Article on Walter F. Downey’s visit to the State Teachers College of North Adams.

ID: 1438 ~ Source:

North Adams Transcript, April 6, 1939.

This file appears in: 1939 Attempted Closing of the State Teachers College of North Adams

This file appears in: 1939 Attempted Closing of the State Teachers College of North Adams

1939 Attempted Closing of the State Teachers College of North Adams

The Governor of Massachusetts, beginning in the early 1930s, threatened to close the State Teachers College of North Adams in hopes of saving the state one and a half million dollars. Word spread…