Service recognition ceremony for TSC teachers and staff. Honorees pictured include: John S. Quimby, Charlotte M. Jackson, Leo B, Hermes, Gladys E. Poole, Lulu C. Haskell, George T. Emery, Helen West, Anna M. Nolan, Roscoe L. West. Photograph was published in Trenton Evening Times on February 17, 1954.
Booklet of Temple University songs including alma mater and fight songs.
Certificates of Merit for Lulu Clough
Blank Normal School diploma removed from Final Grades Book, volume 3, page 102.
Eleanor Jane Rittenhouse’s collection (1899-1932) from her mother, Florence Spragg Rittenhouse, contains small annotated portrait photographs from the New Jersey State Normal School, “daisy class” of 1899, including Sarah Conover Klein. The photographs were taken by Petite Photo Co. of Trenton.
Postcard of baseball game at New Jersey State Normal School, inscribed: "Base Ball Game, New Jersey State Normal School, Trenton, N. J."
Letter from Alice Brewster to Gertrude Bodine, March 12, 1945.
Brewster, Alice Langdon, 1868-1962Letter from Alice Brewster to Gertrude Bodine, October 7, 1950.
Letter from Alice Brewster to Gertrude Bodine, December 4, 1953
The correspondence contains a variety of material. She received compliments for school performances she directed, as well as congratulations on her retirement. Many letters are from former students who also included updates on their lives or anecdotes about their time in Bray’s classes. There are several letters from Helen Layton Lowrey who worked in the college’s business office and who did Bray’s taxes during several years of her retirement. These letters include news about other former faculty members including Doris Perry and Lulu Haskell. There also are a few letters that Bray wrote to Trenton State College Presidents Edwin Martin and Clayton Brower that include biographical information and details about the development of the Music Department. Finally, there are letters from Effie G. Kuhn, the Head of the Speech Department from 1919-1952, and K. Elizabeth “Betty” Ingalls, an instructor of Music from 1940-1948.