Principal David Page Dies

1848 January 1

Executive Committee Minutes, January 1, 1848

Page Hall on the Downtown Campus was named for Principal Page in 1929. Among Page’s achievements were designing a curriculum that remained largely unchanged until 1890, securing the support of the legislature for the new experiment in teacher training, and securing legislation that allowed every recipient of a Normal School diploma to teach in the State of New York.

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William Marshall French and Florence Smith French, College of the Empire State, A Centennial History of the New York State College for Teachers at Albany [Albany, 1944], p. 92