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. While Newell was the founding principal who provided the vision and leadership for the first quarter of
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 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
“The First Annual Faculty Follies will be presented on Tuesday evening”, announced the November 1941 issue of the Towerlight. Faculty members were to present a two-part program, the first of which was a kind of music hall performance with “all the members of the faculty who can be crowded on the stage”. “The second act,” the
Towson University, formerly known as the Maryland State Normal School, the State Teachers College at Towson, Towson State College, and Towson State University, has had thirteen principals and presidents, three interim presidents, and one principal ex officio with founder Libertus Van Bokkelen. The office of Principal/President has had to contend with the same difficulties throughout