To celebrate the inauguration of Kim Schatzel as Towson University’s 14th leader, we are looking back at the past leaders of the school. These essays are from a book we helped craft, Towson University: The First 150 Years. George Washington Ward brought a strong background in liberal arts college education when he was appointed principal
To celebrate the inauguration of Kim Schatzel as Towson University’s 14th leader, we are looking back at the past leaders of the school. These essays are from a book we helped craft, Towson University: The First 150 Years. At the end of a quarter of a century, the longest term of any principal or president
To celebrate the inauguration of Kim Schatzel as Towson University’s 14th leader, we are looking back at the past leaders of the school. These essays are from a book we helped craft, Towson University: The First 150 Years. As the first and longest-serving principal/president in Towson’s history, no one had more impact on the school
In the fall of 2015, I had the privilege of working with students from Professor Oluwatoyin Oduntan’s History 300 class. They came to the archives to learn how to use primary sources and include them in their research. At the end of the semester, I was invited to watch them present their work. Maria Zlotescu delved into
A couple years before Donald “Doc” Minnegan joined the faculty at the Maryland State Normal School [MSNS] at Towson, another Physical Education teacher was already in place. A young woman with dark hair and dimples, 20-year-old Mary Elizabeth Roach was often mistaken for another student. The students in 1926 referred to her as “Our Faculty
One of the first places I always check for information about Towson history is the newspapers, either the old issues of the Towerlight or the Baltimore Sun. I’m the daughter of journalists, so this is second nature to me. When I thought about what I would write to commemorate the very first day of Towson’s
In November of 1959, Juanita Hawkins, wife of State Teacher College [STC] President Dr. Earle Hawkins, set sail with a friend for the Philippines on the USS Paradise Mist. Dr. Hawkins was already in Manila and had been since September of that year. He was serving as an adviser to the Philippines government and helping
To teach is to learn twice. – Joseph Joubert The dashing gentleman in this undated photograph is George LaTour Smith. Born in 1847 in Canandaigua, New York, Smith joined the faculty at the Maryland State Normal School in 1875, a year after his own graduation from Cornell University. MSNS was barely 10 years old and was
Almost 90 years ago, the Maryland State Normal School [MSNS] — the earliest incarnation of what we now know as Towson University — embarked on a new tradition. In November of 1926, 100 mothers of the school’s Junior class, which was at that time the equivalent of a freshmen class, came to campus
Lost in the excitement of Towson University’s 150th celebration is the anniversary of our first 100 years here on this campus. It’s easy to do — when talking about the big picture that is TU’s history, it seems hard to imagine not being on this campus of rolling hills. But I’m certain for the faculty