Edward P. Waterbury

Edward P. Waterbury, A.M., Ph.D., assumes office of president. A graduate of Normal School, Class of 1849, Waterbury had served as a faculty member at the Albany Academy, was a local insurance agent, and, at the time of his appointment, was a member of the school’s Executive Committee. Waterbury was appointed at the May 23, 1882 Executive Committee meeting. (Ibid.) Waterbury was the first graduate of the school to lead the school. Waterbury served as President until his death on August 28, 1889. Among his accomplishments were supervising the construction of a new school building on Willett Street, the authorship of the first history of the school, A Historical Sketch of the State Normal School at Albany, NY and a History of its Graduates, 1844-1884, the leadership of the school’s first Alumni fund-raising drive to fund the Alumni Memorial Window, and the introduction of a Kindergarten Department.

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French, p. 107-117