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Grades Book, 1892-1901
1 · Folder · 1892-1901
Part of Clara Wolverton Papers

Clara Wolverton’s “Grades Book” is a handwritten notebook documenting her teachers’ names and the grades she earned in each subject from Centennial Grammar School 1892 - 1894, Trenton High School 1894 - 1898, through New Jersey State Normal School 1898 - February 1901. There are some additional loose pages with calculations and class lists also housed with the book.

Wolverton, Clara, 1879-1964
Gamma Sigma photo album
1 · Folder · Undated
Part of Mildred Duncan Warnecke Collection

This photo album contains images of the activities of the Gamma Sigma sorority at the New Jersey State Normal School, some notations were made later by members of Gamma Sigma Nu.

Bush, Louise E. Woodruff, 1887-1963
1 · Box · 1911-2000
Part of Mildred Duncan Warnecke Collection

Content warning: the illustration and description of the mural in Box 1, Folder 3, includes inaccurate, derogatory, and/or offensive depictions of people indigenous to the area.

Predominately contains newsletters and student activities of the class of 1907, and reunion materials related to Gamma Sigma Nu. The collection also contains copies of The Seal yearbook and The Signal newspaper.

Content warning: Gasn’s diary refers to students in special education classes in derogatory terms.

These four diaries describe the lives and activities of women at the New Jersey State Normal School. They also document their first teaching experiences from the school’s earliest days in 1855 to 1920, when the enrollment and curriculum had significantly expanded and the school would soon become a college.

It is not known whether or not, or where, Ida Totten might have attended a Normal School or received teacher training, but in the fall term of 1883, she began a diary to record her first experience of teaching in Greenville (now called Greendell) School, in Sussex County. She described her frustrations with named children in her class and the challenges of disciplining them, as well as her activities at home on the weekends including attending temperance meetings and church. The final pages of the diary are from May 1884 and contain notes from Page’s Theory and Practice of Teaching, so perhaps she was continuing her teaching education, or had not yet graduated (if she did).

The format of Reba Gasn’s diary has two years on a single page: entries for 1919 are written on the top of the page, and 1920 is on the bottom; the two years are often also delineated by black and blue ink. She documented her day-to-day life in school, her hobbies, social life, meals enjoyed (and not), and activities with family and friends on breaks at home near the shore. She also writes of anti-semitism she experienced in Trenton, as well as her many illnesses.

Correspondence
1 · Series · 1915-1954
Part of Lulu Bell Clough Haskell Papers

The Correspondence Series contains her first teaching recommendation letter in 1915, a teaching appointment notice, and a few personal letters ending in 1954.