Member of the Model Boys class of 1900; no other information found. May be the same Joseph Sands (1881-1936) in Riverview Cemetery, Trenton. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60651369/joseph-h-sands
A literary and debate club at the Model School from 1882 to 1917. The members (only young men) focused on improving their oratory skills, personal appearance, and general comportment, with one member serving as "Critic" to evaluate the boys' behavior during each meeting. The literary aspects of the Society led to the publication of "The Signal" in 1885--while it started as a literary magazine through the Thencanic, it quickly escaped the Society's control and became a general Normal/Model School periodical. This club ended when the Model School closed in 1917. This version of the Thencanic should not be confused with the later revival in the 1930s with college students.
Twenty-fifth President of the United States (1897-1901). Included as a subject here as the Thencanic Society, which existed during his presidency, discusses him occasionally.
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
Supervisor in the Model School and Thencanic Society founder, ca. 1880s-1890s. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187245508/oliver-p-steves
Rosena Craig Foster was born September 2, 1890, to Samuel P. Foster, founder of a local bank and editor of the Elmer Times Newspaper, and Fannie Bateman Foster, in Elmer, Salem County, New Jersey. She attended Bridgeton High School, then New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton where she studied Music and Manual Training. According to the school’s Grade Books and Reports, Volume III, her grades were favorable and her final evaluation read: “Has teaching power. Individualizes well and manages a primary grade well. Lacks ease in speaking, but has a sweet voice.” In the spring of 1910, she completed her student teaching in Millville, New Jersey, and graduated in June 1910. According to family history provided by her granddaughter, she was assigned to work at Lafayette Elementary School (to teach music, dressmaking, and shop), in Highland Park, New Jersey, along with her Normal School classmate Mary Celia Whitlock (1891-1977), with whom she shared an apartment. During this time, she met Mary’s brother Frank Boudinot Whitlock, a banker, whom she married on May 28, 1913, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. They had four children and made their home in Highland Park, where Rosena lived for over 70 years. After her marriage, she stopped teaching, but volunteered through much of her life, including for the Red Cross during WWII and local and national chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She died at age 99 on March 5, 1990.
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1890s. Brother of William Burgess, Jr. Trained as a banker, but converted to Protestantism and became a missionary to Japan and China through the YMCA. In the 1930s he left China, gained a PhD in Sociology, and helped establish the Sociology Department at Temple University. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100284501/john-stewart-burgess
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, 1890s. Later a Princeton graduate and a judge of the U.S. District Court for New Jersey. Grandson of Trenton mayor (1877-1879) Daniel Bodine. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7743728/joseph_lamb-bodine
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1890s. Probably graduated ca. 1895, but may have continued to appear at Thencanic meetings as late as 1897. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101867336/hervey-studdiford
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1890s. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61024621/howard-eagleton-hanson
