Mansfield PA and Richmond Township in Tioga County PA

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Postcard above showing North Hall and Alumni Hall is from Joyce M. Tice Collection

School: Mansfield State Normal School Mansfield, Tioga County PA Alumni Listings Year: 1866-1930  Submitted by: Carl Steingraber Pages are Illustrated with MSNS Postcards identified and linked below, also with Photos of Principals Over 6000 names

Progression of Names of This School

Mansfield Classical Seminary	Mansfield State Normal School	Mansfield State Teachers College	Mansfield State College	Mansfield University
1855/57	1862	1927	1960	1983

MSNS Alumni Listings 1866 to 1926

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MSTC Alumni Listings 1927 to 1930

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Index of Antique Postcards & Photos Illustrating the Class Photo Pages Mansfield Classical Seminary North Hall North Hall Alumni Hall President's House Dining Room Clionon 1899 Gymnasium Arcade & Dorm Arcade with Students South Hall South Hall 1870 South Hall 1881 South Hall 1900 Related MSNS Pages on Tri-County Site Mansfield Normal School History Early MSNS Principals 1889 MSNS Principal's Report 1892 Commencement List 1897 Womens' Gym Uniforms 1897 Football Team 1899 The NEW Model School 1890s - Youthful Defiance 1902 MSNS Principal's Report 1908 Dead Broke 1909 Taming of the Shrew 1913 MSNS Faculty Photo 1923 The Model School 1925 - Heading Back to MSNS

Wellsboro Gazette, June 13, 1935, p7
Select Summer Staff at MSTC
College Announces Men and Women Who Will Teach Advance Courses
Mansfield, June 12 - The personnel of the Mansfield State Teachers College summer staff, composed entirely of regular faculty members is announced through the office of the dean of instruction. Under the general supervision of President William R. Straughn. Dr. Arthur Belknap will serve as dean of instructor; Miss Cora Atwater, as dean of women; Dr. Henry Olson, as  dean of men; Prof. Hugh Alger, as supervisor of the junior high school; Misses Mildred Grigsby and Edna Marsh, as supervisors of the training school; Miss Stella Doane, as librarian; Dr. John Doane, as physician.
 
On the teaching faculty will be Prof. George Cass, Miss Cornelia Cornish, Prof. Edward Cornish, Prof. John Curs, Dr. Isaac Doughton, Dr. Chester Feig, Prof. Herbert Grant, Miss Lorene Habeger, Prof. Herbert Manser, Prof. Kimble Marvin, Prof. James Morgan, Mrs. Grace Steadman, Miss Margaret O'Brien, Dr. Elizabeth Swan and Dr. Myron Webster. Also on the administrative staff will be Frederick Bauer, Miss Margaret Bunn, Charles Darrin, Miss Edna Hewson, Miss Helen Jupenlaz, Miss Laura Rehbem, Raymond Toylar[?] and Mrs. Victoria Theimann.
 
The summer session will begin on Monday, June 17 and end on Saturday, July 27.

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Wellsboro Agitator, April 1, 1936, p.1
Faculty has Many Authors
Dr. Benjamin F. Andrews to Give Lecture at Mansfield Teachers College
Dr. Isaac Doughton, director of education at Mansfield State Teachers College, is the author of the article, "Some Dilemmas of Modern Public Education", in the latest volume of Problems In Teacher Training, a compilation of the proceedings of the 1935 Spring Conference of the Eastern-States Association of Professional Schools for Teachers edited by Dr. Alonzo Myers of New York University.
Dr. Benjamin J. Andrews will lecture on "Successful Family Life" when he appears at Mansfield Teachers College by arrangement with the home economics education department 9 a.m., Monday, April 6. Dr. Andrews is professor of economics at Teachers College, Columbia University, and has edited a number of textbooks on homemaking and allied arts.
The size and significance of the Mansfield State Teachers College faculty contribution to literature in education and other fields were shown by a display of monograph and textbooks which attracted much attention during the recent school fair. Included were works by William R. Straughn, president of the college; Dr. George A. Retan, director of the training school; Dr. Isaac Doughton, Prof. Irving T. Chatterton, Miss Cornelia Cornish, Dr. Clyde W. Gwinn, Dr. George H. McNair, Prof. Herbert Manser and Dr. Henry W. Ilson, of the secondary education department; and Dr. Will George Butler, of the music education department.

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Faculty - Prospect Cemetery, Mansfield.................MSNS.........Professor
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CASS - George W. Cass, 75, retired Mansfield State Teachers College instructor died Friday, Oct. 8, 1954, following an extended illness. Mr. Cass was born May 11, 1879 at Nelson, PA the son of Marion Francis Cass and Susan Maria Baxter Cass. He attended the Nelson Graded School and in the fall of 1890, the family moved to Elkland, PA. George W. Cass was graduated from the Elkland High School in 1895, took post graduate work the following year and taught District School one year in Farmington Twp. In September 1899, he entered the Mansfield State Normal School and he took the college preparatory course. In September 1901 he entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, where he took the classical courses and was graduated in 1905 with an A.B. degree. During his college career he was awarded Chemistry and Physics prizes. He was graduated with valedictory rank and initiated into the Dickinson Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. From 1905 thru 1907 he was head of Latin Language and Literature at Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky. In 1907 he became a member of the faculty of Mansfield State Normal School. In 1908 he received his M.A. degree from Dickinson College. In 1924 he attended the summer session of Harvard University. He was a pioneer in Pennsylvania in the development of the sociology course. During his 34 years tenure the Normal School became a Teachers College. He spent several summers traveling as field representative for the college. He retired from active work in 1941. On August 9, 1906 he married J. Floy Sherwood of Mansfield, who died in 1910. In 1913 his mother came to live with him and he purchased the house at 96 St. James St., where he resided until 1953. His mother died in 1931, his father having died in 1908. For a number of years he was active in Masonry being Past Master of Arch Masons, Past Commander Tiadighton Commandery, Wellsboro and Past Thrice Potent Master of Coudersport Consistory. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for 39 years in Mansfield, having joined December 6, 1907. He was a life member of both the Pennsylvania State Education Association and of the Dickinson College Alumni Assn. He was also a member of the Grange for over 25 years. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Eva Cass Jahn of Redlands, Calif.; a ward, Mrs. Janice Madigan Kennedy of Troy. Funeral was held Sunday at Shaw & Robena Funeral Home, the Rev. John R. Hays officiating. Burial was in Prospect Cemetery. Masonic committal service was held at the grave. - Mansfield Advertiser, October 1954

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