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George Henry Voorhis was born on December 27, 1842, to Salome DeRonde and Lucas Voorhis near Hackensack, New Jersey. He entered the Normal School in Trenton in 1861 and graduated in 1862. On July 16, 1864, he married Jane Amanda Tindall. He worked as teacher and later, an administrator for several years in New Jersey. By 1868, he was the principal of Bordentown Public School (New Jersey). He received a state certificate for teaching first grade in 1880. He left Bordentown in 1881, and by the late 1880s, he was the principal of Trenton Public Schools’ Centennial School until 1902, when he retired early to Ocean Grove, New Jersey, due to poor health. He later returned to Trenton, where he died on May 14, 1911.

Sallie McRae was born on September 7, 1863, to Georgiana “Georgie” Gary and Walter H. McRae in North Carolina. The family made their way north in the early 1870s, and by 1880, Sallie was living with her widowed mother and siblings in Hackensack, New Jersey. She attended the Normal School where she studied the Advanced Course and graduated in June 1882. She taught in the Hackensack Schools (New Jersey) for several years. On June 19, 1893, she married Cornelius Blauvelt and they remained in Hackensack, where she died May 3, 1945.

John S. Neary (1863-1935) was appointed to the New Jersey State Normal School in 1898 as “steward,” later business manager, where he worked for over 32 years retiring in 1930. He also founded the Camera Club (also known as the Normal Photographic Arts Club) for students in 1919. Some of his photographs appear in The Signal.

Head of the Girls' Dormitory at New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton.

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

Instructor in Kindergarten Practice at New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton.

Charles Warren Brewster was born in 1871 and was the brother of Alice Langdon Brewster and Edith Brewster. He worked as a banker in New Hampshire. He married Martha “Daisy” Tredick Brewster (1879-1958) and had a son, Charles T. Brewster. He died in 1950.

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.