June 20, 1975.

Katharine “Kate” Sarah Colby was born on July 27, 1838, to Lydia Van Dyke and Aaron Colby in Kingston, New Jersey. She was in the first class of the Normal School. Her signature is the fourth one on the first page of the school’s first Teacher Contracts book. She graduated in 1858, and the 1860 census shows that she was working as a schoolteacher and living with her parents in South Brunswick Township, New Jersey. In 1864 she married Presbyterian minister Peter Haverly Brooks, and his work took them to various locations in New York; New Jersey; and Pennsylvania, where they ultimately ended up in the northeastern part of the state. She was active in the church and founded a needlework guild in Wilkes-Barre. She died on October 14, 1923, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Arriet “Etta” Egbert Reid was born on February 22, 1851, to Phebe Ann Mundy and Elijah Reid, and grew up in Tennent (near Manalapan), New Jersey. She graduated from the Normal School in 1870. On October 27, 1875, she married James Chalmers Rue and they settled in Freehold, New Jersey. They had three daughters: Marguerite Andrew Rue (1885-1957) who graduated from the Normal School in June 1903 and taught for several years in New Jersey and Ohio; Mary Louisa Rue; and Myra Woodward Rue. The daughters all remained unmarried and operated the Sundial Press in New Jersey for approximately 40 years beginning in the early 1920s. The family remained in Freehold, where Arriet died on December 20, 1938.

Elizabeth Bodine (1880-1964), was a graduate of the Model School Class of 1898 and Bryn Mawr College. She taught at Trenton Junior High School No. 3 and was an English teacher at Trenton High School. After retiring from teaching, she became a librarian at Trenton Public Library. She was a founding member and honoree of the Trenton College Club (which later became a branch of the American Association of University Women) and served in a variety of civic, cultural, and historical organizations around Trenton. She lived with Gertrude Scudder Bodine and her brother Joseph Bodine throughout their marriage, and then moved with Gertrude to Morrisville, Pennsylvania after Joseph’s death in 1950. Elizabeth died on January 14, 1964.

Martha Bennett Sherman was born in 1879, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey. She graduated from the Normal School in 1899. She taught in an elementary school in Succasunna, New Jersey, until her marriage to Theodore Reger. She died in 1966 in Colonia, New Jersey

Levora “Lee” Rodda Easterbrook (1903-1995) graduated from New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton in 1923. She taught grammar school in her hometown of Butler for four years until she married Neil Easterbook, principal, and later superintendent of Butler Schools in 1927.

Kenneth H. Weber (1919-2009) graduated from New Jersey State Teachers College at Trenton in 1941. His first teaching position was in Phillipsburg. He later served in the Army Air Force during WWII. He taught Industrial Arts at Bernards High School in Bernardsville for many years.

Instructor in Domestic Science at New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton.