Superintendent of Schools in New Jersey and Member of the Faculty Committee on Assembly Programs at Trenton. Later president at Glassboro from 1937-1952.
Mathematics instructor and administrator at the Model School, 1900-1929.
Sarah (nicknamed “Sallie”) Yardley Ely was born on April 22, 1849, to Lydia Dorsett Hulse (1817-1906) and William Carver Ely (1801-1857) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After her father’s death in the late 1850s or early 1860s, her mother moved the family to Lambertville, New Jersey. Sarah attended the New Jersey State Normal School where she became the valedictorian of her graduating class of February 1866. While she was still a student, she began teaching at the Model School where she continued her career for nearly 50 years, first as a mathematics teacher, then as supervisor of the Girls’ Department. After her retirement in 1913, she volunteered in the administration of the Trenton area Y.W.C.A. She died on June 4, 1937, in Trenton, and was buried in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
