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Person · 1880-1964

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.

Person · 1887-1963

Louise E. Woodruff Bush was born in 1887 to David Woodruff and Francis or Frances Demond in Morristown, New Jersey. She attended the New Jersey State Normal School where she was president of the Gamma Sigma literary society and studied the Kindergarten course. She graduated in June 1907 and began teaching in East Orange Schools. She married John A. Brokaw in 1914, who died in 1918. She married William H. Bush (1881-1954) in 1924, and a few years later they settled in Chatham, New Jersey. She remained active with Trenton State alumni groups including Gamma Sigma Nu throughout her life. She died in 1963.

Person · 1873-1960

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.