On September 10, the Keene Evening Sentinel announced the opening of the Keene Normal School will be on September 28 and provided background on the new principal, the faculty of the normal school, and the teachers in the Elliot school.
Keene Evening Sentinel
September 10, 1909
Page 3
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Which Will Open in This City September 28
The Faculty of the School, What the Courses Will Be
and the Model School Teachers Employed.
Preparations for the opening of the New Hampshire Normal school in Keene are well under way, and the school will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 28. The model schools in the Elliot school building, Union school district, will open Monday, the 13th.
The faculty of the Normal school will consist of Jeremiah Milton Rhodes, principal, Harry L. Kent, Chester H. C. Dudley, Miss Sarah J Rogers and Miss Kate Fairbanks Puffer. Mr. Kent and Mr. Dudley will move their families to Keene soon and Mr. Rhodes has been here with his family for some time.
The teachers in the model school at the Elliot building at which Miss Rogers will be the supervisor of training, will be Miss Eunice A. Jones of this city, first grade; Miss Lora A. Barnes, recently of Littleton, Mass., second grade; Miss Lillian Hapgood of Keene, third grade; Miss Alice E. Ramsdell of Keene, fourth grade.
It is expected that the normal school will open with from thirty to fifty pupils. There will be two courses, the regular normal school course of two years and a one-year course for teachers of large and successful experience.
Principal Jeremiah M. Rhodes is a graduate of the high school in Carthage, Mo., the Kansas State Normal school, and Indiana state university, with an A. M. from Harvard university. He has also studied in Leland Stanford and Columbia universities and has had large experience as a high school teacher, city superintendent and teacher in normal schools.
Mr. Kent is a graduate of the high school at Belleville, Kan., and of the Kansas state normal school, and has attended the Kansas state agricultural college and the University of Chicago. He has had good experience as a country school, high school and normal school teacher, and is especially well equipped for an instructor in nature study and elementary agriculture.
Mr. Dudley is a graduate of the public high school and the college of Emporia, Kan., of Baker University, Baldwin, Kan., and has attended Princeton theological seminary. He has been an academy teacher and is an experienced teacher of music.
Miss Rogers is a graduate of the New Hampshire normal school of Plymouth and has studied extensively in several schools. She is a lady of large experience as a public and normal school teacher.
Miss Puffer is a graduate of Smith college, class of 1900, and has just taken the degree of Ph. D. at Radcliffe. She is a teacher of eight years experience and is especially equipped for teaching psychology and related subjects.
Of the model school teachers, Miss Ramsdell is a graduate of the Keene high school, took the teachers’ course in the Fitchburg normal school, and has taught for two years in Springfield, Mass. Miss Barnes is a graduate of the Fitchburg normal school four years’ course, and has been a teacher for some time, the last three years of her work being in Littleton, Mass. Miss Hapgood has taught successfully for several years in the Keene schools, and studied at the Fitchburg normal school. Miss Jones is a graduate of the Bridgewater, Mass. normal school and has taught in the schools of this city several years.