Pictured here are the first members of the North Adams Normal School Faculty.
This file appears in: The Early North Adams Normal School Admissions and Curriculum
The mustached man in the center is President Frank Fuller Murdock, who also taught courses on psychology and education. Only three other people in this picture have been fully identified, those being Annie Skeele (3), Mary Pearson (8), and Roland Guss (7).
This file appears in: The Early North Adams Normal School Admissions and Curriculum
The Early North Adams Normal School Admissions and Curriculum
Established through an act of Massachusetts legislature “to meet increasing demands for trained teachers,” North Adams Normal School (NANS) was established in 1894. The school offered three main courses of study as well as specialized certificate…