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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.

Sigma Phi Alpha Sorority at the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton was founded in 1927. Its major project was the promotion of the library's interests. The Jewish sorority was dissolved in 1946.

Dorothy Cecelia Backes was born in 1897. She graduated from the Model School in 1916, and the Normal School in 1919. She taught in Trenton and Princeton Schools. In 1935, she married Leopold Buzzini. She died in New Jersey in 1990.

Model School graduate, class of 1899, and Thencanic Society member c. 1890s.

Enid Bortic Ackerman was born in 1887. She attended the Model School and graduated in 1907. She worked as a librarian at Free Library of Philadelphia. She died in 1975.

Irene Bedell was born in 1887 in New Jersey. She graduated from the Model School in 1907, then Brown University. She taught at Livingston and Montclair High Schools. She died in 1982 in New Jersey.

George Irving Brinkerhoff was born in 1882. He graduated from the Model School in 1901, where he was a member of the Thencanic Society. In 1902, he graduated from the Normal School. He was a teacher and principal at Newark Schools and co-authored the "Safety First Stories", an accident prevention book for children. He died in 1954.

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.

John Kirby Britton was born in 1883. He attended the Model School and was member of the Thencanic Society in the 1890s (class of 1900, but did not graduate with class); later a PAFA graduate and artist. Son of Trenton physician Dr. Charles Britton. He died in 1962 in Pennsylvania.

Clayton Roy Brower was born in 1922 in Kingston, New York. He earned a Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Syracuse University, served in the army, and later earned a Doctorate from Columbia University. He began teaching in 1948 in Pulaski, New York, was the assistant superintendent of Plainfield Public Schools in 1955, then became professor and Chair of the Education Department at Trenton State College in 1962. In 1970, he became Interim chief executive, then president from 1971 to 1979. He died at the age of 99 on June 30, 2022.