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Bsc Football: The Swenson Era, Jim Tartari, Mike Hughes, Bob Mason, Charlie Worden

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A recollection of Bridgewater State College Coach Edward Swenson’s efforts to bring varsity-level football back into a Massachusetts state college and the stories of the trials and tribulations of his first eight years as head coach. The book is a Bridgewater State University Football Alumni project inspired by many of Coach Swenson’s former players, commemorating the coach and several of their former teammates.

Nicholas Tillinghast, The U.S. Army, And Indian Removal, Mike Hughes

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Nicholas Tillinghast (1804-1856) was the founding principal of the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. While his accomplishments as an educator and administrator are well-known, his earlier U.S. Army career is less-well documented. This article examines both Tillinghast’s experiences at West Point as a student and instructor and his career as an Army officer serving at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory.

“Ozzie” Conners, Bsc, ’65 And Operation Attleboro, Vietnam, ’66, Mike Hughes

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Thomas J. “Ozzie” Conners enlisted in the U.S. Army after his graduation from Bridgewater State College in 1965. After basic training, Conners joined the 196th Light Infantry Brigade and was transported to Vietnam. As a member of Company C, 27th Regiment (the Wolfhounds), Conners was wounded within a month of his deployment, during the Operation Attleboro campaign.

The Golden Year Of Kappa Delta Phi, Robert E. Clemence

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History of Kappa Delta Phi fraternity, founded in 1900 on the campus of the Bridgewater State Normal School. This anniversary volume documents the beginnings of the fraternity in the early 1900s, details its organizational structure and activities as of mid-century, and provides histories and roll calls of the chapters.

The Development Of Education In Massachusetts, 1630-1930, Department Of Education, Commonwealth Of Massachusetts

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A reprint from the 93rd Annual Report of the Department of Education, this pamphlet contains a timeline of the history of education in Massachusetts, prepared for use in the Normal Schools. The timeline is divided into five periods:

1. Colonial Education, 1630-1789: In this period the Massachusetts system of schools was founded, in rough outline – dame schools, elementary schools, secondary schools, and colleges. In the latter part of the period local district schools became prominent and academies arose in the secondary field; also secular textbooks began to replace religious books.
2. Development of State Education – Citizenship, 1789-1860: Upon the formation …

In Memoriam: Isabella Whitten Clarke Boyden, Bridgewater Normal Association

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The pamphlet records the memorial service held for Isabella Whitten Clarke Boyden (1825-1895) at the June 24, 1896 meeting of the Bridgewater Normal Association. A native of Maine, Isabella Whitten Clarke was a member of the 26th class to enter the Bridgewater Normal School in August 1848. After graduating she taught in Rhode Island and Massachusetts until her marriage to classmate Albert G. Boyden in 1851. Boyden, who was then teaching at his alma mater, would soon become its longest-serving principal.

Speakers at the Memorial Service included Mary H. Leonard, Ellen Fisher Adams, George H. Martin, Isabelle S. Horne, Alice …

Record Of The Fifty-Fifth Class, State Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass., Rosine M. Higley

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Reunion book published on the occasion of the 25th reunion of the fifty-fifth class of Bridgewater State Normal School (graduating in 1861). Biographical sketches of the members of the faculty of the school and members of the graduating class are provided. The book also includes “an account of the twenty-fifth anniversary of their graduation, held at Bridgewater, July 1st, 1886.” Edited by Mrs. Rosine M. Higley (nee Smith, class secretary) and published (complimentarily) by Daniel S. Pillsbury (member of the class).