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Blauvelt, Sallie McRae, 1863-1945
Person · 1863-1945

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.
Bodine, Elisabeth Davis, 1880-1964
Person · 1880-1964

Elisabeth Bodine (1880-1964), was a graduate of the Model School Class of 1898, Normal School Class of February 1913, 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. Elisabeth died on January 14, 1964.
Bodine, Gertrude Scudder, 1894-1978
Person · 1894-1978

Gertrude Scudder Bodine (1894-1978) was a graduate of Model School class of 1911. She was born at the “Cherry Grove” estate in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, the only child to the later in life marriage of Joseph Rue Scudder (1851-1895), and Gertrude Mae McCully (1860-1944), an organist and librarian at Princeton University. After graduating from the Model School, she attended Mount Holyoke College and graduated in 1915. She taught English and Latin in Junior High School No. 1 in Trenton. In 1918, she married Joseph Lamb Bodine (1883-1950), who also attended the Model School a decade earlier. Joseph Bodine served as U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey, Judge of the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, Associate Justice of the New Jersey State Supreme Court, and later Superior Court Judge. They had one son, John W. Bodine.

After her marriage, Gertrude served extensively as a volunteer in civic, cultural, and historical organizations in the Trenton area. She served on the board and later as president of the historic William Trent House museum for 35 years. She was also very active in, and served several years as president of, the Junior League of Trenton, First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and the Trenton YWCA.
Bonney, Leona P., 1865 -1961
Person · 1865-1961

Leona Priestly Bonney was born on March 26, 1865, to Anna A. Suydam and Joseph Bonney in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She began her teaching career in various schools including in Vineland, Highland Park, and Perth Amboy, New Jersey, before attending the Normal School. In February 1905, she graduated from the Normal School with the following final evaluation: “Capable in primary work. Refined. Observes children well. While she could do grammar grade work, I feel that she has limitations in subject matter,” from Grade Books and Reports, volume 2, page 60. Her first teaching assignment after graduation was in Long Branch, New Jersey schools. She appears in New York University School of Pedagogy’s roster of students for 1908-1909, but within a few years she was teaching at Hackensack (New Jersey) City Schools where she remained until retirement. She died at age 95 on January 24, 1961.
Brasch, Anna M., 1888-1975
Person · 1888-1975

Anna (also called Annie) May Brasch was born in April 1888, to Mary Ann and Charles Brasch in Everett (Middletown Township), New Jersey. She graduated from Red Bank High School in 1906, and enrolled in the New Jersey State Normal School. There, she was documented in the Grade Books and Reports, volume 2 on page 114, as: “Weak in manner and scholarship, but she has improved. Does not realize her responsibility in the classroom.” She graduated in June 1908, with a certificate to teach primary grades. Her teaching career began in Ocean Grove, but she found her professional home as a teacher and principal in the then rural Centerville School, Holmdel Township, for 40 years. In retirement, she was a member of Monmouth County Retired Teachers Association. She died October 15, 1975, in Middletown, New Jersey.
Bray, Mabel E. (Mabel Evelyn), 1878-1979
Bray, Mabel E. (Mabel Evelyn), 1878-1979
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90009638 · Person · 1878-1979

Mabel Evelyn Bray was born in Madison, New Jersey on January 3, 1878, to Edward A. Bray, a Presbyterian clergyperson who emigrated from England in the 1870s and Priscilla Sarah Haire, a concert pianist from Michigan. By 1880, the family left New Jersey and were living in Michigan where Bray spent her youth along with her younger siblings, John R. and Eugenia (later Persons).
Bray’s educational background was diverse. She graduated from the Michigan Female Seminary in 1897; studied music in Germany and Italy; and completed courses at the University of Michigan, Detroit Conservatory of Music, and programs through the New School of Methods of Public School Music in various locations.
After traveling in Europe and singing in “small-town opera houses,” she began teaching music at public schools in Moorhead, Minnesota in 1899. Later, she taught at a few other schools in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and St. Louis, Missouri. By 1903, she was head of the Music Department at the State Normal School in Cheney, Washington. Six years later, she returned to New Jersey to teach at the Westfield Public Schools. There, she founded The Supervisors School of Music. In Westfield, she began living with fellow teacher Harriet E. Mann, until Mann’s death in 1944.
According to the September 25, 1979 issue of The Signal, Bray arrived at The New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton in 1918 “to organize and administer a new special music curriculum.” She served as head of the Music Department from 1918 until her retirement in 1948 and earned the rank of full professor in 1935. She improved music instruction throughout the state by organizing high school choral groups. Her music program at what is now The College of New Jersey extended through the 1970s. She authored several music textbooks, including the Music Hour series for teachers and students.
In 1959, she moved to the Royal Oaks Manor retirement home in Duarte, California. There, she taught music appreciation classes to the other residents for fourteen years. She also edited the house newsletter Oak Leaves.
Trenton State College honored her in 1963 by naming the newly built music building “Bray Hall.” It was demolished in 1999 to make way for the new Social Sciences Building.
Mabel Bray died on May 27, 1979, at the age of 101, in Duarte.
Brewster, Alice Langdon, 1868-1962
Person · 1868-1962

Alice Langdon Brewster was born January 25, 1868 to Charles Gilman Brewster (1832-1880), a taxidermist and proprietor of a natural history store in Boston, and Mary Ann Hill (1840-1924), in Roxbury, Massachusetts. After Charles’ death in the shipwreck of the steamboat S.S. Narragansett in 1880, the family joined his sister’s family in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Alice attended high school in Portsmouth and later graduated from Wellesley College in 1889. After teaching at Westbury High School in Massachusetts for two years, she moved to Trenton to teach literature and history at the Model School of the New Jersey State Normal School where she served from 1891 to 1917. She was well-liked by her students and maintained decades long friendships with several of them. After the Model School closed in 1917, Brewster taught English at the New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton until her retirement in 1933. Shortly after, the Brewster House dormitory was opened on the new Hillwood Lakes campus. It was the first campus building named for a living person.
After her retirement, Brewster returned to her family home in Portsmouth, where she lived with her sister Edith Gilman Brewster (1873-1960), brother Charles Warren Brewster (1871-1950), sister-in-law (Charles’ wife) Martha “Daisy” Tredick Brewster (1879-1958), and “Black Velvet” the cat. The Brewster family also had a cottage in the White Mountains in North Woodstock, New Hampshire where they would spend a few weeks in the summers.
Alice Brewster was an active writer and self-published several small poetry books. She operated an antiques shop in the home and traveled around New England as a dealer and buyer at antiques fairs and shows. After her sister Edith Brewster died in 1960, she moved to the home of her nephew Charles T. Brewster in Meredith, New Hampshire. She died February 14, 1962 in New Hampshire.
Brewster, Charles Warren, 1871-1950
Person · 1871-1950

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.
Brewster, Edith Gilman, 1873-1960
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.
Brewster, Martha Tredick, 1879-1958
Person · 1879-1958

Martha “Daisy” Tredick Brewster (1879-1958), was married to Warren Brewster (1871-1950). They had a son, Charles T. Brewster. Later in life Martha lived with her sisters-in-law Edith and Alice Brewster in New Hampshire.