Commencement Held June 28, 1872
1872 June 28
New York State Normal School commencement held for the model school department at the Normal Hall.
1872 June 28
New York State Normal School commencement held for the model school department at the Normal Hall.
1872 July 2
William J. Ballard, SNS ‘70, is elected president, Oscar Myers, SNS ’70, is elected vice president, Charles J. Majory, SNS ‘72, is elected treasurer, and Sherman Williams, SNS ‘71, is elected secretary. The new leadership resolved to query graduates about forming a new Association which would...
1873 June 30
The first annual meeting of the renewed Association of Graduates is held and a new constitution is adopted. The object of the Association is to “continue the social relations among the graduates, to enable them to know, or to learn at any time the whereabouts of one another and present at its...
1874 December 30
Alumni Association dues were raised to $1.00 for men and $.50 for women at the second Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting time shifted to the week between Christmas and New Year. Sherman Williams, secretary, launches an effort to identify every graduate of the school. In 1879 the dues returned to...
ca. 1875
Philomathean Society, young ladies literary society, founded. From programs for a Ladies Literary Society dating from 1872, it appears that the Philomathean Society may have been a later name for the Ladies Literary Society.
1877 June 28
Sensaburo Kudzo, the first international student, graduates. Kudzo played a prominent role in establishing the normal school movement in Japan. He was an expert on western music. No other international students are known to have attended the school until 1908.