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New York State Normal School commencement held.

Executive Committee accepts President Alden's resignation effective at the close of the term. Alden’s contributions included the provision of equal pay for equal work regardless of sex and an insistence that English was as worthy of study as Greek & Latin. During his term the school accepted and...

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...

New building planned for Willett Street across from Washington Park at a cost of $125,000. The architect was Frank J. Wright of the firm of Ogden & Wright. Alumni Association embarks on $5,000 fund raising campaign to pay for Alumni Memorial Window in Willett Street Building (at the time the...

The kindergarten was established as a branch of the Model School. The kindergarten teacher earned an annual salary of $800.

Fundraising for Alumni Memorial Window commenced at President Waterbury's suggestion. The assembled graduates engaged in their first fundraising event. To show their pride in the new Normal School Building being constructed on Willett Street across from Washington Park, they voted to commission a...

With the support of Normal School Presidents Alden and Waterbury, ‘49, and lead by Secretary Sherman Williams, '71, the association of graduates was rebuilt in the 1870s and early 1880s. A phenomenal 600 graduates attended.

The history was published in 1884 as A Historical Sketch of the State Normal School at Albany, N.Y. and A History of Its Graduates for Forty Years. Albany, N.Y., Brandow and Barton, 1884. The Historical Sketch includes a biographical sketch of the career of each graduate of the school to date. It...